(1) No person shall, without lawful authority, take away or willfully or negligently break or damage, in any other manner whatsoever,-
(a) any lamp or any appurtenance of any lamp, or lamp post, in any public street or any public place;
(b) any electric wire for illuminating such lamp;
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(c) any post, pole, standard, stays, strut, bracket or other contrivance for carrying, suspending or supporting any electric wire or lamp;
(d) or cause any obstruction by blocking the right of way.
(2) No person shall willfully or negligently extinguish the light of any lamp set up in any public street or any public place.
(3) If any person willfully 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 and/or to the penal charges, to which he may be subjected under this Act or any other law in force, pay the expenses of repairing the damages so caused by him.
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