injure or suffer to be injured any meter belonging to the corporation or any of the fittings of any such meter;

break, injure or open any lock, cock, valve, pipe, work, [engine, cistern or fitting] [These words were substituted for the words 'or engine' by Bombay 5 of 1938, Section 32(a).] appertaining to any municipal water work;

flush or draw off the water from any such water work, thereby causing such water to be wasted;

do any act [or suffer any act to be done] [These words were inserted by Bombay 8 of 1918, Section 15.] whereby the water in or derived from any municipal water work shall be wasted;

obstruct, divert or in any way injure or alter any water main or duct;

[ except with the permission of the Commissioner, open, break, injure or tamper with any lock furnished under section 274A.] [This clause was inserted by Bombay 5 of 1938, Section 32(b).]

[ misuse the water duly provided by the Corporation for a specific purpose or use the same for any other purpose, whether specified or not.] [Clause (g) was added by Maharashtra 21 of 1989, Section 41(a).]

(2)

[ Whoever contravenes any of the provisions of sub-section (1) shall, on conviction, be punished, -

(a) for the first offence, with an imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month or with a fine which shall not be less than one hundred rupees and which may extend upto one thousand rupees or with both;

(b) for the second and every subsequent offence, with imprisonment for a term which may extent to six months or with fine which shall not be less than two hundred rupees and which extend upto two thousand rupees or with both.]