(1)The Board may issue a notice requiring the owner or occupier of any house to remove or alter any protection, obstruction or encroachment erected or placed against or in front, of such house, if the same overhangs the public roads or just into, or in any way projects or encroaches upon, or an obstruction to the safe and convenient passage along any public road or house-gully, or obstructs, or projects, or encroaches into or upon any drain, sewer, or aqueduct in any public road or into or upon any public water-course or ghat or any land vested in the Board.