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Damage to forest roads
Cap. 213, s. 36 · Revised Edition 2020
(1) Whoever without proper authorityroads.
(a) destroys, pulls up, defaces, breaks or injures any milestone, milepost, lamp-post, direction- post, notice board or any bridge, arch, wall,
dam, drain, sluice, lock or embankment,
abutment, mound, prop, post, lamp, railing,
chain or fence belonging to any forest road or put up at or near any pit opened or used for getting road materials;
(b) removes any fence, post, stone, log or other thing laid or erected by the authority of the Chief Forest Officer, on or in any forest road for the temporary prevention of the use thereof or for preventing danger or injury to persons passing along it;
(c) gathers or heaps up or takes away any stones,
gravel, sand or other material, or any dirt, drift or soil from any forest road;
(d) makes or causes to be made any dam, ditch,
drain or watercourse upon or across, or shall otherwise break up or injure the surface of any is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars, and in addition to the payment of the costs occasioned by the damage done or by the removal of the
(2) Whoever–
(a) obstructs or causes to be obstructed the passage of water from a forest road or from any ditch or drain leading therefrom;
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(b) being the owner or occupier of any land adjacent or contiguous to a forest road permits any water, filth or other matter or thing to flow from such land into or upon the said forest road or suffers any accumulation of dirt or rubbish from his land to impede the flow of the water in any ditch or drain on such forest road;
(c) hauls or draws upon any forest road any timber, stone or other thing otherwise than upon wheeled carriages, or suffers any timber,
stone or other thing which is carried principally upon wheeled carriages to drag or trail upon such forest road to the damage thereof,
is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars and in addition to the payment of the costs occasioned by the damage done or by the removal of the
Amended by: 17 of 2017; 17 of 2017
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