Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) If it shall appear to the Commissioner that any building or any part of a build ing is in such a state as to constitute a nuisance or to be likely to give rise to one by reason of rain water leaking from its roof or any part or its roof, or by reason of dampness ris ing through its ground floor surface or through its walls, the Commissioner may, by notice in writing, require the owner of such buildings to abate the nuisance or to prevent its recurrence within the time and by taking the measures and doing the acts to be specified in the notice. Removal of building materials from any premises may be required. Measures against rate etc. may be required in respect of premises used for storage of goods. Abendoned or unoccupied premises. Neglected premises or private streets. Nuisance arising from defective roof or from dampness rising through ground floor surface or through walls. 256 Gujarat Provincial Municipal Corporations Act, 1949 [ 1949 : Bom. LIX (2) If at any time thereafter the Commissioner is of opinion that such a nuisance may recur he may, notwithstanding that the original nuisance may have been abated by the owner of the building under sub-rule (1), give a further notice in writing to the said owner requiring him to abate the probable recurrence of the nuisance within the time and in the manner specified in the notice. (3) If the owner of the building by whose act, default or sufference such nuisance has arisen or continues is unknown or cannot be found, the Commissioner may take such measures or cause such work to be executed or such things to be done, as shall in his opinion be necessary to abate such nuisance and to prevent its recurrence.