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Section 377: Infected clothes not to be sent to washerman or to laundry.

The Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957Central Act · Act 66 of 1957

(1) A person shall not send or take to any washerman or to any laundry or place set a part for the exercise by washermen of their calling, for the purpose of being washed or to anyplace for the purpose of being cleansed, any cloth or other article which he knows to have been exposed to infection from a dangerous disease unless that cloth or article has been disinfected by or to the satisfaction of the Municipal Health Officer.

(2) The occupier of any building in which a person is suffering from a dangerous disease shall, if required by the Municipal Health Officer, furnish to him the address of any washerman to whom or any laundry or other place to which clothes and other articles from the building have been, or will be, sent during the continuance of the disease, for the purpose of being washed or cleaned.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957
Section377
Marginal noteInfected clothes not to be sent to washerman or to laundry.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source

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