(1) The Board may, by public notice which shall be put up at the spring, tank, well or other place concerned as required by section 185, set apart any public spring, tank, well or other place or any public water source or any part thereof for drinking purposes or for bathing or for washing clothes or animals or for any other purposes calculated to promote the health, cleanliness, comfort or convenience of the inhabitants; and may also set apart with the consent of Remedy on noncompliance with directions issued.
Power to set apart public springs, etc. for certain purposes and to prohibit use of water from certain sources.
[Act No.I of 1956] 53 the owner, any private spring, tank, well or other place for any of the aforesaid purposes.
(2) The Board may, during epidemics, on receipt of a certificate from any Medical Officer of the Board or of the Government stating that such action is desirable, summarily by notice prohibtt the use of water from any source to which the public have access. Such notice shall be served by putting up a copy thereof near the source of water supply and by beat of drum in the locality stating the number of days for which such prohibition shall last. The Board may extend or modify the notice from time to time.
87. Whoever-
(a) bathes in or defiles the water in any place set apart for drinking purposes by the Board or in the case of private property by the owner thereof, or
(b) deposits any offensive or deleterious matter in the dry bed of any place set apart as aforesaid, for drinking purposes, or
(c) washes clothes in any place set apart as aforesaid for drinking purposes or for bathing, or
(d) washes any animal or any cooking utensils or wool, skins or other foul or offensive substance or deposits any offensive or deleterious matter in any place set apart as aforesaid for drinking purposes or for bathing or for washing clothes, or
(e) allows the water from a sink, sewer, drain engine or boiler or any other offensive matter belonging to him or flowing from any building or land belonging to or occupied by him, to pass into any place set apart as aforesaid for drinking purposes or for bathing or for washing clothes, Penalty for using places set apart for other purposes.
54 [Act No.I of 1956] shall on conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty rupees, and if the offence be a continuing one, to a further fine not exceeding ten rupees for every day during which the said offence is continued after conviction.
88. When any pool, ditch, tank, pond, well, hole or any waste or stagnant water or any channel or receptacle of foul water or other offensive or injurious matter, whether the same be within any private enclosure or otherwise, shall appear to the Board to be likely to prove injurious to the health of the inhabitants or offensive to the neighbourhood, the Board may by written notice require the owner of the same to cleanse, fill up, drain off or remove the same, or to take such measures as shall in its opinion, be necessary to abate or remove the nuisance.