Section 76E in The Goa, Daman and Diu Public Health Act, 1985
76E. Probability for certain acts likely to breed mosquitoes.
(1)The owner or occupier of any house, building or shed or land shall not keep therein any bottle, vessel, can or any other container, broken or unbroken, in such manner that it is likely to collect and retain water which may breed mosquitoes.(2)All burrow pits required to be dug in the course of construction and repair of roads, railways, embankments, etc., shall be so cut as to ensure that water does not remain stagnant in them and borrow pits shall be so graded and profiled that the water will drain off by drainage channels/connections from one pit to the other till the nearest natural drainage/nullah is met with. No person shall create any isolated burrow pit which is likely to cause accumulation of water that may breed mosquitoes.
