The Municipal Council may, by written notice require that any sewer, drain, privy, urinal, watercloset, house-gully or cesspool on any land within the municipal limits, constructed, or rebuilt or unstopped, --

(a) after such land became part of a¹[municipal area], and

(b) either without the consent or contrary to the orders, directions or general regulations or bye-laws of the municipal council, or contrary to the provisions of any enactment in force at the time when it was so constructed, rebuilt or unstopped,

shall be demolished, or altered, as it may deem fit, by the person by whom it was so constructed, rebuilt or unstopped, and every person so constructing, rebuilding or unstopping, any such sewer, drain, privy, water-closet, house-gully or cesspool, whether he does or does not receive such notice, or does or does not comply therewith, shall, in addition to any penalty to which he may be liable on account of such non-compliance, be punished with fine which may extend to twenty-five rupees.

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1. Substituted by Act 36 of 1994 w.e.f. 1.6.1994.