No person or persons shall destroy or injure in any way whatsoever, or tamper with or deface any public property of the Township of Colebrookdale, or any grass, walk, lamp, ornamental work, building, streetlight, fire hydrant or water or gas stop box on any of the streets, alleys, parks, or other public grounds in the Township.
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners of Colebrookdale Township 2-6-1964 by Ord. No. 36. Amendments noted where applicable.]
No person or persons shall in any manner interfere with or meddle with or pull, drive, change, alter, or destroy any stake, post, monument or other evidence of any elevation, grade, line, location, corner, or angle in the Township of Colebrookdale, made, placed, or set, or hereafter made, placed, or set, or caused to be done by the authorities of the Township, the School District of Colebrookdale Township, or any municipality authority organized by the Township, or by the said school district, in any survey of or in any street, alley or public ground in the Township, to evidence the elevation, line, grade, location, corner or angle of any public street, alley, sidewalk, curb, gutter, sewer or other public work, matter or thing.
No person shall willfully or maliciously destroy or remove or deface or obliterate or cover up any lamp, warning sign or barricade erected by the authorities of the Township, the School District of Colebrookdale Township, or any municipality authority organized by the Township of the said school district, or by any person, firm or corporation doing work by permission of such authorities on any of the streets, alleys, sidewalks or bridges in the Township, as a warning of danger.
No person or persons shall take any earth, stone or other material from any of the streets, alleys, parks or other public grounds in the Township.
This chapter shall not apply to normal activities in connection with the construction, maintenance and repair of streets, alleys, sidewalks and public grounds and the structures and fixtures located thereon, nor to incidental results of work thereon or therein upon permit from or authority of the Township.
[Amended 4-2-1990 by Ord. No. 5-90; at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Any person who violates or permits a violation of this chapter shall, upon conviction in a summary proceeding under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, be guilty of a summary offense and shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000, plus court costs and reasonable attorneys' fees incurred by the Township in the enforcement proceedings. Upon judgment against any person by summary conviction, or by proceedings by summons on default of the payment of the fine or penalty imposed and the costs, the defendant may be sentenced to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days. Each day that such violation exists shall constitute a separate offense, and each section of this chapter that is violated shall also constitute a separate offense. In addition to or in lieu of enforcement under this section, the Township may enforce this chapter in equity in the Court of Common Pleas of Berks County.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent with this chapter are hereby repealed insofar as they are inconsistent herewith.