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Power to require sufficient drainage of houses. — (1) If any building or land be at any time undrained, or not drained to the satisfaction of the Chief Officer, the Chief Officer, subject to the control of the Council, may by written notice call upon the owner to construct or lay from such building or land a drain or pipe of such size and materials, at such level, and with such fall as he may think necessary for the drainage of such building or land into— (a) some drain or sewer, if there be a suitable, drain or sewer within 415[fifty metres] of any part of such building or land; or (b) a covered cesspool to be provided by such owner and approved by the Chief Officer. (2) The Chief Officer may, subject to the control of the Council, by written notice require any courtyard, alley or passage between two or more buildings to be paved by the owners of such buildings with such materials and in such manner as he may direct. 415 Substituted by the Amendment Act 12 of 1978. 127 416[(2A) Notwithstanding anything contained in any of the provisions of this Act, it shall be obligatory on the part of the owner of any building to connect such building to the sewage in the area where underground sewage system exists, failing which, the Chief Officer may, by a written notice, direct the owner of such building to connect the building to the underground sewage within such period as specified in the notice.] 417[418[(3) Whoever fails to comply with the notice issued by the Chief Officer under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) or sub-section (2A), as the case may be, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees and in case of a continuing offence with a further fine which may extend to one hundred rupees for every day after the first during which such offence continues.] (3) Whoever fails to comply with the notice issued by the Chief Officer under sub-section (1), sub-section (2) or sub-section (2A), as the case may be, shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to fifty thousand rupees; and, in the case of a continuing offence, be liable to a further penalty which may extend to one thousand rupees for every day after the first during which such offence continues.]