What Article 149 covers
Article 149 of the Administrative Offences Code of Georgia brings together two closely related acts: the unlawful consumption of drinking water and the unlawful use of the sewerage network. Both concern the use of shared infrastructure without the legal basis that such use is supposed to rest on. The article itself does not define what makes the consumption or the use unlawful — that assessment is made on the facts of the individual case, which is precisely why most disputes under this article turn on that question rather than on the size of the penalty.
The article does not confine liability to private individuals. Its second paragraph names, separately, a natural person, an individual entrepreneur, a legal person and an institution, and then divides them further according to whether they are registered as VAT payers. The practical consequence is straightforward: the same physical act — one connection, one recorded instance of use — produces very different financial outcomes depending on who the law treats as the responsible person.