(iv) throws any property from any place; or
(v) removes any property from any place; or
(vi) dislodges or disfigures any property; or
(vii) gives a false alarm of fire; or
(viii) does any act of a like nature;
(b) wantonly or mischievously provokes any animal;
(c) without the permission of the appropriate authority, makes a fire or lets off fireworks manufactured for
the purpose of amusement, in a public place;
(d) rides or drives any animal upon any pavement;
(e) throws or deposits any refuse or inflammatory material in or upon a public place or in or upon any other
place which has not been set aside for that purpose by the appropriate authority;
(f) encumbers or obstructs the free passage along any street, road, thoroughfare, sidewalk or pavement;
(g) allows any refuse, excrement or other offensive material to be spilt or thrown into or on a public place;
(h) cuts down, removes, destroys or injures any wood, tree or shrub without the permission of the owner or
occupier of the land upon which such wood, tree or shrub is situated, or, in the case of any wood, tree or
shrub situated in or upon a public place, the permission of the appropriate authority;
(i) rides or drives any animal in or through a public place in a manner dangerous to the public;
(j) discharges any firearm, air-pistol, air-rifle or air-gun in or upon a public place unless such weapon is
discharged in self-defence, for humane reasons or in circumstances in which such discharge is justified
under any law;
(k) fires any explosive in or upon a public place without the permission of the appropriate authority;
(l) drives or leaves any vehicle drawn by oxen in any public street or thoroughfare without a person at the
head of such oxen or leaves any vehicle drawn by horses, donkeys or mules standing in any street or
thoroughfare without a person at the head of such horses, donkeys or mules;
(m) shouts or screams in a public place to the annoyance of the public;
(n) places any placard or other document, writing or painting on, or otherwise defaces any house, building,
wall, fence, lamp-post, gate or elevator without the consent of the owner or occupier thereof;
(o) fails or neglects to take such steps as may be necessary to prevent the creation on property owned,
leased or occupied by him or her, of a nuisance by offensive smell or otherwise;
(p) flies a kite or model aeroplane or plays any game in a public place to the annoyance of the public;
(q) skates in or upon any street, road, thoroughfare, sidewalk or pavement;
(r) allows to be at large any unmuzzled ferocious dog;
(s) slaughters or skins any animal or knowingly leaves any dead animal in or upon a public place;
(t) plays or bets in any street, road, thoroughfare or other open place or public place at or with any table or
instrument of gaming or pretended game of chance, or is present at a gathering where such gambling is
in progress:
Provided that nothing in this paragraph shall be construed as prohibiting the playing or betting at
any entertainment if authority for the conduct of such gaming or game of chance has been granted in
terms of the Lotteries and Gaming Act [Chapter 10:26];
(u) subject to any other enactment, sets, urges or permits any dog or other animal to pursue any vehicle;
(v) employs any means whatsoever which are likely materially to interfere with the ordinary comfort,
convenience, peace or quiet of the public or any section of the public, or does any act which is likely to
create a nuisance or obstruction;
shall be guilty of criminal nuisance.
FOURTH SCHEDULE (Section 275)
P ERMISSIBLE V ERDICTS
Section and Crime Charged
Permissible Verdict
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(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
Treason
(f)
Attempted murder;
Concealing treason;
Subverting constitutional government;
Insurgency, banditry, sabotage or terrorism;
Possessing weaponry for insurgency, banditry, sabotage or
terrorism;
Any crime of which a person might be convicted if he or she
were charged with a crime specified in paragraphs (a) to (e).
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