14-384. Injuring notices and advertisements.
If any person shall wantonly or maliciously mutilate, deface, pull or tear down, destroy or otherwise damage any notice, sign or advertisement, unless immoral or obscene, whether put up by an officer of the law in performance of the duties of his office or by some other person for a lawful purpose, before the object for which such notice, sign or advertisement was posted shall have been accomplished, he shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor. Nothing herein contained shall apply to any person mutilating, defacing, pulling or tearing down, destroying or otherwise damaging notices, signs or advertisements put upon his own land or lands of which he may have charge or control, unless consent of such person to put up such notice, sign or advertisement shall have first been obtained, except those put up by an officer of the law in the performance of the duties of his office. (1885, c. 302; Rev., s. 3709; C.S., s. 4503; 1993, c. 539, s. 256; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c).)
Structure North Carolina General Statutes
North Carolina General Statutes
Article 52 - Miscellaneous Police Regulations.
§ 14-381 - Desecration of State and United States flag.
§ 14-382 - Pollution of water on lands used for dairy purposes.
§ 14-383 - Cutting timber on town watershed without disposing of boughs and debris; misdemeanor.
§ 14-384 - Injuring notices and advertisements.
§ 14-385 - Defacing or destroying public notices and advertisements.
§ 14-391 - Usurious loans on household and kitchen furniture or assignment of wages.
§ 14-394 - Anonymous or threatening letters, mailing or transmitting.
§ 14-395 - Commercialization of American Legion emblem; wearing by nonmembers.
§ 14-395.1 - Sexual harassment.
§ 14-398 - Theft or destruction of property of public libraries, museums, etc.
§ 14-399.2 - Certain plastic yoke and ring type holding devices prohibited.
§ 14-400 - Tattooing; body piercing prohibited.
§ 14-401 - Putting poisonous foodstuffs, antifreeze, etc., in certain public places, prohibited.
§ 14-401.1 - Misdemeanor to tamper with examination questions.
§ 14-401.2 - Misdemeanor for detective to collect claims, accounts, etc.
§ 14-401.3 - Inscription on gravestone or monument charging commission of crime.
§ 14-401.6 - Unlawful to possess, etc., tear gas except for certain purposes.
§ 14-401.9 - Parking vehicle in private parking space without permission.
§ 14-401.11 - Distribution of certain food or beverage prohibited.
§ 14-401.12 - Soliciting charitable contributions by telephone.
§ 14-401.13 - Failure to give right to cancel in off-premises sales.
§ 14-401.14 - Ethnic intimidation; teaching any technique to be used for ethnic intimidation.
§ 14-401.15 - Telephone sales recovery services.
§ 14-401.16 - Contaminate food or drink to render one mentally incapacitated or physically helpless.
§ 14-401.17 - Unlawful removal or destruction of electronic dog collars.
§ 14-401.18 - Sale of certain packages of cigarettes prohibited.
§ 14-401.18A - Sale of certain e-liquid containers prohibited.
§ 14-401.19 - Filing false security agreements.
§ 14-401.20 - Defrauding drug and alcohol screening tests; penalty.
§ 14-401.21 - Practicing "rebirthing technique"; penalty.
§ 14-401.22 - Concealment of death; disturbing human remains; dismembering human remains.
§ 14-401.23 - Unlawful manufacture, sale, delivery, or possession of Salvia divinorum.
§ 14-401.24 - Unlawful possession and use of unmanned aircraft systems.
§ 14-401.25 - Unlawful distribution of images.
§ 14-401.26 - TNC driver failure to display license plate information.
§ 14-401.27 - Impersonation of a transportation network company driver.