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CHAPTER – VIII OTHER POWERS AND PENALTIES · Sanitation and Prevention of disease

Section 274: Penalty for improper disposal of rubbish, night-soil, etc

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.

The occupier of any building or land from which any offensive matter, rubbish, night-soil or carcass is thrown or deposited on any part of a public place or street, or into any public sewer or drain, or into any drain communicating with a public sewer or drain, otherwise than in a place appointed under clause (b) or in a receptacle provided under clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 273, and any person contravening any direction of a Municipality issued under clause (c) of the said sub-section shall be liable, upon conviction, to a fine not exceeding twenty rupees.

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