Fulton Malicious destruction of property ordinance (§ 78-53)

(a) No person shall remove, break up or otherwise destroy or injure any bridge, culvert, sidewalk, pavement, crosswalk in or upon any street, thoroughfare or alley of the city without having lawful authority to do so.

(b) No person in the city shall willfully and without lawful authority cut down, pull or root up, saw, peel, cut, hack, injure or destroy any fruit tree or ornamental tree, shrub or cultivated root or plant, grape or strawberry vines or currant, gooseberry, raspberry or blackberry bushes standing or growing on or attached to the land of another or which may be growing in or along any street, thoroughfare, sidewalk, park or public place or pick, destroy or carry therefrom any portion of the fruit of any cultivated tree, vine or bush.

(c) No person shall willfully cut, break or otherwise injure or destroy any lamppost, awning post, awning, spouting, door, window, railing, porch, sign or fence within the city.

(d)

No person shall remove, take or tear down, deface, mark, injure or destroy any sign belonging to another or deface, injure or remove any sign indicating the number of any street without having lawful authority to do so.

(e) No person in the city shall interfere with freight of any kind which shall be in any railroad car or truck or in any freight depot or warehouse, by standing or sitting on the freight or by taking it down after it has been piled up or by uncovering the freight or in any way or by any means injuring the freight.

(f) No person shall molest, disturb, damage, injure or in any manner interfere with the batteries, wires, poles, instruments or other appliances belonging to any telegraph, telephone, cable TV, or public utility company doing business in the city.

(g) No person shall knowingly or willfully damage, tamper with, operate, ride upon or in, deface or mark upon or burn any property belonging to the city without the authority to do so.

(h) No person shall put or cause to be put any dead animal, carcass or any part thereof or any offal or other filth into any reservoir, water tank or tower used or intended to be used for the purpose of supplying the inhabitants of the city with water or shall in any manner or by any means defile, attempt to defile or cause to be defiled the water contained in any such reservoir, water tank or tower.

(i) Any person who violates this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished in accordance with section 1-20.