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Ohio Rev. Code § 4933.23

Interfering with pipes and meters.

Ohio · Chapter 4933 | Companies - Gas; Electric; Water; Others · Status: effective

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Ohio Rev. Code § 4933.23, Interfering with pipes and meters, Ohio, version 1 as recorded 2026-08-14, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/1189463
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No person shall willfully or maliciously injure or destroy, or intentionally permit to be injured or destroyed, cut, break, adjust, or interfere with any pipe, valve, regulator, gauge, gate, stopcock, trap, meter, or other regulating or measuring device or appliance used in the construction or operation of any plant furnishing or distributing hot water or steam for heating purposes. No person shall willfully or maliciously prevent any meter or other measuring device or appliance used in any such heating plant from duly registering the quantity of hot water or steam supplied. No person shall, without the consent of the owner of such heating plant, willfully or maliciously divert any hot water or steam from any pipe or other part of such heating plant or otherwise willfully or maliciously use or cause to be used, without the consent of the owner of such heating plant, hot water or steam supplied by any such heating plant.