Section 288. Infected clothes not to be sent to washerman or to laundry

288. Infected clothes not to be sent to washerman or to laundry . — (1) A person shall not send or take to any washerman or to any laundry or place set apart for the exercise by washerman of their calling, for the purpose of being washed or to any place for the purpose of being cleansed, any cloth or other article which he knows to have been exposed to infection from a dangerous disease unless that cloth or article has been disinfected by or to the satisfaction of the officer authorised in this behalf. (2) The occupier of any building in which a person is suffering from a dangerous disease shall, if required by the officer authorised by the Chairperson, furnish to him the address of any washerman to whom or any laundry or other place to which clothes and other articles from the building have been, or will be, sent during the continuance of the disease, for the purpose of being washed or cleaned. 289. Contamination and disinfection of public conveyance . — (1) Whoever — (a) uses a public conveyance while suffering from a dangerous disease; or (b) uses a public conveyance for the carriage of a person who is suffering from any dangerous disease; or (c) uses a public conveyance for the carriage of the corpse of a person who has died from any such disease, shall be bound to take proper precautions against the communication of the disease to other persons using or who may thereafter use the conveyance and to notify such use to the owner, driver, or person in charge of the conveyance, and further report without delay to the Chairperson the number of the conveyance and the name of the person so notified. (2) Where any person suffering from, or the corpse of any person who has died from, a dangerous disease has been carried in public conveyance which ordinarily plies in New Delhi or any part thereof, the driver thereof shall forthwith report the fact to the Chairperson who shall forthwith cause the conveyance to be disinfected if that has not already been done. (3) No such conveyance shall be again brought into use until the officer authorised by the Chairperson has granted a certificate stating that it can be used without causing risk of infection. (4) Whoever fails to make to the Chairperson any report which he is required to make under this section shall be guilty of an offence.