Powers in respect of Private water-supply

(1) A Grama Panchayat may by written notice require the owner of or the person having control over a private water-course, spring, tank, well or other Places the water of which is used by the Public as a matter of right for drinking or culinary purpose, to take all or any of the following steps within a reasonable period to be specified in such notice, namely : (a) to keep, and maintain the same in good repair; (b) to clean the same from time to time of silt, refuge, or decaying vegetation; (c) to protect it from Pollution; and (d) to prevent its use if it has become so Polluted as to be prejudicial to Public health. (2) A person upon whom a notice has been served under Sub-Section (1) may within thirty days from the date of the notice appeal to the prescribed authority against the order contained in the notice whereupon the prescribed authority may stay the operation of the order contained in the notice till the disposal of the appeal and it may after giving such notice of the appeal to the Grama Panchayat concerned, modify, set aside or confirm the order : Provided that the prescribed authority shall, when it confirms or modifies the order contained in the notice after expiry of the period mentioned therein, fix a fresh period within which the order contained in the notice, as confirmed or modified by it shall be carried out. (3) If any person, upon whom a notice has been served as aforesaid and which has not been set aside by the prescribed authority, fails without sufficient reasons to comply with the order contained in the notice or the order as modified by the prescribed authority under Sub-Section (2) within the time specified in the notice or within the time fixed by the prescribed authority, as the case may be, the Grama Panchayat shall at its own expense take the necessary steps.