State Act
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Section 251. Prohibition of removal, etc., of lamps or any other municipal property on streets.
The Maharashtra Municipal Corporations Act
Act no. LIX of 19491949In forceMaharashtra (State Act)
251. Prohibition of removal, etc., of lamps or any other municipal property on streets.— No person shall, without lawful authority, take away or wilfully break, throw down or damage,— (a) any lamps, lamp-post or lamps-iron set up in any public street or in any municipal garden, open space or market or building vesting in the Corporation ; (b) any electric wire for lighting any such lump ; (c) any post, pole, standard, stay, strut, bracket or other contrivance for carrying, suspending or supporting any such electric wire or lamp ; (d) any property of the Corporation on any street ; and no person shall wilfully extinguish the light or damage and appurtenance of any such lamp.