THE NEW DELHI MUNICIPAL COUNCIL ACT, 1994

CHAPTER - XVII
PUBLIC SAFETY AND SUPPERESSION OF NUISANCES

Nuisances

Prohibition of Nuisances.
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(1)

No person shall-

(a)

in any public street or public place-

(i)

ease himself; or

(ii)

carry meat exposed to public view; or

(iii)

picked animals or collect carts; or

(iv)

being engaged in the removal or rubbish, filth or other polluted and obnoxious matter willfully or negligently permit any portion thereof to spill or fall, or neglect to sweep away or otherwise effectually to remove any portion thereof which may spill or fall in such street or place; or

(v)

without proper authority affix, upon any building, monument, post, wall, fence, tree or other thing, any bill, notice or other document; or

(vi)

without proper authority deface or write upon or otherwise mark any building monument post, wall, fence, tree or other thing; or

(vii)

without proper authority remove, destroy, deface or otherwise obliterate any notice or other document put up or exhibited under this Act or the rules or bye-laws made thereunder; or

(viii)

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 the Council in any such street or place or extinguish a public light; or

(ix)

carry rubbish filth or other polluted and obnoxious matter a any hour prohibited by the Chairperson by public notice, or in any pattern of cart or receptacle which has not been approved for he purpose by the Chairperson, or extinguish a public light; or

(b)

carry rubbish, filth or other polluted and obnoxious mater along route in contravention of any prohibition made in this behalf by the Chairperson 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 no intended for the purpose in any public street or public place or waste or unoccupied land under the control and management of the Council; or

(d)

make any grave or burn or bury any corpse a any place not set apart for such purpose; or

(e)

at any time or place a which the same has been prohibited by the Chairperson 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 he human voice, such as a megaphone or a loudspeaker; or

(g)

let loose any animal so as to cause, or negligently allow any animal or cause injury, danger, alarm or annoyance to any person; or

(h)

save with the written permission of the Chairperson and in such manner as he may authorize, store or use night-soil, cowdung, manure, rubbish or any other substance emitting as offensive smell; or

(i)

use or permit to be used as a latrine or urinal any place not intended for that purpose.

(2)

Every person shall take all reasonable means to prevent every child under he age of twelve year: 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 he Council or by any police officer o a pound.

(5)

Swine found straying in a public street or public place be liable o be destroyed by any officer or other employee of the Council appointed in this behalf.

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