[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners of the Township of Stowe 6-14-1976(27) (Ch. 6, Part 1, of the 1993 Code of Ordinances). Amendments noted where applicable.]
No person or persons shall destroy or injure, in any way whatsoever, or tamper with or deface any public property of the Township of Stowe or of the Township Fire Department, or any fire company belonging thereto, or any grass, walk, lamp, ornamental work, building, streetlight, fire hydrant or water or gas stop box on any of the streets, roads or alleys, or in any of the parks or other public grounds in the Township.
No person or persons shall in any manner interfere with or meddle with or pull, drive, change, alter or destroy any stake, post, monument or other evidence of any elevation, grade, line, location, corner or angle in the Township of Stowe made, placed or set, or hereafter made, placed or set, or caused to be done by the authorities of the Township in any survey of or in any street, road, alley or public ground in the Township, to evidence the location, elevation, line, grade, corner or angle of any public street, road, alley, sidewalk, curb, gutter, sewer or other public work, matter or thing.
No person or persons shall willfully or maliciously destroy or remove or deface or obliterate or cover up any lamp, warning sign or barricade erected by the authorities of the Township or by any person, partnership, firm or corporation doing work by permission of the authorities of the Township on any street, road, alley, sidewalk, bridge or public ground in the Township, as a warning of danger.
No person or persons shall take any earth, stone or other material from any of the streets, roads or alleys or from any of the parks or other public grounds in the Township.
This chapter shall not apply to normal activities in connection with the construction, maintenance and repair of streets, roads, alleys, sidewalks and public grounds and the structures and fixtures thereon and therein, or to incidental results of work thereon or therein upon permit from or by authority of the Township.
[Amended 11-9-1993 by Ord. No. 760]
Any person who shall violate any provision of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding $1,000, and costs, and, in default of payment thereof, shall be subject to imprisonment for a term not to exceed 30 days, provided the fact that a violator has been penalized after hearing, as herein provided, shall not preclude the Township or other injured party from taking proper legal action to recover damages resulting from such violation.