GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGAL
LAW DEPARTMENT
Legislative
NOTIFICATION
No. 628-L.-17th April, 2018.-The following Act of the West Bengal Legislature, having been assented to by the
Governor, is hereby published for general information:-
West Bengal Act X of 2018
THE KOLKATA MUNICIPAL CORPORATION (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2018.
[Passed by the West Bengal Legislature.]
[Assent of the Governor was first published in the Kolkata Gazette, Extraordinary, of the 17th April, 2018.)
Short title and commencement.
An Act to amend the Kolkata Municipal Corporation Act, 1980.
WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Kolk.ata Municipal Corporation Act, 1980,
for the purpose and in the manner hereinafter appearing;
It is hereby enacted in the Sixty-ninth Year of the Republic of India, by the Legislature of West Bengal, as follows:-
1. (1) This Act may be called the Kolk.ata Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Act, 2018.
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Act, 2018.
(Section 2.)
(2) This section shall come into force at once; and the remaining section shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
2. After section 496 of the Kolk.a ta Municipal Corporation Act, 1980; the following section shall be inserted:-
“Prevention of 496A. (1) If, in the opinion of the Municipal Commissioner, any
mosquitobreeding pool, ditch, tank, well, pond, swamp, quarry, hole, drain, cesspool,
watercourse, pit, cistern, desert or air-cooler, ground, underground, or overhead tank
or any collection of water, or any land on which water may, at any time, accumulate,
is or likely to become a breeding place of mosquitoes or, in any other respect, becomes
a nuisance, the Commissioner may, by notice, require the owner or occupier or the
person having control thereof to take all or any of the following actions:-
(a) to clean, or drain off or remove water therefrom, or to provide cover thereto, or
(b) to treat the same in such physical, chemical or biological method as may consider suitable in the circumstances, or
(c) to fill up unwholesome waterbody:
Provided that any unwholesome waterbody may be filled up only after compliance
with the provisions of section 4C of the West Bengal Land Reforms Act, 1955, by the
owner or the person having control thereof.
(2) No person shall keep, or permitted to be kept or maintained, within any premises
or land any collection of stagnant or flowing water which, in the opinion of the Municipal Commissioner, is, or is likely to be, a breeding place for mosquitoes, unless such collection of water is treated in such manner as may effectively prevent the breeding of mosquitoes.
(3) All borrow pits dug in the course of construction and repairs of buildings, roads,
or embankments shall be deep and connected with each other in the formation of a drain directed towards the lowest level and properly sloped for discharge into a river, stream, channel, or drain, and no person shall create any isolated borrow pit which is likely to cause accumulation of water which again, in tum, may breed mosquitoes.
( 4) The owner or occupier or any person having control of any premises or land shall
not keep therein any bottle, tyre ( old or new), vessel, can, container or receptacle in such
manner as may allow it to collect, or to retain, water which may breed mosquitoes, and
shall clean and dry such bottle, tyre ( old or new), vessel, can, container or receptacle at
the interval of seven days.
(5) The owner or occupier or any person having control of any premises or land shall
wrap the openings of the vent-pipes and the outlets of septic tanks with proper
mosquito-proof nets and shall maintain covering slabs of septic tanks to prevent entry
and exit of mosquitoes.
(6) The owneroroccupieror any person having control of any premises or land shall seal the overhead tanks, cisterns or waterreceptacles to prevent mosquito breeding, and shall provide safe ladder for making the overhead tanks or cisterns or water receptacles approachable in order to facilitate inspection of the water therein by the Municipal authorities or the officers of the Corporation, as the case may be.