Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Health Officer may close or limit the use of existing private drains :– (1) Where a drain connecting any premises with a public drain or other place set apart by the municipality for the discharge of drainage is sufficient for the effectual drainage thereof and is otherwise unobjectionable, but is not, in the opinion of the Health Officer, adopted to the general drainage system of the municipality or of the part of the municipality in which such drain is situated, the Health Officer with the approval of the municipality, may– (a) subject to the provision of sub-section (2) close, discontinue or destroy the said drain and do any work necessary for that purpose; or (b) direct that such drain shall, from such date as he specifies in that behalf, be used for sullage and sewage only for water unpolluted with sullage or sewerage only and by notice require the owner of the premises to make at his own expense an entirely distinct drain for water unpolluted with sullage or sewage or for sullage and sewage. (2) No drain may be closed, discontinued or destroyed by the Health Officer under clause (1) (a) except on condition of his providing another drain as effectual for the drainage of the premises and communicating with a public drain or other place aforesaid; and the expense of the constructing of any drain so provided by the Health Officer and of any work done under clause (1) (a) shall be paid by the Municipality.