Power to require cleansing and lime washing of filthy building or land.-

The Chief Officer of the Municipality may, by notice, require the owner or occupier of any building or land or any part thereof within the municipal area, which is in a filthy or unwholesome state, to cleanse the same or otherwise put it in a proper state within twenty fours and thereafter to keep it in a clean and proper state and if it necessary for sanitary purpose to do so, may at any time, by direct the occupier of any building to lime-wash or otherwise cleanse the said building inside and outside in the manner and within a period to be specified in the notice.

437. Power to require removal or improvement of huts and sheds.- If the Chief Officer of the Municipality is of the opinion that any hut or shed used either as a dwelling or as a stable or for any other purpose is likely by reason of its being built without a plinth or upon a plinth of insufficient height or without proper means of drainage or ventilation or on account of the impracticability of scavenging, or owing to the manner in which it and other huts or sheds or crowded together to cause risk of disease to the inmates thereof or to the inhabitants of the neighborhood or is for any reason likely to endanger the community health or safety, he may by written notice, which shall be affixed to some conspicuous part of such hut or shed, require the owner or occupier thereof or the owner of the land on which such hut or shed stands, to remove or alter such hut or shed stands, to remove or alter such hut or shed or to take such order for the improvement thereof as the Chief Officer deems necessary. 438. Power to stop improper use of land or building.- If within any municipal area any land or building by reason of its being abandoned or unoccupied,- a. is in filthy or unwholesome state; or b. has become a resort of,- i. idle and disorderly person; or ii. persons who have no ostensible means of subsistence or cannot give satisfactory account of themselves; or C. is used for gambling or immoral purposes; or

d. otherwise occasions or is likely to occasion a nuisance,

the Chief Officer of the Municipality may, after due enquiry, by notice in writing, require the owner or part-owner or any person claiming to be the owner or part-owner of such land or building, or the lessee or any person claiming to be the lessee thereof to,- i. secure, enclose, cleanse or clear such land or building; or ii. stop using such land or building for gambling or immoral purposes, or iii. abate the nuisance, within such time, as may be specified in the notice and shall affix-a copy of such notice on the door of the building or on some other conspicuous part of the land, as the case maybe.