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Prohibition as to keeping animals.— (1) No person shall— (a) without the written permission of the Commissioner, or otherwise than in conformity with the terms of such permission, keep any swine in any part of 3[Brihan Mumbai]; 1 Section 381B was inserted by Mah. 51 of 1975, s. 16. 2 The words “with the approval of the Standing Committee” were deleted by Mah. 21 of 1989, s. 44. 3 These words were substituted for the words “Greater Bombay” by Mah. 25 of 1996, s. 2, Schedule. 314 The Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act [1888 : III (b) keep any animal on his premises so as to be a nuisance or dangerous to any person; (c) feed any animal, or suffer or permit any animal, to be fed or to feed, with or upon excrementitious matter, dung, stable refuse or other filthy matter. (2) Any swine found straying may be forthwith destroyed and the carcass thereof disposed of as the Commissioner shall direct. No claim shall lie for compensation for any swine so destroyed. 1[384A. Stabling animals or storing grain in dwelling houses may be prohibited.— Where a building or any portion thereof is used or intended to be used for human habitation and any portion of such building is used for any of the following purposes, namely,— (a) for keeping any horse, cow, buffalo, bullock, goat or donkey, or (b) as a godown or place for the storage, in connection with wholesale trade of grain, seed or groceries, the Commissioner may, if it shall appear to him necessary for sanitary reasons to do so, by written notice require the owner or occupier of such building to discontinue the use of such building for any such purpose; provided that the Commissioner may permit such use subject to such conditions as he may think fit to prescribe.] 2[385. Removal of carcasses of dead animals.— (1) It shall be the duty of the Commissioner to provide for the removal of the carcasses of all animals dying within 3[Brihan Mumbai]. (2) The occupier of any premises in or upon which any animals shall die or in or upon which the carcass of any animal shall be found, and the person having the charge of any animal which dies in the street or in any open place, shall within three hours after the death of such animal or, if the death occurs at night, within three hours after sunrise, report the death of such animal at the municipal health department office of the division of the 4[Brihan Mumbai] in which the death occurred or in which the carcass is found 5[and shall not unless authorised by the Commissioner in this behalf, remove or permit to be removed the carcass of any animal dying in or upon any place within 6[Brihan Mumbai].] (3) For every carcass so removed by municipal agency, a fee for the removal, or such amount as shall be fixed by the Commissioner, shall be paid by the owner of the animal or, if the owner is not known, by the occupier of the premises in or upon which, or by the person in whose charge, the said animal died.] Regulation of public bathing, washing, etc.