Metropolis Management Act 1855

CXI Penalty on Persons taking up Pavements neglecting to reinstate them, and to place Lights during the Night-time to prevent Accidents.

If any Company or Person authorized to break up or open any of the Pavement or Surface of any Street, for the Purpose of laying, altering, or repairing any Gas, Water, or other Pipe, or other lawful Cause, do not with due Diligence cause the Ground to be filled in, and the Pavement to be reinstated, and the Surface to be made good, in a proper and substantial Manner, or do not in the meantime fence and guard the same, and affix and maintain Lights during the Night near to the Places where any Ground is open, so as to prevent any Accident, every such Company or other Person so offending shall for every such Offence forfeit a Sum not exceeding Five Pounds, and also a further Sum not exceeding Forty Shillings, for every Day during which such Offence continues ; and no such Pavement shall be considered to have been reinstated in a proper and substantial Manner by any such Company or other Person unless the same have been reinstated with the same or similar Materials of the like Quality and Thickness, and cemented and bound together in the same or in an equally substantial Manner, as those of which it was composed, in such Manner as is satisfactory to the Vestry or Board.