§ 9-2. Injuring, etc., property
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to deface any building fence, sign, lamppost or other property, belonging to the town or to property holders of the town, by cutting, breaking, daubing with paint or other substances, hitching horses or other animals or in any manner defacing or tearing or injuring the same.
(b) No person shall wilfully destroy, injure, carry away, break, or deface any ornament, street sign, lamp, railing, fixture, gate, seat, bench, swing, fountain, tools, machinery or structure, pull any flowers or cut or injure in any way any tree, shrub, plant, vine or any other property belonging to the town within or upon any of its streets, plazas or parks. This paragraph shall not apply to the employees or officers of the town actually and necessarily engaged in the discharge of the duties of their office or employment.
(Code 1973, § 15-14)