Section 264: Regulation or prohibition of certain kinds of cultivation

The Municipality, on the report of the Director of Medical and Health Service, the Chief Medical and Health Officer or the Local Medical Officer that the cultivation of any description of crop, or the use of any kind of manure, or the irrigation of land, in any place within the limits of the Municipality is injurious to the public health, may, with the previous sanction of the State Government, by public notice regulate or prohibit the cultivation, use of manure, or irrigation so reported to be injurious:

Provided that, when such cultivation, use or irrigation has been practised during the five years preceding the date of such public notice with such continuity as the ordinary course of husbandry admits of, compensation shall be paid from the municipal fund to all persons interested therein for any damage caused to them by absolute prohibition.