Provided that such wires, posts, poles, standards, staves, struts, brackets and other contrivances shall be so placed

Prohibition of removal, etc., of lamps No person shall, without lawful authority, take away or wilfully break, throw down or damage —

1. (a) any lamp, lamp-post or lamps-iron set up in any public street or municipal garden, or in any open space, markets or building vesting in the Corporation;
2. (b) any electric wire for lighting any such lamp;
3. (c) any post, pole, standard, stay, strut, bracket or other contrivance for carrying, suspending or supporting any such electric wire or lamp;
4. (d) any property of the Corporation in any street; and no person shall wilfully extinguish the light or damage the appurtenance of any such lamp.