Prohibition of cultivation, use of manure or irrigation injurious to health

(1) If the Medical Officer of Health certifies that the cultivation of any description of crop or the use of any kind of manure or the irrigation of land in any specified manner,- (a) in any place within the limits of any municipality is injurious or facilitates practices which are injurious to the health of persons dwelling in the neighbourhood ; or (b) in any place within or beyond the limits of any municipality is likely to contaminate the water supply of such municipality or otherwise tender it unfit for drinking purposes; the committee may prohibit the cultivation of such crop, the use of such manure or the employment of the method of irrigation so reported to be injurious, or impose such conditions with respect thereto as may prevent such injury or contamination: Provided that if it is notified by the State Government that the cultivation of such crop, the use of such manure, or the employment of such method of irrigation is prohibited or conditions are imposed with respect thereto, the committee shall be deemed to have ordered such prohibition, or imposed such conditions and shall issue notice in accordance with the notification: Provided also that, when on any land to which such prohibition applies the act prohibited has been practised during the five years next preceding the prohibition in the ordinary course of husbandry, compensation shall be paid from the municipal fund to all persons interested therein for any damage caused to them by the effect of such prohibition. (2) Should any person fail within six months from the date of its service to comply with a prohibitory notice issued under sub-section (1), he shall be punishable with fine which may extend to fifty rupees and with a further fine which may extend to five rupees for every day during which the offence is continued.