Section 397: Prohibition of cultivation, use of manure, or irrigation injurious to health

If the Director of Medical 3Health and Family welfare, Uttar Pradesh or the Chief Medical Officer or the Nagar Swasthya Adhikari certifies that the cultivation of any description of crops or the use of any king of manure or the irrigation of land in any specified manner— \br @s (a) in a place within the limits of a City is injurious or facilitates practices which are injurious to the health of persons dwelling in the neighborhood, or\br @s (b) in a place within or beyond the limits of a City is likely to contaminate the water-supply of such City or otherwise render it unfit for drinking purposes, the 1 Municipal Commissioner may by public notice prohibit the cultivation of such crop, the use of such manure or the use of the method of irrigation so reported to be injurious, or impose such conditions with respect thereto as may prevent the injury or contamination:\br @s Provided that when, on any land in respect of which such notice is issued, the act prohibited has been practiced in the ordinary course of husbandry for the five successive years next preceding the date of prohibition, compensation shall be paid from the 2Corporation fund to all persons interested therein for damage caused to them by such prohibition.\br @s