Section 97. Buildings, &c., in ruinous or dangerous state

97. Buildings, &c., in ruinous or dangerous state. Buildings and Grounds in unsanitary condition. 98. Power to require owner to clear away noxious vegetation. 99. Power to trim hedges and trees bordering on streets, wells, &c. 100. Cleansing of filthy buildings or land. 97. If any building, wall, structure or anything affixed thereto is deemed by the committee to be in a ruinous state or in any way dangerous, it may, by notice, require the owner or occupier thereof forthwith either to remove the same or to cause such repairs to be made to the building, wall or structure as the committee considers necessary for the public safety; and, if it appears to it to be necessary in order to prevent imminent danger, the committee shall forthwith take such steps as are necessary to avert the danger. Buildings 222 Burma Municipalities. [ACT XVII. (Chapter VI.—Powers for Sanitary and other Purposes.—Sections 98—103.) Buildings and Grounds in unsanitary condition. | Power to require owner to clear away noxious vegetation. | 98. The committee may, by notice, require the owner or occupier of any land to clear away and remove any thick or noxious vegetation, jungle or undergrowth which appears to the committee to be injurious to health or offensive to the neighbourhood. | | --- | --- | | Power to trim hedges and trees bordering on streets, wells, &c. | 99. The committee may, by notice, require the owner or occupier of any land, within three days, to cut or trim the hedges thereof bordering on any street, or branches of trees growing thereon which overhang any street and obstruct the same or cause danger thereto, or which so overhang any well, tank or other source from which water is derived for public use as to be likely to pollute the water thereof. | | Cleansing of filthy buildings or land. | 100. If the owner or occupier of any building or land suffers the same to be in a filthy or unwholesome state, the committee may, by notice, require him within twenty-four hours to cleanse the same or otherwise put it in a proper state. | | Power to prohibit use for human habitation of buildings unfit for such use. | 101. If any building appears to the committee to be unfit for human habitation in consequence of the want of proper means of drainage or ventilation or other sufficient reason, the committee may, by notice, prohibit the owner or occupier thereof from using the same for human habitation or suffering it to be so used, until the committee is satisfied that it has been rendered fit for such use. | | Power to require untenanted buildings becoming a nuisance to be secured or enclosed. | 102. The committee may, by notice, require the owner or person claiming to be the owner of any building or land which, by reason of abandonment or disputed ownership or other cause, remains untenanted and thereby becomes a resort of idle and disorderly persons or otherwise a nuisance, to secure or enclose the same within a reasonable time fixed in the notice. | | Cultivation, use of manure or irrigation | 103. (1) The committee, on the report of the Sanitary Commissioner that the cultivation of any description of crop or the use of any kind of manure or | 1884.] Burma Municipalities. 223 (Chapter VI.—Powers for Sanitary and other Purposes.—Section 104.) or the irrigation of land in any specified manner in any place within the limits of the municipality is injurious to the health of persons dwelling in the neighbourhood, may, with the previous sanction of the Local Government, by notification prohibit the cultivation of the crop, the use of the manure or the irrigation so reported to be injurious, or regulate it by imposing such conditions thereon as may prevent the injury: Provided that when on any land to which the notification applies that description of crop has been cultivated, that kind of manure has been used or irrigation has been practised in that manner during the five years preceding the notification with such continuity as the ordinary course of husbandry admits of, compensation shall be paid from the municipal fund to all persons interested in that land for any damage caused to them by the prohibition or regulation. (2) If any person cultivates, uses manure or irrigates in disregard of the prohibition or conditions notified under sub-section (1), he shall be punishable with fine which may extend to fifty rupees, and with a further fine which may extend to five rupees for every day after the first during which the offence is continued. Offensive and Dangerous Trades.