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.