[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council
of the Borough of Millersville 6-7-1982 by Ord. No. 1982-19.
Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Amended 3-5-1984 by Ord. No. 1984-4]
This chapter shall be known as the "Millersville
Tampering With Public Property Ordinance."
No person shall destroy or injure, in any way
whatsoever, or tamper with or deface any public property of the Borough
of Millersville, or of any authority created by the Borough, within
or without the Borough, or any grass, shrub, walk, lamp, ornamental
work, building, sign, streetlight, or gas or water stop box or gas
meter on or in any street, alley or public ground in the Borough,
provided that "defacement" shall include but shall not be limited
to the making of graffiti or other markings upon any of the property
referred to in this section or upon the surface of any street, alley
or curb in the Borough.
No person shall in any manner interfere with
or meddle with or pull, drive, change, alter, or destroy any stake,
post, monument or other evidence of any elevation, grade, line, location,
corner or angle in the Borough made, placed or set, or hereafter made,
placed or set, or caused to be done by the authorities of the Borough
in any survey of or in any street, alley or public ground in the Borough,
to evidence the location, elevation, line, grade, corner or angle
of any public street, alley, curb, gutter, drain or other public work,
matter or thing.
No person shall willfully or maliciously destroy,
remove, deface, obliterate or cover up any lamp, flare, warning sign
or barricade erected by the authorities of the Borough or by any person
doing work by permission of the authorities of the Borough on any
street or alley in the Borough or on any public ground of the Borough,
as a warning of danger.
No person shall take any earth, stone or other
material from any street, alley or public ground in the Borough.
This chapter shall not apply to normal activities
in connection with the construction, maintenance and repair of streets,
alleys and public grounds and the structures and fixtures located
thereon or therein or to incidental results of work done thereon or
therein upon permit from or by authority of the Borough.
[Amended 5-7-1984 by Ord. No. 1984-7; 7-25-1995 by Ord. No.
1995-5]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate
any provision of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced
to pay a fine of not more than $600 plus costs and, in default of
payment of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment not to exceed
30 days. Each day that a violation of this chapter continues shall
constitute a separate offense.
