Cleansing of insanitary private tank or well used for drinking

(1) The Commissioner may, by notice, require the owner of, or person having control over, any private water-course, spring, tank, well or other place, the water of which is used for drinking, bathing, or washing clothes to keep the same in good repair and to clean it of silt, refuse or vegetation and to protect it from pollution by surface drainage in such manner as the Commissioner may think fit.

1. (2) If the water of any place which is used for drinking, bathing or washing clothes, as the case may be, is proved to the satisfaction of the Commissioner to be unfit for the purpose, the Commissioner may, by notice, require the owner or person having control thereof to ---
   • (a) refrain from using or permitting the use of such water; or
   • (b) close or fill up such place or enclose it with a substantial wall or fence.
     • • 326. Duty of council in respect of public well or receptacle of stagnant water.- the municipal council shall maintain in a cleanly condition all wells, tanks and reservoirs which are not private property and may fill them up or drain them when it appears necessary to do so.
     • • 327. Prohibition against or regulation of washing animals or clothes or drinking in public water-courses, tanks, etc.- The council may, in the interests of the public health, regulate or prohibit the washing of animals, clothes or other things or fishing in any public spring, tank, well, public water-course or part thereof within the municipality and may set apart any such place for drinking or for bathing or for washing clothes or animals, or for any other specified purpose.
     • • 328. Provision of public wash-houses.- (1) The council may construct or provide and maintain public wash-houses, salavaithuraikal or places for the washing of clothes, and may require the payment of such rents and fees for the use of any such wash-house, salavaithurai or place as it may determine.
2. (2) The council may farm out the collection of such rents and fees for any period not exceeding three years at a time on such terms and conditions as it may think fit.
3. (3) If a sufficient number of public wash-houses, salavaithuraikal or places be not maintained under sub-section (1), the council may without making any charge therefor appoint suitable places for the exercise by washermen of their calling.