§ 58-61. Damaging graves, graveyards, monuments or tombstones.

(a)

It shall be unlawful for any person to:

(1)

Willfully obliterate or desecrate any grave;

(2)

Destroy any plants, trees, decorations or shrubbery or deface or remove any gravestone;

(3)

Destroy, tear down or injure any fence or other enclosure of any graveyard or monument;

(4)

Cut, mutilate, deface or otherwise injure any public or private monument or tombstone, whether within or without any recognized cemetery or on any battlefield;

(5)

Cut, injure, deface or mutilate any fence or enclosure erected around any such monument; or

(6)

Commit any other willful trespass upon the grounds around such monument, tombstone, grave or graveyard.

(b)

Anyone found in violation of this section shall be subject to punishment as provided in section 1-12.

(Code 1976, § 18-36; Ord. of 7-2-1990, §§ 1, 2; Ord. No. 2010-13, 10-4-2010)