State Act

The Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act.

284. Prohibition of wilful or neglectful acts relating to water-works.— 4[(1)] No person shall wilfully or negligently— (a) injure or suffer to be injured any meter belonging to the corporation or any of the fitting of any such meter; (b) break, injure or open any lock, cock, valve, pipe, work, 5[engine, cistern or fitting] appertaining to any municipal water-work; (c) flush or draw off the water from any such water-work, thereby causing such water to be wasted; (d) do any act 6[or suffer any act to be done] whereby the water in or derived from any municipal water-work shall be wasted; (e) obstruct, divert or in any way injure or alter any water-main or duct; 7[(f) except with the permission of the Commissioner open, break, injure or tamper with any lock furnished under section 274A]; 1[(g) misuse the water duly provided by the Corporation for a specific purpose or use the same for any other purpose, whether specified or not.] 2[(2) Whoever contravenes any of the provisions of sub-section (1) shall, on conviction, be punished,— (a) for the first offence, with an imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month or with a fine which shall not be less than one hundred rupees and which may extend upto one thousand rupees or with both; (b) for the second every subsequent offence, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or with fine which shall not be less than two hundred rupees and which may extend upto two thousand rupees or with both.]