(A) Authority of Chief of Police. To inform users of the streets of the provisions of this title relative to parking, traffic, and travel, the Chief of Police is hereby directed and authorized to provide and to have placed on or above the streets and alleys of the city suitable signs and markings wherever deemed necessary.
(B) Placement prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person other than the Chief of Police, or his or her duly-authorized agents, to erect, place, or exhibit any traffic sign or standard upon any public highway of the city or to attempt by signs or written or printed instructions to regulate traffic or the parking of vehicles.
(C) Malicious injury; removal. It shall be unlawful for any person to maliciously remove or injure any public traffic sign erected upon any public highway, or any inscription on such, or deface the same in writing, or in any other manner, or to remove any light placed upon a disabled vehicle, or upon an obstruction or defect in the highway. A violation of this section shall be a misdemeanor.
(Prior Code, § 6-2-4) Penalty, see § 10.99