Section 569 in Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Act, 1955
569. Government may direct closing of place for disposal of dead.
(1)If, from information furnished by competent persons and after personal inspection, the Commissioner shall at any time be of opinion,(a)that any place of public worship, is or is likely to become injurious to health by reason of the state of the vaults or graves within the walls of or underneath the same, or in any churchyard or burial ground adjacent thereto, or,(b)that any other place used for the disposal of the dead is in such a state as to be or to be likely to become injurious to health or is otherwise no longer suitable for such use, he may submit his said opinion with the reason therefor, to the Corporation, which shall forward the same, with its opinion, for the consideration of the Government.(2)Upon receipt of such opinion, the Government after such further enquiry, if any, as it shall deem fit to cause to be made, may, by notification published in the *Telangana Gazette and in the local newspapers, direct that such place of public worship or other place for the disposal of the dead be no longer used for the disposal of the dead. Every order so made shall be noted, in the register kept under section 566.(3)On the expiration of two months from the date of any such order of the Government, the place to which the same relates shall be closed for the disposal of the dead.(4)A copy of the said notification, with a translation thereof in such language, or languages, as the Corporation may, from time to time, specify, shall be affixed on a conspicuous spot on or near the place to which the same relates, unless such place be a place of public worship.
