The following acts are unlawful:
(A) Defacing public grounds. To cut, break or deface any tree or shrub in a public park or on any avenue thereto by willfully defacing, cutting, breaking or injuring, except by the authority of the Mayor;
(B) Injuring new pavement. Willfully to injure new pavement in any street, alley or sidewalk by willfully driving, walking or making marks on such pavement before it is ready for use;
(C) Destroying park equipment. To destroy or injure any property or equipment in public swimming pools, playgrounds or parks by willfully defacing, breaking, damaging, mutilating or cutting;
(D) Injury to public library books or property. To willfully, maliciously or wantonly tear, deface, mutilate, injure or destroy, in whole or in part, any newspaper, periodical, book, map, pamphlet, chart, picture or other property belonging to any public library or reading room;
(E) Defacing or destroying proclamations or notices. To intentionally deface, obliterate, tear down or destroy in whole or in part any transcript or extract from or of any law of the United States or of this state, or any proclamation, advertisement or notification, set up at any place within the city by authority of law or by order of any court, during the time for which the same is to remain set up;
(F) Injury to gravestones or property in cemetery. To willfully and maliciously destroy, mutilate, deface, injure or remove any tomb, vault, monument, gravestone or other structure placed in any public or private cemetery, or any fences, railing or other work for the protection or ornamentation of said cemetery, or of any tomb, vault, monument or gravestone or other structure aforesaid, on any cemetery lot within such cemetery, or to willfully and maliciously destroy, cut, break or injure any tree, shrub, plant or lawn within the limits of said cemetery, or to willfully and maliciously throw or leave any rubbish, refuse, garbage, waste, litter or foreign substance within the limits of said cemetery, or to drive at an unusual and forbidden speed over avenues or roads in said cemetery, or to drive outside of said avenues and roads or over the grass or graves of said cemetery;
(G) Injury to fire apparatus. To willfully destroy or injure any fire truck, hose carriage, hose, hook and ladder truck or other fire equipment used and kept for extinguishment of fires;
(H) Obstructing or defacing roads. To obstruct, deface or injure any public road by breaking up, plowing or digging within the boundary lines thereof;
(I) Injury to roads, railways and other utilities. To maliciously injure, remove or destroy any electric railway or apparatus belonging thereto, or any bridge, railroad or road; or place or cause to be placed any obstruction on any electric railway, or on any such bridge, railroad or road; or willfully obstruct or injure any public road or highway; or maliciously cut, burn or in any way break down, injure or destroy any post or pole used in connection with any system of electric lighting, electric railway or telephone or telegraph system; or break down and destroy or injure and deface any electric light, telegraph or telephone instrument; or in any way cut, break or injure the wires of any apparatus belonging thereto; or to willfully tap, cut, injure, break, disconnect, connect, make any connection with, or destroy any of the wires, mains, pipes, conduits, meters or other apparatus belonging to, or attached to, the power plant or distributing system of any electric light plant, electric motor, gas plant or water plant; or to aid or abet any other person in so doing; and
(J) Tapping telegraph or telephone wires. To wrongfully or unlawfully tap or connect a wire with the telephone or telegraph wires of any person, company or association engaged in the transmission of messages on telephone or telegraph lines.
(Ord. 120-202-8, passed 10-10-1983)