[Amended 9-29-2005; Ordinance 2005-08]
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PETIT LARCENY – Is the taking, accompanied by fraud or stealth, of personal property and with the intent to deprive the owner thereof of the use of same when such property is of value of $500 or less.
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If the thing stolen consists of any evidence of debt or other written instrument the amount of money due thereon or secured to be paid thereby and remaining unsatisfied, or which in an contingency might be collected thereon, or the sum which might be recovered in the absence thereof, as the case may be, shall be deemed the value of the thing stolen.
Any written evidence of debt, and written order or promise for the payment of money or delivery of goods, public security or passage ticket, though the same has never been issued or delivered by the makers thereof to any person or purchaser, and any personal property, are the subjects of larceny.
Any fixture or part of realty, the instant it is severed from the realty, becomes personal property and when the same is of the value of $50 or less, is the subject of larceny within the meaning of this article.
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Every person who buys or receives, in any manner, upon any consideration, any personal property of any value whatsoever that has been stolen, embezzled, or obtained by false pretense, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe the same to have been stolen, embezzled, or obtained by false pretense, or who conceals, withholds, or aids in concealing or withholding such property from the owner is guilty of an offense.
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Every person who, without making reasonable inquiry, buys, receives, conceals, withholds, or aids in concealing or withholding any property which has been stolen, embezzled, obtained by false pretense, or otherwise obtained contrary to law, under such circumstances as should cause such person to make reasonable inquiry to ascertain that the person from whom such property was bought or received had the legal right to sell or deliver it shall be presumed to have bought or received such property knowing it to have been so stolen or wrongfully obtained.
One who finds lost property under circumstances which give him knowledge or means of inquiry as to the true owner, and who appropriates such property to his own use, or to the use of another person who is not entitled thereto, without having first made such effort to find the owner and restore the property to him as the circumstances render reasonable and just, is guilty of petit larceny.
It is unlawful for any person to crank, start, otherwise meddle with, molest, enter, occupy, or loiter in any automobile or other vehicle belonging to another, without the consent of the owner or person in charge thereof.
It is unlawful for any person to destroy, injure, deface, besmear, or molest any structure, building, outbuilding, fence, or any other property, real or personal, public or private, belonging to another; or to use any such property wrongfully to the detriment of the owner or other person entitled to its use; or to interfere wrongfully with the use of any such property by its owner or any other person entitled to its use.
[Amended 1-30-1997, Ordinance 1997-1]
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It is unlawful for any person to place, stick, tack, paste, post, paint, mark, write, or print any sign, poster, picture, announcement, advertisement, bill, place card, device, or inscription upon any public or private building, fence, sidewalk, bridge, viaduct, post, automobile, other vehicle or other property of another including public easements, roadways, and alleys without the consent of the owner or person in charge thereof.
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That campaign signs no larger than 24 inches in largest dimension be permitted to be placed on public right-of-way. Any other signage, campaign or otherwise and of larger dimensions must be placed on private property and not cause a traffic problem by blocking line of sight. Also recommended that signs be removed within 48 hours of the election in which the candidate last participated.
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It is unlawful for any person to throw or launch, by any means, or allow or permit any person to throw or launch any object into or across any street or alley, or in any place where he is likely to hit another person or property.
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It is unlawful for any person to throw or launch, by any means, or allow or permit any person to throw or launch any object at any person, vehicle, structure, electric light, or property of another.
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Any person committing the above act is exempt when the commission of said act is done in the defense of oneself, in the defense of another, or the defense of another's property.
It is unlawful for any person to connect or attach any kind of pipe, wire, or other contrivance to any pipe, line, wire, or other conductor carrying gas, water, or electricity and belonging to a public utility (whether publicly or privately owned), in such a manner as to enable him to consume or use the gas, water, or electricity without its passing through the meter or in any other way so as to evade payment therefor. It is also unlawful for any person to damage, molest, tamper with, or destroy any pipe, line, wire, meter or other part of any public utility, including telegraph and telephone systems.
Every person who intrudes or squats upon any lot or piece of land within the city without license or authority from the owner thereof, or who erects or occupies thereon any hut, hovel, shanty, or other structure without such license or authority, and every person who places, erects, or occupies within the bounds of any street, alley or avenue of the city, any hut, hovel, shanty, or other structure whatever is guilty of an offense.
[Amended 8-31-2012, Ordinance 2012-07]
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It is unlawful for any person to willfully or maliciously enter the property or remain on the property of another after being expressly or otherwise forbidden to do so, or without permission by the owner or lawful occupant thereof when such property is posted.
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For the purposes of this section, "posted" means exhibiting signs to read as follows: "Property Restricted"; "Posted-Keep Out"; "Keep Out"; "No Trespassing"; or similar signs which are displayed. Property that is fenced or not fenced must have such signs placed conspicuously and at all places where entry to the property is normally expected.
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This section does not apply to entries made by authority of the Statutes of the State of Oklahoma or this Code of Ordinances.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation to break, cut, molest, destroy, damage, tamper with, or in any manner obstruct any water meter, water line, water connection or sewer line and connection or any appurtenances or appendages therewith connected.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation to injure, cut, break down, molest, destroy, damage, tamper with, or in any manner obstruct any electric light wires, poles, meters, connections or appurtenances, or appendages therewith connected.
It shall be unlawful and an offense for any person or persons within the city limits to knowingly sell any commodity or article of merchandise and in the sale thereof make or give a false or short weight therefor or for any person owning or keeping or having in charge any scales of scale-yards used in weighing livestock, hay, grain, coal or any other article to knowingly and willfully report any false or untrue weight whereby another person shall be defrauded or damaged.
[Added 11-30-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-08]
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Vagrancy. It is unlawful to be a vagrant in the limits of the City. For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning:
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Any person who loiters or remains in or wanders about a public or private place for any of the following purposes:
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For the purpose of gambling with cards, dice or other gambling paraphernalia;
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For the purpose of engaging in prostitution or soliciting prostitution or soliciting for an act of lewdness;
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For the purpose of engaging in theft, or breaking and entering any building, property or automobile of another;
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For the purpose of injuring, destroying, molesting or defacing any property of another;
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For the purpose of assaulting any person;
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For the purpose of begging or soliciting alms, provided that this subsection shall not apply to persons soliciting alms for bona fide religious, charitable or benevolent organizations with the authorization of such organizations; or
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For the purpose of selling, purchasing, trading or otherwise exchanging, procuring or making available illegal drugs or contraband.
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Loitering and sleeping on public or private property.
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It is unlawful for any person, between the hours of 12:00 a.m. and sunrise, to sleep on any street, in any other public place or on any property of another without the express or tacit consent of the owner or person in charge of the location where the individual is sleeping.
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It shall be unlawful and an offense for any person to sleep in any public park between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. in the limits of the City.