Penalty on owner or occupier of land refusing to allow persons to pass over it

Where the owner or occupier of any land over which any person is hereby authorised to pass or re-pass for any of the purposes mentioned in section 9 does any of the following things, namely, (a) impeding or hindering any such person from so passing or re-passing, with or without 10 vehicles, animals of draught or burden and servants, by locking his gates, refusing upon request to open them, or otherwise however; (b) impeding or hindering the deposit of any cargo or other article recovered from any such ship or boat as hereinbefore mentioned; (c) preventing such cargo or other article from remaining so deposited for a reasonable time until it can be removed to a safe place of public deposit; he commits an offence and is liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.