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Section 28: Construction and closure of cesspools

The Goa Public Health Act, 1985State Act of Goa · Act 25 of 1985

(1) No person shall construct a cesspool—

(a) beneath any part of any building or within such distance of any tank, reservoir, water-course or well or within such other distance therefrom as the Health Officer may consider to be practicable having regard to the circumstances of the locality; or

(b) within any local area or outside such area but within three hundred feet of any reservoir used for the storage of filtered water to be supplied to such area, except upon a site and in a position which have been approved in writing by the Health Officer.

(2) The Health Officer may, at any time, by notice, require any person within whose premises any cesspool is constructed in contravention of sub-section (1) to remove such cesspool or to fill it up with such material as may be approved by him.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Goa Public Health Act, 1985
Section28
Marginal noteConstruction and closure of cesspools
JurisdictionState of Goa
StatusIn force as published by the source

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