Section 66: Offences

66. Offences Any person who, otherwise than in accordance with this Act— (a) encroaches on a road or road reserve by making or erecting a structure, fence, ditch, or other obstacle, or by planting trees, bushes, canes or otherwise; (b) leaves, or allows to fall, on a road or footpath any timber, stones or other material so as to obstruct the same or endanger persons using the road; (c) digs up, removes or alters, in any way, the soil or surface of a road; (d) fills in, or obstructs, any ditch or drain made to carry water off a road, whether on the road or elsewhere, or deposits any matter in the ditch or drain, or, by making dams, ditches, drains or other works, causes the flooding of a road; (e) causes or allows any timber, sledge, plough or other heavy material or thing, not being wholly raised above the ground on wheels to which pneumatic or solid rubber tyres have been fitted, to be moved along or across a road; (f) allows filth, drain water or noxious water, or any other thing likely to injure any road or footpath, or to cause inconvenience to persons having access on it, to run or lie on the road or footpath from any premises belonging to or occupied by him; (g) fails, during the night, to place a light near any article or thing, hole or trench, left by him on a road or footpath, and whereby the passage along the road may be endangered or obstructed; (h) destroys, breaks, injures or removes a lantern or lamp hung up by a highway authority, a local authority or an undertaker, or in compliance with paragraph (g), or extinguishes the light in the lantern or lamp without lawful authority; (i) wilfully damages a post, rail, fence, tree, hedge, shrub or grass erected or planted on, or by the side of, a road; [Issue 1] R28 – 32 Revised Laws of Mauritius (j) without lawful authority, breaks, cuts, throws, pulls down, defaces or injures a sign post, mile stone, stake, barrier, parapet or work of any description placed on or near a road for the public convenience; (k) throws or flings a stone, staff or missile of any kind so as to cause injury to a person or vehicle travelling along a road, or to startle or injure any horse, mule, bullock, or other beast of burden on a road; (l) fires off fireworks, or ignites an explosive substance, on a road or road reserve, or within such proximity of a road so as to cause injury or damage to a person, animal or vehicle on the road; or (m) flies a kite on or over a road, shall commit an offence.