What if you are caught stealing electricity?

Stealing electricity is a very bad behavior, and it avoids the record of electricity meter by privately connecting external lines and other ways with potential safety hazards. Firstly, this kind of behavior has great security risks, which may pose a threat to the safety of other citizens, and secondly, it violates citizens' morality. The state of hell to pay. according to article 71 of "People's Republic of China (PRC) * * * and State Electricity Law", whoever steals electricity shall be ordered by the administrative department of electric power to stop the illegal act, recover the electricity fee, and be fined five times the electricity fee receivable; Those who constitute a crime shall be investigated for criminal responsibility in accordance with the provisions of Article 151 or Article 152 of the Criminal Law.

according to the provisions of the electricity law, power supply enterprises should stop power supply when they find out about stealing electricity, and they can stop power supply on the spot. Stealing electricity should pay the electricity fee according to the amount of stealing electricity, and bear the responsibility of using electricity for breach of contract by paying three times the electricity fee. Refusing to bear the responsibility of stealing electricity, the power supply enterprise shall report to the administrative department of electric power according to law. If the amount of stealing electricity is large or the circumstances are serious, the power supply enterprise shall request the judicial organ to investigate its criminal responsibility.

if the amount of stealing electricity is large and the circumstances are serious, which constitutes theft, criminal responsibility shall be investigated by judicial organs in accordance with the provisions of Article 264 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China.