(1) No new well, tube-well, tank, pond, cistern or fountain shall be ~ i ~ ~ i ~ ~ of dug or constructed without the previous permission, in writing of the ,d&withOUt Municipality. permission is prohibited.
(2) If any such work is begun or completed without such permission the Municipality may-
(a) by written notice require the owner or the other person who has done such work to fill up or demolish such work ; or
(b) grant permission to retain such work or portion thereof on such terms and conditions as the Municipality may consider fit to impose.
152. The Municipality may, by order publish at such places as it thinks fit, set setting apart aparl any tank, well, spring or water-course or any part thereof, vested in it or, of ~ a t e r s o ~ ~ ~ by an agreement with the owner thereof, any private tank, well spring or water fordrinking course or past thereof, subject to any rights which the owner may retain with and other the consent of the Municipality for any of the following purposes, namely :- purposes.
(a) for the supply of water exclusively for drinking or for culinary purpose or for both, or
(b) for the purpose of bathing, or
(c) for washing animals or clothes, or
(d) for any other purpose connected with the health, cleanliness or comfort of the inhabitants, and may, by like order, prohibit the bathing or the washing of animals or clothes or other things at any public place not set apart for such purposes or prohibit any other act by which water in any public place may be rendered foul or unfit for use, or provide for alternative facilities and conveniences to regulate the use of any tank, well, spring or water course to promote public safety, health and welfare.
Water analysis. 153. The State Government may make rules to provide for the proper analysis of the water of any water-works, tank, well, spring or any water-courses or other source, used or likely to be used for drinking or culinary purposes in any Municipal area and in particular, may require the Municipality to take samples of water in the manner prescribed and make i t over at such time and place, and to such person or persons, as the State Government may appoint in this behalf.
Power to make 154. The State Government may make rules to provide forrules.
(a) the preparation of plans and Estimates for Water-works or for introduction of a public distribution net-work ;
(b) the power of the Municipality to accord sanction of such plans and estimates ;
(c) the publication of the particulars and the nature of any water-work or scheme, its cost, and the manner in which it is to be financed and carried out ;
(d) the size and nature of water-works, mains, service-mains, pipes or channels to be constructed or laid by the Municipality for the supply of water ;
(e) the maintenance of municipal water-works and of pipes and fittings in connection therewith ;
(f) the size and nature of the stand-posts or pumps to be erected by a Municipatity and of the ferrules and all pipes, stand pipes, stops-cocks, taps, hydrants and other fittings, whether within or outside any premises, that may be necessary for the regulation of the supply and use of water.
(g) the mains of pipes in which fire pluge are to be fixed and the places at which keys of the fire plugs are to be deposited ;
(h) the periodical analysis by a qualified analyst of the water supplied by a Municipality;
( i ) the conservations of, and.the prevention of injury or contamination to sources and means of water supply and appliances for the distribution of water, whether within or without the limits of a Municipal area ;
(j) The manner in which connection with water-works or supply-system is to be maintained, the fees to be levied for such connections and the persons by whom they shall be paid and the agency to be employed for such construction, a1 teration or maintenance ;
(k) the rates at which the charges for water supplied in excess of the prescribed quota for domestic purposes and for water supplied for various non-domestic purposes may believed by the Municipality and the use, maintenance and testing of matters and fenules ;
( I ) the regulations of all matters and things connected with the supply and use of water, and the turning on, and turning off, and preventing the waste of water ; and
(m) any other matter relating to the supply of water in respect of which this Act or any other law for the time being in force makes no provision or makes insufficient provision and further provision is, in the opinion of the State Government, necessary.
155. The Municipality may with the approval of the State Government make Power to make regulations, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act and the rules regulations.
made thereunder for carrying out the purpose of this chapter.
CHAPTER X Drainage and Sewerage Municipality 156. (1) The Municipality shall provide and maintain a system of to provide drainage or sewerage as well as a safe and sufficient out-fall in or outside drainage and the Municipal area.
sewerage.
(2) The Municipality may, with the approval of the State Government, make over the trunk-sewers, sewage treatment plants, pumping stations and other materials and things appurtenant, thereto to any agency belonging to the Government or a statutory body, and it shall be lawful for such agency to exercise control over all such items for their maintenance and development.
Cleaning of 157. A Municipality shall provide for the Municipal drains to be cleansed, drains. flushed and emptied from time to time.
nPatmentand 158. A Municipality may, for the purpose of receiving, treating, storing, disposal distinfecting, distirbuting, or otherwise disposing of sewage, construct, operate of sewage. maintain, develop and manage any plant or other device within or outside the Municipality area.
Construction 159. Subject to the approval of the State Government and the rules made in and M a i n t ~ ~ this behalf, the Municipality either singly or jointly with any other local of and authority, may, within or without a municipal area,- sewerage system.
(a) construct or maintain a system of drainage, sewers, drainage or sewage outfall, sewage treatment plants or devices, drainage and pumping stations ; or
(b) from time to time, alter the size and course of, or otherwise modify or discontinue, close up or remove, the system of drainage, sewers, drainage or sewage outfall, sewage treatment plants or devices, drainage and pumping stations.
Power to lay 160. The Municipality may carry any drain, sewer or channel of any kind or carry pipes for the purpose of establishing or maintaining a system of drainage or through sewerage upon across, under or over any street or public place and, after private and giving a reasonable notice in writing to the owner or the occupier, upon, land' across, under . over or up the side of any private land or building whatsoever, situated within the limits of a Municipal area, and for the purpose of the outfall of sewage, or for drainage outfall, without such limits, and may at all times, do all acts and things, which may be necessary or expedient for repairing or maintaining any such drain, sewer or channe1,as the case may be. in an effective state for the purpose for which the same may be used or intended to be used :
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Provided that in the case of sudden waterlogging of any area within Municipal arc2 or any nuisances, the Municipality may, if considerd necessary so to do in the interest of public health and convenience, take such action as is necessary for draining out the water upon, across, under, over the side of any private land or building within a Municipal area without prior service of any notice on the owner or the occupier of such land or building.
161. The owner or the occupier of a building or land shall be entitled to cause his drains to empty into the municipal drains after obtaining the written permission of the Municipality and he shall comply with such conditions as the Municipality may deem fit to impose relating to the communications between private drains and Municipal drains.
162. No person shall, without the written consent of the Municipality first obtained, make or cause to be made, or alter, or cause to be altered, any drain leading into any of the Municipal sewers or drains or into any water-course, street or land vested in the Municipality, and the Municipality may cause any drain, so made or altered, to be demolished, altered, remade or otherwise dealt with at the expenses of the persons making or altering such drain.
163. If it appears to the Municipality that a group or block of buildings may be drained more economically and advantageously in combination than separately, and if a municipal sewer or drain of sufficient size already exists or is about to be constructed within the reasonable reach of such group or block of buildings, the Municipality may cause such group or block of buildings to be so drained, and the expenses thereby incurred shall be recorved from the owners of such buildings in such proportions as the Municipality may deem fit.
164. The Municipality may, by written notice, require drainage to be provided for any undrained premises and also require separate provisions to be made for drainage of sewage and other offensive matters as distinct from rain-water and other unpolluted sub-soil water in accordance with such rules as may be made in this behalf.