Displacing pavements, etc.

Displacing pavements, etc. (1) Whoever displaces, takes up, or makes any alteration in the pavement, gutter, flags, or other materials, of any public street, or the fences, walls, or posts thereof, or any municipal lamp, lamp-post, bracket, water-post, hydrant, or other such municipal property therein, without the written consent of the municipal council or other lawful authority, shall be punished with penalty which may extend to one thousand rupees. (2) Any person who, having displaced, taken up or made alteration in any such pavement, gutter, flags, or other materials, or in the fence, walls, posts, municipal lamps, lamp-posts, brackets, water-posts, hydrants, or other municipal property of any public street, fails to replace or restore the same to the satisfaction of the municipal council after notice to do so, shall be punished with penalty which may extend to five hundred rupees and shall pay any expenses which may be incurred in restoring the same and such expenses shall be recoverable in the same manner as an amount claimed on account of any tax recoverable under Chapter VII. (1) knowing that, under this Act or the rules made thereunder he is not entitled or has ceased to be entitled to hold office as such, shall, be punished with fine of fifty rupees for every day on which he sits and votes as a member. (2) Whoever acts as the president or vice-president of a municipal council or exercises any of his functions knowing that under this Act or the rules made thereunder he is not entitled or has ceased to be entitled to hold office as such, or to exercise such functions shall, be punished with fine of two hundred rupees for every day on which he acts or functions as such. (3) Any person who having been the president or vice-president of a municipal council fails to hand over any documents of, or any moneys or other properties vested in or belonging to the municipal council which are in or have come into his possession or control, to his successor in office or other prescribed authority,— (a) in every case as soon as his term of office as such president or vice-president expires; and (b) in the case of a person who was the vice-president also on demand by the president, as the case may be, shall, be punished with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees.