(A) Prohibited generally.
(1) No person shall purposely deface or damage any public or private building or appurtenances thereof, or any fence, street, bridge, sidewalk, driveway, street or public work.
(2) No person shall:
(a) Destroy, injure, deface, damage or molest any structure, building, work or other property, real or personal, belonging to another;
(b) Use such property wrongfully to the detriment of the owner or other person entitled to its use; or
(c) Interfere wrongfully with the use of any such property by its owner or any other person entitled to its use.
(B) Private property.
(1) No person shall willfully, unlawfully or maliciously take and carry or cause to be taken and carried away any part of a house, barn, fence, gate or other structure, or maliciously break, tear down or destroy any part of a house, barn or other structure not his or her own.
(2) No person shall willfully and wantonly damage or destroy the personal property of another.
(C) Destroying trees and shrubbery.
(1) Private property. No person shall willfully, maliciously and without lawful authority cut down, root up, sever, injure or destroy any fruit tree, shade or ornamental tree, cultivated root or plant, grape or strawberry vine, shrub or plant whatever standing on or attached to the land of another, or pick, destroy, carry away therefrom, or in any way interfere therewith, any of the fruit thereof.
(2) Public property. No person shall willfully or without lawful authority cut down, destroy, root up or in any manner injure any fruit, shade or ornamental tree, shrub or vine planted or growing on any street, land, avenue, alley or other public ground of the town.
(Prior Code, § 5-3A-3) Penalty, see § 131.99