Miscellaneous offences

(1) Any person who, (a) (i) turns or permits to be turned lose any cattle upon any public road; 24 (ii) tethers or causes to be tethered any cattle in, upon or near a public road so that such causes obstruction or inconvenience to the passers-by, unless such animal shall be so tethered during the time required for loading or unloading of any cart to which it may belong; (b) loads or drives any horse, mule, ox, sheep, goat, or other animal on any public road without proper and sufficient assistance; (c) slaughters on any public road any animal except such as may have met with an accident, or for public safety, or other reasonable cause ought to be killed on the spot; (d) places or throws or causes to be placed or thrown, any stones, bricks, timber, sand, lime, dung, straw, rubbish or scouring of any ditch or drain, or other object or thing on or in any public road; (e) encroaches on any public road by making or causing to be made thereon without proper authority any building, platform, hedge, ditch or fence or other obstruction; (f) after having blocked or stopped any cart, carriage or other vehicle, causes or suffers to be or remain on any public road the stone, timber or other thing with which such cart, carriage or other vehicle shall have been blocked or stopped; 25 (g) in any manner wilfully prevents any person or any carriage or other conveyance or vehicle from passing along any public road, commits an offence and is liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or to both such fine and term of imprisonment. (2) Nothing contained in subsection (1) of this section, shall render any officer in charge of any work on any public road or any road contractor liable to any fine for any act done by such officer in the discharge of the duties of his office, or by such contractor in the necessary execution or performance of his contract. (3) Every officer in charge of any work on a public road or road contractor who lays or causes to be laid any heap of stones, gravel, rubbish or other matter whatever upon any public road and allows the same to remain there at night to the danger or damage of any person, vehicle or animal passing thereon, all due and reasonable precaution not having been taken by him to prevent any such danger or damage, commits an offence and is liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.