§ 11-44-2 - Injury or removal of vegetation – Buildings and fences.
SECTION 11-44-2
§ 11-44-2 Injury or removal of vegetation– Buildings and fences. – Every person who shall take and carry away, without the consent of the owner,any corn, grain, fruit, or growing vegetable out of any field, garden, ororchard, or who shall willfully and without the consent of the owner root up,cut down, or otherwise injure or destroy or take and carry away any tree orunderwood growing or standing upon the land of another, or remove any cordwood, or shall maliciously root up, cut down, or otherwise injure or destroyany tree, root, fruit, or vegetable growing in any garden, field, orchard,highway, common, or public square, or who shall take and carry away, withoutthe consent of the owner, any cultivated plant, tree, or shrub from anygraveyard or from any public or private grounds, or who shall wantonly ormaliciously injure or destroy any plant or shrub growing upon the land or inthe building of another, or who shall poison the earth about any plant or shrubso as to prevent or injure its growth, or who shall maliciously or wantonly inany way injure or deface any building not his or her own, or break the glass orany part of it in any building, or shall maliciously injure any fence or stonewall on or enclosing lands not his or her own, shall be imprisoned notexceeding one year or be fined not exceeding triple the value of the damage orone thousand dollars ($1,000), whichever is lower; and shall be required to paythe party injured a penalty not to exceed triple the value of the damage causedby the person; provided, that if any person shall knowingly use or permit to beused any vehicle for the commission of any of the offenses enumerated in thissection, he or she shall also be penalized in the manner specified in title 31.