Chapter 9.08
OFFENSES AGAINST PROPERTY
Sections:
9.08.010 Private property--Damage to personal property.
9.08.020 Private property--Damage to real property or fixtures.
9.08.040 Public property--Damage to shrubs, trees, grass, flowers.
9.08.050 Park property--Damage to fences.
9.08.060 Park property--Damage generally.
9.08.070 Park property--Regulations authorized.
9.08.010 Private property--Damage to personal property.
Any person who shall maliciously, willfully or unlawfully cut, burn, destroy, injure, deface or in any other manner, injure any goods, wares, merchandise or other property, without the consent of the owner, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. (Ord. 3 (part), 1967)
9.08.020 Private property--Damage to real property or fixtures.
Any person who shall willfully, unlawfully or maliciously cut, break, injure, tear down, deface, or in any other manner, injure any house, shed, building or other enclosure, or who shall cut, tear down, break or deface any window or door of any building or house; or shall take off, sever, break in, or injure in any manner, any gate, fence or other enclosure, or any part thereof; or pull down, interfere with, or injure any fence, post or part thereof, or shall injure or destroy any tree, shrub or flowers, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. (Ord. 3 (part), 1967)
9.08.040 Public property--Damage to shrubs, trees, grass, flowers.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to in any way injure or destroy grass, trees, shrubs or flowers growing upon any parking strips, public school or ecclesiastical grounds, or anything placed thereon of a useful or ornamental character within the town. (Ord. 3 (part), 1967)
9.08.050 Park property--Damage to fences.
It shall be unlawful for any person, corporation or association to injure, cut, destroy, or do any act which will tend to injure or destroy any fence surrounding the public park within the town. (Ord. 3 (part), 1967)
9.08.060 Park property--Damage generally.
No person shall injure or destroy any plot seeded to grass, flowers, foliage or other vegetation, or cut, mutilate, injure, damage, or destroy any growing grass, flowers, shrubs, foliage or trees in any public park of the town, nor shall any person destroy, damage, injure, deface or mutilate any tables, benches, stands, flag poles, houses or buildings, or any other property that may be used in connection with, or which may be contained in any public park of the town. (Ord. 3 (part), 1967)
9.08.070 Park property--Regulations authorized.
The town council of the town shall have the right to adopt reasonable regulations for the government of the public parks in the town and no person shall violate any of such regulations. (Ord. 3 (part), 1967)
9.08.080 Public property.
No obstacles or items of any kind shall be placed on any property owned by the town, including all properties identified as parks. Parking of vehicles, trailers, campers, motorcycles, etc., shall only be allowed on public property in accordance with the official signs attendant to each property.
"Official sign" is any sign authorized and placed by the town manager or authorized designee. The town manager has the discretion to place official signs on town owned property and rights-of-way in order to protect and preserve such property.
"Public property" means any publicly owned property in the town, including any of the following: public parks, interior parks, public alleyways, public parking lots, public passageways, trails or rights-of-way, publicly owned or maintained landscaped areas or green belts, sidewalks, curbs, or any other town owned properties located within the town.
"Store" means to put aside or accumulate for use when needed, to put for safekeeping, to place or leave in a location.
It is unlawful for any person to sleep, camp or store personal property or vehicles of any type or kind on any public property within the town. There shall be no storage of junk, construction materials, garbage, or any items or materials that do not belong to the town, on any property owned by the town.
No camping shall be allowed on public property unless specifically posted that camping is allowed. "Camping" means to place, erect, maintain, pitch or occupy any public property for purposes of sleeping or staying.
Violation of this section constitutes a municipal infraction that is subject to the provisions of Sections 7-1-4150 through 7-1-4152, MCA. (Ord. 262 §1, 2016)