(1)It shall be lawful for a Grama Panchayat to direct by public notice that every furnace employed or to be employed, in any works or buildings used, for the purpose of any trade or manufacture whatsoever, within the limits of the Grama Panchayat, whether a steam engine is or is not used or employed therein, shall in all cases be constructed, supplemented or altered as to consume or burn or reduce as for as may be practicable the smoke arising from such furnace.(2)If any person shall, after such direction, use or permit to be used, any such furnace not so constructed, supplemented or altered or shall so negligently use or permit to be used any such furnace that the smoke arising therefrom shall not be effectually consumed or burnt as far as may be practicable, every person so offending being the owner or occupier of the said work or building or being an agent or other person employed by such owner or occupier for managing the same, shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees and upon any subsequent conviction with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees:Provided that nothing in this section shall be held to apply to locomotive engines used for the purpose of traffic upon any railway or for the repair of road.
