Section 449. Displacing pavements, etc.

(1) No person shall displace, take up or make an alteration in, or otherwise interfere with, the pavement, gutter, flags or other materials of public street, or the fences, walls or posts thereof, or a 2Corporation lamp, lamp-post, bracket, direction-post, stand-post, hydrant or other such 2Corporation property therein without the written consent of the 1Municipal Commissioner or other lawful authority, and no person shall extinguish a 2Corporation light.\br@s (2) Any expense incurred by the 2Corporation by reason of the doing of any such thing as is mentioned in sub-section (1) may be recovered from the offender in the manner provided by Chapter XXI.\br@s