§ 130.34 OFFENSES AGAINST PROPERTY.
   (A)   Destroying official signs. No person shall willfully deface, or tear down, any official notice or bulletin or any official sign or signal posted or placed in conformity with the law.
   (B)   Damage to property.
      (1)   No person shall willfully or negligently cut, remove, deface, or in any manner injure or damage real or personal property of the city within or without the corporate limits.
      (2)   No person, other than a properly authorized employee of the city, shall willfully or negligently cut, destroy, remove, or injure any plant, flower, shrub, tree, or bush growing or standing upon any street or alley in the city, or upon any property owned or controlled by the city within or without the corporate limits; provided, however, this section shall not be construed to prohibit the owner of land abutting upon any street or alley from cutting, trimming, injuring, or removing any tree or trees growing or standing upon the street or alley adjoining and immediately adjacent to his or her property.
      (3)   No person shall deface, injure, tamper with, or willfully break or destroy any property, real or personal, belonging to or under the control of another.
      (4)   No person shall lead, ride, or allow any goat, horse, cow, sheep, swine, or similar animal upon any sidewalk within the city or in a city park, nor shall any person tie or fasten the animal in such a manner as to permit it to go upon any sidewalk or do damage to a city park.
   (C)   Sidewalks.
      (1)   No person or group of persons upon any sidewalk shall so gather or stand as to prevent, impede, or obstruct the free passage of pedestrian traffic.
      (2)   No person or persons shall fail or refuse to disperse when lawfully ordered to do so by any police officer.
      (3)   No person shall permit any cellar door or grate located in or upon a sidewalk to remain open, except when the entrance is being used, and when being used, the entrance shall be opened only with proper safeguards to protect pedestrians using the sidewalk.
   (D)   Damage or theft of public records, documents.
      (1)   No person shall without proper authority take or remove any public record, document, book, paper, or personal property of any kind owned by the city.
      (2)   No person without proper authority shall mutilate or destroy any public record, document, book, or paper on file or kept on record in an public office of the city.
      (3)   No person shall retain any public record, document, book, or paper after lawful demand has been made for the return of it.
(Ord. 2007-130.38, passed 2-13-2007) Penalty, see § 130.99