(A) The destruction, injuring, damaging, mutilation, unauthorized use, trespass upon or removal of the property of another is hereby prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to destroy, damage, mutilate or remove the property of another.
(B) The following acts, among others, are declared to be in violation of this section, but this enumeration shall not be deemed to be exclusive:
(1) Personal property. Any willful, unlawful and maliciously cutting, shooting, maiming, wounding or other injuring of any personal property of another person;
(2) Fixtures and real property. Any willful, unlawful and malicious cutting, mutilating, defacing or other injuring of any tree, house, outside fence or fixture of another, or the commission of any other trespass upon real property in the possession of another;
(3) Municipal property. Unless authorized by town officials, the removal, interference with, use, trespass upon or destruction of any town property;
(4) Cemeteries. The damaging or defacing in any way whatever of any well, pump, building, tombstone, seat, bench, chair, railing, enclosure, tree, shrub, vine, bulb, flower or other thing placed, put or growing in any cemetery;
(5) Grass plots, flowers and the like. Driving any animal or vehicle along, on or across any grass plot in any street, public place or sidewalk, or trampling, plucking, mutilating or injuring the grass, shrubs or flowers planted or growing in such place; and
(6) Trees and shrubs. Cutting, scarring, mutilating, digging up or otherwise injuring or destroying any trees or shrubs on the public streets or in the parks of the town.
(Prior Code, § 14-33) (Ord. passed 7-20-2010) Penalty, see § 132.99
Statutory reference:
Injuring property and the like, see S.C. Code §§ 16-11-510 et seq.