Where a house has been dismantled, or is in ruins, the owner should be made either to repair it or remove the materials; the remains of walls serve as a cover for the committal of nuisances and the deposit of refuse.
Building Regulations.
Building Regulations should be adopted in all Municipalities. Those framed for Patna City under section 241, Part VI, of the Bengal Municipal Act, are given in Appendix D, page [63]. The rule that no building in any street shall be higher than the distance from its base to the opposite side of the street is a very essential one to observe. In the Bombay Improvement Trust the angle of 63½ from the opposite side of any street or lane, regulates the height permissible in any building.
APPENDIX A.
MODEL RULES AS TO PRIVATE PRIVIES AND URINALS.
(Government of Bengal.)
[See Act III of 1884, Section 350 (c).]
1. (1) No privy shall be placed in the space required by this Act to be left at the back of a building—
(a) unless the total height of the privy does not exceed eleven feet; and
(b) unless there is a space of at least four feet between the nearest wall and the service aperture of the privy.
(2) No privy situated in, or adjacent to, a building shall be placed at a distance of less than—