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

Section 277: Power to enter and disinfect buildings

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.

Subject to the provisions of section 287, the Municipality may enter and inspect a building, and may by notice direct all or any part thereof to be internally or externally lime washed, disinfected or otherwise cleansed for sanitary reasons :

Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to a factory regulated by the 1[Indian Factories Act, 1911.]

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.See now the Factories Act, 1948 (Act no. XLIII of 1948).

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