QuestionsQuestions (BATAS PAMBANSA BLG. 876)
BP 876 amends PD 401 to include all authorized water, gas, electrical, and telephone utilities within PD 401’s coverage, expanding the acts punished and the type of utilities protected.
BP 876 amends the fourth paragraph of PD 401.
It prohibits installing any water, gas, electrical, or telephone connection without prior authority from the authorized public utility or service entity.
It penalizes a person who tampers and/or knowingly uses tampered water, gas, or electric meters or other devices whereby water, gas, or electricity is stolen.
It penalizes stealing water, gas, electric meters, and/or wires, piped gas pipes or conduits, and poles; and stealing water, gas, electric and/or telephone wires.
It penalizes the knowing possession of stolen water, gas, and/or electric meters, as well as stolen water, gas, electric, and/or telephone poles and related items.
Yes. BP 876 expressly includes telephone connection and telephone wires/pipes/conduits within the amended coverage.
Upon conviction: prision correccional in its minimum period or a fine ranging from two thousand to six thousand pesos, or both, without prejudice to PD 1612.
It means the punishment under PD 401/ BP 876 does not prevent or preclude additional or separate application of PD 1612 provisions if applicable.
The employee or officer is punished by prision correccional and is forthwith perpetually disqualified from employment in any public or private utility or service company.
There must be connivance or permission by an employee or officer of the utility/service entity for the commission of the violation.
The authority requirement applies regardless of whether the utility or service entity is government-owned or privately owned, as long as it is authorized.
All laws, orders, rules, and regulations, or parts thereof, inconsistent with BP 876 are repealed or amended accordingly.
It takes effect upon its approval.
BP 876 was approved on June 12, 1985.