(A) Any person who willfully or maliciously shoots upon the public highway and injures, defaces, damages, or destroys any signs, monuments, road markers, traffic control devices, traffic surveillance devices, or other public notices lawfully placed upon such highways shall be guilty of an offense.
(B) No person shall willfully or maliciously injure, deface, alter, or knock down any sign, traffic control device, or traffic surveillance device.
(C) It shall be unlawful for any person, other than a duly authorized representative of the Department of Transportation, the county, or the village, to remove any sign, traffic control device, or traffic surveillance device placed along a highway for traffic control, warning, or informational purposes by official action of the department, county, or village. It shall be unlawful for any person to possess a sign or device which has been removed in violation of this division (C).
(D) Any person violating divisions (B) or (C) above shall be guilty of an offense and shall be assessed liquidated damages in the amount of the value of the sign, traffic control device, or traffic surveillance device and the cost of replacing it.
(E) The Board of Trustees may, by resolution, provide for the placing of stop signs, or other signs, signals, standards, or mechanical devices in any street or alley under the village’s jurisdiction for the purpose of regulating, or prohibiting traffic thereon. Such resolution shall describe the portion of the street or alley wherein traffic is to be regulated or prohibited; the regulation or prohibition; the location where such sign, signal, standard, or mechanical device shall be placed; and the hours when such regulation or prohibition shall be effective.
(Neb. RS 60-6,130) (1996 Code, § 5-103) Penalty, see § 70.99