Procedure in case of non-payment of toll, etc., on demand

In case any tolls, fees other than licence-fees or penalties payable under this Act are not paid when demanded by a person duly appointed or empowered to collect or impose the same, such person may seize any vessel, goods, vehicles or animals in respect of which such toll, fee or penalty is payable or anything in the possession of a passenger or person who is liable to such toll, fee or penalty, and any person empowered by the State Government or the managing authority in this behalf may sell the same by auction after fifteen days' public notice of the sale if such toll, fee or penalty is still unpaid. After deduction of such toll, fee or penalty and of the expenses of sale, the surplus proceeds, if any, shall be paid to the person from whose possession the thing sold was taken.