Any person who shall hitch or fasten any horse or other animal to any fence, railing, awning or lamp post, or to any shade or ornamental tree on any sidewalk, or who shall willfully injure any ornamental or shade tree, shrub, plant, monument, lamp post, fence, railing or awning in or upon any public ground, street, or alley or upon any public place, or upon any private residence in this city, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined.
(1986 Code, ch. 7, sec. 5:A(4))