Section 11
Definition of nuisances and penalty
of Miscellaneous Offences Act ( Formerly Known as Minor Offences Act)
Any person who —
(a)
without authority in the case of public property, or without the consent of the owner or occupier in the case of private property, affixes or causes to be affixed any advertisement, bill or notice, or any paper against or upon any building, wall or fence, or writes upon,
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defaces or marks any such building, wall or fence with chalk or paint or in any other way;
(b)
bathes or washes himself or any other person, animal or thing on any public road, or in, upon or by the side of any public tank, reservoir, watercourse or stream the use of which for bathing has been forbidden by the Commissioner of Police;
(c)
obstructs or incommodes a person bathing at any place set apart as a bathing place by wilful intrusion, or by washing any animal at or near such place, or in any other way;
(d)
wilfully or indecently exposes his person, or commits a nuisance by easing himself in or by the side of, or near to, any public road or public place;
(e)
being the owner or person in charge of any animal does not, if such animal dies, dispose of its carcase in such a way as not to be a common nuisance;
(f)
places on or near any public road any dead animal;
(g)
spits on the floor of any school house, theatre, public building or other place of public entertainment or assembly, or in any licensed public vehicle, or in any tram or railway car, or on any wharf or jetty, or on any five-foot way or side-walk of a public street; or
(h)
keeps pigs in any Malay village, is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of $250.
OFFENCES IN RESPECT OF UNCLEANLINESS IN PUBLIC PLACES
AND UNAUTHORISED DUMPING