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Punishment of cultivators for failure to provide for proper house- scav- enging. - (1) Should any person, who himself or any member of whose family residing with him cultivates land within municipal limits or in a village within two miles from the municipal limits fail to provide for the proper house-scavenging of any house or building occupied by him within the limits of the municipality, the com- mittee may complain to a 1[judicial magistrate]. (2) The magistrate receiving the complaint shall hold an enquiry, and, should it ap- pear to him that such person has not provided for the proper house- scavenging of the house or building, he may pass an order empowering the committee to undertake the same, and thereupon the committee shall be entitled to undertake such house-scav- enging. Slaughter Places Section 167