When a star on the Walk Of Fame is demolished/deeply damaged over and over again, who pays for and repairs the damage?
From Wikipedia:
The Walk of Fame is administered by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and maintained by the self-financing Hollywood Historic Trust. The Chamber collects fees ($85,000 as of 2025) from each new honoree’s sponsor, which fund the creation and installation of their star as well as maintenance for the Walk as a whole.[4] The Chamber also owns the Walk’s trademark and licensing rights.[5]
So the Hollywood Historic Trust will repair/replace a star no matter how many times it is destroyed? Interesting.
Avoid stepping on Bela Lugosi because he is liabel to turn and bite. And it helps avoid maintenance fees. 
So I wonder if they take molds of all of them, don’t they often have hand or foot prints?
No. You are mixing it up with the Chinese Theater. They are all (with a couple of exceptions) that same size and shape with the same font. I have been on that sidewalk many many times.
Apparently, the Walk of Fame has a policy of not ever removing a star once it’s been placed. So, yeah, I guess so.
They’ve been under pressure to remove Trump’s star (and Bill Cosby’s star), but as the Walk of Fame is fundamentally a money and PR generation machine, I imagine that they are loathe to do so.
Every time I have walked down Hollywood Blvd, I find myself thinking of ways you could steal or vandalize a star without getting caught. It’s a heavily trafficked (I mean lots of pedestrians and cars) and policed public area. It wouldn’t be as easy as you might think. The stars themselves are quite durable and easily cleaned with a pressure washer. At best, you might get away with dropping paint (or more likely food) on one, but I’m sure the Chamber’s guys know how to quickly and cheaply deal with almost any kind of defacement.
TBH, I think they’re purely in it for the fees. Several years ago my high-school age daughter submitted an application for Julia Child, who shockingly doesn’t have a star. She did it for a school project on media IIRC. She definitely put forth some effort and submitted a complete & good application, but had no expectation it would go anywhere. We were all shocked when she got a letter saying her application would be accepted, and the star would go in as soon as she sent in the $40,000 fee. We briefly tried to fundraise, but that didn’t anywhere, so the only TV chefs with stars are Bobby Flay, Wolfgang Puck, and Guy freaking Fieri.
That makes sense. The Food Network will pony up the needed fees but PBS won’t.