No person shall remove, destroy, or tear down any signal, barricade, fence, railing, or other device erected or constructed for the purpose of protecting paving or any other work while in course of construction or after it has been constructed on any of the streets, alleys, or public grounds. No person shall drive over or upon or go upon any paving or other public works in any of the streets, alleys, or public grounds while the same is protected by any signal, barrier, fence, or railing, or until the same has been removed by the contractors or by the duly authorized officials of the city. It is hereby declared to be unlawful for any person to mar, deface, destroy, remove, or carry away any street sign or highway marker erected either by authority of the city or by the state of Nebraska, within the corporate limits.
('72 Code, § 8-105) Penalty, see § 10.99