RA 7832: AN ACT PENALIZING THE PILFERAGE OF ELECTRICITY AND THEFT OF ELECTRIC POWER

TRANSMISSION LINES/MATERIALS, RATIONALIZING SYSTEM LOSSES BY PHASING OUT PILFERAGE LOSSES AS A

COMPONENT THEREOF, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
(Anti-electricity and Electric Transmission Lines/Materials Pilferage Act of 1994)
PUNISHABLE ACTS
1. Illegal Use of Electricity:
a. connection with overhead lines, service drops,
or other electric service wires, without
previous authority or consent of the private
electric utility or rural electric cooperative
concerned (DIRECT TAPPING);
b. connection to the existing electric service
facilities of any duly registered consumer
without the latter's or the electric utility's
consent or authority (FLYING CONNECTION);
c. tampering or using tampered electrical meter,
jumper, current reversing transformer, shorting
or shunting wire, loop connection or any other
device which interferes with the proper or
accurate registry or metering of electric
current or otherwise results in its diversion in
a manner whereby electricity is stolen or
wasted
(TAMPERING
ELECTRICAL
METERS, JUMPER CONNECTION, ETC.);
d. damaging or destroying an electric meter,
equipment, wire or conduit or allow any of
them to be so damaged or destroyed as to
interfere with the proper or accurate metering
of electric current; and
e. knowingly use or receive the direct benefit of
electric service obtained through any of the
acts mentioned.
2. Theft of Electric Power Transmission Lines and
Materials:
a. cutting,
sawing,
etc.
electric
power
transmission line/material/meter from an
installation, without the consent of the owner,
whether or not the act is done for profit or
gain;
b. taking or carrying away, with or without the
use of a motor vehicle/conveyance, any
electric
power
transmission
line/material/meter from an installation without
the consent of the owner, whether or not the
act is done for profit or gain;
c. storing or possessing any electric power
transmission line/material/meter without the
consent of the owner, whether or not the act is
done for profit or gain; and
d. loading or shipping any electrical power
transmission line/material, whether or not the
act is done for profit or gain, without first
securing a clearance/permit for the said
purpose from its owner or the National Power
Corporation (NPC) or its regional office
concerned, as the case may be.
PRIMA FACIE EVIDENCE presence of any of the
following circumstances shall constitute prima facie
evidence of illegal use of electricity:

1.
2.

bored hole on the glass cover of the electric

meter, or at the back or any other part of said
meter;
salt, sugar and other elements inside electrical
meters that could result in the inaccurate
registration of the meter's internal parts to
prevent its accurate registration of consumption
of electricity;

3.

wiring connection which affects the normal

operation or registration of the electric meter;

4.

tampered, broken, or fake seal on the meter, or

mutilated, altered or tampered meter recording chart
or graph, or computerized chart, graph, or log;

5.

current reversing transformer, jumper, shorting

and/or shunting wire, and/or loop connection or any
other similar device;

6.

mutilation, alteration, reconnection, disconnection,

bypassing
or
tampering
of
instruments,
transformers, and accessories;

7.

destruction of, or attempt to destroy, any integral

accessory of the metering device box which
encases an electric meter, or its metering
accessories; and

8.

acceptance of money or valuable consideration by

any officer or employee of 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.

PD
401:
PENALIZING
THE
UNAUTHORIZED
INSTALLATION
OF WATER,
ELECTRICAL OR
TELEPHONE
CONNECTIONS,
THE
USE
OF
TAMPERED WATER OR ELECTRICAL METERS, AND
OTHER ACTS
PD 401-A amending PD 401 to include piped gas
connection

RA 10515: AN ACT PROHIBITING AND PENALIZING

UNAUTHORIZED INTERCEPTION, RECEPTION OR
USE OF ANY SIGNAL OR SERVICE OVER A CABLE
TELEVISION SYSTEM OR CABLE INTERNET SYSTEM
AND/OR NETWORK, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
(Anti-Cable Television and Cable Internet Tapping Act of
2013)

PUNISHABLE ACTS
1. installing any water, electrical, telephone or piped
gas connection without previous authority from the
respective utility providers, as the case may be;
2. tampering and/or using tampered water, eletrical or
gas meters, jumpers or other devices whereby
water, electricity or piped gas is stolen;
3. steals or pilfers water, electric or piped gas meters,
or water, electric and/or telephone wires, or piped
gas pipes or conduits;
4. knowingly possesses stolen or pilfered water,
electrical or gas meters as well as stolen or pilfered
water, electrical and/or telephone wires, or piped
gas pipes and conduits.

PUNISHABLE ACTS
1. intercepting or receiving signal offered by tapping,
making or causing to be made, any connection to
an existing cable TV or internet system or network
without the authority of the concerned service
provider;
2. recording, reproduce, distribute, import or sell, any
intercepted or received signals for commercial
purposes without the authority of the concerned
service provider;
3. knowingly using or receiving any direct or indirect
benefit obtained from acts in paragraphs (a) or (b)
above; or
4. damaging, destroying or removing facilities and
accessories of authorized service providers.