REGULATION OR PROHIBITION OF CERTAIN KINDS OF CULTIVATIONS

REGULATION OR PROHIBITION OF CERTAIN KINDS OF CULTIVATIONS.— A Municipality may, on a report of the Director of Health Services, the health officer of the Municipality or the local medical officer appointed by the Government that the cultivation of any description of crop or the use of any kind of manure or the irrigation of any land in any place within the municipal area is in injurious to the public health, with the previous sanction of the Government, by public notice, regulate or prohibit the cultivation, the use of manure or irrigation of reported to be injurious: Provided that where such cultivation or irrigation has been practised during the five years preceding the date of such public notice with such continuity as the ordinary course of husbandry admits of, compensation shall be paid from the municipal fund to all persons affected for any damage caused to them by absolute prohibition.