Ord. 0045 1961-11-02•
ORDINANCE
AN ORDINANCE MAKING IT UNLAWFUL TO DAMAGE OR
DESTROY ANY TREES, BUILDINGS OR OTHER PUBLIC
PROPERTY AND FIXING A PENALTY FOR VIOLATIONS.
BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of
Pearland, Texas:
SECTION 1) Destroying Trees and Plants: It shall
be unlawful for any person to injure or destroy any shade or
ornamental tree, or other plant growing or planted along any
street, sidewalk, or alley, or within any public grounds or
property of the City of Pearland.
SECTION 2) Defacing Property: It shall be unlawful
for any person to injure, deface, damage or destroy any kind
of public property, or any property belonging to the City of
Pearland.
SECTION 3) Miscellaneous Violations: (A.) Damaging
streets and sidewalks: It shall be unlawful for any person
to dig up, remove, or carry away, any turf, gravel, dirt, sand,
or paving material from any street or other public property of
the City of Pearland, or to construct, alter, or destroy any
street, sidewalk, curb or gutter in the City of Pearland, with-
out permission from the City Commission.
(B.) Signs and Pictures: It is unlawful for any
person to place or paint any sign, picture, character or other
advertisement upon any sidewalk, pavement, curbstone, public
bridge, public building or other public property, or to remove
and mutilate or deface any traffic sign, signal or marker with-
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out permission from the City Commission.
(C.) Street Lights: It is unlawful for unauthor-
ized persons to tamper with, damage, break, or destroy any
street light, white way light, signal light, power line, elec-
tric light line, light pole, transformer, or guy-wire support-
ing or steadying any light pole, or other equipment of the City
of Pearland, Texas.
(D.) Animal Life: It is unlawful to interfere with,
injure, capture, or kill any squirrel, bird, fowl, or other an-
imal life within any public park, driveway, highway, or other
public property of the City of Pearland, except by permission
of the City Commission. Provided that this subsection shall
not apply to harmful rodents, or insects.
(E.) Blasting: Blasting or demolition with dynamite
or any other explosive, within the City of Pearland is unlawful,
except upon permission from the City Commission.
(F.) Show-windows: Marking or defacing show-windows,
or doors with soap or other substance is unlawful.
SECTION 4) Penalty: Any person violating any of the
provisions of this Article, shall, upon conviction, be fined in
any sum not to exceed Two Hundred ($200.00) Dollars.
PASSED and APPROVED this ~ day of
1961.
..~ Mayor, E. T. Gibbons
V~tgr' A.'~ia~ City Secretary