Power to require owners to clear noxious vegetation

The Board may, by notice, require the owner or occupier of any land within such time as the Board may fix to cut and remove any trees or bamboos or branches thereto, or eradicate and destroy lantana, eupatorium, or other vegetation or undergrowth which may appear to the Board to be insanitary, injurious to health or offensive to the neighbourhood or to be causing or likely to cause damage or destruction to any crop growing or to be grown, or to be obstructing or likely to obstruct the free passage of men or animals along a public road, of any boat or stream vessel along a public waterway.