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section 292

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Arunachal Pradesh Municipal Act, 2007
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  1. (1) The Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer may, Power of the Chief at any time, by day or by night, and with or without notice, inspect any place in Municipal Executive which any dangerous diseases is reported or suspected to exist, and take such Officer/Municipal measures as he may think fit to prevent the spread of such diseases beyond Executive Officer to such place, and shall forthwith send information thereof to the State inspect any place Government, the District Magistrate and the senior most functionary of the and take measures Health Department of the State in the district. to prevent spread of dangerous diseases.
  2. (2) 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 pay rent for , nor occupies as a guest or relative of the person who owns, or pay rent for such room or house, or
    • (c) living in a sarai, hotel, boarding-house, or hotel or
    • (d) lodged in premises occupied by members of two or more families. The Chief Municipal Executive Officer/Municipal Executive Officer or any person authorized by him in this behalf may, on the advice of any Medical Officer, remove the patient to any hospital or place at which persons suffering from such diseases are received for medical treatment and may do anything necessary for such removal. 293. (1) The Chief Municipal Executive Officer Municipal Executive Officer may Power of the Chief cleanse, or disinfect, or cause destruction of, any building, hut or shed, water Municipal Executive source or lodging and eating house, if in his opinion, such cleansing, disinfection Officer/Municipal or destruction would tend to prevent or check the spread of any dangerous Executive Officer to disease, and in case of emergency, he may cause such cleansing, or cleanse, disinfect, disinfection to be done by the employees of the Municipality at the cost of the destroy, or control owner or the occupier of such place, or at the cost of the Municipality, if in his places of infection. opinion, such owner or the occupier is unable to pay the cost owing to Poverty.
  3. (2) Where the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/Municipal Executive Officer is satisfied that the destruction of any building, hut or shed, or clothing, or article is immediately necessary for the purpose of preventing the spread of any dangerous disease, he may cause such building, hut or shed, or clothing, or article to be destroyed : Provided that compensation may be paid by the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/Municipal Executive Officer to any person who loss substantially by the destruction of such building, hut or shed, or clothing or article.
  4. (3) The Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer may, on being satisfied that it is in the public interest so to do, by order, in writing, direct that any lodging house or any place in the municipal area where articles of food and drink are sold, or prepared, stored or exposed for sale, being a lodging house or place in which a case of dangerous disease exists or has recently occurred, shall be closed for such period as may be specified in the order : Provided that such lodging house or place may be declared to be open, if the Municipal Health Officer certified that it has been disinfected or is free from infection.
  5. (4) The Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer or any person authorized by the Municipality may, at all reasonable times, enter into and inspect, any market, building, shop, stall or place, used for the sale of food or drink, or as a slaughterhouse, or for the sale of drugs, and inspect and examine any food, drink, animal or drug, which may be therein, and if any article of food or drink, animal or drug therein intended for the consumption of persons, appears to be fit therefore, he may, by notice, restrict the sale of such food, drink, animal or drug, in such manner and for such period as he may deem fit.
  6. (5) If the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer is of the opinion that the water in any well, tank, or other place in the municipal area is likely to cause the spread of any disease, he may, by notice, in writing, prohibits the removal or use of such water for drinking, and require the owner or the person having control of such well, tank, or other place to take such steps as may be required by the notice to prevent the public from having access to, or from using, such water and may take such other steps as he may consider expedient to prevent the outbreak or spread of such disease : Provided that in the case of an emergency, the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer or any person authorized by him in this behalf may, with or 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 purpose of preventing the spread of any dangerous disease. 294. (1) In the event of any municipal area or any part there of being visited or Special measures in threatened by an outbreak of any dangerous disease among the inhabitants case of outbreak of thereof or of any epidemic disease among any animals therein, the Chief dangerous or Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer may, if he thinks epidemic diseases. 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 of preventing the outbreak of such disease, with the previous approval of the Municipality :
    • (a) take such special measures and
    • (b) by 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 of such disease : Provided that where, in the opinion of the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/Municipal Executive Officer, immediate action is necessary, he may take such action without such approval and, if he does so, he shall forthwith report such action to the Municipality.
  7. (2) Any person, who commits a breach of any direction given in the notice under clause (b) of sub-section (1) shall be deemed to have committed as offence under section 188 of the Indian Panel Code (45 0f1860). 295. (I) The Municipality may, in its discretion, or shall, when the State Means for Government so direct : disinfection.
    • (a) provide proper places within the municipal area with necessary attendants and apparatus for disinfection of conveyances, clothing, beddings, or other articles which have been exposed to infection, and
    • (b) cause conveyances, clothing, beddings or other articles brought for disinfection, to be disinfected, either free of charge or on payment of such charges as it may fix.
  8. (2) The Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer may notify places at which such conveyances, clothing, beddings or other articles, which have been exposed to infection, shall be washed and if he does, so no person shall wash any such conveyances, clothing, beddings or other articles at any place, not so notified, without previous disinfection.
  9. (3) The Chief Municipal Executive Officer Municipal Executive Officer may direct the destruction of any clothing, bedding, or other article likely to retain infections and may give such compensation as he thinks fit for any clothing, bedding or other article, so destroyed. 296. (1) Subject to such regulation as may be made in this behalf, the Chief Special conveyance Municipal Executive Officer Municipal Executive Officer may, either on his own for carrying infected or through any other agency, provide and maintain suitable conveyances for the persons. free carriage of persons suffering from any dangerous diseases or dead bodies of persons who died of any such disease.
  10. (2) The Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer may, either on his own or through any other agency, provide for disinfection of any public conveyance, which has carried any person suffering from a dangerous disease, or the corpses of a person who died of any such disease.

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