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Major offences. | False returns. |
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| Other offences. | 59. (1) Any person who - (a) not being specifically authorized in that behalf, or an employee or agent of any Authority or occupant of a vehicle with justifiable cause to be present, is found during the hours of darkness on any premises occupied by the Authority; or (b) being on any premises occupied by the Authority or in a vehicle of the Authority - (i) refuses when called upon by an employee of the Authority or a police officer to give his name and address, or gives a false name or address with intent to avoid prosecution; (ii) is in a state of intoxication or behaves in a violent or offensive manner to the annoyance of any other person; (iii) commits any act or otherwise does anything which may cause injury to any person on such premises or upon such vehicle; (iv) commits any nuisance or act of indecency or uses profane, obscene, indecent or abusive language; (iv) without lawful excuse contravenes any lawful direction given by any employees; or (vi) except with the express permission of the Director-General of the concerned Authority, hawks, sells or exposes for sale any article or goods or service or applies for or carries on any other trade or business; (c) writes, draws or affixes any profane, obscene, indecent, or abusive words, matter, or representative character upon any premises occupied by the Authority or upon any vehicle of the Authority; (d) defaces the writing on any board or any notice authorized to be maintained upon any premises occupied by the Authority or upon any equipment or vehicle of the Authority; (e) damages, or without lawful excuse interferes with any property of the Authority; or (f) without lawful excuse, does any act which obstructs or is likely to obstruct the free movement of vehicles on any road or the use of any road, parking area or related facility; or (h) being a driver or conductor of any vehicle, disobeys lawful instructions while upon premises occupied by the Authority, commits an offence and is liable, on conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or a fine not exceeding fifty thousand shillings, or to both. |
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