THE NEW DELHI MUNICIPAL COUNCIL ACT, 1994

CHAPTER - XVII
PUBLIC SAFETY AND SUPPERESSION OF NUISANCES

NUISANCES

Prohibition of Nuisances.
308.
 
 
(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.


Duties of registrar.
309.
 
 

Where the Chairperson is of opinion that there is a nuisance on any land or building, he may, by notice in writing require the person by whose act, default or sufferance the nuisance arises or continues or the power, lessee or occupier of the land or building, or any or more or these persons, to remove or abate the nuisance by taking such measures in such manner and within such period as may be specified in the notice.


DOGS

Registration and control of dogs.
310.
 
 
(1)

The Council may, by bye-laws made in this behalf, -

(a)

require that every registration, by registration appointed by the Chairperson in this behalf of all dogs kept within New Delhi.

(b)

require that every registered dog shall wear a collar to which shall be attached a meal token to be issued by the registration authority, and fix and fee payable for the issue thereof;

(c)

require that any dog which has not been registered or which is not wearing such token shall, if found in any public place, be detained at a place set apart for the purpose; and

(d)

fix the fee which shall be charged for such detention and provide that any such dog shall be liable to be destroyed or otherwise disposed of unless it is claimed and the fee in respect thereof is paid within one week.

(2)

The Chairperson may-

(a)

cause to be destroyed, or to be confined for such period as he may direct, any dog or other animal which is, or is reasonably suspected tto be, suffering from rabies, or which had been bitten by any dog or other animal suffering or suspected to be suffering from rabies;

(b)

by public notice direct that, after such date as may be specified in the notice, dogs which are without collars or without marks distinguishing them as private property and are found straying on the streets or beyond the enclosures of the houses of their owners, if any may be destroyed and cause them to be destroyed accordingly.

(3)

No damages shall be payable in respect of any dog or other animal destroyed or otherwise disposed of under his section.

(4)

No one being the owner or person in charge of any dog, shall allow it to be at large in any public street or public place without being muzzled and without being secured by a chain lead in any case in which-

(a)

he knows that the dog is likely o annoy or intimidate any person, or

(b)

The Chairperson has, by public notice during the prevalence of rabies, directed that dogs shall not be at large without muzzles and chain leads.

(5)

No one shall -

(a)

allow any ferocious dog which belongs to him 9or is in his charge without being muzzled, or

(b)

set on or urge any dog or other animal to attack, worry or intimidate any person; or

(c)

knowing or having reason to believe, that any dog or animal belong to him or in his charge has been bitten by an animal suffering or reasonable suspected to be suffering form rabies, fails or neglect to give immediate information of the fact to the Chairperson or give information which is false.


NOTES ON CLAUSES
These clauses relate to public safety and suppression of nuisances and registration and control of dogs.


PREVENTION OF FIRE, ETC.

Registration and control of dogs.
311.
 
 

The Chairperson may, by public notice, prohibit in any case where such prohibition appears o him to be necessary for prevention of danger to life or property, the stacking or collecting or wood. Dry grass, straw or other inflammable materials, or the placing of mats or thatched huts or the lighting of fires in any place which may be specified in the notice.


Care naked lights.
312.
 
 

No person shall set a naked light on or near any building in any public street or other public place in such manner as to cause danger of fire :

Provided that nothing in this section shall be deemed to prohibit the use of lights for the purposes of illumination on the occasion of a festival or public or private entertainment.


Discharging fireworks, fire-arms, etc.
313.
 
 

No one shall discharge any fire-arms or let off fire-works or fire-balloons, or engage in any game in such manner as to cause or to be likely to cause danger to person passing by or dwelling or working in the neighbourhood or risk of injury to property.


NOTES ON CLAUSES
These clauses relates to prevention of fire, etc.

Power to require buildings, wells, etc., to be rendered safe.
314.
 
 

Where any building, or well, or anything affixed thereto, or any well, tank, reservoir, pool, depression, or excavation, or any bank or tree, is in the opinion of the Chairperson, in a ruinous state, for want of sufficient repairs, protection or enclosure, a nuisance or dangerous to persons passing by or dwelling or working in the neighbourhood, the Chairperson may by notice in writing require the owner or part owner person claiming to be the owner part-owner thereof or failing any of them the occupier thereof to remove the same or may require him to repair, protect or enclose the same in such manner as he think necessary; and ;if the danger is, in the opinion of the Chairperson imminent, he shall forthwith take such steps as he thinks necessary to avert the same.


NOTES ON CLAUSES
These clause provides that Chairperson may require building, well, etc, o be rendered safe.

Enclosure of waste land used for improper purpose.
315.
 
 

The Chairperson may, by notice in writing, require the owner or part-owner, or person claiming to be the owner or part-owner of nay land or building, or the lessee, or the person claiming to be the lessee of any such land which, by reason of disuse or disputed ownership or other cause, has remained unoccupied and has become the resort of idle and disorderly persons or of person who have no ostensible means of subsistence or cannot give satisfactory account of themselves or is used for gaming or immoral purposes or otherwise occasions or is likely to occasion a nuisance, to secure and enclose the same within such time as may be specified in the notice.


NOTES ON CLAUSES
These clauses provides that the Chairperson may require owners of land and building unoccupied but use for improper or immoral purposes to secure and enclose the same.

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