Gujarat Provincial Municipal Corporations Act, 1949
(1) If in respect of any premises which consist of a building or a block or group of buildings having a number of residential tenements therein, with an area of land, open or enclosed, appurtenant thereto, the Commissioner, whether on receipt of an application or otherwise, is of opinion that the tenants or other residents of such tenements are not provided with facilities for drainage, supply of water, electricity, common water closet or any such other essential supply or are provided with any of such facilities which are insufficient to meet with the reasonable requirements of such tenants or residents and that the tenants or residents who are desirous of obtaining any of such facilities are not able to do so without incurring disproportionate cost on account of no housing drain, water connection or other necessary appliances, fittings or other things connected with the main public source for the supply of such facility having been provided or set up by the owner in the premises and on account of the owner not being willing to provide or set up such housing drain, water connections, or other necessary appliances, fitting or things in, or in the land appurtenant to, the premises it shall be lawful for the commissioner to provide or setup in such premises or the land appurtenant thereto, with approval of the Corporation and after giving the owner a reasonable opportunity of being heard, such house drain, water connection or other necessary appurtenances, fittings or other things having connection or other necessary appurtenances, fittings or other things having connection with the main public source of the supply of any such facility which may be situated outside the premises and the expenses incurred by the Commissioner in doing so shall, on demand by the Commissioner, be payable by the owner of such premises and if he does not pay them on demand, such expenses shall be recoverable by the Commissioner in accordance with the provisions of section 439.