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Penalty for fouling or wasting water
Cap. 40, s. 56 · Revised Edition 2020
(1) Every person who,
(a) wilfully fouls any water in a tank or reservoir;
(b) drinks from the tap of or wilfully wastes any water stored in a tank or reservoir; or
(c) wilfully damages any tank or reservoir, or any guttering, pipe, cover, platform, roof, tap or pump connected therewith,
is guilty of an offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding four months, or in the discretion of the court to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.
(2) Every such person shall in addition be liable to pay to the person aggrieved a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars by way of compensation for so fouling or wasting the water as the court may consider adequate, and in the case of damage to pay to such person the costs of repairing the same, such cost being ascertained and determined by the court.
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