Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsAllowing tress to grow in such a way as to injure thoroughfares
| 63. Any person who allows any tree, upon any premises of which he is the owner or of which he is in occupation, to grow in such a way as to cause injury to any thoroughfare after the service of a notice upon him by the Pradeshiya Sabha calling upon him to take the necessary measures to abate such injury, and after the expiration of such reasonable time as may be specified in the notice for the purpose shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred rupees, and in any such case the Magistrate before whom the offender is convicted may, in default of the necessary measures being taken by the offender, direct that such measures shall be taken by the Pradeshiya Sabha and that the costs thereof shall be recovered in the manner provided in section 59 for recovery or the costs therein mentioned. |