{"act":{"id":"assam-municipal-corporation-act-2022","short_title":"The Assam Municipal Corporation Act, 2022","long_title":null,"act_number":"8","act_year":2022,"enact_date":null,"enforcement_date":null,"ministry":null,"department":null,"jurisdiction":"Assam","unit":"section","section_count":368,"in_force":true,"spent":false,"spent_note":null,"duplicate_of":null,"text_source":"ocr","scan_url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/scan/4bdb8f2a-0dcc-4f76-9c7c-8d6da8ab50d9.pdf","url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/assam-municipal-corporation-act-2022/"},"unit":"section","section":{"number":"221","heading":null,"text":"The Commissioner may, by order, - (a) regulate the use by the public of any river or other public place, whether vested in the Corporation or not, for bathing or washing, (b) prohibit the use by the public of any lake, tank, reservoir, fountain, cistern, duct, stand-pipe, stream or well or any part of any river, whether vested in the Corporation or not, for bathing or washing, (c) prohibit steeping in any tank, reservoir, stream, well or ditch of any animal, vegetable or mineral matter likely to render the water thereof offensive or dangerous to health, (d) prohibit bathing in any lake, tank, reservoir, fountain, cistern, duct, stand-pipe, stream or well by a person suffering from any contagious or infectious disease, (e) prohibit any person engaged in any trade or manufacture from causing to flow into any lake, tank, reservoir, cistern, well, duct or other place for storage of water, whether vested in the Corporation or not, or drain or pipe communicating therewith, any washing or other substance produced in the course of any such trade or manufacture, or wilfully do any act connected with any such trade or manufacture whereby such water is likely to be fouled, (f) prohibit, by notice, the washing of clothes by washermen in pursuance of their calling, except at such places as may be licensed for this purpose. C. Public Conveniences Public latrines and urinals.","html":"<p>The Commissioner may, by order, - (a) regulate the use by the public of any river or other public place, whether vested in the Corporation or not, for bathing or washing, (b) prohibit the use by the public of any lake, tank, reservoir, fountain, cistern, duct, stand-pipe, stream or well or any part of any river, whether vested in the Corporation or not, for bathing or washing, (c) prohibit steeping in any tank, reservoir, stream, well or ditch of any animal, vegetable or mineral matter likely to render the water thereof offensive or dangerous to health, (d) prohibit bathing in any lake, tank, reservoir, fountain, cistern, duct, stand-pipe, stream or well by a person suffering from any contagious or infectious disease, (e) prohibit any person engaged in any trade or manufacture from causing to flow into any lake, tank, reservoir, cistern, well, duct or other place for storage of water, whether vested in the Corporation or not, or drain or pipe communicating therewith, any washing or other substance produced in the course of any such trade or manufacture, or wilfully do any act connected with any such trade or manufacture whereby such water is likely to be fouled, (f) prohibit, by notice, the washing of clothes by washermen in pursuance of their calling, except at such places as may be licensed for this purpose. C. Public Conveniences Public latrines and urinals.</p>","words":231,"text_source":"ocr"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/assam-municipal-corporation-act-2022/section/221/","note":null,"source_note":"Read from the Government's own scanned gazette with Azure Document Intelligence, then split into sections by their numbering. India Code publishes no text for this Act. The scan itself is mirrored into our own storage and served at /scan/4bdb8f2a-0dcc-4f76-9c7c-8d6da8ab50d9.pdf, so the reading here can be checked against the page it came from without depending on India Code's own copy staying where it is (it was at https://indiacode.gov.in/server/api/core/bitstreams/610a677f-104b-48d6-a380-d50e09198f79/content).","judgments_note":"Judgment holdings are the ratio decidendi as extracted from the order by eCourts India, reproduced unaltered. Reported judgments only.","licence":"Published with commentary and other original matter under s.52(1)(q)(ii), Copyright Act 1957."}