Lawgist143Overcrowding of dwelling houses
(1) Where it appears to a Board that any building or part of a building in the cantonment which is used as a dwelling house is so overcrowded as to endanger the health of the inmates thereof, it may, after such inquiry as it thinks fit, by notice in writing require the owner or occupier of the building or part thereof, as the case may be, within such time not being less than one month as may be specified in the notice, to abate the overcrowding of the same by reducing the number of lodgers, tenants, or other inmates to such number as may be specified in the notice.
(2) Any person who fails, without reasonable cause, to comply with a requisition made upon him under sub-section (1) shall be punishable with fine which may extend to two thousand five hundred rupees, and, in the case of a continuing offence, to an additional fine which may extend to two hundred fifty rupees for everyday after the first during which the failure has continued.
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- 132 Public latrines, urinals and conservancy establishments
- 133 Duty of occupier to collect and desposit rubbish, etc
- 134 Power of Board to undertake private conservancy arrangement
- 135 Deposits and disposal of rubbish, etc
- 136 Cesspools, receptacles, for filth, etc
- 137 Filling up of tank, etc
- 138 Provision of latrines, etc
- 139 Sanitation in factories, etc
- 140 Private latrines
- 141 Special provisions for collection of rubbish and solid waste management
- 142 Removal of congested buildings
- 143 Overcrowding of dwelling houses
- 144 Power to require repair or alternation of building
- 145 Power to require land or building to be cleansed
- 146 Prohibition in respect of air pollutant
- 147 Power to order disuse of house
- 148 Removal of noxious vegetation
- 149 Agriculture and irrigation
