§ 14-15. Injuring, tampering with city-owned property.

(a)

It shall be unlawful for any person to injure, deface, mutilate, destroy, tamper with or in anywise injure any public buildings or other property belonging to the city.

(b)

It shall be unlawful for any person to wantonly break, injure, deface or misplace any of the street signboards, lamps, lampposts, light poles, telephone or telegraph poles or wires, in any manner whatsoever, belonging to or placed within the city, or to break or injure any fountain, hydrant, water fixtures, or other property belonging to the city or located within the same.

(Code 1959, §§ 14-22, 14-23)

State law reference

Malicious injury to real property, G.S. § 14-127; injury to public buildings, G.S. § 14-132; injury to houses, churches, fences and walls, G.S. § 14-144; injuring personal property, G.S. § 14-160; injuring wires, fixtures, etc., of telephone and power companies, G.S. §§ 14-154, 14-156.