(a) No person shall maliciously cut down, destroy or injure a standing or growing vine, brush, shrub, sapling or tree, or maliciously injure, destroy or sever from the land of another a product standing or growing thereon, or other thing attached thereto.
(b) Whoever violates subsection (a) hereof shall be fined no less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) and no more than forty-nine dollars ($49.00) if the value of the product or thing destroyed or the amount of the damage done to such product or thing or to the land is less than fifty dollars ($50.00); if the value of the product or thing destroyed or the amount of the damage done to such product or thing or to the land is more than fifty dollars ($50.00), then the violator shall be fined no less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) and not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.
(Ord. 1992-12. Passed 2-27-92.)