GMA 170 — Power in respect of sewers, etc., unauthorizedly constructed, rebuilt or

Gujarat Municipalities Act, 1963

Statutory text

The executive committee may by written notice require that any sewer, drain, privy, water-closet, urinal, house-gully or cesspool on any land within a municipal borough, constructed, rebuilt or unstopped- (a) after such land became part of a municipal borough, and (b) either without the consent or contrary to the orders, directions or general regulations or bye-laws, of the municipality, or contrary to the provisions of any enactment in force at the time when it was so constructed, rebuilt or unstopped- shall be demolished, amended or altered, as it may deem fit, by the person by whom it was so constructed, rebuilt or unstopped; and every person so constructing, rebuilding or unstopping any such sewer, drain, privy, water-closet, urinal, house-gully or cesspool, whether he does or does not receive such notice or does not comply therewith, shall, in addition to any penalty to which he may be liable on account of such non-compliance, be punished with fine which, may extend to one hundred rupees.

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