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PART ONE - ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
PART THREE - TRAFFIC CODE
PART FIVE - GENERAL OFFENSES CODE
PART SEVEN - BUSINESS REGULATION AND TAXATION CODE
PART NINE - STREETS, UTILITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES CODE
PART ELEVEN - HEALTH AND SANITATION CODE
PART THIRTEEN - PLANNING AND ZONING CODE
PART FIFTEEN - FIRE PREVENTION CODE
PART SEVENTEEN - BUILDING AND HOUSING CODE
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533.06 TAMPERING WITH AND THEFT OF UTILITIES.
   No person with intent to injure or defraud shall procure, make or cause to be made, any pipe, tube, wire or other conductor of gas, water or electric energy, and connect the same, or cause it to be connected, with any main, service pipe or other pipe for conducting or supplying gas, or water or any wires or other conductor of electric energy, in such manner as to supply gas, water or electric energy to any lamp, motor, burner, orifice or any other device, by or at which gas, water or electric energy is consumed, around or without passing through the meter provided for measuring and registering the quantity of gas, water or electric energy consumed, or in any other manner so as to evade payment therefor, and no person, with like intent, shall injure or alter any gas, water or electric meter, or obstruct its action.
(WVaC 61-3-44)
   No person with intent to injure or defraud shall connect, or cause to be connected, any pipe, tube, wire, electrical conductor or other instrument with any main, service pipe or other pipe or conduit or flume for conducting water, or with any main, service pipe or other pipe or conduit for conducting gas, or with any main, service wire or other electric conductor used for the purpose of conducting electric energy for light, heat or motive services, for the purpose of taking therefrom water, gas or electric energy, without the knowledge of the owner thereof and with intent to evade payment therefor.
(WVaC 61-3-45)
533.07 ADVERTISING MATTER AND HANDBILLS.
   (a)   No person shall pass or hand out to persons unwilling to accept them what is commonly called handbills upon the streets, sidewalks or public places of the City; and no one shall throw or let fall such bills upon any of the streets, sidewalks or ground in public places.
   (b)   No paper, handbills, dodgers, cards, circulars or advertising matter of any kind, shall be thrown, pushed, cast, deposited, dropped, scattered, distributed or left in or upon any street, sidewalk, parking or other public place or doorstep of any premises in the City or within the building line, vestibule or yard of any premises if likely to be taken up by the wind and scattered in the streets; provided, that the provisions of this section shall not prevent the delivery of newspapers and addressed envelopes within the building line of any premises within the City.
(1976 Code Sec. 13-2)
533.08 POSTING MATERIAL IN PUBLIC PLACES.
   No person shall stick, print, stamp, attach or suspend to any tree or utility pole or any other pole or stick upon any public street or place within the City or upon any tree growing on private property abutting on any street in the City, any printed, written, painted or other advertisement, bill, notice, sign, letter or poster.
(1976 Code Sec. 13-3)
533.09 PAINTING SIDEWALK OR PAVEMENT.
   No person shall print, write or paint any sign or any lettering of any nature upon any public sidewalk or pavement within the City, and upon conviction of a violation thereof such person shall be required to clean and remove such printing, writing or painting from such sidewalk or pavement at his own expense, in addition to being subject to the penalty provided in Section 501.99.
533.10 CITY PROPERTY, CEMETERIES AND BURIAL PLACES PROTECTED.
   (a)   No person shall, without proper authority, knowingly use, tamper with, render inoperative, destroy, damage, remove, deface, molest or otherwise interfere with any books, records, furniture, equipment, gear, apparatus, tools or other items of personal property belonging to, leased to or used by the City or any agency thereof.
   (b)   No person shall, without proper authority, knowingly destroy, damage, deface, molest or otherwise interfere with or trespass upon, any real property belonging to, leased to or used by the City or any agency thereof.
   (c)   No person shall break down, destroy, deface or remove or otherwise damage any monument, marker, bench, vase, urn, flowers, wreath, flag or other property on, in, or near any grave, crypt, cemetery or other burial place within the City.
(Ord. 13-88. Passed 7-12-88.)
533.11 CITY WORK PROJECTS.
   No person, without having authority from the City so to do, shall wilfully prevent, delay, hinder, obstruct or otherwise interfere with, directly or indirectly, any contractor, workman or other person who is engaged upon any construction, repair or other project or enterprise for or on behalf of the City or wilfully impede the progress of any such project or enterprise in any manner.
(1976 Code Sec. 13-13)
533.12 RECREATION RULES.
   (a)   Fishing After Dark. Fishing shall be permitted on the City property known as Hinkle and Deegan Lakes during such hours as Council may from time to time designate. (Ord. 4-88. Passed 5-24-88.)
   (b)   Camp Fires. No person shall set or cause to be set on fire any flammable material upon the City property known as Hinkle and Deegan Lakes or on the public property adjoining City property or camp or remain on such property after dark without a permit to do so issued or authorized by Council.
   (c)   Parking. No person shall stop, stand or park any vehicle on City property or on public property adjoining City property, including State rights of way adjacent to or adjoining the Hinkle and Deegan Lakes property any place where official signs prohibit stopping, standing or parking.
   (d)   Littering. No person shall dispose of, or permit to be disposed of litter of any kind, including but not limited to paper cartons, bottles, bottle caps, cans, fruit peelings and bits of food, glass, scraps or fragments of any kind, or other things which have become to be regarded by the public as litter on any City property or on any public or private property adjacent to or adjoining City property. (5-10-1983)
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