STREETSState · Karnataka
Section 221 of KARNATAKA ACT NO. 36 OF 2025
Prohibition of removal, of street lights.
- (1)No person shall, without lawful authority, take away or wilfully or negligently break or throw down or damage,-
- (a)any street lights, lamp or lamp post set up in any public street or any public place; and
- (b)any electric wire for lighting such street light or lamp;
- (2)No person shall wilfully or negligently extinguish the light of any street light or lamp set up in any public street or any public place.
- (3)If any person wilfully 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 to which he may be subjected under this Act, pay the expenses of repairing the damage so done by him and also the