State Act

The Maharashtra Municipal Councils, Nagar Panchayats and Industrial Townships Act, 1965.

208. Power to require owners to keep drains, etc., in proper order; or to demolish or close a privy or cesspool.— (1) All drains, privies, water-closets, house-gullies, gutters and cesspools and drainage works of every description within a municipal area shall, unless constructed at the cost of the Council, be altered, repaired and kept in proper order at the cost and charge of the owners of the lands or buildings to which they belong, or for the use of which they have been constructed or continued; and the Chief Officer, subject to 3[the control of the President,] may by written notice require any such owner to alter, repair, and put the same in good order in such manner as he may think fit. (2) It shall be duty of every such owner of land to building to get such drains, privies, water-closets, house-gullies, gutters and cesspools cleansed either by the municipal agency or such other agency as the Chief Officer may approved and at such intervals as the Chief Officer may require. (3) Subject to 4[the control of the President,] the Chief Officer may by return notice require the owner the demolish or close any privy or cesspool, whether constructed before or after the appointed day, which in the opinion of the Chief Officer is a nuisance, or is so constructed as to be inaccessible for the purposes of scavenging or incapable of being properly cleaned or kept in good order.