The municipality may make regulations for the control, restraint and prevention of any dangerous disease and in particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, may, and when required by the State Government shall make regulations regarding the following matters:-
(a) the restraint, segregation and isolation of persons suffering from any dangerous disease or likely to suffer from any such disease owing to exposure to infection or contagion;
(b) the removal, disinfection and destruction of personal effects, goods, houses and other property exposed to infection or contagion;
(c) the removal to hospital and the treatment of persons suffering from any dangerous disease or likely to suffer from any such disease owing to exposure to infection or contagion;
(d) the speedy burial or cremation of the bodies of persons who have died due to any dangerous disease;
(e) house-to-house visit and inspection;
(f) the promotion of cleanliness, ventilation and disinfection;
(g) the duties in respect of the prevention and notification of any dangerous disease, and in respect of persons suffering or suspected to be suffering therefrom, of the owners and occupiers of tea-gardens, factories, mills and workshops and of other persons employing in any one place not less than fifty persons;
(h) the duties of parents or guardians whose children being school children are suffering or have recently suffered from any dangerous disease or have been exposed to infection or contagion and the duties of person in charge of schools in respect of such children;
(i) the prevention of the spread from any animal or the carcasses or product of any animal to man, of rabies, glanders, anthrax, plague, tuberculosis, trichinosis or any other disease communicable to human beings by any animal or the carcass or product of any animal;
(j) the prevention of the spread and the eradication of malaria, the destruction of mosquitoes and the removal or abatement of conditions permitting or favouring the multiplication or prevalence of mosquitoes;
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(k) the prevention of the spread of diseases by flies or other insects and the destruction of such insects and the removal or abatement of conditions permitting or favouring the prevalence or multiplication of such insects;
(l) the destruction of rodents and other vermin and the removal or abatement of conditions permitting or favouring the harbouring or multiplication thereof;
(m) the prevention of the spread of any dangerous disease by carrying of any business, trade or profession,
(n) the disposal of any refuse, waste matter or other matter or thing, which has been contaminated with or exposed to infection or contagion.
Chapter 34 Disposal of the Dead
369. Acts prohibited in connection with disposal of dead-
(1) No person shall –
(a) retain a corpse on any premises without burning, burying or otherwise lawfully disposing it off, for so long a time after death as to create a nuisance,
(b) carry a corpse, or a part of a corpse, along any street without having or keeping such corpse or part of a corpse decently covered or without taking such precautions to prevent risk of infection or injury to the community health as the Municipal Commissioner or the Executive Officer may, by notice, from time to time, think fit to require,
(c) carry, except when no other route is available, a corpse or part of a corpse along any street on which the carrying of corpse is prohibited by notice issued by the Municipal Commissioner or the Executive Officer in this behalf,
(d) remove a corpse or part of a corpse, which has been kept or used for purpose of dissection, otherwise than in a closed receptacle or vehicle,
(e) place or leave, during its conveyance, a corpse or part of a corpse, on or near any street without urgent necessity,
(f) bury, or cause to be buried, any corpse or part of a corpse in the grave or vault or otherwise in such manner as may cause the >kj[k.M xtV ¼vlk/kkj.k½] o`gLifrokj 9 Qjojh] 2012 587 surface of the coffin or, when no coffin is used, of the corpse or part of the corpse, to be at a depth of less than two meters from the surface of the ground,
(g) build, dig, or cause to be built or dug, any grave or vault in any burial ground at a distance of less than one-half of a meter from the margin of any other grave or vault,
(h) build or dig, or cause to be built or dug, a grave or vault in any burial ground in any line, not marked out for such purpose by or under the order of the Municipal Commissioner or the Executive Officer,
(i) reopen for the interment of a corpse or of any part of a corpse a grave or vault already occupied, without the written permission of the Municipal Commissioner or the Executive Officer,
(j) make, without the permission of the Municipal Commissioner or the Executive Officer, any vault or grave or interment within any wall, or underneath any passage, porch, portico, plinth or verandah, of any place of worship,
(k) make, without the permission of the Municipal Commissioner or the Executive Officer, any interment or otherwise dispose of any corpse in any place which is closed,
(l) build, dig, or cause to be built or dug, any grave or vault, or, in any way, dispose of, or suffer or permit to be disposed of, any corpse at any place, which is not permitted under this chapter, without the permission of the Municipal Commissioner or the Executive Officer, and
(m) exhume without the permission of the Municipal Commissioner or the Executive Officer, anybody from any place for the disposal of the dead except under the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, (Act 2 of 1974) or any other law for the time being in force.
(2) The Municipal Commissioner or the Executive Officer may, in special cases, grant permission for any of the purposes referred to in clauses (j) to
(m) of sub-section (1), subject to such general or special order as the State Government may, from time to time, make in this behalf.
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(3) Any contravention of the provisions of clauses (j) to (m) of sub-section (1) shall be deemed to be a cognizable offence within the meaning of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.
370. Registration of places for disposal of the dead -
(1) Subject to such regulations as may be made in this behalf, every owner or person having the control of any place already used for disposal of the dead, but which is not vested in, or owned by, the municipality or any Board appointed by the State Government for administration of such place, shall submit to the Municipal Commissioner or the Executive Officer an application for registration of such place, containing such particulars as may be specified by the municipality, within a period of three months from the date of commencement of this Act.
(2) If the Municipal Commissioner or the Executive Officer is satisfied with the application and the particulars under sub-section (1), he may register such place on such terms and conditions as may be provided by regulations.
(3) The Municipal Commissioner or the Executive Officer may, with the approval of the Standing Committee, provide suitable and convenient places for the disposal of the dead within the municipal area, subject to the provisions of any State law regulating such land use or, in the absence of any provisions of any State law in this behalf in the municipal area, with the approval of the State Government.
(4) No place which has not previously been lawfully used or registered for the disposal of the dead shall be opened for such disposal except in conformity with the provisions of any State law regulating such land use or, in the absence of any provisions of any State law in this behalf in the municipal area, with the approval of State Government.
371. Prohibition to bury or burn in unregistered ground –
(1) No corpse shall be buried or burnt other than in a place which is borne on the register of the municipality as an open burial or burning ground, or has been provided by the municipality for the purpose, but the Municipal Commissioner or the Executive Officer may grant special permission for a corpse to be buried or burnt elsewhere.
(2) Whoever within the municipal area knowingly buries or burns or causes, procures or suffers to be buried or burnt any corpse in or on any ground not registered as burial or burning ground or which has not been provided by >kj[k.M xtV ¼vlk/kkj.k½] o`gLifrokj 9 Qjojh] 2012 589 the municipality for the purpose, shall be liable to fine not exceeding five thousand rupees.