No person or persons shall destroy or injure in any way whatsoever, or tamper with or deface any public property of the Township of Spring, within or without the Township, or any grass, walk, lamp, ornamental work, building, streetlight or water stop box on or in any of the streets, alleys, sidewalks or public grounds in the Township.
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the Township of Spring 8-25-1975 by Ord. No. 123 (Ch. VII of the 2013 Code of Ordinances). 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 Spring, made, placed or set, or hereafter made, placed or set, or caused to be done by the authorities of the Township in any survey of or in any street, alley or public ground in the Township, to evidence the location, elevation, line, grade, corner or angle of any public street, alley, sidewalk, curb, gutter, drain or other public work, matter or thing.
No person or persons 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 or by any person, firm or corporation doing work by permission of the authorities of the Township on any of the streets, alleys, sidewalks or bridges or on any public grounds of the Township, within or without 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 or 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, or to incidental results of work done thereon or therein upon permit from or by authority of the Township.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Any person violating any provision of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 and costs of prosecution, and, in default of payment of such fine and costs, to imprisonment for not more than 90 days, provided, the fact that a violator has been penalized, after hearing, as herein provided, shall not preclude the Township or other injured party from taking proper legal action to recover damages resulting from such violation; and provided, further, each violation of any provision of this chapter, and each day the same is continued, shall be deemed a separate offense.
The provisions of this chapter shall be severable, and if any section, part of section or provision thereof shall be held to be unconstitutional, illegal or otherwise invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of any of the remaining sections, parts of sections, or provisions of this chapter. It is hereby declared as a legislative intent that this chapter would have been adopted had such unconstitutional, illegal or otherwise invalid provision not been a part thereof.