{"data":{"id":"us-ca/civ-1882.3","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"CIV § 1882.3","heading":"","body":"There is a rebuttable presumption that there is a violation of Section 1882.1 if either of the following occurs:\n(a) On premises controlled by the customer or by the person using or receiving the direct benefit of utility service, including through the use of a vehicle, there is either, or both, of the following:\n(1) Any instrument, apparatus, or device primarily designed to be used to obtain utility service without paying the full lawful charge for the utility service.\n(2) A meter that has been altered, tampered with, or bypassed so as to cause no measurement or inaccurate measurement of utility services.\n(b) A person tampers with or uses a fire hydrant, fire hydrant meter, or fire detector check without authorization to obtain water and without paying the full lawful charge of the water.","path":["Civil Code - CIV","DIVISION 3. OBLIGATIONS [1427. - 3273.91.]","PART 4. OBLIGATIONS ARISING FROM PARTICULAR TRANSACTIONS [1738. - 3273.91.]","TITLE 3.5. UTILITY SERVICES [1882. - 1882.6.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"a96afdca43d485da7f1316e1def437f277de8d76e076ab80ba5753d0c4670b21","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/civ-1882.2","next":"us-ca/civ-1882.4"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}