Section 23: Prohibition of bill posting, neon signs, other kinds of advertisements, etc

23. Prohibition of bill posting, neon signs, other kinds of advertisements, etc.—(1) No person shall put any neon signs or other kinds of advertisement, including bill posting, commercial signs, poles or pylons, electricity or telephone cables and television aerials, on or near any protected immovable antiquity. (2) Whoever contravenes the provision of sub­section (1) shall be punishable with rigorous imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine which may extend to ten thousand rupees, or with both. (3) The court trying an offence under sub­section (2) may direct that the whole or any part of the fine recovered shall be applied in defraying the expenses of restoring the antiquity to the condition in which it was before the commission of the offence.

Effective date: 1975-01-01

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