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.
(A) Personal property. Any person within the city who shall wilfully, unlawfully, and maliciously cut, shoot, maim, wound, or otherwise injure any personal property below the value of $200 of another person, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
(S.C. Code § 16-11-510)
(B) Fixtures and real property. Any person within the city who shall wilfully, unlawfully, and 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, when the value of such property is less than $200, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
(S.C. Code § 16-11-520)
(C) Municipal property. No person within the city, unless authorized by city officials, shall remove, interfere with, or destroy any city property.
(D) 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.
(E) Grass plots, flowers and the like. No person shall drive any animal or vehicle along, on, or across any grass plot in any street, public place, or sidewalk, or trample, pluck, mutilate, or injure the grass, shrubs, or flowers planted or growing in such place.
(F) 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.
(G) No person shall operate a metal detecting device and/or dig in any public park or playground or on any city-owned property located with the Historical District overlay without prior authorization by the City Manager.
('64 Code, § 17-27; Am. Ord., passed 4-25-89) Penalty, see § 130.99