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If any premises intended for human habitation are without privy Provisions or urinal accommodation or the existing accommodation is, in the opinion for privy and urinal of the Mayor-in-Council, insufficient, inefficient or for sanitary reasons accommoda- objectionable, the Mayor-in-Council may, by a written notice, require the tion in premises owner of such premises to— where accommoda- (a) provide such privy or such additional privy or urinal tion is not accommodation as it may decide, or provided or is insuffi- (b) make such structural or other alterations in the existing privy dent. or urinal accommodation as it may decide, or (c) substitute, notwithstanding the provisions contained in section 154, any service privy or service urinal accommodation by connected privy or connected urinal accommodation where there is underground sewerage system, and by septic-tank privy or septic-tank urinal accommodation where there is no underground sewerage system, within ninety days of such notice. E. Cesspools and other filth receptacles. 157.— (1) No person shall construct a cesspool— (a) beneath any part of any building or within fifteen metres of any tank, reservoir, water source or well; or (b) upon any site or in any position in Howrah which has not been approved in writing by the Commissioner; or (c) upon any site or in any position outside Howrah which has not been so approved and is situated within ninety metres of any reservoir used for storage of filtered water to be supplied to Howrah. Position of, cesspools. 337 House- drains, etc. to be subject to survey and control of the Corporation. Power of Corporation to grant Licence to plumbers. The Howrah Municipal Corporation Act, 1980. [West Ben. Act (Part V.—Civic Services.—Chapter X.—Water Supply and Drainage.—E. Cesspools and other filth receptacles.— Sections 158, 159.—Chapter XI—Streets and public places.—Section 160.) (2) The Commissioner may at any time by a written notice require the owner of the premises in which any cesspool has been constructed in contravention of the provisions of sub-section (1) to remove such cesspool and to fill up the cesspool with such materials as may be approved by him.