Section 199(2) in Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act, 1976
(2)Where a service pipe has been lawfully laid in, over or on the land not forming part of a street or land referred to in sub-section (1), such officers as the Commissioner may authorise may enter upon that land and inspect, repair, alter, renew or remove the pipe or lay a new pipe in substitution thereof but shall pay compensation for any damage done in the course of such action.