THE NEW DELHI MUNICIPAL COUNCIL ACT, 1994 · WATER SUPPLY, DRAINAGE AND SEWAGE COLLECTION — Drainage and sewerage
Section 173 — Certain matters not to be passed into municipal drains
(1)No person shall throw, empty, or turn into any municipal drain or into any drain communicating with a municipal drain—
(a)any matter likely to injure the drain or to interfere with the free flow of its contents, or to affect prejudicially the treatment and disposal of its contents; or
(b)any chemical, refuse or waste steam, or any liquid of a temperature higher than forty-five degrees centigrade, being refuse or steam which, or a liquid which when so heated, is, either alone or in combination with the contents of the drain, dangerous, or the cause of a nuisance, or prejudicial to health; or
(c)any dangerous petroleum.
(2)In this section, the expression “dangerous petroleum” has the same meaning as in the Petroleum Act, 1934 (30 of 1934).