Section 143
Overcrowding of dwelling houses.
About this Act
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the administration of cantonments with a view to impart greater democratisation, improvement of their financial base to make provisions for developmental activities and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
(1) Where it appears to a Board that any building or part
of a building in the cantonment which is used as a dwelling house is so overcrowded as to endanger the
health of the inmates thereof, it may, after such inquiry as it thinks fit, by notice in writing require the
owner or occupier of the building or part thereof, as the case may be, within such time not being less than
one month as may be specified in the notice, to abate the overcrowding of the same by reducing the
number of lodgers, tenants, or other inmates to such number as may be specified in the notice.
(2) Any person who fails, without reasonable cause, to comply with a requisition made upon him under sub-section (1) shall be punishable with fine which may extend to two thousand five hundred rupees, and, in the case of a continuing offence, to an additional fine which may extend to two hundred fifty rupees for everyday after the first during which the failure has continued.
(2) Any person who fails, without reasonable cause, to comply with a requisition made upon him under sub-section (1) shall be punishable with fine which may extend to two thousand five hundred rupees, and, in the case of a continuing offence, to an additional fine which may extend to two hundred fifty rupees for everyday after the first during which the failure has continued.