Assam Municipal Act, 1956

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    "id": 13618,
    "slug": "assam-municipal-act-1956",
    "title": "Assam Municipal Act, 1956",
    "short_title": "Assam Municipal Act, 1956",
    "act_number": "(Assam Act No. 15 of 1957)",
    "act_year": 1956,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Assam",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "Assam Municipal Act, 1956",
    "preamble": "",
    "section_label": "Section",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
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        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Repeal and Savings.",
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            "content": "(a) the said repeal shall not affect the validity or invalidity of anything already done under the said enactment;\n(b) all Municipal Boards constituted under the Assam Municipal Act, 1923 (Assam Act 1 of 1923) shall subject to the other provisions of this Act,continue to function for the remaining period of their terms as If they were constituted under this Act; and.\n(c) all Municipalities constituted, limits defined, regulations and division made all rules and bye-Laws, notifications, orders, appointments and assessments made, licenses and notices issued, taxes, tolls rates and fees imposed or assessed, budgets passed, plans approved permissions or sanction granted contracts entered into, suits instituted and proceedings taken under the Assam Municipal Act, 1923 (Assam Act I of 1923) and in force immediately before the commencement of this Act shall continue to be in force and in so far as they are not inconsistent with this Act, shall be deemed to have been respectively made, issued, imposed or, passed processed approved, granted, entered into instituted and taken under this Act until new provisions are made under this Act.",
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        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(1) \"Board\" means a Municipal Board.\n(2) \"Building\" means a house, hut, shed or other roofed structure, for whatsoever purpose and of whatever material constructed and every part thereof, but shall not include a tent, or other merely temporary shelter including any kind of temporary shed erected on ceremonial or festive occasions\n(3) \"Carriage\" means any wheeled vehicle with springs or other appliances acting as springs, of a kind ordinarily used for conveyance of human beings and includes in-rickshaws, cycle-rickshaws, bicycles and tricycles but does not include perambulators and in particular does not include any motor vehicle as defined in the Assam Motor Vehicles Taxation Act, 1936 (Act I of 1936), as in force in the Union territory of Manipur.\n(4) \"Cart\" means any cart hackney or wheeled vehicle with or without springs, which is not carriage as defined in sub-section (3);\n(5) \"The Commissioners\" mean the persons for the time being appointed or elected to conduct the affairs of any municipality under the Act; and include the members of the Municipal Board appointed or elected under the Assam Municipal Act, 1923, as extended to the Union territory of Manipur;\n(6) \"Compost mature\" means the product prepared from offensive matter rubbish and sewage by subjecting them to the process of compost making in the making in the manner prescribed by rules;\n(7) \"Conservancy\" means the removal and disposal of sewage offensive matter and rubbish;\n(8) \"Cubical extent\" when used with reference to the measurement of a building, means the space contain within the external surfaces of its walls and roof and the upper surface of the floor of its lowest or only story;\n(9) A supply of water for domestic purposes shall not deemed to include a supply: -\n(a) for animals or for washing carriages where such animals or carriage are kept for sale or hire.\n(b) for any trade, manufacture or business other than those concerned with the manufacture or supply of articles of food and drink for human beings,\n(c) for fountains,\n(d) for watering gardens, roads or paths,\n(e) for any ornamental or mechanical purpose,\n(f) for building purposes;\n(10) \"Drain\" include, sewer, a houses-drain a drain of any other description, a tunnel, culvert, a ditch, a channel and any other device for carrying of sullage sewage, offensive matter polluted water, rain water or sub-soil water;\n(11) \"Financial year\" means the year commencing on the first day of April or on such other date as the Chief Commissioner may, by confiscation appoint;\n(12) \"Food\" notwithstanding anything contained in the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954 (or 37 of 1954), includes every article used, 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 matter and spices and condiments;\n(13) \"Half-year\" a half-year commencing on the first day of April or the first day of October, or on such other dates as the Chief Commissioner may by notification appoint;\n(14) \"Holding\" means land held under one title or agreement and surrounded by one set of boundaries;\n(15) Any plot of land having clear boundaries and lying entirely vacant, if fit for building purposes or if yielding any income, shall, when not appointment to any buildings and not used for any agricultural purposes be regarded as a holding\".\n(16) \"House\" means any hut, shop warehouse workshop, a masonry or framed building;\n(17) \"House-guilty\" means a passage or strip of land constructed set apart or utilized, or the purposes of serving as a drain or affording access to a latrine, urinal, cess-pool or other receptacle for filthy or ported matter by municipal servants or by persons employed the cleansing thereof or in the removal of such matter there from and includes the air-space above such passage or land,\n(18) \"Hut\" means any building, which is constructed principally of wood, mud, leaves, grass or thatch and includes any temporary, structure of whatever size, or any small building of whatever material made.\n(19) \"Infections or contagious disease\" means cholera plague small pox, kala azar, tuberculosis, diphtheria and typhoid or enteric fever or such other dangerous disease as the Chief Commissioner may notify in this behalf,\n(20) \"Inhabitants\" used with reference to a local area means any persons ordinarily reading or carrying on business or owning or occupying immovable property therein,\n(21) \"Joint family\" means a family of which the members liver together, have a common mess and are descendants from a common ancestor and shall include Wives or husbands, as the case may be, of its members but shall exclude married daughters and their children.\n(22) \"Land\" includes (besides land) benefit arising out of land houses and things attached to the earth or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth an also land covered by water.\n(23) \"Local authority\" includes Local Boards, Municipal Board, Town Committees and Panchayats,\n(24) \"Lodging house\" means a house, in which visitors or other persons are lodged for hire for a night or more and where there is community of eating or sleeping accommodation,\n(25) \"Magistrate\" includes the District Magistrate, the Sub-divisional Magistrate and any Magistrate to whom either such Magistrate has made over any duties under this Act,\n(26) \"Market\" means any place where persons assemble for the sale of articles intended for food or drink or of livestock or other merchandise;\n(27) \"Municipal Board\" means the body of persons of persons for the time being elected of appointed to conduct tile affairs of any municipality under this Act;\n(28) \"Municipal Market\" means a market belonging to or maintained by t he Board;\n(29) \"Municipality\" means any local are declared by or under this Act to be Municipality ;\n(30) \"Nuisance\" includes any act, emission, place or thing which causes or is likely to cause injury danger, annoyance or offence to the sense of sight, smelling or hearing or which is or may be dangerous to life or injurious to health or property;\n(31) \"Occupies\" means the persons for the time being in actual occupation of, or paying, or liable to pay to the owner, the rent or any portion of the rent of the land or building n respect of which the word is used, and includes a person occupying a holding or part of holding rent free, and an owner living in his own house;\n(32) \"Offensive matter\" means dirt, dung, kitchen and stable, refuse, putrid or putrefying substance, and filth of any kind not included in the term sewage\"\n(33) \"Owner\" includes-\n(a) the person for the time being receiving the rent of any land of building or any part of any land or building whether on his own account or as agent or trustee for any person or society for any religious or charitable purpose or as receiver, or who would so receive such rent if the land, building or part thereof were let to a tenant, and,\n(b) the person for the time being in charge of the animal or vehicle, in connection with which the word is used;\n(34) \"Platform\" as used in Section 165 means any structure, which is placed on or covers, or projects over any public road or any open drain sewer or aqueduct;\n(35) \"Prescribed\" means prescribed by rules under this Act;\n(36) \"Public road \" means any street road square, court alley passage or pathway over which the public have a right of way, whether a thorough fare or not and includes-\n(a)the road way over any public bridge or cause-way,\n(b)the footway attached so any such road, public bridge or cause-way and\n(c) the drains attached to any such road, public bridge or cause-way and the land whether covered or not by any pavement, verandah or other structure, which lies on either side of the roadway up to the boundaries of the adjacent property whether that property is private property or property of the State;\n(37) \"Private road\" means any street, road, square, court alley or passage which is not a public road and includes a pathway made by the owner or premises an his Own land to secure access to or the convenient use of such premises;\n(38) \"Rates\" as used in Section 14 means:\n(a) The tax upon the annual value of holding,\n(b) License fees,\n(c) the water-tax on the annual value of holdings,\n(d) the lighting-tax on the annual value of holdings,\n(e) the drainage tax,\n(f) the latrine-tax on the annual value of holdings, and\n(g) the tax on private markets;\n(39) The expression \"re-erect\" , with used whit reference to a building, include(\n(a) the reconstruction of building, after more than one half of its cubical extent has been taken down or burnt down or has fallen down.\n(b) the conversion of one or more huts or temporary structures into a masonry or framed building,\n(c) the conversion into a place for human habitation or any building not originally constructed for such habitation; and\n(d) the extent of a building\n(40) \"Rubbish\" means broken brick, mortar, broken glass, or refuse of any kind whatsoever not included in the term \"offensive matter,\n(41) \"Salaried servant of Government\" means a whole time servant the Government who receives his salary direct from any Government and includes a manager of an estates under the Court of Wards and an officer whose services have been lent by any Government to a local authority but does dot include a retired servant of Government in receipt of a pension;\n(42) \"Sewage\" means night soil and other content of latrines urinals cess-pools and drains, and includes polluted water from sinks bath-rooms, stables, cattle-sheds and other like places and also discharges from manufactories of all kinds;\n(43) \"Water works\" includes all tanks, streams, cisterns springs pumps, wells, reservoirs aqueducts sluices mains pipes hydrants stand-pipes, conduits, and all engines, machinery, land buildings and things for supplying water.\nChapter II\nConstitution of Municipalities",
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            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Notification of intention to create, alter limits of, or abolish municipality.",
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            "content": "(a) to constitute any town together with or exclusive of any railway station, village, building or land contiguous to any such town a municipality under this Act;\n(b) to include within a municipality any local area contiguous to the same ;\n(c) to exclude from a municipality any local area comprised therein; or\n(d) to withdraw the whole area comprised in any municipality from the operation of this Act:",
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            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Objection to the creation, alteration of limits, or abolition of municipality.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) Constitute the local area or any specified part thereof to be a municipality under this Act, or\n(b) Include the local area or any part thereof in the Municipality or exclude it there from, or\n(c) Withdraw the whole area comprised in the Municipality from the operation of this Act, as the case may be,",
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        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Effect of including local area in Municipality.",
            "chapter": null,
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Effect of excluding local area from Municipality or withdrawing the whole area of Municipality from Act.",
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            "content": "(a) this Act and all rules and bye-laws made, orders, directions and notices issued, and powers conferred there under shall cease to apply thereto;\n(b) the Chief Commissioner shall, after consulting the Board, frame a schemes determining what portion of the balance of the Municipal fund and other property vested in the Board shall vest in the Chief Commissioner and in what manner the liabilities of the Board shall be apportioned between the Board arid the Chief Commissioner; and on the publication of such scheme in the Gazette, such property and liability shall vest arid be apportioned accordingly.",
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        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Power to exempt Municipality from provisions of Act unsuited thereto.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Erection and maintenance of boundary marks.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter III\nMunicipal Boards\nConstitution of Municipal Boards",
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        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Constitution of Municipal Board.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 9
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Number of Commissioners.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Election of Commissioner.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 11
        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Power to divide municipality into wards and to fix the number of Commissioners of each ward.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Qualification of voters.",
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            "content": "(i) has, during the twelve months immediately preceding the prescribed date, paid in respect of any rates an aggregate amount of not less than one rupee, or\n(ii) is a member of joint family of which any member is a voter under item (i), or\n(iii) being a graduate of any University, or having passed the Intermediate or Matriculation Examinations Of the Gauhati, or any other University or the corresponding standard of the same or any other University, or Middle English or Middle Vernacular or an equivalent examination or senior or junior Madrassa Examination Under the old or reformed scheme, or the Sanskrit Title Examination of the Calcutta/ Assam Sanskrit Association, or having read up to Class VII of a High School or being a registered medical practitioner under any law relating to registration of medical practitioners or being an Advocate or holding a certificate authorising a person to practise as a Pleader or as a Mulchtar or as a revenue agent, occupies a holding or part of a holding, in respect of which there has been paid, during the twelve months aforesaid in respect any rates an aggregate amount of not less than one rupee, or\n(iv) is a manager or person in charge of a company, firm, society or business owning or occupying any land or building within the limits of the municipality if the company, firm, society or business possesses the qualification set forth in clause (1);",
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        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Ineligibility for election.",
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            "content": "(i) is not entitled to vote at the election of Commissioners or-the Municipal Board, or\n(ii) has been adjudged by a competent court to be of sound mind, or\n(iii) is an un-certificated bankrupt or an un-discharged insolvent, or\n(iv) has during the four years immediately preceding the date of the election been convicted be a Criminal Court of an offence involving a sentence; of transportation 0f imprisonment for an offence involving moral turpitude, or of an offence under Chapter IX-A of the Indian Penal Code (Act XLV of 1960)or served any portion of a sentence on such conviction, or has been ordered by a Criminal Court to furnish security for good behavior under the Code of Criminal Procedure (Act V of 18-8) unless such conviction or order has been set aside, or such offences pardoned by competent authority, or\n(v) has been declared by notification to be disqualified for employment in the public service, or\n(vi) has during the four years immediately preceding the date of election been declared from practicing as a legal practitioner by order of any competent authorities, or\n(vii) is a salaried servant of Government or is an employee of any Local Authority, or\n(viii) is in arrear for more than three months on the date of submission of nomination paper of any dues to the municipality including the dims in respect of the holding of which he is a resident or occupant,",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Proceedings to set a side an election.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) on the ground that the name of any person qualified to vote has been omitted from the electoral roll: or\n(b) on the ground that the name of any person not qualified to vote has been inserted in the electoral roll; or\n(c) on the ground, of acceptance or refusal of nomination of candidates provided further that an appeal in the manner prescribed shall be to the District Judge against such acceptance or refusal of nomination.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Procedure and powers of Judge holding enquiry.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Setting aside of election.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the election of a returned candidate has been procured or induced, or the result of the election has been materially affected, by a corrupt practice, or\n(b) the election has not been a free election by reason of the general employment of bribery or undue influence as defined in Chapter IXA of the Indian Penal Code (Act XLV of 1860) or by reason of any form of general intimidation, including any form of social boycott, or\n(c) the result of the election has been materially affected by any noncompliance with the provisions of this Act or the rules made thereunder or by any mistake in the use of any form prescribed for an election or by any error, irregularity or informality on the part of any officer charged with or carrying out any duty under this Act or rules made thereunder,\n(a) no corrupt practice was committed at such election by the candidate or his election agent and the corrupt practices which were found by the Judge to have been committed were of a trivial, unimportant and limited character and were committed contrary to the orders and without the sanction or connivance of such candidate or his election agent, and\n(b) in all other respects the election was free from any corrupt practice on the part of such candidate or any of his agents,",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Scrutiny of votes and declaration in other cases.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Disqualification of persons from being candidates. who commit corrupt practices.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 19
        },
        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Saving of acts done by a Commissioner before his election is set aside.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 20
        },
        {
            "number": "22",
            "title": "22. Fresh election when election set aside.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 21
        },
        {
            "number": "23",
            "title": "23. Bar to interference by courts in election matters.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) to postpone an election, or\n(ii) to prohibit a person declared to have been duly elected under this Act, from taking part in the proceedings of a Municipal Board of which he has been elected a Commissioner, or\n(iii) to prohibit the Commissioners formally elected or appointed to a Municipal Board from entering upon their duties.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "24",
            "title": "24. Appointed Commissioners in newly created municipalities.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "25",
            "title": "25. Taking of oath.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "26",
            "title": "26. General election and terms of office of Commissioners.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 25
        },
        {
            "number": "27",
            "title": "27. Resignation of Chairman, Vice-Chairman or Commissioners.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "28",
            "title": "28. Removal of Chairman and Vice-Chairman.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "29",
            "title": "29. Removal of Commissioners.",
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            "content": "(a) if he ceases to reside within the municipality continuously for a period of twelve months, or\n(b) if he refuses to act or becomes incapable of acting as a Commissioner, of if he has been declared by the Chief Commissioner by notification to have violated his oath or affirmation of allegiance, or\n(c) if without an excuse sufficient in the opinion of the Chief Commissioner he absents himself from four consecutive meetings of the Board, or\n(d) if, being a legal practitioner, he appears against the Board before any Court in his professional capacity in any case instituted by or against the Board or\n(e) if he becomes subject to any of the disabilities stated in clauses (ii), (iii), (iv), (v) and (vi) of. Section 15, or\n(f) if he has, within the meaning of section 55 knowingly acquired or continued to hold without the permission in writing of the Chief Commissioner, directly or indirectly or by a partner, any share or interest in any contract or employment with, by, or on behalf of the Board, or\n(g) if he is in arrears of any kind of dues to the municipality for more than six months after a bill or a notice has been duly served upon him.",
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        {
            "number": "30",
            "title": "30. Eligibility for election or re-election of Commissioners removed from office.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "31. Filling up of casual vacancies of Commissioners.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 30
        },
        {
            "number": "32",
            "title": "32. Power to appoint Commissioners if prescribed number not duly elected.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chairman and Vice-Chairman",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 31
        },
        {
            "number": "33",
            "title": "33. Appointment or election of Chairman and Vice-Chairman.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 32
        },
        {
            "number": "34",
            "title": "34. Status and tenure of office of Chairman and Vice-Chairman.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 33
        },
        {
            "number": "35",
            "title": "35. When Chairman and Vice-Chairman cease to hold office as such.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 34
        },
        {
            "number": "36",
            "title": "36. When Government may appoint Chairman.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 35
        },
        {
            "number": "37",
            "title": "37. Powers of Chairman.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 36
        },
        {
            "number": "38",
            "title": "38. Delegation of duties and powers by Chairman to Vice-Chairman.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 37
        },
        {
            "number": "39",
            "title": "39. Duties of Vice-Chairman.",
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            "content": "(a) during a vacancy in the office of the Chairman or temporary absence of the Chairman perform any of the duties and, when occasion arises, exercise any of the powers of the Chairman, and\n(b) at any time, perform any duty and exercise; when occasion arises, any power delegated to him under section 38.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 38
        },
        {
            "number": "40",
            "title": "40. Grant of leave to Chairman or Vice-Chairman.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 39
        },
        {
            "number": "41",
            "title": "41. Filling of casual vacancies of Chairman and Vice-Chairman.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 40
        },
        {
            "number": "42",
            "title": "42. Allowances of Chairman Vice-Chairman and Commissioners.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Conduct of business",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 41
        },
        {
            "number": "43",
            "title": "43. Ordinary and special meetings.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 42
        },
        {
            "number": "44",
            "title": "44. President of meeting.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the Vice-Chairman or in his absence a member duly elected at the meeting shall preside if the resolution relates to the removal of the Chairman;\n(b) the Chairman or in his absence a member duly elected at the meeting shall preside if the resolution relates to the removal of the Vice-Chairman;\n(c) a member duly elected at the meeting shall preside if the resolution relates to the simultaneous removal of both the Chairman and the Vice-Chairman.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 43
        },
        {
            "number": "45",
            "title": "45. Manner of deciding questions.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) all questions at a meeting of the Board shall be determined by a majority of votes of the Commissioners present.\n(b) In the case of equality of votes, on any question other than the election of the Chairman or the Vice-Chairman, the President, if there is one, shall have a second or casting vote.\n(c) In the case of equality of votes in the election of Chairman; Vice-Chairman or President, the determination shall be by the drawal of lots:",
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        },
        {
            "number": "46",
            "title": "46. Quorum.",
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            "content": "(i) scale of establishment and salaries.\n(ii) the framing of bye-laws under section 302 and of subsidiary rules under section 306 of the Act,\n(iii) the annual budget estimate,\n(iv) the appointment or the fixing of. the pay or allowance of a paid Secretary, Engineer, Water Works Superintendent, Health Officer Assessor or Executive Officer\n(v) the election of Chairman or Vice-Chairman,\n(vi) the raising of a loan,\n(vii) the subject of a meeting specially convened as provided in section 8,\n(viii) any other subject prescribed by a subsidiary rule made in this behalf by the Board under the provisions of section 306(1).",
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            "number": "47",
            "title": "47. Minutes of Proceedings.",
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            "number": "48",
            "title": "48. Appointment of Committees.",
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            "number": "49",
            "title": "49. Formation, of Joint-Committee.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "50",
            "title": "50. Appointment and pay of establishment.",
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            "content": "(a) for the creation and management, of a Contributory Provident Fund for its establishment;\n(b) for compelling members of its establishment to make contribution to such Fund;\n(c) for making contribution to the fund by the Board at such rates and subject to such conditions, as may be prescribe, out of the Municipality Fund; and\n(d) for the payment of moneys out of such Provident Fund.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "51",
            "title": "51. Power of Municipal Board to frame regulations for establishments.",
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            "content": "(a) fixing the amount and nature of the security to be furnished;\n(b) regulating the grant of leave allowances, acting allowances and traveling and other allowances; and\n(c) regulating conduct and generally laying down condition of service:\n(1) The amount of any leave, leave allowances, traveling allowances, or gratuity provided for in such regulations, shall in no case, without the special sanction of the Chief Commissioner exceed what would be admissible in case of Chief Commissioner officials of similar class and status.\n(2) The conditions under which such allowances are granted or any leave, superannuation or retirement sanctioned, shall not, without similar sanction, be more favourable than those for the time being in force for such persons serving under the Manipur Administration.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "52",
            "title": "52. Appointment of Health Officers, Sanitary Inspectors and Water Works Superintendents, etc.",
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            "content": "(a) to appoint such Health Officers, Sanitary Inspectors, other public health establishments and Water Works Superintendent as it may consider necessary on such terms as it may think fit ; or\n(b) to employ such officers of Government as Health Officers, Sanitary Inspectors and Water Works Superintendents as it may consider necessary.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "53",
            "title": "53. Appointment of Executive Officers.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Liability of Commissioners of Boards and Committees",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "54",
            "title": "54. Liability for loSs, waste or misapplication of funds and property.",
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            "number": "55",
            "title": "55. Disqualification of Commissioners having share or interest in contracts.",
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            "content": "(a) of his having a share or interest in-\n(i) a contract entered into between the Board and any incorporated or registered company or any registered Co-operative Society of which such Commissioner is a member or share-holder; or\n(ii) any agreement for the loan of money, or any security for the payment of money only; or\n(iii) any newspaper in which any advertisement relating to the affairs of the municipality is inserted; or\n(b) of his being professionally engaged on behalf of the Board as a legal or medical practitioner and receiving a fee for services rendered in his professional capacity.",
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            "number": "56",
            "title": "56. Commissioners disqualified from voting on certain questions.",
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            "content": "Validity of Acts and Proceedings",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "57",
            "title": "57. Presumptions and savings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter IV\nMunicipal Finance and Property\nMunicipal Fund",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "58",
            "title": "58. Constitution and custody of Municipal Fund.",
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            "content": "(a) the balance, if any, standing at the credit of the Board at the commencement of this Act;\n(b) all sums received by, or on behalf of, the. Board under this Act or otherwise;\n(c) all sums received under any loan raised by the Board.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "59",
            "title": "59. Municipal Board may raise loans and may form a sinking fund.",
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        {
            "number": "60",
            "title": "60. Application of fund.",
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            "content": "(a) firstly, such sum as may be required for the payment of, and the payment of interest on, any loan incurred under the provisions of any law;\n(b) secondly, such sum as may be required to meet the charges of its own establishment, including, in the case of Government officers whose services are wholly or partly employed by the Board, the payment of such contribution to the pensions, gratuities, provident fund and leave allowances as may be required by the conditions of their services under the Government, to be made by them or on their behalf;\n(c) thirdly, the liabilities and obligations arising from a trust legally imposed upon or accepted by the Municipal Board; and\n(d) fourthly, such sum as may be required to pay the expenses of paupers, lunatics and lepers who are inhabitants of the municipality and are sent to public asylums, which in the opinion of the Chief Commissioner, to be paid by the Board.\n(i) construction, maintenance and improvement of roads, tramways, bridges, squares; gardens, tanks, ghats, wells, drains, latrines and urinals;\n(ii) planting and reservation and felling of trees and bamboos;\n(iii) supply of water, and the lighting and watering of roads;\n(iv) erection and maintenance of town halls, offices and other buildings required for municipal purposes;\n(v) payment of a gratuity to any officer or servant in its employ, or to any member of the family of such officer or servant who has died from disease or injury contracted in the discharge of the duties of his office;\n(vi) establishment and maintenance of a municipal market, or the taking of a market on lease;\n(vii) establishment and maintenance of schools, and of hostels to be used in connection with such schools, either wholly or by means of grants-in-aid;\n(viii) establishment and maintenance of poor houses, hospitals and dispensaries and, at the discretion of the Board, the payment of allowances to medical practitioners for professional services rendered to the establishments employed by it;\n(ix) payment of the expenses of any of the poorer inhabitants of the municipality for journeys to and from any hospital established in any part of India for the treatment of special diseases and of their subsistence thereat according to such scale as may be fixed by the Board at a meeting;\n(x) employment of public vaccinators and the promotion of free vaccination;\n(xi) acquiring, keeping and equipping of open spaces for purposes of ventilation, or for the promotion of physical exercise and public recreation;\n(xii) industrial and other technical training and the employment of medical and veterinary practitioners;\n(viii) establishment and maintenance of veterinary dispensaries for the reception and treatment of horses, cattle and other animals;\n(xiv) payment of contributions towards any public fund raised for the relief of human suffering within or without the municipality;\n(xv) appointment and payment of qualified persons to prevent and treat diseases of horses, cattle and other animals;\n(xvi) improvement of the breed of horses and cattle and the breeding of mules;\n(xvii) establishment and maintenance of, or the ;ranting of aid to public libraries and reading rooms, amateur theatrical institutions and music schools;\n(xviii) payment for fire brigade services;\n(xix) provision of burial and burning grounds and the burial or burning of paupers;\n(xx) taking of a census other than a census ordered by the Central Government\n(xxi) holding of fairs and industrial exhibitions;\n(xxii) payment of rewards for the destruction of noxious animals or diseased or unclaimed dogs;\n(xxiii) preparation of compost Manure;\n(xxiv) prevention of the spread of dangerous diseases;\n(xxv) establishment and maintenance of dairieS;\n(xxvi) other work of public utility calculated to promote the health, comfort or convenience of the inhabitants;\n(xxvii) payment of contributions by the Board to any other local authority;\n(xxviii) payment for anti-malarial and other projects of social services for the improvement of Public Health within the Municipal area;\n(xxix) payment of advances to members of the establishment employed by the Board or on their behalf for the purpose of enabling them to acquire or construct reSidences for themselves and to purchase means of conveyance required for the performance of their duties;\n(xxx) any expenditure not provided for in the items quoted above which may be declared by the Board at a meeting, with the sanction of the Chief Commissioner, to be an appropriate charge on the municipal fund:",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "61",
            "title": "61. Orders for payment of money from the municipal fund.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Municipal Property",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 60
        },
        {
            "number": "62",
            "title": "62. Municipal property.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) all public roads including the soil, the pavements, stones and other materials thereof, and all drains, bridges, trees, erection, materials, implements and other things provided for such roads;\n(b) all public streams, channels, water-courses, springs, tanks, reservoirs, cisterns, wells, aqueducts, conduits, tunnels, pipes, pumps and other water-works, whether made, laid or created at the cost of the Board or otherwise and all bridges, buildings, engines, works, materials and things connected therewith or appertaining thereto and also any adjacent land, not being private property, appertaining to any public tanks:\n(c) all public sewers and drains, and all works, materials and things appertaining thereto and other conservancy works;\n(d) all sewage, rubbish and offensive matter collected by the Board from roads, latrines, sewers, cess-pools and other places;\n(e) all public lamps, lamp-posts and apparatus connected therewith or appertaining thereto, and all public gates, markets, slaughter houses and public buildings of every description which have been constructed or are maintained out of the municipal fund;\n(f) all land or other property transferred to the Board by the Government or acquired (by the Board) by gift, purchase or otherwise for local public purposes.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "63",
            "title": "63. Power to purchase, lease and sell land.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "64",
            "title": "64. Execution of contracts.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "65",
            "title": "65. Transfer of certain public institutions to Boards.",
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            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "66",
            "title": "66. Transfer of private roads, etc., to Boards.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "67",
            "title": "67. Acquisition of land.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter V\nMunicipal Taxation\nImposition of taxes",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 66
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        {
            "number": "68",
            "title": "68. Taxes.",
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            "content": "(a) a tax on holdings situated within the municipality assessed on their annual value, payable by the owner;\n(b) a water-tax payable by the owner or occupier, on the annual value of holdings;\n(c) a lighting-tax, payable by the owner or occupier, on the annual value of holdings;\n(d) a latrine-tax, payable by the owner or occupier, on the annual value of holdings;\n(e) a drainage-tax, payable by the owner, where a system of drainage has been introduced;\n(f) a tax on private markets payable by, the owner;\n(g) license fees on carts, carriages and animals used for riding, or burden;\n(h) a fee on the registration of dogs;\n(i) a fee, on such conditions and on such scale as may be prescribed by rule by the Chief Commissioner for each municipality, on boats, including steam boats, and other vessels, mooring within the municipality;\n(j) tolls on bridges;\n(k) with the sanction of the Chief Commissioner a betterment fee on holdings in any area of which value has increased due to Improvement Schemes completed at Board's cost;\n(l) fees, as sanctioned by the Chief Commissioner, for setting up and maintenance of fire brigade;\n(m) with the sanction of the Chief Commissioner fees for conducting anti-malarial services or any other schemes of social service for the improvement of public health;\n(n) with the sanction of the Chief Commissioner any other tax, toll, rate or fee; provided-\n(i) that both the taxes mentioned in clauses (a) and (f) shall not be imposed in respect of the same premises;\n(ii) that when the Board has taken a loan from or guaranteed by the Chief Commissioner, the Board shall not, without the previous sanction of the Chief Commissioner, make any alteration in respect of any tax which may have the effect of reducing the income of the Board; and\n(iii) the Chief Commissioner may, by order, exempt from the payment of any rate, tax, toll or fee payable under the provisions of this Act, any diplomatic or consular mission of a foreign state and the diplomatic and consular officers of such mission.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 67
        },
        {
            "number": "69",
            "title": "69. Taxes on Government holdings.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 68
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        {
            "number": "70",
            "title": "70. Restriction regarding tax on holdings.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 69
        },
        {
            "number": "71",
            "title": "71. Restriction regarding water-tax and lighting-tax.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) that the tax shall be imposed only on holdings situated within an area for the supply of water to which or for the lighting of which, as the case may be, a scheme has been approved by the Chief Commissioner or the Government:\n(i) distribute water by means of water carts or other wells like agency provide a water supply by means of tanks or reservoirs, or\n(ii) provide acetylene lamps or such other means of lighting as may be approved by the Chief Commissioner;\n(b) that the tax shall not be imposed on land used exclusively for purposes of agriculture, or on any holding consisting only of tanks, or, in the case of the water-tax on any holding no part of which is within a radius, to be fixed by the Chief Commissioner, from the nearest stand-pipe or other supply of water available to the public;\n(c)that in fixing the rate, at which the tax is to be imposed, regard shall be had to the principle that the total net proceeds of the tax, together with the estimated income from payments for water or lighting as the case may be, supplied from the works under special contract or otherwise, shall not exceed the amount required for making, extending or maintaining the water-supply or lighting system, as the case may be, together with an amount sufficient to, meet the proportionate share of the cost of supervision and collection and the repayment of and, payment of interest on any loan incurred in connection with any such supply or system;\n(d) that the tax shall not be leviable until a supply of water has been provided in the area to be so supplied or until the lamps in the area to be lighted have been lighted as the case may be, nor shall the tax be leviable for any quarter or portion of a quarter antecedent to the provision of such water-supply or lighting:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 70
        },
        {
            "number": "72",
            "title": "72. Restriction regarding Latrine-tax.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) that the tax shall be imposed only on holdings containing dWelling houses, shops, places of business, latrines, urinals or .cess-pools;\n(b) that the tax shall not be imposed on any jail, reformatory, lunatic asylum, school, college or hospital in which an establishment is maintained for the cleansing of latrines, urinals and cess-pools therein without making use of any, place or receptacle maintained by the Board for the deposit of sewage or offensive matter;\n(c) that in fixing the amount or amounts of the tax regard shall be had to the principle that the total net proceeds of the tax shall not exceed the amount' required for the cleansing .of latrines, urinals and cess-pools together with the amount required to meet the proportionate share of the cost of supervision and the collection of the tax; and\n(d) that the tax shall not be leviable in any area until the Board has made provision for the cleansing of latrines, urinal's and cess-pools, within such area; nor shall the tax be leviable for any quarter or portion of a quarter antecedent to the making of such provision.\n(b) The Board may by a notice in writing, require the owner or occupier of any such premises or places to furnish within a time to be specified in the notice, a statement of the number of persons residing in or habitually resorting to, such premises or places.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 71
        },
        {
            "number": "73",
            "title": "73. Restriction regarding drainage-tax.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) that , the tax shall be imposed only in case of places situated within an area for which a scheme for construction of a drainage system has been approved by the Chief Commissioner or the Government.\n(b) that in fixing the amount or amounts of the tax regard shall be had to the principle that the total net proceeds of the tax shall not exceed the amount required for constructing extending, improving, or maintaining the system of drainage together with the amount required to meet the proportionate of the share of the cost of supervision and the collection of the tax; and\n(c) that the tax shall not be leviable until a system of drainage shall have been made in the area to be so provided; nor shall the tax be leviable for any quarter or portion of a quarter antecedent to the provision of such a system of drainage.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 72
        },
        {
            "number": "74",
            "title": "74. Special provision regarding tax on private markets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 73
        },
        {
            "number": "75",
            "title": "75. Restriction regarding fire brigade and anti-malarial fees.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Taxes upon annual value of holdings",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 74
        },
        {
            "number": "76",
            "title": "76. Board to determine the valuation of holdings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 75
        },
        {
            "number": "77",
            "title": "77. Returns required for ascertaining annual value.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 76
        },
        {
            "number": "78",
            "title": "78. Penalty for default in furnishing return.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 77
        },
        {
            "number": "79",
            "title": "79. Determination of annual value of holding.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 78
        },
        {
            "number": "80",
            "title": "80. Determination of rate of tax on holding.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 79
        },
        {
            "number": "81",
            "title": "81. Preparation of assessment register.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) number of the holding on the register with the name of the road, if any, in which the holding is situated;\n(b) annual value of the holding (as stated in the valuation; list)\n(c) names of owner and occupier;\n(d) amount of tax payable for the financial year;\n(e) amount of taxes payable separately under Section 68 (1), (a),(c) or (d) ;\n(f) amounts of quarterly installments; and\n(g) if the holding is exempted from assessment, a note to that effect.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 80
        },
        {
            "number": "82",
            "title": "82. Power to assess consolidated tax for house and land on which it stands.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Revision of valuation list and assessment register",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 81
        },
        {
            "number": "83",
            "title": "83. Reduction of valuation, revision of valuation and assessment and revision of valuation list and assessment register.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) by entering therein the name of any person or any property. which in its opinion ought to have been entered, or any property which has become liable to taxation after the preparation of the assessment register, or -\n(b) by substituting therein with effect from the date- of succession or transfer, as the case may be, for the name of the owner of any holding the name of any other person who has Succeeded by transfer or otherwise, to the ownership of the holding, or\n(c) by altering the valuation of or assessment on any holding which in its opinion has been incorrectly valued or assessed, or\n(d) by re-valuing or re-assessing any holding the value of which has been increased by additions, or alterations to buildings, or\n(e) by reducing, upon the application of the owner the valuation of any holding which has been wholly or partly demolished or destroyed, or the value of which has diminished from any cause beyond the control of the owner, or\n(f) by correcting any clerical or arithmetical error,",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 82
        },
        {
            "number": "84",
            "title": "84. Notice to be given to Chairman of all transfers. of title of persons liable to payment of tax.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 83
        },
        {
            "number": "85",
            "title": "85. Revision of valuation list.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 84
        },
        {
            "number": "86",
            "title": "86. Appointment of assessor and power of Chief Commissioner to direct the appointment of assessor.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 85
        },
        {
            "number": "87",
            "title": "87. Revision of assessment register.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 86
        },
        {
            "number": "88",
            "title": "88. Effect of revision of assessment register.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Duty on transfers of property.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 87
        },
        {
            "number": "89",
            "title": "89. Method of assessment of duty on transfers of property.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 88
        },
        {
            "number": "90",
            "title": "90. Provisions applicable on the introduction of transfer duty.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) section 27 of the Indian Stamp Act 1399 (Act of 1399), shall be read as if it specifically required the particulars to be set forth separately in respect of property situated within the limits of a municipality and outside such limits;\n(b) section 64 of the same Act shall be read as if it referred to the Municipal Board concerned as well as the Government.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 89
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        {
            "number": "91",
            "title": "91. Power to make rules regarding assessment and collection of transfer duty.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "General Provisions Regarding Assessment",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 90
        },
        {
            "number": "92",
            "title": "92. Exemptions and remissions.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 91
        },
        {
            "number": "93",
            "title": "93. Powers of assessor.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 92
        },
        {
            "number": "94",
            "title": "94. Publication of notice of assessments.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 93
        },
        {
            "number": "95",
            "title": "95. Application for review.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 94
        },
        {
            "number": "96",
            "title": "96. Procedure for review.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 95
        },
        {
            "number": "97",
            "title": "97. Limitation of time for application for review.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 96
        },
        {
            "number": "98",
            "title": "98. Assessment to be questioned only under Act.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 97
        },
        {
            "number": "99",
            "title": "99. Tax not invalid for want of form.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Recovery of taxes",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 98
        },
        {
            "number": "100",
            "title": "100. Recovery from occupier of tax due from non-resident owner.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 99
        },
        {
            "number": "101",
            "title": "101. Recovery tram owner of occupier's tax in certain cases.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 100
        },
        {
            "number": "102",
            "title": "102. Recovery by owned of occupier's tax paid by owner.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 101
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        {
            "number": "103",
            "title": "103. Method of recovery by owner.",
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            "number": "104",
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            "number": "105",
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            "number": "106",
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            "number": "107",
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            "number": "108",
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            "number": "109",
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            "number": "110",
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            "number": "111",
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            "number": "112",
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            "number": "113",
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            "number": "114",
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            "number": "115",
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            "number": "116",
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            "content": "License fees on carts, carriages and animals",
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            "number": "117",
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            "content": "(a) horses or ponies belonging to officers doing regimental duty at the rate of one animal for each officer;\n(b) carts, carriages or animals belonging to Government, or to the Board or to any local authority or for keeping which for the execution of their duty an allowance is made by any Government or by the Board or by any local authority to any of their officers; -\n(c) animals used by, or exclusively for the purposes of, any regiment;\n(d) horses or ponies used by police officers at the rate of not more than one for each officer;\n(e) carts, carriages or animals kept for sale by any bona fide dealer in such carriages or animals, and not Used for any other purpose.",
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            "number": "118",
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            "number": "119",
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            "number": "120",
            "title": "120. Proportionate fee on carts, carriages, etc., acquired during half year.",
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            "number": "121",
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            "content": "Such license shall be for the current half-year",
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            "number": "122",
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            "number": "123",
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            "number": "124",
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            "number": "125",
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            "number": "126",
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            "number": "127",
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            "number": "128",
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            "number": "129",
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            "number": "130",
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            "number": "131",
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            "number": "132",
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            "number": "133",
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            "number": "134",
            "title": "134. Seizure and sale of unlicensed cart, carriage or animal.",
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            "number": "135",
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            "number": "136",
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            "content": "(1) No toll-bar shall be established or tolls levied otherwise than for the purpose of recovering-\n(a) the expenses incurred by the board in constructing, purchasing contributing to or widening such bridge;\n(b) interest on such expenses, at the rate of six per centum per annum;\n(c) the capitalized value of the receipt in respect or any public ferry, the proceeds of which are under the order of the Chief Commissioner placed at the disposal of the Board, will lose partially or completely owing to the construction of such bridge; and\n(d) the capitalized value of the estimated cost to the Board of maintaining such bridge, and of renewing it if required, periodical renewal.\n(2) No toll-bar shall be established, or tolls levied, on, or in, respect of any bridge, the cost or estimated cost of which at indicated in clauses (s), (c) and (d) of proviso (1) was or is less than two lakhs twenty-five thousand rupees.",
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            "number": "137",
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            "number": "138",
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            "number": "139",
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            "content": "(a) Government Stores and persons in charge thereof;\n(b) In areas declared as \"Operational Areas\" by the Government of India;\n(i) stores, including animals and vehicles conveying such stores meant for the Defence Services personnel, supplied through the Defence Services Installations, e.g., military farms, officers shops, supply depots and canteens, etc., whether run by the Defence Department or through contractors and\n(ii) the person in charge of such stores;\n(c) police officers and other public officers and their servant traveling on duty. Commissioners of the Board and officer of the municipality and their servants so traveling, person in the custody of any of the officers aforesaid, property belonging to or in the custody of any of the officers aforesaid, and vehicles and animals employed by any of the officers aforesaid for the transport of such property;\n(d) conservancy carts and other vehicles and animals belonging to the Board and persons In charge thereof; and\n(e) any other class of persons or things which may be exempted by order of the Board of Chief Commissioner.",
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            "number": "140",
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            "number": "141",
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            "number": "142",
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            "number": "143",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "144",
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            "number": "145",
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            "number": "146",
            "title": "146. Board to publish expenses of toll-bars.",
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            "content": "(a) the amount of the expenses incurred by the Board in constructing, purchasing, contributing to or widening the bridge;\n(b) the amount of interest which has accrued or is due on such expenses;\n(c) the capitalized value of the receipts in respect of any public ferry which the Board will loose partially or completely owing to the construction of such bridge;\n(d) the capitalized value of the estimated cost of maintaining the bridge, and where it requires periodical renewal, of removing its, and\n(e) the amount which has been received from the profits of the said toll-bar since its establishment.\nPounds",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "147",
            "title": "147. Function in regard to pounds.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 146
        },
        {
            "number": "148",
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            "content": "Recovery Of Miscellaneous Demands",
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            "number": "149",
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            "number": "150",
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            "number": "151",
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            "content": "Chapter VI\nPower for Sanitary and Other Purposes",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "152",
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            "number": "153",
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            "number": "155",
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            "number": "156",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "157",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "158",
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            "content": "(a) encroaches upon any public road or house gully or upon any public drain, sewer, aqueduct, water-course or ghat by making any excavation or by erecting any wall, fence grill, post, project on or other obstruction or by deposing any movable property thereon, or.\n(b) takes up or alters the payments on other material, fences or posts on any public road.",
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            "number": "159",
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            "number": "160",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "161",
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            "number": "162",
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            "number": "163",
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            "number": "164",
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            "number": "165",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "166",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "167",
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            "number": "168",
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            "number": "159",
            "title": "169. Penalty for disobeying requisition under Section 159, 161, 164, 166 or 168.",
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            "content": "",
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            "number": "170",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "171",
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            "content": "(a) affects or is likely to affect prejudicially the stability or safety of the building or the condition of the building in respect of drainage, ventilation, sanitation or hygiene; or\n(b) increase or diminishes the height or area covered by, or the cubical capacity of the building, or of any room in the building.",
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            "number": "302",
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            "number": "173",
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            "number": "174",
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            "number": "175",
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            "number": "176",
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            "number": "177",
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            "content": "(a) without sanction as required by Section 171 (1); or\n(b) without notice as required by Section 171 (2); or clause (iii) of Section 302; or\n(c)when sanction has been refused; or\n(d) in contravention of the terms of any sanction granted; or\n(e) when the sanction has lapsed; or\n(f) in contravention of any bye-laws made under Section 302, clause (v);",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "178",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "179",
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            "content": "",
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            "sort_order": 177
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            "number": "180",
            "title": "180. Power to attach brackets for lamps.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "181",
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        },
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            "number": "182",
            "title": "182. Power to require cleansing or lime-washing of buildings.",
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            "number": "183",
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            "content": "(a) to demolish, secure or repair within eight days from the date of service of the notice in such manner as it deems necessary any building, or portion of a building, wall or other structure or anything affixed thereto which appears to it to be in a ruinous condition or dangerous to inmates, if any, passers-by or other property, or\n(b) to repair, secure or enclose, within eight days from date of the notice, in such manner as it deems necessary any tank, well or excavation belonging to such owner or in the possession of such occupier which appears to the Board to be dangerous to persons by reason of its situation, want of repair or other such circumstances.",
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            "number": "184",
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            "number": "183",
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            "content": "Tanks, Wells, Streams, etc.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "186",
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            "number": "187",
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            "number": "186",
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            "number": "189",
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            "number": "190",
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        {
            "number": "191",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "192",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "189",
            "title": "193. Penalty for disobeying requisition under Section 189, 190, 191 or 192.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 191
        },
        {
            "number": "194",
            "title": "194. Power of Chief Commissioner to prohibit cultivation, use of manure or irrigation injurious to health.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) in any place within the limit of the municipality is injurious or facilitates practices which are injurious, to the health of persons dwelling in the neighbourhood, or\n(b) in any place within or without the limits of the municipality, is likely to contaminate the water supply of the municipality or otherwise renders it unfit for drinking purposes,",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 192
        },
        {
            "number": "195",
            "title": "195. Power to prohibit excavations.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 193
        },
        {
            "number": "196",
            "title": "196. Public latrines and urinals.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 194
        },
        {
            "number": "197",
            "title": "197. Permission to construct latrines and urinals which are to be properly enclosed.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 195
        },
        {
            "number": "198",
            "title": "198. Power to require latrine or urinal to be constructed.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 196
        },
        {
            "number": "199",
            "title": "199. No latrine, etc., to be constructed in certain circumstances.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 197
        },
        {
            "number": "200",
            "title": "200. Inspection of latrines, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 198
        },
        {
            "number": "201",
            "title": "201. Power to require owner or occupier to repair latrine, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 199
        },
        {
            "number": "202",
            "title": "202. Penalty for not keeping latrine, etc., in proper order.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 200
        },
        {
            "number": "203",
            "title": "203. Power to alter any latrine, etc, made contrary to orders.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 201
        },
        {
            "number": "204",
            "title": "204. Power to demolish unauthorized drains leading into public sewer.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 202
        },
        {
            "number": "205",
            "title": "205. Penalty for allowing water of any sewer, etc., to run on any public road.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 203
        },
        {
            "number": "206",
            "title": "206. Power to require owner to drain land.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 204
        },
        {
            "number": "201",
            "title": "207. Penalty for disobeying requisition under Section 201 or 206.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 205
        },
        {
            "number": "208",
            "title": "208. Power to drain group or block of houses, etc., by a combined operation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) a written notice of the nature of the proposed work;\n(b) an estimate of the expenses to be incurred in respect thereof and on the promotion of such expenses payable by him.\nControl In Respect Of Public Health",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 206
        },
        {
            "number": "209",
            "title": "209. Public Health Administration.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 207
        },
        {
            "number": "210",
            "title": "210. Inspection by Public Health Department.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Removal of Sewage Offensive Matter and Rubbish",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 208
        },
        {
            "number": "211",
            "title": "211. Establishments for removal of sewage offensive matter and rubbish.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) of sewage, rubbish and offensive matter from all public latrines, urinals and drains and from all public roads, and allover property vested in the Board and\n(b) in any municipality wherein a latrine-tax has been imposed under Section 68 (1) (d), of sewage and offensive matter from all private latrines, urinals and cess-pools, and for the disposal or such sewage, rubbish or offensive matter and for the cleansing of such latrines, urinals, drains and cess-pools,",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 209
        },
        {
            "number": "212",
            "title": "212. Sewerage Scheme.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 210
        },
        {
            "number": "213",
            "title": "213. Power to require removers sewage to take out licence.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 211
        },
        {
            "number": "214",
            "title": "214. Removal of sewage, offensive matter and rubbish.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 212
        },
        {
            "number": "215",
            "title": "215. Penalty on occupier for not removing filth, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 213
        },
        {
            "number": "216",
            "title": "216. Penalty for throwing offensive matter on Public roads, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 214
        },
        {
            "number": "217",
            "title": "217. Powers of servants of the Board.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Compost Making",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 215
        },
        {
            "number": "218",
            "title": "218. Compost.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Abatement of Nuisances",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 216
        },
        {
            "number": "219",
            "title": "219. Nuisance.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(1) any premises in such a state as to be prejudicial to health;\n(2) any tank, pond, pool, ditch, gutter, water-course, water-trough latrine, cess-pool, drain or ashpit which is so foul or in such a state as to be prejudicial to health;\n(3) any animal kept in such a place or manner as to prejudicial to health;\n(4) any accumulation or deposit of refuse or other matter which is prejudicial to health;\n(5) any factory, workshop or workplace, which is not provided with sufficient means of ventilation, or in which sufficient ventilation is not maintained, or which is not kept clean or not kept free from noxious effluvia, or which is so overcrowded while work is carried on as to be prejudicial to the health of those employed therein;\n(6) any fireplace or furnace which does not as far as practicable consume the smoke arising from the combustible used therein, and which is used for working engines by steam, or in any mill factory, dye house, brewery, bake-house or gas work, or in any manufacturing or trade process whatsoever;\n(7) any chimney sending forth smoke in such quantity as to be a nuisance; and\n(8) any noise, vibration, dust, cinders, irritating small or offensive odour produced by a factory, workshop or workplace which is a nuisance to the neighbourhood.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 217
        },
        {
            "number": "220",
            "title": "220. Inspection for removal of nuisance.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) cause it local area to be inspected frequently with a view to ascertain what nuisance exist therein calling for abatement; and\n(b) serve the owner or occupier of the land on which the nuisance exist with a notice to remove the same within such time as the Board may fix.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 218
        },
        {
            "number": "221",
            "title": "221. Notice to remove nuisance.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 219
        },
        {
            "number": "222",
            "title": "222. Complaint against nuisance.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Private Markets",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 220
        },
        {
            "number": "223",
            "title": "223. Power to prohibit use of unlicensed markets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) refuse a license for the maintenance of a market lawfully established on the date of such order coming into force, if application be made within six months from such date except on the ground that the place where the market is established fails to comply with any conditions prescribed by or made under this Act; or\n(b) cancel, suspend or refuse to renew any license granted under such order for any cause other than the failure of the license to comply with the conditions of the license, or with any provisions prescribed by, or made under this Act.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 221
        },
        {
            "number": "224",
            "title": "224. Penalty for using unlicensed market.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 222
        },
        {
            "number": "225",
            "title": "225. Power to close licensed places.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 223
        },
        {
            "number": "226",
            "title": "226. Markets slaughter-houses, etc, to be properly drained.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Sale of Food",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 224
        },
        {
            "number": "227",
            "title": "227. Sale exposing for sale etc., of food.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Regulation of Factories, Workshops, Offensive Trades, etc.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 225
        },
        {
            "number": "228",
            "title": "228. Factory, etc, not to be newly established without permission of the Board.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) grant the permission applied for either absolutely or subject to such condition as it thinks fir to impose; or\n(b) refuse permission if it is of opinion that the establishment of such factory, workshop, or work place in the proposed site,-\n(i) would be objectionable by reason of the density of the population in the neighbourhood thereof, or\n(ii) would be a nuisance to the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, or\n(iii) for any other sufficient reason.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 226
        },
        {
            "number": "229",
            "title": "229. Certain offensive and dangerous trades not to be established within the limits to be fixed by the Board without license.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) meeting tallow;\n(b) boiling offal or blood;\n(c) skinning or disemboweling animal;\n(d) the manufacture of bricks, pottery, tiles or lime in a kiln, panja or clamp or by any other similar method;\n(e) as a soap-house, oil boiling house, dyeing house;\n(f) as tannery, slaughter-house;\n(g) as a manufactory or place of business from which the offensive or unwholesome odour may arise;\n(h) as a yard or depot for hay, straw, bamboo, thatching gram, jute or other dangerously inflammable material for the purpose of any trade;\n(i) any store-house for kerosene, petroleum, naptha, coaltar or any inflammable oil or spirit or wholesale stock of matches exceeding one hundred gross;\n(j) as a shop for the sale of meet;\n(k) as a place for the storage of rags or bones, or both;\n(l) tea stall;\n(m) sweetmeat stall;\n(n) hotel or eating house;\n(o) aerated water;\n(p) bakery, including biscuit factory.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 227
        },
        {
            "number": "230",
            "title": "230. Cinemas, dramatic performances, circuses, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 228
        },
        {
            "number": "231",
            "title": "231. Cancellation revocation, etc. of licenses.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 229
        },
        {
            "number": "232",
            "title": "232. Publication of order of refusal, suspension, etc, of license.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 230
        },
        {
            "number": "233",
            "title": "233. Appeals under sections 230 and 231.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to the Chief Commissioner in the case of an order passed by the Board at a meeting;\n(b) to the Deputy Commissioner in the case of an order passed by the Board;",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 231
        },
        {
            "number": "234",
            "title": "234. Power to order the use of slaughter houses and the carrying on of dangerous and offensive trade to be discontinued.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 232
        },
        {
            "number": "235",
            "title": "235. Power to prohibit private kilns.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 233
        },
        {
            "number": "236",
            "title": "236. Penalty for offences under Sections 229, 230 and 235.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(1) without a license uses any place for any of the proposes specified in Section 229 or uses any place for the manufacture of bricks, pottery titles or lime in contravention of the provisions of Section 235; or\n(2) being a holder of a license under Section 299 breaks any condition of such license; or\n(3) uses any place for the purpose of public cinematographic exhibitions, dramatic performances, circuses or variety shows or as a place of public resort for similar recreation or amusements, in contravention of the provisions of Section 230;\nInfectious and Contagious Diseases",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 234
        },
        {
            "number": "237",
            "title": "237. Steps to be taken on out.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 235
        },
        {
            "number": "238",
            "title": "238. Information to be given of infectious diseases.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) being a medical practitioner and being cognizant of the existence of any infectious or contagious diseases in any dwelling other than a public hospital, or\n(b) being the owner or occupier of such dwelling and being cognizant of the existence of any such disease therein, or\n(c) being the person in charge of or in attendance of any, person suffering from any such disease in such dwelling and being cognizant of the existence of the disease therein,",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 236
        },
        {
            "number": "239",
            "title": "239. Removal to hospital of patients suffering from infectious diseases.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) without proper lodging or accommodation, or\n(b) living in a serai or other public hostel, or\n(c) living in a room or house which neither he nor any one, of whom he is dependent, either owns or pay rent for,",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 237
        },
        {
            "number": "240",
            "title": "240. Disinfections of buildings and articles.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) within the time specified as aforesaid from the receipt of the notice the person on whom the notice is served fails to have the building or part thereof or the article disinfected as aforesaid within the time fixed in the notice, or\n(b) the occupier or the owner, as the case may be, give his consent,",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 238
        },
        {
            "number": "241",
            "title": "241. Penalty for letting infected house.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 239
        },
        {
            "number": "242",
            "title": "242. Provisions of places and appliances for disinfection.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) provide proper places, with all necessary attendants and apparatus for the disinfection of conveyances, clothing, bedding or other articles which have been exposed to infection.\n(b) cause conveyance, clothing or other articles bought for disinfection to be disinfected free of charge or subject to such charge as may be approved by it, and\n(c) direct any clothing, bedding or other articles likely to retain infection to be disinfected or destroyed and shall give compensation for any article destroyed under this section.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 240
        },
        {
            "number": "243",
            "title": "243. Act done by person suffering from certain diseases.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) makes or offers for sale any article or food or drink for human consumption or any medicine, drug or clothing, or,\n(b) willfully touches any such articles, medicine, drug, or clothing when exposed for sale by orders, or\n(c) takes any part in the business of washing or carrying soiled clothes,",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 241
        },
        {
            "number": "244",
            "title": "244. Exposure of person suffering from infectious disease.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) while suffering from any infectious or contagious disease willfully exposes himself in any road, public places, shop, bazaar or any place used in common by persons other than numbers of the family or household to which such infected person belongs, or cause or suffers himself to be carried in a public conveyance, without proper precautions against spreading the said diseases, or\n(b) being in charge of any person so suffering, so exposes such sufferer, or so carries or permits him to be carried in a public conveyance:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 242
        },
        {
            "number": "245",
            "title": "245. Power of entry for purpose of preventing spread of diseases.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 243
        },
        {
            "number": "246",
            "title": "246. Maintenance of conveyances by Board for certain purposes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 244
        },
        {
            "number": "247",
            "title": "247. Power to close market, tea stall etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 245
        },
        {
            "number": "248",
            "title": "248. Power to close school.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Mosquito Control",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 246
        },
        {
            "number": "249",
            "title": "249. Eradication of Mosquitoes and prevention of their breeding.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Extinction of Fire",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 247
        },
        {
            "number": "250",
            "title": "250. Establishment and maintenance of fire-brigade.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 248
        },
        {
            "number": "251",
            "title": "251. Powers of Magistrate, Commissioner of Municipal Board, and other persons for suppression of fires.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) remove or order the removal of any person who by his presence interferes with or impedes the operations for extinguishing the fire, or for saving life or property.\n(b) close any street or passage in or near which any fire is burning;\n(c) for the purpose of extinguishing the fire or preventing its spread break into or pull down or cause to be broken into a pulled down or use for the passage of any house or other appliance, any premises;\n(d) cause main and pipes to be shut off so as to give greater pressure of water in the place where the fire occurred;\n(e) call on the person in charge of any fire engine to render such assistance as may be possible;\n(f) generally take such measures as may appear necessary for the preservation of life or property.\nBurial and Burning Grounds and the Disposal of Corpses",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 249
        },
        {
            "number": "252",
            "title": "252. Powers in respect of burial and burning places.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 250
        },
        {
            "number": "253",
            "title": "253. Burial of paupers.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 251
        },
        {
            "number": "254",
            "title": "254. Power to cause corpses to be burnt or buried according to the religious tenets of the deceased.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 252
        },
        {
            "number": "255",
            "title": "255. Power to license fuel shops at burning grounds.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Disorderly House and Persons",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 253
        },
        {
            "number": "256",
            "title": "256. Powers over disorderly house and prostitutes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the keeping of brothel;\n(b) the residence of a public prostitute.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 254
        },
        {
            "number": "257",
            "title": "257. Brothels.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Dogs",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 255
        },
        {
            "number": "258",
            "title": "258. Token for dogs and disposal of mad and stray dogs.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) destroy or cause to be destroyed or confine, or cause to be confined, for such period as the Board may direct any dog suffering from any loathsome disease or reasonably suspected to be suffering from rabies, or bitten by any dog or other animal suffering or suspected to be suffering from rabies;\n(ii) confine, or cause to be confined any dog found wandering about roads or public places without a collar or other markets distinguishing it as private property and charge a fee for such detention, and destroy or otherwise dispose of any such dog if it is not claimed within one week and the fee paid;\n(iii) after a date specified in this behalf in a notice published under sub-section (1), destroy or cause to be destroyed or otherwise dispose of any dog found wandering about roads or public places without a collar bearing a token issued by the Board or other marks distinguishing it as private property.\nEducations",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 256
        },
        {
            "number": "259",
            "title": "259. Schools.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Medical",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 257
        },
        {
            "number": "260",
            "title": "260. Dispensaries, hospitals, asylums, poor-houses and medical relief.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) establish and maintain, within the municipality, dispensaries, hospitals, chest clinics, asylums and places for the reception of the sick or destitute, or contribute towards the cost of the establishment and maintenance of such institutions;\n(b) with the previous sanction of the Chief Commissioner contribute such annual or other sum as may be agreed on towards the cost of the establishment or maintenance of any dispensary, hospital, asylum and place for the reception of the sick or destitute, which is situated outside the municipality, but is, or may be, ordinarily used by the inhabitants of the municipality;\n(c) provide for the payment of allowances to medical Practitioners for professional services rendered to the establishment employed by the Board;\n(d) provide medicines or medical assistance for the poorer inhabitants of the municipality or take such measures as may appear to it to be necessary including the temporary employment of medical practitioners during the prevalence of diseases in the municipality;\n(e) provide for the payment of expenses of any of the poorer inhabitants of the municipality for journeys to and from any hospital established in any part of India for the treatment of special diseases, and of their subsistence thereat, according to such scale as may be fixed by the Chief Commissioner.\nMaternity and Child Welfare",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 258
        },
        {
            "number": "261",
            "title": "261. Maternity houses and child welfare centers, midwives for maternity cases and health visitors.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Vaccination and Inoculation",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 259
        },
        {
            "number": "262",
            "title": "262. Vaccination.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Registration of Births and Death",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 260
        },
        {
            "number": "263",
            "title": "263. Registration of births and deaths.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter VII\nWater Supply, Lighting and Drainage Systems",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 261
        },
        {
            "number": "264",
            "title": "264. Supply of drinking water.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) that the water supply is continuous throughout the year, and\n(b) that the water supply is at all times pure and fit for human consumption.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "265",
            "title": "265. Satisfactory system of drainage.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Introduction of Schemes",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 263
        },
        {
            "number": "266",
            "title": "266. Sanction of scheme by Chief Commissioner.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 264
        },
        {
            "number": "267",
            "title": "267. Publication of scheme.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) a general description of the scheme;\n(b) an estimate of the cost of carrying it out and its maintenance;\n(c) source from which the cost will be met; and\n(d) the amount of loan, if any, proposed to be taken.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 265
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            "number": "268",
            "title": "268. Scheme to be carries out by municipalities.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 266
        },
        {
            "number": "269",
            "title": "269. Chief Commissioner may appoint on officer to execute the works.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "General Provisions Relating to the Laying and Connecting of Pipes, Sewers and the Like",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 267
        },
        {
            "number": "270",
            "title": "270. Power of Board to lay or carry wires, pipes, drains, or sewers, through private land subject to payment of compensation for drainage sustained provided that no nuisance is created.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 268
        },
        {
            "number": "271",
            "title": "271. Provisions as to wires, pipes, drains or sewers laid or carried above surface of ground.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 269
        },
        {
            "number": "272",
            "title": "272. Previous notice to be given.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 270
        },
        {
            "number": "273",
            "title": "273. Power to permit connections with main.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 271
        },
        {
            "number": "274",
            "title": "274. Power to make or require connections in certain cases.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 272
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        {
            "number": "275",
            "title": "275. Power to prescribe size of ferrules and to establish meters and the like.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 273
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        {
            "number": "276",
            "title": "276. Communication and connections to be made subject to inspection by and to the satisfaction of Board.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 274
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        {
            "number": "277",
            "title": "277. Connections may be made by Board's own agency.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 275
        },
        {
            "number": "278",
            "title": "278. Power to enter premises.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 276
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        {
            "number": "279",
            "title": "279. Presumption as to correctness of meter.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 277
        },
        {
            "number": "280",
            "title": "280. Testing of meter.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 278
        },
        {
            "number": "281",
            "title": "281. Penalty for fraud in respect of meter.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) alter the index to any meter, or prevent any meter from duly registering the quality or quantity of water or gas supplied, or\n(b) abstract or use water or gas before it has been registered by a meter set up for the purpose of testing the quantity or quality of the same,",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 279
        },
        {
            "number": "282",
            "title": "282. Penalty for injuring meter.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 280
        },
        {
            "number": "283",
            "title": "283. Estimate and specification of works to be sent.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 281
        },
        {
            "number": "284",
            "title": "284. Owner to bear the cost of keeping works in repair.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Special Provisions Relating to Water Supply Systems",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 282
        },
        {
            "number": "285",
            "title": "285. Board to provide water supply.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 283
        },
        {
            "number": "286",
            "title": "286. Pressure at which water must be kept.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 284
        },
        {
            "number": "287",
            "title": "287. Provision for water-meter.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 285
        },
        {
            "number": "288",
            "title": "288. House-holder entitled to certain supply of water for domestic use.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 286
        },
        {
            "number": "289",
            "title": "289. Power to provide water for latrine.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 287
        },
        {
            "number": "290",
            "title": "290. Power to turn off water.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) if the premises are unoccupied; or\n(b) if the person liable to pay the water tax or any charge made under Section 287 (3) or 288 (2) neglects to pay the same; or\n(c) if any pipe, works fittings or meters connected with the supply of water and being the property of the owner or occupier are found, on examination by any officer of the Board authorized in that behalf, to be out of repair to such an extent as to cause the waste of water of; or\n(d) if the owner or occupier of the premises willfully or negligently contaminates, misuses or cause water of water;",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 288
        },
        {
            "number": "291",
            "title": "291. Penalty for causing waste of water.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 289
        },
        {
            "number": "292",
            "title": "292. Power to allow person outside the town to take water.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter VIII\nControl",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 290
        },
        {
            "number": "293",
            "title": "293. Control by Commissioner, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(1) enter into and inspect, or cause any other person to enter into and inspect-\n(a) any immovable property in the occupation of or\n(b) any work in progress under, or\n(c) any institution under the control and administration of the Board, and\n(2) call for and inspect any book or document which may be for the purpose of this Act, in the possession or under the control of the Board.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 291
        },
        {
            "number": "294",
            "title": "294. Inspection of works and registers by Commissioners.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 292
        },
        {
            "number": "295",
            "title": "295. Inspector of Municipal works.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 293
        },
        {
            "number": "296",
            "title": "296. Power to suspend action under the Act.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 294
        },
        {
            "number": "297",
            "title": "297. Powers of Chief Commissioner in case of default, and of Deputy Commissioner in case of emergency, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 295
        },
        {
            "number": "298",
            "title": "298. Power to supersede or dissolve Board in case of incompetence default or abuse of powers.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 296
        },
        {
            "number": "299",
            "title": "299. Consequence of supersession.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) all the Commissioners of the Board shall as from the date of the order, vacate their offices as such Commissioners;\n(b) all the powers and duties which under this Act may be exercised and performed by the Board, whether at a meeting or otherwise, shall, during the period of supersession or in case of dissolution till the new Commissioners and the Chairman are elected or nominated be exercised and performed by such person or persons as the Chief Commissioner may direct:\n(c) all property vested in such Board shall during the period of supersession, vest in the Government.\n(i) extend the period of supersession for such further term as it may consider necessary, but not exceeding a period of one year at a time, or\n(ii) reconstitute the Municipal Board by a fresh general election and the persons who vacated their offices under clause (a) and sub-section (1) shall not be deemed disqualified for election or appointment:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 297
        },
        {
            "number": "300",
            "title": "300. Disputes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter IX\nRules And Bye-Laws\nRules",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 298
        },
        {
            "number": "301",
            "title": "301. Power of Chief Commissioner to make rules.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) determine the mode and time of election of Commissioners, the qualifications and disqualifications and registration of voters, qualifications of candidates, the acts to be deemed corrupt practices at elections and generally regulates all elections under this Act;\n(ii) regulate the manner in which the minutes of proceedings of meetings of the Board shall be published;\n(iii) prescribe the manner in which bye-Iaw, notices orders and other documents directed to be published under the Act shall be published;\n(iv) regulate the keeping checking and publication of accounts and the manner of periodical audit;\n(v) provide for the retention of adequate working or closing balances;\n(vi) provide for the preparation of plans and estimates for works to be partly or wholly constructed at the expense of the Board, and determine, according to the nature of the staff entertained by the Board, the persons by whom and the conditions subject to which such plans and estimates are to be sanctioned;\n(vii) regulate the form and procedure to be followed in the preparation of budget estimates by the Board, and prescribe the authority by whom, and the conditions subject to which, such estimates ma y be sanctioned provided that such rules shall not empower such authority to refuse to sanction such estimates except on the following grounds:-\n(1) that the minimum closing balance prescribed has not been maintained.\n(2) that due provision has not been made for the purposes specified in Section 60 (1) (a), (b) and (c),\n(3) that the provisions of the Act and the rules and any standing orders of the Chief Commissioner have not been complied with.\n(viii) regulate the preparation, submission and publication of returns statements and reports by the Board:\n(ix) prescribed forms for any proceedings of the Board for which it considers that a form should be provided;\n(x) prescribe the maximum fees which may be levied by the Board under Section 68, subsection (1) (g) and (h);\n(xi) prescribe the mode of ascertaining the capitalised value recoverable under clauses (c) and (d) of proviso (1) Section 136;\n(xii) provide, in matters not specifically provided for in the Act, for the valuation of holdings and for the assessment, collection and refunds of taxes imposed under the Act;\n(xiii) fix the fees payable upon distraints under this Act;\n(xiv) prescribe the qualifications of candidates for employment by the Board and declare what circumstances shall be disqualification for continuance of such employment;\n(xv) prescribe the division of Health Officers and Sanitary Inspectors into classes of grades according to their qualifications;\n(xvi) prescribe the proportion of the pay and allowances of Government officers employed by the Board, which shall be borne by the Board, and provide for the control of such officers;\n(xvii) regulate the conditions which may be imposed for the grant of licenses for places of public resort for recreations and amusement;\n(xviii) prescribe the conditions subject to which the Board-\n(a) may permit connections and communications to be made between private houses or premises and mains or service wires, pipes, drains, sewers and other channels established or maintained by the Board;\n(b) may direct that such connections and communications shall be cut off;\n(xix) prescribe method of preparation of compost manure and regulate the operation of compost manure schemes;\n(xx) provide for the regulation, management and inspection of the working of systems of water supply, electricity, lighting, drainage or sewerage provided establish or maintained by or under the control and administration of any Municipal Board;\n(xxi) generally provide for the guidance of the Board and officers of Government in all matters connected with the carrying out of the provision of this Act, and for setting their relations to one another:\nBye Laws",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 299
        },
        {
            "number": "302",
            "title": "302. Power to make bye-laws.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) regulating and preventing obstructions and encroachments and nuisance on or near public roads, or on or near pontoons, bridges, ghats, landing places, river banks or other places of public resort or on place near water works for the supply of drinking water;\n(ii) prescribing a minimum width of wheel tyres or a minimum diameter and the maximum wheel tracks of wheels for different classes of carts and carriages kept or used within the municipality;\n(iii) prescribing the manner in which notice of the intention to erect, re-erect or materially after a building shall be given to the Board;\n(iv) requiring that with every such notice shall be furnished a site plan of the land I=on which it is intended to erect, re-erect or materially after such building and a plan and specification, and in the case erection or re-erection of a building, an estimate also of the cost of construction (excluding cost of land and its improvement) of the building all such characters and with such details as the bye-law, may require in respect of all or any of the matter following, viz -\n(a) free passage or way in front of the building;\n(b) space to be left about the building to secure free circulation of air and facilitate scavenging and for the prevention of fire;\n(c) provision and position of latrines, urinals, cess-pools or drains;\n(d) level and width of foundation, level of lowest floor, and the stability of the structure; and\n(e) the line of frontage with neighbouring buildings, if the building abuts on a public road;\n(v) regulating in respect of the erection, re-erection material alterations of any building, within the municipality or part thereof-\n(a) the materials and method of construction to be used for external and partition walls, roofs and floors;\n(b) the materials and method of construction and position of fire-places, chimneys, latrines, urinals, cess-pools and drains;\n(c) the height and slope for the roof above the uppermost floor upon which human beings are to live or cooking operations are to be carried on;\n(d) the space to be left about the building to secure the free circulation of air and for the prevention of fire;\n(e) the line of frontage, where the building abuts on a public road;\n(f) the number and height of the storeys of which the building may consist;\n(g) the means to be provided for access from the building in case of fire; and\n(h) any other matter affecting the ventilation or sanitation of the buildings;\n(vi) preventing the erection of building without adequate provisions being made for the laying out and location of roads;\n(vii) regulating the level, means of drainage, alignment and width of roads constructed by private persons;\n(viii) fixing and from time to time varying the number of person; who may occupy a building or part of a building, which is let in lodgings or which is situated within such congested areas as may be specified in the bye-law; or occupied by members of more than one family; and providing-\n(a) for the registration and inspection of such buildings;\n(b) for promoting cleanliness and ventilation in such buildings;\n(c) for notice to be given and precautions to be taken in the case of any infections or contagious disease breaking out in such buildings;\n(d) in the case of hotel, serai and lodging house-keepers and secretaries of residential clubs, for the maintenance of registers in such form as the Board may prescribe of visitors and lodgers; and;\n(e) generally for the proper regulation of such buildings;\n(ix) regulating the use of, and the prevention of nuisance in regard to public water-supply, bathing and washing places, streams, channels, tanks and wells;\n(x) regulating either by rendering licenses necessary or otherwise, the washing of clothes by professional washermen, and fixing the places in which clothes may be so washed or in which they may not be washed;\n(xi) prescribing the measures to be taken for the prevention of the breeding of mosquitoes in wells, tanks, pools, excavations, cisterns or other places or vessels containing or capable of containing water;\n(xii) regulating the cutting of trees and bamboos within the municipality;\n(xiii) defining the duties of persons employed in the removal of sewage within the municipality and required to take out license under Section 213;\n(xiv) regulating the disposal of sewage, offensive matter, carcasses of animals and rubbish, and the construction and maintenance of latrines, urinals, cesspools, drains and sewers;\n(xv) providing for the inspection and regulation of markets and for the preparation and exhibition of a price list thereat;\n(xvi) regulating the hours and manner of transport \\within the municipality of any specified articles of food or drink;\n(xvii) fixing the places in which any specified article of food or drink may be sold or exposed for sale or the places in which it may not be sold of exposed for sale;\n(xviii) regulating either by rendering licenses necessary or otherwise the import into the municipality for sale, of milk and butter;\n(xix) regulating, either by rendering licenses,necessary or otherwise, or prohibiting for the purpose of preventing danger to the public health, the stalling or herding of horses, cattle, swine, donkeys, sheep or goats, geese, ducks and fowls;\n(xx) providing for the inspection of milch cattle, and prescribing the measures to be taken on the occurrence amongst them of infectious or contagious diseases; and prescribing and regulating the construction, dimensions, ventilation, lighting, cleansing, drainage and water-supply of dairies and cattle-sheds in the occupation of persons following the trade or dairymen or milk sellers;\n(xxi) providing for the inspection and proper regulation of encamping grounds, pound, serais, bakeries and aerated water factories, ice factories, flour mills, oil mills, sweetmeat shops, factories, and other places in which mechanical or electrical power is employed, and slaughter houses;\n(xxii) preventing nuisance affecting the public health, safety, or conveniences In places of public resort for purposes of recreation or amusement;\n(xxiii) preventing nuisances affecting the public health, safety or conveniences;\n(xxiv) providing for the guidance, discipline and conduct of the members of a volunteer fire brigade recognized by the Board. ,\n(xxv) controlling and regulating the use and management of burial and burning ground and the disposal of corpses;\n(xxvi) providing for inspection of weights and measures ,used in markets within the municipality;\n(xxvii) providing for the holding of fairs and industrial exhibitions within the municipality or under the control of the Board and for fixing and collecting the fees to be levied thereat;\n(xxviii) fixing the conditions on which licenses under this Act are to be granted and may be suspended or revoked;\n(xxix) preventing and removing and encroachments on any municipal lands including markets, drains, roads, etc,; and\n(xxx) giving effect to the objects of this Act, and may by such bye-laws impose on offenders against the same such reasonable penalties as they think fit, not exceeding the sum of fifty rupees for such offence, and, in case of a continuing offence, a further penalty not exceeding twenty rupees for each day after, written notice of the offence from the Board :",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 300
        },
        {
            "number": "303",
            "title": "303. Additional powers to make bye-laws in hill municipalities.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the maintenance of a water-supply;\n(b) the preservation of the soil;\n(c) the prevention of landslips;\n(d) the formation of ravines or torrents;\n(e) the projection of land against erosion or the deposit thereon of sand, gravel or stone;\n(f) the protection of the beauty or general appearance of the municipality.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 301
        },
        {
            "number": "304",
            "title": "304. Conformation of bye-laws.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 302
        },
        {
            "number": "305",
            "title": "305. Publication of bye-laws.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Subsidiary Rules",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 303
        },
        {
            "number": "306",
            "title": "306. Power to make rules as to business and affairs.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the time and place of their meeting and of the meetings of committees the business to be transacted at such meetings and the manner in which notice of such meetings shall be given;\n(b) the conduct of proceeding as at such meetings, the method of voting the due record of all dissent and discussions, and the adjournment of such meetings;\n(c) the custody of the common seal and the purposes for which it shall be used;\n(d) the division of duties among the Commissioners of the Municipal Board, and the powers to be exercised by committees or Commissioners to whom particular duties are assigned;\n(e) the persons by whom receipt shall be granted for money received under this Act;\n(f) the duties, appointment, leave, fining, suspension and removal of municipal officers and servants;\n(g) the appointment or election of the Chairman or Vice-Chairman of committees and the delegation of powers by the Board to committees;\n(h) regulation of the expenditure of money for purpose provided for in the budget estimates;\n(i) the nature and amount of security to be furnished different classes of officers or servants of the Board for the proper discharge of their duties; and\n(j) other similar matter and may, by such rules annul, alter or add to all or any of the rules in the second Schedule.\nChapter X\nProcedure\nMunicipal Notice",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 304
        },
        {
            "number": "307",
            "title": "307. How notice, etc., may be served.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 305
        },
        {
            "number": "308",
            "title": "308. Reasonable time for compliance to be fixed.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 306
        },
        {
            "number": "309",
            "title": "309. Service of notice on owner or occupier of land.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Enforcement of requisitions",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 307
        },
        {
            "number": "310",
            "title": "310. Procedure when owners or occupiers are required by Board to execute works.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 308
        },
        {
            "number": "311",
            "title": "311. Persons required to execute any work may prefer objection to the Board.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 309
        },
        {
            "number": "312",
            "title": "312. Procedure if person objecting alleges that work will cost more than three hundred rupees.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 310
        },
        {
            "number": "313",
            "title": "313. Chairman, etc., to make order after hearing objection.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 311
        },
        {
            "number": "314",
            "title": "314. Order to be explained orally.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 312
        },
        {
            "number": "315",
            "title": "315. Power of Board on failure of persons to execute work.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 313
        },
        {
            "number": "316",
            "title": "316. Power to apportion expenses among owners and occupiers.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 314
        },
        {
            "number": "317",
            "title": "317. Apportionment among owners and occupiers.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 315
        },
        {
            "number": "318",
            "title": "318. Occupiers may recover cost of works executed at his expense from owner.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 316
        },
        {
            "number": "319",
            "title": "319. Power to enter upon possession houses so repaired.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 317
        },
        {
            "number": "320",
            "title": "320. Sale of materials of houses, etc., pulled down.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Appeals",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 318
        },
        {
            "number": "321",
            "title": "321. Appeals from orders of Board.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) by the refusal of the Board under Section 174 to sanction, the erection, re-erection or material alteration of any buildii1g, or\n(b) by a notice from the Board under Section 155 requiring a road to be drained, levelled, paved, flagged, metalled or provided with proper means of lighting, or under Section, 177 requiring the alteration or demolition of a building, or\n(c) by any order made by the Board under bye-law made under Section 302, clause (vi), or\n(d) by any order made by the Board under the powers conferred upon it by Section 181 or 255,",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 319
        },
        {
            "number": "322",
            "title": "322. Appeals from orders refusing licenses.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Prosecutions",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 320
        },
        {
            "number": "323",
            "title": "323. Board may direct prosecution for public nuisance, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
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            "number": "324",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "325",
            "title": "325. Police Officer to report offences and arrest persons refusing to give name and residence.",
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            "content": "Suits",
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            "number": "326",
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            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "327",
            "title": "327. Liability to pay expenses of fees may be contested in Civil Court.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "328",
            "title": "328. Dispute as to compensation payable by Board.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter XI\nMiscellaneous Provisions",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 326
        },
        {
            "number": "329",
            "title": "329. Delegation of certain powers and functions of Chief Commissioner.",
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            "content": "",
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            "number": "330",
            "title": "330. Survey of municipalities.",
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        {
            "number": "331",
            "title": "331. Holder of license to produce it when required.",
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        {
            "number": "332",
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        {
            "number": "333",
            "title": "333. Penalty on officers, etc asking unauthorized fees.",
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            "content": "Small Towns",
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        },
        {
            "number": "334",
            "title": "334. Constitution of notified areas.",
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        {
            "number": "335",
            "title": "335. Constitution of town committee.",
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        {
            "number": "336",
            "title": "336. Power of Chief Commissioner to impose taxation and regulate expenditure of proceeds thereof and to extend provision of the Act to notified areas.",
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            "content": "(a) impose in any notified area any tax which could have been imposed therein if such area were a municipality;\n(b) apply or adopt to the notified area for the assessment and recovery of any tax imposed under clause (a) any of the provisions of this Act, or of any rules for the time being in force, with respect to the assessment and recovery of any tax imposed under this Act;\n(c) arrange for due expenditure of the proceeds of taxes imposed under clause (a) and of any other funds which may come to the hands of the town committee for the purposes of the notified area and for the preparation and maintenance of proper accounts; and in addition to or in lieu of, the exercise of any of the foregoing powers; and\n(d) extend to any notified area the provisions of any section of this Act subject to such restriction and modification, if any, as the Chief Commissioner may think fit.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "337",
            "title": "337. Applications of funds of areas ceasing to be notified.",
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            "content": "Schedules\nThe First Schedule\nThe First Schedule\n[***]\nThe Second Schedule\nThe Second Schedule\n( See Section 306)\nBusiness And Procedure At First Meetings\nBusiness And Procedure At First Meetings\n(1) The first meetings of a Municipal Board after a general election shall be held on such date as the Deputy Commissioner or Sub-divisional Officer, as the case may be, may fix.\n(a)whenever he considers necessary, he may vary the original or any subsequent date so fixed; and\n(b) the date fixed for the meeting shall be notified in the Gazette as least 15 clear days before the meeting.\n(2) The Deputy Commissioner or Sub-divisional Officer, as the case may be, shall cause copies of the notification fixing the date of the first meeting as required by rule (1) to be sent to the members at least seven days before the meeting is held.\n(3) The Magistrate may appoint a member of the Board to preside at the meeting and may whenever he considers necessary vary the original or any subsequent order of appointment, provided always that the person appointed is not a candidate for the office of the Chairman.\n(4) The President shall first make the oath (or affirmation) prescribed by Section 25 himself and then administer the oath (or affirmation) to the other members present whether there is a quorum or not.\n(5) (i) The meeting shall thereupon proceed to elect, or request the Chief Commissioner to appoint a Chairman:\n(ii) If the quorum required by Section 46 (v) is not present or if the first meeting for any reason proves infructuous, the meeting shall stand adjourned to some future date to be appointed by the Magistrate, who shall cause at least three days' notice of the adjourned meeting to be given to the members; the members present at the adjourned meeting shall form a quorum whatever their number may be and shall be competent to proceed to elect a Chairman.\n(6) At any time before noon of the day preceding the date fixed for the meeting under rule (1) any member may nominate any other member, not being and officer of Government appointed under sub-section (2) of Section 11 of the Act, for election as Chairman, by delivering to the Magistrate any other Officer appointed by the Magistrate in this behalf a nomination paper signed by himself as proposer and by the third member as second and stating-\n(a) the name of the member nominated, and\n(b) that the proposer has ascertained that such person is willing to serve as Chairman if elected.\n(7) If and when the meeting proceeds to select a Chairman the President shall read out to the Board the name of the members who have been duly nominated together with those of their proposers and seconders and if only one member has been so nominated, shall declare that member to be elected; if more than one member has been so nominated, the meeting shall proceed to elect a Chairman by ballot.\n(8) Where more two candidates have been nominated and at the first ballot no candidate obtains more votes than the aggregate vote obtained by the other candidate the candidate who has obtained the smallest number of votes shall be excluded from the election and balloting shall proceed, the candidate obtaining the smallest number of votes at each ballot being excluded from the election until one candidate obtains more votes than the remaining candidate or than the aggregate votes of the remaining candidates as the case may be.\n(9) Where at any ballot any of three or more candidates obtain an equal number of votes and one of them has to be excluded from the election under rule (8) the determination as between the candidates whose votes are equal of the candidate who is to be excluded shall be the drawing of lots.\n(10) In these rules \"Magistrate\" means-\n(a) in the case of a municipality in a subdivision, the Sub-divisional Magistrate; and\n(b)in other cases, the District Magistrate.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "Last Updated 12th February, 2020 [ass330]",
        "Act Number": "(Assam Act No. 15 of 1957)",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1956",
        "Short Title": "Assam Municipal Act, 1956",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Assam"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:18"
}