15. All Bye-Laws made by the Board under the provisions of this Ordinance shall be submitted to the Governor and shall not take effect until approved by the Legislative Council. And all such Bye-Laws when so approved shall be published in the Government Gazette and shall have the same force of law and be equally binding and valid as if they had been contained in this Ordinance.
16. The Sanitary Superintendent shall enforce the practical execution of all Sanitary Laws and of all Bye-Laws approved as aforesaid.
17. The Sanitary Superintendent shall be subject to the control of the Board and shall obey and carry out all lawful instructions given to him by the Board, and shall at each meeting of the same, duly report the proceedings taken by him in pursuance of such instructions.
18. The Sanitary Surveyors shall be subject to the control of the Board and shall carry out all lawful instructions conveyed to them through the Sanitary Superintendent.
19. The word Nuisance as used in this Ordinance shall include:-
1. Any failure to supply or any inadequate or defective provision of drain, drain-trap, ventilating-pipe, privy, subsoil-drainage or cess-pool accommodation, any building or part of a building so dark, ill-ventilated or so overcrowded as to be dangerous or prejudicial to the health of the inmates, or the clear cubic capacity of which is less than three hundred cubic feet for each person or inmate passing the night therein, and any other matter or circumstance whereby any premises are rendered unhealthy.
2. Any street or road, or any part thereof, or any water-course, nullah, ditch, gutter, side channel, drain, ashpit, sewer, privy, urinal, or cess-pool so foul as to be noxious or loathsome, or unhealthy.
3. Any water-course, well, tank, pool, pond, canal, conduit or cistern, the water of which from any cause is so tainted with impurities, or so unwholesome as to be injurious to the health of persons living near or using such water, or which is likely to promote or aggravate epidemic disease.
4. Any stable, cow-house, pig-sty or other premises for the use of animals which is in such a condition as to be injurious to health.
5. Any accumulation or deposit of stagnant water, sullage-water, manure, dirt, house-refuse, or other matter wherever situated which is unhealthy.
6. Any noxious matter, or waste waters, flowing or discharged from any premises wherever situated, into any public street, road, or into the gutter or side-channel of any street or road, or into any nullah or water-course, or the bed thereof.
7. Any manufactory, trade, or business of a noxious, noisome or unhealthy nature.
8. Any cemetery or place of burial so situated or so conducted as to be unhealthy.
9. Any act, omission, or thing which is, or may be, dangerous to life or injurious to health or property.
20. It shall be lawful for the Board on reasonable presumption of the existence of a Nuisance on any premises, by an Order in writing to authorize the Sanitary Superintendent, the Sanitary Surveyors, or an Inspector of Nuisances with any assistant or assistants to enter such premises at any time between six in the morning and six in the evening and to inspect the same, and the Inspecting Officer shall on demand produce and show the Order to any person being or claiming to be, the occupier of such premises.
21. It shall be lawful for the Sanitary Board in any case where the existence of a Nuisance is ascertained to its satisfaction, to issue a Notice through its Secretary calling on the author of the Nuisance to abate, remedy, or remove such Nuisance within reasonable time, such time to be named in the Notice, and not to be less than twenty-four hours or more than one month from the time of service of such Notice, unless cause be shown to the Board for prolonging such delay.
22. Such Notice may require the author of any Nuisance to provide or employ sufficient means of cleansing, drainage, subsoil-drainage, sewerage, lighting or ventilation; to provide proper privy accommodation; to pave, concrete,
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