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Part IX E+W Lawful and Unlawful Interference With Highways and Streets

Danger or annoyance to users of highways and streets E+W

162 Penalty for placing rope, etc. across highway. E+W

A person who for any purpose places any rope, wire or other apparatus across a highway in such a manner as to be likely to cause danger to persons using the highway is, unless he proves that he had taken all necessary means to give adequate warning of the danger, guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding [F1 level 3 on the standard scale].

Textual Amendments

F1 Words substituted by virtue of Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), ss. 38, 46