Power to inspect building and land to ensure compliance of the provisions on building activities and building use.

(1) All buildings including lands on which they are situated shall be subject to inspection by the Chief Municipal Officer with a view to ensuring compliance with the provisions with respect to building activities and building use. (2) Such inspection may be made by the Chief Municipal Officer at any time without giving any prior notice of his intention so to do. (3) The person who has the right and title over the plot or the lessee in respect of the plot on which any building activity is being carried on or any person undertaking any building activity on any plot shall allow any officer or other employee of the Municipality, duly authorized by the Chief Municipal Officer in this behalf, to enter the plot and to inspect any building with a view to ensuring compliance with the provisions of this chapter on building activities and building use: (4) For the purposes of sub-section (3), the officer or the other employee of the Municipality as aforesaid may- (a) enter between sunrise and sunset any place of a building which is not used, or which he has reason to believe is not used, in accordance with the building use permit, (b) make examination of the premises, (c) require the production of any document relating to the land and the building, (d) direct the occupier of such premises or any part of such premises that such premises or such part of such premises shall be left undisturbed (whether generally or in particula respects) for so long as is necessary for the purpose of any examination under clause (b), (e) take measurements and photographs and make suc recordings as he may consider necessary for the purpose of any examination under clause (b), taking with him any necessary instrument or equipment, and (f) exercise such other powers as may be prescribed.