When a person suffering or certified by a duly qualified medical practitioner to be suffering from cholera, plague, small-pox or any other infections disease that may be notified in this behalf by the 1[State Government] is —
(a) without proper lodging or an accommodation, or
(b) living in a sarai or other public hostel, or
(c) living in a room or house which he neither owns nor is otherwise entitled to occupy, or
(d) lodged in a room or set of apartments occupied by more than one family and any of the occupiers objects to his continuing to lodge therein. the Municipality may, on the advice of a medical officer of rank not inferior to that of an assistant surgeon remove the patient to a hospital or place at which persons suffering from such disease are received for medical treatment, and may do anything necessary for such removal.
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- 1.Sec. 279-A Add. by sec. 28 of U. P. Act no. V of 1932.