Any person who has no contract, agreement, license or permission with or from any person or corporation authorized to manufacture, sell or use gas for the purpose of light, heat or power or with or from any authorized agent of such person or corporation for the use of gas belonging to, or produced or furnished by, any such person or corporation who shall wilfully withdraw or cause to be withdrawn in any manner and appropriate such gas from the pipes or conduits of any such person or corporation for his own use or for the use of any other person or corporation shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding one hundred dollars or by imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Any person who shall aid, abet or assist such other person in such withdrawing and appropriating of such gas from such pipes or conduits to or for the use of such other person or to or for the use of any other person or corporation shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction, be punished in like manner.