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prohibition of certain acts affecting the municipal water works.--(l) A Council may, with the sanction of the Director, demarcate and notify the limits of the water-shed of any lake, tank well or reservoir from which water is derived for the municipal water-work or use by the residents of the municipal area. ( 2 ) Except with the permission of the Council, no person shall-- (a)' erect any building for any purpose what- ever within such limits; (b) remove, alter, injure, damage or in any way interfere with any boundary marks of such water-shed; (c) extend, alter or apply to any purpose different to that to which the same has been here- tofore kpplied, any building already existing within the said limits; or ' ( d ) carry on, within the said limits, any ope- rstion of manufacture, trade or agriculture in any manner, or do any act whatever, whereby injury may arise to any auch lake, tank, well or reservoir or to any pertion thereof or whereby the water of such lake, tank, well or reservoir may be fouled or rendered less wholesome. ( 3 ) Except with the permission of the Chief Offi- cer. no person shall-- (a) cause or suffer to percolate or drain into or upon any municipal water-work or to be brought thereinto or thereupon anything, or to be done any act, whereby the water therein may'be in any way fouled or polluted or its quality altered; (b) alter the surface of any municipal ?and adjacent to or forming part of any such work by digging thereinto or depositing thereon any substance; (c) cause or suEfer to enter into the water in such work any animal; . - -5 . '-.$ ( d ) bathe in or near such work; :-FA- $ - P . ( e throw or put anything into or upon 'che *% <: " - water in such work; . 6 J - 5 . - (f wash or cause to be .washed,,An or near such -A" work any animal or thing.; ,, 4 ~* # . * ( 4 1 Whoever contravenes any provision of sub- section ( 2 ) ,shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for .a term which may extend to one month, or with flne which may extend to one hundred rupees, or with both. ( 5 ) Whoever contravenes any of sub-section .4 3 aha1 1 be:. deemed to Xty of lgi have committed .-an. offence -*punishable under section 23'7 of the Indian Penal ,WW Code, i , . I - . 3.2 (6) When arky~:person is -convicted under sub-sec- tion ( 4 1 , the Magistrate who convicts him may order the immediate removal of .any building, pr the imme- diate discontinuance of the operation or use of land, in respect of which such conviction has been held. = *.m* * 'Xu l a ) If any order made under eub-section (63 is disobeyed or the execution thereof resisted, the +offender @hall,-. on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which-may.extend t o . three months, or with fine which may extend to three hundred rupees, or with both. I