(A) Defacing building, damaging property.
(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) Removing or breaking private property. 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.
(C) Damaging private property. No person shall willfully and wantonly damage or destroy the personal property of another.
(D) Public works under construction.
(1) Any person who removes, destroys, disturbs or in any manner injures any grade stake, stone or other mark or monument set by or under authority of the town to designate or mark grades, lines, corners or bench marks on any public work in the town prior to the completion and acceptance of the contract for which such stakes or monuments are set, without lawful authority, is guilty of an offense.
(2) Any contractor or other person constructing any public work in the town shall protect such work by barriers or obstructions. It is unlawful for any person to cross the barriers or to remove them until the work has been completed and opened by authority of the town.
(Prior Code, § 5-4B-9) Penalty, see § 133.99