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Substituted by section 61 of Chapter-III of U.P. Act No. 9 of 1994. [The Uttar Pradesh [Kshettra Panchayats and Zila Panchayats]1 Adhiniyam, 1961] [Section 209-210] Obstruction of street 209- (1) Whoever without the written permission of the [Zila Panchayat]1 - (a) causes or allows any vehicle, with or without an animal harnessed thereto, to remain or stand so as to cause obstruction in any public street in a controlled rural area longer than may be necessary for loading or unloading or for taking up or setting down passengers, or (b) leaves or fastens any vehicles or animal so as to cause obstruction in any such street, or (c) exposes any article for sale, whether upon a stall or booth or in any other manner, so as to cause obstruction in any such street, or (d) deposits, or suffers to be deposited any building materials, box, bale, package or merchandize in any such street, or. (e) erects or sets up any fence, rail, post, stall, or any scaffolding or any other such fixture in any such street, or (f) in any manner wilfully obstructs or causes obstruction to the free passage of any such street, shall be liable upon conviction to a fine which may extend to fifty rupees. (2) The [Zila Panchayat]1 shall have power to remove any obstruction referred to in sub-section (1) and the expenses of such removal shall be recoverable from the offender in the manner provided by Chapter VIII. (3) The power exercise able by a [Zila Panchayat]1 under sub-section (2) to 331 remove obstructions from streets, shall also be exerciseable for the removal by the [Zila Panchayat]1 of obstructions from any open space, whether vested in the [Zila Panchayat]1 or not, which is not private property. (4) Nothing contained in this section shall apply to any obstruction of a street permitted by the [Zila Panchayat]1 under any section of this Act or any rule or bye- law made or licence granted thereunder. Sanitation and prevention of disease Latrines for factories, schools and places of public resort Act 63 of 1948 210- The [Zila Panchayat]1 may require by notice any person employing more than twenty workmen or labourers or owning, managing or having control of a market, school or theatre of other place of public resort to provide such latrines and urinals as it may deem fit, and to cause the same to be kept in proper order and to be daily cleaned : Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to a factory regulated by the Factories Act, 1948. 1- Substituted by section 61 of Chapter-III of U.P. Act No. 9 of 1994. [The Uttar Pradesh [Kshettra Panchayats and Zila Panchayats]1 Adhiniyam, 1961] [Section 211-215] Power to require removal of nuisance arising from tanks, etc. 211- The [Zila Panchayat]1 may by notice require the owner or occupier of any land or building to cleanse, repair, coyer, fill up or drain off a private well, tank, reservoir, pool, depression or excavation therein which may appear to the [Zila Panchayat]1 to be injurious to health or offensive to the neighborhood : Provided that the owner or occupier may require the [Zila Panchayat]1 to acquire at its expense, or otherwise provide, any land or rights in land necessary for the purpose of effecting drainage ordered under the foregoing provision. Cleaning filthy land 212- Should any land be in a filthy or unwholesome state the [Zila Panchayat]1 may, by notice, require the owner thereof to cleanse, or otherwise put in a proper state, the land, and thereafter to keep the same in a clean and proper state. Regulation of the disposal of rubbish, night- soil, etc. 213- (1) The [Zila Panchayat]1 may in any controlled rural area- (a) provide receptacles and places for the temporary deposit of offensive matter and rubbish; (b) appoint places for the disposal of night-soil, and other offensive matter and rubbish, and (c) by public notice issue directions as to the time, manner and conditions at, in and subject to which any offensive matter or rubbish referred to in clauses (a) and (b) may be removed along a street, deposited or otherwise disposed of. 332 (2) It shall be sufficient notice of the appointment of a place under clause (b) of sub-section (1) that a notice board indicating such appointment is displayed on or near the place appointed. Penalty for improper disposal of rubbish, night soil, etc. 214- The occupier of any building or land from which any offensive matter, rubbish, or night soil is thrown or deposited on any part of a public drain, or into any drain communicating with a public drain, otherwise than in a place appointed under clause (b) or in a receptacle or place provided under clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 213, and any person contravening any direction of a [Zila Panchayat]1 issued under clause (c) of the said sub-section shall be liable, upon conviction, to a fine not exceeding twenty rupees. Penalty for discharging sewage on public street, etc. 215- In specified areas, whenever the water of a sink, sewer or cesspool, or any other offensive matter is allowed to flow, drain or be put upon a public street or place, or into a sewer or drain not set apart for the purpose without the permission in writing of the [Zila Panchayat]1 or in contravention of any condition prescribed in such permission, the owner or occupier of the land or buildings from which such water or offensive matter flows, drains or is put, shall be liable upon conviction, to a fine which may extend to twenty rupees. 1- Substituted by section 61 of Chapter-III of U.P. Act No. 9 of 1994. [The Uttar Pradesh [Kshettra Panchayats and Zila Panchayats]1 Adhiniyam, 1961] [Section 216-219] Building unfit for human habitation 216- (1) In a controlled rural area, should a building, or a room in a building, be in the opinion of the [Zila Panchayat]1 unfit for human habitation in consequence of the want of proper means of drainage or ventilation or otherwise, the [Zila Panchayat]1 may, by notice, prohibit the owner or occupier thereof from using the building or room for human habitation or suffering it to be so used either absolutely, or unless, within a time to be specified in the notice, he effects such alteration therein as is prescribed in the notice, (2) Upon failure of a person to whom notice is issued under sub-section (1) to comply therewith, it shall be lawful for the [Zila Panchayat]1 to require by further notice the demolition of the building or room. Penalty for acts done by persons suffe- ring from certain dis- orders 217- Whoever, while suffering from an infectious, contagious or loathsome disorder- (a) makes or offers for sale an article of food or drink for human consumption or a medicine or drug, or (b) wilfully touches any such article, medicine or drug when exposed for sale by others, or (c) takes any part in the business of washing or carrying soiled clothes, shall be liable upon conviction to a fine which may extend to twenty rupees. Prohibition of cultivation, use 218- If the Director of Medical and Health Services certify that the cultivation of any description of crops or the use of any kind of manure or the irrigation of land 333 of manure, or irrigation inju- rious to health in any specified manner. (a) in a place within the limits of a rural area is injurious or facilitates practices which are injurious to the health of persons dwelling in the neighborhood, or (b) in a specified place within the rural area is likely to contaminate the water supply of such specified place or otherwise render it unfit for drinking purposes, the [Zila Panchayat]1 may by public notice prohibit the cultivation of such crop, the use of such manure or the use of the method of irrigation so reported to be injurious, or impose such conditions with respect thereto as may prevent the injury or contamination : Provided that when, on any land in respect of which such notice is issued, the act prohibited has been practiced in the ordinary course of husbandry for the five successive years next preceding the date of prohibition compensation shall be paid from the Zila Nidhi to all persons interested therein for damage caused to them by such prohibition. Power to require owners to clear away noxious vegetation 219- The [Zila Panchayat]1 may, by notice require the owner or occupier of any land to clear away and remove any vegetation or undergrowth which may be injurious to health or offensive to the neighborhood, 1- Substituted by section 61 of Chapter-III of U.P. Act No. 9 of 1994. [The Uttar Pradesh [Kshettra Panchayats and Zila Panchayats]1 Adhiniyam, 1961] [Section 220-222] Power to require excavation to be filled up or dined 220- In a rural area for which bye-laws have been made Under sub-head (d) of heading "G" of sub-section (2) of section 239 the [Zila Panchayat]1 may by notice, require the owner or occupier of any land upon which an excavation cesspool, tank or pit had been made in contravention of such bye-laws or in breach of the condition under which permission to dig any such excavation, cesspool, tank or pit has been granted, to fill up or drain the excavation, cesspool, tank or pit within a period to be specified in such notice. Power in respect of burial and burning ground 221- (1) The [Zila Panchayat]1 may, by public notice order a burial or burning ground which is certified by the civil surgeon or Swasthya Adhikari to be dangerous, or likely to be dangerous, to the health of persons living in the neighborhood to be closed from a date to be specified in the notice and shall in such case. if no suitable place for burial or burning exists within a reasonable distance provide a fitting place for the purpose. (2) Private burial places in such burial grounds may be excepted from the notice, subject to such conditions as the [Zila Panchayat]1 may impose in this behalf : Provided that the limits of such burial places are sufficiently defined, and that they shall be used only for burial of members of the family of the owners thereof. (3) No new burial or burning ground whether public or private, shall be made or formed without the permission in writing of the [Zila Panchayat]1 . 334 (4) No person shall, except with the permission of the [Zila Panchayat]1 in writing, bury or burn or cause to be buried or burnt, a corpse in a burial or burning ground closed under sub-section (1) or made or formed in contravention of the provision of sub-section (3). (5) Should a person bury or burn, or cause or permit to be buried for burnt, a corpse contrary to the provisions of this section, he shall be liable upon conviction to a fine which may extend to fifty rupees. Inspection, entry, search, etc. Power of in- spection 222- The Adhysksha, the Mukhya Adhikari and, if authorized in this behalf by resolution any other member, officer or servant of the [Zila Panchayat]1 and similarly the Pramukh, the Khand Vikas Adhikari or any other officer of the [Kshettra Panchayat]1 authorised in this behalf by the Khand Vikas Adhikari may enter into or upon a building or land with or without assistants or workmen, in order to make an inspection or surveyor to execute a work which the [Zila Panchayat]1 or as the case may be, the Kshettra Samiti is authorized by this Act or by rules or bye-laws, to make or execute, or which it is necessary for the [Zila Panchayat]1 or the [Kshettra Panchayat]1 for any of the purposes or in pursuance of any of the provisions of this Act or of rules or bye- laws, to make or execute : Provided that- (a) except when it is in this Act or in rules or bye-laws other-wise expressly provided, no entry shall be made between sunset and sunrise. and