(i) Insane passengers, and their attendants (if any), if they have embarked without the special permission of the master, or of the authorized employee;
(ii) Passengers suffering from an infectious or contagious disease, when they have embarked without the special permission of the master or owner or of the authorized employee;
(iii) Passengers who are drunk and incapable of taking care of themselves;
(iv) Passengers who are disorderly, or are otherwise in such a state, or are conducting themselves in such a manner, as to cause or likely to cause annoyance to other passengers;
(v) Any passengers who have embarked in excess of the maximum number of passengers which may lawfully be carried in the Inland vessel or in the part of the inland vessel thereof in which they propose to travel; and
(vi) Passengers who have not paid their fare.
39. A person who has been refused permission to an inland vessel under rule 35 shall not embark thereon; and a person who is required under rule 38 to leave an inland vessel shall leave at such convenient time and place as the master/ owner or authorized employee may direct:
Provided that any person who is refused admission under clause (e) of rule 38 to leave shall be entitled to have his fare refunded to him.
40. Any passenger who, with intent to defraud, commits any breach of rule 36, and any person who commits any breach of rule 37, shall be punished with fine of rupees One thousand.
41. (i) Whenever any case of plague, cholera or other dangerous epidemic disease occurs on board in Inland Vessel, the master or serang, shall immediately-
(a) Remove the patient, together with his bedding, drinking utensils and food, to a part of the deck at the extreme stern of the Inland Vessel, where he shall be segregated from the rest of the passengers by a purdah. In the case of plague, the clothing, bedding, and if considered necessary the baggage of the patient shall be disinfected immediately;
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(b) Cause all excreta, vomit and urine which may have been discharged on to the dock by the patient, to be cleaned away with a solution of cyllin ; and
(c) Report the case to the Deputy Commissioner or Sub-divisional Officer within whose jurisdiction the nearest ghat lies and also to the Chief Medical Officer of the district.
(ii) Where such ghat is not at the headquarters of a sub-division or district, the report mentioned in sub-clause (c) of Sub-rule (1) shall be sent by the master or serang, as the case may be, by the most expeditious means available, to the next headquarters of a subdivision or district which the Inland vessel will touch.
(iii) If, when the case occurs, the Inland Vessel is lying at a ghat at the headquarters of a subdivision or district, or otherwise, when the Inland Vessel has reached the nearest ghat which is at such headquarters, the master or serang shall not move the Inland Vessel there from until permission has been given by the Deputy Commissioner or Subdivisional Officer as the case may be.
(iv) (a) On receipt of the report mentioned in sub-rule (1) the Magistrate shall at once depute a Medical Officer to inspect and disinfect the Inland Vessel;
(b) Such Medical Officer shall visit the Inland Vessel and if a suitable hospital is available, or if other satisfactory arrangements can be made for the patients treatment and segregation, shall bring the patient to land.
(v) Where no such hospital is available, and no such arrangement can be made, the patient shall not be allowed to land, but the Medical Officer deputed under sub-rule (4) shall take steps to ensure the proper segregation of the patient on the Inland Vessel, and to satisfy himself that every possible precaution has been taken to prevent the spread of the disease.
(vi) The Medical Officer deputed under sub-rule (4) shall, in all cases, cause the deck cabins, latrines and any other part of the Inland Vessel, while the patient has been, to be thoroughly washed down with a strong solution of cyllin, and all utensils which has been used by the patient, to be disinfected.
(vii) (a) In case of death, the body of the patient shall be wrapped in a cloth soaked in a strong solution of cyllin, and made over to his relatives, friends, or where he is without relatives/ friends, to the police, who shall arrange for its disposal;
(b) If they have not already been disinfected in accordance with the provisions of clause
(a) of sub-rule (1) of rule 41 the clothes of the deceased (except those in the baggage), his bedding and all food in his possession shall be burnt, unless orders to the contrary are passed by the Medical Officer.
(viii) The Medical Officer deputed under sub-rule (4) shall ascertain the names and addresses of all members of the party accompanying the patient and shall report them through the Deputy Commissioner or Sub-divisional Officer of the district to which they are proceeding.
(ix) When the orders contained in these rules have been complied with, and the Medical Officer deputed under sub-rule(4) is satisfied that there is no reason further to detain the inland vessel, he may give permission to the master or serang to proceed on the journey.
(x) The owner of every inland vessel shall be bound to keep on board each inland vessel, five liters of cyllin.
(xi) The patient may be permitted to land on the expiry of a period to be fixed by the Medical Officer deputed under sub-rule (4).
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(xii) Any person committing a breach of any of the above rules shall be punished with fine which may extend upto rupees one thousand.
42. (i) Before an inland vessel proceeds on a voyage, its cargo and that of any float or floats which are intended to be towed, shall be safely towed away, and hay or any other inflammable material shall be properly stowed with tarpaulins or other sufficient protection.
(ii) Provisions of Section 50 and section 51 of the Act shall be displayed in some prominent place on an inland vessel.
(iii) Every person who takes any dangerous goods with him on board of an inland vessel shall, if required to do so, hand over the same to the master or owner or an authorized person by the master or owner of the inland vessel for safe custody.
(iv) No person shall use naked lights of any description in the hold or on the cargo deck of any inland vessel; and no closed light shall be used unless it is in the charge of an officer of inland vessel.
(v) Fire stations at the inland vessel shall be assigned to the officers and crews.
(vi) No gun powder or other explosive shall be carried unless it is in a suitably constructed magazine compartment; and no fire shall be permitted on board of Inland Vessel while gun powder is being taken in or discharged.
(vii) Nothing in sub-rule (2) as to the delivery of dangerous goods to the master, or in subrule-(6) as to the carriage of gunpowder or other explosive in a magazine compartment, shall apply to the carriage of samples of explosive in the charge of an inspector of explosives.
(viii) It shall be the duty of the master or owner of every inland vessel to give effect to, and observe the above rules, and he or other person committing a breach of these rules shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine.
(ix) Which may extend up to twenty thousand rupees or with both.