Section 173: Certain matters not to be passed into municipal drains.

The New Delhi Municipal Council Act, 1994Central Act · Act 44 of 1994

(1) No person shall throw, empty, or turn into any municipal drain or into any drain communicating with a municipal drain--

(a) any matter likely to injure the drain or to 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 any liquid of a temperature higher than forty-five degrees centigrade, being refuse or steam which, or a liquid which when so heated, is, either alone or in combination with the contents of the drain, dangerous, or the cause of a nuisance, or prejudicial to health; or

(2) In this section, the expression "dangerous petroleum" has the same meaning as in the Petroleum Act, 1934 (30 of 1934).

Where this provision sits

Act	The New Delhi Municipal Council Act, 1994
Section	173
Marginal note	Certain matters not to be passed into municipal drains.
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In force as published by the source

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