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Andhra Pradesh Industrial Corridor Development Act, 2017
Andhra Pradesh Industrial Corridor Development Act, 2017
Sections
1. Short title, extent and commencement.
Section 12. Definitions.
Section 23. Declaration of Industrial Corridor, Note and Periphery of the Nodes.
Section 34. Jurisdiction of Authority in regard to an Industrial Corridor.
Section 45. Establishment of Authority.
Section 56. Establishment of Board.
Section 67. Establishment of Executive Committee.
Section 78. Commissioner.
Section 89. Powers, Functions and Obligations of the Authority.
Section 910. Permission for development and buildings.
Section 1011. Penalty for sale, lease or booking in an unauthorised scheme or project.
Section 1112. Power to stop unauthorised development or construction in an Industrial corridor.
Section 1213. Imposing of user charges.
Section 1314. Fee for approval or permission.
Section 1415. Permission and lease rent of land.
Section 1516. Sale proceeds of the land and movable/immovable assets.
Section 1617. Recovery of money due to Authority.
Section 1718. State Government Support.
Section 1819. Delegation of Powers.
Section 1920. Power to male regulations.
Section 2021. Power to male rules.
Section 2122. Power to remove difficulties.
Section 2223. Repeal of Ordinance No. 2 of 2017.
Section 23
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Capital Region Development Authority Act, 2014 or the Andhra Pradesh Metropolitan Area and Urban Development Authorities Act, 2016;\n(j) \"Economic activity\" means the activity and service relating to industrial, manufacturing, commercial, financial, processing, packaging, logistics, transport, tourism, hospitality, health, housing, entertainment, research, development, education, training, skill development, information and communication, management, consultancy, setting up of industrial units (includes any existing industrial activity), and such other activity and service as may be prescribed or permitted within the areas regulated by the APICDA;\n(k) \"Government\" means the Government of Andhra Pradesh;\n(l) \"Government Agency\" means a Government Company or a body constituted under any Act of the legislature of the State of Andhra Pradesh or any other entity by whatever name called, which is owned or controlled by the State Government;\n(m) \"Government Company\" means a 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\"Master Plan\" means the Master Plan prepared in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Andhra Pradesh Town Planning Act, 1920 or the Andhra Pradesh Urban Areas (Development) Act, 1975 or the Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority Act, 2014 or the Andhra Pradesh Metropolitan Area and Urban Development Authorities Act, 2016, as approved by APICDA;\n(r) \"Municipal Services\" means arrangement for naming streets and numbering plots, units and houses, sanitation, solid waste management, water supply, drainage and sewerage, cleaning public streets or places, sewers and drains, lighting public streets or places, extinguishing fires, public health, regulating offensive or dangerous trades or practices, removing obstructions and projections in public streets or places, securing or removing dangerous buildings, regulating disposal of carcasses of dead animals, regulating movement of animals, and includes arrangement for such other services as are provided by a municipality in a municipal area;\n(s) \"Node\" means the area within an Industrial Corridor as notified as per section 3 of the Act;\n(t) \"Periphery\" means the area adjoining a Node and notified under section 3 of the Act ;\n(u) \"Person\" means and includes an entity, an individual, a company, a firm, organisation, association; society, unit, establishment, institution including Government agencies carrying on any economic activity in the industrial corridor or entrusted with any work under the provisions of this Act;\n(v) \"Prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made by the Government under this Act;\n(w) \"Private sector participant\" means any person other than,-\n(i) the State Government or a Government agency, or\n(ii) the Central Government or any public sector undertaking of the Central Government, or\n(iii) any joint venture between the Central Government and the State Government or a Government Agency;\n(x) \"Public Private Partnership\" means investment by Private Sector 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to regulate, grant, refuse, suspend, withdraw or cancel approvals and permissions for economic activity in accordance with the provisions of this Act;\n(p) to exercise such powers and perform such functions as may be necessary for carrying out the provisions of this Act to conduct, prepare and assess the social cost benefit analysis, techno-commercial, social, economic and environmental feasibility studies relating to all internal and external infrastructure projects associated with the Node;\n(q) to enter upon any land or building to carry out surveys, make enquiry, inspection, examination or measurement within the Node;\n(r) to make arrangements for observance and promotion of safety, order, health and environmental safeguards, disaster management for the Node;\n(s) to provide municipal services within the Node;\n(t) to provide urban transport facility for the Node;\n(u) to provide public and civic facilities within the Industrial Node and its periphery;\n(v) to make the regulations on matters specified;\n(w) to consider appropriate State support or customized package for any project or economic activity in the Industrial corridor and recommend it to the State Government for its approval under the applicable policies;\n(x) to give directions to any government agency or persons functioning in the Node and Corridor or the periphery thereof in matters pertaining to plans and schemes prepared.\n(2) Financial functions:\n(a) to promote private sector participation in development and implementation of projects through formation of suitable structures and project financing arrangements;\n(b) to create one or more SPVs and enter into Joint Ventures as deemed fit;\n(c) to negotiate and enter into any contract, including by way of public private partnership;\n(d) to raise finance from market, financial institutions, bilateral and multilateral institutions;\n(e) to administer its funds;\n(f) to accept grants and donations;\n(g) to undertake suitable procurement processes as deemed fit towards development of various capital projects, operations, maintenance and delivery of municipal services;\n(h) to enforce user charges directly or through any private sector participant or through entities created under public private partnership.\n(3) Administrative functions:\n(a) to define standard operating procedures for delivering various functions of the Authority;\n(b) to appoint such officers and personnel as it may be necessary for the efficient performance of its functions, on such conditions of appointment and service and with such powers, functions and duties as may be prescribed;\n(c) to engage experts or persons having special knowledge or skill to assist it in performance of its functions;\n(d) to ensure global standards of ease of doing business in the Industrial Corridor and Nodes;\n(e) to globally market the Industrial Corridor;\n(f) to prepare quarterly, half-yearly and annual reports on the status planning, development, operation, maintenance, management and regulation of the Node, peripheral areas and the projects;\n(g) to put in place mechanism towards effective redressal of grievances;\n(h) to exercise such other powers and discharge such other functions as may be necessary or expedient to carry out provisions of this Act.\nChapter-IV\nControl and Regulation In Industrial Corridor",
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