Section 19

Public pounds shall be provided and pound-keepers appointed at such places as the Menteri Besar or Chief Minister in the State may direct.

Any person may and any police officer shall seize all horses, cattle, goats, sheep and pigs found picketed, tethered, or straying upon any public road or trespassing on any public or private property, and confine such animals in a public pound.

Any animal so impounded may be redeemed by the owner thereof within ten days after being so impounded on payment to the pound-keeper of such fee as is fixed from time to time by the

Ruler or Yang di-Pertua Negeri and published in the Gazette and of the expenses of feeding the same while impounded according to the rate to be fixed from time to time by the Chief Police Officer of the State.

Any animal not so redeemed as aforesaid may be publicly sold by order of the Chief Police Officer, and the proceeds of such sale after deducting the said fee and the expenses of feeding shall be paid to the owner of such animal, or if not claimed within a period of three months after such sale shall be retained by the

Chief Police Officer and paid into the Treasury.

Penalty for pound breach

Any person who takes any animal out of a public pound without the knowledge and consent of the pound-keeper shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty ringgit.

Every pound-keeper shall be deemed to be a public servant within the meaning of the Penal Code [Act 574].

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Minor Offences

OTHER OFFENCES

Corpses and dying persons 20.

Whoever deposits or causes to be deposited any dying person or any corpse in any public place or in any private place without the consent of the owner shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both.

Disorderly conduct at public meetings 20A. (1) If a police officer reasonably suspects any person at a lawful public meeting of acting or inciting others to act in a manner likely to cause a breach of the peace or of persistently interrupting the proceedings at such meeting in a manner likely to prevent the transaction of the business for which such meeting was convened, he may, if so requested by the chairman of such meeting, require such person forthwith to leave the place where such meeting is being held until after the conclusion of the proceedings thereof.

Any person who fails to comply with the requirement of a police officer made under subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two months or to both.

Drunkenness and disorderly behaviour in public places 21.

Any person who is found drunk and incapable of taking care of himself, or is guilty of any riotous, disorderly or indecent behaviour, or of persistently soliciting or importuning for immoral purposes in any public road or in any public place or place of public amusement or resort, or in the immediate vicinity of any

Court or of any public office or police station or place of worship, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty-five ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen days, and on a second or subsequent conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both.

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Wilful trespass 22.

Whoever, without satisfactory excuse, wilfully trespasses in or upon any dwelling-house or premises, or upon any land attached thereto, or upon any boat or vessel, or upon any land belonging to the Government of Malaysia or of any State or appropriated to any public purpose, not thereby in any of the above cases causing any actual damage, or not causing, in the opinion of the Magistrate, more than nominal damage, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty ringgit.