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Arunachal Pradesh Property Rights to Slum Dwellers Act, 2012
Arunachal Pradesh Property Rights to Slum Dwellers Act, 2012
Sections
1. Short title, extent and Commencement.
Section 12. Definitions.
Section 23. Property Rights in the form of dwelling space.
Section 34. In-situ redevelopment/ up-gradation of all tenable slums.
Section 45. Conditions for allotment of a dwelling space.
Section 56. Process of Identification of Eligible Slum Dwellers, Grant of Legal Entitlement and Dispute Resolution.
Section 67. Establishment of City/Urban Areas Slum Redevelopment Committee.
Section 78. Composition of City/Urban Areas Slum Redevelopment Committee.
Section 89. The Powers and duties of the City/ Urban Area Slum Redevelopment Committee Shall be as follows, namely.
Section 910. Slum Redevelopment/ Up-gradation/ Resettlement Scheme.
Section 1011. State Slum Redevelopment Authority.
Section 1112. Powers and Functions of the State Authority.
Section 1213. Power of State Government to acquire land.
Section 1314. Land acquired by State Government to be made available to the City/Urban Area Slum Redevelopment Committee.
Section 1415. Compensation for acquisition of land.
Section 1516. Tribunal.
Section 1617. Special provisions for acquisition of land adjoining streets.
Section 1718. Responsibility to prevent encroachments.
Section 1819. Penalty for contravention of the Act and Rules.
Section 1920. Offence to be cognizable.
Section 2021. Information, reports or returns.
Section 2122. Protection of action taken in good faith.
Section 2223. Power to remove difficulties.
Section 2324. Civic courts not to have jurisdiction.
Section 2425. Jurisdiction of court.
Section 2526. Power of State Government to make rules.
Section 2627. Effect of other laws and agreements in-consistence with the Act.
Section 27
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"content": "(1) \"Affordable Cost\" means a cost that is based on the needs and financial capability of the slum dweller, as determined by the State Slum Redevelopment Authority/ State Government.\n(2) \"Authority Officer\" means any officer, the Government may be order specifically authorize to exercise the powers of the Authorized Officer in such area as may be specified therein.\n(3) \"Basic Civic Services\" means services of drinking water supply, drainage, sewerage, solid waste disposal and street lighting.\n(4) \"Building\" includes a house, out-house, stable, shed, hut and other enclosure or structure, whether of masonry bricks, wood, mud, metal or any other material whatsoever, whether used as human dwelling or otherwise; and also includes verandahs, fixed platform, plinths, door-steps, electric meters, walls including compound walls and fencing and the like, but does not include plant or machinery comprised in a building,\n(5) \"Carpet Area\" means the net usable floor area of a dwelling house, excluding that covered by the walls and the common areas.\n(6) \"State Government (and\" means land owner by the State Government.\n(7) \"Central Government land\" means land owned by the Central Government or its undertakings.\n(8) \"Chairperson\" means the Chairperson of the City/ Urban Area Slum Redevelopment Committee appointed under section 8 of the Act.\n(9) \"City/ Urban Area Slum Redevelopment Committee\" means the City/Urban Area Slum Redevelopment Committee or Committees appointed under section 7 of this Act\n(10) \"Collector\" means the Collector of a district and includes as Additional Collector or any officer specially appointed by the State Government to perform the functions of a Collector under this Act.\n(11) \"Development/Redevelopment\" with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, means the carrying out of any building, engineering or other operations in, on over or under land or the making of any material change in any building or land and includes layout and sub-division of any land.\n(12) \"Dweller House\" means an all weather single/ multi-stored super structure with adequate basic infrastructure including portable water, and sanitation for a quality living.\n(13) \"Dweller Space\" means dwelling house or a piece of land for construction of a dwelling house.\n(14) \"Floor Space Index/Floor Area Ratio\" means the area that can be constructed on a piece of land divided by the total area of the land.\n(15) \"Government\" means the State Government of Arunachal Pradesh.\n(16) \"Government Land\" means any land owned or acquired by the State Government or its undertakings or the Urban Local Body or Development Authority situated in a district or an urban area as the case may be.\n(17) \"In-situ slum re-development\" means the process of redevelopment of slum areas by providing dwelling space and other basic civic and infrastructural services to the slum dwellers, or the existing land on which the slum is based\n(18) \"Land\" includes benefits to arise out of land, and things attached to the earth or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth.\n(19) \"Landless Person\" means a person who does not own either in his own name or in the name of any member of his family any dwelling house or land in an urban area.\n(20) \"Member\" in relation to the City/Urban Area slum Redevelopment Committee, means the member of the City/ Urban Area Slum Redevelopment Committee appointed under section 8 and includes the Chairperson.\n(21) \"Person\" includes an individual and his family.\n(22) \"Prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under the Act.\n(23) \"Private Land\" means land owned by a private person or entity.\n(24) \"Property\" means the land, the building, all improvements and structures thereon, and all easements, rights and appurtenances belonging thereto, and includes every type of right and interest in land which a person can have to the exclusion of other persons, such as possession, use and enjoyment free from interference, right of disposition and franchises.\n(25) \"Rule\" means the rules made under this Act by the State Government.\n(26) \"Scheme\" means any arrangement or plan prepared and declared under the Act for the protection, redevelopment, up-gradation, relocation and resettlement of slum dwellers as provided under section 10.\n(27) \"Slum\" or \"Slum\" Area\" means a compact settlement of at least twenty households with a collection of poorly built tenements, mostly of temporary nature, crowded together usually with inadequate sanitary and drinking water facilities in unhygienic conditions.\n(28) \"Slum Dweller\" means any person residing within the limits of a slum area.\n(29) \"Slum Resettlement\" means the process of relocation and settlement of slum dwellers from the existing untenable slums to an alternative site with dwelling space, basic civic and infrastructural services.\n(30) \"State Slum Redevelopment Authority\" means the Authority appointed under section 11 of this Act.\n(31) \"Tenable Settlement\" means ail slums which do not fall within the definition of Untenable Settlements.\n(32) \"Tribunal\" means the Tribunal established by the State Government under the section 16 of the Act,\n(33) \"Untenable Settlement\" are those settlements which are non- environmentally hazardous sites (like riverbank, pond sites, hilly or marshy terrains, etc.), ecologically sensitive sites (like mangroves, national parks, sanctuaries, etc.), and on land marked for public utilities and services (such as major roads, railways tracks, trunk infrastructure, etc.).\n(34) \"Up-gradation\" means the process of improving the quality or expanding of dwelling spaces occupied by slum dwellers with provision of basic services and infrastructure services and includes landscaping.\n(35) \"Urban Area\" means the area comprised within the limits of all cities and towns classified as urban by the Census 2001/ 2011 including the limits of Municipal Corporation or Municipal Council or Nagar Panchayat as constituted under the State Acts, including cantonment board or notified areas, and shall include the planning area as per the Development Plan of a town or City.\n(36) \"Words and expressions used but not defined in this Act shall have the same meaning as indicated under the State Municipal Corporation/ Municipality Act, State Town Planning Act and/ or the Urban Development Act and other relevant Acts of the State.\nChapter - II\nProperty Rights",
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"content": "(a) The allotment shall stand automatically cancelled on the date of such transfer;\n(b) Such transfer shall be null and void;\n(c) No ownership or occupation rights shall accrue to the transferee of such dwelling space;\n(d) The Authorized Officer on the directions of the City/Urban Areas Slum Redevelopment Committee shall dispossess the person who is in actual possession of such dwelling space if or when such transfer comes to its notice.",
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"content": "(1) the slum dwellers undertakes to pay the affordable cost for the dwelling space; and\n(2) the slum dwellers will occupy or construct the dwelling house as the case may be within the period notified by the City/ Urban Areas Slum Redevelopment Committee; and\n(3) the slum dweller undertakes to abide by the conditions of allotment-",
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"content": "(a) The president of the District Panchayat/s functioning in the district or urban area or in any part thereof, ex-officio/ local Hon'ble MP/MLA of the jurisdiction.\n(b) All Chairpersons of the Urban Local Bodies under the metropolitan Area (where the Chairperson is the head of the ULB metropolitan Development Authority);\n(c) District Collector or his representative, not below the rank of Additional Collector;\n(d) Superintendent of Police or his representative, not below the rank of Addition Superintendent of Police;\n(e) Chief Executive Officer of the Development Authority/ ULB;\n(f) City head of the Department of town and Country Planning\n(g) City head of the Environment Department of the State ;\n(h) District head of the Slum Development Board/ Slum Development Authority, if any ;\n(i) District Forest Officer;\n(j) One member having expertise in the field of urban planning to be nominated by the State Government;\n(k) Two representatives of reputed NGO's / CBO's/ Civil Society Organization from within the urban area, to be nominated by the State Government;\n(l) Representative of the Central Government Land owning agency/ Land Revenue and Settlement officer of the District.\n(m) Commissioner of the Urban Local Body as Member Secretary who shall also be designated as the chief Executive Officer of the City/ Urban Area Slum Redevelopment Committee.\n(n) Any other member that the State Government may decide.",
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"content": "(a) Chief Minister of the State- Chairperson;\n(b) Ministers for Urban Development' Housing/ Municipal Administration/ Local Self-Government-vice-Chairman;\n(c) Minister for Finance-Member;\n(d) Minister for Land Management & Revenue-Member\n(e) Minister for Environment & Forest-Member\n(f) Minister for Law & Justice/ Legal Affairs-Member;\n(g) Chief Secretary-Member;\n(h) Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer of the Slum Development Board/ Slum Development Authority, if any,\n(i) Two members representing civil society/community based organizations/ NGO's/ Social Organization etc to be nominated by the Chairperson-Members;\n(j) Secretary (Municipal Administration/ Urban Development/ Local Self Government/ Housing) of the State Government who shall also be designated as the Chief Executive Officer of the State Authority- Member Secretary;\n(k) Any other member that the State Government may decide.",
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"content": "(1) To have overriding powers to take decisions on matters relating to land use, town planning, master planning process etc.\n(2) To set up the administrative machinery for the effective implementation of the provisions of the Act;\n(3) To monitor implementation of the Act;\n(4) To decided the financing mechanism for slum redevelopment/ up-gradation/ resettlement schemes, including determination of affordable cost to be paid by the slum dwellers for the dwelling space;\n(5) To commission such surveys, studies and research as it consider necessary for the discharge of its functions, especially in regard to provision of housing to the urban poor, and to dissemination their findings;\n(6) To moke provisions for reservation of developed land/ FSI for providing housing to the urban poor and recommend measures to prevent future growth of slums; and\n(7) Any other functions as may be prescribed.\nChapter - V\nAcquisition of Land",
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"number": "17",
"title": "17. Special provisions for acquisition of land adjoining streets.",
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"content": "Chapter - VI\nPrevention of Encroachments and Construction of Illegal Structures Other Offences and Penalties",
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"content": "(a) The process of identification of eligible slum dwellers, grant of legal entitlement and dispute resolution under section 6;\n(b) The composition, powers, and functions of the City/Urban Area Slum Redevelopment Committee under section 8, the powers and function thereof, the number of members and their terms and conditions of appointment and other matters connected therewith;\n(c) Appointment of Special Committee and officers and employees of the City/ Urban Area Slum Redevelopment Committee, their salary and allowances etc. under section 9 (5);\n(d) Terms and conditions for engagement of experts for technical and legal work to assist the City/Urban Area Slum Redevelopment Committee and the remuneration payable to such experts under section 9 (6);\n(e) Preparation and implementation of schemes for slum Redevelopment/up-gradation/resettlement through designated agencies under section 10;\n(f) Procedure and framework for fixing responsibility for the maintenance and sustainability for schemes undertaken ;\n(g) The composition, powers and functions of the State Slum Redevelopment Authority under section 11, the powers and functions thereof, the number of members and their terms and conditions of appointment and other matters connected therewith;\n(h) The procedure and conduct of business by the State Authority and its budget under section 11 (4);\n(i) Appointment of officers and employees of the State Authority, their salary and allowances etc. under section 11 (5);\n(j) Process of determination, appointment and procedure of payment of compensation in case of acquisition of land under section 15 ;\n(k) The composition, powers, functions and procedures of the Tribunal constituted under section 16 ; and\n(l) Any other matter which is required to be, or may be prescribed, or in respect of which provision is to be, or may be, made by rules.",
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"Act Number": "(Act No. 1 of 2013)",
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"Act Year": "2012",
"Short Title": "Arunachal Pradesh Property Rights to Slum Dwellers Act, 2012",
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