GMA 206 — Consumption of smoke

Gujarat Municipalities Act, 1963

Statutory text

(1) It shall be lawful for the municipality to direct by public notice that every furnace employed, or to be employed, in any works or buildings used for the purpose of any trade or manufacture whatsoever, within the limits of the municipal borough whether a stream engine be or be not used or employed therein shall in all cases be constructed, supplemented or altered so as to consume or burn, or reduce as far as may be practicable, the smoke arising from such furnace.

(2) If any person shall after such direction use, or permit to be used, any such furnace not so constructed, supplemented or altered, or shall so negligently use, or permit to be used any such furnace that the smoke arising therefrom shall not be effectually consumed or burnt as far as may be practicable, such person being the owner or occupier of the said work or buildings or an agent or other person employed by such owner or occupier for managing the same, shall be punished with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees and upon any subsequent Using offensive manure, etc. conviction to one thousand rupees:

Provided that nothing in this section shall be held to apply to locomotive engines used for the purpose of traffic upon any railway or for the repair of road.

(8) Regulation of market, sale of foods, etc.

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