Penalties for damages to streets, etc

(1) Any person who, not being authorised by a Council or by any law– (a) encroaches on a street or other public right of way 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 or other public right of way; (d) allows any water, tailings or sludge or any filthy or noisome matter to flow from any building or land in his occupation on to a street or other public right of way; (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 or other public right of way; (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 31 injure or obstruct any street or other public right of way; (g) does or causes or permits to be done any act whatever by which any injury is done to any street or other public right of way or any work or thing in, or under, it; or (h) defaces, obliterates or removes any number, mark or name painted or affixed on any lot, house, building, street or square, commitsan 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 of the town where the offence occurs 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 of the town where the offence occurs or some officer thereof.