Power to lay or carry mains, pipes, drains or sewers for water supply etc.

(1) A Municipality may lay or carry any main pipe drain, sewer or channel of any kind for the purpose of carrying out establishing or maintaining any system of water supply drainage or sewerage through, across under or over any road or street or any place laid out or intended as a road or a street or after giving not less than fourteen days notice in writing to the owner or occupier into through across under or over any land or building situated within the municipal area, and may at all times do all acts and thinks which may be necessary or expedient for repairing or maintaining any such main, pipe, drain, sewer or channel as the case may be in an effective state for the purpose for which the same may be used or intended to be used: Provided that no nuisance or interference with the rights of the owner or occupier to the enjoyment of such land or building, shall be created by any such operation to any larger extent than what is absolutely necessary for the proper execution of the works: Provided further that no such operation into through across under or over any major road or Government building or land shall be carried out except with the permission in writing of the Public Works Department: Provided also that reasonable compensation shall be paid to the owner or occupier for any damage at the time sustained by him on account of or directly occasioned by the carrying out of any such operation.