Offences relating to milestones, etc., temporary fences, stones, ditches, fences, buildings and sign boards

A person who without proper authority, (a) destroys, pulls up, defaces, breaks or injures any mile-stone, mile-post, lamp-post or direction post or any bridge, arch, wall, dam, drain, sluice, lock or embankment, abutment, mound, prop, post, lamp, railing, chain or fence belonging to any public 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 Engineer on or in any public road for the temporary prevention of the use thereof or for preventing danger or injury to persons passing along the same whilst undergoing repair; (c) gathers or heaps up or removes any stone, gravel, sand or other material, or any dirt, drift or soil from any public road or from 22 stockpiles adjacent or near to any public road for intended use thereon; (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 public road; (e) constructs any house or other building so as to project over or encroach upon any public road; or (f) places or causes to be placed any sign board or bill board or any sign whatever regardless of size on any public road, commits an offence and is liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, in addition to the payment of the costs occasioned by the damage done or by the removal of the