152. Power over disorderly houses and prostitutes.
(1)The committee may by public notice, prohibit in any specified part of the municipality -(a)the keeping of a brothel ;(b)the residence of any person who practices prostitution.(2)Whoever after the date specified in the public notice issued under sub- section (1) -(a)keeps or manages or acts or assists in the management of a brothel within the prohibited area ; or(b)being the tenant, lessee or occupier of any premises knowingly permits such premises or any part thereof to be used as a brothel or for the purposes of habitual prostitution within the prohibited area ; or(c)being the lessor or landlord, of any premises, or the agent to such lessor or landlord, lets the same or any part thereof, within the prohibited area with the knowledge that such premises or some part thereof are, or is used as a brothel or for the purposes of habitual prostitution, or is wilfully a party to the continued use of such premises as a brothel or for the purposes of habitual prostitution ; or(d)being a practising prostitute resides within the prohibited area ;shall be punishable with imprisonment of either description, for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees or with both, and in the case of a continuing offence with an additional fine not exceeding ten rupees for every day after the first during which the offence continues.
