Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Drainage of un-drained premises. - (1) Where any premises are in the opinion of the Commissioner, without sufficient means of effectual drainage and a municipal drain or some place approved by the Commissioner for the discharge of fifth and other polluted and obnoxious matter is situated at a distance of not ex- ceeding thirty metres from any part of the said premises, he may, by written notice, require the owner of the said premises- (a) to make a drain emptying into such municipal drain or place; (b) to provide and set up all such appliances and fittings as may appear to the Commissioner necessary for the purpose of gathering and receiving the filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter from, and conveying the same off, the said premises and of effectually flushing such drain and every fixture connected therewith; (c) to remove any existing drain or other appliance or thing used or intended to be used for drainage which is injurious to health; (d) to provide a close drain in substitution of an open drain or to provide such other appliance or thing either newly or in substitution of any existing ap- pliance or thing or to provide both a closed drain and such other appliance or thing in substitution of the existing open drain and other appliance or thing, which is or is likely to be injurious to health; (e) to provide a set up all such appliances and fittings as may appear to the Commissioner to be necessary for the purpose of gathering and receiving the waste water from floors and galleries of buildings when they are washed and conveying the same through spouts, by down take pipes so as to prevent such waste water from discharging directly on streets or inside any lower portion of the premises; (f) to carry out any work to improve or re-model an existing drain which is in- adequate, insufficient or faulty. (2) Where in any case not provided for in sub-section (1) any premises are in the opinion of the Commissioner, without sufficient means of effectual drainage he may, by written notice, require the owner of the premises- (a) to construct a drain upto a point to be prescribed in such notice but not at a distance of more than thirty metres from any part of the premises; or (b) to construct a close cesspool or soakage pit and drain or drains emptying into such cesspool or soakage pit. (3) Any requisition for the construction of any drain under sub-section (2) may contain any of the details specified in sub-section (1). Punjab Municipal Corporation Act, 1976, Section 205 85 Section 206