It shall be unlawful for any person or persons
within the bounds of said Borough voluntarily and maliciously to break
or take off door knockers or door bells, or to take down, destroy
or deface any sign put up by any inhabitant of this Borough denoting
his name, occupation or place of residence; or to cut, break or otherwise
destroy any part of any dwelling house, store, shop, fence, or other
building or enclosure, be the same public or private property; or
to draw upon the walls of buildings, fences, etc., any obscene picture
or delineation, or to write thereon any indecent or immodest words;
or in any way to mutilate or destroy any fruit, shade or ornamental
tree or shrub, which may be planted on any private ground, or on any
of the streets, or rights-of-way of the Borough where the same is,
are, or may hereafter be by law allowed to be planted.
The loan, gift, sale or offering for sale, exhibition,
distribution, circulation, advertisement or publication of indecent,
obscene, lewd, lascivious or other immoral writings, printings, pictures,
photographs or representations of all matters of an indecent, obscene,
lewd, lascivious or other immoral character, by any person, shall
be and the same is hereby prohibited.
Any person offending against this article shall,
upon conviction thereof before any District Justice in the Borough,
pay to the person or persons injured the full value of the property
destroyed and in addition shall be subject to pay a fine not to exceed
the sum of $100 and costs of prosecution, and in default thereof,
be committed to the Borough lockup for a period not exceeding five
days, or the county jail for a period not exceeding 30 days.