(a) professes to be a member of a classification scheme referred to in Section 12(1)(a), while he/it is not such a member;
(b) uses in relation to any accommodation establishment conducted by him/it any depiction or depictions of a star of stars, unless he is a member of a scheme referred to in sub-rule (l)(a);
(c) uses in relation to any accommodation establishment conducted by him an insignia depicting a number of stars which is greater than the number which he is authorized to depict in terms of such scheme; shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of upto fifty thousand rupees.
(b) Breaking Glass etc. breaks any glass, metal or glass earthenware, or causes any glass, metal or earthenware to be broken, on any land or into any waters, commits an offence unless the glass, metal or earthenware, as the case may be, is broken - (l) on private land by consent; or (ii) in an appointed area with the consent of the public authority by which the area was set aside. Penalty: five thousand rupees.
(c) Defacement.
(i) leaves or posts a poster on or defaces any building, fence, furniture, pillar, post, screen, tree, structure, wall or other object on or adjacent to a public place or vacant land commits an offence unless the poster is left or posted with the consent of the owner or occupier of the object on which the poster is left or posted. Penalty: five thousand rupees.
(ii) leaves or posts a poster on or in any unoccupied vehicle in a public place commits an offence unless the bill is left or posted with the consent of the owner or person in charge of the vehicle. Penalty: five thousand rupees.
(iii) leaves a poster in a letter box or similar receptacle for mail does not commit an offence under sub-rule (1).
(d) Counselling or procuring poster posting or wall writings (i) incites, causes, counsels or procures some other person to leave or post a poster on or write on any building, fence, furniture, pillar, post, screen, tree, structure, wall or other object on or adjacent to a public place or vacant land in contravention of sub-rule (2)(c)(i) of this rule or on or in any unoccupied vehicle in a public place in contravention of sub-rule (2)(c)(ii) of this rule commits an offence. Penalty: one lakh rupees.
(ii) Notwithstanding any other enactment, the penalty in sub-rule (2)(d)(i) of this rule applies whether the offender is a natural person or a body corporate.
Section 18 • ap052
18. Offences and penalties.
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Section 18
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