Section 26: Control of activities near rivers

26. Control of activities near rivers (1) No dwelling-house, kitchen, slaughter-house, or camp of labourers, and no privy, urinal, stable, cow-house, cattle-yard, pigsty, poultry-house or poultry-yard, and no distillery or sugar or other manufactory, shall be erected within 100 feet of any river or stream, unless the Permanent Secretary or the Sanitary Authority certifies in writing that the water of the river or stream, is not liable to be defiled by any matter or water issuing from such erection or building. (2) Where any premises specified in subsection (1), or any quantity of sugar, cane-trash, bagasse, syrup, molasses, wash, manure, dung, or accumulation of matter of any kind, or any sewer, ditch, or drain, appears to the Supreme Court (after a report on the matter by one or more persons of skill, and after the parties interested have been duly called) to be so situated that any water or matter from there can defile any river or stream, the occupier of the premises shall remove the water or matter or make arrangements, to the satisfaction of the Permanent Secretary, or of some skilled person appointed by the Supreme Court, for preventing the defiling. (3) Any person who contravenes this section shall commit an offence and shall on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding 500 rupees, and the works or arrangements necessary for preserving the purity of the water of the river or stream in question may be made at his expense on order of the District Magistrate. 27. – 28. —