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Whoever, being the owner or occupier of any building or land, keeps knowingly or negligently or allows to be kept for more than twenty-four hours, or otherwise than in some proper receptacle or pit any dirt, dung, bones, ashes, night-soil or filth or any noxious or offensive matter in or upon such building or land or suffers any such receptacle or pit to be in a filthy or noxious state or neglects to employ proper means to cleanse and purify the same, shall be punishable with a fine which shall not be less than one hundred rupees and more than one thousand rupees.