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Section 39: Certain things to be nutsances

Travancore -Cochin Public Health Act,1955State Act of Kerala · Act 16 of 1955

Without prejudice to the generality of the definition of the expression “nuisance” contained in clause (27) of Section 2, the following shall be deemed specially to be nuisances for the purposes of this Chapter :—

(1) any premises in such a state as to be prejudicial to health or a nuisance:

(2) any pond, pool, ditch, gutter, water-course, watertrough, latrine, cesspool, drain or ash-pit, which is so foul or in such a state as to be prejudicial to health or a nuisance;

(3) any animal kept in such a place or manner as to be prejudicial to health or a nuisance;

(4) any accumulation or deposit of refuse or other matter which is prejudicial to health or a nuisance;

(5) any factory (not being a factory governed by the provisions of the Factories Act, 1948) workshop or workplace which is not provided with sufficient means of ventilation, or in which sufficient ventilation is not maintaimed, or which 1s not kept clean or not kept free from noxious cffluvia or which is so overcrowded while work is carried on as to be prejudicial to the health of those employed therein;

(6) any fireplace or furnace which does not, as far as practicable, consume the smoke arising from the combustible used therein, and which is used for working engines by steam, oo 9 85 or in any mill, factory, dye-house, brewery, bake-house or gaswork or in any manufacturing or trade process whatsoever;

(7) any chimney sending forth smoke in such quantities as to be a nuisance; and

(8) any noise, vibration, dust, cinders, irritating smell or offensive odour produced by a factory, workshop or workplace which is a nuisance to the neighbourhood

40. Detection of nuisance——Every local authority shall—

(a) cause its local area to be inspected from time to time with a view to ascertain what nuisances exist therein calling for abatement under the powers conferred on such authority by this Act; and

(b) enforce the provisions of this Act in order to abate such nuisances.

Where this provision sits

ActTravancore -Cochin Public Health Act,1955
Section39
Marginal noteCertain things to be nutsances
JurisdictionState of Kerala
StatusIn force as published by the source

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