Section 397:
Prohibition of nuisances.
(1) No person shall--
(a) in any public street or public place---
(i) ease himself; or
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(iv) carry meat exposed to public view; or
(v) picket animals, or collect carts; or
(vi) being engaged in the removal of rubbish, filth or other polluted and obnoxious matter
wilfully or negligently permit any portion thereof to spill or fail, or neglect to sweep away or
otherwise effectually to remove any portion thereof which may spill or fall in such street or place;
or
(vii) without proper authority affix, upon any building monument, post, wall, fence, tree or
other thing, any bill, notice or other document; or
(viii) without proper authority deface or write upon or otherwise mark any building,
monument, port, wall, fence, tree or other thing; or
(ix) without proper authority remove, destroy, deface or write upon or otherwise obliterate
any notice or other document put up or exhibited under this Act or the rules or bye-laws made
thereunder; or
(x) without proper authority displace, damage, make any alteration in, or otherwise interfere
with, the pavement, gutter, storm water-drain, flags or other materials of any such street, or any
lamp bracket, direction-post, hydrant or water-pipe maintained by 2[3[the Corporation]] in any such
street or place, or extinguish a public light; or
(xi) carry rubbish, filth or other polluted and obnoxious matter at any hour prohibited by the
Commissioner by public notice, or in any pattern of cart or receptacle which has not been
approved for the purpose by the Commissioner, or fail to close such cart or receptacle when in
use; or
(b) carry rubbish, filth or other polluted and obnoxious matter along any route in contravention of
any prohibition made in this behalf by the Commissioner by public notice; or
(c) deposit or cause or permit to be deposited, earth or materials of any description or any rubbish
or polluted and obnoxious matter in any place not intended for the purpose in any public street or
public place or waste or unoccupied land under the management of 2[3[the Corporation]]; or
(d) make any grave or burn or bury any corpse at any place not set apart for such purpose; or
(e) at any time or place at which the same has been prohibited by the Commissioner by public or
special notice, beat a drum or tom-tom, or blow a horn or trumpet, or beat any utensil, or sound any
brass or other instrument, or play any music; or
(f) disturb the public peace or order by singing, screaming or shouting, or by using any apparatus
for amplifying or reproducing the human voice, such as a megaphone or a loudspeaker; or
(g) let loose any animal so as to cause, or negligently allow any animal to cause, injury, danger,
alarm or annoyance to any person; or
(h) save with the written permission of the Commissioner and in such manner as he may
authorise, store or use night-soil, cow dung, manure, rubbish or any other substance emitting an
offensive smell; or
(i) use or permit to be used as a latrine any place not intended for that purpose.
(2) Every person shall take all reasonable means to prevent every child under the age of twelve years
being in his charge from easing himself in any public street or public place.
(3) The owner or keeper of any animal shall not allow it straying in a public street or public place
without a keeper.
(4) Any animal found straying as aforesaid may be removed by an officer or employee of the
Corporation or by any police officer to a pound.
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[Swine] found straying in a public street or public place shall be liable to be destroyed by any
officer or other employee of 2[3[the Corporation]] appointed in this behalf.
Notes:
1. Omitted by Act 52 of 1964, s. 3 and the Second Schedule (w.e.f. 29-12-1964).
2. Subs. by Delhi Act 12 of 2011, s. 2, for "the Corporation" (w.e.f. 13-1-2012).
3. Subs. by Act 10 of 2022, s. 2, for "a Corporation" (w.e.f.22-5-2022).
4. Subs. by Act 58 of 1960, s. 3 and the Second Schedule, for "Swines" (w.e.f. 26-12-1960).