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Non-removal of filth, etc. -- Whoever, being the owner or occupier of any building or land, keeps or allows to be kept Tor more than twenty-four hours, or otherwise than in some proper receptacle, any dirt, dung, bones, ashes, night-soil, filth or any noxious or offensive matter, in or upon such building or land, or nuffers such receptacle to be in a filthy or noxious state, or neglects to employ proper means to remove the filth from and to cleanse and purify such receptacle, or keeps or allows to be kept in or upon such building or land any animal in such a way as to cause a nuisance, shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which ma,y extend to one hundred rupees, and in the case of continuing offence with further fine which may extend to twenty rupees for every day after the first during which such contra- vention continues.