State Act
Section 236. Prohibition of removal, of street lights.
THE BRUHAT BENGALURU MAHANAGARA PALIKE ACT, 2020
This Act was repealed on 15 May 2025 by the Greater Bengaluru Governance Act, 2024 (Karnataka Act 36 of 2025), s.361(1); it may still apply to matters that began before then.
236. Prohibition of removal, of street lights.- (1) No person shall, without lawful authority, take away or wilfully or negligently break or throw down or damage,- (a) any street lights, lamp or lamp post set up in any public street or any public place; and (b) any electric wire for lighting such street light or lamp; (2) No person shall willfully or negligently extinguish the light of any street light or lamp set up in any public street or any public place. (3) If any person wilfully or through negligence or accident breaks, or causes any damage to, any of the things described in sub-section (1), he shall in addition to any penalty to which he may be subjected under this Act, pay the expenses of repairing the damage so done by him.