(1) No person other than a licensed plumber or any person duly authorized by the Authority shall execute any work relating to any domestic or non-domestic sewer of the Authority and no person shall allow any such work to be executed by a person other than such a person.
(2) Every person who employs a licensed plumber to execute any such shall when so required furnish the details of such work executed or to be executed, in such manner
1. Inserted by Act 8 of 2009.
2. Inserted by Act 8 of 2009.
as may be provided by regulations.
(3) No licensed plumber shall contravene any specifications or standards relating to the execution of such works, provided in the regulation or specified by the Authority or execute such work using sub-standard materials, appliances, or fittings.
(4) Where any such work is executed contravening sub-sections (1), (2) and (3), such connection is liable to be refused or disconnected.
(5) The Authority may, from time to time, fix the charges to be paid to licensed plumbers for each such kind of work by regulations.
(6) No licensed plumber shall demand or receive charge for any such work in excess of the rate fixed by the Authority under sub-section (5).
(7) If any licensed plumber executes any such in contravention of the provisions of this section or the regulations his license shall be suspended or cancelled irrespective of the fact whether any criminal proceedings is taken against him or not.]
CHAPTER VII Sewerage
(48) Power to require owner to have sewer connection.—Where any premises are, in the opinion of the Authority without sufficient means of effectual disposal of sewage and the sewer of the Authority is situated at a distance of not more than fifty metres from any part of the premises, the Authority may, by written notice, require the owner of, the said premises to have sewer connection as provided by the regulations.
(49) Prohibition of connection with sewer.--No person shall without the permission of the Authority make or cause to be made any connection or communication with any sewer of the Authority.
1[49A Certain matters not to be passed into Authority sewers:- (1) No person shall throw, empty, or turn into any Authority sewer or into any drain or sewer communicating with the Authority sewer,-- -
(a) any matter likely to damage the sewer or interfere with the free flow of its contents or to affect prejudicially the treatment and disposal of its contents, or
(b) any chemical refuse or waste steam or harmful liquid provided in the regulation as damaging the sewerage or causing nuisance or harmful to health.
(c) any dangerous petroleum
(d) any other liquids or other materials, the discharge of which is prohibited by regulations.
Explanation:- In this section, the expression “dangerous petroleum” has the same meaning as in the petroleum Act, 1934 (Central Act 30 of 1934)]
1. Inserted by Act 8 of 2009.
(50) Prohibition of construction of buildings, etc., over sewer.—(1) No person shall without the permission of the Authority construct any private street, building, wall, fence or other structure on any sewer of the Authority.
(2) If any private street be constructed or any building, wall, fence or structure erected on any sewer as aforesaid without the written permission of the Authority, the Authority may remove or otherwise deal with the same as it thinks fit.
(3) The expenses incurred by the Authority in so doing shall be paid by the owner of the private street or of the Building, fence, wall or other structure or as the case may be, by the person offending and shall be recoverable as an arrear of charges payable under this Act.