Failure to remove offensive matter.

Whoever being the owner or occupier of any building or land in a municipal area, knowingly or negligently allows to be kept for more than twenty four hours or otherwise than in some proper receptacle or pit any dirt dung bones ashes night-soil or filth or any noxious or offensive matter in or upon such building or land or suffers any such receptacle or pit to be in a filthy or noxious state or neglects to employ proper means to cleanse and purify the same shall be punishable with fine which may extend to Rs. 50.