Section 62: Duties of guardians
consolidated text (as amended). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
62. Duties of guardians
A guardian shall—
(a) watch over the canal under his care, so that the canal is kept in
thorough repair and conservation, and its water is kept pure and
free from depredations;
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(b) prevent and detect contraventions of any law relative to the canal;
(c) with the written authority of the syndic or joint-syndic, prosecute contraventions before the District Magistrate;
(d) apprehend persons contravening this Act; and
(e) apprehend without warrant persons detected in the act of defiling the water of any canal.