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Section 239: 1Municipal Commissioner may enforce drainage of undrained premises not situate within hundred feet of 2Corporation

The Uttar Pradesh Municipal Corporation Act, 1959State Act of Uttar Pradesh · Act 2 of 1959

239. Where any premises are, in the opinion of the [Municipal Commissioner], without sufficient means of effectual drainage, but no [Corporation] drain is situated within one hundred feet from some part of the said premises, the [Municipal Commissioner] may, by written notice, require the owner or occupier of the said premises -

(a) to construct a drain up to a point to be prescribed in such notice, but not distant more than one hundred feet from some part of the said premises ; or

(b) to construct a closed cesspool of such material, size and description in such position, at such level, and with allowance for such fall as the [Municipal Commissioner] thinks necessary and also construct a drain or drains emptying into such cesspool.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Uttar Pradesh Municipal Corporation Act, 1959
Section239
Marginal note1Municipal Commissioner may enforce drainage of undrained premises not situate within hundred feet of 2Corporation
JurisdictionState of Uttar Pradesh
StatusIn force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • substituted. Subs. by sec. 2 of U. P. Act no. 16 of 2004.
  • substituted. Subs. by sec. 3 of U. P. Act no. 12 of 1994.

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