Lawgist173Certain matters not to be passed into municipal drains
(1) No person shall throw, empty, or turn into any municipal drain or into any drain communicating with a municipal drain--
(a) any matter likely to injure the drain or to interfere with the free flow of its contents, or to affect prejudicially the treatment and disposal of its contents; or
(b) any chemical, refuse or waste steam, or any liquid of a temperature higher than forty-five degrees centigrade, being refuse or steam which, or a liquid which when so heated, is, either alone or in combination with the contents of the drain, dangerous, or the cause of a nuisance, or prejudicial to health; or
(c) any dangerous petroleum.
(2) In this section, the expression "dangerous petroleum" has the same meaning as in the Petroleum Act, 1934 (30 of 1934).
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- 171 Public drains, etc., to vest in the Council
- 172 Control of drains and sewage collection works
- 173 Certain matters not to be passed into municipal drains
- 174 Application by owners and occupiers to drain into municipal drains
- 175 Drainage of and drained premises
- 176 New premises not to be erected without drains
- 177 Power to drain group or block of premises by combined operations
- 178 Power of Chairperson to close or limit the use of private drains in certain cases
- 179 Use of drain by a person other than the owner
- 180 Sewage and rain water drains to be distinct
- 181 Power of Chairperson to require owner to carry out certain works for satisfactory drainage
