(a) (1) A person commits the offense of causing a catastrophe if he or she knowingly causes a catastrophe by: (A) Explosion; (B) Fire; (C) Flood; (D) Avalanche; (E) Collapse of building; (F) Distribution of a poison, radioactive material, bacteria, or virus; or (G) Another dangerous and difficult to confine force or substance. (2) Causing […]
(a) A person commits the offense of criminal mischief in the first degree if he or she purposely and without legal justification destroys or causes damage to any: (1) Property of another; or (2) Property, whether his or her own or property of another, for the purpose of collecting any insurance for the property. (b) […]
(a) A person commits criminal mischief in the second degree if the person: (1) Recklessly destroys or damages any property of another person; or (2) Purposely tampers with any property of another person and by the tampering causes substantial inconvenience to the owner or another person. (b) Criminal mischief in the second degree is a: […]
(a) A person commits the offense of impairing the operation of a vital public facility if, having no reasonable ground to believe he or she has a right to do so, the person knowingly causes a substantial interruption or impairment of an operation of a vital public facility by: (1) Damaging the property of another […]
(a) It is unlawful for a person to knowingly damage, destroy, or pull down: (1) A telephone, cable communications, or electric power transmission pedestal or pole owned or operated by a telephone, cable, or electric power company; (2) A telephone, cable communications, or electric power line, wire, fiber insulator, power supply transformer, transmission, or other […]
(a) It is unlawful for any person, corporation, company, or other entity to destroy or carry away any cemetery marker or grave marker. (b) Destruction or removal of a cemetery marker or grave marker is a Class C felony.
(a) Any person who willfully cuts down, destroys, defaces, removes, or carries off any witness tree, monument, or other landmark established by legal survey and used to delineate a boundary line is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor. (b) Furthermore, in any civil suit involving damages to property arising from the removal or destruction of […]
