Section 155 · Failure to remove offensive matter

Whoever, being the owner or occupier of any building or land, keeps or knowingly or negligently allows to be kept for more than twenty-four hours on otherwise than in some proper receptacle or pit, any dirt, dung, bones, ashes, night-soil or filth or any noxious or offensive matter in or upon such building or land, or suffers any such receptacle or pit to be in a filthy or noxious state, or neglects to employ proper means to cleanse and purify the same, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to º[five hundred rupees]. [156. Depositing or throwing of earth or material of any description on roads or into drains. - Whoever, without the permission of the committee or in disregard 1. Substituted for the words 'order passed by the committee' by Punjab Act 5 of 1951, Section 6 (a) 2. Substituted for the word "order" by Punjab Act 5 of 1951, Section 6(a) 3. Substituted for the words "order of the committee" by Punjab Act 5 of 1951, Section 6(6) 4. The words "or the Commissioner" omitted by Punjab Act 34 of 1953, Section 3 and, schedule III 5. Substituted by Punjab Act 34 of 1953, Section 3 and schedule III for 'him' 6. The words "or the Commissioner as the case may be" omitted by Punjab Act 34 of 1953 7. Proviso omitted by Punjab Act 34 of 1953 8. Substituted by Punjab Act 8 of 1974, Section 9 9. Substituted by Punjab Act 3 of 1933, Section 53 The Punjab Municipal Act, 1911, Section 156-A of its order, throws or deposits, or permits his servants or members of his household under his control to throw or deposit earth or materials of any description, or refuse, rubbish or offensive matter of any kind upon any street or public place or into any irrigation channel or public sewer or public drain or into any drain communicating with an irrigation channel or a public sewer or public drain, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to "[five hundred rupees]. 2[156-A. Spitting in places other than drains or receptacles provided. - Whoever, in a public place within the limits of a municipality to which the operation of this section has been extended by a notification by the State Government in this behalf, spits in a place other than a drain or a receptacle provided by the committee for this purpose shall, on conviction by a Magistrate of the first or second class, be punishable with fine which may extend to "[five hundred rupees]. 9