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Section 60

Punishment for Certain Offences on Roads, Etc.

Any person who, on any road or in any open place or street or thoroughfare within the limits of any town to which this section shall be specially extended by the State Government commits any of the following offences, to the obstruction, inconvenience, annoyance, risk, danger or damage of the residents or passengers shall, on conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty rupees, or to imprisonment with or without hard labour not exceeding eight days; and it shall be lawful for any police officer to take into custody, without a warrant, any person who within his view commits any of such offences;

Slaughtering tattles, furious, riding etc.-First - Any person who slaughters an cattle or cleans any carcasses; any person who rides or drives any cattle recklessly, or furiously, or trains or breaks any horse or other cattle;

Cruelty to animals-Second - Any person who wantonly or cruelly beats, abuses or tortures any animals;

Obstructing passengers-Third - Any person who keeps any cattle or conveyance of any kind standing longer than is required for loading or unloading or for taking up or setting down passengers, or who leaves any conveyance in such a manner as to cause inconvenience or danger to the public;

Exposing goods for sale-Forth - Any person who exposes any goods for sale;

Throwing dirt into street-Fifth - Any person who throws or lays down any dirt filth, rubbish or any stones or building materials, or who constructs any cowshed, stable or the like, or who causes any offensive matter to run from any house, Factory, dung heap or the like;

8[Being found riotous-Sixth - Any person who is found riotous;]

Indecent exposure of person-Seventh- Any person who willfully and indecently exposes his person, or any offensive deformity or disease, or commits nuisance by easing himself, or by bathing or washing in any tank or reservoir not being a place set apart for that purpose;

Neglect to protect dangerous places-Eighth - Any person who neglects to fence in or duly to protect any well, tank or other dangerous place or structure.

[60A.9 Punishment for being found drunk. - Any person who, on any road or in any open place or street or thoroughfare within the limits of any town to which this section shall be specially extended by the State Government, is found drunk and incapable of taking care of himself to the obstruction, inconvenience, annoyance, risk, danger or damage to the residents or passengers shall, on conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred rupees for the first offence, a fine not exceeding five thousand rupees for every subsequent offence after conviction of third offence, or to imprisonment with or without hard labour not exceeding eight days; and it shall be lawful for any police officer to take into custody, without a warrant, any person who within his view commits such offence.]


8 Substituted by notification dated 07-10-2015

9 Inserted by notification dated 07-10-2015