Destroying or defacing tombstones or cemetery grounds

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  • Whoever—
    • (1) willfully and maliciously defaces, breaks, destroys or removes any—

      • (A) tomb, monument or gravestone erected to any deceased person;

      • (B) memento or memorial; or

      • (C) ornamental plant, tree or shrub appertaining to the place of burial of a human being; or

    • (2) marks, defaces, injures, destroys or removes any fence, post, rail or wall of any cemetery or graveyard—

      shall be fined not more than $1000 or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.


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