[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council
of the City of Monroe as Chapter 660, Secs. 660.01 through 660.09,
of the 1995 Codified Ordinances of Monroe. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
CHARTER REFERENCES
Excavations in public property — See
§ C-270.
STATUTORY REFERENCES
Malicious destruction of property by minors — See
MCLA § 600.2913.
Malicious destruction of property — See
MCLA §§ 750.377a, 750.377b.
No person shall injure or in any way deface
the City Hall, fire engine houses, fire apparatus, public grounds,
public wharves, water pipes, hydrants, public school buildings, public
pumps, wells or bridges, or any other public property in the City,
or any appurtenances or fixtures thereto.
A.
No person shall cut, injure, remove, damage or change
from its position any electrical light or fire alarm wire belonging
to the City or any street lamp, cutoff, lightning arrester, meter,
fixture, cross-arm, bracket or anything whatsoever connected with
and belonging to the lighting or fire alarm system of the City, except
under the direction or by permission of the Council.
B.
The prohibitions of this section shall not apply to
the chief engineer or assistant engineers of the Fire Department of
the City, who may, in case of fire, where an emergency requires it,
remove or displace any such wire, lamp, transformer or other electrical
appliance. The officer doing or ordering such act shall immediately
notify the foreman and electrician of the lighting plant so that proper
precautions may be immediately taken to prevent loss or damage to
persons or property by reason of such act.
A.
No person shall alter, remove, molest or tamper with
any wire, fixture, pipe, conduit, meter or other appliance of any
waterworks plant, gas or electric company, telephone or telegraph
company, or other company, or a person operating a similar business,
or tap any supply wire or pipe, or fraudulently or secretly extract
or use any water, electricity or gas of the plant or company, or uncover
or open up any manhole or other opening to any sewer, unless the person
doing so is an employee of the company or of the City, or is under
authority and direction to do so.
B.
No person shall leave any manhole or other opening
open or unprotected without replacing the fixtures and appliances
to their proper place and position.
No person shall hack, cut, mutilate, disfigure
or in any manner injure any tree or any pole of any telegraph, telephone,
electric light, railway, trolley or fire alarm system in any street,
lane, alley, park or public place of the City.
[Amended 9-4-2001 by Ord. No. 01-019]
A.
No person shall tack, nail, paste or in any manner
attach or affix to any tree or any telegraph, telephone, electric
light, power, trolley or fire alarm pole any advertisement or advertising
matter, sign, notice or placard, either stamped, painted, printed
or written, in any street, alley, lane, park or public place in the
City.
[Amended 8-12-1996 by Ord. No. 96-018]
No person shall willfully or maliciously break,
deface, remove, destroy or injure the private property of another
without first having obtained the consent of the owner thereof.
No person shall remove or in any manner damage
any fixture, attachment or other property belonging to, connected
with or used in the construction of any vacant structure or building,
or break into any vacant structure or building, unless authorized
to enter and remove any fixture, attachment or other property belonging
to, connected with or used in the construction of any vacant structure
or building, whether built or in the process of construction, or damage
the structure or building in any way, whether intentionally or not,
in attempting to enter the structure or building or in removing, or
attempting to remove, any such fixture, attachment or other property
belonging to, connected with or used in the construction of the structure
or building.
A.
No person shall loosen or remove any plank, board,
block, brick, stringer or support from any sidewalk or crossing.
B.
No person shall cut, carve, paint, mark, engrave or
inscribe upon any sidewalk, curbing, pavement or other public part
of any street, any sign, mark, advertisement or effigy, other than
to show the sidewalk contractor's nameplate.
