Cantonments Act,1924
Act No : 2
Section : POWER OF BOARD TO LAY WIRES, CONNECTIONS, ETC
SECTION 227: POWER OF BOARD TO LAY WIRES, CONNECTIONS, ETC
- Aa[Board] may carry any cable, wire, pipe, drain, sewer or channel of any kind,-
(a) for the purpose of carrying out, establishing or maintaining any system of water-supply, lighting, drainage, or sewerage, through, across, under or over any road or street, or any place laid out or intended as a road or street or, after giving reasonable notice in writing to the owner or occupier, into, through, across, under or over any land or building, or up the side of any building, situated within the cantonment, or
(b) for the purpose of supplying water or of the introduction or distribution of outfall of water or for the removal or outfall of sewage, after giving reasonable notice in writing to the owner or occupier, into, through, across, under or over any land or building, or up the side of any building, situated outside the cantonment; and may at all times do all acts and things which may.be necessary or expedient for repairing or maintaining any such cable, wire, pipe, drain, sewer or channel in an effective state for the purpose for which the same may be used or is intended to be used : Provided that no nuisance shall be caused in excess of what is reasonably necessary for the proper execution of the work: Provided, further, that compensation shall be payable to the owner or occupier for any dmage sustained by him which is directly occasional by the carrying out of any Such operation.
