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Obligation Not to Commit Illegal Use of Electricity. No consumer is allowed to perform acts constituting illegal use of electricity. The following circumstances constitute prima facie evidence of illegal use of electricity. No consumer is allowed to perform acts constituting illegal use of electricity. The following circumstances constitute prima facie evidence of illegal, use of electricity:
(a) The presence of a bored hole on the glass cover of the electric meter, or at the back or any part of said meter; (b) The presence inside the electric meter of salt, sugar and other elements that could result in the inaccurate registration of the meter's internal parts to prevent its accurate registration of consumption of electricity; (c) The existence of any wiring connection which affects the normal operation or registration of the electric meter; (d) The presence of a "tampered, broken, or fake seal on the meter, or mutilated, altered or tampered meter recording chart or graph or computerized chart, graph or log; (e) The presence in any part of a building or its premises which is subject to the control of the consumer, or on the electric meter, of a current reversing transformer, jumper, shorting and/or shunting wire, and/or loop connection or any other similar device; (f) The mutilation, alteration, reconnection, disconnection, bypassing or tampering of. Instruments, transformers and accessories; (g) The destruction of, or attempt to destroy, any integral accessory of the metering device box which encases an electric meter, or its metering accessories. (h) The acceptance of money and/or other valuable consideration by any officer or employee of the electric utility concerned or the making of such an offer to any such officer or employee -for not reporting the presence of any of the circumstances enumerated in subparagraphs (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), or (g) hereof. |