[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town of Falmouth Special Town Meeting 10-26-1982,
Art. 53. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Peace and good order — See Ch. 156.
This Article is authorized under MGL C. 403 § 21, Subsection
1.
No person shall willfully and maliciously, or intentionally and without
right:
A.
Break down, injure, remove or destroy a monument erected
for or tree marked for the purpose of designating the boundaries of a Town
or of a tract or lot of land, or a milestone, mileboard or guideboard erected
upon a public way or railroad, or deface or alter the inscription on any such
stone or board.
B.
Mar or deface a building or signboard, or extinguish
a light, or break, destroy or remove a lamp, lamppost, railing or post erected
on a bridge, sidewalk, public way, court or passage.
C.
Deface or otherwise injure, remove, interfere with or
destroy any traffic regulating sign, light, signal, marking or device lawfully
erected or placed under public authority on any public way.
D.
Wantonly and without cause, destroy, deface, mar or injure
a schoolhouse, church or other building erected or used for purpose of education
or religious instruction, or for the general diffusion of knowledge, or an
outbuilding, fence, well or appurtenance of such schoolhouse, church or other
building, or furniture, apparatus or other property belonging thereto or connected
therewith.
E.
Wantonly and without cause, destroy, deface or mar or
injure any playground apparatus or equipment located in a public park or playground.
F.
Destroy, injure, deface or mar a dwelling house or other
building, whether upon the inside or the outside.
G.
Mar or injure the walls, wainscoting or any other part
of any building belonging to the commonwealth or any building belonging to
the Town of Falmouth or the appurtenance thereof, by cutting, writing or otherwise.
H.
Maliciously remove, displace, destroy, deface, mar or
injure any monument, tablet or other device erected to mark an historic place
or commemorate an historic event.
