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Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1993

..... SECTION 10: POWER OF EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY TO PREVENT ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION IN CERTAIN CASES (1) On receipt of information with respect to the fact or apprehension of any occurrence of contravention of the provisions of section 3-, whether through intimation by some person or on a report of the inspector or otherwise, the Executive Authority shall, as early as practicable. besides taking any other action under this Act, direct the owner or occupier of the premises to take such remedial measures, as may be necessary, within such reasonable time as may be specified therein and in case the owner or occupier, as the case may be, fails to comply with such directions, cause such remedial measures to be taken as are necessary to prevent or mitigate the environmental pollution at the cost of such owner or occupier of the premises. (2) The expenses, if any, incurred by the Executive Authority with respect to the remedial measures referred to in sub-section (1), together with interest at such rate as the State Government may specify from the date when a demand for the expenses is made until it is paid, may be recovered by such authority or agency from the person concerned as arrears.....

The Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993 Complete Act

State: Rajasthan

Year: 1993

.....pollution. 10. Power of Executive Authority to prevent environmental pollution in certain cases. (1) On receipt of information with respect to the fact or apprehension of any occurrence of contravention of the provisions of section 3, whether through intimation by some person or on a report of the inspector or otherwise, the Executive Authority shall, as early as practicable, besides taking any other action under this Act, direct the owner or occupier of the premises to take such remedial measures, as may be necessary, within such reasonable time as may be specified therein and in case the owner or occupier, as the case may be, fails to comply with such directions, cause such remedial measures to be taken as are necessary to prevent or mitigate the environmental pollution at the cost of such owner or occupier of the premises. (2) The expenses, if any, incurred by the Executive Authority with respect to the remedial measures referred to in sub-section (1), together with interest at such rate as the State Government may specify from the date when a demand for the expenses is made until it is paid, may be recovered by such authority or agency from the person concerned as arrears.....

Employment of Manual Scavengers Act 1993 Preamble 1

Title: Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993

State: Central

Year: 1993

.....conservation of dry latrines into water-seal latrines and prevention of construction of dry latrines are not stringent enough to eliminate this practice; AND WHEREAS it is necessary to enact a uniform legislation for the whole of India for abolishing manual scavenging by declaring employment of manual scavengers for removal of human excreta an offence and thereby Hanna the further proliferation of dry latrines in the country; AND WHEREAS it is desirable for eliminating the denominating practice of employment of manual scavengers and for protecting and improving the human environment to make it obligatory to convert dry; latrines into water-seal latrines or to construct water-seal latrines in new constructions; AND WHEREAS Parliament has no power to make laws for the States with respect to the matters aforesaid, except as provided in articles 249 and 250 of the Constitution; AND WHEREAS in pursuance of clause (1) of article 252 of the Constitution, resolutions have been passed by all the Houses of the Legislatures of the States of Andhra Pradesh, GAO, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tripura and West Bengal that the matters aforesaid should be regulated in those States by.....

Factories Act, 1948 Section 43

Title: Facilities for Storing and Drying Clothing

State: Central

Year: 1948

The State Government may, in respect of any factory or class or description of factories, make rules requiring the provision therein of suitable places for keeping clothing not worn daring working hours and for the drying of wet clothing.

Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957 Complete Act

State: Delhi

Year: 1957

..... (16) "entertainment"" includes any exhibition, performance, amusement, game or sport to which persons are ordinarily admitted on payment; (17) "factory" means a factory as defined in the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948); (18) "filth" includes offensive matter and sewage; (19) 99. Omitted and Inserted by Act No.67 of 1993(w.e.f. 1-10-1993). [* * *] (20) 88. Cl (20), Omitted by Act No. 71 of 1971 and Sch. II (w.e.f. 3-11-1971). [* * *] (21) "goods" includes animals; 1010. C1. 21-A, inserted by Act, 67 of 1993. (w.e.f. 1-10-93). (21-A) "Government" means the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi;] (22) "house-gully" or "service passage" means a passage or strip of land constructed, set apart or utilized for the purpose of serving as or carrying a drain or affording access to a latrine, urinal, cesspool or other receptacle for filth or other polluted matter, by municipal employees or other persons employed in the cleansing thereof or in the removal of such matter therefrom; (23) "hut" means any building which is constructed principally of wood, bamboo, mud, leaves, grass, cloth or thatch and includes any structure of whatever material made which.....

The Haryana Municipal Corporation Act, 1994 Complete Act

State: Haryana

Year: 1994

.....than owner. 202. Sewage and rain water drains to be distinct. 203. Power of Commissioner to require owner to carry out certain works for satisfactory drainage. 204. Appointment of places for the emptying of drain and disposal of sewage. 205. Connection with water works and drains not ot be made without permission. 206. Buildings railways and private streets not to be erected or constructed over drains or water works without permission. 207. Right of user of property for aqueducts, lines etc. 208. Power of owner of premises to place pipes and drains through land belonging to other persons. 209. Railway administration be informed in certain cases. 210. Power of Commissioner to execute work after giving notice to person liable to do so. 211. Power of Commissioner to affix shafts etc. for ventilation of crain or cesspool. 212. Power of Commissioner to examine and test drain etc. believed to be defective. 213. Employment of Government agencies for repair etc. 214. Work to be done by license plumber. 215. Prohibition of certain acts. CHAPTER "XIII Streets 216. Vesting of Public streets in Corporation. 217. Functions of Commissioner in respect of.....

The Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation Act, 1981 Complete Act

State: Tamil Nadu

Year: 1981

.....any farm, cattle shed, milk-store, milk-shop or other place from which milk is sold or supplied for sale, or in which milk is kept for sale or manufactured for sale into butter, ghee, cheese, cream, curd, butter-milk or dried, sterilized or condensed milk; and (b) in relation to a diary man who does not occupy any premises for the sale of milk, any place in which he keeps the vessels, used by him for the storage or sale of milk but does not include " (i) a shop or place in which milk is sold for consumption on the premises only: or (ii) a shop or place from which milk is sold or supplied for sale in airtight and hermetically sealed and unopened receptacles in the same original condition in which it was first received in such shop or place; (14) "dairy man" includes any occupier of a dairy, any cow-keeper who trades in milk or any seller of milk whether wholesale, or by retail; (15) "dairy produce" includes milk, butter, ghee, cheese, cream, curd, butter-milk and any and every product of milk; (16) "date of commencement of this Act" means the date appointed under sub section (3) of section 1 : (17) "filth" means " (a) nightsoil and other contents of latrines,.....

The Madurai City Municipal Corporation Act, 1971(Tamil Nadu Act Xv of 1971) Complete Act

State: Tamil Nadu

Year: 1971

.....or other place from which milk is sold or supplied for sale, or in which milk is sold or supplied for sale, or in which milk is kept for sale or manufactured for sale into butter, ghee, cheese, cream, curd butter-milk or dried, sterilized or condensed milk; and (b) in relation to a dairy man who does not occupy any premises for the sale of milk, any place in which he keeps the vessels used by him for the storage of sale of milk but does not include " (i) a shop or place in which milk is sold for consumption on the premises only; or (ii) a shop or place from which milk is sold or supplied for sale in airtight and hermetically sealed and unopened receptacles in the same original condition in which it was first received in such shop or place; (13) "Dairy man" includes any occupier of a dairy, any cow-keeper who trades in milk or any seller of milk whether wholesale, or by retail; (14) "Dairy Produce" includes milk, butter, ghee, cheese, cream, curd, butter-milk and any and every product of milk; (15) "Date of commencement of this Act" means the first day of May, 1971; (16) "Filth" means " (a) might soil and other contents of latrines, cesspools and drains; (b) dung and refuse or.....

The Tamil Nadu District Municipalities Act (Tamil Nadu Act V of 1920) Complete Act

State: Tamil Nadu

Year: 1920

.....into more than one dwelling-house of a building originally constructed as one dwelling-house only or the conversion of a dwelling-house into factory. (d) the re-conversion into a dwelling-house or a place of public worship or a factory of any building which has been discontinued as, or appropriated for any purpose other than, a dwelling-house of a place of public worship or factory as the case may be. NOTES S.3 (24) "Reconstruction" " meaning of " (1954) 2 MLJ 556; (25) "Residence" " ˜Reside' " A person is deemed to have his ˜residence' or to ˜reside' in any house if he sometimes uses any portion thereof as a sleeping apartment, and a person is not deemed to cease to reside in any such house merely because he is absent from it, or has elsewhere another dwelling in which he resides, if he is at liberty to Substituted by Tamil Nadu Act X of 1930 [ return to such house] at any time and has not abandoned his intention of returning. NOTES S.3 (25) " ˜Residence' " meaning of " 50 MLJ 77 (26) ˜Rubbish' " ˜Rubbish' means dust, ashes, broken bricks, mortar, broken glass, and refuse of any kind which is not ˜filth' (27).....

Kolkata Municipal Corporation Act, 1980 Complete Act

State: West Bengal

Year: 1980

..... (7) "building of the warehouse class" means a building, the whole or a substantial part of which is used, or intended to be used, as a warehouse, factory, manufactory, brewery, or distillery, or for any similar purpose, which is neither a "domestic building" nor a "public building" as defined in this section, and includes a hut used or intended to be used for any of the purposes mentioned in this clause; (8) "bustee" means an area containing land not less than seven hundred square metres in area occupied by or for the purposes of any collection of huts or other structures used or intended to be used for human habitation. Explanation.-If any question arises as to whether any particular area is or is not a bustee, the Corporation shall decide the question and its decision shall be final; (9) "Kolkata" means the area described in Schedule I; 3 Clause (10) omitted by s. 2 of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Act, 1996 (West Ben. Act VI of 1996) (with retrospective effect from 4.12.1995), which was earlier as under: '(10) "candidate" in section 75 and in Schedule III means a person who has been nominated as a candidate at any election of a Councillor or who claims.....