# The Assam Municipal Corporation Act, 2022, Section 229

- Act: The Assam Municipal Corporation Act, 2022 (Act 8 of 2022)
- Source URL: https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/assam-municipal-corporation-act-2022/section/229/

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(1) It shall be the duty of the Corporation to take such measures as are necessary for preventing, or checking the spread of, any dangerous disease in the Municipal Corporation area or of any epidemic disease among any animals therein. (2) Any person, whether as a medical practitioner or otherwise, being in charge of, or in attendance upon, any other person whom he knows or has reason to believe to be suffering from a dangerous disease, or being the owner, lessee, or occupier of any building in which he knows that any such person is so suffering, shall forthwith give information respecting the existence of such disease to the Commissioner. Power of 230. Commissionerto take measures for prevention of spread of dangerous disease. (1) The Commissioner may, at any time, by day or by night, and with or without notice, inspect any place in which any dangerous disease is reported or suspected to exist, and take such measures as he may think fit to prevent the spread of such disease beyond such place, and shall forthwith send information thereof to the State Government, the District Magistrate and the senior most functionary of the Health Department of the State Government in the District. (2) When any person suffering from any dangerous disease is found to be - (a) without proper lodging or accommodation, or (b) living in a room or house which he neither owns nor pays rent for, nor occupies as a guest or relative of the person who owns, or pays rent for such room or house, or (c) living in a sarai, hotel, boarding-house, or hostel, or (d) lodged in premises occupied by members of two or more families, the Commissioner or any person authorized by him in this behalf may, on the advice of any Medical Officer, remove the patient to any hospital or place at which persons suffering from such disease are received for medical treatment and may do anything necessary for such removal. Power of Commissioner to cleanse, disinfect, destroy, or control places of infection.

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