Section 173:
Certain matters not to be passed into municipal drains.
(1) No person shall throw, empty,
or turn into any municipal drain or into any drain communicating with a municipal drain--
(a) any matter likely to injure the drain or to interfere with the free flow of its contents, or to
affect prejudicially the treatment and disposal of its contents; or
(b) any chemical, refuse or waste steam, or any liquid of a temperature higher than forty-five
degrees centigrade, being refuse or steam which, or a liquid which when so heated, is, either alone or
in combination with the contents of the drain, dangerous, or the cause of a nuisance, or prejudicial to
health; or
(c) any dangerous petroleum.
(2) In this section, the expression "dangerous petroleum" has the same meaning as in the Petroleum
Act, 1934 (30 of 1934).