(A) Buildings and other property.
(1) It is unlawful for any person to purposely destroy, injure, deface, besmear, or molest any structure, building, outbuilding, fence, or any other property, real or personal, public or private, belonging to another, or to use any such property wrongfully to the detriment of the owner or other person entitled to its use. It is unlawful to interfere wrongfully with the use of any such property by its owner or any other person entitled to its use.
(2) It is unlawful for any person to loosen or remove any plank, board, block, brick, stone, stringer, support or other part from, or to injure or destroy, any sidewalk, crossing, bridge, culvert, viaduct, gate, sign or other property of another, without lawful authority.
(B) Public utilities; larceny.
(1) It is unlawful for any person to adjust, connect, disconnect, molest, injure, destroy or in any way tamper with any water or gas pipe, any telephone pole or apparatus, meterloop, riser or connection belonging thereto, or any water, gas or electric meter on meter box or housing, or any pipe, wire, conduit or connection belonging thereto, or any other part of a water, gas or electrical system, or to do any act or use any contrivance to prevent or affect correct and proper registration by any such meter. This shall not apply to officers and employees of the city or of any person, firm or corporation owning or operating such water, gas or electric system, acting in line of duty.
(2) No person shall, without lawful authority, make any splice, tap or other connection into or on any cable, wire, pipe or other connection into or on any cable, wire, pipe or other service furnished to the residents of the city by the city or by any person, firm or corporation operating in the city under a valid permit issued by the city.
(3) Any person who, with intent to defraud, makes or causes to be made any pipe, wire or other instrument or contrivance and connects the same or causes the same to be connected with any pipe provided for the purpose of conducting water or gas, or with any wire or other electrical conductor provided for the purpose of conducting electricity, so as to conduct such gas, water or electric current, to a point where the same may be consumed, without its passing through meters provided for registering the quantity consumed, or in any manner so as to evade payment therefor, whether the gas, water or electrical current is furnished through a meter or not, shall be guilty of an offense. Every person who, with like intent, injures or alters any gas, electric or water meter or obstructs its action is guilty of an offense.
(C) Public plants and trees. It is unlawful for any person to willfully and without authority cut, pull, pluck or otherwise injure any flowers, flowering plants, shrubs or trees growing in or around any park or public street within the city, or willfully or without authority to tear down, remove, cut or otherwise injure or destroy any gate or fence enclosing any such park or ground, or willfully injure or destroy any stand, bench, seat or other property situated upon such park or ground.
(D) Trees, plants or fruit; trespass. It is unlawful for any person to willfully cut down, root up, sever, injure or destroy any fruit tree, shade or ornamental tree, cultivated root, plant, vine, shrub or bush whatever, which is the property of another, standing on or attached to the land of another, or to pick, destroy or carry away therefrom or in any way interfere with any part of the fruit thereof, or to trespass on the premises of another, without the consent of the owner or person in charge.
(E) Defacing public property. It is an offense for any person to maliciously or willfully deface, injure, destroy, smear or bedaub any building, sidewalk, street, pavement, curbing, water or sewer line, or other real or personal property of the city.
(Prior Code, § 5-2B-3) Penalty, see § 130.99