(a)
(1) It shall be unlawful for any official or employee of any municipal corporation of this state to receive or accept any water, gas, electric current, or other article or service from the municipal corporation, or any public utility operating therein, without paying for it at the same rate and in the same manner that the general public in the municipal corporation pays therefor.
(2)
(A) This section shall not affect rights to free or other special services given to certain municipal officials and employees under the terms of franchises in effect with public utilities in this state.
(B) This section shall not apply to any city official or employee of any municipal corporation of this state as to free streetcar transportation.
(b)
(1) It shall be unlawful for any city official or employee of any municipal corporation in this state to furnish or give to any person, concerns, or corporations any property belonging to the municipal corporation, or service from any public utility owned or operated by the municipal corporation, unless payment is made therefor to the municipal corporation at the usual and regular rates, and in the usual manner, except as provided in subsection (a) of this section.
(2) The waterworks commission of cities of the first class shall be authorized to make donations of money from the revenue of municipal waterworks systems to the local United Way campaign or other citywide nonsectarian, incorporated charitable organizations.
(c)
(1) Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than two hundred fifty dollars ($250).
(2) Conviction shall ipso facto remove the official or employee from the municipal office or position held by him or her and shall render him or her ineligible to thereafter hold any office or position under, or in connection with, the municipal corporation.
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