1115 - Interference with official traffic-control devices, railroad signs or signals and other highway appurtenances. - New York Statutes

§ 1115. Interference with official traffic-control devices, railroad signs or signals and other highway appurtenances. (a) No person shall without lawful authority attempt to or in fact alter, deface, injure, knock down, cover, remove, or otherwise interfere with any official traffic-control device or any railroad sign or signal, or any inscription, shield, or insignia thereon, or any other part thereof; any bridge or similar structure; any monument, lamppost, telephone pole, fence, walk, curb, tree, rock cut or other appurtenance on a highway right of way. (b) For the purposes of this section, to 'deface' shall include, but not be limited to, to damage, destroy, disfigure, erase, ruin, distort, spoil or otherwise change the external appearance of an object by the use of chalk, crayon, paint, stain, ink or other similar material.