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Town of North Brentwood, MD
Prince George's County
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[Adopted as Ch. VII, Art. 3, Title 2, of the 1990 Code of Ordinances]
It shall be unlawful for any person entrusted with anything of value, to be carried for hire or being an innkeeper and entrusted by his guest with anything of value for safe keeping, to fraudulently convert the same to his own use.
No person without lawful authority, shall enter, or attempt to enter a private dwelling against the will of the lawful occupant, or being therein without lawful authority to remain, shall refuse to quit the same on the demand of the lawful occupant thereof.
No person shall feloniously take and carry away any property of value of $25 or less including things savoring of the realty. In all convictions, the trial justice may, in his sound discretion, order restitution to be made of the value of the money or property shown to have been stolen by the defendant and made way with or otherwise disposed of and not recovered.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to take and carry away, or willfully break, injure or destroy any box or other receptacle maintained upon any street or alley in the Town for the reception of waste material from commercial establishments or residential homes.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to, at any time or in any manner, deface, or injure or remove any tree, fence, gate, railing, porch, building, or other structure upon public land, by writing, cutting, or in any other manner within the Town.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to purposely injure or deface, by cutting, breaking or otherwise, any tree or trees now planted or hereafter to be planted along the sidewalks or within the public rights-of-way within the Town.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to purposely tear down or in any manner deface any sign, or posters which have been posted by authority of the Mayor and Council.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to willfully break any streetlights or cut or break any streetlight posts, parking signs, traffic signs or traffic signal device within the Town of North Brentwood.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this article, or any lawful order issued by the police in pursuance thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine not to exceed $100, or may be confined to the county jail for a period not to exceed 30 days, and where the offense is of a continuing nature, each day's violation shall be deemed a separate offense.