(1) In case the
Municipality shall be of opinion, that any privy or cess-pool or
additional privies or cess-pools, should be provided in or on any
building or land, or, in any Municipality in which a water-closet
system has been introduced, that water-closets should be
substituted for the existing privies in or on any building or land, or
that additional water-closets should be provided therein or thereon
the Municipality may by written notice call upon the owner of such
building or land to provide such privies, cess-pools, or waterclosets as the Municipality may deem proper (2) The Municipality may by written notice require any
person or persons employing workmen or labourers exceeding
twenty in number, or owning or managing any market, school or
theatre or other place of public resort, to provide such latrines and
urinals as the Municipality may direct and to cause the same to be
kept in proper order and to be daily cleaned.
(3) The Municipality may by written notice require the
owner or occupier of any land upon which there is a privy to have
such privy shut out by a sufficient roof and a wall or fence from
the view of persons passing by or resident in the neighbourhood, or
to alter as it may direct any privy door or trap door which opens on
to any street and which it deems to be a nuisance.
(4) No person shall be allowed to drain night soil out of his
privy, into the outlet drain of the Municipality or into his private
drain.
(5) Any person, disobeying the direction of the
Municipality given under this section, shall on conviction, be
punished with simple imprisonment which shall not be less than
one month but which may extend to two months and with fine
which shall not be less than two thousand rupees but which may
extend to five thousand rupees.
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