Procedure for the issue of notification under section 441

A draft of the notification proposed to be made under sub-section (1) of section 441 shall be laid before the Legislative Assembly of Puducherry and the notification shall not be made unless the Assembly approves the draft either with or without modification or addition; but upon such approval being given, the notification may be made in the form in which it has been approved.

• • The section came into force on the 1st day of August, 1976 vide Extraordinary Gazette No. 342 dated 29th July 1976. Bye-laws
• • 443. Power of council to make bye laws.- The council may make bye-laws not inconsistent with this Act or the rules made thereunder or any other law to provide for all or any of the following matters, namely: --

1. (1) securing cleanliness, safety and order and the good Government and well-being of the municipality and carrying out all or any of this purposes of this Act;
2. (2) all matters expressly required or allowed by this Act to be provided for or regulated by bye-law;
3. (3) the due performance by all municipal officers and servants of the duties assigned to them;
4. (4) the time and mode of collecting the taxes and duties under this Act;
5. (5) determining the conditions under which lands shall be deemed to be appurtenant to buildings;
6. (6) (a) the use of public tanks, wells, conduits and other places or works for water supply;
   • (b) the regulation of public bathing, washing and the like;
   • (c) the maintenance and protection of the water-supply system, and the protection of the water-supply from contamination;
   • (d) the conditions on which house connections with the council’s watersupply mains may be made; their alteration and repair and their being kept in proper order;
   • (e) supply of water for domestic consumption and use;
   • (f) the prevention of waste of water;
   • (g) the measurement of water;
   • (h) the compulsory provision of cisterns and metres;
     • (i) the supply of water in case of fires; The section came into force on the 26th day of January, 1974 vide Extraordinary Gazette No. 11 dated 17th January 1974.
7. (7) the maintenance and protection of the lighting system;
8. (8) (a) the maintenance and protection of the drainage system;
   • (b) the construction of house drains and regulating their situation, mode of construction and materials;
   • (c) the alteration and repair of house drains;
   • (d) the cleaning of house drains;
   • (e) the construction of cess-pools septic tanks, filters and drains;
   • (f) the payment of apportionment of money payable on account of pipes or drains common to more premises than one;
9. (9) the cleaning of latrines, earth-closets, ash-pits and cess-pools and the keeping of latrines supplied with sufficient water for flushing;
10. (10) (a) the testing of water pipes and drains in private premises, the recovery or the apportionment of the cost of such testing, and the breaking-up of ground or of buildings for the purpose of such testing;
    • (b) the licensing of plumbers and fitters and the compulsory employment of licensed plumbers and fitters;
11. (11) (a) the laying out of streets and determining the information and plans to be submitted with applications for permission to lay out streets, and regulating the level and width of public streets and the height of buildings abutting thereon.
    • (b) the protection of avenues, trees, grass and other appurtenances of public streets and other places;
12. (12) The regulation of the use of parks, gardens and other public or municipal places but not including the regulation of traffic therein, the reservation thereof for particular kinds of traffic, or the closing thereof or parts thereof to traffic;
13. (13) (a) the regulation of building;
    • (b) determining the information and plans to be submitted with applications;
    • (c) the licensing of builders and surveyors; and the compulsory employment of licensed builder and surveyors;
14. (14) the regulation of hotels, lodging houses, boarding houses, choultries, rest houses, emigration depots, restaurants, eating-houses, cafes, refreshment rooms, coffee-houses and any premises to which the public are admitted for repose or for the consumption of any food or drink;
15. (15) regulating the mode of constructing stables, cattle-sheds and cow- houses and connecting them with municipal drains;
16. (16) the sanitary control and supervision of places used for any of the purposes specified in Schedule III and of any trade or manufacture carried on therein;
17. (17) (a) the control and supervision of slaughter houses and of places used for skinning and cutting up carcasses;
    • (b) the control and supervision of the methods of slaughtering;
    • (c) the control and supervision of butchers carrying on business in the municipality;
18. (18) the inspection of milch cattle and the regulation of the ventilation, lighting, cleaning, drainage and water-supply of dairies and cattle-sheds in the occupation of persons following the trade of dairy man or milk seller;
19. (19) enforcing the cleanliness of milk stores and milk shops and vessels and utensils used by the keepers thereof or by hawkers for containing or measuring milk or preparing any milk product and enforcing the cleanliness of persons employed in the milk trade;
20. (20) requiring notice to be given whenever any milch animal is affected with any contagious disease and prescribing the precautions to be taken in order to protect milch cattle and milk against infection and contamination.
21. (21) (a) the inspection of public and private markets and shops and other places therein:
    • (b) the regulation of their use and the control of their sanitary condition;
    • (c) licensing and controlling brokers, commission agents, weighmen and measures practicing their calling in markets;
22. (22) prescribing the method of sale of articles whether by measure, weight, tale or piece;
23. (23) prescribing and providing standard weights, scales and measures and preventing the use of any others;
24. (24) the prevention of the sale or exposure for sale of unwholesome meat, fish or provisions and securing the efficient inspection and sanitary regulation of shops in which articles intended for human food are kept or sold;
25. (25) (a) the regulation of burial and burning grounds and other places for the disposal of corpses;
    • (b) the levy of fees for use of such burial and burning grounds and the mode of crematoria as are maintained by the council;
    • (c) the period for which corpses shall be kept for inspection;
    • (d) the period within which corposes shall be conveyed to a burial or burning ground and the mode of conveyance of corposes through public places;
26. (26) the registration of vital statistics;
27. (27) the training and licensing of dhais and midwives;
28. (28) the enumeration of the inhabitants of the municipality;
29. (29) the prevention of infectious diseases of human beings or animals;
30. (30) the enforcement of compulsory vaccination;
31. (31) the prevention of outbreaks of fire;
32. (32) the prohibition and regulation of advertisements in public streets or parks;
33. (33) generally for carrying out all or any of the purposes of this Act.