Section 284 UP Municipalities Act: Power to require excavations to be filled up or drained

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

Section 284: Power to require excavations to be filled up or drained

How current this text is

Text as published by India Code for the Government of Uttar Pradesh, with amendments up to U.P. Act 16 of 2026.

(1) In a Municipality for which bye-laws have been made under sub-head (g) of heading I of section 298, the Municipality may, by notice, require the owner or occupier or any land upon which an excavation, cesspool tank or pit has been made in contravention of such bye-laws, or in breach of the conditions under which permission to dig any such excavation, cesspool, tank or pit has been granted, to fill up or drain the excavation, cesspool, tank or pit within a period to be specified in such notice.

(2) The ¹[State Government] may by notification extend the provisions of this section and of bye-laws made for the purposes of this section to an area beyond the municipality lying within a distance of a mile from the municipal boundary².

Footnotes in the official text

1.Subs. by A. O. 1950 for (Provl. Govt.), which had been Subs. by the A. O. 1937 for (L.G.).
2.For. delegation of this power to Commissioners, now Prescribed Authority see nots. no. 1108/XI-504-E, d. June 5, 1918, and p. 1478 of M. M., 1952 edition.