Highway Signs, Etc. Maliciously tearing down, damaging, mutilating, or destroying any sign, sign board, or notice placed upon, or affixed to, any property belonging to the State, or to any city, county, city and county, town or village, or upon any property of any person, by the State or by an automobile association, which sign, signboard or notice is intended to indicate or designate a road, or a highway, or is intended to direct travelers from one point to another or relates to fires, fire control, or any other matter involving the protection of the property, or putting up, affixing, fastening, printing, or painting upon any property belonging to the State, or to any city, county, town, or village, or dedicated to the public, or upon any property belonging to the State, or to any city, county, town, or village, or dedicated to the public, or upon any property of any person, without license from the owner, any notice, advertisement, or designation of, or any name for any commodity, whether for sale or otherwise, or any picture, sign, or device intended to call attention to it.