(A) Definition. For the purposes of this section, PUBLIC PROPERTY shall include the public lighting system in the city, whether upon the streets or in the parks or cemeteries of the city. It shall also include all monuments, markers, signs, trees, shrubs, flowers, lawns, buildings, structures, plumbing fixtures and any other property of any kind whatsoever belonging to, installed by or maintained by the general public by taxation through any of its different agencies of government, whether city, township, county, state or national.
(B) No person shall injure, deface, disfigure, displace, mar, break or destroy, or attempt to injure, deface, disfigure, displace, mar, break or destroy any public property in the city of any kind whatsoever, whether such property is owned by the city, the Board of Education, Vincennes Township, Knox County, the State of Indiana or the United States government.
('71 Code, § 96.01) Penalty, see § 130.99