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Every person who shall maliciously, wantonly or carelessly throw down, remove, break, damage or extinguish any lamp, lantern, electric, gas or other light, or the globe or other apparatus enclosing or surrounding such items, which has been erected and is being maintained either by the town or by any person for the purpose of lighting any street, highway, bridge or lane in the town, or who shall light or cause to be lighted any such lamp, lantern, electric, gas or other light, without first having been duly authorized, or who shall maliciously, wantonly, or carelessly, break down, deface, cut, scratch, or otherwise injure or damage any fence, post, signboard, sign, dwelling house, building or other structure or who shall break down, deface, cut, scratch or otherwise injure or damage any written, printed or painted public notice of any description, shall be punished as authorized by statute.
(Code 1982, § 14-9; Code 2003, § 38-71)
State Law reference— Vandalism, G.L. 1956, § 11-44-1.