No person shall destroy, injure, tamper with or deface any public
property of the City, or any grass, walk, lamp, ornamental work, building
or streetlight on or in any of the streets, alleys, sidewalks or public
grounds in the City.
No person shall in any manner interfere or meddle with, or pull,
drive, change, alter or destroy any stake, post, monument or other
marking made, placed or set, or hereafter made, placed or set, or
caused to be done by the authorities of the City, to evidence the
location, elevation, line, grade, corner, or angle of any public street,
alley, sidewalk, curb, gutter, drain, or other public work, or thing.
No person shall destroy, remove, deface, obliterate or cover
up any lamp, sign or barricade erected as a warning of danger by the
authorities of the City or by any person doing work by permission
of the authorities of the City on any of the streets, alleys, sidewalks,
or bridges in the City or on any public grounds of the City within
or without the City.
No person shall take any earth, stone or other material from
any street, alley or public grounds in the City.
No person shall pour, throw or deposit any harmful or destructive
substance or matter on any street, alley, sidewalk or public grounds
in the City.
This chapter shall not apply to normal activities in connection
with construction, maintenance and repair of streets, alleys, sidewalks
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 City.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code revisions (see Ch. 1,
General Provisions, Art. II)]
Any person who shall violate any provision of this chapter shall,
upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than
$1,000 plus costs and, in default of payment of said fine and costs,
to imprisonment for a term not to exceed 90 days. Every day that a
violation of this chapter continues shall constitute a separate offense.