2005 Idaho Code - 62-1001 — TAMPERING WITH GAS METER OR USING GAS NOT METERED -- PENALTY

                                  TITLE  62
                             RAILROADS AND OTHER
                               PUBLIC UTILITIES
                                  CHAPTER 10
                        FRAUDULENT CONSUMPTION OF GAS
    62-1001.  TAMPERING WITH GAS METER OR USING GAS NOT METERED -- PENALTY.
Any person, who, with intent to injure or defraud any company, corporation,
copartnership or individual, authorized to manufacture, generate, sell or use
illuminating or inflammable gas for lighting, heating or power purposes, shall
injure, alter, obstruct or prevent the action of any meter, provided for the
purpose of measuring the quantity of gas consumed by, or at, any burner,
orifice or place, or supplied to any lamp, stove, range, furnace, machine,
motor, appliance or contrivance, or who shall cause, or procure, or aid, the
injuring or altering of any such meter or the obstruction or prevention of its
action, or who shall make or cause to be made, with any pipe, tube, or any
appliance, any connection, so as to conduct or supply illuminating or
inflammable gas to any burner, or orifice, or lamp, or stove, or range or
furnace, or motor, or other machine or appliance from which such gas may be
consumed or utilized without passing through, or being registered by such
meter, without the permission, consent, or acquiescence of the company,
corporation, copartnership, or individual, furnishing or transmitting such
gas, or who shall knowingly use or utilize any such gas which has not passed
through the meter provided for the registration of the consumption thereof, or
who shall by any means, device, appliance or contrivance, knowingly use or
utilize such gas for his own use, or for the use of another, with intent to
evade payment thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding three hundred dollars
($300.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding six
(6) months or by both such fine and imprisonment.