[Amended 9-29-2005; Ordinance
2005-08]
1.
PETIT LARCENY – Is the taking, accompanied by fraud or stealth,
of personal property and with the intent to deprive the owner thereof
of the use of same when such property is of value of $500 or less.
2.
If the thing stolen consists of any evidence of debt or other written
instrument the amount of money due thereon or secured to be paid thereby
and remaining unsatisfied, or which in an contingency might be collected
thereon, or the sum which might be recovered in the absence thereof,
as the case may be, shall be deemed the value of the thing stolen.
Any written evidence of debt, and written order or promise for
the payment of money or delivery of goods, public security or passage
ticket, though the same has never been issued or delivered by the
makers thereof to any person or purchaser, and any personal property,
are the subjects of larceny.
Any fixture or part of realty, the instant it is severed from
the realty, becomes personal property and when the same is of the
value of $50 or less, is the subject of larceny within the meaning
of this article.
1.
Every person who buys or receives, in any manner, upon any consideration,
any personal property of any value whatsoever that has been stolen,
embezzled, or obtained by false pretense, knowing or having reasonable
cause to believe the same to have been stolen, embezzled, or obtained
by false pretense, or who conceals, withholds, or aids in concealing
or withholding such property from the owner is guilty of an offense.
2.
Every person who, without making reasonable inquiry, buys, receives,
conceals, withholds, or aids in concealing or withholding any property
which has been stolen, embezzled, obtained by false pretense, or otherwise
obtained contrary to law, under such circumstances as should cause
such person to make reasonable inquiry to ascertain that the person
from whom such property was bought or received had the legal right
to sell or deliver it shall be presumed to have bought or received
such property knowing it to have been so stolen or wrongfully obtained.
One who finds lost property under circumstances which give him
knowledge or means of inquiry as to the true owner, and who appropriates
such property to his own use, or to the use of another person who
is not entitled thereto, without having first made such effort to
find the owner and restore the property to him as the circumstances
render reasonable and just, is guilty of petit larceny.
It is unlawful for any person to crank, start, otherwise meddle
with, molest, enter, occupy, or loiter in any automobile or other
vehicle belonging to another, without the consent of the owner or
person in charge thereof.
It is unlawful for any person to destroy, injure, deface, besmear,
or molest any structure, building, outbuilding, fence, or any other
property, real or personal, public or private, belonging to another;
or to use any such property wrongfully to the detriment of the owner
or other person entitled to its use; or to interfere wrongfully with
the use of any such property by its owner or any other person entitled
to its use.
[Amended 1-30-1997, Ordinance
1997-1]
1.
It is unlawful for any person to place, stick, tack, paste, post,
paint, mark, write, or print any sign, poster, picture, announcement,
advertisement, bill, place card, device, or inscription upon any public
or private building, fence, sidewalk, bridge, viaduct, post, automobile,
other vehicle or other property of another including public easements,
roadways, and alleys without the consent of the owner or person in
charge thereof.
2.
That campaign signs no larger than 24 inches in largest dimension
be permitted to be placed on public right-of-way. Any other signage,
campaign or otherwise and of larger dimensions must be placed on private
property and not cause a traffic problem by blocking line of sight.
Also recommended that signs be removed within 48 hours of the election
in which the candidate last participated.
1.
It is unlawful for any person to throw or launch, by any means, or
allow or permit any person to throw or launch any object into or across
any street or alley, or in any place where he is likely to hit another
person or property.
2.
It is unlawful for any person to throw or launch, by any means, or
allow or permit any person to throw or launch any object at any person,
vehicle, structure, electric light, or property of another.
3.
Any person committing the above act is exempt when the commission
of said act is done in the defense of oneself, in the defense of another,
or the defense of another's property.
It is unlawful for any person to connect or attach any kind
of pipe, wire, or other contrivance to any pipe, line, wire, or other
conductor carrying gas, water, or electricity and belonging to a public
utility (whether publicly or privately owned), in such a manner as
to enable him to consume or use the gas, water, or electricity without
its passing through the meter or in any other way so as to evade payment
therefor. It is also unlawful for any person to damage, molest, tamper
with, or destroy any pipe, line, wire, meter or other part of any
public utility, including telegraph and telephone systems.
Every person who intrudes or squats upon any lot or piece of
land within the city without license or authority from the owner thereof,
or who erects or occupies thereon any hut, hovel, shanty, or other
structure without such license or authority, and every person who
places, erects, or occupies within the bounds of any street, alley
or avenue of the city, any hut, hovel, shanty, or other structure
whatever is guilty of an offense.
[Amended 8-31-2012, Ordinance
2012-07]
1.
It is unlawful for any person to willfully or maliciously enter the
property or remain on the property of another after being expressly
or otherwise forbidden to do so, or without permission by the owner
or lawful occupant thereof when such property is posted.
2.
For the purposes of this section, "posted" means exhibiting signs
to read as follows: "Property Restricted"; "Posted-Keep Out"; "Keep
Out"; "No Trespassing"; or similar signs which are displayed. Property
that is fenced or not fenced must have such signs placed conspicuously
and at all places where entry to the property is normally expected.
3.
This section does not apply to entries made by authority of the Statutes
of the State of Oklahoma or this Code of Ordinances.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation
to break, cut, molest, destroy, damage, tamper with, or in any manner
obstruct any water meter, water line, water connection or sewer line
and connection or any appurtenances or appendages therewith connected.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation
to injure, cut, break down, molest, destroy, damage, tamper with,
or in any manner obstruct any electric light wires, poles, meters,
connections or appurtenances, or appendages therewith connected.
It shall be unlawful and an offense for any person or persons
within the city limits to knowingly sell any commodity or article
of merchandise and in the sale thereof make or give a false or short
weight therefor or for any person owning or keeping or having in charge
any scales of scale-yards used in weighing livestock, hay, grain,
coal or any other article to knowingly and willfully report any false
or untrue weight whereby another person shall be defrauded or damaged.
