Section 6 in Andhra Pradesh Prevention of the Disfigurements of Open Places and Prohibition of obscene and objectionable posters and Advertisements Act, 1997
6. Power to remove, erase, pull down and destroy objectionable advertisements.
(1)Any police officer not below the power to rank of a Sub-Inspector or any other officer, empowered in this behalf by the Government may remove, erase, or otherwise pull down any objectionable advertisement.(2)Any advertisement removed or pulled down under sub-section (1) or a photograph of any advertisement erased under that sub-section shall be produced before a Magistrate of the First Class and if, in the opinion of the Magistrate, such advertisement is an objectionable advertisement, the Magistrate may cause the advertisement or the photograph thereof to be destroyed after giving an opportunity of hearing to the advertiser wherever he is known and where he is not known after recording that fact, but if in the opinion of the Magistrate such advertisement is not an objectionable advertisement the Magistrate shall dispose it of in the manner provided in sections 457, 458 and 459 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Central Act 2 of 1974) or in the case of an advertisement which is erased make an order that it shall be restored at the cost of the Government.Chapter - III Prohibition of obscene posters etc.
