Section 204 in Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act, 1976
204. Power to require separate service pipes.
(1)The corporation may require the provision of a separate service pipe for each of the premises supplied or to be supplied by it with water.(2)If, in the case of any premises already supplied with water but not having a separate service pipe, the corporation gives notice to the owner of the premises requiring the provision of such a pipe, the owner shall, within three months, lay so much of the required pipe as will constitute a supply pipe and is not required to be laid in a street, and the corporation shall, within fourteen days after the owner has done so, lay so much of the required pipe as will constitute a communication pipe or a supply pipe to be laid in a street and make all necessary communications.(3)If an owner upon whom a notice has been served under sub-section (2) fails to comply therewith the corporation may itself execute the work which the owner was required to execute and recover the expenses reasonably incurred by it in executing the work as an arrear of water rate under this Act.
