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Section 94, substituted vide Section 11 of M. P. Irrigation (Amendment) Act,1973 (No. 42 of 1973). Section-94] M.P. Irrigation Act, 1931 [80 (h) Destroys, injures, defaces or removes any land-mark, level- mark, water guage or other apparatus fixed by the authority of a canal officer; (i) Causes animals or vehicles to pass on or across any of the works, banks or channels or any canal after such passage has been prohibited by a canal officer; (j) Causes or knowingly and willfully permits animals to graze or be tethered upon the bank or border of any canal after such grazing or tethering has been prohibited by a canal officer. (k) Removes or injures any tree, bush, grass or other vegetation growing on any canal, or, (I) Eases himself on the banks or in the channel of a canal; Shall on complaint made by a canal officer: (i) Be punishable in respect of offences mentioned in clauses (a) to (h), with imprisonment which may extend to six months or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees or with both; and when the offence is a continuing one, with an additional fine not exceeding twenty rupees for every day after the first during which the offence has been persisted in: and (ii) Be punishable In respect of offences mentioned in clauses (i) to (i) with line which may extend to one hundred rupees and if the same person is subsequently convicted for a like offence he shall be liable for imprisonment which may extend to one month for each such subsequent conviction. Section-95,98] M.P.IrrigationAct,1931 [81