How does "Electricity Law" punish power users for collecting meters privately?

If you connect the meter privately and seal it, it will be regarded as stealing electricity. Stealing electricity refers to the act of not measuring or measuring electricity consumption by illegal means, and not paying or underpaying electricity charges for the purpose of illegally occupying electricity.

Legal analysis

Stealing electricity has always been a prominent problem that puzzles the normal power supply and the healthy development of power enterprises. Stealing electricity not only caused huge economic losses to enterprises, but also seriously disrupted the normal power supply order, and even caused damage to power facilities, forming a major safety accident hidden danger and directly threatening the safety of power grids. It is difficult to stop the trend of stealing electricity, mainly because some units and individuals have a weak legal concept and mistakenly think that stealing electricity is not stealing electricity, and stealing electricity is not illegal; Driven and tempted by economic interests, some self-employed, private enterprises, contracting or leasing enterprises, etc. Taking stealing electricity as a means to reduce costs and reap huge profits, they tried their best to steal electricity by hook or by crook, resulting in the phenomenon of stealing electricity from individuals in the past to units now. At the same time, because power generation, power supply and electricity consumption are completed at the same time and disappear without a trace, most of the means of stealing electricity are hidden, and the evidence is easy to be destroyed or transferred, especially for stealing electricity by using high technology. It is difficult to investigate and deal with cases of stealing electricity, which makes it difficult for power companies to investigate and deal with them.

legal ground

Article 59 of People's Republic of China (PRC) Electric Power Law * * * If an electric power enterprise or user violates the power supply contract and causes losses to the other party, it shall be liable for compensation according to law. If an electric power enterprise violates the provisions of Article 28 and Paragraph 1 of Article 29 of this Law, fails to guarantee the quality of power supply or fails to notify users in advance to interrupt power supply, thus causing losses to users, it shall be liable for compensation according to law.

Article 264 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), whoever steals public or private property in a relatively large amount, or repeatedly steals, enters a house, carries a murder weapon or pickpockets, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance, and shall also, or shall only, be fined; If the amount is huge or there are other serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined; If the amount is especially huge or there are other especially serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years or life imprisonment, and shall also be fined or confiscated.