Section Text
(1) A1[Board]2[or the Executive Officer] may, by general or special order, authorise any person--
(a) to inspect any drain, privy, latrine, urinal, cesspool, pipe, sewer or channel in or on any building or land in the
cantonment, and, in his discretion, to cause, the ground to be opened for the purpose of preventing or removing any
nuisance arising from the drain, privy, latrine, urinal, cesspool, pipe, sewer or channel, as the case may be;
(b) to examine works under construction in the cantonment, to take levels or to remove, test, examine, replace or read any
meter.
(2) If, on such inspection, the opening of the ground is found to be necessary for the prevention or removal of a nuisance the expenses thereby incurred shall be paid by the owner or occupier of the land or building, but if it is found that no nuisance exists or but for such opening would have arisen, the ground or portion of any building, drain or other work opened, injured or removed for the purpose of such inspection shall be filled in, reinstated, or made good, as the case may be by the1[Board]2[or the Executive Officer].
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1. Substituted by Act 24 of 1936, section 69, for "cantonment Authority".
2. Inserted by Act 15 of 1983, section 139 (w.e.f. 1-10-1983).