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

Section 225: Power to require private water-course, etc, to be changed or closed

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 Municipality may, by notice, require the owner of, or the person having control over, a private water-course, spring, tank, well or other place, the water of which is used for drinking, to keep and maintain the same in good repair and to clean the same, from time to time, of silt refuse or decaying vegetation and may also require him to protect the same from pollution in such manner as the Municipality may think fit.

(2) When the water of any such water-course, spring, tank, well or other place is proved to the satisfaction of the Municipality to be unfit for drinking the Municipality may, by notice, require the owner or person having control thereof to desist from s using such water or permitting others to so use it, and if, after such notice, such water is used by any person for drinking, the Municipality may, by notice, require the owner or person having control thereof to close such well, either temporarily or permanently, or to enclose or fence such water-course, spring, tank, well or other place in such manner as it may direct, so that the water thereof may not be so used.

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