Section 290 in The Chhattisgarh Municipalities Act, 1961
290. Power over disorderly houses and prostitutes.
(1)The Council may, by a notice in the prescribed manner, prohibit in any specified part of the Municipal area-(a)the keeping of a brothel;(b)the residence of any person who practices prostitution.(2)Whoever, after the date of the notice issued under sub-section (1)-(a)keeps or manages or acts or assists in the management of a brothel within the prohibited area;(b)being the tenant, lessee or occupier of any premises or any part thereof to be used as a brothel or for the purposes of habitual prostitution within the prohibited area; or(c)being the lessor or landlord, of any premises or the agent to such lessor or landlord, lets the same or any part thereof, within the prohibited area with the knowledge that such premises or some part thereof, are, or is used as a brothel, or for the purpose of habitual prostitution or is willfully a party to the continued use of such premises as a brothel or for the purpose of habitual prostitution;(d)being a practicing prostitute resides within the prohibited area; shall be punishable with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both, and in the case of a continuing offence with an additional fine not exceeding fifty rupees for every day after the first during which the offence continues.
