Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
No person shall,— (1) save with the permission, in writing, of the Commissioner and in such manner as he may authorise, store or use night-soil, cowdung, manure, rubbish or any other substance emitting an offensive smell; (2) use or permit to be used any premises for any purpose which is, in the opinion of the Commissioner, dangerous to life, health or property or likely to create a nuisance on any land or building or workshop or workplace, the Commissioner or any officer empowered by him may, by a notice, in writing, require the person or persons by whose act, default or sufferance the nuisance arises or continues or the owner, lessee or occupier of the land, building, workshop or workplace to remove or abate the nuisance by taking such measure, in such manner, and within such period, as may be specified in the notice and, in default of compliance with the requisition or the notice, the offender may be imprisoned for a term which may extend to three months or fined to the extent of rupees five hundred and, in the case of continuing offence, daily fine of rupees fifty.