Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Sewerage charge and sewerage cess,- (1) The Municipality shall levy sewerage charges on the owners of premises for connection of premises to sewerage mains at such rate, as the Government may, from time to time fix. (2) Where the owner of any premises in a locality where sewer is laid by the municipality has not taken connection from the sewerage mains, he shall be liable to pay a sewerage cess at such rate, as the Government may, from time to time, fix: Provided that where the owner fails to pay the sewerage cess, the sewerage cess shall be realised from the occupier and the occupier shall been entitled to recover the amount from the owner. (3) The connection of premises to sewerage mains shall be provided within a period of one month from the date of the receipt of the application from the owner of the premises. (4) The charge received by the Municipality from the owner of the occupier, for connecting the premises to sewerage mains shall be spent only for the works relating to the sewerage system. 369 275.Entrustment and maintenance of sewerage works and billing and collection of sewerage works and billing and collection of sewerage charges. The Municipality may, with the prior approval of the Government, entrust the work of operation and maintenance of sewerage works in the municipal area and the work of billing and collection of sewerage charges to any Government, statutory or private agency.