Article 5.
Offenses Against Property
Section 10-50. Petit Larceny.
Section 10-51. Receiving Stolen Property.
Section 10-52. Damaging or Destroying Property.
Section 10-53. Unlawful Entry; Unlawful Intrusion; Private Property.
Section 10-54. Unlawful Posting of Advertising Matter.
Section 10-55. Damaging Utility Poles.
Section 10-56. Unlawful Throwing or Shooting of Objects.
Section 10-57. Littering.
Section 10-58. Shoplifting.
Section 10-59. (Reserved for future use.)
Article 5. Offenses Against Property
Section 10-50. Petit Larceny.
1. Petit larceny is the taking of personal property of value not to exceed fifty dollars ($50.00), accompanied by fraud or stealth, or with intent to deprive another thereof, when the property is not taken from the person of another.
2. Petit larceny is unlawful and any person who commits petit larceny shall be guilty of an offense.
Section 10-51. Receiving Stolen Property.
It shall be unlawful for any person to buy, receive, transport or bring into the Town of Bradley, Oklahoma any property which said person knows has been stolen.
Section 10-52. Damaging or Destroying Property.
It shall be unlawful for any person to destroy, injure, deface, besmear or molest any structure, building, outbuilding, fence or any other property, real or personal, public or private, belonging to another, including automobiles or other vehicles, to use any such property wrongfully to the detriment of the owner or other person entitled to its use, or to interfere wrongfully with the use of any such property by its owner or any other person entitled to its use.
Section 10-53. Unlawful Entry; Unlawful Intrusion; Private Property.
1. It shall be unlawful for any person to enter, without proper permission, upon the property of another or into an area or structure on such property (whether such property, area or structure is public or private), particularly when such entrance is plainly forbidden by signs or otherwise, or when the property, area or structure is enclosed, except when such entrance is in the line of duty, with the expressed or tacit consent of the owner or person in charge, or otherwise by authority of State Law or Ordinance.
2. Every person who intrudes or squats upon any lot or piece of land within the Town of Bradley, Oklahoma, without authority from the owner thereof, or who erects or occupies thereon any hut or other structure without such authority, and every person who places, erects or occupies within the bounds of any street, alley or avenue of the Town, any structure whatever, shall be guilty of an offense.
3. It shall be unlawful to remain on private property at any time other than during posted hours of business operation, after having been directed to vacate such premises by a Police Officer or by the owner or other person in lawful possession of the premises or by the agent, servant or employee of the owner. The provisions of this Subsection shall not apply to person, including employees, whose presence on the premises is authorized by the owner or person in lawful possession of such premises, nor shall the provisions of this Subsection apply unless the hours of the business operation are posted upon such premises. It shall also be unlawful to return to said private property before the posted time of opening for business operation on the next business day, after having been directed to vacate such premises under the terms of this Subsection.
Section 10-54. Unlawful Posting of Advertising Matter.
It shall be unlawful for any person to place, post, paint, mark, write or print any sign, poster, picture, announcement, advertisement, device or inscription upon any public or private building, fence, sidewalk, bridge, automobile, other vehicle or other property of another, without the consent of the owner or person in charge thereof.
Section 10-55. Damaging Utility Poles.
1. It shall be unlawful for any person mark, write, print, paint up, or otherwise make any signs or marks, by indentation or otherwise, or by posting signs or posters, upon any telephone, television, electric or power pole, either wood, concrete, steel or of any other substance, within the corporate limits of the Town of Bradley, Oklahoma. The word "pole" shall be construed to mean any pole supporting telephone, television, electric or power wires or braces, and any device used to support or brace such pole.
2. This Section shall not apply to the owners of such poles who may make such necessary or authorized marks or signs thereon.
Section 10-56. Unlawful Throwing or Shooting of Objects.
It shall be unlawful for any person to throw or shoot any stone, shot or other object into or across any street or alley or in any place where said person is likely to hit another person wrongfully or to injure property, or to throw or shoot any stone, shot or other object at any person, vehicle, structure, electric light or other property of another, whether public or private, except in the case where such is done in defense of oneself, of another person or of property.
Section 10-57. Littering
1. For the purpose of this Section, "litter" is defined to be any garbage, refuse, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals, abandoned automobile, paper, wrappings, cigarette butts, cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings, leaves, wood, grass, bedding or crockery and similar materials commonly referred to as rubbish or trash.
2. No person shall throw or deposit litter in or upon any open or vacant property within the Town of Bradley, Oklahoma, irrespective of the ownership of such property.
3. No person shall throw or deposit litter in or upon any street, alley, sidewalk or other public place within the Town of Bradley, Oklahoma, except in public receptacles or authorized private receptacles.
4. No person shall drive or move any truck or other vehicle within the Town of Bradley, Oklahoma, unless such vehicle is so constructed or loaded as to prevent any load, contents or litter from being blown or deposited upon any street, alley or other public place; nor shall any person drive or move any vehicle or truck within said Town, the wheels or tires of which carry onto, or deposit in, any street, alley or other public place, mud, dirt, sticky substances, litter or foreign matter of any kind, in excessive or damaging amounts.
5. No person shall throw or deposit any commercial or non-commercial handbill on or upon any sidewalk, street or other public place within the Town of Bradley, Oklahoma.
6. No person shall throw or deposit any commercial or non-commercial handbill in or upon any vehicle; however, it shall not be unlawful, in any public place, for a person to hand out or distribute, without charge to the receiver, a non-commercial handbill to any occupant of a vehicle who is willing to accept it.
7. No person shall throw or deposit any commercial or non-commercial handbill in or upon any private premises which are temporarily or continuously vacant.
8. No person shall throw, deposit or distribute any commercial or non-commercial handbill upon any private premises, if requested not to do so or if signs are posted bearing the words "no trespassing", "no peddlers or agents", "no advertisements", or similar notice, indicating that the occupants do not desire to have their privacy disturbed.
9. No person shall throw, deposit or distribute any commercial or non-commercial handbill in or upon private premise which are inhabited, except by transmitting them directly to the owner, occupant or persons present upon such private premises; in cases of inhabited private premises which are not posted, handbills must be distributed to prevent them from blowing on sidewalks or other public places.
10. The provisions of Subsection 10 (above) shall not apply to the distribution of mail by the United States or to newspapers, except that newspapers shall be placed on private property so as to prevent being carried or deposited upon any street, sidewalk or public place, or on other private property.
11. No person in an aircraft shall throw out, drop or deposit within the Town of Bradley, Oklahoma, any liner, handbill or any other object.
Section 10-58. Shoplifting.
1. It shall be unlawful for any person to remove any merchandise form a commercial business without paying for said merchandise and without the consent of the owners of said business.
2. Any police officer or licensed security guard may arrest, without warrant, any person if there is probable cause for believing said person has committed larceny of merchandise held for sale in retail or wholesale establishments, when such arrest is made in a reasonable manner.
3. Any merchant, an agent or employee, who has reasonable grounds or probable cause to believe that a person has committed or is committing a wrongful taking of merchandise or money for mercantile establishment, may detain such person in a reasonable manner for a reasonable length of time for all or any of the following purposes:
a. Conducting an investigation, including reasonable interrogation of the detained person, as to whether there has been a wrongful taking of such merchandise or money;
b. Informing the police or other law enforcement officials of the facts relevant to such detention;
c. Performing a reasonable search of the detained person and said person's belongings when it appears that the merchandise or money may otherwise be lost; and
d. Recovering the merchandise or money believed to have been taken wrongfully; any such reasonable detention shall not constitute an unlawful arrest or detention, nor shall it render the merchant, an agent or employee criminally or civilly liable to the person so detained.
4. Any person concealing unpurchased merchandise of any mercantile establishment, either on the premises or outside the premises of such establishment, shall be presumed to have so concealed such merchandise with the intention of committing a wrongful taking of such merchandise within the meaning of this Section, and such concealment or the finding of such unpurchased merchandise concealed upon the person or among the belongings of such person shall be conclusive evidence of reasonable grounds and probable cause for the detention in a reasonable matter and for a reasonable length of time, of such person by a merchant, and agent or employee, and any such reasonable detention shall not be deemed to be unlawful, nor render such merchant, his agent or employee criminally or civilly liable.
Section 10-59. (Reserved for future use.)
Adopted