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THE PUNJAB MUNICIPAL CORPORATION ACT, 1976 (Punjab Act
42 of 1976)
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Sanitation and Public Health
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276. Provision for daily cleansing of streets
and removal of rubbish and filth. - {1) For the
purpose of securing the efficient scavenging and cleansing of all
streets and premises, the Commissioner shall provide:
(a) for the daily surface-cleansing of all streets and
the removal of the sweepings therefrom, and
(b) for the removal of the contents of all receptacles and depots
and of the accumulations at all places provided or appointed by
him under the provisions of this Act for the temporary deposit of
rubbish, filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter.
{2) The Commissioner may, by public notice, issue directions as to
the time at which, the manner in which, and the conditions subject
to which, any matter referred to in sub-section { 1 ) may be removed
along a street or be deposited or otherwise disposed of.
277. Rubbish, etc. to be property of Corporation.
All matter, deposited in public receptacles, depots and places
provided or appointed under section 278 and all matters collected
by Corporation employees or contractors in pursuance of section 276
and section 281 shall be the property of the Corporation.
278. Provision for appointment of receptacles,
depots and places for rubbish, etc. - ( 1 ) The Commissioner
shall -
(a)provide or appoint in proper and convenient situations,
public receptacles, depots or places for the temporary deposit of
rubbish, filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter and for the
final disposal of rubbish, filth and other polluted and obnoxious
matter; provide dustbins for the temporary deposit of rubbish;
(b) provide dustbins for the temporary deposit of rubbish:
(c)provide vehicles or other suitable means for the removal of rubbish
and offensive matter; and
(d) provide covered vehicles or vessels for the removal of filth
and other polluted and obnoxious matter.
(2) Different receptacles, depots or places may be provided or appointed
for the temporary deposit or final disposal of any of the matters
specified in sub. section ( 1 ).
(3)The commissioner shall make adequate provision for preventing receptacles,
depots, places, dustbins, vehicles and vessels referred to in sub-section
( 1 ) from becoming sources of nuisance.
279. Duty of owners and occupiers to collect
and deposit rubbish etc. It shall be the duty of the owners
and occupiers of all premises -
(a) to have the premises swept and cleaned;
{b) to cause all filth, rubbish and other polluted and obnoxious matter
to be collected from their respective premises and to be deposited
at such times as the Commissioner, by the public notice prescribes-,
in public receptacles, depots or places provided or appointed under
section 278 for temporary deposit or final disposal thereof:·
(c) to provide receptacles of the type and in the manner prescribed
by the Commissioner for the collection therein of all filth, rubbish
and other polluted and obnoxious matter from such premises and to
keep such receptacles in good condition and repair.
280. Collection and removal of filth and
polluted matter. - It shall be duty of the owners and occupier
of every premises situate in any portion of the City in which latrines
or urinals are not connected by a drain with a municipal drain, to
cause all filth and polluted and obnoxious matter accumulating upon
such premises to be collected and removed to the nearest receptacle
or depot provided for this purpose under section 278 at such times,
in such vehicle or vessel, by such route and with such precautions
as the Commissioner may by public notice prescribe.
281. Collection and removal of filth and
polluted matter through Corporation agency. - (1) Where
the Commissioner has given public notice in respect of any portion
of the City that the collection, removal and disposal, of all filth
and polluted and, obnoxious matter from latrines, urinals and cesspools
will be undertaken by Corporation agency, it shall be lawful for the
Commissioner to take measures for the daily collection, removal and
disposal of such filth and polluted and obnoxious matter from an premises
situated in that portion of the City.
(2} In such portion of the City and in any premises wherever situate
in which there is a latrine or urinal connected with a municipal drain,
it shah not be lawful, except with the written permission of the Commissioner,
for any person who is not employed by or on behalf of the Commissioner,
to discharge any of the duties of scavengers.
282. Removal of rubbish, etc., accumulated
on Premises used as factories, work-shops, etc. The Commissioner
may, if he thinks fit
(a) by written notice require the owner or occupier of any premises
used for carrying on any manufacture, trade or business or used as
a factory, workshop, trade premises or market or in any way so that
rubbish filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter are accumulated
in large quantities, to collect all such rubbish, filth and other
polluted and obnoxious matter accumulating thereon and to remove the
same at such time and in such carts or receptacles and by such routes
as may be specified in the notice to a depot or place provided or
appointed under section 278, or
(b) after giving such owner or occupier notice of his intention cause
all rubbish, filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter accumulated
in such premises to be removed and charge the said owner or occupier
for such removal such fee as may, with the sanction of the Corporation,
be specified in the notice issued under clause (a),
283. Prohibition against accumulation of
rubbish etc. - ( 1 ) No owner or occupier of any premises
shall keep or allow to be kept for more than twenty- four hours or
otherwise than in a receptacle approved by the Commissioner, any rubbish
filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter on such premises or
any place belonging thereto or neglect to employ proper means to remove
such rubbish, filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter from,
or to cleanse, such receptacle and to dispose of such rubbish, filth
and other polluted and obnoxious matter in the manner directed by
the Commissioner, or fail to comply with any requisition of
the Commissioner as to the construction. repair, pavement or cleansing
of any latrine, or urinal on or belonging to the premises.
(2) No owner or occupier shall allow the water of any sink,, drain,
latrine or urinal or any rubbish, filth and other polluted and obnoxious
matter to run down on or to, or be thrown or put upon, any street
or into any drain in or along the side of any street except in such
manner as shall prevent any avoidable nuisance from any such water,
rubbish, filth or other polluted and obnoxious matter.
(3) No person shall, after due provision had been made in this respect
under the foregoing provisions of this Chapter for the deposit and
removal of the same -
{a) deposit any rubbish, filth and other polluted
and obnoxious matter in any street or on the verandah of any building
or on any unoccupied ground along side any street or on the bank
of a water course: or
(b)deposit any filth or other polluted and obnoxious matter in any
dustbin or in any vehicle not intended for the removal of the same;
or
(c)deposit rubbish in any vehicle or vessel intended for the removal
of filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter.
284. Commissioner's power to get premises
scavenged and cleansed. - If any premises are not properly
and regularly scavenged or cleansed or are in 'a filthy and unwholesome
condition, the Commissioner may cause them to be scavenged and cleansed
and recover the expenses from the owner or as the case may be. occupier
as an arrears of tax under this Act.
285. Public latrines, urinal etc.
- ( 1 ) The Commissioner shall provide and maintain in proper
and convenient places a sufficient number of public latrine and urinals.
(2) Such public latrines and urinals shall be so constructed as to
provide separate compartments for each sex and not to be a nuisance,
and shall be provided with all necessary conservancy, establishments,
and shall regularly be cleansed and kept in proper order.
286. Constructions of latrines and urinals.
- ( 1 ) It shall not be lawful to construct any latrine or urinal
for any premises except with the written permission of the Commissioner
and ha accordance with such terms not inconsistent with the provisions
of this Act or any bye-laws made thereunder as he may prescribe.
(2) In prescribing any such terms the Commissioner may determine
in each case -
(a)whether the premises shall be served by the service
system or by the flush system or partly by one and partly by the
other; and
(b) what shall be the site or position of each latrine or urinal.
(3) If any latrine or urinal is constructed on any premises in contravention
of the foregoing provisions, the Commissioner may, after giving
not less than ten days' notice to the owner or occupier of such premises,
alter, reconstructed close or demolish such latrine or urinals and
the expenditure incurred by the Commissioner in so doing shall be
recoverable from the owner or occupier as an arrears of tax under-this
Act.
287. Latrines and urinals, etc., in new buildings.
- (1) It shall not be lawful to erect any building or execute
any work on or in relation to such building without providing such
latrine accommodation and urinal accommodation and accommodation for
bathing or for washing clothes and utensils on each floor of such
building as the Commissioner may prescribe.
(2) In prescribing any such accommodation the Commissioner may determine
in each case -
(a)whether such building Shall be served by the service
system or by the flush system or partly by the one and partly by
the other;
(b) what shall be the site or position of each latrine, urinal,
bathing or washing place or site and their number on each floor
and their clear internal dimensions.
{3) It shall not be lawful to erect a residential building composed
of separate tenements on the fiat system without providing at least
one latrine and one bathing or washing place for servants on the ground
floor of such building or at any other suitable place in the same
premises.
.{4) In this section the expression "to erect a building" has the
same meaning as in section 257.
288, Latrines and urinals for labourers etc.-
Every person employing workmen, labourers or other persons exceeding
twenty in number shall provide and maintain for the separate use of
persons of each sex so employed, latrines and urinals of such description
and number as the Commissioner may by notice require and within such
time as may be fixed in the notice and shall keep the same in clean
and proper order.
289. Provisions of latrine and urinals for
markets etc. - The Commissioner may by notice require any
owner or manager of a market, cart stand, cattle shed, theatre, railway
station and other place of public resort within such time as may be
specified in such notice to provide and maintain for the separate
use of persons of each Sex, latrines of such description and number
and in such Position as may be specified and to keep the same in clean
and proper order.
290. Other provision as to private latrines.
- The Commissioner may, by written notice -
(a)require the owner or other person having the control of any
private latrine or urinal not to put the same to public use; or
(b)require the owner or other person having the control of such private
latrine or urinal which in the opinion of the Commissioner constitutes
a nuisance, to remove the latrine or the urinal; or
(c)require any person having the control whether as owner, lessee
or occupier of any land or building -
(i) to have any latrines provided for the same shut out
by a sufficient roof, wall or fence from the view of persons passing
by or dwelling in the neighbourhood; or
(ii) to cleanse in such manner as the Commissioner may specify in
the notice any latrine or urinal belonging to the land or building:
or
(d) where any premises intended or used for human habitation are without
any latrine or urinal accommodation or are provided with sufficient
latrine or urinal accommodation, require the owner,
lessee or occupier of such premises to provide such or such additional
latrine or urinal accommodation as he may prescribe, if necessary,
by causing any part of such premises to be vacated and demolished
in accordance with the bye-laws made in this behalf.
291. Removal of congested buildings.
- ( 1 ) Where it appears to the Commissioner that any block of
buildings is in unhealthy condition by reason of the manner in which
the buildings are crowded together, or of the narrowness, closeness,
or faulty arrangement of streets, or of the want of proper drainage
and ventilation, or of the lmpracticability of cleansing the buildings
or other similar cause, he shall cause the block to be inspected by
the Corporation Health Officer and the Corporation Engineer who shall
make a report in writing to him regarding the sanitary condition of
the block.
(2) If upon receipt of such report the Commissioner considers that
the sanitary condition of the block is likely to cause risk of disease
to the inhabitants of the buildings or of the neighbourhood or otherwise
to endanger the public health, he shall with the approval of the Corporation
select the buildings which in his opinion should wholly or in part
be removed in order to abate the unhealthy condition of the block
and may thereupon by notice in writing require the owners of such
buildings to remove them within such period as may be specified in
the notice:
Provided that before issuing the notice, reasonable opportunity should
be afforded to the owners to show cause why the buildings should not
be removed:
Provided further that the Commissioner shall make compensation to
the owners for any buildings so removed which may have been erected
under proper authority.
{3) If a notice under sub-section {2) requiring any owner of a building
to remove it is not complied with, then, after the expiration of the
time specified in the notice the Commissioner may himself remove the
building required to be removed by the notice and recover from the
owner of the building the expenses of such removal as an arrears of
tax under this Act.
292. Power of Commissioner to require improvement
of buildings unfit for human habitation:-
(1) Where the Commissioner upon information in his possession is satisfied
that any buildings is in any respect unfit for human habitation, he
may, unless in his opinion the buildings is not capable at a reasonable
expense of being rendered fit, serve upon the owner of the building
a notice requiring him within such time not being less than thirty
days as may be specified in the notice to execute the works
of improvement specified therein and stating that in his opinion those
works will render the building fit for human habitation.
(2) In addition to serving a notice under this section on the owner
the Commissioner may serve a copy of the notice on any person having
an interest in the building whether as a lessee, mortgage or otherwise.
(3) In determining whether a building can be rendered fit for human
habitation at a reasonable expense, regard shall be had to the estimated
cost of the work necessary to render it so fit and the value which
it is estimated that the building will have when, the works
are completed.
293. Enforcement of notice requiring execution
of works of improvement: If a notice under section 292
requiring the owner of the building to execute works of improvement
is not compiled with, then, after the expiration of the time specified
in the notice the commissioner may himself fo the works required to
be done by the notice and recover the expenses incurred in connection
therewith as an arrears of tax under this Act
294. Power of Commissioner to order demolition
of buildings unfit for human habitation.
(1) Where the Commissioner upon any information in his possession
is satisfied that any building is unfit for human habitation and is
not capable at a reasonable expense of being rendered so fit he shall
serve upon the owner of the building and upon any other person having
an interest in the building, whether as a lessee, mortgage or otherwise
a notice to show cause within such time as may be specified in the
notice as to why an order of demolition of building should not be
made.
(2) If any of the persons upon whom a notice has been served under
subsection(1), appears in pursuance thereof before the Commissioner
and gives an undertaking to him that such person shall, within a period
specified by the commissioner, execute such works of improvement in
relation to the buildings as will, in the opinion of the commissioner
, render the building fit for human habitation until the commissioner
on being satisfied that it has been rendered fit for that purpose,
cancels the undertaking, the commissioner shall not make an order
of demolition of the building.
(3) If no such undertaking as is mentioned in sub-section (2) is given,
or if in a case where any such undertaking has been given, any work
of improvement to which the undertaking relates is not carried out
within the specified period, or the building is at any time used in
contravention of the terms of the undertaking, the Commissioner
shall forthwith make an order of demolition of the building requiring
that the building shall be vacated within a date of the order,
and that it shall be demolished within six weeks of the expiration
of that period.
(4)Where an order of demolition of building under this section has
been made the owner of building or any other person having an interest
therein shall demolish that building within the time specified in
that behalf by the order, and if the building is not demolished within
the time, the commissioner shall demolish the building and sell the
materials thereof.
(5)Any expenses incurred by the commissioner under sub-section (4),
if not satisfied out of the proceeds of the sale of materials of the
buildings, shall be recovered form the owner of the building or any
other person having an interest therein as an arrears of tax under
this Act
(6)In determining for the purposes of section 292 and this section
whether a building is unfit for human habitation, regard shall be
had to its condition in respect of following matters, that is to say:-
a) repair;
b) stability;
c) freedom form damp;
d) natural light and air;
e) water supply;
f) drainage and sanitary conveniences;
g) facilities for storage, preparation and cooking of food
and for the disposal of rubbish, filth and other polluted matter;
and the building shall be deemed to be unfit as aforesaid if and
only if it is so far defective in one or more of the said matters
that it is not reasonably suitable for occupation in that condition.
(7) For the purpose of section 292, section 293 and this section,
"work of improvement" in relation to a building included any one or
more of following works, namely:-
a) necessary repairs;
b) structural alterations;
c) provision of light points and water taps;
d) provision of latrines and urinals;
e) provision of additional or improved fixtures and fittings;
f) opening up or paving of courtyard;
g) removal of rubbish, filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter;
h) any other work including the demolition of any building or any
part executing any of the works specified above.
(8) The provisions of Section 291, section 292, and this section
shall not apply in relation to any building etc. in any area which
has been declared to be a slum area under the Punjab Slum Areas
(Improvement and Clearance) Act, 1961.
295. Insanitary huts and sheds -
Where the Commissioner upon any information in his possession is satisfied
that any hut or shed used as a dwelling house or as a stable or for
any other purpose, is likely, by reason of its being constructed without
a plinth or upon a plinth of insufficient height or without proper
means of drainage or on account of the impracticability of scavenging
and cleansing it or owing to the manner in which it and other huts
or sheds arc crowded together, to cause risk of disease, to the inmates
thereof or to. the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, or is for any
reason likely to endanger public health or safety he may by notice
in writing require the owner or occupier of the hut or shed or the
owner or occupier of the land on which the hut or shed stands to remove
or alter the hut or shed or carry out such improvement thereof
as the Commissioner may deem necessary within such time as may be
specified in the notice.
296. Prohibition against washing by washermen.
- (1) The Commissioner may by public notice prohibit the washing
of clothes by washermen in the exercise of their callings except at
such places as he may appoint for the purpose.
(2) When any such prohibition has been made, no person who is by calling
a washerman shall in contravention of such prohibition wash clothes
except for himself or for personal and family service or for hire
on or within the premises of the hirer at any place other than a place
appointed under sub section ( 1 ),
297. Obligation to give information of dangerous
disease. - Any person being in charge of, or in attendance
whether as medical practitioner or other- wise, upon any person whom
he knows or has reason to believe to be suffering from a dangerous
disease, or being the owner, lessee, or occupier of any building in
which he knows that any such person is so suffering shall forthwith
give information respecting the existence of such disease to the Corporation
Health Officer.
298. Removal to hospitals of patients suffering
from dangerous disease. - When any person suffering from
any dangerous disease is found to be.
(a) without proper lodging or accommodation, or
(b) living in a room or house which he neither owns nor pays-rent
for. nor occupies as the guest or relative of person who owns, or
pays rent for it, or
(b) living in a sarai, hotel, boarding house or other public hostel,
or
(d) lodged in premises occupied by members of two or more families,
the Commissioner or may person authorised by him in this behalf may.
on the advice of any medical officer of the rank not inferior to that
of an assistant surgeon, remove the patient to any-hospital or place
at which persons suffering from such disease are received for medical
treatment and may do any thing necessary for such removal.
299. Disinfection of buildings and articles.
- Where the Commissioner is of the opinion that the cleansing
and disinfection of any building or part of a building or of any articles
in such building or part of which are likely to retain infection or
the renewal or flooring of any building or part of such building,
and the renewal or plastering of the walls thereof, would tend to
prevent or check the spread of any dangerous disease; he may, by notice
in writing, require the owner or occupier to cleanse and disinfect
the said building, part or articles, as the case may be, or to renew
the said flooring and if necessary, the said plastering also within
such time as may be specified in the notice:
Provided that where in the opinion of the Commissioner the owner or
occupier is from property or any other cause unable effectually to
carry out any such requisition, the Commissioner may at the expense
of the Corporation Fund cleanse and disinfect the building, part or
articles, or, as the case may be, renew the flooring and if necessary,
the plastering also.
300. Destructions of infections huts or sheds.
- ( 1 ) Where the destruction of any hut or shed is in opinion
of the Commissioner necessary to prevent the spread of any dangerous
disease, the Commissioner may
notice in writing require the owner to destroy the hut or shed and
materials thereof within such time as may be specified in the notice.
(2) Where the Commissioner is satisfied that the destruction of any
hut or shed is immediately necessary for the purpose of preventing
the spread of any dangerous disease, he may order the owner or occupier
of the hut or shed to destroy the same forthwith or may himself cause
it to be destroyed after giving not less than six hours' notice to
the owner or occupier.
{3) Compensation may be paid by the commissioner, in any case which
he thinks fit, to any person who sustains substantial loss by the
destruction 0f any such hut or shed, but, except as so allowed by
the Commissioner, no claim for compensation shah lie for any
loss or damage caused by any exercise of the power conferred by this
section.
301. Means of disinfection. _
{1) The Commissioner shall
(a) provide proper places with necessary attendants and
apparatus for the disinfection of conveyances, clothing, bedding
and other articles which have been exposed to infection;
(b) cause conveyances, clothing and other articles brought for disinfection
to be disinfected either free of charge or on payment of such charges
as he may fix.
(2) The Commissioner may notify places at which articles of clothing,
bedding and conveyances or other articles which have been exposed
to infection shall be washed and if he does so, no person shall wash
any such thing at any place not so notified without having previously
disinfected such thing,
(3) The Commissioner may direct the destruction of any clothing, bedding
or other article likely to retain infection and may give such compensation
as he thinks fit for any article so destroyed.
302. Special measures in case of outbreak
of dangerous or epidemic diseases. - (1) In the event of
the City or any part thereof visited or threatened by an outbreak
of any dangerous disease among the inhabitants
thereto or of any epidemic disease among any animals therein, the
Commissioner, if he thinks that the other provisions of this Act and
the provisions of any other law for the time being in force are insufficient
for the purpose, may, with the previous sanction of the Corporation
:-
{a) take such special measures, and
· {b) by public notice, give such directions to be observed
by the public or by any class or section of the public, as he thinks
necessary to prevent the outbreak or spread of the disease:
Provided that where in the opinion of the Commissioner immediate measures
are necessary, he may take action without such sanction as aforesaid
and if he does so, shall forthwith report such action to
the Corporation.
(2) No person shall commit a breach of any direction given under sub-section
(1) and if he does so he shall be deemed to have committed an offence
under Section 88 of the Indian Penal Code.
303. Infected clothes not to be sent to washerman
or to laundry. - ( 1 ) A person shall not send or take
to any washerman or to any laundry or place set apart for the exercise
by washerman of their calling, for the purpose of being washed or
to any place for the purpose of being cleansed, any cloth or other
article which he knows to have been exposed to infection from a dangerous
disease unless that cloth or article has been disinfected by or to
the satisfaction of the Corporation Health Officer.
{2) The occupier of any building in which a person is suffering from
a dangerous disease shall, if required by the Corporation Health Officer
furnish to him the address of any washerman to whom or any laundry
or other place to which clothes and other articles from the building
have been, or will be, sent during the continuance of the disease
for the purpose of being washed or cleansed.
304. Contamination and disinfection of public
conveyance: - (1) Whoever, -
(a) uses a public conveyance while suffering from a dangerous
disease, or
(b) uses a public conveyance for the carriage of a person who is
suffering from any disease, or
(c) uses a public conveyance for the carriage of the corpse of a
person who had died from such disease;
shall be bound to take. proper precautions against the communication
of the disease to other person using or who may thereafter use the
conveyance and to notify such use to the owner, driver or person
in charge of the conveyance and further report without delay to the
Commissioner the number of the conveyance and the name of the person
so noticed.
(2) Where any person suffering from, or the corpse of any person
who had died from, a dangerous disease has been carried, in public
conveyance which ordinarily plies in the City or any part thereof,
the driver thereof, shall forthwith report the fact to the Commissioner
who shall forthwith cause the conveyance to be disinfected ff that
has not already been done.
(3) No such conveyance shall be again brought into use until the Corporation
Health Officer has granted a certificate stating that it can be used
without causing risk of infection.
(4) Whoever fails to make to the Commissioner any report which he
is required to make under this section shall be guilty of an offence.
305. Driver of conveyance not bound to carry
persons suffering from dangerous disease, - Notwithstanding
anything contained in any law for the time being in force no owner,
driver or person in charge of a public conveyance shall be bound to
convey or to allow to be conveyed in such conveyance in or in the
vicinity of the City any person suffering from a dangerous disease
or the corpse of any person who has died from such disease unless
and untfit such person pays or tenders a sum sufficient to cover any
loss and expense which would ordinarily be incurred in disinfecting
the conveyance.
306. Disinfection of buildings before letting
the same. - { i ) Where any building or part of a building
is intended to be let in which any person has, within six weeks immediately
proceeding, been suffering from a dangerous disease, the person letting
the building or part shall, before doing so disinfect the same in
such manner as the Commissioner may by general or special notice direct
together with all articles therein liable to retain infection.
(2) For the purposes of this section the keeper of a hostel, hotel/lodging
house or sarai shall be deemed to let a part of the building to any
person accommodated in such hostel, hotel, lodging house or sarai,
as the case may be.
307. Disposal of infected articles without
disinfection. - No person shall, without previous disinfection
of the same give, lend, sell, transmit or otherwise dispose of to
another person any article or thing which he knows or has reason to
believe has been exposed to contamination by any dangerous disease
and is likely to be used in or taken into the City or any part thereof.
308. No prohibition of making or selling
of food, etc. or washing of clothes by infected persons. -
No person while suffering from, or in circumstances .in which he is
likely to spread any dangerous disease, shall,-
(a) make, carry or offer for sale, take any part in the business of
making, carrying or offering for sale, any article of food or drink
of any medicine or drug for human consumption, or any article of clothing
or bedding for personal use or wear, or
(c) take any part in the business of the washing or carrying of clothes
.
309. Power to restrict or prohibit sale of
food or drink. - When the City or any part thereof is visited
or threatened by an outbreak of any dangerous disease the Commissioner
may, by public notice, restrict in such manner or prohibit for such
period as may be specified in the notice, the sale or preparation
of any article of food or drink for human consumption specified in
the notice or the sale of flesh of any description of animals so specified.
310. Control over wells and tanks, etc. -
{1) If the Commissioner is of opinion that the water in any well,
tank or other place is likely, if used for drinking, to endanger,
cause the spread of, any disease he may,-
(a) by public notice, prohibit the removal or use of such
water for drinking; or
(b) by notice in writing, require the owner or person having control
of such well, tank or place to take such steps as may be directed
by the notice to prevent the public from having access to or using
such water; or
(c) take such other steps as he may consider expedient to prevent
the outbreak or spread of any such disease.
(2) In the event of the City or any part thereof being visited or
threatened by an outbreak of a dangerous disease the Corporation Health
Officer or any person authorised by him in this behalf, may without
notice and at any time, inspect and disinfect any well, tank or other
place from which water is, or is likely to be taken for the
purposes of drinking and may further take such steps as he may
think fit to ensure the purity of the water or to prevent the use
of the same for drinking, purposes.
311. Duty of persons suffering from dangerous
disease. - No person shall, -
(a) knowing that he is suffering from a dangerous disease expose other
persons to the risk of infection by his presence or conduct in any
public street or public place;
(b) having the care of a person whom he knows to be suffering from
a dangerous disease cause or permit that person to expose other person
to the risk of infection by his presence or conduct in any such street
or place as aforesaid;
(c) place or cause to be placed in a dustbin or other receptacle for
the deposit of rubbish, any matter which he knows to have been exposed
to infection from a dangerous disease and which has not been disinfected
properly;
(d) throw or cause to be thrown into any latrine or urinal any matter
which he knows to have been exposed to infection from a dangerous
disease and which has not been disinfected properly.
312. Disposal of infectious corpses where
any person has died from my dangerous disease. - Where
any person has died from any dangerous disease the Commissioner may
by notice in writing-
{a) require any person having charge of the corpse to convey the same
to mortuary thereafter to be disposed of in accordance with law, or
(b) prohibit the removal of corpses from the place where death
occurred except for the purpose of being burnt, buried or for being
conveyed to a mortuary.
313. Conditions of service of sweepers and
certain other classes of persons employed in Corporation service.
- ( 1 ) No person being a sweeper employed by the Corporation
shall in the absence of any contract authorising him so to do and
without reasonable cause, resign his employment or absent himself
from his duty without having given one month's notice to the Commissioner
or shall neglect or without reasonable cause refuse to perform his
duties.
(2) The Corporation may by resolution direct that on or from such
date as may be specified in the resolution, the provisions of this
section shall apply in the case of any specified class of persons
employed by the Corporation whose functions are intimately concerned
with public health or safety.
314. Conditions of service of sweepers employed
for doing house scavenging. - No sweeper, being employed
for doing house scavenging of any building, shall discontinue to do
such house scavenging without reasonable cause or without having given
fourteen days' notice to his employer.
315. Power to call for information regarding
burning and burial ground. - The Commissioner may, by notice
in writing, require the owner or person in charge of any burning or
burial ground to supply such information as may be specified in the
notice concerning the condition, management or position of such
ground.
316. Permission for use of new burning or
burial ground. - ( 1 ) No place which has not been used
as a burning or burial before the commencement of this Act shall be
so used without the permission in writing of the Commissioner.
(2) Such permission may be granted subject to any condition which
the Commissioner may think fit to impose for the purpose of preventing
any annoyance to or danger to the health of any person residing in
the neighbourhood.
317. Power to require closing of turning
and burial grounds. - Where the Commissioner, after making
or causing to be made local enquiry, is of opinion that any burning
or burial ground has become offensive to, or dangerous to the health
of, persons residing in the neighbourhood, he may with the previous
sanction of the Corporation, by notice in writing, require the owner
or person incharge of such ground to close the same from such date
as may be specified in the notice.
(2) No corpses shall be burnt or buried at the burning or burial ground
in respect of which a notice has been issued under this section.
318. Removal of corpses. - The
Commissioner may by public notice prescribe routes by which alone
corpses may be removed to burning or burial ground.
319. Disposal of dead animals. - (1)
Whenever any animal in charge of any person dies, the person in charge
thereof shall within twenty-femur hours either -
(a) convey, the carcass to a place provided or appointed
under Section 278 for the final disposal of the carcasses
of dead animals, or
(b)give notice of the death to the Commissioner whereupon he shall
cause the carcass to be disposed of.
(2)In respect of the disposal of the carcass of a dead animal under
clause (b) of sub-section (1) the Commissioner may charge such fee
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