Any person other than the burial right owner or his or her representative, heir-in-law, or a person having care, custody, or control of a cemetery by virtue of law, contract, or other legal right who willfully destroys, mutilates, defaces, injures, or removes any tomb, monument, gravestone, or other structure or thing placed or designed for a memorial to the dead, or any fence, railing, curb, or other thing intended for the protection or for the ornament of any tomb, monument, gravestone, or other structure mentioned in this section or of any enclosure for the burial of the dead, or who willfully destroys, mutilates, removes, cuts, breaks, or injures any tree, shrub, or plant placed or being within any such enclosure is guilty of a misdemeanor. Prosecution under this section may commence upon complaint by the burial right owner or his or her representative, heir-at-law, or person having care, custody, or control of a cemetery, tomb, monument, gravestone, or other structure or thing placed or designed for a memorial of the dead or for the protection or ornamentation thereof.
(2011 Code, § 9.24.160) (Ord. 80, passed - -1976) Penalty, see § 10.99