Section 116: Power to prohibit false lights and penalty for failure to extinguish.

(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 upon the owner or occupier of the place where the fire or light is burned or exhibited, or on the person having the 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 same or any similar fire or light being burned or exhibited thereafter.
(2) The notice may be served either personally or by delivery of the same at the place of abode of the person to be served, or by affixing the same in some conspicuous spot near the fire or light to which the notice relates.
(3) Any owner or person, on whom a notice is served under this section, who fails, without reasonable cause, to comply with the directions contained in the notice, shall be liable for each offence to a fine not exceeding N200.
(4) If any owner or person on whom a notice under this section is served neglects, for a period of twenty-four hours to extinguish or effectually screen the fire or light mentioned in the notice, an authorised servant of the Authority, with workmen or other assistants, may enter upon the place where the fire or light is, and forthwith extinguish the same, doing no unnecessary damage, and may 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.