State Act
Section 281. Water-pipes, etc., not to be placed where water will be polluted.
The Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act.
281. Water-pipes, etc., not to be placed where water will be polluted.— 16[(1)] No water-pipes shall be laid in a drain or on the surface of an open channel or house-gully or within twenty feet of a cess-pool, or in any position where the pipe is likely to be injured or the water therein polluted; and no well or tank, and except with the consent of the Commissioner, no cistern shall be constructed within twenty feet of a 1[privy, water-closet or] cess-pool. 2[(2) Whoever contravenes the provisions of sub-section (1) shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month or with fine which shall not be less then five hundred rupees and which may extend upto five thousand rupees or with both.]