Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Connections with municipal drains not to be made except in conformity with section 227 or 228.— No person shall, without complying with the provisions of section 227 or 228, as the case may be, make or cause to be made any connection of a drain, belonging to himself or to some other person with any municipal drain 4[or the place legally set apart for the discharge of drainage]; and the Commissioner may 5[* * *] close, demolish, alter or re-make any such connection made in contravention of this section, and the expenses incurred by the Commissioner in so doing shall be paid by the owner of the street, or the owner or occupier of the premises, for the benefit of which the connection was made, or by the person of offending. 6[229A. Buildings etc., not to be erected without permission over any drains.— (1) Without the written permission of the Commissioner no building wall or other structure shall be newly erected over any drain. (2) If any building, wall or other structure be so erected, the Commissioner, after giving the offending person ten days’ notice of his intention, may 7[* * *] remove or otherwise deal with the same as he shall think fit, and the expenses thereby incurred shall be paid by the person offending.]