Section 488 in The Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act, 1888
488. Commissioner, etc. may enter any premises for purposes of inspection, survey or execution of necessary work.
- The Commissioner [or General Manager] [These words were inserted by Bombay 48 of 1948, Section 49.] may enter into or upon any building or land, with or without assistants or workmen, in order to make any inspection or survey or to execute any work which is authorised by this Act or by any regulation or by-law framed under this Act to be made or executed, or which it is necessary for any of the purposes, or in pursuance of any of the provisions of this Act or of any regulation or by-law, to make or execute:Provided that-(a)except when it is in this Act otherwise expressly provided, no such entry shall be made between sunset and sunrise;(b)except when it is in this Act otherwise expressly provided, no building which is used as a human dwelling shall be so entered unless with the consent of the occupier thereof, without giving the said occupier not less than twenty-four hours' previous written notice of the intention to make such entry, and unless for any sufficient reason it shall be deemed inexpedient to furnish such information, of the purpose thereof;(c)sufficient notice shall in every instance be given, even when any premises may otherwise be entered without notice, to enable the inmates of any apartment appropriated to females to remove to some part of the premises where their privacy need not be disturbed;(d)due regard shall always be had, so far as may be compatible with the exigencies of the purpose for which the entry is made, to the social and religious usages cD the occupants of the premises entered.[Power of eviction] [This heading and section 488A were inserted by Bombay 34 of 1954, Section 31.]
