Penalties for damages to streets, etc

(1) Any person who, not being authorised by the Council or by any law– (a) encroaches on a street by making or erecting any building, fence, ditch, or other obstacle or work of any kind upon, over or under it 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 scrapings of a street; (d) allows any water, tailings or sludge or any filthy or noisome matter to flow from any building or land in his occupation onto a street; (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 damage or obstruct any street; (g) does or causes or permits to be done any act whatever by which any injury is done to any street or any work or thing in, or under it; or 29 (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 is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and to a further sum equal to the costs incurred by the Council in removing the encroachment, obstruction or matter, or in repairing any injury done as specified in paragraphs (a) to (h). (2) No penalty shall be imposed under this section unless the information or complaint is laid by the authority of the Council or some officer thereof.