6-2-19: INJURING PROPERTY 1 :
   (A)   Personal Property: It shall be unlawful for any person wilfully, maliciously or for mischief to break, destroy, injure, disfigure or deface any window, door or any part of any dwelling, house or other building not his own or to in like manner attempt to break, destroy, injure or deface any such building or part thereof by force such as throwing stones or other substances; or to, in any manner, pull down, remove, destroy, injure, or disfigure any sign, signpost, gate, gatepost, fence or railing, or any pile of wood, lumber or other property of another; or to remove, overturn or injure any automobile or other vehicle belonging to another, or to run off any domestic animal of another.
   (B)   Trees, Shrubs: It shall be unlawful for any person to wilfully, maliciously or for mischief enter any orchard, yard, garden or enclosure of another and mutilate, injure or destroy any tree, shrub, vine, fruit or vegetable therein or take or carry away any fruit, vegetable or flower therefrom without the consent of the owner or person in charge of the same.
   (C)   Burial Grounds: It shall be unlawful for any person to injure or destroy, disfigure or deface any fence, railing or gate around any cemetery or burying ground within the City, or which may be used as burying ground by the inhabitants of the City without the corporate limits, or to destroy, injure, disfigure or deface in any such cemetery or burying ground; or to turn or let any animal or animals into any such cemetery or burying ground; or to leave any gate or passage into such grounds open so that animals can go therein.
   (D)   Tombstones, Monuments: It shall be unlawful for any person to mischievously write or mark or paint any words, letters, characters, pictures or figures of any kind upon any fence, railing, gate or enclosure or open any tombstone or monuments, or to commit any other nuisance in or about any such cemetery or burying ground. (Ord. 13, 12-5-1908)

 

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1. See also subsection 8-1-3(G) of this Code.