Protection of streets during cutting down of tree, erection or demolition of buildings.

175. Protection of streets during cutting down of tree, erection or demolition of buildings. (1) No person shall cut down any tree or cut off a branch of any tree, or erect or demolish any building or a part of a building or alter or repair the out side of any building, where such action is of a nature to cause obstruction, danger or annoyance, or risk of obstruction, danger or annoyance to any person using a street, without the previous permission in writing of the municipality. (2) The municipality may at any time by notice require that any person doing or proposing to do any of the acts, referred to in sub-section (1) shall refrain from beginning or continuing the act unless he puts up, maintains, and provides from sun set to sun rise with sufficient lighting such hoardings or screens as are specified or described in the notice and may further at any time by notice require the removal, within a time to be specified in the notice, of any hoarding or screen erected in anticipation or in pursuance of any of the said acts. (3) Whoever contravenes the provisions of sub-section (1) or fails to comply with the terms of a notice under sub-section (2) shall be punishable with a fine which shall not be less than twenty five rupees and more than two hundred rupees and when the contravention of non-compliance is a continuing one, with a further fine of ten rupees for every day after the first during which the contravention or non-compliance continues.