Section 153 · Brothel

On the complaint of the committee or of three or more inhabitants of a municipality that a house within the limits of the municipality is used as a brothel or by disordely persons of any description to the annoyance of the respectable inhabitants of the vicinity or that any such house is used as a brothel in the neighbourhood of cantonment or of an educational institution or boarding house or of any place of worship any magistrate of the 1st class having as such jurisdiction in the place where the house is situated may summon the owner or tenant of the house and on being satisfied that the house is so used and that it is a source of annoyance or offence to the neighbours, or that it is in the neighbourhood of a cantonment or of an educational institution or boarding-house, or of any place of worship, may order the owner or tenant to discontinue such use of it and if he shall fail to comply with such order within five The Punjab Municipal Act, 1911, Section 154 days, may impose upon him a fine not exceeding twenty-five rupees for every day thereafter that the house shall be so used. Scavenging and House-scavenging