Special measures to prevent outbreak of epidemic disease at fair, etc.

(1) Whenever it shall appear to the Commissioner or District Magistrate that any place in the areas under their respective charges, at which, on account of pilgrimage, fair, or other such occurrence, large bodies of persons have assembled or are likely to assemble is visited or will probably be visited with an outbreak of any epidemic disease, he may take such special measures and may, by public notice, and after consultation with the Health Officer of the area concerned or other prescribed officer of the Department of Public Health, prescribe such regulations to be observed by the residents of the said place and by persons present thereat or repairing thereto or returning therefrom, as he shall deem necessary to prevent the outbreak of such disease or the spread thereof. (2) It shall be lawful for the District Magistrate on the requisition of the Commissioner or Superintendent to assess and levy such reasonable fees on persons falling under the provisions of sub-section (1) as will provide for the expenses of the arrangements for sanitation and the preservation of order at and about the place of assemblage. (3) When the place of assemblage is within the limits of an area under the jurisdiction of a municipal body such sums as shall be necessary for the purpose aforesaid may be recovered from the municipal body.