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Section 281Removal of patient to hospital suffering from dangerous disease.

The JAMMU AND KASHMIR MUNICIPAL CORPORATION ACT, 2000 (Act No. XXI of 2000)

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

(c) 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 any 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 anything necessary for such removal.