60. Every person who
| (i) wilfully or negligently destroys, pulls up, defaces, throws down, breaks, or injures any milestone, mile-post, demarcation stone, demarcation post, lamp-post or direction post, or any bridge, culvert, parapet, arch, wall, dam, drain, sluice, lock, bank, abutment, mound, prop, post, lamp, railing, chain or fence belonging to any thoroughfare, or erected at or near any pit or quarry opened or used for getting road materials; or |
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| (ii) wilfully and unnecessarily removes any fence, post, stone, log, or other thing laid or erected by the direction of any competent authority on or in any thoroughfare for the temporary prevention of the use thereof, or for preventing danger or injury to persons passing along the same whilst undergoing repair; |
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| (iii) without the permission of a competent authority gathers or heaps-up, or takes away, any stones, gravel, sand, or other material or any clutch dirt drift, or soil from any thoroughfare; |
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| (iv) leads or drives any elephant, ox, horse, pig, or other animal or any vehicle from or off or on or into any thoroughfare in such manner as to cause injury to the thoroughfare Of shall suffer any such animal to damage the thoroughfare; |
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| (v) being the owner or occupier of any land contiguous to any thoroughfares suffers the passage through or into his land of the water from such road, or from any ditch or drain leading therefrom, to be obstructed, or suffers any water, filth, or other substance or thing to flow or run from such land or house into or upon any such thoroughfares, or suffers any accumulation of dirt of rubbish in any drain opposite to his house or land to impede the flow of water; |
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| (vi) without the previous consent of the Pradeshiya Sabha, by any act on his land interferes with the free passage of water along or from any dram or culvert of any thoroughfares; |
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| (vii) hauls or draws upon any thoroughfare any timber stone, or other thing, otherwise than upon a wheeled carriage, or suffers any timber, stone, or other thing carried principally or in part upon a wheeled carriage to drag or trail upon such thoroughfare to the damage thereof; |
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| (viii) makes or causes to be made any dam, ditch, drain, or watercourse upon or across, or otherwise breaks up, or injures, the surface of any thoroughfare; |
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| (ix) erects, sets up, lays down, or constructs, either permanently or temporarily in, along, under, or over any thoroughfare, any post, pillar, lamp, wire, pipe rails or other plant, material or work without the permission of the Pradeshiya Sabha or otherwise than in accordance with the terms and conditions of such permission; or |
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| (x) attaches additions to his house so as to project over the outer edge of the side drain of any thoroughfare, or by means of temporary supports or otherwise exposes goods or wares of any description over any portion of a thoroughfare or its side drain, or by causing carts to be loaded or unloaded in front of his dwelling in anyway injures the side drain. |
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shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred rupees. |
Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts