Interference with official traffic-control devices or railroad signs or signals

(a) No person shall, without lawful authority, attempt to or in fact alter, deface, injure, knock down or remove any official traffic-control device or any railroad sign or signal or any inscription, shield or insignia or other part of the device, sign or signal. (b) A violation of this section is a Class C misdemeanor. Acts 1955, ch. 329, § 13; T.C.A., § 59-814; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 113. (a) No person shall, without lawful authority, attempt to or in fact alter, deface, injure, knock down or remove any official traffic-control device or any railroad sign or signal or any inscription, shield or insignia or other part of the device, sign or signal. (b) A violation of this section is a Class C misdemeanor. Acts 1955, ch. 329, § 13; T.C.A., § 59-814; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 113.