WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor

Ch. 6

current consumed, or to interfere with the operation of any
dynamo or other electrical appliance of such company, or to
tamper with or interfere with the poles, wires or conduits used
by such companies, unless such person or persons shall be duly
authorized by or be in the employ of such company; provided, that
nothing in this section shall in [anyway] ANY WAY interfere with
any lawful supervision and control of electric light and power
companies, their electric conductors, appliances, machinery and
poles by the municipality within which such companies are doing
business, or by the officers of such municipality, nor shall
anything in this section interfere with any right now existing in
the councils of any municipality to pass ordinances relating to
and regulating such electric light and power companies. Any
person or persons found guilty of a violation of any of the
provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof, be imprisoned
not exceeding six months or fined not exceeding five hundred
dollars, or both or either, in the discretion of the court. The
existence of any connection, wire, conductor, meter alteration,
or any device whatsoever which effects the diversion of electric
current without the same being measured or registered by or on a
meter installed by any company engaged in the manufacture and
supply of electric current for the purposes of light, heat and
power, or either of them, or the use of electric current
furnished by such company, without it being measured or
registered on a meter provided therefor by such company, shall be
prima facie evidence of intent to violate and of the violation of
this section by the person or persons using or receiving the
direct benefits from the use of electric current passing through
such connection, wire, conductor, device or altered meter, or
being used without being measured or registered on a meter as
aforesaid, and in case a check or test meter installed or
employed by such company shows that a customer is using a larger
amount of electricity than is registered on the meter installed
by the company on the customer's premises for the purpose of
registering the electricity used by customer, such condition
shall constitute prima facie evidence that the unregistered
current has been wrongfully diverted by such customer, and shall
further constitute prima facie evidence of the intent to violate
and of the violation of this section.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Incorrect word usage in Article 27, § 194.

Occurred: Prior to the 1957 codification of the
Annotated Code of Maryland.

230.

Any person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of
making, manufacturing, compounding or dispensing drugs,
medicines, medicinal or chemical preparations for human

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