Section 70: Prevention of canals from defiling
consolidated text (as amended). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
70. Prevention of canals from defiling
(1) Where any place specified in section 69 or any heap or quantity, of
sugar, cane-trash, bagasse, syrup, molasses, wash, manure, dung, or accumulation of matter of any kind, or any sewer, ditch, cesspool or drain, is so
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situated that any impure water or matter from it can enter a canal, the owner
of that place shall, within such time as the District Magistrate shall appoint,
remove the same or make arrangements so that the water or other matter
from it no longer enters the canal.
(2) Where the owner fails to comply with subsection (1), the removal or
arrangements shall be made under order of the District Magistrate at his
expense.