Section 176
Power of entry for purpose of preventing spread of disease.
The Manipur Municipalities Act, 1994
About this Act
An Act to provide for constitution and organisation of municipalities in the Urban areas of Manipur and for matters connected therewith and incidental thereto.
The Nagar Panchayat or, as the
case may be, the Council may authorise any officer to enter, at any time between sunrise and sunset, after
three hours notice into any building or premises in which any infectious or contagious disease is reported
or suspected to exist, for the purposes of inspecting such building or premises on the basis of the report of
the officer. The Nagar Panchayat or the Council will have the power to declare that a person is suffering
from contagious disease and that house is infectious.