Modalities for Connections

(1) Water Supply connection by the Department for any purpose including that of domestic use shall ordinarily be given only at the ground level of the premises. It shall not be lawful for any owner or occupier to demand water supply connection from the service pipe at any other elevation or level. (2) It shall not be lawful for any owner or occupier to use any pumps or devices to suck water directly or indirectly from the government mains or service pipes. (3) The owner of every premises having more than one storey and connected with water supply from the service pipe at the ground level shall, provide a sump and set up electrical pump or other contrivances of adequate capacity and such other arrangements as prescribed, to pump the water to the required height of such premises with the prior approval of the competent authority. (4) On every service pipe laid after the date of coming into force of this section, the owner or occupier shall, fit a stopcock on every service pipe laid before or after such date. (5) Every stopcock fitted on a service pipe after the date of coming into force of this section shall be placed in such position as the Department deems most convenient: Provided that- (a) a stopcock in private premises shall be placed as near as is reasonably practicable to the street from which the service pipe enters that premises: and (b) a stopcock in a street shall be placed as near to the boundary thereof as is reasonably practicable. (6) No water pipe shall be laid in a drain or on the surface of an open channel or house gully or a cesspool or in any position where the pipe is likely to be damaged or the water therein polluted; and except with the approval of the Department, no latrine pit or soak pit or cesspool shall be constructed or made within six meters of any water pipe or water work or in any position where the water pipe or water work is likely to be damaged or the water therein polluted. (7) No person other than an Engineer or a plumber or an Officer or employee authorised by the Competent Authority in this behalf shall execute the work of consumer main, service line or internal water supply connections of premises. (8) No water supply connection shall be given to the owner or occupier of a premise unless the internal water supply connections of such premises have been duly executed in accordance with the standard specifications prescribed under this Act. (9) The State Government may by notification in the Official Gazette, make regulations for compliance by the Engineers or plumbers. (10) Any person who willfully violates the provisions of this section shall be liable to have the water supply disconnected to the premises and no new connection shall be sanctioned unless the owner or the occupier complies with the provisions of this section".