The Manipur Municipalities Act, 1994
Administered Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs / Department of States
Section
Section 141 Penalty for disobeying requisition under sections 137, 138, 139 and 140.
Any owner or occupier of a house or land who fails to comply with a requisition issued by the Nagar Panchayat or the Council under the provisions of section 137, 138, 139 or 140 shall be punishable with fine not exceeding one thousand rupees, and with a further fine not exceeding two hundred rupees for every day during which the default is continued after the expiry of eight days from the date of service on him of such requisition.
Section 142 Power of Government to prohibit cultivation, use of manure, or irrigation injurious to health.
If the Director of Medical Health and Family Planning Services, Public Health Officer of the Government or Health Officer of the municipality or such other Medical Officer of the Medical Department of Manipur as may be prescribed, certifies that the cultivation of any description of crops, or the use of any kind of manure, or the irrigation of land in any specified manner--
(a) in any place within the limit of the municipality, is injurious to the health of person dwelling in the neighbourhood; or
(b) in any place within or without the limits of the municipality is likely to contaminate the water supply of the municipality or otherwise renders it unfit for drinking purposes the Government, on receipt of an application from the municipality by public notice, prohibit the cultivation of such crop, the use of manure or the use of the method of irrigation so certified to be injurious, or impose such conditions with respect thereto as may prevent the injury
(a) in any place within the limit of the municipality, is injurious to the health of person dwelling in the neighbourhood; or
(b) in any place within or without the limits of the municipality is likely to contaminate the water supply of the municipality or otherwise renders it unfit for drinking purposes the Government, on receipt of an application from the municipality by public notice, prohibit the cultivation of such crop, the use of manure or the use of the method of irrigation so certified to be injurious, or impose such conditions with respect thereto as may prevent the injury
Section 143 Public latrines and urinals.
The municipality may provide and maintain in sufficient number and in proper situation, public latrines and urinals for the separate use of each sex, and shall cause the same to be kept in proper order and to be properly cleansed.
Section 144 Power to demolish unauthorised drains leading into public.
(1) If any person, without the written permission of the municipality first obtained, marks or causes to be made, or alters or causes to be altered, any drain leading into any sewer, drain, water-course, road or land vested in the municipality, the municipality may cause such branch drain to be demolished, altered, made or otherwise dealt with as it may deem fit, and the expenses thereby incurred shall be paid by such person, making or altering such branch drain.
(2) The person so making or altering such branch drain shall also be liable for every such offence to a fine not exceeding five hundred rupees.
(2) The person so making or altering such branch drain shall also be liable for every such offence to a fine not exceeding five hundred rupees.
Section 145 Penalty for allowing water of any sewer, etc., to run on any public road.
Whoever causes or allows the water of any sink, sewer, latrine, urinal, cesspool or any other offensive matter belonging to him or being on his land to run, drain or be thrown or put upon any public road, or causes or allows any offensive matter to run, drain or be thrown into a surface drain near any public road shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred rupees and a daily fine not exceeding fifty rupees during which the offence is continued.
Section 146 Power to require owner to drain land.
If any land, near a sewer, drain or other outlet into which such land may, in the opinion of the Nagar Panchayat or as the case may be, the Council, be drained, is not drained to the satisfaction of the Nagar Panchayat or as the case may be, of the Council, it may require the owner within one month to drain the said land into such sewer, drain or outlet.
Section 147 Penalty for disobeying requisition under section 146.
Any person who fails to comply with a requisition issued by the Nagar Panchayat or, as the case may be, by the Council under the provision of section 146 shall be liable for every such offence, to a fine not exceeding two hundred rupees and a further fine not exceeding fifty rupees for every day during which he shall continue to make such default after service on him of such requisition.
Section 148 Establishment for removal of sewage, offensive matter and rubbish.
The Nagar Panchayat or, as the case may be, the Council shall provide for the removal--
(a) of sewage, rubbish and offensive matter from all public latrines, urinals and drains and from all public roads and all other property vested in the municipality, and
(b) in any municipality wherein a latrine tax has been imposed under sub-section (1) of section 75 of sewage and offensive matter from all private latrines, privies, urinals, cesspools and compounds.
(a) of sewage, rubbish and offensive matter from all public latrines, urinals and drains and from all public roads and all other property vested in the municipality, and
(b) in any municipality wherein a latrine tax has been imposed under sub-section (1) of section 75 of sewage and offensive matter from all private latrines, privies, urinals, cesspools and compounds.
Section 149 Sewerage scheme.
A municipality may also introduce a sewerage scheme for removal of sewage by flushing with water through underground closed sewers. When a municipality introduces such a scheme in its area the municipality may, where it is felt necessary, with the approval of the State Government, levy additional latrine and water taxes to meet the cost and maintenance of such scheme.
Section 150 Removal of sewage, offensive material, rubbish.
(1) The municipality may, from time to time, by an order published in the prescribed manner, appoint the hour within which sewage and offensive matter may be moved, the manner in which the same shall be moved, as also the hours within which only every occupier of any house or land may place rubbish in a receptacle provided by the municipality on or by the side of the public road.
(2) The municipality may provide places convenient for the deposit of sewage and offensive matter and require the occupiers of houses to cause the same to be deposited daily or at other stated intervals in such places, and may remove the same at the expense of the occupiers from any house if the occupier thereof fails to do so.
(2) The municipality may provide places convenient for the deposit of sewage and offensive matter and require the occupiers of houses to cause the same to be deposited daily or at other stated intervals in such places, and may remove the same at the expense of the occupiers from any house if the occupier thereof fails to do so.
Section 151 Penalty for placing rubbish on public road.
Any person who places or allows to place rubbish on a public road or in a receptacle provided by the municipality at a time other than the time appointed by the municipality under sub-section (1) of section 150 shall, for every such offence, be punishable with fine not exceeding five hundred rupees.
Section 152 Penalty on occupier for not removing filth, etc.
Any occupier of a house on or near a public road who keeps or allows to be kept, for more than twenty-four hours, or for more than such shorter time as may be appointed by the municipality, otherwise than in some proper receptable, any house, ashes, sewage or any noxious or offensive matter in or upon such house, or in any out-house, yard or ground attached to and occupied with the house or suffers such receptacle to be in a filthy or noxious state, or neglects to employ means to cleanse the same shall, be punishable with fine not exceeding five hundred rupees.
Section 153 Penalty for throwing offensive matter on public roads, etc.
Any person who, without the permission of the municipality throws or puts, or permits his servants to throw or put any sewage or offensive matter on any public road, or who throws or puts or permits his servants to throw or put, any earth, rubbish, sewage or offensive matter into any drain communicating therewith shall be punishable with fine not exceeding five hundred rupees.
Section 154 Power of servants of the Nagar Panchayat or of the Council.
All servants of the Nagar Panchayat, or as the case may be, of the Council employed for the purposes mentioned in section 163 may, within such hours as may be fixed by the Nagar Panchayat or the Council, enter any premises, of which the occupier or owner is liable to pay latrine tax and do all things necessary for the performance of their duties.
Section 155 Supply of drinking water.
(1) Every Nagar Panchayat or as the case may be, the Council shall provide or arrange for the provision of a sufficient supply of drinking water for the inhabitants of the areas within its jurisdiction.
(2) Every Nagar Panchayat or as the case may be, the Council shall provide sufficient and regular supply of drinking water fit for human consumption or for domestic purposes within the jurisdiction of the Nagar Panchayat or of the Council.
(2) Every Nagar Panchayat or as the case may be, the Council shall provide sufficient and regular supply of drinking water fit for human consumption or for domestic purposes within the jurisdiction of the Nagar Panchayat or of the Council.
Section 156 Removal of latrines, etc., near any source of water supply.
The municipality may, by notice, require an owner or occupier on whose land a drain, privy, latrine, urinal, cesspool or other receptacle for filth or refuse exists as is likely to endanger the purity of water, a spring, well, tank, reservoir or other source from which water is, or may be, derived for public use, to remove or close the same within one week from the service of such notice.
Section 157 Owner or occupier to take steps to prevent spread of infectious disease.
In the event of a municipality, or any part thereof, being visited with an outbreak of cholera or other infectious disease notified in this behalf, the owner or occupier may during the continuance of the epidemic, without notice and at any time, inspect and disinfect any well, tank or other place from which water, is or is likely to be taken for the purpose of drinking and may further take such step as he deems fit to prevent the removal of water therefrom.
Section 158 Unauthorised construction or tree over drain or water-works.
(1) Where any road or way has been made or any building, wall or other structure has been erected or any tree has been planted over a public drain culvert or a water-work vested in the municipality, without the permission in writing of the municipality, the municipality may without prejudice to the generality of the other provision of this Act--
(a) by notice require the person who has made the road, erected the structure or planted the tree, or the owner or occupier of the land on which, the road has been made, structure erected or tree planted, to remove or deal in any other way as the municipality thinks fit with the road, structure or tree; or
(b) itself remove or deal in any other way as it thinks fit with the road, structure or tree.
(2) Any expense incurred by a municipality for action taken under clause (b) of sub-section (1) shall be recoverable from the person by whom the road or way made, structure erected or tree planted.
(a) by notice require the person who has made the road, erected the structure or planted the tree, or the owner or occupier of the land on which, the road has been made, structure erected or tree planted, to remove or deal in any other way as the municipality thinks fit with the road, structure or tree; or
(b) itself remove or deal in any other way as it thinks fit with the road, structure or tree.
(2) Any expense incurred by a municipality for action taken under clause (b) of sub-section (1) shall be recoverable from the person by whom the road or way made, structure erected or tree planted.
Section 159 Powers in respect of burial and burning places.
(1) The municipality may, from time to time, out of the Municipal fund, provide suitable places to be used as burial or burning grounds either within or without the limits of the municipality and may charge such fees on the persons using the places as may be fixed by bye-laws which may be framed in that behalf.
(2) The municipality may, by public notice, order any burial or burning ground situated within municipal limits or any municipal burial or burning ground outside such limits which is certified by the Director of Medical, Health and Family Planning Service or a Public Health Officer of the State Government or a Health Officer of the municipality to be dangerous to the health of persons living in the neighbourhood, to be closed, from a date to be specified in the notice, and shall, in such case, if no suitable place for burial or burning exists within a reasonable distance, provide a fitting place for the purpose.
(3) If any person, without the permission of the municipality bury or burn any corpse, or permit, to be buried or burnt, any corpse at any place which is not any burial or burning ground made or formed according to the provisions of this section, or after the date fixed thereunder for closing the same, he shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees.
(4) Private burial places may be exempted from the order subject to such conditions as the municipality may impose in this behalf:
Provided that the limits of such burial places are sufficiently defined and that they shall only be used for the burial of members of the family of the owners thereof.
(5) No private burial or burning ground shall be made or formed within the municipality after the commencement of this Act, without the permission in writing of the municipality.
(2) The municipality may, by public notice, order any burial or burning ground situated within municipal limits or any municipal burial or burning ground outside such limits which is certified by the Director of Medical, Health and Family Planning Service or a Public Health Officer of the State Government or a Health Officer of the municipality to be dangerous to the health of persons living in the neighbourhood, to be closed, from a date to be specified in the notice, and shall, in such case, if no suitable place for burial or burning exists within a reasonable distance, provide a fitting place for the purpose.
(3) If any person, without the permission of the municipality bury or burn any corpse, or permit, to be buried or burnt, any corpse at any place which is not any burial or burning ground made or formed according to the provisions of this section, or after the date fixed thereunder for closing the same, he shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees.
(4) Private burial places may be exempted from the order subject to such conditions as the municipality may impose in this behalf:
Provided that the limits of such burial places are sufficiently defined and that they shall only be used for the burial of members of the family of the owners thereof.
(5) No private burial or burning ground shall be made or formed within the municipality after the commencement of this Act, without the permission in writing of the municipality.
Section 160 Burial of paupers and unclaimed dead bodies.
The municipality may from time to time, out of the Municipal fund, provide for the burial or burning of paupers and unclaimed dead bodies, free of charge, within the limits of the municipality or otherwise arrange to dispose of as it thinks fit.