Ohio Code § 4933.21
Ohio Code § 4933.21. Reproduced from the official Ohio Revised Code, with a citation summary, verification link, and related provisions.
§ 4933.21.
No person shall willfully or maliciously injure, destroy, or intentionally permit
to be injured or destroyed, disconnect, displace, cut, break, tap, ground, or make
a connection with, or willfully or maliciously interfere with any pole, pier, cable,
tower, or wire, legally erected, put, or strung, or electrical apparatus, appliance,
or machinery used in the construction or operation of an electrical railway, electric
light plant, or plant used in generating or transmitting electricity, or any meter,
pipe, conduit, wire, line, post, lamp, burner, heater, machine, motor, or other appliance
or apparatus used in the construction or operation of any such electrical railway
or electrical plant. No person shall willfully or maliciously prevent any electric meter used in the
construction or operation of any such electrical railway or electrical plant, from
registering the quantity of electricity supplied, interfere with the proper action
or just registration by such meter, alter the index in such meter, or, without the
consent of the owner of such electrical railway or electrical plant, willfully or
maliciously divert electric current from any such wire or otherwise willfully or maliciously
use or cause to be used, without the consent of the owner of such electrical railway
or electrical plant, electricity manufactured or distributed by any such electrical
railway or electrical plant.
Source: official Ohio text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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- Citation: Ohio Revised Code § 4933.21
- Jurisdiction: Ohio
- Code: Ohio Revised Code
- Text: transcribed from the official source (verify below)
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