Control over house-drains, privies and cess-pools and connection of housedrains with public drains.- (1) All

The Puducherry Municipalities Act, 1973

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(2) The Commissioner shall on application by the owner or occupier of any premises or the owner of a private street arrange, in accordance with the bye-laws, for the connection of the applicant’s drain with any public drain at a distance not exceeding ninety metres therefrom at the applicant’s expense.
(3) If there is a public drain or outfall within a distance not exceeding thirty metres of the nearest point on any premises or if within such distance a public drain or outfall is about to be provided or is in the process of construction, the Commissioner, may, by notice, direct the owner of the said premises to construct a drain leading therefrom to such drain or place of outfall and to execute all such works as may be necessary in accordance with the bye-laws and regulations at the owner’s expense.
(4) If any premises are in the opinion of the Commissioner without sufficient means of effectual drainage but no part thereof is situated within thirty metres of a public drain or its place of outfall, the Commissioner may, by notice, direct the owner of the said premises to construct a cess-pool or septic tank or filters of such material, dimensions and description, in such position and at such level as the Commissioner thinks necessary, and to construct a drain or drains emptying into such cess-pool, tank or filters and to execute all such works as may be necessary in accordance with the bye-laws and regulations: Provided that, --
- (a) no requisition shall be made under this section on any person who has been exempted from payment of the property tax under sub-section (5) of section 124;
  - • The section came into force on the 1st day of August, 1976 vide Extraordinary Gazette No. 342 dated 29th July 1976.
- (b) no person shall be required under this section to expend a sum exceeding five times the property tax on any such building, with the land assessed with it as part of the same premises, or in the case of buildings, exempted under section 124, five times the property tax which would be payable on such building with the land which would be assessed with it to the property tax if such buildings were not exempt and if any amount exceeding the said sum is expended, the excess shall be borne by the council.
  - • 232. Commissioner may close or limit the use of existing private drains.-
(1) Where a drain connecting any premises with a public drain or other place set apart by the municipal council for the discharge of drainage is sufficient for the effectual drainage thereof and is otherwise unobjectionable but is not in the opinion of the Commissioner adapted to the general drainage system of the municipality or of the part of the municipality in which such drain is situated, the Commissioner with the approval of the council, may --
- (a) subject to the provisions of the sub-section (2) close, discontinue or destroy the said drain and do any work necessary for that purpose; or
- (b) direct that such drain shall from such date as may be specified by him in this behalf be used for sullage and sewage only, or for water unpolluted with sullage or sewage only and by notice require the owner of the premises to make, at his own expense, an entirely distinct drain for water unpolluted with sullage or sewage or for sullage and sewage.
(2) No drain shall be closed, discontinued or destroyed by the Commissioner under clause (a) of sub-section (1) except on condition of his providing another drain as effectual for the drainage of the premises and communicating with a public drain or other place aforesaid and the expense of the construction of any drain so provided by the Commissioner and of any work done under the said clause (a) shall be paid by the council.

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