No person shall climb, peel, deface or injure any ornamental
or shade tree, shrub or vine growing in any of the streets or public
grounds of the City without a permit in writing from the board or
officer having such street or public grounds in charge.
No person shall wantonly or carelessly set fire to any tree,
bush, grass, leaves, brushwood, rubbish or other substance in any
place in the City.
No person shall walk, stand or lounge upon any portion of any
street or public grounds in the City especially prepared and devoted
by the officers in charge thereof to the growing of grass or flowers,
nor in any way dig up, injure or deface the same.
[Amended by Order No. 95-112; Order No. 96-321]
A. No person shall willfully injure, mar, deface or destroy any fence,
signboard, guideboard, awning, lamppost, lamp or lantern in any street
or public place in the City.
B. Drinking fountains. No person shall, in any way, injure any of the
drinking fountains in the streets and public grounds of the City,
nor throw or place any substance into the same.
C. No person shall willfully injure, mar or deface with graffiti any
public property in the City of Quincy. Anyone who violates this subsection
shall be punished with a fine of $200.
[Amended 6-1-2020 by Order
No. 2020-012]
D. With regard to graffiti on privately owned buildings, the Department
of Public Works shall give 30 days' notice to the owners of said property
to have the graffiti removed.
(1) At the option of the property owner after the execution of an appropriate
release by the property owner, the Department of Public Works shall
remove the graffiti forthwith.
(2) Failure of the property owner to execute the appropriate release
and failure by the property owner to remove graffiti following receipt
of the thirty-day notice shall result in the property owner being
fined the sum of $200.
E. The Department of Public Works shall remove graffiti on municipally
owned buildings with 30 days of notification.
No person shall allow any sink water, or other impure water,
to run from any house, barn, garage or lot occupied by him or under
his control into any highway or public place.
No person shall place or keep any table, stall, booth or other
structure in any street or sidewalk, nor place or keep the same in
any of the public grounds of the City, for the sale of fruit or other
things, without permission in writing from the City officer or board
having the same in charge.
[Amended 6-1-2020 by Order
No. 2020-012]
Any person breaking, smashing or otherwise destroying a bottle,
glass or other sharp instrument on any park, parkland or other lands
under the jurisdiction of the Department of Natural Resources or other
public place, including all public places, streets and right of access,
shall be punished by a fine of $250.