No person shall take down, alter, deface, destroy, or conceal any number assigned to and placed upon any house or building, or place a substitute, erroneous, or improper number on any house or building, or permit an erroneous or improper number to be retained on his house or building, or take down, break, deface, destroy, or conceal any street number or name posted, placed, or painted in the city. A person who commits one or more of these acts is guilty of destruction or defacing of numbers and shall, upon conviction, be fined as set forth in § 10.99.
('74 Code, § 152.08) Penalty, see § 10.99