Section 284. Power to require excavations to be filled up or drained

284. (1) In a Municipality for which bye-laws have been made under sub-head (g) of heading I of section 298, the Municipality may, by notice, require the owner or occupier or any land upon which an excavation, cesspool tank or pit has been made in contravention of such bye-laws, or in breach of the conditions under which permission to dig any such excavation, cesspool, tank or pit has been granted, to fill up or drain the excavation, cesspool, tank or pit within a period to be specified in such notice. (2) The 1[State Government] may by notification extend the provisions of this section and of bye-laws made for the purposes of this section to an area beyond the municipality lying within a distance of a mile from the municipal boundary2.