Act Number: 44

Act Name: The New Delhi Municipal Council Act, 1994

Year: 1994

Enactment Date: 1994-07-14

Long Title: An Act to provide for the establishment of the New Delhi Municipal Council and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs

Department:

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).
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