(a) inspection, supervision, regulation, and control of premises to ensure proper environmental sanitation, >kj[k.M xtV ¼vlk/kkj.k½] o`gLifrokj 9 Qjojh] 2012 568
(b) regulation of public bathing and washing,
(c) provision and maintenance of public conveniences,
(d) licensing of animals and control of stray animals,
(e) licensing of butchers and slaughterhouses, and
(f) control of nuisances.
331. Powers of the Municipal Commissioner or the Executive Officer- Subject to such regulations as may be made in this behalf, the Municipal Commissioner or the Executive Officer may, either on his own or through any other agency or officer authorized by him in this behalf, -
(a) cause any building or other premises to be inspected for the purpose of ascertaining the sanitary conditions thereof,
(b) require the owner or the occupier of any land or building or any part thereof to cleanse it, if it appears necessary so to do for reasons of sanitation,
(c) issue such order as he deems necessary for the improvement of any insanitary huts and sheds and untenanted premises which are likely to cause risk of disease to the inmates thereof or to the inhabitants of the neighbourhood or are, for any reason, likely to endanger community health or safety,
(d) by notice, prohibit the owner or the occupier from the use of any building, or any room in a building, which appears to him to be unfit for human habitation, as dwelling, or
(e) direct the filling up of any well, pool, ditch, tank, pond, pit or undrained ground, cistern, or reservoir of any waste or stagnant water, which appears to him to be, or likely to become, injurious to health or offensive to the neighbourhood.
332. Removal of rubbish, etc. from premises -
(1) The Municipal Commissioner or the Executive Officer may contract with the occupier of any premises to remove rubbish or offensive matter direct there from and may charge fees in this behalf.
(2) When building operations are being carried on in any premises or when any premises are used for carrying on any manufacture, trade or business, the Municipal Commissioner or the Executive Officer may – >kj[k.M xtV ¼vlk/kkj.k½] o`gLifrokj 9 Qjojh] 2012 569
(a) by written notice direct the occupier of such premises to collect all rubbish and offensive matter accumulating on such premises in the course of such operations, manufacture, trade or business and to remove the same at such times in such carts or receptacles, and by such routes as may be specified in the notice to a place provided or appointed in this behalf by the Municipal Commissioner or the Executive Officer; or
(b) after giving such occupier written notice of his intention so to do, himself cause all such rubbish and offensive matter to be removed; and charge such occupier for such removal such periodical fee as he may specify in such notice:
Provided that the requisition under clause (a) shall not be enforced by the Municipal Commissioner or the Executive Officer nor shall action be taken by him under clause (b) until the occupier of the premises has been given an opportunity of being heard within such time as may be specified in the written notice that is served on him.
333. Penalty for not removing offensive matter from or near the road - Any person who, being the occupier of a house in or near a public street within the municipality, keeps or allows to be kept, for more than twenty-four hours, or for more than such shorter time as may be determined by a regulation, otherwise than in some proper receptacle, any dirt, dung, bones, ashes, night-soil or filth or any noxious or offensive matter in or upon such house or in any out-house, yard or ground attached to and occupied with such house, or suffers such receptacle to be in a filthy or noxious state, or neglects to employ proper means to cleanse the same, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five thousand rupees.