Section 238. 1Municipal Commissioner may enforce drainage of undrained premises situate within hundred feet of 1Corporation drain

238. Where any premises are, in the opinion of the 1[Municipal Commissioner], without sufficient means of effectual drainage and a 2[Corporation] drain or some place lawfully set apart for the discharge of drainage is situate at a distance not exceeding one hundred feet from some part of the said premises the 1[Municipal Commissioner] may, by written notice, require the owner or occupier of the said premises - (a) to make a drain of such material, size, description and laid at such level and according to such alignment and emptying into such municipal drain or place aforesaid as the 1[Municipal Commissioner] may consider necessary or suitable. (b) to provide and set up and all such appliances and fittings as may appear to the 1[Municipal Commissioner] necessary for the purposes of gathering and receiving the drainage from and conveying the same off the said premises and of effectually flushing such drain and every fixture connected therewith ; (c) to remove any existing drain, or other appliance or thing used or intended to be used for drainage, which in the opinion of the 1[Municipal Commissioner] is injurious to health or to provide a closed drain in substitution of an open drain or to provide similarly such other appliances or things as he may consider necessary ; (d) to provide and set up all such appliances and fittings as may appear to the 1[Municipal Commissioner] to be necessary for the purpose of gathering and receiving the waste water from floors and galleries of buildings when they are washed, and conveying the same through spouts or by down-take pipes, so as to prevent such waste water from discharging directly on streets or inside any lower portion of the premises.