Section 274A in The Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act, 1888
274A. [ Provisions for keeping cisterns locked. [This section was inserted by Bombay 5 of 1938, Section 28.]
(1)The Commissioner may, by written notice, require the owner of any premises furnished with a cistern or in respect of which the Commissioner has required a cistern to be furnished, to provide such cistern with a lock and key of such pattern, material and quality as the Commissioner shall in such notice prescribe, and may in like manner require any lock or key found to be defective on an inspection under section 278 to be replaced.(2)Every cistern so provided with a lock shall be kept permanently locked and the key shall then be delivered to the Commissioner.]
