(A) Any person who willfully or maliciously shoots upon the public highway and injures, defaces, damages, or destroys any signs, monuments, road markers, traffic-control devices, traffic-surveillance devices, or other public notices lawfully placed upon such highways shall be guilty of an offense.
(B) No person shall willfully or maliciously injure, deface, alter, or knock down any sign, traffic-control device, or traffic-surveillance device.
(C) It shall be unlawful for any person, other than a duly authorized representative of the Department of Transportation, the county, or the city, to remove any sign, traffic-control device, or traffic-surveillance device placed along a highway for traffic-control, warning, or informational purposes by official action of the department, county, or city. It shall be unlawful for any person to possess a sign or device which has been removed in violation of this division (C).
(D) Any person violating division (B) or (C) above shall be guilty of an offense and shall be assessed liquidated damages in the amount of the value of the sign, traffic-control device, or traffic-surveillance device and the cost of replacing it.
(Neb. RS 60-6,130) Penalty, see § 71.999