The City or any person or organization of any kind or character shall be entitled to recover damages in an amount not more than as provided in West Virginia Code 55-7A-2 in any court of competent jurisdiction from the parent or parents of any minor child under the age of eighteen years, living with the parent or parents, who maliciously or willfully destroys property, real, personal or mixed, situated within the City and belonging to the City or any person or organization of any kind or character.
The recovery hereunder shall be limited to the actual damages in addition to taxable court costs. However, the right of action and remedy therefor granted herein shall be in addition to and not exclusive of any rights of action and remedies therefor against a parent or parents for the injurious acts of his, her or their minor children heretofore existing under the provisions of any law, statutory or otherwise, or now so existing independently of the provisions of this section, except this right of action shall not be in addition to that certain cause of action set forth in West Virginia Code 55-7A-2.