Bare ActsThe Gujarat Provincial Municipal Corporations Act, 1949

Section 39

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(1) No person knowing that he is suffering from a dangerous disease shall expose other person to the risk of infection by his presence or conduct in any street, public place, place of entertainments or assembly, school, club, place of religious worship, hotel, inn, dharmshala, lodging house, eating house, factory, shop, market or other place of public resort. (2) No person having the care of a person whom he knows to be suffering from a dangerous disease, shall cause or permit that person to export other persons to the risk of infection by his presence or conduct in any such place as aforesaid. (3) No person shall give, lend, sell, transmit or expose without previous disinfection any clothing, bedding or rags which he knows to have been exposed to infection from any such disease or any other article which he knows to have been so exposed and which is liable to carry such infection: Power to order detention in hispital of infected person without proper lodging to return to. Disinfection of buildings. Pleace for disinfection may be provided. Also for washing infected articles. Exposure of persons and articles liable to convey dangerous disease prohibited. 264 Gujarat Provincial Municipal Corporations Act, 1949 [ 1949 : Bom. LIX Provided that a person shall not incur any liability under this rule by transmitting with proper precautions, any article for the purpose of having it disinfected. (4) No person shall place or cause to be placed in a dustbin or other receptacle for the deposit of refuse any matter which he knows to have been exposed to infection from a dangerous disease and which has not been disinfected.

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