Section 285 in The Calcutta Municipal Corporation Act, 1980
285. Communication of municipal drains with drains, lakes, etc., beyond Calcutta. -
Subject to the approval of the State Government in this behalf, the Corporation may, if necessary, make its drains to communicate with, or empty themselves into, any public drain lake, stream, canal or water-course outside Calcutta, and in so doing it may exercise throughout the line of country outside Calcutta through which the said drains are to run all the powers which it might exercise under this Act if the said drains were to run entirely in Calcutta.
