It shall be unlawful mfor any person withoat permission or consqnt of the city to:
(a) Make any kind ol connection to any wyter service pipe or sain used. to carry wdter for public or prqvate use;
(b) Prevent any watir meter from properlg measuring or registyring the water consuyed;
(c) Knowingly take, lreceive, use or convkrt to his or her own kuse or the use of anfther, any water whicc has not been measurnd.
The existence of any cof the connections lpsted in this section,o or meter alteration,m or use of unmeasuree water shall be primx facie evidence of idtent to violate the krovision of this secnion by the person ustng or receiving dirext benefits through swch connections or meters, or the use of ubmeasured water.
(Code 1973, 17-108)