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(1) If the Director of Medical and Health Services or the Civil Surgeon or Health Officer certifies that the cultivation of any description of crops or the use of any kind of manure or the irrigation of land in any specified manner,- (a) in a place within the limits of a [municipal area]2 is injurious or facilitates practices which are injurious to the health of persons dwelling in the neighborhood, or (b) in a place within or beyond the limits of [municipal area]2 is likely to contaminate the water supply of such [municipal area]2 or otherwise render it unfit for drinking purposes, the [Municipal area]2 may by public notice prohibit the 304 cultivation of such crop, the use of such manure or the use of the method or irrigation so reported to be injurious or impose such conditions with respect there to as may prevent injury or contamination. (2) 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 five successive years next preceding the date of prohibition compensation shall be paid from the municipal fund to all persons interested therein for damage caused to them by such prohibition. Power to require owners to clear away noxious vegetation