§ 37-12-120 — Interference with or injury to electric utility poles or wires; affixing posters to telegraph, telephone and electric utility poles prohibited; penalties

(a) Whoever maliciously or mischievously takes down,
removes, interferes with, obstructs or injures any electric
utility pole or wire, or any part thereof, or any appurtenance
or apparatus connected therewith, or severs or breaks or
obstructs any such wire or apparatus or appurtenance is guilty
of a malicious trespass.
(b) Whoever affixes any poster, placard, sign, or notice
of any kind, to any telegraph, telephone or electric utility
pole or wire, or any part thereof, or any appurtenance or
apparatus connected thereto is guilty of malicious trespass.
(c) Any person convicted of a malicious trespass as
defined in this section shall be fined not more than one hundred
dollars ($100.00), to which may be added imprisonment in the
county jail for not more than six (6) months.