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Amending Title 10 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Regulation of Individual Conduct and Activity," to prohibit certain activities that damage, deface, or risk damage to, public artwork or memorials, and to provide for penalties for violations of such prohibitions, all under certain terms and conditions.
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THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA HEREBY ORDAINS:
SECTION 1. Title 10 of The Philadelphia Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
TITLE 10. REGULATION OF INDIVIDUAL CONDUCT AND ACTIVITY
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CHAPTER 10-200. ETHNIC INTIMIDATION AND INSTITUTIONAL VANDALISM
§ 10-201. Definitions.
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(2) Institutional vandalism is the intentional desecration, as defined in Section 5509 of the Crime Code (18 Pa. C.S. § 5509), vandalizing, defacing, defiling or otherwise damaging (including by application of stickers or any other material) of:
(a) any church, synagogue or other communal facility regularly used for religious worship, meditation, contemplation or other related purposes;
(b) any cemetery, mortuary or other facility used for the purpose of burial or memorializing the dead;
(c) any courthouse, historic monument or landmark, museum or civic shrine, including, without limitation, Philadelphia City Hall;
(d) any publicly-accessible outdoor artwork or memorial, whether or not publicly-owned, including, but not limited to, public sculpture, and any military, police, firefighter or other national defense or public safety memorial;
([d]e) the grounds occupied by any facility set forth in subsections 2(a), 2(b) or 2(c);
([e]f) any property located in any facility set forth in subsections 2(a), 2(b) or 2(c)[.];
(g) any base, sub-base, or other supporting structure of any artwork or memorial set forth in subsection 2(d).
§ 10-202. Prohibited Conduct.
(1) No person shall commit the offense of ethnic intimidation and no person shall commit the offense of institutional vandalism.
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