Arunachal Pradesh Municipal Act, 2007

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    "id": 13554,
    "slug": "arunachal-pradesh-municipal-act-2007",
    "title": "Arunachal Pradesh Municipal Act, 2007",
    "short_title": "Arunachal Pradesh Municipal Act, 2007",
    "act_number": "(Act No. 4 of 2008)",
    "act_year": 2007,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Arunachal Pradesh",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "Arunachal Pradesh Municipal Act, 2007",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
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            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(1) \"Adhoc Committee\" means an Ad-hoc Committee appointed under section 33;\n(2) \"Auditor\" means an Auditor appointed under section 93, and includes any officer authorized by him to perform all or any of the functions of an Auditor under this Act;\n(3) \"Balance sheet\" means the balance sheet prepared under section 91;\n(4) \"Bio-medical waste\" means waste generated during diagnosis, treatment or immunization of human beings or animals or in research activities pertaining thereto or in the production or testing of biologicals;\n(5) \"Bridge\" includes a culvert;\n(6) \"Budget Estimate\" means the budget estimate prepared under section 84;\n(7) \"Budget Grant\" means the total sum entered on the expenditure side of a budget estimate under a major head and adopted by the Municipality, and includes any sum by which such budget grant is increased or reduced by transfer from or to other heads in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the rules and the regulations there under ;\n(8) \"Building\" means a structure constructed for whatever purpose and of whatever materials, and includes the foundation, plinth, walls, floors, roofs, chimneys, fixed platforms, verandas balconies, cornices or projections or part of a building or anything affixed thereto or any wall (other than a boundary wall of less than three meters in height) enclosing or intended to enclose, any land, sign or outdoor display-structure but does not include a tent, shamiana or tarpaulin shelter ;\n(9) \"Cadres\" of common municipal services\" means the cadres of common municipal services constituted under sub-section (1) of section 43;\n(10) \"Carriage\" means any wheeled vehicle, with springs or other appliances acting as springs, which is ordinarily used for the conveyance of human beings, and includes a auto-rickshaw, cycle-rickshaw, bicycle or tricycle, but does not include a perambulator or other form of vehicle designed for the conveyance of children or elderly, infirm or handicapped persons ;\n(11) \"Cart\" means any hackney or wheeled vehicle with or without springs, which is not a carriage, and includes a handcart, a cycle van and a push van but does not include any wheeled vehicle which is propelled by mechanical power or its trailer ;\n(12) \"Category 'A' post\" means a category 'A' post classified as such under section 37 ;\n(13) \"Category 'B' post\" means a category 'B' post classified as such under section 37;\n(14) \"category 'C' post\" means a category 'C' post classified as such under section 37;\n(15) \"category 'D' post\" means a category 'D' post classified as such under section 37;\n(16) \"Chief Councillor\" means,-\n(i) in relation to a Municipal Corporation, the Mayor,\n(ii) in relation to a Municipal Council, the Municipal Chairperson, and\n(iii) in relation to Nagar Panchayat, the Municipal president ;\n(17) \"Chief Municipal Executive Officer\" means,-\n(i) in relation to a Municipal Council in Capital Region and \" Municipal Executive Officer\" means,-\n(ii) in relation to a Municipal Council or Nagar Panchayat, in districts.\n(18) \"City\" means a larger urban area declared to be a city under section 3 ;\n(19) \"Class 'A' smaller urban area\" means a smaller urban area classified as such under section 7 ;\n(20) \"Class 'B' smaller urban area\" means a smaller urban area classified as such under section 7 ;\n(21) \"Class 'C' smaller urban area\" means a smaller urban area classified as such under section 7 ;\n(22) \"Councillor\" , in relation to a Municipality, means a person chosen by direct election from a ward of that Municipality ;\n(23) \"Cubical extent,\" with reference to the measurement of a building, means the space contained within the external surface of its walls and roof and the upper surface of the floor of its lowest or only storey ;\n(24) \"dangerous disease\" means-\n(a) Cholera, plague, small-pox, cerebrospinal meningitis, diphtheria, Tuberculosis, leprosy, influenza, encephalitis, poliomyelitis, or syphilis; or\n(b) any other epidemic, endemic, infectious disease which the State Government may, by notification, declare to be a dangerous disease for the purposes of this Act ;\n(25) \"Deputy Chief Councilor\" means,-\n(a) in relation to a Municipal Corporation, the Deputy Mayor,\n(b) in relation to a Municipal Council, the Municipal Vice- Chairperson, and\n(c) in relation to a Nagar Panchayat, the Municipal Vice president ;\n(26) \"Director of Urban Local Bodies\" means an officer appointed as such by the State 'Government' and includes an Additional Director, a Joint Director, a Deputy Director, or any other officer of nodal department of the State Government authorized by it to perform the functions of the Director of Urban Local Bodies under this Act,\n(27) \"Domestic purpose\" in relation to the supply of water, means the purpose other than those referred to in sub-section ( 3) of section 172 ;\n(28) \"Drain\" includes a sewer, a house-drain, a drain of any other description, a tunnel, a culvert, a ditch, a channel or any other device for carrying off sullage, sewage, offensive matter, polluted water, rain-water or sub-soil water ;\n(29) \"Drug\" means any substance used as medicine or in the composition or preparation of medicine, whether for internal or external use, but does not include a drug within the meaning of clause ( b) of section 3 of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 23 of 1940;\n(30) \"Dwelling- house\" means a masonry building constructed, used, or adapted to be used, wholly or principally for human habitation ;\n(31) \"Empowered Standing Committee\" means the Empowered Standing Committee referred to in section 21 ;\n(32) \"Establishment Schedule\" means the Establishment Schedule prepared under section 37 ;\n(33) \"Financial statement\" means the financial statement prepared under section 90 ;\n(34) \" Food\" includes every article used for food or drink by man, other than drugs or water, and any article which ordinarily enters into, or is used in the composition or preparation of, human food, and also includes confectionery, flavouring and colouring matters, spices and condiments ;\n(35) \" Footpath\" means a pavement for use by pedestrians which abuts a category I or category II or category III or category IV road ;\n(36) \" Habitable room\" means a room constructed or adapted for human habitation;\n(37) \"Hazardous process\" means the hazardous process defined in Clause (cb) of section 2 of the Factories Act, 1948,(63 of 1948.) ;\n(38) \"Hazardous wastes\" means the categories of wastes specified as such in the Environment ( Protection ) Act, 1986,(29 of 1986.) ;\n(39) \"House- drain\" means any drain of one or more premises used for the drainage of such premises ;\n(40) \"House-gully\" means a passage or a strip of land constructed, set apart or utilized for the purpose of serving as a drain or affording access to a privy, urinal, cesspool or other receptacle for filthy or polluted matter for municipal employee ;\n(41) \"Hut\" means any building, no substantial part of which, excluding the walls up to a height of fifty centimeters above the floor or floor level, is constructed of masonry, reinforced concrete, steel, iron or other metal ;\n(42) \"Industrial township\" means such urban area or part thereof as the Governor may, having regard to the size of the area and the municipal services being provided or proposed to be provided by an industrial establishment in that area and such other factors as he may deem fit, by notification, specify to be an industrial township ;\n(43) \"Infectious disease\" or \"communicable disease\" means any disease which may be transmitted from one person to another and declared as such by the State Government by notification;\n(44) \"Joint Committee\" means a Joint Committee constituted under section 34;\n(45) \"Larger urban area\" means a municipal area classified as a larger urban area under section 7 ;\n(46) \"Land or building\" includes a slum ;\n(47) \"Market\" includes any place, by whatever name called, where persons assemble for the sale of meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, live stock, or any other article of food of a perishable nature, or any other article for which there is a collection of shops or warehouses or stalls, declared and licensed by the Municipality as a market.\n(48) \"Masonry building\" means any building, other than a hut, and includes any structure, a substantial part of which is made of masonry, reinforced concrete, steel, iron or other metal ;\n(49) \"Milk\" includes cream, separated milk, and condensed, sterilized, desiccated or toned milk ;\n(50) \"Municipal Accounts Committee\" means a Municipal Accounts Committee constituted under section 100 ;\n(51) \"Municipal Accounting Manual\" means the Municipal Accounting Manual prepared and maintained under section 89 ;\n(52) \"Municipal area\" means an area constituted as a municipal area under section 6 ;\n(53) \"Municipal drain\" means a drain vested in the Municipality ;\n(54) \"Municipal Fund\" means the Municipal Fund referred to in section 75 ;\n(55) \"Municipal Magistrate\" means the Municipal Magistrate appointed under section 425 ;\n(56) \"Municipal Market\" means a market belonging to, or maintained by, the Municipality;\n(57) \"Municipal Service Commission\" means the Municipal Service Commission constituted under section 44 ;\n(58) \"Municipal slaughterhouse\" means a slaughterhouse belonging to, or maintained by, the Municipality ;\n(59) \"Municipality\" means an institution of self-government constituted under section 12, read with article 243 Q of the Constitution of India, and includes a Municipal Corporation, a Municipal Council, and Nagar Panchayat, referred to in section 13;\n(60) \"Notification\" means a notification published in the Official Gazette ;\n(61) \"Nuisance\" includes any act, omission, place or thing which causes, or is likely to cause, injury, danger, annoyance or injurious to health or property ;\n(62) \"Occupier\" includes any person for the time being paying or liable to pay, to the owner rent or any portion of the rent of the land or the building in respect of which the word is used or for damages on account of the occupation of such land or building, and also includes a rent-free tenant :\n(63) \"Offensive matter\" means kitchen or stable refuse, dung, dirt, putrid or putrefying substance, or filth of any kind which is not included in sewage ;\n(64) \"Other agency\" means a company firm, society, or body corporate in the private sector, or any institution, or government agency, or any joint sector agency, or any agency under any other law for the time being in force ;\n(65) \"Owner\" includes the person for the time being receiving the rent of any land or building or of any part of any land or building, whether on his own account or as an agent or charitable purpose or as a receiver who would receive such rent if the land or the building or of any part of the land or the building were let to a tenant ;\n(66) \"Population\" means the population as ascertained at the last preceding census of which the relevant figures have been published ;\n(67) \"Premises\" means any land or building or part of a building or any hut or part of a hut, and includes -\n(a) the garden, ground and outhouses, if any, appertaining thereto, and\n(b) any fittings or fixtures affixed to a building or part of a building or hut or part of a hut for the more beneficial enjoyment thereof;\n(68) \"Prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;\n(69) \"Presiding officer\" means,-\n(a) in the case of a Municipal Council, the Municipal Chairperson,\n(b) in the case of a Nagar Panchayat, the Municipal President;\n(70) \"Private drain\" means any drain which is not a municipal drain;\n(71) \"Private street\" means any street, road, lane, gully, alley, passage or square which is not a public street, and includes any passage securing access to four or more premises belonging to the same or different owners, but does not include a passage provided in effecting a partition of any masonry building amongst joint owners where such passage is less than two meters and fifty centimeters wide ;\n(72) \"Public building\" means a masonry building constructed, used, or adapted to be used,-\n(a) as a place of public worship or as a school, college or other place of instruction (not being a dwelling-house so used) or as a hospital, workhouse, public theatre, public cinema, public hall, public concert-room, public ballroom, public lecture-room, public library or public exhibition room or as a public place of assembly, or\n(b) for any other public purpose, or\n(c) as a hotel, lodging-house, refuge or shelter, where the building, in cubical extent, exceeds seven thousand cubic meters or has sleeping accommodation for more than one hundred person;\n(73) \"Public street\" means any street, road, lane, gully, alley, passage, pathway, square or courtyard, whether a thoroughfare or not, over which the public have a right of way, and includes :-\n(a) the access or approach to a public ferry,\n(b) the roadway over any public bridge or causeway,\n(c) the footpath attached to any such street, public bridge or causeway,\n(d) the passage connecting two public streets, and\n(e) the drains attached to any such street, public bridge or causeway, and, where there is no drain attached to any such street, shall be deemed to include also, unless the contrary is shown, all land up to the boundary wall, hedge or pillar of the premises, if any, abutting on the street, or, where a street alignment has been fixed, up to such alignment ;\n(74) \"Regulations\" means the regulations made by a Municipality under this Act ;\n(75) \"Rules\" means the Rules made by the State Government under this Act ;\n(76) \"Sewage\" means nigh-soil and other contents of privies, urinals, cesspools or drains, and includes trade effluents and discharges from manufactories of all kinds ;\n(77) \"Smaller urban area\" means a municipal area classified as a smaller urban area under section 7 ;\n(78) \"State Municipal Service Commission\" means the State Municipal Service Commission constituted under section 45 ;\n(79) \"State Municipal Vigilance Authority\" means the State Municipal Vigilance Authority appointed under section 46 ;\n(80) \"Street\" means a public street or a private street ;\n(81) \"Street alignment\" means the line dividing the land comprised in, and forming part of, a street from the adjoining land ;\n(82) \"Subject Committee\" means a Subject Committee constituted under section 32 ;\n(83) \"Ward Committee\" means a ward Committee referred to in section 31;\n(84) \"Wards Committee\" means a wards Committee constituted under section 30 ;\n(85) \"Water-course\" includes a ricer, stream or channel, whether natural or artificial ;\n(86) \"Year\" means a financial year beginning on the first day of April.\nChapter- II\nConstitution of Municipal Areas and Classification of Municipalities",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Declaration of Intention to Constitute a Municipal area.",
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            "content": "(a) in the case of a larger urban area is 75 thousands or more,\n(b) in the case of a smaller urban area, is twenty-five thousand or more but is less than 75 thousand, and\n(c) in the case of a transitional area, is less than twenty-five thousand :\n(a) taxes, if any, distributed to the Municipality by the State Government,\n(b) loans and grants from the State Government, and\n(c) loans and grants from the Central Government or any institution or other source.\n(i) a larger urban area to be a city,\n(ii) a smaller area to be a town, and\n(iii) a transitional area to be a Nagar Panchayat.",
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        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Publication of declaration.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Consideration of objection.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Constitution of Municipal area.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Classification of Municipal areas.",
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            "content": "(a) a urban area of -\nClass 'A' municipal area having population above 75,000 or\nClass 'B' municipal area having population above 30,000 but not exceeding 75,000 or\nClass 'C' municipal area having population above 20,000, but not exceeding 30,000 , and\n(b) Nagar Panchayat having population not exceeding 20,000 :",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Power to abolish or alter limits of Municipal area.",
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            "content": "(a) withdraw any municipal area or part thereof from the operation of this Act, or\n(b) exclude from a municipal area any local area comprised therein and defined in the notification,\n(c) include within a municipal area any local area contiguous to such municipal area and defined in the notification, or\n(d) divide any municipal area into two or more municipal areas, or\n(e) unite two or more contiguous municipal area so as to constitute one municipal area, or\n(f) revise the boundary of two or more contiguous municipal areas:",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Power to include certain dwelling house, manufactory, etc. within a particular Municipal area.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 8
        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Power to exempt Municipal area from operation of any provisions of the Act unsuited thereto.",
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            "content": "Chapter-III\nMunicipality and Municipal Councillors",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. The Municipality.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 10
        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Constitution of Municipality.",
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            "content": "(a) before the expiry of the period specified in sub- section (2), or\n(b) before the expiry of a period of six months from the date of its dissolution:",
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        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Constitution of Municipality.",
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            "content": "The Table\nThe Table\nNumber of Councillors\nPopulation Range\nMinimum\nIncremental Number\nMaximum\nMunicipal Councils\nMunicipal Councils\nClass 'A' Municipal Councils\n15\nOne additional Councilor for Municipal Council\n\t\t\t\t\tevery 5,000 above 75,000\n25\nClass ' B'\nMunicipal Council\n10\nOne additional Councilor for every 3,000 above\n\t\t\t\t\t50,000\n20\nClass 'C'\nMunicipal Council\n8\nOne additional Councilor for every 2,500 above\n\t\t\t\t\t30,000\n16\nNagar Panchayat\nNagar Panchayat\nNagar Panchayat\n6\n10",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Election of Councillors.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 13
        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Oath of allegiance to be taken by Councillors.",
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            "content": "\"I, A. B. , having been elected a Councillor of the municipal area of ........., do swear in the name of God/ solemnly affirm that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of India as by law established, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter\".",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Term of office of Councillors of Municipality.",
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            "content": "(a) the Municipality is dissolved earlier, or\n(b) he resigns his office by notice, in writing, under his hand addressed to Chief Councillor, and, thereupon, his office shall become vacant from the date of the notice, or\n(c) his election is void, or is declared to be void, under the provisions of any law relating to municipal elections in the State, or\n(d) the entire area of the ward from which he has been elected is withdrawn from the operation of this Act under clause(a) of sub-section (1) of section 8.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Recall of Concillors.",
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            "content": "(i) within a period of two years from the date on which a Councillor is elected and enters upon his office, or\n(ii) if half of the term of office of a Councillor elected in a bye-election has not expired:",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Disqualification for being a Councillor if employed in a Municipality.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 17
        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Remuneration and allowances of Councillors.",
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            "content": "Chapter -IV\nMunicipal Authorities",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Municipal authorities.",
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            "content": "(a) in the case of a Class 'A' or Class 'B' or Class 'C' smaller urban area,-\n(i) The Municipal Council,\n(ii) The Empowered Standing Committee,\n(iii) The Municipal Chairperson, and\n(iv) The Municipal Executive Officer;\n(b) In the case of a Nagar Panchayat,-\n(i) The Nagar Panchayat,\n(ii) The Empowered Standing Committee,\n(iii) The Municipal President, and\n(iv) The Municipal Executive Officer.\n(a) The Municipal Council, the Municipal Chairperson, and,\n(b) The Nagar Panchayat, the Municipal President.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Constitution of Empowered Standing Committee of Municipality.",
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            "content": "(a) in the case of a Class 'A' or Class 'B' Municipal Council, the Municipal Chairperson, the Municipal Vice-Chairperson, and five other Councillors;\n(b) in the case of a Class 'C' Municipal Council, the Municipal Vice-Chairperson, and three other Councillors; and\n(c) in the case of a Nagar panchayat, the Municipal President, the Municipal Vicepresident, and three other Councillors.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "22",
            "title": "22. Executive power of Municipality to be exercised by Empowered Standing Committee.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 21
        },
        {
            "number": "23",
            "title": "23. Election of Chief Councillor.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "24",
            "title": "24. Oath of secrecy to be taken by Chief Councillor and members of Empowered Standing Committee.",
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            "content": "\"I, A. B. do swear in the name of God/solemnly affirm that I will not directly or indirectly communicate or reveal to any persons or persons any matter which shall be brought under my consideration or shall become known to me as the presiding officer or as member of the Empowered Standing Committee except as may be required for the due discharge of my duties\".",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "25",
            "title": "25. Chief Councillor.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "26",
            "title": "26. Deputy Chief Councillor.",
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            "content": "(a) The office of the Chief Councillor falls vacant by reason of death, resignation, removal or otherwise, or\n(b) The Chief Councillor is, by reason of reason of leave, illness or other cause, temporarily unable to exercise the powers, perform the functions, or discharge the duties, of his office,",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "27",
            "title": "27. Term of office of Chief Councillor and members of Empowered Standing Committee.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "28",
            "title": "28. Delegation of powers and functions.",
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            "content": "(a) the Chief Councillor may, by order, delegate, subject to such conditions as may be specified in the order, any of his powers or functions to the Deputy Chief Councillor or the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer.\n(b) the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer, may, by order, subject to such conditions as may be specified in the order, any of his powers or functions, excluding the powers or functions under sub- section (2) of section 354 or section 365, to any officer or other employee of the Municipality; and\n(c) any officer of the Municipality, other than the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer, may, by order, delegate, subject to such conditions as may be specified in the order, any of his powers or functions to any other officer subordinate to him.\n(a) any of its or his powers or functions delegated to it or him under this section, or\n(b) such of its or his powers or functions as may be specified by regulations.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "29",
            "title": "29. Reservation of Office of Chief Councillor.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "30",
            "title": "30. Wards Committee.",
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            "content": "",
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        },
        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "31. Ward Committee.",
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            "content": "Note. - The provision of the section -30 &31 shall be subject to approval of the State Government .\nNote.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "32",
            "title": "32. Subject Committee.",
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            "content": "(a) water- supply, drainage and sewerage, and solid waste management;\n(b) urban environment management and land use control; and\n(c) slum services.\n(a) five members in the case of a subject Committee of a Class 'A' Municipal Council.\n(b) 3 members in case of Nagar Panchayat.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "33",
            "title": "33. Ad hoc Committee.",
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            "content": "",
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            "sort_order": 32
        },
        {
            "number": "34",
            "title": "34. Joint Committee.",
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            "content": "(i) two elected members of each constituent Municipality or local authority,\n(ii) one nominee of each of the concerned departments of the state Government or of the concerned statutory authorities under the State government,\n(iii) such expert or experts as the State government may nominate, and\n(iv) the Director of Local Bodies or his representative who shall act as the convener of the Joint Committee.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "35",
            "title": "35. First meeting of Municipality.",
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            "content": "Chapter-V\nOrganizational Structure of Municipality\nA. Statutory Officers of Municipality\nA. Statutory Officers of Municipality",
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            "number": "36",
            "title": "36. Officers of Municipality.",
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            "content": "Note. - In order to ensure minimum financial involvement in recruiting Municipal Officer initially, the under mentioned officers / officials shall be entrusted / deputed with the functions as under namely: -\nNote.\n[(i) The Deputy Commissioner, Capital Complex shall function as Chief Municipal Executive Officer of Municipal in Capital Region and in Districts the Deputy Commissioner or his representative of respective towns where Municipalities is constituted shall be the Executive Officer of that Municipality;]\n(ii) The relevant technical manpower such as Architects, Civil engineers and Town planners and non-technical manpower from the Department of Urban development & Housing and Town Planning shall be posted to the Municipalities on deputation basis, till the Municipalities generates enough resources to create and sustain its own establishment and manpower.\n(a) by the State Government in consultation Chief Municipal Executive Officer with the Empowered Standing Committee and Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer by notification from amongst the persons who are or have been in the service of that Government, or\n(b) by the Empowered Standing Committee with the prior approval of the State Government and in consultation with the State Public Service Commission:\nB. Municipal Establishment and Schedule of Posts.\nB. Municipal Establishment and Schedule of Posts.",
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            "number": "37",
            "title": "37. Establishment of Municipal and Schedule of posts.",
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            "number": "38",
            "title": "38. Appointing Authorities.",
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            "content": "(a) the Chief Municipal Executive Officer in Municipality of Capital Region and Municipal Executive Officers in other Municipalities.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Except Group -'C' and 'D' Posts, no other posts shall be recruited directly within first Five years of commencing of Municipality.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Except Group -'C' 'D' & 'B' Posts, no Group-'A' posts shall be recruited directly within first ten years of commencing of Municipality .",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "39",
            "title": "39. Salaries and Allowances of officers and other employees.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "40",
            "title": "40. Leave and other Conditions of service.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "41",
            "title": "41. Appointment of Officers of State Government for Municipalities.",
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            "content": "C. Municipal Establishment Audit Commission\nC. Municipal Establishment Audit Commission",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "42",
            "title": "42. Municipal Establishment Audit Commission.",
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            "content": "D. Municipal Services Cadres\nD. Municipal Services Cadres",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "43",
            "title": "43. Cadres of Common Municipal Services, Appointments, etc.",
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            "content": "E. Municipal Service Commission\nE. Municipal Service Commission",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "44",
            "title": "44. Municipal Service Commission for Municipality.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "45",
            "title": "45. State Municipal Service Commission.",
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            "content": "(a) a State Municipal Service Commission, and in such manner, consisting of a Chairperson and such other members, and on such terms and conditions, as may be prescribed.\nF. State Municipal Vigilance Authority\nF. State Municipal Vigilance Authority",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "46",
            "title": "46. State Municipal Vigilance Authority.",
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            "content": "Chapter-VI\nFunctional Domain of Municipalities",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "47",
            "title": "47. Core Municipal Functions.",
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            "content": "(1) (a) provide on its own or arrange to provide through any agency the following core municipal services:-\n(i) water-supply for domestic, industrial, and commercial purposes,\n(ii) drainage and sewerage,\n(iii) solid waste management,\n(iv) preparation of plans for economic development and social justice,\n(v) communication systems including construction and maintenance of roads, footpaths, pedestrian pathways, transportation terminals, both for passengers and goods, bridges, over-bridges, subways, ferries, and inland water transport system,\n(vi) transport system accessories including traffic engineering schemes, street lighting, parking areas, and bus stops,\n(vii) community health and protection of environment including planting and caring of trees on road sides and elsewhere,\n(viii) markets and slaughterhouses,\n(ix) promotion of educational, sports and cultural activities, and\n(x) aesthetic environment, and\n(b) perform such other statutory or regulatory functions as may be provided by or under this Act or under any other law for the time being in force.\n(2) The Municipality may, having, regard to its managerial, technical, financial and organizational capacity, and the actual conditions obtaining in the municipal area, decide not to take up, or postpone, the performance of , any of the functions as aforesaid.\n(3) The State Government may direct a Municipality to perform any of the functions as aforesaid, if such function is not taken up, or is postponed, by the Municipality.\n(4) The Municipality may plan, build, operate, maintain or manage the infrastructure required for the discharge of any of the functions, as aforesaid, either by itself or by any agency under any concession agreement referred to in section 167.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "48",
            "title": "48. Functions Assigned by Government.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "49",
            "title": "49. Other Functions.",
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            "content": "(1) in the sphere of town planning, urban development and development of commercial infrastructure,-\n(a) planned development of new areas for human settlement,\n(b) measures for beautification of the municipal area by setting up parks and fountains, providing recreational areas, improving river banks, and landscaping,\n(c) collection of statistics and data, significant to the community, and\n(d) integration of the development plans and schemes of the municipal area with the district or regional development plan, if any;\n(2) in the sphere of protection of environment,-\n(a) reclamation of waste lands, promotion of social forestry and maintenance of open spaces.\n(b) establishment and maintenance of nurseries for plants, vegetables and tress and promotion of greenery through mass participation,\n(c) organization of flower-shows and promotion of flower-growing as a civic culture, and\n(d) promotion of measures for abatement of all forms of pollution;\n(3) in the sphere of public health and sanitation,-\n(a) mass inoculation campaigns for eradication of infectious diseases,\n(b) construction and maintenance of municipal markets and slaughterhouses and regulation of all markets and slaughterhouses,\n(c) reclamation of unhealthy localities, removal of noxious vegetation and abatement of all nuisances,\n(d) maintenance of all public tanks and regulating the re-excavation, repair and upkeep of all private tanks, wells and other sources of water- supply on such terms and conditions as the Municipality may deem proper,\n(e) construction and maintenance of cattle pounds,\n(f) provision for unfiltered water-supply for non- domestic uses,\n(g) advancement of civic consciousness of public health and general welfare by organizing discourses, seminars and conferences, and\n(h) measures for eradication of addiction of all kinds including addiction to drugs and liquor;\n(4) in the sphere of education and culture,-\n(a) promotion of civic education, adult education, social education and non-formal education,\n(b) promotion of cultural activities including music, physical education, sports and theatres and infrastructure there for,\n(c) advancement of science and technology in urban life,\n(d) publication of municipal journals, periodicals and souvenirs, purchase of books and subscription to journals, magazines and newspapers,\n(e) installation of statues, portraits and pictures in appropriate manner,\n(f) organization, establishment and maintenance of art galleries and botanical or zoological collections ,and\n(g) maintenance of monuments and places of historical, artistic and other importance;\n(5) in the sphere of public welfare,-\n(a) establishment and maintenance of shelters, in times of drought, flood, earthquake, or other natural or technological disasters, and relief works, for, destitute persons within the limits of the municipal area,\n(b) construction or maintenance of, or provision of aids to , hospitals, dispensaries, asylums, rescue homes, maternity houses, and child welfare centers,\n(c) provision of shelter for the homeless,\n(d) implementation programmes for liberation and rehabilitation of scavengers and their families,\n(e) organization of voluntary labour and co-ordination of activities of voluntary agencies for community welfare, and\n(f) campaigns for dissemination of such information as is vital for public welfare; and\n(6) in the sphere of community relations,-\n(a) civic receptions to persons of distinction and paying homage on death to persons of repute,\n(b) organization and management of fairs and exhibitions, and\n(c) dissemination of information of public interest.\nChapter-VII\nConduct of Business\nA. transaction of Business of Municipality",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "50",
            "title": "50. Meetings.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "51",
            "title": "51. Notice of Meeting and List of business.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "52",
            "title": "52. Quorum for Transaction of Business at a Meeting of Municipality and methods of deciding questions.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 53
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        {
            "number": "53",
            "title": "53. Presiding Officer of a meeting of Municipality.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "54",
            "title": "54. Maintenance of order at a meeting of Municipality and withdrawal and suspension of Councillors.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 55
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        {
            "number": "55",
            "title": "55. Councillor having pecuniary Interest in any contract etc. with Municipality.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) the provisions of this sub-section shall not apply to a councillor who is a member of , or is in employment under, any public institution or organization under any law for the time being in force, and\n(ii) a Councillor shall not, by reason of his membership of a company or other body, be treated as having any pecuniary interest in such company or other body if he has no beneficial interest in any share or stock of such company or other body.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "56",
            "title": "56. Disclosure of Pecuniary Interest.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 57
        },
        {
            "number": "57",
            "title": "57. Meeting to be ordinarily open to public.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 58
        },
        {
            "number": "58",
            "title": "58. Right of the Chief Municipal Executive Officer and Municipal Executive Officer and other officers to attend meeting of Municipality and committees etc.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 59
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        {
            "number": "59",
            "title": "59. Right of Councillor to ask questions.",
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            "content": "(a) not less than seven working days' notice, in writing, specifying the question shall be given to the Municipal Secretary;\n(b) no question shall-\n(i) bring in any name or statement not strictly necessary to make the question intelligible,\n(ii) contain arguments, ironical expressions, imputations, epithets or defamatory statements,\n(iii) ask for an expression of opinion or the solution of a hypothetical proposition,\n(iv) ask as to the character or conduct of any person except in his official or public capacity,\n(v) relate to a matter which is not primarily the concern of the Municipality,\n(vi) make or imply a charge of a personal character,\n(vii) raise questions of policy too large to be dealt with within the limits of an answer to a question,\n(viii) repeat in substance questions already answered or to which an answer has been refused,\n(ix) ask for information on trivial matters,\n(x) ask for information on matters of past history,\n(xi) ask for information set forth in accessible documents or in ordinary works of reference,\n(xii) raise matters under the control of bodies or persons not primarily responsible to the Municipality, or\n(xiii) ask for any information on any matter which is under adjudication by a court of law.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 60
        },
        {
            "number": "60",
            "title": "60. Discussion on Urgent public Matters.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 61
        },
        {
            "number": "61",
            "title": "61. Asking for Statement from Empowered Standing Committee.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "B. Minutes and Proceedings.\nB. Minutes and Proceedings.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 62
        },
        {
            "number": "62",
            "title": "62. Keeping of Minutes and Proceedings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 63
        },
        {
            "number": "63",
            "title": "63. Circulation and Inspection of Minutes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 64
        },
        {
            "number": "64",
            "title": "64. Forwarding of Minutes to State Government.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 65
        },
        {
            "number": "65",
            "title": "65. Rules relating to conduct of business of Municipality.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "C. Validation\nC. Validation",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 66
        },
        {
            "number": "66",
            "title": "66. Validation of acts and proceedings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the existence of any vacancy in, or any defect, initial or subsequent, in the constitution of , the Municipality or any committee of the Municipality, or\n(b) any councillor having voted or taken part in any proceeding in contravention of the provisions of section 55, or\n(c) any defect or irregularity not affecting the merit of any case to which such defect or irregularity relates,\nChapter VIII\nDirection and control",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 67
        },
        {
            "number": "67",
            "title": "67. Power of State Government to call for records etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to produce any record, correspondence, or other documents,\n(b) to furnish any return, plan, estimate, statement, accounts, or statistics, and\n(c) to furnish or obtain any report, and thereupon such municipal authority shall comply with such requirement.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 68
        },
        {
            "number": "68",
            "title": "68. Power of State Government to Depute officers to make inspection or examination and report.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) a Deputy Secretary to the State Government in the case of a Class 'A' Municipal Council or Class 'B' Municipal Council, and\n(b) a Sub-divisional Officer in the case of a Class 'C' Municipal council or Nagar Panchayat, as the case may be.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 69
        },
        {
            "number": "69",
            "title": "69. Power of State Government to require Municipal Authorities to take action.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) any action taken by a municipal authority is unlawful or irregular or any duty imposed on such authority by or under this Act has not been performed or has been performed in an imperfect, insufficient or unsuitable manner, or\n(b) adequate financial provision has not been made for the performance of any under this Act, the State Government may, by order, require such municipal authority to regularize such unlawful or irregular action or perform such duty or restrain such authority from taking such unlawful or irregular action or direct such authority to make, to the satisfaction of the State Government, within such period as may be specified in the order, arrangement, or financial provision, as the case may be, for the proper performance of such duty:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 70
        },
        {
            "number": "69",
            "title": "70. Power of State Government to provide for enforcement of order under section 69.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 71
        },
        {
            "number": "71",
            "title": "71. Power of State Government to dissolve Municipality.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(b) on receipt of such representation, if any, the State Government shall constitute a committee consisting of five persons, nominated by the State Government, of whom-\n(i) one shall be a member of the State Higher Judicial Service who shall be the Chairperson of the committee,\n(ii) one shall be the Chief Councillor of any other Municipality of the same class,\n(iii) one shall be a Chartered Accountant or a person having experience in financial matters,\n(iv) one shall be an Engineer or Architect, and\n(v) one shall be an officer of the State Government, not below the rank of a Sub divisional Officer, and shall forward the representation to the committee for its consideration and report within such time as the State Government may specify.\n(c) the State Government shall, on receipt of the report from the committee, consider the representation :",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 72
        },
        {
            "number": "72",
            "title": "72. Consequences of dissolution.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) all the councillors including the members of the Empowered Standing Committee and of any committee of the Municipality constituted under this Act, and the Chief Councillor and the Deputy Chief Councillor shall vacate their respective offices, and\n(b) all the powers and duties which, under the provisions of this Act or the rules or the regulations made thereunder or any other law of the time being in force, may be exercised or performed Standing by the members of the Empowered Standing Committee or of any committee of the Municipality or the Chief Councillor, shall be exercised or performed, subjects to such directions as the State Government may give from time to time, by such person or persons as the State Government may appoint in this behalf :\nChapter-IX\nMunicipal finance and Municipal Fund",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 73
        },
        {
            "number": "73",
            "title": "73. Implementation of recommendations of State Finance Commission.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the devolution of net proceeds of the taxes, tolls and fees to the Municipalities,\n(b) the assignment of taxes, duties, tolls and fees to the Municipalities,\n(c) the sanction of grants-in-aid to the Municipalities from the Consolidated fund of the State, and\n(d) the other measures required to improve the financial position of the Municipalities.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 74
        },
        {
            "number": "74",
            "title": "74. Financial Assistance from State Government.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 75
        },
        {
            "number": "75",
            "title": "75. Municipal Fund.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter-X\nApplication of Municipal fund",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 76
        },
        {
            "number": "76",
            "title": "76. Application of Municipal Fund.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 77
        },
        {
            "number": "77",
            "title": "77. Payments not to be made out of Municipal Fund unless Covered by Budget grant.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) refund of taxes and other moneys which are authorized by this Act,\n(b) repayment of moneys belonging to contractors or other persons and held in deposit and all moneys collected by the Municipality or credited to the Municipal Fund by mistake,\n(c) temporary payment for works urgently required by the State Government in the public interest,\n(d) expenses incurred by the Municipality on special measures on the outbreak of dangerous diseases, natural or technological hazards or in any other emergent case,\n(e) sums payable as compensation under this Act or the rules or the regulations made thereunder,\n(f) sums payable-\n(i) under orders of the State Government on failure of the Municipality to take any action required by the State Government under any provision of this Act, Or\n(ii) under any other law for the time being in force, or\n(iii) under the decree or order of a civil or criminal court against the Municipality, or\n(iv) under a compromise of any claim, suit or other legal proceeding, or\n(v) on account of the cost incurred in taking immediate action by any of the municipal authorities to avert a sudden threat or danger to the property of Municipality or of human life, and\n(g) such other cases as may be determined by regulations.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 78
        },
        {
            "number": "78",
            "title": "78. Procedure when money not covered by budget grant.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 79
        },
        {
            "number": "79",
            "title": "79. Temporary payment from Municipal Fund for works urgently required in public interest.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 80
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        {
            "number": "80",
            "title": "80. Power to incur expenditure beyond the limits of Municipality.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "81",
            "title": "81. Exclusive use of Fund for particular purpose.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 82
        },
        {
            "number": "82",
            "title": "82. Operation of accounts.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 83
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        {
            "number": "83",
            "title": "83. Investment of surplus moneys.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter-XI\nBudget Estimates",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "84",
            "title": "84. Preparation of budget Estimate of Municipality.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 85
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        {
            "number": "85",
            "title": "85. Report on Services Provided at Subsidized Rate.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) water-supply and disposal of sewage, and\n(b) scavenging, transporting and disposal of solid wastes.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 86
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            "number": "86",
            "title": "86. Sanction of budget Estimate of Municipality.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 87
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        {
            "number": "87",
            "title": "87. Power to alter Budget grant.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) increase the amount of any budget grant under any head,\n(b) make an additional budget grant for the purpose of meeting any special or unforeseen requirement arising during the said year,\n(c) transfer the amount of any budget grant or portion thereof under one head to the amount of budget grant under any other head, or\n(d) reduce the amount of the budget grant under any head:\nChapter-XII\nAccounts and Audit",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 88
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        {
            "number": "88",
            "title": "88. Maintenance of Accounts.",
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            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 89
        },
        {
            "number": "89",
            "title": "89. Preparation of Municipal Accounting Manual.",
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            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 90
        },
        {
            "number": "90",
            "title": "90. Financial Statement.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 91
        },
        {
            "number": "91",
            "title": "91. Balance sheet.",
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            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 92
        },
        {
            "number": "92",
            "title": "92. Submission of financial Statement and balance sheet to Auditor.",
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            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 93
        },
        {
            "number": "93",
            "title": "93. Power of Auditor.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) require, by a notice, in writing, the production before him, or before any officer subordinate to him, of any document which he considers necessary for the proper conduct of the audit,\n(b) require, by notice, in writing, any person accountable for, or having the custody or control of, any document, cash or article, to appear in person before him or before any officer subordinate to him.\n(c) require any person so appearing before him, or before any officer subordinate to him, to make or sign a declaration with respect to such document, cash or article or to answer any question or prepare and submit any statement, and\n(d) cause physical verification of any stock of articles in course of examination of accounts.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 94
        },
        {
            "number": "94",
            "title": "94. Audit report.",
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            "content": "(a) every payment which appears to the Auditor to be contrary to law,\n(b) the account of any deficiency or loss, which appears to have been caused by gross negligence or misconduct of any person,\n(c) the account of any sum received which ought to have been, but has not been, brought into account by any person, and\n(d) any other material impropriety or irregularity in the accounts.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "95",
            "title": "95. Placing of Audited Accounts before Municipality.",
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            "number": "96",
            "title": "96. Submission Of audited Accounts.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "97",
            "title": "97. Power of State Government to enforce order upon audit report.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "98",
            "title": "98. Special audit.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "99",
            "title": "99. Internal audit.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "100",
            "title": "100. Municipal Accounts Committee.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) such number of members, not being less than 3 and not more than 5 as the Municipality may determine, to be elected by the Councillors, not being the members of the empowered Standing Committee, from amongst themselves, and\n(b) such number of persons, not being Councillors, or officers or other employees of the Municipality and not exceeding two in numbers, having knowledge in financial matters, as may be nominated by the Municipality.\n(a) to examine the accounts of the Municipality showing the appropriation of sums granted by the Municipality for its expenditure and the annual financial accounts of the Municipality,\n(b) to examine and scrutinize the report on the accounts of the Municipality by the Auditor appointed under section 92 and to satisfy itself that the moneys shown in the accounts as having been disbursed were available for, and applicable to, the services or purposes to which they were applied or charged and that the expenditure was incurred in accordance with the authority governing such expenditure,\n(c) to submit report to the Municipality every year and from time to time on such examination and scrutiny,\n(d) to consider the report of the Auditor appointed under section 98 in cases where the State Government or the Municipality requires him to conduct a special audit of any receipt or expenditure of the Municipality or to examine the accounts of stores and stocks or the Municipality or to check the inventory of the properties of the Municipality including its land holdings and buildings ; and\n(e) to discharge such other functions as may be prescribed.\nChapter-XIII\nMunicipal Property",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 101
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        {
            "number": "101",
            "title": "101. Power to acquire and hold property.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "102",
            "title": "102. Vesting of property.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) all vested public lands not belonging to any Government department or statutory body or corporation,\n(b) all public tanks, streams, reservoirs, and wells,\n(c) all public markets and slaughterhouses,\n(d) all public sewers and drains, channels, tunnels, culverts and watercourses, alongside, or under, any street,\n(e) all public streets and pavements, and stones and other materials thereon, and also trees on such public streets or pavements not belonging to any private individual,\n(f) all public parks and gardens, including squares and public open spaces,\n(g) all public ghats on rivers or streams or tanks,\n(h) all public lamps, lamp-posts and apparatus connected therewith, or appertaining thereto,\n(i) all public places for disposal of the dead, excluding those governed by any specific law in this behalf,\n(j) all solid wastes collected on a public street or public place, including dead animals and birds, and\n(k) all stray animals not belonging to any private person.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 103
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        {
            "number": "103",
            "title": "103. Acquisition of property by Municipality by agreement, exchange, lease, grant, etc.",
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            "content": "(a) any immovable property, and\n(b) any easement affecting immovable property.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 104
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        {
            "number": "104",
            "title": "104. Compulsory Acquisition of land.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 105
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        {
            "number": "105",
            "title": "105. Special provisions for acquisition of lands adjoining streets.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 106
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        {
            "number": "106",
            "title": "106. Disposal of property.",
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            "content": "(a) the Empowered Standing Committee may sell, or grant lease or, otherwise dispose of, by public auction, any movable property, and may grant lease of, or let out on hire, any immovable property, belonging to the Municipality,\n(b) the Municipality may, with the prior approval of the State Government, for valuable consideration, sell or otherwise transfer, any immovable property belonging to the Municipality which is not required for carrying out the purposes of this Act, and\n(c) the Municipality shall not transfer any immovable property vested in it by virtue of this Act, but shall cause the same to be maintained, controlled and regulated in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the rules and the regulations made thereunder:",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 107
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        {
            "number": "107",
            "title": "107. Inventory of properties of Municipality.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter-XIV\nBorrowings",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 108
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        {
            "number": "108",
            "title": "108. Comprehensive debt limitation policy.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 109
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        {
            "number": "109",
            "title": "109. Power of Municipality to raise loan.",
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            "content": "(a) construction of works\n(b) acquisition of lands and buildings\n(c) paying off any debt due to the State Government,\n(d) repayment of a loan raised\n(e) acquisition of a public utility concern which renders such services as the Municipality is authorized to render\n(f) purchase of vehicles, locomotive engines, boilers and machinery necessary for carrying out the purposes of this Act, or\n(g) any other purpose for which the Municipality is, by or under this Act or any other law for the time being in force, authorized to borrow:\n(a) no portion thereof shall, without the previous sanction of the State Government, be applied to any purpose other than that for which it has been raised, and\n(b) no portion of any loan raised for any of the purposes referred to in that subsection shall be applied to the payment of salaries or allowances to any officer or other employee of the Municipality, other than those who are exclusively employed for the purpose for which the loan has been raised.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 110
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        {
            "number": "110",
            "title": "110. Power of Municipality to open credit account with bank.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "111",
            "title": "111. Power of Municipality to raise short term loan.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 112
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        {
            "number": "112",
            "title": "112. Establishment of Sinking Fund.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 113
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        {
            "number": "113",
            "title": "113. Application of Sinking Fund.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 114
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        {
            "number": "114",
            "title": "114. Power to discontinue payment towards Sinking Fund.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 115
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        {
            "number": "115",
            "title": "115. Investment of amount at the credit of Sinking Fund.",
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            "content": "(a) Government securities, or\n(b) securities guaranteed by the Central Government or any State Government, or\n(c) debentures issued by the Municipality, or\n(d) such other public securities as may be approved by the State Government,\n(e) and such other securities as may be held by the Municipality for the purpose of repayment of loans from time to time raised by it by issue of debentures or otherwise.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 116
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        {
            "number": "116",
            "title": "116. Power of Municipality to reserve a portion of debentures, issued for raising loan, for investment.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "117",
            "title": "117. Manner of Repayment of loans.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 118
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        {
            "number": "118",
            "title": "118. Form and effect of debentures.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 119
        },
        {
            "number": "119",
            "title": "119. Annual statement.",
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            "content": "(a) the amount which has been paid into the Sinking fund or Sinking Funds during the year under section 112,\n(b) the date of the last investment made during the year,\n(c) the aggregate amount of the securities in the hand of the Municipality at the end of the year, and\n(d) the aggregate amount which has been applied for the purpose of repayment of the loan under section 115.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 120
        },
        {
            "number": "120",
            "title": "120. Annual examination of Sinking Funds.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 121
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        {
            "number": "121",
            "title": "121. Power of Municipality to borrow money from State Government and attachment of Municipal fund for recovery of such money.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 122
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        {
            "number": "122",
            "title": "122. Issue of Municipal Bonds for development of urban infrastructure.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 123
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        {
            "number": "123",
            "title": "123. Credit rating of Municipal Bonds.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 124
        },
        {
            "number": "124",
            "title": "124. Pledging of Municipal assets as security for Municipal Bonds.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 125
        },
        {
            "number": "125",
            "title": "125. Debt Service Reserve Fund.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 126
        },
        {
            "number": "126",
            "title": "126. Limit to encumbrances through future debt.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 127
        },
        {
            "number": "127",
            "title": "127. Use of proceeds from Municipal Bonds.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Municipal Revenue\nMunicipal Revenue\nChapter-XV\nSources of Internal Revenues",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 128
        },
        {
            "number": "128",
            "title": "128. Internal revenues of Municipality.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) taxes levied by the Municipality,\n(b) user charges levied for provision of civic services, and\n(c) fees and fines levied for performance of regulatory and other statutory functions.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 129
        },
        {
            "number": "129",
            "title": "129. Power to levy taxes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) property tax on lands and buildings,\n(b) surcharges on transfer of lands and buildings,\n(c) tax on deficit in parking spaces in any non residential building,\n(d) water tax,\n(e) fire tax,\n(f) tax on advertisements, other than advertisements published in newspapers,\n(g) surcharge on entertainment tax,\n(h) surcharge on electricity consumption within the municipal area,\n(i) tax on congregations,\n(j) tax on pilgrims and tourists, and\n(k) toll-\n(i) on roads, bridges and ferries, and\n(ii) on heavy trucks which shall be heavy goods vehicles, and buses, which shall be heavy passenger motor vehicles, within the meaning of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, plying on a public street.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 130
        },
        {
            "number": "130",
            "title": "130. Power to levy user charges.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) provision of water-supply, drainage and sewerage,\n(ii) solid waste management,\n(iii) parking of different types of vehicles in different areas and for different periods,\n(iv) stacking of materials or rubbish on public streets for construction, alteration, repair or demolition work of any type, and\n(v) other specific services rendered in pursuance of the provisions of this Act, at such rates as may be determined from time to time by regulations :",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 131
        },
        {
            "number": "131",
            "title": "131. Power to levy fees and fines.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) sanction of building plans and issue of completion certificates,\n(b) issue of municipal licenses for various non-residential uses of lands and buildings,\n(c) licensing of -\n(i) various categories of professionals such as plumbers and surveyors,\n(ii) various activities such as sinking of tube-wells, sale of meat, fish or poultry, or hawking of articles,\n(iii) animals,\n(iv) carts or carriages, and\n(v) such other activities as require a licence or permission under the provisions of this Act, and\n(d) issue of birth and death certificates.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 132
        },
        {
            "number": "132",
            "title": "132. Levy of surcharge on tax or fee.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 133
        },
        {
            "number": "133",
            "title": "133. Power to levy development charge.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 134
        },
        {
            "number": "134",
            "title": "134. Realization of tax, fees, cess, etc. under any other law.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter-XVI\nTax on Lands and Buildings and Related Taxes Other Than Property Tax",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 135
        },
        {
            "number": "135",
            "title": "135. Levy of surcharge on transfer of land and buildings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) collection of surcharge,\n(b) payment of surcharge to the Municipality, and\n(c) deduction of the expenses, if any, incurred by the State Government in course of collection of surcharge, shall be such as may be prescribed.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 136
        },
        {
            "number": "136",
            "title": "136. Tax on deficits of parking spaces in nonresidential buildings.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 137
        },
        {
            "number": "137",
            "title": "137. Water tax.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 138
        },
        {
            "number": "138",
            "title": "138. Fire tax.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter-XVII\nTax on Advertisements other Than Advertisements in Newspapers and Licence Fees for Advertisement Spaces",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 139
        },
        {
            "number": "139",
            "title": "139. Prohibition of Advertisements without written permission of the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) a licence for the use of the particular site for the purpose of advertisement has not been taken, or\n(b) the advertisement contravenes any provisions of this Act or the rules or the regulations made thereunder, or\n(c) the tax, if any, due in respect of the advertisement has not been paid.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 140
        },
        {
            "number": "140",
            "title": "140. Licence for use of site for purpose of advertisement.",
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            "content": "(a) using any site before the commencement of this Act, within ninety days from the date of such commencement, or\n(b) intending to use any site, or\n(c) whose licence for use of any site is about to expire, shall apply for a licence or renewal of licence, as the case may be, to the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer in such Form as may be specified by the Municipality.\n(a) on telephone, telegraph, tram, electric or other posts or poles erected on or along public or private streets or public places,\n(b) in lands or buildings, and\n(c) in cinema-halls, theaters or other places of public resort.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 141
        },
        {
            "number": "141",
            "title": "141. Tax on advertisement.",
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            "content": "(a) relates to a public meeting or to an election to Parliament or the State Legislature or the Municipality or any other local authority or to candidature in respect of such election, or\n(b) is exhibited within the window of any building, if the advertisement relates to any trade, profession or business carried on in the building, or\n(c) relates to any trade, profession or business carried on within the land or the building upon or over which such advertisement is exhibited or to any sale or letting of such land or building or any effects therein or to any sale, entertainment or meeting to be held on, upon or in such land or building, or\n(d) relates to the name of the land or the building upon or over which the advertisement is exhibited or the name of the owner or the occupier of such land or building, or\n(e) relates to the business of any airport or port or railway administration, and is exhibited within such airport or port or railway station or upon any wall or other property of an airport, port or railway station, or\n(f) relates to any activity of the Central Government or the State Government or any local authority.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 142
        },
        {
            "number": "142",
            "title": "142. Permission of the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer to be void in certain cases.",
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            "content": "(a) if the advertisement contravenes the provisions of any regulations made under this Act, or\n(b) if any material change is made in the advertisement or any part thereof without the previous permission of the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer, or\n(c) if the advertisement or any part thereof falls otherwise than by accident, or\n(d) if, due to any work by the Central Government, the State Government, or the Municipality, or by any statutory authority, the advertisement is required to be displaced.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 143
        },
        {
            "number": "143",
            "title": "143. Licence for use of site for purpose of advertisement to be void in certain cases.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) if the licensee contravenes any of the terms and conditions of licence, or\n(b) if any addition or alteration is made to, or in, the land, building, wall, hoarding, frame, post, kiosk, structure, vehicle, neon-sign or sky-sigh, upon or over which the advertisement is erected, exhibited, fixed or retained, or\n(c) if the land, building, wall, hoarding, frame, post, kiosk, structure, vehicle, neon-sign or sky-sign over which the advertisement is erected, exhibited, fixed or retained or demolished or destroyed.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 144
        },
        {
            "number": "144",
            "title": "144. Presumption in case of contravention.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 145
        },
        {
            "number": "145",
            "title": "145. Power of the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer in case of contravention.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 146
        },
        {
            "number": "146",
            "title": "146. Removal of poster, hoarding, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter-XVIII\nOther Taxes and Tolls",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 147
        },
        {
            "number": "147",
            "title": "147. Surcharge on tax on entertainment.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) collection of the surcharge,\n(b) payment of the surcharge to the Municipality, and\n(c) deduction of the expenses, if any, incurred by the State Government in course of collection of the surcharge, shall be as may be prescribed.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 148
        },
        {
            "number": "148",
            "title": "148. Surcharge on electricity consumption.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 149
        },
        {
            "number": "149",
            "title": "149. Tax on tourists and congregations.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 150
        },
        {
            "number": "150",
            "title": "150. Toll on roads.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "151",
            "title": "151. Toll on bridges.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 152
        },
        {
            "number": "152",
            "title": "152. Toll on heavy truck and bus.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 153
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        {
            "number": "153",
            "title": "153. Declaration of ferries as municipal ferries.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 154
        },
        {
            "number": "154",
            "title": "154. Administration of municipal ferries.",
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            "content": "(a) the terms and conditions for granting of lease of municipal ferries in favour of private parties,\n(b) the rates of tolls to be established and published for such municipal ferries,\n(c) the grounds for cancellation of ferry leases,\n(d) the administration of a municipal ferry involving another Municipality or local authority,\n(e) provisions for safety and convenience of passengers and goods, and\n(f) Provisions for exemptions from payment of toll for municipal ferries in the case of authorized representatives and properties of the Central Government or the State Government or the Municipality.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 155
        },
        {
            "number": "155",
            "title": "155. Municipality to collect tolls in navigable channel.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter-XIX\nPayment and Recovery of Taxes\nA. Recovery of Taxes by Municipality\nA. Recovery of Taxes by Municipality",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 156
        },
        {
            "number": "156",
            "title": "156. Manner of recovery taxes under the Act.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) by presenting a bill, or\n(b) by serving a notice of demand, or\n(c) by distraint and sale of a defaulter's movable property, or\n(d) by attachment and sale of a defaulter's immovable property, or\n(e) in the case of property tax on any land or building, by attachment of rent due in respect of such land or building, or\n(f) by a certificate under any law for the time being in force regulating the recovery of any dues as public demand.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 157
        },
        {
            "number": "157",
            "title": "157. Time and manner of payment of taxes.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 158
        },
        {
            "number": "158",
            "title": "158. Presentation of bill.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) a tax on advertisements,\n(b) a tax on tourists and congregations, and\n(c) a toll :",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 159
        },
        {
            "number": "159",
            "title": "159. Regulations regarding payment and recovery of tax.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) issue of notice of demand, charging of notice fee, levy of interest of delayed payment at a rate as may be specified, and the amount of penalty there for,\n(b) issue of warrant for attachment, distress, and sale of movable property for recovery of tax dues,\n(c) attachment and sale of immovable property for recovery of tax dues, and\n(d) recovery of dues from a person about to leave the municipal area.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 160
        },
        {
            "number": "160",
            "title": "160. Requirement of payment of rent by occupier towards tax due on land or building.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 161
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        {
            "number": "161",
            "title": "161. Recovery of property tax on land and building or any other tax or charge when owner of land or building is unknown or ownership is disputed.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 162
        },
        {
            "number": "162",
            "title": "162. Power of Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer to prosecute or serve notice of demand.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) tax on advertisements other than the advertisements published in newspapers, or\n(b) any other tax, fee or charge leviable under this Act, the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer may either prosecute such person, if prosecution lies under the provisions of this Act, or cause to be served on such person a notice of demand in such Form as may be specified by regulations or in such other Form as the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer may deem fit.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 163
        },
        {
            "number": "163",
            "title": "163. Cancellation of irrecoverable dues.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "B. Recovery of Tax on Lands or Buildings by person Primarily Liable to Pay to the Municipality\nB. Recovery of Tax on Lands or Buildings by person Primarily Liable to Pay to the Municipality",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 164
        },
        {
            "number": "164",
            "title": "164. Apportionment of property tax on lands and buildings by person primarily liable to pay.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) if there be but one occupier of the land or the building, from such occupier half of the tax so paid, and, if there be more than one occupier, from each occupier half of such sum as bears to the entire amount of tax so paid by the owner the same proportion as the value of the portion of the land or the building in the occupation of such occupier bears to the entire value of such land or building :\n(b) the entire amount of the surcharge on the property tax on any land or building from the occupier of such land or building who uses it for commercial or non-residential purposes :",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 165
        },
        {
            "number": "165",
            "title": "165. Mode of recovery.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter-XX\nCommercial Projects",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 166
        },
        {
            "number": "166",
            "title": "166. Commercial projects and receipts there from.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Urban Environmental Infrastructure and Services\nUrban Environmental Infrastructure and Services\nChapter-XXI\nPrivate Sector Participation Agreement and Assignment to other Agencies",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 167
        },
        {
            "number": "167",
            "title": "167. Undertaking of project by Municipality or by other agency.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) promote the undertaking of any project for supply of urban environmental infrastructure or services by participation of a company, firm, society, trust or any body corporate or any institution, or Government agency or any agency under any other law for the time being in force, in financing, construction, maintenance and operation of such project of a Municipality irrespective of its cost,\n(b) consider and approve the undertaking of any project relating to urban environmental infrastructure or services by a company, or firm, or society, or body corporate in terms of a private sector participation agreement or jointly with any such agency, and\n(c) consider and approve the undertaking of any project relating to urban environmental infrastructure or services by any institution, or Government agency under any other law for the time being in force, or jointly with any such agency.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 168
        },
        {
            "number": "168",
            "title": "168. Types of private sector participation Agreements.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) Build-Own-Operate-Transfer Agreement,\n(b) Build-Own-Operate-Maintain Agreement,\n(c) Build and Transfer Agreement,\n(d) Build-Lease-Transfer Agreement,\n(e) Build-Transfer-Operate Agreement,\n(f) Lease and Management Agreement,\n(g) Management Agreement,\n(h) Rehabilitate-Operate-Transfer Agreement,\n(i) Rehabilitate-Own-Operate-Maintain Agreement,\n(j) Service Contract Agreement, and\n(k) Supply-Operate-Transfer agreement.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 169
        },
        {
            "number": "169",
            "title": "169. Functions assigned to Municipality or other agencies.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) discharge any of its obligations on its own, or\n(b) enter into any private sector participation agreement.\nChapter -XXII\nWater-Supply\nA. General\nA. General",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 170
        },
        {
            "number": "170",
            "title": "170. Definitions.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(1) \"communication pipe\" means-\n(a) where the premises supplied with water abutts on the part of the street in which the main is laid, and the service pipe enters those premises otherwise than through the outer wall of a building, abutting on the street and has a stopcock placed in those premises and as near to the boundary of that street as is reasonably practicable, so much of the service pipe as lies between the main and such stopcock, and\n(b) in any other case, so much of the service pipe as lies between the main and the boundary of the street in which the main is laid, and includes the ferrule at the junction of the service pipe with the main, and also includes, -\n(i) where the communication pipe ends at a stopcock, such stopcock, and\n(ii) any stopcock fitted on the communication pipe between the end thereof and the main;\n(2) \"main\" means a pipe laid by the Municipality for the purpose of giving a general supply of water as distinct from a supply to individual consumers, and includes any apparatus used in the connection with such pipe;\n(3) \"service-pipe\" means so much of any pipe for supplying water from a main to any premises as is subject to water-pressure from that main, or would be so subject but for the closing of any tap;\n(4) \"supply-pipe\" means so much of any service pipe as is not a communication pipe;\n(5) \"trunk-main\" means a main constructed for the purpose of conveying water from a source of supply to a filter or reservoir or from one filter or reservoir to another filter or reservoir, or for the purpose of conveying water in bulk from one part of the limits of supply to another part of such limits, or for the purpose of giving, or taking, a supply of water in bulk;\n(6) \"water-fittings\" includes pipes (other than mains), taps cocks, valves, ferrules, meters, cisterns, baths and other similar apparatus used in connection with the supply and use of water.\nB. Functions in Relation to Water-supply\nB. Functions in Relation to Water-supply",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 171
        },
        {
            "number": "171",
            "title": "171. Duty of Municipality to supply water.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to ascertain the sufficiency and wholesomeness of water supplied within the municipal area,\n(b) to provide, or to arrange to provide, a supply of wholesome water in pipes to every part of the municipal area in which there are houses, for domestic purposes of the occupants thereof, and for taking the pipes affording that supply to such point or points as will enable the houses to be connected thereto at a reasonable cost, so, however, that the Municipality shall not be required to do anything which is not practicable at a reasonable cost or to provide such supply to any part of the municipal area where supply is already available at such point or points, and\n(c) to provide, as far as possible, supply of wholesome water otherwise than in pipes to every part of the municipal area in which there are houses, for domestic purposes of the occupants thereof, and to which it is not practicable to provide supply in pipes at a reasonable cost, and in which danger to health may arise from the insufficiency or unwholesomeness of the existing supply and a public supply is required and may be provided at a reasonable cost, and to secure that such supply is available within a reasonable distance of every house in that part.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 172
        },
        {
            "number": "172",
            "title": "172. Supply of water to connected premises.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to any institutional building, assembly building, business building, mercantile building, industrial building, storage building, or hazardous building, referred to in clause (2) of section 339, or any part of such building, other than that used as a residential building, or educational building, within the meaning of sub-clause (a), or sub-clause (b), of clause (2) of that section,\n(b) for building purposes,\n(c) for watering roads and paths,\n(d) for purposes of irrigation,\n(e) for gardens, fountains, swimming pools, or for any ornamental or mechanical purpose, or\n(f) for animals or for washing vehicles where such animals or vehicles are kept for sale or hire.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 173
        },
        {
            "number": "173",
            "title": "173. Supply of water for non-domestic purposes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 174
        },
        {
            "number": "174",
            "title": "174. Provision of communication pipes and fittings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 175
        },
        {
            "number": "175",
            "title": "175. Water-supply through hydrants, stand posts and other conveniences.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 176
        },
        {
            "number": "176",
            "title": "176. Provision for fire hydrants.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 177
        },
        {
            "number": "177",
            "title": "177. Supply of water to areas outside municipal area.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "C. Planning, Construction, Maintenance and Management of Waterworks.\nC. Planning, Construction, Maintenance and Management of Waterworks.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 178
        },
        {
            "number": "178",
            "title": "178. Public tanks, sub-soil water, etc. to vest in Municipality.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 179
        },
        {
            "number": "179",
            "title": "179. Vesting of sub-soil rights.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 180
        },
        {
            "number": "180",
            "title": "180. Works to be undertaken for supply of water.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) shall cause to be constructed or maintained such tanks, reservoirs, engines, pipes, taps, and other water works as may be necessary, within or outside the municipal area,\n(b) may purchase, or take on lease, any waterworks, or rights to store or to take and convey water, within or outside the municipal area, and\n(c) may enter into any agreement with any person or authority for the supply of water :",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 181
        },
        {
            "number": "181",
            "title": "181. Management of water works.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 182
        },
        {
            "number": "182",
            "title": "182. Purity of water for Domestic purpose.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 183
        },
        {
            "number": "183",
            "title": "183. Water not to be wasted.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "D. Tube-wells and Wells\nD. Tube-wells and Wells",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 184
        },
        {
            "number": "184",
            "title": "184. Prohibition regarding sinking of tube wells or digging of wells etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) by notice, in writing, require the owner or the other person, who has done such work to fill up or demolish such work, within such time as may be specified in the notice, and if the work of filling up or demolition is not done within the time so specified, cause the work to be done and realize the expenses therefore from the owner or the person to whom such notice was given, or\n(b) grant permission to retain such work on such terms and conditions as the Empowered Standing Committee may consider fit to impose.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 185
        },
        {
            "number": "185",
            "title": "185. Power to require filling up of wells.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 186
        },
        {
            "number": "186",
            "title": "186. Power to set apart wells, tanks, etc. for drinking, culinary, bathing, and washing purposes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) supply of water exclusively for drinking or for culinary purposes or for both, or\n(b) bathing, or\n(c) washing animals or clothes, or\n(d) any other purpose connected with health, cleanliness or comfort of the inhabitants, and may, by like order, prohibit bathing, or washing of animals or clothes or other things at any public place, not set apart for such purposes, or prohibit any other act by which water in any public place may be rendered foul or unfit for use, or provide for alternative facilities and conveniences to regulate the use of any tank, well, spring or watercourse to promote public safety, health and welfare.\nE. Water-supply Mains and Pipes\nE. Water-supply Mains and Pipes",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 187
        },
        {
            "number": "187",
            "title": "187. Power to lay mains, service pipes, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) in any street, and\n(b) with the consent of every owner or occupier of any land not forming part of a street, in, over or on that land, and may, either on his own or through any other agency, from time to time, inspect, repair, alter, or renew or may, at any time, remove any such main, or service pipes, so laid, whether under this section or under any other provision of this Act :",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 188
        },
        {
            "number": "188",
            "title": "188. Prohibition for laying water pipes and construction of latrines and Cesspools.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) laying of ware-pipes in any place where water is likely to be polluted,\n(b) construction of latrine or cesspool within six metres of any well, tank, water -pipe, or cistern, or\n(c) the use of water from any polluted source of supply.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 189
        },
        {
            "number": "189",
            "title": "189. Power in relation to water-supply.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the provision of separate supply-pipes for each land or building or each storey of a building,\n(b) the owner of a land or building, or the person primarily liable for payment of tax in respect of a land or building, having no supply, or inadequate supply, of wholesome water for domestic purposes, to take supply of water from the mains of the Municipality and to set up electric pumps for the purpose, and\n(c) the occupier of any land or building to which water is supplied by the Municipality, to keep the supply-pipes in efficient repair.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 190
        },
        {
            "number": "190",
            "title": "190. Power to turn off supply of water to premises.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) if the person, whose premises are supplied with water, neglects to pay any sum payable under sub-section (2) of section 172 or sub-section (2) of section 173, when due,\n(b) if, after receipt of a notice, in writing, from the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/Municipal Executive Officer requiring him to refrain from so doing, the owner or the occupier of the premises continues to use the water or to permit the same to be used in contravention of the provisions of this Act or the regulations made there-under,\n(c) if the occupier of the premises contravenes the provisions of sub-section (3) of section 172,\n(d) if the occupier refuses to admit any officer or other employee of the Municipality, duly authorized in that behalf, into the premises for the purpose of making any inspection under this Act or the regulations made there-under,\n(e) if the owner or the occupier of the premises willfully or tap conveying water from any waterworks of the Municipality,\n(f) if any pipes, taps, works or fittings, connected with the supply of water to the premises, be found, on examination by the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer, to be out of repair to such an extent as to cause so serious a waste of water that, in his opinion, immediate prevention is necessary,\n(g) if the use of the premises for human habitation has been prohibited under this Act,\n(h) if there is any water-pipe situated within the premises to which no tap or other efficient means of turning off the water-supply is attached, and\n(i) if, by reason of a leak in the service pipe or fitting, damage is caused to any public street and immediate prevention is necessary:\n(i) water-supply shall not be cut off or turned off in any case referred to in clause (g) or clause (i), unless a notice, in writing, of not less than seventy-two hours has been given to the occupier of the premises, and\n(ii) in the case referred to in clause (f) or clause (i), the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer may carry out necessary repair to pipes, taps, works, or fittings and recover the expenses thereof from the owner or the occupier of the premises.\nF. Water Meters and Recovery of Charges\nF. Water Meters and Recovery of Charges",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 191
        },
        {
            "number": "191",
            "title": "191. Power to provide water meters and recover charges.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) by regulations, specify the terms and conditions for-\n(i) provision of water meters, either by itself or through an agent or by the owner or the occupier of any land or building, and\n(ii) recovery of charges for supply of such water as recorded by water meters, and\n(b) take necessary steps for detection and elimination of any fraud in respect of such water meters.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 192
        },
        {
            "number": "192",
            "title": "192. Entrustment of operation and maintenance of water works and billing and collection of charges.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "G. Offence in Relation to Water-supply\nG. Offence in Relation to Water-supply",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 193
        },
        {
            "number": "193",
            "title": "193. Liability for offence in relation to water supply.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter-XXIII\nDrainage and Sewerage\nA. Functions in Relation to Drainage and Sewerage\nA. Functions in Relation to Drainage and Sewerage",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 194
        },
        {
            "number": "194",
            "title": "194. Municipality to provide drainage, sewerage and outfall.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) in conformity with the provisions of any State law relating to land use planning or any other law relating thereto for the time being in force or\n(ii) with the approval of the State government, in the absence of any such law:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 195
        },
        {
            "number": "195",
            "title": "195. Provision of means for disposal of sewage.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "B. Proprietary Rights of Municipality In respect of Drains and Sewage Disposal Works\nB. Proprietary Rights of Municipality In respect of Drains and Sewage Disposal Works",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 196
        },
        {
            "number": "196",
            "title": "196. Vesting of public drains and sewage disposal works.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) all public drains, all drains in, alongside or under any public street, and all sewage disposal works, constructed or acquired out of the Municipal Fund or otherwise, and all works, materials and things appertaining thereto, which are situated within or outside the municipal area, shall vest in the Municipality,\n(b) for the purposes of laying, constructing, enlarging, deepening or otherwise repairing or maintaining any such drain or sewage disposal system, so much of the sub-soil appertaining thereto, as may be necessary for such purposes, shall be deemed also to vest in the Municipality, and\n(c) all drains and ventilation shafts, pipes and all appliances and fittings connected with the drainage works constructed, erected or set up of the Municipal Fund in or upon premises, not belonging to the Municipality, whether-\n(i) before or after the commencement of this Act, and\n(ii) for the use of the owner or the occupier of such premises or not, shall, unless the Municipality has otherwise determined, or does at any time otherwise determine, vest, and shall be deemed always to have vested, in the Municipality.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 197
        },
        {
            "number": "197",
            "title": "197. Power to make over to, or to take over from, statutory authority drainage and sewerage works.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "C. Municipal Drains\nC. Municipal Drains",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 198
        },
        {
            "number": "198",
            "title": "198. Power of making drains.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 199
        },
        {
            "number": "199",
            "title": "199. Sewage and rain water drains to be separated.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 200
        },
        {
            "number": "200",
            "title": "200. Alteration, discontinuance, cleansing, etc., of drains.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) enlarge, alter the course of, lessen, or arch over, or otherwise improve, any municipal drain within the municipal area,\n(b) discontinue, close up, or destroy any such drain,\n(c) properly flush, clean, and empty such drain, and\n(d) restrict throwing, emptying, or turning into any municipal drain, or into any matter likely to damage the drain or interfere with the free flow of its contents or affect prejudicially the treatment and disposal of its contents, or any chemicals, refuse or waste steam, or any liquid which is dangerous or is the cause or a nuisance or is prejudicial to health, or any petroleum Class 'A', petroleum Class 'B' or petroleum Class 'C'.\nD. Drains of Private Streets and Drainage of Premises\nD. Drains of Private Streets and Drainage of Premises",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 201
        },
        {
            "number": "201",
            "title": "201. Powers in relation to drainage.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) permit the owner or the occupier of any premises having a drain, or the owner of a private drain, to have his drain made to communicate with the municipal drain for discharge of foul water,\n(b) limit the use of the municipal drain by the owner or the occupier of any premises having a private drain or the owner of a private drain,\n(c) require the owner of any land or building, which is without sufficient means of effectual drainage, to construct a drain and to provide all such appliances and fittings as may be necessary for drainage of such undrained land or building,\n(d) require the group of owners of a block of premises, which may be drained more economically or advantageously in combination than separately, to undertake at their own expense any work necessary for drainage of such block of premises to be drained by a combined operation,\n(e) require the owner of any land or building to carry out such construction, repair or other work as may be necessary for effectual drainage of such land or building, or\n(f) authorize any person who desires to drain his land or building into a municipal drain through a drain of which he is not an owner, to use the drain or declare such person to be the joint owner thereof.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 202
        },
        {
            "number": "202",
            "title": "202. Premises not to be erected without drains.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) a drain is constructed of such size, materials and description, at such level, and with such fall, as may appear to the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer to be necessary for the effectual drainage of such premises,\n(b) there have been provided and set up on such premises such appliances and fittings as may appear to the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer to be necessary for the purposes of gathering or receiving the filth and other polluted and obnoxious matters, and conveying the same, from such premises and of effectually flushing the drain of such premises and every fixture connected therewith.\nE. Trade Effluent\nE. Trade Effluent",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 203
        },
        {
            "number": "203",
            "title": "203. Special provisions relating to trade effluent.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 204
        },
        {
            "number": "204",
            "title": "204. Special provision regarding drainage of trade effluent.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to discharge the trade effluent in such manner, at such times, through such drains, and subject to such conditions, as may be specified in the notice, and to cease to discharge the trade effluent otherwise than in accordance with the notice,\n(b) to purify the trade effluent before its discharge into a municipal drain and to set up for purifying the trade effluent such appliances, apparatus, fittings and plants, as may be specified in the notice,\n(c) to construct a drain of such material, size and description, and laid at such level, and according to such alignment, and with such fall and outlet, as may be specified in the notice,\n(d) to alter, amend, repair or renovate any purification plant, existing drain, apparatus, plant-fitting or article used in connection with any municipal or house-drain.\nChapter-XXIV\nOther Provisions Relating to Water-Supply, Drainage and Sewerage",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 205
        },
        {
            "number": "205",
            "title": "205. Connection with waterworks mains and drains not to be made without permission.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 206
        },
        {
            "number": "206",
            "title": "206. Buildings, railways and private streets not to be erected or constructed over water mains or on municipal drains without permission.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 207
        },
        {
            "number": "207",
            "title": "207. Railway administration to be informed in certain cases.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 208
        },
        {
            "number": "208",
            "title": "208. Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer not to sanction building plan unless plan relating to water supply etc. is in conformity with rules and regulations.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 209
        },
        {
            "number": "209",
            "title": "209. Maps of underground water supply pipes, drains, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 210
        },
        {
            "number": "210",
            "title": "210. Rights of user of property for aqueducts, lines, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 211
        },
        {
            "number": "211",
            "title": "211. Power of owner of premises to place pipes and drains through land belonging to other persons.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) cause the pipe or drain to be placed or carried with the least possible delay,\n(b) fill in reinstate and make good at this own cost and with the least possible delay, land opened, broken up or removed for the purpose of placing or carrying such pipe or drain, and\n(c) pay compensation to the owner of such immovable property and to any other person, who sustains damage by reason of the placing or carrying of such pipe or drain.",
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        {
            "number": "212",
            "title": "212. Power of the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer to affix shafts etc. for ventilation of drain or cesspool and testing of drain.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) erect upon any land or building, or affix to the outside of any building, or to any tree, any shaft or pipe as may appears to him to be necessary for the purpose of ventilating any drain or cesspool, whether vested in the Municipality or not, and\n(b) examine the condition of a private drain or cesspool within the municipal area in respect of which there is reasonable ground for believing that such private drain or cesspool is in such condition as is prejudicial to health, or is a nuisance, by applying any test other than a test by water under pressure, and if he deems it necessary, by opening the ground.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 213
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        {
            "number": "213",
            "title": "213. Power of the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer to execute work after giving notice to person liable.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 214
        },
        {
            "number": "214",
            "title": "214. Work to be done by licensed plumber.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the terms and conditions of engagement of such licensed plumbers,\n(b) their duties and responsibilities, and guidelines for their functions,\n(c) the charges to be paid to them for different types of works,\n(d) the hearing and disposal of complaints made by the owners or occupiers of any premises with regard to their work, and\n(e) the suspension or cancellation of such licence, in case of contravention of any such regulations by any such plumber, and prosecution thereof under this Act.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 215
        },
        {
            "number": "215",
            "title": "215. Power of access to waterworks and drainage and sewerage installations.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) enter upon, and pass through, any land within or outside the municipal area, adjacent to, or in the vicinity of such waterworks, in whomsoever such land may vest, and\n(b) convey into and through any such land all necessary materials, tools and implements.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 216
        },
        {
            "number": "216",
            "title": "216. Prohibition of certain acts.",
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            "content": "(a) willfully obstruct any person acting under the authority of the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer in setting out the lines of any works or pull up or remove any pillar, post or shaft fixed in the ground for the purpose of setting out lines of such works, or deface or destroy any works made for such purpose, or\n(b) willfully or negligently break, damage, turn on, open, close, shut off, or otherwise interfere with, any lock, cock, value, pipe, meter or other work or apparatus belonging to the Municipality, or\n(c) unlawfully obstruct the flow of, or flush, draw off, or divert, or take water from, any waterworks belonging to the Municipality, or\n(d) unlawfully obstruct the flow of, or flush, draw off, or divert, or take, sewage work belonging to the Municipal or break or damage any electrical transmission line maintained by the Municipality, or\n(e) throw any material including plastic bags and containers or waste of dairies, piggeries and poultry farms into any municipal drain or sewer, or\n(f) obstruct any officer or other employee of the Municipal in the discharge of his duties under chapter XXII and under this chapter or refuse, or willfully neglect, to furnish him with the means necessary for the making of any entry, inspection, examination or inquiry thereunder in relation to any water or sewage work, or\n(g) bathe in, at, or upon, any waterworks, or wash or throw or cause to enter therein any animal, or throw any rubbish, dirt or filth into any waterworks or wash or clean therein any cloth, wool or leather or the skin of any animal, or cause the water of any sink or drain or any steam-engine or boiler or any polluted water to turn, or to be brought, into any waterworks, or do any other act, whereby the water in any waterworks is fouled or is likely to be fouled.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 217
        },
        {
            "number": "217",
            "title": "217. Sewerage charge and sewerage cess.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 218
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        {
            "number": "218",
            "title": "218. Entrustment of operation and maintenance of sewerage works and billing and collection of Sewerage charges.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 219
        },
        {
            "number": "219",
            "title": "219. Power of the State Government to exercise control over imperfect, inefficient or unsuitable waterworks, drainage works or sewerage works.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 220
        },
        {
            "number": "220",
            "title": "220. Municipal Water-supply, Drainage and Sewerage Code.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter-XXV\nSolid Wastes\nA. Functions in Relation to Solid Wastes Management\nA. Functions in Relation to Solid Wastes Management",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 221
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        {
            "number": "221",
            "title": "221. Duty of Municipality in respect of solid wastes management and handling.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 222
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        {
            "number": "222",
            "title": "222. Entrustment of management and handling of solid wastes and billing and collection of charge.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 223
        },
        {
            "number": "223",
            "title": "223. Functions of Municipality.",
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            "content": "(a) organize collection of municipal solid wastes through any of the methods, like community bin collection (central bin),house-to- house collection, and collection on regular preinformed times and schedules,\n(b) devise collection of wastes from slums and squatter areas or other localities including hotels, restaurants, office complexes and commercial areas,\n(c) remove at regular intervals all solid wastes so collected under clause (a) and clause (b) for disposals on daily basis, and\n(d) arrange for making use of biodegradable wastes from vegetable markets in an environmentally acceptable manner.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 224
        },
        {
            "number": "224",
            "title": "224. Solid wastes to be property of Municipality.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 225
        },
        {
            "number": "225",
            "title": "225. Appointment of places for disposal and final disposal of solid wastes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) in conformity with the provisions of any State law relating to development planning and land use control or any other law relating thereto for the time being in force, or\n(ii) in the absence of any such law, with the approval of the State Government:\nB. Collection and Removal of Solid Wastes\nB. Collection and Removal of Solid Wastes",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 226
        },
        {
            "number": "226",
            "title": "226. Duty of owners and occupiers of premises to store solid wastes at source of generation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to have the premises swept and cleaned on a regular basis,\n(b) to provide for separate receptacles or disposal bags for the storage of-\n(i) organic and bio- degradable wastes,\n(ii) recyclable or non- biogradable wastes, and\n(iii) domestic hazardous wastes,\n(c) to keep such receptacles in good condition and order, and\n(d) to cause all such wastes, including rubbish, offensive matter, filth, trade refuse, carcasses of dead animals, excrementitious matters, bio-medical wastes and other polluted and obnoxious matters to be collected from their respective premises and to be deposited in community bins or receptacles at such times and in such places as the Municipal Executive Officer may, be notice, specify.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 227
        },
        {
            "number": "227",
            "title": "227. Duty of Cooperative Housing society, Apartment owners' association, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 228
        },
        {
            "number": "228",
            "title": "228. Prohibitions.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) litter or deposit at any public place any solid waste,\n(b) deposit building rubbish in or along any public street, public place or open land,\n(c) allow any filthy matter to flow on public places, or\n(d) deposit or otherwise dispose of the carcass or any part of any dead animal at a place not provided or appointed for such purpose.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 229
        },
        {
            "number": "229",
            "title": "229. Punishment for littering on street and depositing or throwing any solid waste.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 230
        },
        {
            "number": "230",
            "title": "230. Bio-medical wastes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 231
        },
        {
            "number": "231",
            "title": "231. Hazardous wastes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter-XXVI\nState Municipal Regulatory Commission",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 232
        },
        {
            "number": "232",
            "title": "232. Definitions.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) \"Chairperson\" means the Chairperson of the State Commission;\n(b) \"High Court\" means the High Court of the State;\n(c) \"Member\" means a member of the State Commission, and includes the Chairperson, and a member of a regional branch of the State Commission;\n(d) \"State Commission\" means the Municipal Regulatory Commission constituted under sub-section (1) of section 233.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 233
        },
        {
            "number": "233",
            "title": "233. Constitution and incorporation of State Commission.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 234
        },
        {
            "number": "234",
            "title": "234. Constitution of Selection Committee by State Government.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) a person, who has been the judge of the High Court, to be the Chairperson, and\n(i) the Chief Secretary to the State Government, and\n(ii) an expert having not less than ten years' experience in infrastructure finance, to be nominated by the state Government;",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 235
        },
        {
            "number": "235",
            "title": "235. Term of office, salary and allowances and other conditions of service of Chairperson and other members.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) in the case of the Chairperson, the age of sixty-five years, and\n(b) in the case of any other member, the age of sixty-two years.\n(a) relinquish his office by giving, in writing, to the Governor a notice of not less than three months; or\n(b) be removed from his office in accordance with the provisions of section 236.\n(a) accept any commercial employment for a period of two years from the date from which he ceases to hold such office, and\n(b) represent in any manner any person before the State Commission or any similar Commission constituted by any other State Government.\n(i) \"employment under the Central Government or any State Government\" shall include employment under a local authority or any other authority within the territory of India or under the control of the central Government or a State Government or under any corporation or society owned or controlled by the Central Government or a State Government ;\n(ii) \"commercial employment\" shall mean employment in any capacity under, or as agent of, a person engaged in any trading, or commercial, industrial, or financial business, in any public utility undertaking, and shall include employment as a director of a company or partner of a firm, and shall also include sitting up of practice, either independently or as a partner of a firm or as an adviser or a consultant.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 236
        },
        {
            "number": "236",
            "title": "236. Removal of Chairperson and other members.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) has been adjudged an insolvent, or\n(b) has been convicted of an offence which, in the opinion of the State Government, involves moral turpitude, or\n(c) has become physically or mentally incapable of action as a member, or\n(d) has acquired such financial or other interest as is likely to affect prejudicially his functioning as a member, or\n(e) has so abused his position as to render his continuance in office prejudicial to the public interest.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 237
        },
        {
            "number": "237",
            "title": "237. Officers of State Commission and other staff.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 238
        },
        {
            "number": "238",
            "title": "238. Functions of State Commission.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to determine separately for each Municipality the rate at which payment shall be made for water-supply under sub-section (2) of section 272 and sub-section (2) of section 273,\n(b) to determine separately for each Municipality the sewerage charges on the owners of premises for connection of such premises to sewerage mains under sub-section (1) of section 217,\n(c) to determine separately for each Municipality the rate or the principles for determination of the amount of charges for solid waste management under clause (ii) of section 130,\n(d) to determine separately for each Municipality the rate or the principles for determination of charges for any other services,\n(e) to set standards for the provision of municipal services in the State including standards relating to quality, continuity and reliability of such services,\n(f) to suggest avenues for participation of private sector in the provision of municipal services,\n(g) to ensure a fair deal to the citizens, and\n(h) to promote competition, efficiency and economy in the activities of the Municipalities in the provision of municipal services.\n(a) to aid and advise the State Government on any matter concerning the provision of municipal services in the State and the formulation of State policies in this regard,\n(b) to collect and record information concerning the provision of municipal services in the State,\n(c) to collect and publish data and forecasts on the demand for, and the use of, municipal services in the State,\n(d) do adjudicate upon the disputes and differences between any municipal authority and any suppliers of municipal services in the public or private sector on behalf of such municipal authority, or to refer such matters for arbitration,\n(e) to co-ordinate with the environmental regulatory agencies and to evolve policies and procedure for appropriate environmental regulation of municipal services, and\n(f) to aid and advise the State Government on any other related matters referred to the State Commission by the State Government.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 239
        },
        {
            "number": "239",
            "title": "239. The State Municipal Advisory Committee.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 240
        },
        {
            "number": "240",
            "title": "240. Objects and functions of the State Municipal Advisory Committee.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) major questions of policy;\n(b) matters relating to quality, continuity and extent of municipal services provided by the municipal authorities:\n(c) protection of consumers of municipal services; and\n(d) improvement of overall standards of performance, efficiency and economy in the provision of municipal services by municipal authorities.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 241
        },
        {
            "number": "241",
            "title": "241. Representation before State Commission.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 242
        },
        {
            "number": "242",
            "title": "242. Appeal to High Court in certain cases.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 243
        },
        {
            "number": "243",
            "title": "243. Determination of rates of user charges by State Commission.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) that the rates progressively reflect the cost of supply of municipal services at an adequate and improving level of efficiency,\n(b) the factors which would encourage efficiency, economical use of resources, good performance, optimum investments and other matters which the State Commission may consider appropriate;\n(c) that the interest of the consumers of the municipal services are safeguarded and, at the same time, the consumers pay for availing of the municipal services in a reasonable manner based on the average cost of such services; and\n(d) the production, distribution, and supply of municipal civic services are conducted on commercial basis.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 244
        },
        {
            "number": "244",
            "title": "244. Budget of State commission.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 245
        },
        {
            "number": "245",
            "title": "245. Accounts and audit of the State Commission.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 246
        },
        {
            "number": "246",
            "title": "246. Annual report of the State Commission.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 247
        },
        {
            "number": "247",
            "title": "247. Transparency in State commission.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 248
        },
        {
            "number": "248",
            "title": "248. Directions by State Government.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 249
        },
        {
            "number": "249",
            "title": "249. Proceedings before State Commission.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 250
        },
        {
            "number": "250",
            "title": "250. Protection of action taken in good faith.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 251
        },
        {
            "number": "251",
            "title": "251. Punishment for non-compliance of orders or directions under this Act.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 252
        },
        {
            "number": "252",
            "title": "252. Punishment for non-compliance of directions given by State Commission.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 253
        },
        {
            "number": "253",
            "title": "253. Power of seizure.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 254
        },
        {
            "number": "254",
            "title": "254. Cognizance of offences.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 255
        },
        {
            "number": "255",
            "title": "255. Inconsistency in laws.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 256
        },
        {
            "number": "256",
            "title": "256. Delegation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 257
        },
        {
            "number": "257",
            "title": "257. Overriding effect.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 258
        },
        {
            "number": "258",
            "title": "258. Power of State Government to make rules.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the salary, allowances and other terms and conditions of service of the chairperson and the other members under sub-section (2) of section 235;\n(b) the Form and the manner in which, and the authority before whom, the oath of office and secrecy shall be subscribed under sub-section (4) of section 235;\n(c) the Form in which, and the time at which, the State Commission shall prepare its budget under section 244;\n(d) the Form in which the annual statement of accounts shall be prepared by the State Commission under sub-section (1) of section 245;\n(e) the Form in which, and the time within which, the annual report shall be furnished under sub-section (1) of section 246;\n(f) any other matter which may be, or is required to be, prescribed by rules.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 259
        },
        {
            "number": "259",
            "title": "259. Power of State Commission to make regulations.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the powers and the duties of the Secretary under sub-section (1) of section 237;\n(b) the salary and allowances and the other terms and conditions of service of the Secretary and the other officers and other employees under sub-section (3) of section 237;\n(c) the terms and conditions of appointment of consultants under sub-section (4) of section 237;\n(d) the manner in which the rates of user charges shall be determined under section 243;\n(e) any other matter which may be, or is required to be, provided by regulations.\nChapter-XXVII\nCommunication Systems\nA. Public Streets\nA. Public Streets",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 260
        },
        {
            "number": "260",
            "title": "260. Surface transport system and accessories.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the surface transport systems shall include streets, roads, footpaths, pedestrian pathways, parking areas, transportation terminals, both for passengers and goods, bridges, sub-ways, over-bridges, ferries and inland water transport systems, and\n(b) the transport system accessories shall includes traffic engineering schemes, street furniture, street lighting, parking lots and bus stops.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 261
        },
        {
            "number": "261",
            "title": "261. Vesting of public street in Municipality.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) transfer to any Municipality any public street or parking area belonging to it, or\n(b) take over from any Municipality any public street or parking area, or\n(c) transfer such public street or parking area, so taken over, to any authority under any law for the time being in force, or any other agency, for a limited period for the purpose of proper maintenance and development of such public street or parking area by such Municipality or the State Government or such authority or agency, as the case may be.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 262
        },
        {
            "number": "262",
            "title": "262. Functions of Municipality in respect of public streets etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 263
        },
        {
            "number": "263",
            "title": "263. Power to make new public streets etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) lay out and make new public streets, or\n(b) construct bridges or sub-ways, or\n(c) turn or divert any existing public street, or\n(d) lay down and determine the position and direction of a street or streets in any part of the municipal area notwithstanding that no proposal for the erection of any building in its vicinity has been received, or\n(e) declare any street, made and duly constructed under any scheme or any development or improvement scheme in pursuance of the provisions of any law for the time being in force, to be a public street, or\n(f) declare any private street to be a public street.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 264
        },
        {
            "number": "264",
            "title": "264. Minimum width of new public street.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 265
        },
        {
            "number": "265",
            "title": "265. Acquisition of lands and buildings for public streets, public parking places and transportation terminals.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) any land together with structure including building, if any, standing thereon for the purpose of opening,widening, extending or otherwise improving any public street, parking or transportation terminal, square, park or garden or making a new one or for enforcing the regular line of street,\n(b) in relation to any land or any structure including building as aforesaid, such land or structure including building as the Municipality may think expedient, outside the regular line or projected regular line of the public street as aforesaid, and\n(c) any land for the purpose of laying out, or making a public parking place.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 266
        },
        {
            "number": "266",
            "title": "266. Permanent closure of public street.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 267
        },
        {
            "number": "267",
            "title": "267. Temporary closure of public street.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 268
        },
        {
            "number": "268",
            "title": "268. Closure of public street for parking purposes and levy of parking fee.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 269
        },
        {
            "number": "269",
            "title": "269. Rights of owners to require streets to be declared public.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "B. Traffic Engineering Schemes, Street Furniture, Parking Lots and Bus Stops.\nB. Traffic Engineering Schemes, Street Furniture, Parking Lots and Bus Stops.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 270
        },
        {
            "number": "270",
            "title": "270. Traffic engineering schemes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 271
        },
        {
            "number": "271",
            "title": "271. Street furniture and bus stops.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "C. Street Lighting\nC. Street Lighting",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 272
        },
        {
            "number": "272",
            "title": "272. Measures for lighting.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) take measures for lighting, in a suitable manner, such public streets and public places as may be specified by him,\n(b) procure, erect and maintain such number of lamps, lamp-posts and other appurtenances as may be necessary for the purpose of lighting, and\n(c) cause such lamps to be lighted by appropriate means.\nChapter-XXVIII\nMarket, Commercial Infrastructure and Slaughterhouses",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 273
        },
        {
            "number": "273",
            "title": "273. Commercial Infrastructure.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 274
        },
        {
            "number": "274",
            "title": "274. Provision of municipal markets and slaughter houses.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 275
        },
        {
            "number": "275",
            "title": "275. Use of municipal markets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 276
        },
        {
            "number": "276",
            "title": "276. Levy of stallage, rent and fee.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Urban Environmental Management Community Health and Public Safety\nUrban Environmental Management Community Health and Public Safety\nChapter - XXIX\nLocal Agenda for Urban Environmental management",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 277
        },
        {
            "number": "277",
            "title": "277. Duties of Municipality.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) management of urban environment,\n(b) measuring quality of living and working environment,\n(c) monitoring of pollution levels and\n(d) undertaking health risk assessment.\n(a) carry out studies on vulnerability and risk assessment,\n(b) enhance the capability of concerned municipal or other agencies through research and training activities for better management of environment,\n(c) prepare environmental management strategy and action plan, and establish adequate institutional framework for its implementation, and\n(d) provide and manage environmental infrastructure services.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 278
        },
        {
            "number": "278",
            "title": "278. Function in relation to urban environmental management and submission of report on environmental status of municipal area.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) supply of safe water,\n(b) low cost sanitation\n(c) environmentally sound solid waste management,\n(d) toxic waste collection and disposal\n(e) waste recycling and recovery\n(f) preservation of wetlands\n(g) control of air pollution,\n(h) control of sound pollution,\n(i) control of cattle and other animal in the municipal area\n(j) area improvement and resettlement,\n(k) promotion of urban agriculture and urban forestry\n(l) development of parks, gardens and open spaces,\n(m) promotion of community awareness on environmental education and\n(n) such other matters as the Municipality may consider necessary.\nChapter XXX\nEnvironmental sanitation and community health\nA. Duties and general powers\nA. Duties and general powers",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 279
        },
        {
            "number": "279",
            "title": "279. Duties of Municipality for environmental sanitation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) inspection, supervision, regulation and control of premises to ensure proper environmental sanitation,\n(b) regulation of public bathing and washing\n(c) provision and maintenance of public conveniences,\n(d) licensing of animals and control of stray animals\n(e) licensing of butchers and slaughterhouses and\n(f) control of nuisances.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 280
        },
        {
            "number": "280",
            "title": "280. Powers of the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) cause any building or other premises to be inspected for the purpose of ascertaining the sanitary condition thereof.\n(b) require the owner or the occupier of any land or building or any part thereof.\n(c) issue such order as he deems necessary for the improvement of any in-sanitary huts and sheds and untenanted premises which are likely to cause risk of diseases to the inmates thereof or to the inhabitants of the neighborhoods or are, for any reason, likely to endanger community health or safety,\n(d) by notice, prohibit the owner or the occupier from the cause of any buildings, or any room in a building, which appears to him to be unfit for human habitations, as dwelling or\n(e) direct the filling up of any well, pool, ditch, tank, pond, pit or undrained ground, cistern or reservoir of any waste or stagnant water, which appear to him to be, or likely to become, injurious to health or offensive to the neighborhood.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 281
        },
        {
            "number": "281",
            "title": "281. Power to regulate Excavation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the making of excavation for the purpose of taking earth therefrom or strong rubbish or offensive matter therein or\n(b) the digging of cesspool, tanks, ponds, wells or pits, without his special permission.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 282
        },
        {
            "number": "282",
            "title": "282. Power to require trees, hedges etc. to be trimmed.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "B. Regulation of public bathing, washing etc.\nB. Regulation of public bathing, washing etc.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 283
        },
        {
            "number": "283",
            "title": "283. Regulation of public bathing etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) regulate the use by public of any river or other public place, whether vested in the Municipality or not, for bathing or washing,\n(b) prohibit the use by the public of any lake, tank, reservoir, fountain, cistern, duct, stand pipe, stream or well or any part of any river, whether vested in the Municipality or not, for bathing or washing\n(c) prohibit steeping in any tank, reservoir, stream, well or ditch of any animal, vegetable or mineral matter likely to render the water thereof offensive or dangerous to health,\n(d) Prohibit bathing in any lake tank, reservoir, fountain, cistern, duct, stand-pipe, stream or well by a person suffering from any contagious of infectious disease,\n(e) Prohibit any person engaged in any trade or manufacture from causing to flow into any lake, tank, reservoir, cistern, well, duct or other place for storage of water, whether vested in the Municipality or not, or drain or pipe communicating therewith, any washing or other substance produced in the course of any such trade or manufacture, or willfully do any act connected with any such trade or manufacture whereby such water is likely to be fouled or corrupted or\n(f) Prohibit by notice, the washing of clothes by washer-men in pursuance of their calling, except at such places as may be licensed for this purpose.\nC. Public Conveniences\nC. Public Conveniences",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 284
        },
        {
            "number": "284",
            "title": "284. Public latrine and urinals.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "D. General Provisions\nD. General Provisions",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 285
        },
        {
            "number": "285",
            "title": "285. Prohibition of nuisances.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) commit any nuisance in any public street or public place, or\n(b) unauthorized affix upon any building, monument, post, well, fence, tree or other thing, any bill, notice or other document, or\n(c) unauthorized deface, or write upon, or otherwise mark, any building, monument, post, wall, fence, tree or other thing or\n(d) carry rubbish filth or other polluted and obnoxious matter along any route in contravention of any prohibition made in this behalf by the Municipal Executive Officer by notice or\n(e) bury or cremate or otherwise dispose of any corpses at a place not licensed for the purpose or\n(f) disturb public peace or order in violation of sound pollution control order, if any or\n(g) cause pollution of air in violation of air pollution control order, if any or\n(h) cause obstruction to the movement of vehicular or pedestrian traffic without permission from the competent authority.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 286
        },
        {
            "number": "286",
            "title": "286. Control of pollution.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 287
        },
        {
            "number": "287",
            "title": "287. Power to require wells, tank etc. to be rendered safe.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 288
        },
        {
            "number": "288",
            "title": "288. Quarrying, blasting, cutting timber or building operation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 289
        },
        {
            "number": "289",
            "title": "289. Power to stop improper use of land or building.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) is in a filthy or unwholesome state or\n(b) has becomes a resort of -\n(i) Idle and disorderly persons, or\n(ii) persons who have no ostensible means of subsistence or cannot give a satisfactory account of themselves, or\n(c) is used for gambling or immoral purposes or\n(d) is likely to occasion a nuisance.\n(i) secure, enclosed, cleanse or clear such land or building, or\n(ii) stop use of such land or building for gambling or immoral purpose or\n(iii) abate the nuisance",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 290
        },
        {
            "number": "290",
            "title": "290. Polluters to pay.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter XXXI\nRestraint of infection",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 291
        },
        {
            "number": "291",
            "title": "291. Municipality to prevent and check dangerous diseases.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 292
        },
        {
            "number": "292",
            "title": "292. Power of the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/Municipal Executive Officer to inspect any place and take measures to prevent spread of dangerous diseases.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) without proper lodging or accommodation or\n(b) living in a room or house which he neither owns nor pay rent for , nor occupies as a guest or relative of the person who owns, or pay rend for such room or house, or\n(c) living in a sarai, hotel, boarding-house, or hotel or\n(d) lodged in premises occupied by members of two or more families",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 293
        },
        {
            "number": "293",
            "title": "293. Power of the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer to cleanse, disinfect, destroy, or control places of infection.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 294
        },
        {
            "number": "294",
            "title": "294. Special measures in case of outbreak of dangerous or epidemic diseses.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) take such special measures and\n(b) by notice, give such directions to be observed by the public or by any class or section of the public as he thinks necessary to prevent the outbreak of such disease :",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 295
        },
        {
            "number": "295",
            "title": "295. Means for disinfection.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) provide proper places within the municipal area with necessary attendants and apparatus for disinfection of conveyances, clothing, beddings, or other articles which have been exposed to infection, and Special measures in case of outbreak of dangerous or epidemic diseases.\n(b) cause conveyances, clothing, beddings or other articles brought for disinfection, to be disinfected, either free of charge or on payment of such charges as it may fix.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 296
        },
        {
            "number": "296",
            "title": "296. Special conveyance for carrying infected persons.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 297
        },
        {
            "number": "297",
            "title": "297. Prohibitions.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the letting out of any infected building without being first disinfected\n(b) the disposal of infected articles without disinfection,\n(c) the washing of any infected clothes by any washer man or laundry and\n(d) the making and selling of food, or washing of cloths, by infected person.\nChapter XXXII\nDisposal of the dead",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 298
        },
        {
            "number": "298",
            "title": "298. Acts prohibited in connection with disposal of dead.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) retain a corpse on any premises without burning, burying or otherwise lawfully disposing it of, for so long a time after death as to create a nuisance.\n(b) carry a corpse, or part of a corpse, along any street without having or keeping such corpse or part of a corpse decently covered or without taking such precautions to prevent risk of infection or injury to the community health as the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer may, by notice, from time to time, think fit to require.\n(c) carry, except when no other route is available, a corpse or part of a corpse along any street on which the carrying of corpse is prohibited by notice issued by the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer in this behalf.\n(d) remove corpse or part of a corpse, which has been kept or used for purpose of dissection, otherwise than in a closed receptacle or vehicle.\n(e) place or leave, during its conveyance, a corpse or part of a corpse, on or near any street without urgent necessity.\n(f) bury, or caused to be buried, any corpse or part of a corpse in the grave or vault or otherwise in such manner as may cause the surface of the coffin or, when no coffin is used, of the corpse or part of the corpse, to be at a depth of less than two meters from the surface of the ground.\n(g) built, dig or cause to be built or dug, any grave or vault in any burial ground at a distance of less than one-half of a meter from the margin of any other grave or vault,\n(h) build or dig, or cause to be built or dug, a grave or vault in any burial ground in any line, not marked out for such purpose by or under the order of the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer,\n(i) reopen for the interment of a corpse or of any part of corpse a grave or vault already occupied, without the written permission of the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer,\n(j) make, without the permission of the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer, any vault or grave or interment within any wall, or underneath any passage, porch, portico, plinth or verandah, of any place of worship.\n(k) make without permission of the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer, any interment or otherwise dispose of any corpse in any place which is closed under section 300,\n(l) muild, dig or causing to be built or dug, any grave or vault, or in any way, dispose of, or suffer or permit to be disposed of, any corpse at any place, which is not permitted under this chapter, without the permission of the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer,\n(m) exhume without the permission of the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer, any body from any place for the disposal of the dead except under the provision of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, (2 of 1974) or any other law for the time being in force.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 299
        },
        {
            "number": "299",
            "title": "299. Registration of places for disposal of the dead.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 300
        },
        {
            "number": "300",
            "title": "300. Power to require closing of burning and burial ground etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 301
        },
        {
            "number": "301",
            "title": "301. Disposal of dead animals.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) convey the carcass to a place provided or appointed under this Act for the final disposal of carcasses of dead animals, or\n(b) give notice of the death to the Municipal Executive Officer whereupon he shall cause the carcass to be disposed of.\nChapter XXXIII\nUrban Forestry, Parks, Gardens, Trees and Playgrounds.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 302
        },
        {
            "number": "302",
            "title": "302. Municipality to implement schemes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) Promotion of urban forestry.\n(b) Creation of public parks and gardens and planting of trees.\n(c) Provision of park and playgrounds for children and youth.\n(d) Provision of street-side gardens.\n(e) Encouragement of nurseries, and\n(f) Organization of flowers shows.\nRegulatory Jurisdiction\nRegulatory Jurisdiction\nChapter XXXIV\nDevelopment Plans",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 303
        },
        {
            "number": "303",
            "title": "303. Representation in District Planning Committee or Metropolitan Planning Committee.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 304
        },
        {
            "number": "304",
            "title": "304. Municipality to implement development plans.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) Preparation of plans for improvement under chapter XXXV and\n(b) Plans for infrastructure development including water supply, drainage and sewerage, solid waste management, roads and transport system accessories.\nChapter XXXV\nImprovement",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 305
        },
        {
            "number": "305",
            "title": "305. Removal of congested buildings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 306
        },
        {
            "number": "306",
            "title": "306. Power to require improvement of building unfit for human habitation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 307
        },
        {
            "number": "307",
            "title": "307. Power to order demolition of building unfit for human habitation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) Repairs,\n(b) stability,\n(c) freedom from damp,\n(d) natural light and air,\n(e) water supply,\n(f) drainage and sanitary convenience and\n(g) facilities for storage, preparation and cooking of food and for the disposal of rubbish, filth and other polluted matter.\n(a) necessary repairs,\n(b) structural alterations,\n(c) provision of light points and water taps,\n(d) construction of drains, open or covered,\n(e) provision of latrines and urinals\n(f) provision of additional or improvement fixtures and fittings,\n(g) opening up or paving of courtyard,\n(h) removal of rubbish, filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter and,\n(i) any other work including the demolition of any building or any part thereof which, in the opinion of the Municipal Executive Officer, is necessary for executing any of the works as aforesaid.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 308
        },
        {
            "number": "308",
            "title": "308. Area improvement scheme.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the building in that area are, by reason of disrepair or sanitary defects, unfit for human habitation or are by reason of their bad arrangement or narrowness or bad arrangement of the streets or wants of light air, ventilation or proper conveniences, dangerous or injurious to the health of the inhabitants of that area or,\n(b) because of bad layout or obsolete or undesirable dwellings, renewal of such area is necessary or,\n(c) there is need to create new or improvement means of communication and facilities for traffic, and that the most satisfactory methods of remedying these defects is to prepare an area improvement scheme in respect of such area, the Municipality may pass a resolution so to do.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 309
        },
        {
            "number": "309",
            "title": "309. Matters to be provided in area improvement scheme.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) laying out, or relaying out, land, either vacant or already built upon,\n(b) filling up, or reclamation, of low lying swampy or unhealthy areas or leveling up of land,\n(c) redistribution of sites belonging to owners of property comprised in the scheme,\n(d) reconstitution of plots,\n(e) construction or reconstruction of buildings,\n(f) restriction on the erection or re-erection of any building or any class of buildings,\n(g) imposition of conditions and restriction in regard to the open spaces to be maintained around any building, percentage of built-up area for a plot, number, height and character of buildings allowed in specified areas, sub-division of plots, discontinuance of objectionable uses of land or building in any area for specified periods, parking spaces and loading and unloading spaces for any building and advertisement signs,\n(h) closure or demolition of buildings or portion of buildings unfit for human habitations,\n(i) demolition of obstructive buildings or portions thereof,\n(j) laying out of new streets or roads and construction, diversion, extension, alteration, improvement and closing up of streets or roads and other means of communication,\n(k) regular line of street and prohibition of buildings within the regular line of streets,\n(l) construction, alteration and removal of bridges and other structures,\n(m) provision for traffic engineering schemes, street lighting, street furniture and other convenience,\n(n) provision for water supply, sewerage, surface or sub-soil drainage and sewage disposal,\n(o) provision for open spaces,\n(p) Preservation and protection of objects of historical importance or of national interest or of natural beauty and of buildings actually used for religious purpose and\n(q) any other matter not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act and for which, in the opinion of the Municipality, it is expedient to make provision with a view to improving the area to which the scheme relates.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 310
        },
        {
            "number": "310",
            "title": "310. Submission of area improvement scheme to Municipality and State Government.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 311
        },
        {
            "number": "311",
            "title": "311. Re-housing scheme.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 312
        },
        {
            "number": "312",
            "title": "312. Area improvement scheme and rehousing scheme to comply with structure plan.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 313
        },
        {
            "number": "313",
            "title": "313. Execution of area improvement scheme.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 314
        },
        {
            "number": "314",
            "title": "314. Power to acquire land and building for area improvement scheme.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) opening out any congested or unhealthy area or otherwise improving any portion of municipal area, or\n(ii) erecting sanitary dwellings for working and poor people or\n(iii) executing any development plan or scheme for the benefit of persons residing in the municipal area.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 315
        },
        {
            "number": "315",
            "title": "315. Power of Municipality to define and to alter limits of slum.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 316
        },
        {
            "number": "316",
            "title": "316. Slum improvement scheme.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) water supply including sinking of tube wells, laying of water pipelines, installation of overhead reservoirs and flushing arrangement for privies and urinals,\n(b) drainage and sewerage including connections with any existing channel or sewer main or laying or diverting of drains,\n(c) Conversion of service privies into septic tank privies or water borne privies connected with sewer mains,\n(d) Sewerage and garbage removal,\n(e) Raising, lowering or leveling of land and improvement of pathways and passages,\n(f) Lighting including laying of cables or overhead lines,\n(g) Improvement of huts or other structure and\n(h) Such other matters as may be considered necessary for carrying out the purposes of this chapter.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 317
        },
        {
            "number": "317",
            "title": "317. Acquistion of right of user.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 318
        },
        {
            "number": "318",
            "title": "318. Work to be executed in slum.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) sinking of tube-wells inside a slum including laying of water-pipes lines, installation of overhead reservoirs and other appurtenances necessary to maintain flushing arrangements of privies and sewers,\n(b) laying of drains or diversion of existing drains,\n(c) conversion of service privies into connected privies or septic tanks,\n(d) removal of silt from sewers and sludge from septic tanks inside a slum,\n(e) removal of solid or liquid wastes from slums including cleansing of the deck or squatting platform of the connected privies or septic tanks,\n(f) laying of internal roads,\n(g) provision of street lighting and\n(h) repair work relating to any of the works referred to in clauses (a) to (e).\nChapter XXXVI\nPublic streets\nA. General Powers\nA. General Powers",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 319
        },
        {
            "number": "319",
            "title": "319. Municipal Streets Technical Committee.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) in the case of a Class \"A\" Municipal Council, five Councillors to be elected by the Municipal Council and\n(b) in the case of a Class \"B\" or Class \"C\" Municipal Council or a Nagar Panchayat, three Councillors to be elected by the Class \"B\" or Class \"C\" Municipal Council or the Nagar Panchayat as the case may be.\n(a) The Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer who shall be the convenor of the Committee,\n(b) The Municipal Engineer,\n(c) The Municipal Architect,\n(d) A police officer, not below the rank of an Inspector or Police to be nominated by the Superintendent of Police of the District concerned and\n(e) Two officers having responsibility for fire service and preparation of development plans (ie Town Planner) for the municipal area to be nominated by the State Government either from amongst the officers of the Municipality or from the officers of the concerned State Government Departments or any authority under any law for the time being in force.\n(a) the desirability of securing and maintaining reasonable access to premises,\n(b) the effect on the amenities of any locality affected and\n(c) any other relevant matter referred to it by the Municipality.\n(i) classification of public streets and specification of width there of,\n(ii) prescription of regular line of street,\n(iii) regulation of abutting land uses,\n(iv) regulation of traffic,\n(v) designation of on-street parking areas\n(vi) allocation of rights of way for underground utilities\n(vii) placement of street furniture,\n(viii) placement of authorized fixtures on streets such as electric and telegraph poles, post-boxes, telephone junction boxes, sheds for buses and milk booths,\n(ix) opening of new public streets,\n(x) permanent or temporary closure of existing public streets,\n(xi) declaring private streets as public streets and\n(xii) any other matter that may be referred to it by the Municipality.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 320
        },
        {
            "number": "320",
            "title": "320. Classification of public streets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) Category -I - arterial roads.\n(b) Category-II - sub-arterial roads.\n(c) Category-III- collector roads,\n(d) Category-IV - local roads and,\n(e) Category -V- pedestrian pathways.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 321
        },
        {
            "number": "321",
            "title": "321. Compulsory provision of footpaths.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 322
        },
        {
            "number": "322",
            "title": "322. Naming and numbering of streets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) determine the name or number by which any street or public place vested in it shall be known,\n(b) cause to be put up or painted at a conspicuous part of any building, wall or place at or near each end, corner or entrance of such streets or some convenient part of such street, the name or number by which it shall be known, and\n(c) cause to be put up or painted on boards of suitable size the name of any public place vested in the Municipality.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 323
        },
        {
            "number": "323",
            "title": "323. Unique premises number.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the first three digit indicating the ward number,\n(b) the next three digit indicating the street number,\n(c) the next four digit indicating the premises number,\n(d) the next three digit indicating the sub-premises number,\n(e) the next one digit indicating the code of the building use, such as residential, commercial, industrial or other use, and\n(f) the last one digit indicating the code of type of construction.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 324
        },
        {
            "number": "324",
            "title": "324. Rights of way for underground utilities.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the sanction by the Municipality of specific rights of way in the sub-soil of public and private streets in any municipal area for different public utilities including electric supply, telephone or other telecommunication facilities, gas pipe, water supply, drainage and sewerage, and underground rail system, pedestrian sub-ways, shopping plazas, warehousing facilities and apparatus and appurtenances related thereto provided by the State Government or any statutory body or any licensee under any of the above mentioned Acts or other laws,\n(b) the levy of any fee or charge under any of the Acts or other laws as foresaid,\n(c) the furnishing to the Municipality of maps, drawings and statements which shall enable it to compile and maintain precise records of the placement of the underground utilities in the municipal area,\n(d) the fixing of time limit for execution of work and imposing of such conditions in this respect as the Municipality may consider appropriate and\n(e) the imposing of penalty in case of delay in the completion of work.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 325
        },
        {
            "number": "325",
            "title": "325. Maps of underground utilities.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 326
        },
        {
            "number": "326",
            "title": "326. Power to prohibit use of public streets for certain kind of traffic.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) prohibit or regulate, either temporarily or permanently, vehicular traffic in any public street or any portion thereof so as to prevent danger, obstruction or inconvenience to the public or to ensure quietness in any locality,\n(b) prohibit, in respect of a public street or a portion thereof, the transit of any vehicle of such type, form, construction, weight, emission or size or of any vehicle laden with such heavy or unwieldy object as is likely to cause injury to the roadways or any construction thereon, or of any vehicle on the ground of public convenience, except under such conditions as to time, mode of traction or locomotion use of appliances for the protection of roadways, number of light and assistants and other general precautions and on payment of such charges as may be specified by the Municipality generally or specifically in each case,\n(c) prohibit at all times or during any particular hours, entry of any vehicular traffic from or exit of such vehicular traffic into any premises from any particulars public street carrying such traffic.\nB. Regular line of Street\nB. Regular line of Street",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 327
        },
        {
            "number": "327",
            "title": "327. Defining regular line of street.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 328
        },
        {
            "number": "328",
            "title": "328. Setting back Building to Regular line of street.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to repair, rebuild or construct such building or to pull down such building to an extent, measured in cubic metre, exceeding one-half thereof above the ground level or,\n(b) to repair, remove, construct or reconstruct or make any additions to, or structural alterations of, any portion of such building, which is within the regular line of the street, by order, as respects the additions to, or rebuilding, construction, repair or alterations of, such building, to be set back to the regular line of such street.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 329
        },
        {
            "number": "329",
            "title": "329. Compulsory setting back of building to regular line of street.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 330
        },
        {
            "number": "330",
            "title": "330. Setting forward of building to regular line of street.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 331
        },
        {
            "number": "331",
            "title": "331. Acquisition of open land and land occupied by platforms etc. within regular line of street.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 332
        },
        {
            "number": "332",
            "title": "332. Acquisition of remaining part of building and land after their portions within regular line of street have been acquired.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 333
        },
        {
            "number": "333",
            "title": "333. Compensation to be paid in certain cases of setting back or setting forward of building etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "C. Obstruction on Streets\nC. Obstruction on Streets",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 334
        },
        {
            "number": "334",
            "title": "334. Special provision regarding streets belonging to Central or State Government.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the Municipality shall not, in respect of such national highway, state highway, or street, grant permission to do any act, the doing of which without its permission, in writing, would contravene the provisions of this Act, except with the sanction of the Central Government or the State Government, as the case may be, and\n(b) if so required by the Central Government or the State Government, the Municipality shall exercise the powers conferred upon it by this Act or any regulations relating to such street.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 335
        },
        {
            "number": "335",
            "title": "335. Temporary erection on streets during festivals.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 336
        },
        {
            "number": "336",
            "title": "336. Precautions during construction or repair of street drain or premises.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) cause the same to be fenced and guarded,\n(b) take proper precaution against accident affection public street or adjoining buildings,\n(c) prohibit, without his written permission, the deposit of any building material or the setting up of any scaffolding or any temporary erection on any public street,\n(d) close any street wholly or partly to traffic,\n(e) provide for necessary diversion of traffic, wherever necessary.\n(f) ensure the reinstatement of the public street or restoration of any drain or premises to its original condition, and\n(g) take steps for repairing or enclosing of any place which, in his opinion, is dangerous or causing inconvenience to traffic along a street or to persons who have legal access thereto or to the Neighborhood thereof, and recover the costs of such repair works from the owner or the occupier of any such place or premises.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 337
        },
        {
            "number": "337",
            "title": "337. Power of Municipality in relation to regulation of street.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) prohibit or regulate vehicular traffic in any public street or any portion thereof so as to prevent danger, obstruction or inconvenience to the public or injury to the roadways.\n(b) prohibit, at all times or during any particular hours, entry of any vehicular traffic from, or exit of such vehicular traffic into, any premises from any particular public street carrying such traffic.\n(c) prohibit tethering of any animal for any purpose in any public street,\n(d) prohibit in any street installation of structures or fixtures which may cause obstruction,\n(e) prohibit the opening of the ground floor door, gate, bar or window outwards on any street,\n(f) prohibit projections upon any street, or drain, or open channel in any street, and\n(g) remove anything erected, deposited or hawked on any public place or public street in contravention of the provisions of this Act.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 338
        },
        {
            "number": "338",
            "title": "338. Restoration of municipal properties by public utilities.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter XXXVII\nBuildings\nA. Procedure\nA. Procedure",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 339
        },
        {
            "number": "339",
            "title": "339. Definitions.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(1) \"to erect a building\" means -\n(a) to erect a new building on any site, whether previously built upon or not,\n(b) to re-erect means-\n(i) any building of which more than one-half of the cubical extent above the level of plinth have been pulled down, burnt or destroyed, or\n(ii) any building of which more than one-half of the superficial area of the external walls above the level of plinth has been pulled down, or\n(iii) any frame-building of which more than half of the number of posts or beams in the external walls have been pulled down,\n(c) to convert into a dwelling-house any building or any part of a building not originally so constructed for human habitation or, if originally so constructed for human habitation, subsequently appropriated for any other purpose,\n(d) to convert into more than one dwelling-house a building originally constructed as one dwelling-house only,\n(e) to convert into a place of religious worship or into a sacred building any place or building, not originally constructed for such purpose,\n(f) to roof or cover an open space between walls or buildings to the extent of the structure formed by the roofing or covering of such space,\n(g) to convert two or more tenements in a building into a greater or lesser number of such tenements,\n(h) to convert into a stall, shop, office, warehouse or godown, workshop, factory or garage any building not originally constructed for use as such, or to convert any building constructed for such use, by sub-division or addition, into greater or lesser number of such stalls, shops, offices, warehouses or godowns, workshops, factories or garages,\n(i) to convert a building, which, when originally constructed, was legally exempt from the operation of any building regulations or any rules made under this Act or in any other law for the time being in force, into a building which, had it been originally erected in its converted form, would have been subject to such building regulations,\n(j) to convert into, or use as, a dwelling-house any building, which has been discontinued as, or appropriated for any purpose other than, a dwelling-house,\n(k) to make any addition to a building, and\n(l) to remove or reconstruct the principal staircase of a building or to alter its position ;\n(2) \"occupancy\" or use-group\" means the principal occupancy for which a building or a part of a building is used or intended to be used, and the occupancy classification shall, unless otherwise spelt out in any development plan or any other improvement scheme under any law for the time being in force, include -\n(a) residential buildings, that is to say, any building in which sleeping accommodation is provided for normal residential purposes with or without cooking facility or dining facility or both, and such building shall include one or two or multi-family dwelling, lodging or rooming houses, hostels, dormitories, apartment houses and flats, and private garages,\n(b) educational buildings, that is to say, any building used for school, college or day-care purposes involving assembly for instruction, education or recreation incidental to educational use,\n(c) institutional buildings, that is to say, any building or part thereof ordinarily providing sleeping accommodation for occupants and used for the purposes of medical or other treatment or care of persons suffering from physical or mental illness, disease or infirmity, care of infants, convalescents or aged persons and for penal or correctional detention in which the liberty of the inmates is restricted, and such buildings shall include hospitals, clinics, dispensaries, sanatoria, custodial institutions, and penal institutions like jails, prisons, mental hospitals and reformatories,\n(d) assembly buildings, that is to say, any building or part thereof where groups of people congregate or gather for amusement or recreation or for social, religious, patriotic, civic, travel, sports, and similar other purposes, and such buildings shall include theatres, motion picture houses, drive-in-theatres, city halls, town halls, auditoria, exhibition halls, museums, skating rinks, gymnasia, restaurants, eating-houses, hotels, boarding-houses, places of worship, dance halls, club rooms, gymkhanas, passenger stations and terminals of air, surface and other public transportation services, recreation piers, and stadium,\n(e) business buildings, that is to say, any building or part thereof used for transaction of business or for the keeping of accounts and records or for similar purposes and such buildings shall include offices, banks, professional establishments, court houses, and libraries for the principal function of transaction of public business and keeping of books and records, and shall also include office buildings (premises) solely or principally used as and office of for office purpose.\n(f) Mercantile buildings, that is to say any building or part thereof used as shops, stores or markets for display or sale or merchandise, either wholesale or retail or for office, storage or service facilities incidental to the sale of merchandise and located in the same building and such building shall include establishments wholly or partly engaged in wholesale trade, manufacturer's whole sale outlets (including related storage facilities) warehouses, and establishment engaged in truck transport (including truck transport booking agencies).\n(g) Industrial buildings, that is to say any building or structure or part thereof in which products or materials of all kinds and properties are fabricated, assembled or processed as in assembly plants and such buildings shall include laboratories, power plants, smoke houses, refineries, gas plants, mills, dairies, factories, workshops, automobile repair garages and printing presses.\n(h) Storage buildings, that is to say any building or part thereof used primarily for the storage or sheltering of goods, wares or merchandise as in warehouse and such building shall include cold storages, freight depots, transit sheds, store houses, public garages, hangars, truck terminals, grain elevators, barns and stables,\n(i) Hazardous buildings, that is to say any building or part thereof used for the storage, handling, manufacture or processing of highly combustible or explosive materials or products, which are liable to burn with extreme rapidity or which may produce poisonous fumes or explosions during storage, handling, manufacture or processing or which involve highly corrosive, toxic or noxious alkalis, acids or other liquid or chemicals producing flames, fumes, explosions or mixtures of dust or which result in the division of matter into fine particles subject to spontaneous ignition :\n(3) \"alteration\" means the change from one occupancy to another or the structural change, such as the addition to any area or height or the removal of a part of building or the change to the structure such as the construction or cutting into or removal of any wall, partition, column, beams, joints, floor or other support of the change to or closing of any required means of ingress or egress or the change to any fixture or equipment ;\n(4) \"plan\" means a plan prepared by a surveyor or a draughtsman or an engineer holding a degree of Bachelor of Engineering or an Architect registered under the Architect Act, 1972 (20 of 1972).\n(a) an occupancy shall be deemed to included subsidiary occupancies which are contingent upon such occupancy, and\n(b) building with mixed occupancies shall mean those building in which more than one occupancy are present in different portions thereof.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 340
        },
        {
            "number": "340",
            "title": "340. Prohibition of erection without sanction.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 341
        },
        {
            "number": "341",
            "title": "341. Erection of building.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 342
        },
        {
            "number": "342",
            "title": "342. Application for addition to or repair of building.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 343
        },
        {
            "number": "343",
            "title": "343. Purpose for which building to be used and conditions of validity of notice.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 344
        },
        {
            "number": "344",
            "title": "344. Sanction or provisional sanction of refusal of building or work.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) that the building or the work or the use of the site for the building or the work or any of the particulars comprised in the site plan, ground plan, elevation, section or specification would contravene the provisions of this Act or the rules or the regulations made thereunder or of any other law for the time being in force or any scheme sanctioned thereunder,\n(b) that the notice for sanction does not contain the particulars or is not prepared in the manner, required under the rules or the regulations made in this behalf under this Act,\n(c) that any information or document required by the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer under this Act or the rules or the regulations made thereunder has not been duly furnished,\n(d) that the building or the work would be an encroachment on the State Government land or land vested in the Municipality, and\n(e) that the site of the building or the work does not abut on a street or projected street and that there is no access to such building or work from any such street by any passage or pathway appertaining to such site.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 345
        },
        {
            "number": "345",
            "title": "345. Municipal Building Committee for Municipal Councils or Nagar Panchayats.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) one shall be an officer of the planning and development authority for the municipal area under any law for the time being in force,\n(b) one shall be an officer of the police authority responsible for traffic in the municipal area,\n(c) one shall be an officer of the fire services having jurisdiction over the municipal area,\n(d) one shall be an architect having experience of not less than five year,\n(e) one shall be an Civil Engineer having experience of not less than five year,\n(f) one shall be an officer for the authority responsible for environmental management of the municipal area and,\n(g) one shall be an officer of the State Government nominated by the State Government.\n(i) the functioning of the microwave system for telecommunication purposes, or\n(ii) any function for the purpose of civil aviation, the Municipal Building Committee shall, if so considered necessary, refer the matter to the concerned Department of the Central Government or authority for opinion before finalizing the recommendations.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 346
        },
        {
            "number": "346",
            "title": "346. Committee for sanction of building plans in case of Class \"C\" Municipal Councils and Nagar Panchayats.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 347
        },
        {
            "number": "347",
            "title": "347. Sanction or provisional sanction accorded under misrepresentation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 348
        },
        {
            "number": "348",
            "title": "348. When building or work may be proceeded with.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 349
        },
        {
            "number": "349",
            "title": "349. Period for completion of building or work.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 350
        },
        {
            "number": "350",
            "title": "350. Order of demolition and stoppage of buildings or work in certain cases and appeal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 351
        },
        {
            "number": "351",
            "title": "351. Order of stoppage of building or work in certain cases.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(b) Where the construction of a building is carried on in contravention of the provisions of clause (a) the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer may in addition to any other action that may be taken under this Act, by order in writing require the person at whose instance such storage or stagnation of water in the site for the construction of the building is made to stop forthwith any further construction of the building and such orders shall remain in force till the person as aforesaid complies with the requirements of the order as aforesaid, to the satisfaction of the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 352
        },
        {
            "number": "352",
            "title": "352. Construction of building in contravention of the provisions of the Act or the rules made thereunder.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 353
        },
        {
            "number": "353",
            "title": "353. Power of the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/Municipal Executive Officer to require alteration of work.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to make such alterations as may be specified by the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/Municipal Executive Officer in the notice with the object of bringing the building or the work in conformity with such sanction or such condition of such sanction or the provisions of this Act or the rules or the regulations made thereunder, or\n(b) to show cause within such period as may be stated in the notice, why such alterations should not be made.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 354
        },
        {
            "number": "354",
            "title": "354. Completion certificate.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "B. Municipal Building Code\nB. Municipal Building Code",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 355
        },
        {
            "number": "355",
            "title": "355. Power of State Government to make building rules and to classify municipal areas for the purpose of application of building rules.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the regulation or restriction of the use of sites for buildings,\n(b) the regulation or restriction of buildings and\n(c) compliance with the provision of any law relating to urban land ceiling or urban land use planning.\n(a) information and plans to be submitted together with application under any of the provision of this chapter,\n(b) requirements of sites,\n(c) means of access,\n(d) development of land into land sub-division and layout,\n(e) land use classification and uses,\n(f) open space area and height limitations,\n(g) parking spaces,\n(h) requirement of parts of building plinth, habitable room, kitchen, pantry, bathroom, water closet, loft, ledge, mezzanine floor, store-room garage, roof, basement, chimney, lighting and ventilation of room, parapet, wells, septic tanks and boundary wall,\n(i) provisions of lifts,\n(j) exit requirement including doorways, corridors, passageways, staircase, ramps and lobbies,\n(k) fire protection requirement including materials and designs for interior decoration,\n(l) special requirement of occupancies for residential building, educational building, institutional building, assembly building, business building, mercantile building, industrial building, storage building and hazardous building (including those for assembly movement, parking loading, unloading, public convenience, water supply and vendors plazas),\n(m) structural design,\n(n) quality of materials and workmanship,\n(o) alternative materials, method of design, construction and tests,\n(p) building service including electric supply and such supply from non-conventional sources of energy, air conditioning or heating and telecommunication systems,\n(q) water supply, water harvesting and plumbing services,\n(r) signs and outdoor display structures,\n(s) special requirement for building in the hill areas,\n(t) special requirement of access for handicapped persons in respect of matters referred to in chapter XXII, chapter XXIII, chapter XXIV and chapter XXV,\n(u) protection against natural disasters including earthquakes any cyclones and technological disasters and\n(v) any other matter considered necessary in relation to building activities.\nC. Municipal Building Tribunal\nC. Municipal Building Tribunal",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 356
        },
        {
            "number": "356",
            "title": "356. Municipal Building Tribunal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "D. General Powers\nD. General Powers",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 357
        },
        {
            "number": "357",
            "title": "357. Building at corners of streets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) refuse sanction for such reasons as may be recorded in writing, or\n(b) impose restrictions on its use, or\n(c) place special conditions concerning exit to, or entry from, any street, or\n(d) require it to be rounded off or splayed or cut off to such height and to such extent as he may determine, or\n(e) acquire such portion of the site at the corner as he may consider necessary for public convenience or amenity :",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 358
        },
        {
            "number": "358",
            "title": "358. Provision as to building and work on either side of new street or near fly-over or transportation terminal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 359
        },
        {
            "number": "359",
            "title": "359. Provision against use of inflammable material for building etc. without permission.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 360
        },
        {
            "number": "360",
            "title": "360. Power to regulate future construction of buildings in particular streets or localities.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) that in any street or portion thereof specified in such notice, the elevation and construction of the frontage of all buildings or any classes of buildings erected or re-erected after such notice shall, in respect of their architectural features, be such as the Empowered Standing Committee may consider suitable to the locality, or\n(b) that in any locality specified in such notice, there shall be allowed the erection of only detached or semi-detached building or both and that the land appurtenant to each such building shall be of an area, being not less than that specified in such notice, or\n(c) that the division or sub-division of building plots in a particular locality shall be of a minimum specified area, or\n(d) that in any locality specified in the notice, the construction of more than a specified number of buildings on each acre of land shall not be allowed, or\n(e) that in any street, portion of a street, or locality, specified in such notice, the construction of any one or more of the different classes of buildings (such as residential, educational, institutional, assembly, business, mercantile, industrial, storage, and hazardous buildings) shall not be allowed without the special permission of the Empowered Standing Committee.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 361
        },
        {
            "number": "361",
            "title": "361. Power to stop excavation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 362
        },
        {
            "number": "362",
            "title": "362. Power to require alteration of existing buildings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 363
        },
        {
            "number": "363",
            "title": "363. Power to order removal of dangerous building.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(b) In any such case, the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer may cause the inmates of the building to be summarily removed from such building or from such portion thereof as he may consider necessary.\n(c) All expenses incurred by the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer for carrying out the purposes of this sub-section shall be paid by the owner of such wall, building or thing.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 364
        },
        {
            "number": "364",
            "title": "364. Inspection of building.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 365
        },
        {
            "number": "365",
            "title": "365. Permission in case of non-residential uses of premises.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) would be objectionable by reason of the density of population in the neighbourhood, or\n(b) would add to the traffic constraint in the vicinity including parking spaces for vehicles or\n(c) would not conform to other predominant uses in the neighbourhood or\n(d) would constitute a fire hazard or\n(e) would be a nuisance to the inhabitant of neighbourhood or\n(f) in the case of a hospital or a clinic would be harmful to the patient due to noise or an environment which poses a health hazard or\n(g) in the case of an educational building would deprive the students of playground facilities,",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 366
        },
        {
            "number": "366",
            "title": "366. Conditions for grants of permission.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "E. Regulation of Building Uses\nE. Regulation of Building Uses",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 367
        },
        {
            "number": "367",
            "title": "367. Power to prohibit change of authorized use of building.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) use or permit to be used for the purpose of human habitation any building or part thereof not originally erected or authorized to be used for such purpose,\n(b) change or allow the change of the use of a building for any purpose other than that specified in the sanctioned plan,\n(c) change or allow the change of the use of any building erected before the commencement of this Act contrary to the use for which such erection was originally sanctioned or to use to which such building was actually put.\n(d) convert or allow the conversion of a tenement within a building to an occupational use, other than the use intended in the original sanctioned plan or materially alter, enlarge or extend such use.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 368
        },
        {
            "number": "368",
            "title": "368. Power to prevent use of premises for specified purpose in particular area for environmental reasons.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter - XXXVIII\nMunicipal Licences",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 369
        },
        {
            "number": "369",
            "title": "369. Premises not to be used for nonresidential purpose without municipal licence.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) as to when the initial licence is to be taken out and the procedure of annual renewal thereof and\n(b) the matter connected with the display of licence, inspection or premises, power of inspectors and such other matters as may be deemed necessary.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 370
        },
        {
            "number": "370",
            "title": "370. Registers to be maintain.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) one shall contain premise wise information of non-residential uses indicating the unique premises number if any assigned under this Act, and\n(b) the other shall contain such information on the basis of different non-residential user group for factories, warehouses, medical institution, educational institution and such other uses as may be provided by regulation.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 371
        },
        {
            "number": "371",
            "title": "371. Municipal licence for private markets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 372
        },
        {
            "number": "372",
            "title": "372. Municipal licence for sale of flesh, fish and poultry.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 373
        },
        {
            "number": "373",
            "title": "373. Prohibition of unlicensed activities.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) for keeping horses, cattle, or other quadrupled animals or birds for transportation sale or hire or for sale of the produce, or\n(b) as a market in respect of which a licence is required under this Act or\n(c) for carrying out work as an artisan or\n(d) for trade of a butcher, fish-monger, poultry or importer of flesh intended for human food or for sale thereof.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 374
        },
        {
            "number": "374",
            "title": "374. Power to stop use of premises used in contravention of licences.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 375
        },
        {
            "number": "375",
            "title": "375. Power to seize food or drug etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter - XXXIX\nVital Statistics",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 376
        },
        {
            "number": "376",
            "title": "376. Appointment of Chief Registrar and Registrars.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 377
        },
        {
            "number": "377",
            "title": "377. Duties of Registrar.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 378
        },
        {
            "number": "378",
            "title": "378. Registrar's books to be maintained.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 379
        },
        {
            "number": "379",
            "title": "379. Registration of births and deaths.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 380
        },
        {
            "number": "380",
            "title": "380. Registration of name of child or of alteration of name.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 381
        },
        {
            "number": "381",
            "title": "381. Correction of errors in registers of births or deaths.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 382
        },
        {
            "number": "382",
            "title": "382. Information of births.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) in the case of an illegitimate child no person shall as father of such child be required to give information under this Act concerning the birth of such child and the Registrar shall not enter in the register the name of any person as father of such child except at the joint request of the mother and the person acknowledging himself to be the father of such child and such person shall in such case, sign the register together with the mother.\n(b) a person required to give information only in default of some other person shall not be bound to give such information if he believed and had reasonable grounds for believing that such information had been given and\n(c) when a child is born in a hospital or a nursing home or a maternity home, none but the officer-in-charge thereof shall be bound to forward forthwith to the Registrar a report of such birth in such time and in such form as the Chief Registrar may from time to time specify.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 383
        },
        {
            "number": "383",
            "title": "383. Information regarding finding of newborn child.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 384
        },
        {
            "number": "384",
            "title": "384. Information regarding deaths.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) if the cause of death is known to be a dangerous diseases the information as aforesaid shall be given within twelve hours of its occurrence and\n(b) if the death of any person occurs in a hospital or a nursing home or a maternity home it shall be the duty of none but the medical officer or other officer - incharge thereof to forward forthwith a report of such death in such form as the Chief Registrar may from time to time specify.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 385
        },
        {
            "number": "385",
            "title": "385. Medical Practitioner to certify cause of death.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 386
        },
        {
            "number": "386",
            "title": "386. Duties of police in regard to unclaimed corpse.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 387
        },
        {
            "number": "387",
            "title": "387. Sextons etc. not to bury etc. corpse.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter - XL\nDisaster Management",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 388
        },
        {
            "number": "388",
            "title": "388. Management of natural or technological disasters.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter - XLI\nIndustrial Townships",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 389
        },
        {
            "number": "389",
            "title": "389. Exclusion of industrial townships from municipal areas.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Powers, Procedures, Offences And Penalties\nPowers, Procedures, Offences And Penalties\nChapter - XLII\nProcedure\nA. Licence and Permission\nA. Licence and Permission",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 390
        },
        {
            "number": "390",
            "title": "390. Signature, condition, duration, suspension, revocation etc. of licence and permission.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the date of the grant of licence or permission,\n(b) the purpose or the period, if any for which it is granted,\n(c) restrictions or conditions of any subject to which it is granted,\n(d) the name and address of the person to whom it is granted and\n(e) the fee, if any paid for the licence or the permission.\n(a) before making any order of suspension or revocation, an opportunity shall be given to the grantee of the licence or the permission to show cause why it should not be suspended or revoked and\n(b) every such order shall contain a brief statement of the reasons for the suspension or the revocation of the licence or the permission as the case may be.\nB. Entry and Inspection\nB. Entry and Inspection",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 391
        },
        {
            "number": "391",
            "title": "391. Power to entry.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) ascertaining whether in connection with the land or the building there is or has been any contravention of the provisions of this Act or the rules or the regulations made there under ,or\n(b) ascertaining whether or not circumstances exist which render it necessary to take immediate action by the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer or any other officer or employee of the Municipality authorised by him in this behalf , or empowered by or under any provision of this Act or the rules or the regulations made thereunder, or\n(c) taking any action or executing any work authorised or required by or under this Act or the rules or the regulations made thereunder, or\n(d) making such inquiry, inspection, examination, measurement, valuation or survey as may be authorized or required by or under this Act or as may be necessary for the proper administration of this Act, or\n(e) generally ensuring efficient discharge of the functions by any of the municipal authorities under this Act or the rules or the regulations made thereunder.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 392
        },
        {
            "number": "392",
            "title": "392. Power to enter land or adjoining land in relation to any work.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 393
        },
        {
            "number": "393",
            "title": "393. Breaking into building.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) if he considers the opening thereof necessary for the purpose of such entry, and\n(b) if the owner or the occupier is absent or, being present, refuses to open such door, gate or other barrier.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 394
        },
        {
            "number": "394",
            "title": "394. Time of making entry.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 395
        },
        {
            "number": "395",
            "title": "395. Consent ordinarily to be obtained.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 396
        },
        {
            "number": "396",
            "title": "396. Regard to be had to social or religious usages.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 397
        },
        {
            "number": "397",
            "title": "397. Prohibition of obstruction or molestation in execution of work.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "C. Public Notice and Advertisement\nC. Public Notice and Advertisement",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 398
        },
        {
            "number": "398",
            "title": "398. Public notices how to be made known.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 399
        },
        {
            "number": "399",
            "title": "399. Newspapers in which advertisements or notice to be published.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "D. Evidence\nD. Evidence",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 400
        },
        {
            "number": "400",
            "title": "400. Proof of consent etc. of Municipality, Empowered Standing Committee, Chief Councillor, Chief Municipal Executive Officer/Municipal Executive Officer etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the Municipality or\n(b) The Empowered Standing Committee or\n(c) The Chief Councillor or\n(d) The Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer or any other officer of the Municipality.\n(i) in the case referred to in clause (a) and clause (b) by the Municipality Secretary where there is a Municipality Secretary or where there is no Municipality Secretary by the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer and\n(ii) in the case referred to in clause (c) and clause (d) by the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer,\nE. Notices etc.\nE. Notices etc.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 401
        },
        {
            "number": "401",
            "title": "401. Notice etc. to fix reasonable time.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 402
        },
        {
            "number": "402",
            "title": "402. Signature on notice etc. may be stamped.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 403
        },
        {
            "number": "403",
            "title": "403. Notice etc. by whom to be served or issued.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 404
        },
        {
            "number": "404",
            "title": "404. Service of notice etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) where the person to be served is a company, if the document is addressed to the Secretary of the company at its registered office or at its principal office or place of business and is either -\n(i) sent by registered post or\n(ii) delivered at the registered office or at the principal office or place of business of the company or\n(b) where the person to be served is a partnership, if the document is addressed to the partnership at its principal place of business, identifying it by the name or style under which its business is carried on and is either -\n(i) sent by registered post or\n(ii) delivered at the said place of business or\n(c) where the person to be served is a public body or a Municipality, or a society or other body, if the document is addressed to the secretary, treasurer or other officer of such public body, Municipality, society, or other body at its principal office, and is either, -\n(i) sent by registered post, or\n(ii) delivered at that office, and\n(d) in any other case, if the document is addressed to the person to be served, and\n(i) is given or tendered to him, or\n(ii) if such person cannot be found, is affixed on some conspicuous part of his last known place of residence or business, if within the municipal area, or is given or tendered to some adult member of his family, or is affixed on some conspicuous part of the land or building, if any, to which it relates, or\n(iii) is sent by registered post to such person.\n(a) if the document so addressed is sent or delivered in accordance with clause (d) of sub-section (1), or\n(b) If the document or a copy thereof so addressed, is delivered to some person on the land or the building or, where there is no such person to whom it can be delivered, is affixed to some conspicuous part of such land or building.\nF. Enforcement of Orders to Execute Works etc.\nF. Enforcement of Orders to Execute Works etc.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 405
        },
        {
            "number": "405",
            "title": "405. Time for complying with requisition or order, and power of the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer to enforce requisition or order on default.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) such requisition or order shall be complied with, and\n(b) any objection thereto, in writing, shall be received by such authority or officer, as such authority or officer may consider reasonably.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 406
        },
        {
            "number": "406",
            "title": "406. Submission of objections to comply with notice.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) direct that a portion of the expenses, if any, to be incurred in complying with the notice as confirmed or modified shall be borne by the Municipality, and\n(ii) fix a time within which the notice so confirmed shall be complied with.\n(b) If the notice as confirmed or modified is not complied with by such person within the time fixed under sub-clause (ii) of clause (a), the Chief Municipal Executive Officer shall take such measures, or cause such work to be executed, or such thing to be done, as may, in his opinion, be necessary for causing due compliance with such notice, and the expenses, if any, incurred by the Chief Municipal Executive Officer is this behalf shall be payable to the Chief Municipal Executive Officer on demand and, if not paid within ten days of such demand, shall be recoverable as an arrear of tax under this Act.\nG. Recovery of Expenses.\nG. Recovery of Expenses.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 407
        },
        {
            "number": "407",
            "title": "407. Power of Municipality to enter into agreement for payment of expenses in instalment.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 408
        },
        {
            "number": "408",
            "title": "408. Power of Municipality to declare certain expenses to be an improvement expenses.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) in section 199 and section 201, or\n(b) in the rules or the regulations made under this Act,",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 409
        },
        {
            "number": "409",
            "title": "409. Improvement expenses how recoverable and by whom payable.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 410
        },
        {
            "number": "410",
            "title": "410. Recovery of improvement expenses paid by occupier.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 411
        },
        {
            "number": "411",
            "title": "411. Right of owner or occupier to redeem charge for improvement expenses.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 412
        },
        {
            "number": "412",
            "title": "412. Execution of work by occupier on the failure of owner.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 413
        },
        {
            "number": "413",
            "title": "413. Relief to receivers, agents and trustees.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) receiving the rent of any immovable property as receiver or agent or trustee of such property or\n(b) being such receiver or agent or trustee would receive the rent if such property were let to a tenant, is bound to discharge any obligation imposed on the owner of such property but has not at his disposal funds, belonging or payable to such owner, sufficient for the purpose of discharging such obligation he shall within a period of six weeks from the date of service upon him by any municipal authority or officer of the Municipality empowered in this behalf under this Act, of any notice requiring him to discharge such obligation apply to a court of competent jurisdiction for leave to raise such funds or for such directions as he may consider necessary for such purpose.\nH. Payment of Compensation\nH. Payment of Compensation",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 414
        },
        {
            "number": "414",
            "title": "414. General power of Municipality to pay compensation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 415
        },
        {
            "number": "415",
            "title": "415. Compensation to be paid for damage to property of Municipality.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "I. Recovery of expenses or compensation in case of disputes\nI. Recovery of expenses or compensation in case of disputes",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 416
        },
        {
            "number": "416",
            "title": "416. Reference by Municipality to Civil Court in certain cases of recovery of expenses.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 417
        },
        {
            "number": "417",
            "title": "417. Application to Civil Court in certain cases of payment of expenses or compensation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 418
        },
        {
            "number": "417",
            "title": "418. Recovery of expenses or compensation determined under section 417.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 419
        },
        {
            "number": "419",
            "title": "419. Recovery of expenses or compensation by suit in court.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "J. Recovery of certain dues\nJ. Recovery of certain dues",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 420
        },
        {
            "number": "420",
            "title": "420. Recovery of certain dues of Municipality.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "K. Obstruction of owner by occupier\nK. Obstruction of owner by occupier",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 421
        },
        {
            "number": "421",
            "title": "421. Application to Civil Court by owner when occupier prevents him from complying with the Act etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "L. Proceedings before the Civil Court.\nL. Proceedings before the Civil Court.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 422
        },
        {
            "number": "422",
            "title": "422. Proceedings in Civil Court.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 423
        },
        {
            "number": "423",
            "title": "423. Fees in proceedings before Civil Court.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) for making under this Act any application, appeal or reference to a Civil Court having jurisdiction or\n(b) for issue of any summons or other process in inquiry or proceeding in connection with such application, appeal or reference,\n(i) receive such application, appeal or reference or\n(ii) issue summons or other process, without payment of such fee.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 424
        },
        {
            "number": "424",
            "title": "424. Repayment of half of fees on settlement before hearing.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "M. Municipal Magistrate and proceedings before Municipal Magistrates\nM. Municipal Magistrate and proceedings before Municipal Magistrates",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 425
        },
        {
            "number": "425",
            "title": "425. Municipal Magistrate.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) this Act, and\n(b) the rules and the regulations made thereunder, and may prescribed the time within which and the place at which such Judicial Magistrate or Judicial Magistrates shall sit for such trial of offences.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 426
        },
        {
            "number": "426",
            "title": "426. Certain offences to be cognizable.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 427
        },
        {
            "number": "427",
            "title": "427. Power of Municipal Magistrate to hear cases in absence of accused summoned to appear.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) Service of the summons is to his satisfaction, proved to have been effected and,\n(b) No sufficient cause is shown for non-appearance of such person.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 428
        },
        {
            "number": "428",
            "title": "428. Limitation of time for prosecution.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the date of commission of such offence or,\n(b) the date on which the commission or the continuance of such offence is first brought to the notice of the Municipality or the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 429
        },
        {
            "number": "429",
            "title": "429. Complaint regarding nuisance and removal thereof.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) direct the person responsible for such nuisance or the owner of the land or the building on which such nuisance exists to take within such period as may be specified in the order such measures for abating, preventing removing or remedying such nuisance as may appears to the Municipal Magistrate to be practicable and reasonable and may direct the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/Municipal Executive Officer to enforce any of the provisions of this Act or the rules or the regulations made thereunder for prevention of such nuisance and\n(b) further direct the person held responsible for the nuisance to pay to the complainant such reasonable cost of the complaint (including compensation for loss of time in prosecution such complaint) as the Municipal Magistrate may determine :",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 430
        },
        {
            "number": "430",
            "title": "430. Power of Municipal Magistrate to direct payment of fine and demolition of unlawful works.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to pay any fine and also\n(b) to demolish such work, the Municipal Magistrate having jurisdiction may in his discretion, direct such person to pay the fine and also to demolish the work.\nN. Legal Proceedings\nN. Legal Proceedings",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 431
        },
        {
            "number": "431",
            "title": "431. Power to institute etc. legal proceedings and to obtain legal advices.",
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            "number": "432",
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            "number": "436",
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            "number": "438",
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            "number": "439",
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            "number": "440",
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            "number": "443",
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            "number": "444",
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            "number": "445",
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            "number": "447",
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            "number": "449",
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            "content": "(a) such draft of regulations shall not be further proceeded with until a period of one month has expired from the date of such publications.\n(b) for not less than one month during such period, a printed copy of such draft shall be kept in the office of the Municipality for public inspection and any person shall be permitted at any reasonable time to peruse such draft free of charge and,\n(c) printed copies of such draft shall be obtainable by any person requiring such draft on payment of such fee as may be fixed by the Empowered Standing Committee.",
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            "number": "450",
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            "number": "451",
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            "number": "453",
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            "content": "(a) with fine which may extend to two thousand and five hundred rupees or,\n(b) with fine which may extend to two thousand and five hundred rupees and in the case of a continuing contravention with an additional fine which may extend to two hundred and fifty rupees for every day during which such contravention continues after conviction for the first of such contravention or,\n(c) with fine which may extend to two hundred and fifty rupees for every day during which the contravention continues after the receipt by the person contravening the regulation of a notice requiring such person to discontinue such contravention from the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer or any other officer of the Municipality, duly authorized in that behalf.",
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            "number": "454",
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            "number": "455",
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            "number": "456",
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            "number": "457",
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            "number": "458",
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            "number": "460",
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            "number": "461",
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            "number": "462",
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            "number": "463",
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            "number": "464",
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            "number": "465",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "466",
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            "number": "467",
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            "number": "468",
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            "number": "469",
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            "number": "470",
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            "number": "471",
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            "number": "472",
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            "content": "Schedule\n(See section 369)\nProposes for Which Premises May Not be Used Without a Licence or Written Permission.\nProposes for Which Premises May Not be Used Without a Licence or Written Permission.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "5",
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            "number": "7",
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            "number": "8",
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            "number": "9",
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            "number": "10",
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            "number": "11",
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            "number": "13",
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            "number": "16",
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            "number": "17",
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            "number": "18",
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            "number": "20",
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            "number": "24",
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            "number": "27",
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            "number": "37",
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            "number": "38",
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            "number": "39",
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            "number": "41",
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            "footnote": "",
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            "footnote": "",
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            "footnote": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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