Section: 293A

(as per Guwahati Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Act 2021)

(1) No person as proprietor, owner, licensee of any premises or land shall allow any accumulation of water in which mosquitoes breed or are likely to breed unless such collection has been so treated as effectively to prevent such breeding.

(2) The Health Officer of the Corporation may by notice in writing, require the owner or the occupier of such land containing any collection of standing or flowing water in which mosquitoes breed or likely to breed, within such time not being less than twenty four hours, to take such measures with respect to the same, or to treat the same by such physical, chemical or biological method, being measures or a method, as the Health Officer may consider suitable in the circumstances.

(3) If the person on whom a notice is served under subsection (1) of section 294 fails or refuses to take the measures, or adopt the method of treatment specified in such notice within the time specified in the notice, the Health Officer may himself take such measures or adopt such treatment, specified in such notice within the time specified therein, and recover the cost of doing so from the owner or occupier of the property, as the case may be, in the same manner as if it was a property tax.

(4) The owner or occupier of any house, building shed or land shall not therein keep any bottle, vessel, can or any other container, broken or unbroken, in such manner that it is likely to collect and retain water which may breed mosquitoes.

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[Clarification: in the subsection 3 above, in the portion kept in bold and red, there is reference to subsection (1) of section 294. But, section 294 is related to burning and burial grounds and there is no subsection or clauses in section 294 of the principal act of 1969. However, I'm not sure if this is addressed in any amendments. As it is a legal matter, I would thus refrain myself from making any additional comments.

Regards,

Dr. Kumar Partha Pratim,

MBBS, DO, MD]