Section 349: Damaging public property, private enterprise or vehicle

349. Damaging public property, private enterprise or vehicle (1) Quiconque aura volontairement (1) Any person who wilfully dedétruit, renversé, endommagé ou mis stroys, breaks down, damages, or hors de service, par quelque moyen renders useless, by any means, in que ce soit, en tout ou en partie, des whole or in part, any building, édifices, navires ou bateaux, des bridge, ship, vessel, boat, bridge, ponts, digues ou chaussées ou autres dike, causeway or other erection, constructions, et toutes propriétés any public property, any engine, publiques quelconques, ou même des utensil, or any article used in the usines, ustensiles, objets servant à business of a country estate, or of a l’exploitation d’un bien rural ou d’une manufacture belonging to another manufacture appartenant à autrui ou person or any vehicle belonging to des véhicules appartenant à autrui, another person, shall be punished by penal servitude not exceeding 20 years and by a fine not exceeding 25,000 rupees. C57 – 101 [Issue 2] Criminal Code (2) Any person, who, without lawful authority— (a) damages or interferes with any military installations, dock, harbour, road, power station, transmission line, water supply system, telegraph or telephone apparatus or installation, broadcasting station, or other means of communication or aircraft, aircraft material, airport landing ground or mooring; (b) obstructs or endangers the safety of any vessel, aircraft or vehicle, shall commit an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding 100,000 rupees and to penal servitude for a term not exceeding 20 years. (3) In this section— “military installation” means any building, installation or other property belonging to or used by the Police Force or the armed forces; “vehicle”— (a) means any vehicle designed or adapted for use on any road; and (b) includes any other means of conveyance. [S. 349 amended by Act 29 of 1990; Act 30 of 1991; s. 8 of Act 36 of 2008 w.e.f. 6 December 2008.]