(1)Whoever displaces, takes up, or makes any alteration in the pavement, gutter, flags, or other materials of any public street or the fences, walls, posts thereof, of any Municipal lamps, lamp-posts, brackets, water-posts, hydrants or other such Municipal property, therein, without the written consent of the Council or other lawful authority, shall be punished with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees.(2)Any person who having displaced, taken up or made alteration in any such pavement, gutter, flags, or other materials or in such fences, walls, posts, Municipal lamps, lamp-posts, brackets, water-posts, hydrants or other Municipal property, shall fail to replace or restore the same to the satisfaction of Council after notice to do so, shall be punished with fine which may extend to fifty rupees, and shall pay any expense which may be incurred in replacing or restoring the same; and such expenses shall be recoverable in the same manner as an amount claimed on account of any tax recoverable under Chapter VIII.
