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CHAPTER – VII POWERS AND PENALTIES IN RESPECT OR BUILDINGS, PUBLIC DRAINS, STREETS, EXTINCTION OF FIRES, SCAVENGING AND WATER SUPPLY · Public drains

Section 191: Use of public drains by private owners

The Uttar Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1916

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Text as published by India Code for the Government of Uttar Pradesh, with amendments up to U.P. Act 16 of 2026.

(1) The owner or occupier of a building or land within the municipality shall be entitled to cause his drains to empty into the drains of the Municipality, provided that he first obtains the written permission of the Municipality, and that he complies with such conditions consistent with any bye-law as the Municipality prescribes as to the mode in which, and the superintendence under which the communications are to be made between drains not vested in the Municipality and drains which are so vested.

(2) Whoever, without the written permission of the Municipality or in contravention of any bye-law or of any direction or condition made or imposed under sub-section (1), makes or causes to be made, or alters or causes to be altered, a connection of a drain belonging to himself or to some other person with a drain vested in the Municipality shall be livable upon conviction to a fine which may extended to fifty rupees, and the Municipality may by written notice require such person to close, demolish, alter, re-make or otherwise deal with such connection as it deems fit.

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