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CHAPTER XI WATER SUPPLY, DRAINAGE AND SEWAGE COLLECTION · Drainage and sewerage

Section 173: Certain matters not to be passed into municipal drains

The New Delhi Municipal Council Act, 1994

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Text as published by India Code (Legislative Department, Ministry of Law and Justice), as on 31 May 2026, with amendments up to the Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Act, 2026 (8 of 2026).

(1) No person shall throw, empty, or turn into any municipal drain or into any drain communicating with a municipal drain—

(a) any matter likely to injure the drain or to interfere with the free flow of its contents, or to affect prejudicially the treatment and disposal of its contents; or

(b) any chemical, refuse or waste steam, or any liquid of a temperature higher than forty-five degrees centigrade, being refuse or steam which, or a liquid which when so heated, is, either alone or in combination with the contents of the drain, dangerous, or the cause of a nuisance, or prejudicial to health; or

(c) any dangerous petroleum.

(2) In this section, the expression “dangerous petroleum” has the same meaning as in the Petroleum Act, 1934 (30 of 1934).