Penalty for damage caused to land or crops or public roads by pigs

Penalty for damage caused to land or crops or public roads by pigs.--Any owner or keeper of pigs who, through neglect or otherwise, damages or causes or permits to be damaged any land, or any crop or produce of land, or any public road, by allowing such pigs to trespass thereon, shall, on conviction before [a Judicial Magistrate,] be punished with fine not exceeding ten rupees. The Government by notification in the Jammu and Kashmir Government Gazette, may from time to time, with respect to any local area specified in the notification, direct that the foregoing portion of this section shall be read as if it had reference to cattle generally, or to cattle of a kind described in the notification, instead of to pigs only, or as if the words "fifty rupees" were substituted for the words "ten rupees" or as if there were both such reference and such substitution.