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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1955-008 Council OrdinancesTHE VILLAGE OF LINO LAKES ORDINANCE NO. $ An Ordinance defining crimes against property and prohibiting and punishing the same. The Village Council of the Village of Lino Lakes ordains: Section 1. Any person, firm, corporation or association who, with intent to sell or in any wise dispose of merchandise, securities, service, or anything offered by such person, firm, corporation or association, directly or indirectly, to the public, for sale or distribution, or with intent to increase the consumption thereof, or to induce the public in any manner to enter into any obligation relating thereto, or to acquire title thereto, or any interest therein, makes, published, disseminates, circulates, or places before the public, or causes, directly or indirectly, to be made, published, disseminated, circulated, or placed before the public, in this state, in a newspaper or other publication, or in the form of a book, notice, handbill, poster, bill label, circular, pamphlet, or letter, or in any other way, an advertisement of any sort regarding merchandise, securities, service or anything so offered to the public, which advertisement contains any assertion, representation or statement of fact which is untrue or mis— leading, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Section 2. Every person who shall injure or defraud another by using, with knowledge that the same is false, a false weight, measure, or other apparatus for determining the quantity of any commodity or article of merchandise, or by knowingly delivering less than the quantity he represents; or who shall retain in his possession any weight or measure, knowing it to be false, unless it appears beyond a reasonable doubt that it was so retained without intent to use it, or permit it to be used in violation of the foregoing provisions of this s•ctian; or who shall knowingly mark or stamp false or short weights or false tare on any cask or package, or knowingly sell or offer for sale any cask or package so marked — shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. • ♦ Section 3. Every person who shall wilfully or maliciously displace, remove, injure, or destroy -- (1) A highway, or a private way laid out by authority of law, or a bridge upon such public or private way; (2) A pile or other material fixed in the ground, and used for securing any bank or darn of any river or other water, or any dock, quay, jetty, or lock; (3) A buoy or beacon lawfully placed in any waters; (4) A tree, rock, post, or other monument which has been erected or marked for the purpose of designating a point in any boundary or any shark or inscription thereon; (5) A mileboard, a milestone, or guidepost erected upon a highway, or any inscription thereon; (6) A line of telegraph or telephone, or any part thereof, or any appurtenance or apparatus connected with the working of any magnetic or electric telegraph or telephone, or the sending or conveyance of messages thereby; (7) A pipe or main for conducting gas or water, or heat or any works erected for supplying buildings with gas or heat or water, or any appurtenance or appendage connected therewith; (8) A sewer or drain, or a pipe or main connected therewith or forming part thereof; or (9) Who shall destroy, or damage with intent to destroy or render useless, any engine, machine, tool, or implement intended for use in trade or husbandry -- shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Section 4. Every person who shall wilfully (1) Cut down, destroy, or injure any wood or timber standing or growing, or which has been cut down and is lying upon lands of another or of the state; (2) Cut down, girdle, or otherwise injure a fruit, shade, or ornamental tree standing on the lands of another or of the state; (3) Sever from the freehold of another or of the state any produce thereof, or anything attached thereto; (4) Dig, take, or carry away, without lawful authority or consent, from any lot of land in any city or village, or from any lands included within the limits of a street or avenue laid down on the map of such city or village, or otherwise recognized or established, any earth, soil, or stone; (5) Enter, without the consent of the owner or occupant, any orchard, fruit garden, vineyard, garden, field, or ground whereon is cultivated or growing any fruit or vegetable with intent to take, injure, or destroy anything there grown or growing; (6) Cut down, destroy, or in any way injure any shrub, tree, or vine being or growing within any such orchard, garden,vineyard, or upon any such ground, or any building, framework, or erection thereon, or (7) Untie, unfasten or liberate, without authority the horse or team of another, or lead, ride or drive away, without authority, the horse or team of another, from the place where left by the owner or person in charge thereof, -- shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Section 5. Every person who shall maliciously injure or destroy any standing crops, grain, cultivated fruits, or vegetables, the property of another, in any case for which punishment has not been otherwise prescribed, shall be builty of a misdemeanor. Section 6. Every person who, not being the owner thereof, and without lawful authority, shall wilfully injure, disfigure, remove or destroy a gravestone, monument, work of art, useful or ornamental improvement, shade tree or ornamental plant, whether upon private ground, or upon a road, street, sidewalk, cemetery, or public park or place; or who shall remove from any grave in a cemetery any flowers, memorials, or other tokens of affection, or anything connected therewith; or who shall wilfully mar or deface any building or signboard; or who shall extinguish a lamp, or break, destroy or remove any lamp or lamp post, or any railing or post erected on a bridge, sidewalk, road, street, court, or passage, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Section 7. Every person who shall wilfully destroy, injure, disconnect, displace, cut, break, deface, ground, or in any way interfere with any pole, cable, or wire legally erected, put up, or strung, or any under- ground conduit, subway, or cable, or any electrical or other apparatus, lamps, transformer, switch, appliance, instrument, or machinery of any kind used in the construction or operation of any electric or telephone plant, line or system, or used in the producing, generating, or transmitting of electric light, heat, or who shall aid agree with, employ, or conspire with any other person to do any of said acts, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Section $. Every person who shall wilfully make any connection with any meter, pipe, conduit, wire, line, or other apparatus belonging to any person or company using, or engaged in the manufacture, supply, sale or distribution of, electricity or of electric current, for the purpose of taking, using, or wasting such electricity or electric current, or shall wilfully prevent an electric meter from duly measuring or registering the quantity of electricity supplied, or shall in any way interfere with its proper action or just registration, or shall without the consent of such person or company, wilfully divert any electrical current or power of such person or company or in any way wilfully use or cause to be used without the consent of such person or company any electricity manufactured or distributed by such person or company, or shall aid, agree wit:, employ, or conspire with any other person to do any of said acts, or who shall deposit in any electric meter or other apparatus used by an electric light or telephone company for the pre— payment for current or service any token, article, or device, except lawful coin of the United States for the purpose of fraudulently obtaining such current or service, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Section 9, Every person who shall light a pipe or cigar in, or shall enter with a lighted pipe or cigar, any mill or other building on which is posted in a conspicuous place, over or near each principal entrance, a notice, in plain, legible characters, stating that no smoking is allowed in such building, and every person who shall deface, destroy, or remove such notice, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, Section 10. Every person who, without lawful authority, shall break down or carry away any part of any fence, bars, or gate at a crossing over any railway track, or plank used for such crossing, or shall destroy or injure any hedge, ditch, or other structure used or intended as a fence to inclos any railway tracks, every person using any gate, or bars, or opening the sane for any purpose, at any railway crossing, who shall permit any animal to stray upon a railway track or inclosed right of way, or who shall leave such bars down, or gate open, so that animals may stray upon such railway track, and every person who shall lead, drive, or turn upon such railway track, and every person who shall lead, drive, or turn upon such track any animal for grazing or other purposes, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Section 11. Every person, not an employee of a railway company, who, `without permission from such company, on foot or with any animal or vehicle, shall enter upon any railway bridge or trestle, or who, without a permit, shall ride, operate, or propel a velocipede, track bicycle, f or tricycle on or along the track of any railway, shall be `001 - 'sdemeanor. Section 12. Every person who shall in any manner wilfully damage any building or part thereof, throw any stone or other missile at or break any window therein, or who shall aid, counsel, hire, or procure any person so to do, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Section 13. Every person employed by a railway or other corporation, every express agent, stage driver, drayman, hackman, or other person who shall handle, remove, or take care of trucks, valises, boxes, packages, or other baggage, who, while handling, loading, transporting, unloading, delivering, or storing the same, shall wilfully, wantonly, or carelessly break, injure, or destroy the same, or any part thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Passed by t e �i + 1:�; e Council this ATT:,ST 666'6 Village Clerk da,; o' July, 1955.