State Act

THE UTTAR PRADESH MUNICIPAL CORPORATION ACT, 1959

238- Where any premises are, in the opinion of the Mukhya Nagar Adhikari, without sufficient means of effectual drainage and a [Corporation]1 drain or some place lawfully set apart for the discharge, of drainage is situate at distance not exceeding one hundred feet from some part of the said premises the Mukhya Nagar Adhikari may, by written notice, require the owner or occupier of the said premises- - (a) to make a drain of such material, size, description and, laid at such level and according to such alignment and emptying into such [Corporation]1 drain or place aforesaid as the Mukhya Nagar Adhikari may consider necessary or suitable; (b) to provide and set up all such appliances and fittings as may appear to the Mukhya Nagar Adhikari necessary for the purposes of gathering and receiving the drainage from and conveying the same off the said premises and of effectually flushing such drain and every fixture connected therewith; (c) to remove any existing drain, or other appliance or thing used or intended to be used for drainage, which in the opinion of the Mukhya Nagar Adhikari is injurious to health or to provide a closed drain in substitution of an open drain or to provide similarly such other appliances or things as he may consider necessary; (d) to provide and set up all such appliances and fittings as may appear to the Mukhya Nagar Adhikari to be necessary for the purpose of gathering and receiving the waste water from floors and galleries of buildings when they are washed, and conveying the same through spouts or by down take pipes, so as to prevent such waste water from discharge indirectly on streets or inside any lower portion of the premises.