§ 28-106. Destroying, damaging, or removing another's property.

The destruction, injuring, damaging, mutilation or removal of the property of another is hereby prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to destroy, damage, mutilate or remove the property of another. The following acts, among others, are declared to be in violation of this section, but this enumeration shall not be deemed to be exclusive:

(1)

Personal property. No person within the city shall willfully, unlawfully or maliciously cut, shoot, maim, wound or otherwise injure any personal property of another person.

(2)

Fixtures and real property. No person within the city shall willfully, unlawfully or maliciously cut, mutilate, deface or otherwise injure any tree, house, outside fence or fixture of another, or commit any other trespass upon real property in the possession of another.

(3)

Municipal property. No person within the city, unless authorized by city officials, shall remove, interfere with or destroy any city property.

(4)

Cemeteries. No person shall damage or deface in any way whatever any well, pump, building, tombstone, seat, bench, chair, railing, enclosure, tree, shrub, vine, bulb, flower or other thing placed, put or growing in any cemetery.

(5)

Grassplots, flowers, etc. No person shall drive any animal or vehicle along, on or across any grassplot in any street, public place or sidewalk, or trample, pluck, mutilate or injure the grass, shrubs or flowers planted or growing in such place.

(6)

Trees and shrubs. No person shall cut, scar, mutilate, dig up or otherwise injure or destroy any trees or shrubs on the public streets or in the parks of the city.

(Code 1968, § 23-45; Code 1983, § 18-116)