Section 98: Power to prohibit false lights, etc

(1)
Whenever any fire or light is burned or exhibited at any place or in such manner as to be liable to be mistaken for a light proceeding from a lighthouse, buoy or beacon, the Authority may serve a notice on-
(a) the owner or occupier of the place where the fire or light is burned or exhibited: or
(b)
the person having charge of the fire or light, directing the owner, occupier or person, within a reasonable time to be specified in the notice, to take effectual means for extinguishing or effectually screening the fire or light and for preventing the fire or light or any similar fire or light being burned or exhibited thereafter.
(2) The notice may be served either personally or by delivering it at the place of abode of the person to be served, or by affixing it in some conspicuous spot near the fire or light to which the notice relates.
(3) Any owner or person on whom a notice under this section iis served, who fails,without reasonable cause, to comply with the directions contained if! the notice, is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction, for each offence, to a fine not exceeding N5,OOO.
(4) If any owner or person on whom a notice under this section is served neglects for a period of 24 hours to extinguish or effectually screen the fire or light mentioned in the notice, an authorised employee of the Authority, with workmen or other assistants, may-
(a) enter on the place where the fire or light is, and forthwith extinguish the fire or light, doing no damage than is necessary; and
(b) recover the expenses incurred by him in so doing from the owner or person on whom the notice has been served in the same manner as fines may be recovered under this Act.