Section 497: Prohibition against removal or obliteration of notice

No person shall, without authority in that behalf, remove, destroy, deface or otherwise obliterate any notice exhibited by or under orders of [[the Corporation]] or any municipal authority or any municipal officer or other municipal employee specified by the Commissioner in this behalf.

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