Damage to property; malicious mischief.
Gilbert Town Code § 42-31
in effectSec. 42-31. - Damage to property; malicious mischief.
(a) It is unlawful for any person to damage in any manner or tamper with any pipeline, water hydrant, streetlamp or streetlight, or the fixtures and appliances used in connection with pipelines, water hydrants, streetlamps or streetlights of the town, or any other property of any and every character belonging to the town.
(b) It is unlawful for any person to wilfully injure, disfigure, or destroy any monument, work of art, or useful or ornamental improvement or any shade trees or ornamental plant growing therein, whether situated upon private ground, or on any street, sidewalk, or public park or place where such person is not the owner thereof.
(c) It is unlawful for any person to maliciously cut, tear, deface, break, or injure any book, map, chart, picture, engraving statue, coin model, apparatus or other work of literature or art, or mechanics, or objects of curiosity, deposited in any public library, gallery, museum, collection, fair or exhibition.
(d) It is unlawful for any person to deface, walk, ride or drive upon or over the sidewalk or street crossing composed of or containing cement, during the construction thereof, or before the same is open to public use.
(e) It is unlawful for any person to damage in any manner any road, street or bridge in the town limits by using the same, by heavy vehicles, malicious destruction or by any act that will result in damage to any such road, street or bridge.
(f) It is unlawful to break or destroy any window, door or part of any dwelling owned or occupied by another or to break or sever from any premises owned or occupied by another any gate, fence, railing, tree, brush or vine or any property whatsoever, or to deface, mutilate or injure the same.
(g) It is unlawful for any person without proper authorization to knowingly remove, destroy, alter, deface, or cover any political sign in the town. "Political sign" under this subsection means any sign erected for the purpose of influencing an election, whether the election of a candidate or other election. This subsection does not preclude a candidate or the authorized agent of a candidate in support of whose election the sign was placed, a person or authorized agent of a person who places a political sign for a non-candidate election, or the owner or authorized agent of the owner of private property on which the signs are placed with or without permission of the owner, from removing a political sign. This subsection does not apply to signs placed in violation of state law, or county, city or town ordinance or regulation. Violation of this subsection is a class one misdemeanor.
(h) It is unlawful for any person to damage, deface, remove or cause harm in any manner to any public monument, memorial or historical marker erected in Gilbert.
(Code 1984, § 10-1-3; Ord. No. 1429, § I, 10-29-02; Ord. No. 2314, § I, 12-9-10)
Source: Town of Gilbert, Arizona, Town Code (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/az/gilbert/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=CO_CH42OFABPUNU_ARTIIOFINPRRI_S42-31DAPRMAMIFetched: 11/1/2026