§ 47-11-207. Interference with official traffic-control devices or railroad signs or signals - Violation resulting in personal injury or death - Penalty.

A.  No person shall, without lawful authority, attempt to or in fact alter, deface, injure, knock down or remove any official traffic-control device, including any nine-one-one (911) emergency telephone service route markers, or any railroad sign or signal or any inscription, shield or insignia thereon, or any other part thereof.

B.  If a violation of subsection A of this section results in personal injury to or death of any person, the person committing the violation shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections for not more than two (2) years, or by a fine of not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Added by Laws 1961, p. 376, § 11-207, eff. Sept. 1, 1961.  Amended by  Laws 1993, c. 127, § 3, emerg. eff. May 4, 1993; Laws 1997, c. 133, § 480, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1998, c. 23, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1998; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 347, eff. July 1, 1999.

Note

NOTE:  Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 480 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.