Damaging or Tapping Into Water or Sewer Line; Penalties

The Legislature finds that illegal connecting into the water and sewer system is a hazard to the public’s health. Therefore, it shall be a felony of the third degree for any person other than an employee of the Public Utility Agency of Guam acting in his official capacity to knowingly tamper with any line, valve or meter or knowingly damage or COL120106 CH. 56 PUBLIC UTILITY AGENCY OF GUAM cut any line, valve or meter, or tap into any water or sewer line belonging to the Public Utility Agency of Guam for the purpose of taking water or dumping sewage without prior written approval of the Public Utility Agency of Guam. If any employee or agent of any Contractor knowingly taps into any water or sewer line belonging to the Public Utility Agency of Guam without prior written approval, his employer and any general contractor who may have been supervising the employee or the agent or the employer or the subcontractor shall have their contractor’s licenses revoked by the Contractor’s Licensing Board for eighteen

(18)months if the Board finds:

(a)That one or more of the persons involved were persons employed by or were agents of the contractor or employers, and one or more of those persons knowingly tapped into water or sewer lines without prior written permission of the Public Utility Agency of Guam; or

(b)That at least one of the persons who illegally tapped into the line was acting in his capacity as a principal, officer, agent or employee of the employer or contractor. It is immaterial if the contractor or employer had actual knowledge of the illegal hookup, if done in the course of employment.