Section 437: Regulation of offensive trade

(1) If it is shown to the satisfaction of the 1Municipal Commissioner that any building or place within the limits of the City which any person uses or intends to use as a factory or other place of business for the manufacture, storage, treatment or disposal of any article, by reason of such use, or by reason of such intended use, occasions or is likely to occasion a public nuisance, the 1Municipal Commissioner may at his option require by notice the owner or occupier of the building or place —\br @s (a) to desist or refrain, as the case may be, from using or allowing to be used, the building or place for such purpose, or\br @s (b) only to use, or allow to be used, the building or place for such purpose under such conditions or after such structural alterations as the 2Corporation imposes or prescribes in the notice with the object of rendering the use of the building or place for such purpose free from objection.\br @s (2) Whoever, after receiving a notice given under sub-section (1), uses or allows to be used any building or place in contravention of the notice shall be liable on conviction to a fine which may extend to two hundred rupees and to a further fine which may extend to forty rupees for every day on which he so used or allows to be used the place or building after the date of the first conviction.\br @s