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1) No person employed in any service, or being employed in connection with the working of any system of public conservancy or sanitation or water supply or hospitals or dispensaries or electric supply or public transport services or such other essential services under a Board in any cantonment area, shall, in the absence of any contract, resign without reasonable cause or absent himself from duty without proper authority and in case of such resignation or absence from duty he shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to one month; and the conditions of service specified herein shall, invariably be mentioned in the appointment letter of the persons employed to said services.
(2) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, direct that on and from such date as may be specified in the notification, the provisions of this section shall apply in the case of any specified class of employees employed by a Board whose functions intimately concern the public health or safety. The following officers shall, for the purposes of sanitation, have control over, and bi responsible for maintaining in a sanitary condition, those parts of a cantonment, respectively, which are specified in the case of each, that is to say:--
(a) the Officer Commanding the army in the cantonment--all buildings and lands which are occupied or used for army purposes;
(b) the Officer Commanding the navy in the cantonment--all buildings and lands which are occupied or used for naval purposes;
(c) the Officer Commanding the air force in the cantonment--all buildings and lands which are occupied or used for air force purposes;
(d) the Officer Commanding the station in the cantonment--all buildings and lands, occupied or used for any defence purpose, other than those referred to in clauses (a), (b) and (c);
(e) the head of any civil department or railway administration occupying as such any part of the cantonment--all buildings and lands in his charge as head of that department or administration;
(f) the head of any establishment or installation of the Defence Research and Development Organisation in the cantonment-- buildings and lands which are occupied or used for the purposes of the Defence Research and Development Organisation in the cantonment;
(g) the head of a Public Sector Undertaking-- the buildings and lands belonging to such undertaking in the cantonment;
(h) the Chief Executive Officer--the buildings and lands in the civil area of the cantonment and all other buildings and lands not covered in clauses (a) to (g) above.
(1) The Health Officer shall be the Advisor to the Board in all matters relating to sanitation and exercise a general sanitary supervision over the cantonment and shall periodically submit a report along with his recommendations at least once in every month to the Board.
(2) The Assistant Health Officer shall perform such duties in connection with the sanitation of the cantonment as are, subject to the control of the Board, allotted to him by the Health Officer. AH public latrines and urinals provided or maintained by a Board shall be so constructed as to provide separate compartments for each sex and the compartments so constructed shall be made accessible to and barrier free for the persons with disabilities and shall be provided with all necessary conservancy establishments, and shall regularly be cleansed and kept in proper order.
(1) It shall be the duty of an occupier of a building or land--
(a) to make adequate arrangements for the house scavenging of the building or land;
(b) to provide receptacles of the type and in the manner prescribed by the Chief Executive Officer for the collection therein of all filth, rubbish and other offensive matter from such building or land and to keep such receptacle in good condition and repair;
(c) to cause all filth, rubbish and other offensive matter collected in receptacles and to be removed and deposited in the public receptacles, depots or places provided or appointed under sub-section (1) of