Manner of laying gas pipes.

1. (1) No gas pipe shall be laid in a drain or on the surface of an open channel or house-gully.
2. (2) Gas-pipes shall be laid at the greatest practicable distance from water-pipes, having regard to the width of the street. Where the width of the street will allow of it, the said distance shall not be less than four feet.
3. (3) When it is necessary for a gas pipe to cross a water-pipe, a gas pipe shall, if practicable, be laid above the water-pipe. A gas-pipe so laid shall be atleast nine feet in length and, as nearly as the situation will admit of shall be so place, as to from with the water-pipe a right angle and so that no joint in the gas-pipe will be nearer to any water-pipe than four feet. The greatest practicable distance shall be kept between a water-pipe and gas-pipe which crosses it, and the gas-pipe shall throughout its entire length, be sufficiently bedded in with good sound clay or other fit material of a proper consistence, which shall be well worked and rammed into a trench all round the gas-pipe.
4. (4) If any gas-pipe be laid in any way contrary to the provisions of this section the Commissioner may make such alteration with respect to such pipe as he shall thinks necessary and the expenses thereof shall be paid by the person under whose order or management the pipe has been laid.

262 The Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act [1888 : III