(A) Damaging or tampering with a motor vehicle consists of any person who shall individually or in association with one or more persons:
(1) Purposely and without authority from the owner, start, or cause to be started, the motor of any motor vehicle;
(2) Purposely and maliciously shall shift or change the starting device or gears of a standing motor vehicle to a position other than that in which they were left by the owner or driver of said motor vehicle;
(3) Purposely scratches or damages the chassis, running gear, body, sides, top covering or upholstering of a motor vehicle, the property of another;
(4) Purposely destroys any part of a motor vehicle or purposely cuts, mashes, marks or in any other way destroys or damages any part, attachment, fastening or appurtenance of a motor vehicle, without the permission of the owner thereof;
(5) Purposely drains or starts the drainage of any radiator or oil tank or gas tank upon a motor vehicle without the permission of the owner thereof;
(6) Purposely puts any metallic or other substance or liquid in the radiator, carburetor, oil tank, grease cup, oilers, lamps, gas tanks or machinery of the motor vehicle with the intent to damage the same or impede the working of the machinery thereof;
(7) Maliciously tightens, disconnects, loosens, or removes any part on any motor vehicle belonging to another;
(8) Purposely releases the brake upon a standing motor vehicle, with the intent to damage said machine; or
(9) Purposely enters or remains in any motor vehicle without the consent of the owner thereof.
(B) Nothing in this section shall apply to a police officer or firefighter acting in the scope of his or her duties or to any other person acting at the direction of said police officer or firefighter.
('74 Code, § 12-1-3-9) (Ord. 96-1973; Am. Ord. 78-1978) Penalty, see § 12-1-99