Power over disorderly houses and prostitutes-

(1) The Corporation may, by notice in the manner prescribed by byelaws prohibit in any specified part of the City- (a) the keeping of a brothel; (b) the residence of any person who practices prostitution. (2) Whoever after the date of the notice issued under sub-section (1)- (a) keeps or manages or acts or assists in the management of a brothel within the prohibited area; (b) being the tenant, lessee or occupier of any premises or any part there of to be used as a brothel or for the purposes of habitual prostitution within the prohibited area; or (c) being the lessor or landlord, of any premises or the agent to such lessor or landlord, lets the same of any part thereof, within the prohibited area with the knowledge that such premises or some part there of , are , or for the purposes of habitual prostitution, or is willfully a party to the continued use of such premises as a brothel or for the purposes of habitual prostitution; or (d) being a practicing prostitute resides within the prohibited area; shall be punishable with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to six months or with the fine which may extend to five thousand rupees or with both and in the case of a continuing offence with an additional fine not exceeding five hundred rupees for every day after the first during which the offence continues.