(a) A person desecrates a venerated object who knowingly desecrates any public monument, structure or place of worship or burial or who desecrates in a public place any object venerated by a substantial segment of the public.

(b) The term desecrate means defacing, damaging, polluting or otherwise physically mistreating, with the knowledge that the action would outrage the sensibilities of persons likely to observe or discover these iconoclastic actions or their result. (Prior code 9.12.150; Ord. 1288 §1, 2008)