Section 37-12-121 - Damaging Public Telephones or Equipment or Telegraph or Telephone Lines or Poles

37-12-121. Damaging public telephones or equipment or telegraph or telephone lines or poles. Any person who willfully displaces, removes, injures or destroys any public telephone instrument or any part thereof or any equipment or facilities associated therewith or who enters or breaks into any coin box associated therewith or who willfully displaces, removes, injures or destroys any telegraph or telephone line, wire, cable, pole or conduit belonging to another or the material or property appurtenant thereto is guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the state penitentiary for not more than five (5) years, to which may be added a fine not exceeding the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).