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| (1) Every person who within the limits of Pradeshiya Sabha turns loose or suffers to be turned loose any elephant, ox, buffalo, horse, sheep, goat or other animal on to or into any thoroughfare, or so that it makes its way on to or into any thoroughfare; or ties or tethers or suffers to be tied or tethered any animal of any description in any manner which permits it to make its way on to or into any thoroughfare, unless such animal is tied or tethered during the time required for loading or unloading of any cart or boat to which it may belong, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred rupees: |
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| (2) The owner of any pig found tied, straying, burrowing or wallowing in any road or canal within the limits of a Pradeshiya Sabha shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty rupees; and it shall be lawful for any person to seize or shoot or otherwise destroy any pig that he may fined tied, straying, burrowing, or wallowing in any such road or canal; and such person may, if he chooses take such pig to any peace officer or police officer, and such officer shall forthwith sell the pig, and pay the proceeds of such sale to such person. |
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| (2) (3) Every person who within the limits of a Pradeshiya Sabha area
| | (a) hang up or otherwise expose any mats, clothes, or any substances of any nature whatever on or at the side of any road in a manner calculated to obstruct the use of the thoroughfare; | | |
| | (b) leaves or permits to be left, on any thoroughfare any cart or other carriage, without the oxen, horses or other animal being yoked or harnessed thereto, unless such cart or carriage has accidentally broken down there, and in case of such accident, for a longer time than may be necessary for its removal; | | |
| | (c) suffers any vehicle to remain in any thoroughfare between a quarter of an hour after sunset and a quarter of an hour before sunrise without having attached thereto the lights required by the Vehicles Ordinance, Or the Motor Traffic Act; | | |
| | (d) leaves any boat or raft in any canal in such a way as to obstruct the use of such canal; | | |
| | (e) lays or throws any stones, bricks, raft, timber, sand, lime, dung, straw, rubbish or scouring of any ditch, or drain or other article or thing, on or in any thoroughfare, river, or canal and allows such article or thing to remain there, except for such period as may be absolutely necessary for the removal thereof; | | |
| | (f) leads or drives on any road any cart or other carriage with timber, boards, iron or other goods so that either end of any such goods projects beyond the wheels or sides thereof; | | |
| | (g) encroaches on any thoroughfare by making or causing to be made any building, platform, hedge, ditch or fence, or other obstruction upon or in any thoroughfare; | | |
| | (h) after having blocked or stopped any cart or other carriage in going up Or down a hill or rising ground cause or suffers to be or to remain on any thoroughfare the stone, timber, Or other thing with which such care or other carriage may have been blocked or stopped; | | |
| | (i) in any manner wilfully prevents any other person, or any carriage, boat, raft or other conveyance under his care, from passing along any thorough fare, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction a fine not exceeding five hundred rupees. | | |
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| (4) Every person who within the limits of a Pradeshiya Sabha area places, or continues any kraal or fence or any other obstruction in any canal or river so as to impede or in any way interfere with the convenient navigation thereof, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred rupees. It shall be lawful for the Pradeshiya Sabha to cause any such kraal, fence, or obstruction so placed or continued, to be pulled up or otherwise destroyed, and to recover the cost thereof in the manner provided in section 59 for the recovery of the costs therein mentioned. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts