Sec. 8-1. - Injuring property prohibited.

(a)

No person shall wantonly and maliciously daub with paint, or otherwise injure by scratching or marking, or writing with paint, blacking, red chalk or other colored composition or liquid, or in any manner deface any post, signboard or sign, situated in or upon any street, highway, bridge, wharf or other public place, or ground set apart for public purposes, in this town, or any ornament or appurtenance of the same, or shall wantonly tear down, deface or destroy any notice of any public meeting, auction or other sale, or any other public notice.

(b)

No person shall maliciously, wantonly or carelessly throw down or extinguish any incandescent or arc light, or the globe or lamp enclosing the same, or any other lamp or lantern, erected for the purpose of lighting any street, highway, or bridge in this town, whether the same shall have been erected by the town, or any other corporation, or by any individual, or shall light such lamp or lantern without proper authority.

(c)

It is hereby declared illegal for any person to commit vandalism or otherwise misuse that certain area known as the nature trail located near the Ashaway School in the Village of Ashaway, Town of Hopkinton, RI. Misuse of the nature trail is hereby defined to include skateboarding, sledding, littering, horseback riding and bicycle riding.

Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be subject to a fine of not more than fifty dollars ($50.00), plus any applicable court costs.

(Ch. 2, 9-6-27; Ch. 165, 1-7-02)

Cross reference— Streets, sidewalks and other public places, Ch. 17.

State Law reference— Malicious injury, G.L. 1956, §§ 11-44-1, 11-44-12.