Section 288(2) in Gauhati Municipal Corporation Act, 1971
(2)Notwithstanding anything contained in any enactment relating to public conveyances for the time being in force, no owner or driver or person in-charge of a public conveyance shall be bound to carry any person suffering as aforesaid or any such dead body in such conveyance unless payment or tender of sufficient compensation for the loss and expenses he must incur in disinfecting such conveyance is first of all made to him.