(1) The municipality shall prepare and maintain a Code to be called the Municipal Water-Supply, Drainage and Sewerage Code which shall include such regulations as may be made from time to time relating to the construction, maintenance, repair and alteration of waterworks, watersupply mains, supply-pipes, drains, sewers, privies and urinals, cesspools, and appurtenances thereof and other matters under chapter 24 or chapter 25 or this chapter.
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(2) Such regulations shall provide for inspection of premises by the Municipal Commissioner or the Executive Officer, or any other officer, or any other agency, authorized by him in this behalf, as the case may be, to ascertain compliance with the provisions of this Act and the rules and the regulations made thereunder.
Chapter - 27 Solid Wastes and Conservancy Functions in Relation to Solid Wastes Management
251. Duty of municipality in respect of solid wastes management and handling - The municipality shall, within the municipal area, be responsible for implementation of the rules made by the Central Government in exercise of the powers conferred by the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, to regulate the management and handling of municipal solid wastes and for development of any infrastructure for collection, storage, transportation, processing and disposal of such solid wastes.
252. Entrustment of management and handling of solid wastes and billing and collection of charges- Notwithstanding anything contained elsewhere in this Act, for the purposes of management and handling of municipal solid wastes and for development of infrastructure, if any, for collection, storage, transportation, processing and disposal of such solid wastes, a charge shall be levied, and payment thereof shall be made, at such rate as the municipality may fix, from time to time:
Provided that the charge as aforesaid shall, as far as practicable, be such as shall cover the costs on account of management and handling of municipal solid wastes and development of infrastructure, if any, for collection, storage, transportation, processing and disposal thereof and also the costs of debt-servicing, depreciation of plant and machinery, and other charges:
Provided further that the Municipal Commissioner or the Executive Officer may, with the prior approval of the Standing Committee, entrust development of infrastructure for collection, storage, transportation, processing and disposal of solid wastes and the work of management and handling of municipal solid wastes and of billing and collection of the charges as aforesaid to any agency governed under any law for the time being in force or to any private agency.