section 270
Power of Board to lay or carry wires, pipes, drains, or sewers, through private land subject to payment of compensation for drainage sustained provided that no nuisance is created
The Meghalaya Municipal Act, 1973Chapter VII WATER SUPPLY, LIGHTING AND DRAINAGE SYSTEMS
Power of Board to lay or carry wires, pipes, drains, or sewers, through private land subject to payment of compensation for drainage sustained provided that no nuisance is created-The Board may carry any wire, pipe, drain, sewer or channel of any kind for the purpose of providing or of carrying out and establishing, or maintaining a system of water supply, lighting, drainage or sewerage, through, across, under or over any road, place laid out as or intended for a road, and after giving reasonable notice in writing to the owner and occupier, into, through, across, under over or up the side of any or building whatsoever situated within the limits of the municipality, and for the purpose of introduction, distribution or outfall of water or for the removal or outfall of sewerage, without such limits and may at all times do all acts and things which may be necessary or expedient for repairing or maintaining any such wire, pipe, drain, sewer or channel, as the case may be in an effective state for the purpose for which the same may be used or intended to be used: Provided that no nuisance more than is necessarily caused by the proper execution of the work is created by any such operation; and Provided, further, that reasonable compensation shall be paid to the owner or occupier or both for any damage at the time sustained by him or them and directly occasioned by the carrying out of any such operations.
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