Penalties for injuries to streets, etc

Every person who, not being authorised by the Corporation or by any Act, (a) encroaches on a street by making or erecting any building, fence, ditch, or other obstacles or work of any kind upon, over or under the same or planting any tree or shrub thereon; (b) places or leaves on a street any timber, earth, stones or other things; (c) digs up, removes or alters in any way the soil or surface or scraping of a street; (d) allows any water, tailings or sludge or any filthy or noise some matter to flow from any building or land in his occupation on to a (e) causes or permits any timber or other heavy material not being wholly raised above the ground on wheels to be dragged on a street; (f) causes or negligently allows any retaining- wall, foundation-wall or fence erected on any land or slope of earth or any building, erection, material or thing to give way or fall so as to injure or obstruct any street; (g) does or causes or permits to be done any act whatsoever by which any injury is done to any street or any work or thing in, or under the same; or 21 (h) defaces, obliterates or removes any number, mark or name painted or affixed on any lot, house, building, street or square, commits an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and to a further sum equal to the costs incurred by the Corporation in removing any such encroachment, obstruction or matter, or in repairing any injury done, Provided that no penalty shall be imposed unless the information or complaint is laid by authority of the Corporation or some officer thereof.