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(1) When— (a) any well, pool, ditch, lank, pond, pit or marshy or undrained ground, or (b) any cistern, reservoir or waier-bull or any oiher receptacle or place where water is siored or uccumulales, or (e) .nny waste or stagnani waier, whether within any private enclosure or noi, appears to the Municipal Commissioner to be or to be likely io bccome injurious to health or offensive to the neighbourhood or in any other respect a nuisance, he may, by written noliec, require the owner or occupier of the land or building io which such well, pool, ditch, tank, pond, pil, ground, cistern, reservoir, waier-bull, receptacle, place or water pertains to cleanse or to fill up the same or drain off or remove water therefrom or to lake such oilier action as the Municipal Commissioner may deem neccssary. (2) No person shall keep or permit to be kept or maintained within any premises or land any collection or stagnani or flowing waier which in the opinion of lhe Municipal Commissioner is, or is likely lo bccome, a breeding place for mosquitoes, unless such collection of water is treated in such manner as may effectively prevent the breeding of mosquitoes.