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Failure to remove offensive matter. - Whoever, being the owner or occupier of any building or land, keeps or knowingly or negligently allows to be kept for more than twenty-four hours on 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 fine which may extend to 8[five hundred rupees]. Section 156 9[156. Depositing or throwing of earth or material of any description on roads or into drains. - Whoever, without the permission of the committee or in disregard 80 The Punjab Municipal Act, 1911, Section 154-C