section 395
Prohibition of corruption of water by chemicals, etc.
The Mumbai Municipal Corporation ActInfrastructure616 of 442 sections available16 chapters
Chapter XV SANITARY PROVISIONS
Statutory text
- (1) No person engaged in any trade or manufacture specified in Schedule M shall—
- (a) wilfully cause or suffer to be brought or to flow into any lake, tank, reservoir, cistern, well, duct or other place for water belonging to the corporation or into any drain or pipe communicating therewith, any washing or other substance produced in the course of any such trade or manufacture as aforesaid;
- (b) wilfully do any act connected with any such trade or manufacture as aforesaid, whereby the water in any such lake, tank, reservoir, cistern, well, duct or other place for water is fouled or corrupted.
- (2) The Commissioner may, after giving not less than twenty-four hour’s previous notice in writing to the owner or to the person who has the management or control of any works, pipes or conduits, connected with any such manufacture or trade as aforesaid, lay open and examine the said works, pipes or conduits; and if, upon such examination, it appears that sub-section (1) has been, contravened by reason of anything contained in or proceeding from the said works, pipes or conduits, the expenses of such laying open and examination and of any measure which the Commissioner shall, in his discretion, require to be adopted for the discontinuance of the cause of such contravention, shall be paid by the owner of the said works, pipes or conduits, or by the person who has the management or control thereof, or through whose neglect or fault the said sub-section has been contravened; but if it appears that there has been no contravention of the said sub-section, that said expenses and compensation for any damage occasioned by the said laying open and examination shall be paid by the
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