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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 192: Power of Municipality to enforce drainage connection with public drains

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) When a building or land situated within one hundred feet of a public drain is at any time not drained to the satisfaction of the Municipality by any or a sufficient drainage connection with such drain, the Municipality may, by notice require the owner or occupier of such building or land to make and maintain a drainage connection with the drain in such manner as the Municipality, subject to the provisions of any bye-law, directs.

(2) The provisions of sections 306 to 312 (inclusive) shall apply to default in compliance with any such requisition, notwithstanding hat part of the land through which the said drainage connection is required to pass may not belong to the person so making default, unless he shall prove that the default was caused by the act of the owner or occupier of such last mentioned land, and he has made application to the Municipality under section 193.

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