Section 361
Latrines and urinals, etc., in new buildings.
The Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957
About this Act
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the Municipal Government of Delhi.
(1) It shall not be lawful to erect any building or
execute any work on or in relation to such building without providing such latrine accommodation and
urinal accommodation and accommodation for bathing or for washing clothes and utensils on each floor
of such building as the Commissioner may prescribe.
(2) In prescribing any such accommodation the Commissioner may determine in each case--
(a) whether such building shall be served by the service system or by the flush system or partly by the one and partly by the other;
(b) what shall be the site or position of each latrine, urinal, bathing or washing place or site and their number of each floor and their clear internal dimensions.
(3) It shall not be lawful to erect a residential building composed of separate tenements on the flat system without providing at least one latrine and one bathing or washing place for servants on the ground floor of such building or at any other suitable place in the same premises.
(4) In this section the expression to erect a building has the same meaning as in section 331.
(2) In prescribing any such accommodation the Commissioner may determine in each case--
(a) whether such building shall be served by the service system or by the flush system or partly by the one and partly by the other;
(b) what shall be the site or position of each latrine, urinal, bathing or washing place or site and their number of each floor and their clear internal dimensions.
(3) It shall not be lawful to erect a residential building composed of separate tenements on the flat system without providing at least one latrine and one bathing or washing place for servants on the ground floor of such building or at any other suitable place in the same premises.
(4) In this section the expression to erect a building has the same meaning as in section 331.