Section 228: Obligations of Municipality imposing water tax

(1) The Municipality of every municipality in which water tax is imposed shall be bound —

(a) throughout a prescribed area or prescribed areas —

(i) to maintain a system of water supply through pipes, and

(ii) to lay on water at a prescribed pressure and during prescribed hours, and

(iii) to supply, in all the chief streets in which mains have been laid, water to stand-pipes or pumps situated at such intervals as are prescribed¹, and

(b) [subject to the rules as may be framed to allow the owner or occupier of any building or land assessed to a prescribed minimum water-tax to connect for the purpose of obtaining water for domestic purposes, the building or land with a main by means of a communication pipe of the prescribed size and description, and

(c) to supply within every twenty-four hours, to every owner or occupier entitled to a house connection under clause (b) whose land or building is provided therewith, such amount of water as is prescribed² with reference to the water-tax payable by him and his estimated requirements for domestic purposes, into a storage cistern erected in or on the building or land, of a capacity not less than such amount and of a prescribed pattern and at an altitude not exceeding the maximum prescribed for the same.

(2) The word “prescribed” in sub-section (1) means prescribed by rule under section 235.