What does Section 3 of The Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957 say?

(b) the following persons shall be represented in the Corporation, namely: (i) ten persons, who are not less than 25 years of age and who have special knowledge or experience in municipal administration, to be nominated by the Administrator: (ii) members of the House of the People representing constituencies which comprise wholly or partly the area of the [a Corporation] and the members of the Council of States registered as electors within the area of the Corporation; (iii) as nearly as possi
What does Section 3 of The Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957 say?

(b) the following persons shall be represented in the Corporation, namely: (i) ten persons, who are not less than 25 years of age and who have special knowledge or experience in municipal administration, to be nominated by the Administrator: (ii) members of the House of the People representing constituencies which comprise wholly or partly the area of the [a Corporation] and the members of the Council of States registered as electors within the area of the Corporation; (iii) as nearly as possi
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The Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957

Q: What does Section 2 of The Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957 say?

(a) cholera, plague, chicken-pox, small-pox, tuberculosis, leprosy, enteric fever, cerebrospinal meningitis and diphtheria; and (b) any other epidemic, endemic or infectious disease which the Commissioner may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be a dangerous disease for the purposes of this Act; (a) any person who for the time being is paying or is liable to pay to the owner the rent or any portion of the rent of the land or building in respect of which such rent is paid or is
Q: What does Section 6 of The Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957 say?

[7. Elections to] [a Corporation.] [7A. Electoral roll for every ward. [7B. Electoral registration officers. (a) unless otherwise directed by the Election Commission for reasons to be recorded in writing, be revised in the manner prescribed by rules by reference to the qualifying date before each bye-election to fill a casual vacancy in a seat allotted to the ward; and (b) be revised in any year in the manner prescribed by rules by reference to the qualifying date if such revision has been direc
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79. Maintenance of order at and admission of public to, meetings; withdrawal and suspension of councillors and [persons referred to in clause (b) of sub-section (b) of sub-section (3) of section 3.]

Section 3
80. Councillors or [plerson referred to in sub-clauses (ii), (iii), and (iv) of clause(b) of sub-section (3) of section 3] not to vote on matter in which they are interested.

Section 3
81. Right to attend meetings of the [a Corporation] and its committees, etc, and right of councillors to ask questions in relation to the municipal government of Delhi.

Section 81
91. Restriction on employment of permanent officers and other employees. - No permanent officer or other employee shall be entertained in any department of the municipal administration unless he has been appointed under sub-section (1) of section 89 or his office and emoluments are included in one of the schedules for the time being in force prepared and sanctioned under section 40.

Section 89
97. Power of Commission to make regulations and reference to the Central Government in case of difference between the Commission and the Corporation.

Section 97
309. Acquisition of the remaining part of a building and land after their portions within a regular line of street have been acquired.

Section 309
Section 218
513. Expenditure in connection with the municipal affairs from the commencement of this Act to the adoption of the budget by [a Corporation.]

Section 513
3. Each vehicle drawn or impelled otherwise than by camels, horses, ponies, mules, donkeys, bullocks, buffaloes or machinery

Section 3
1. Refined sugar, i.e., khand, sugarcandy, bura, qand, kachchi khand, ilaichidana, nuqal, batasha, ola, khand-ka-khilona, gindora khand and all kinds of sharbat or shira khand not in bottle

Section 1
2. Unrefined sugar, i.e. gur, shakkar, shira, rab, mizan khand, muthia, sonthia, gindora and tiloncha-khand (a sort of unrefined sugar)

Section 2
3. Ghee including vegetable ghee, and admixtures of ghee also vegetables solidified oil, dripping, marvo, trex, cocogold, purico, crisco and cocogem

Section 3
7. Provisions (not included in any other class) including oilman's stores, confectionery, jams, pickles, cheese, coffee and essences of fruits.

Section 7
8. Country sweets made wholly or partly from or coated with sugar (refined or unrefined) fresh meat, fish and eggs.

Section 8
9. Oranges, apples, locat, peaches (aru), grapes, lichi, melon (kharbooza), lemon (of all kinds), pears (nashpati), plums (alucha), appricot (Khubani), banana, pomegranates (annar), sarda, water-melon (tarbuz), custard apple (sharifa) and rasberry

Section 9
7. Chandeliers, globes, lamps, chimneys and all other articles made of glass intended for electric or gas lighting etc. (except electric bulbs)

Section 7
8. Chandeliers, globes, lamps, lanterns, electric poles, electric bulbs and all other articles made of metal intended for electric or gas lighting etc.

Section 8
1. Wood (unmanufactured) i.e., wood which can be used for building purposes including trunk of trees, bamboos and ballies, but not fire-wood

Section 1
2. Wood (manufactured) i.e., all manufactured wood which can be used for building purposes, including karies, planks, sleepers, beams, doors and door frames, etc.

Section 2
3. Stone for building (except Agra stone as defined in item 4 below marble and lime stones), bajri, kankar, lime of kankar, coal ashes,reh, surkhi, rori, brick-bats or broken bricks

Section 3
1. All foreign medicines including mineral waters, syrups and medicinal tinctures, soda bicarb and caustic soda (imported in packages of boxes), sulphur in bottles and packets, iron sulphate, barium sulphate, haemorrhagic septicaemia serum dextrosol castor oil in bottles, potash permanganate, glucose, oxygen gas, camphor oil, sugar of milk medicated coloured and fragrant syrup

Section 1
2. All Indian medicines including gulqund sharbat in bottle, araq, majum, cowries, etc., soda bicarb and caustic soda (imported in bags or drums), Amritanjan, ivory dust, Sudha Sindhu and Bal Sudha, Kansol and Zandu Drakshasava

Section 2
1. Piecegoods made of cotton, wool or any admixture of these and articles made thereof including thread and yarn, dhoties, saries, dopattas, pagrees safas, chadars, towels, bed-spreads sheets, blankets, tents, carpets, durries, pillows, razais, laces, edgings, ribbons, hand-kerchief in bales (i.e., not cut up), old clothes imported in bulk, and all such goods as are not made up ready for wearing

Section 1
2. Piecegoods, made of silk and artificial silk or any admixture of these and articles made thereof including shawls, doshalas, laces, edgings and ribbons

Section 2
9. Leather, including harness, saddles, bags, boxes, desi shoes, chappal and all other articles made of leather excluding boots, shoes, slippers and sandals

Section 9
10. Apparel, boots and shoes including slippers and sandals (other than desi shoes and chappal) drapery, millinery, caps and hats, ready-made clothes, barret caps and hat shapes etc.

Section 10
11. Hosiery including knitted woollen caps

Section 11
12. Lametta including kinari, gota, gold and silver lace, wire and thread real or imitation

Section 12
1. Metals (iron and steel-wrought and unwrought) including bars, sheets girders iron, stanchions, top columns, girders fitted with rivets, metallic-ores and scrap iron

Section 1
2. Tin scrap

Section 2
3. Metals (hardware and cutlery) i.e. knives, razors, scissors, needles, tin plates, rivets, nails screws, bolts, nuts, enamelled ware (other than sanitary fittings), wire, wire nettings, hinges, locks, pipes, post and pans, weights, empty tins, iron and tin boxes and iron furniture, etc.

Section 3
4. Metals (all other kinds-manufactured and unmanufactured) including bicycles, perambulators, carriages, sewing machines, harmoniums, type-writers, ice-machine, soda-water machines, clocks and watches, spectacles-their cases and frames, umbrella frames and handles, brass, copper, german silver, aluminium bronze, zinc and articles made thereof, channels of all kinds and for whatever purpose imported, sanitary fittings, iron washers, bicycle saddles, radio good

Section 4
1. Dyes and tans including green coloured sand (for mixing with mehndi), boot polishes, indigo, safflower (kusum) and all kinds of colouring matter

Section 1
2. Stationery including paper, paste boards and all articles made thereof including waste papers, cards, cardboards, forms, envelopes, calendars, ink, pens, pencils, inkpots, inkstands, takhtis, pincushions, nibs, holders, pins, pads, drawing instruments, paper weights, rulers, measuring tapes, slates manu- factured or unmanufactured, strawboard, geltine paper, account books, ledger and cash books

Section 2
7. Wood (manufactured) such as walking sticks, empty barrels, country carts, umbrella sticks of cane or bamboo (manufactured or unmanufactured), wooden payas and pattis

Section 7
11. Glass and articles made thereof (except glass, tiles, empty glass phials having lids, glass beads and other imitations jewels)

Section 11
12. Articles made of china stone, earth-.(glazed or unglazed) including drain pipes and drain fitting, but excluding sanitary fittings, earthen tiles and toys made of china clay or earth

Section 12
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            "content": "(a) cholera, plague, chicken-pox, small-pox, tuberculosis, leprosy, enteric fever, cerebrospinal meningitis and diphtheria; and\n(b) any other epidemic, endemic or infectious disease which the Commissioner may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be a dangerous disease for the purposes of this Act;\n(a) any person who for the time being is paying or is liable to pay to the owner the rent or any portion of the rent of the land or building in respect of which such rent is paid or is payable;\n(b) an owner in occupation of, or otherwise using his land or building;\n(c) a rent-free tenant of any land or building;\n(d) a licensee in occupation of any land or building; and\n(e) any person who is liable to pay to the owner damages for the use and occupation of any land or building;\n(a) the custodian of evacuee property in respect of evacuee property vested in him under the Administration of Evacuee Property Act, 1950 (31 of 1950); and\n(b) the estate officer to the Government of India, the Secretary of the Delhi Development Authority, constituted under the Delhi Development Act, 1957 (61 of 1957), the General Manager of a railway and the head of a Government department, in respect of properties under their respective control;\n(a) the garden, ground and out-houses, if any, appertaining to a building or part of a building; and\n(b) any fittings affixed to a building or part of a building for the more beneficial enjoyment thereof;\n(a) a person shall be deemed to \"reside\" in any dwelling house which or some portion of which he sometimes, although not uninterruptedly, uses as a sleeping apartment, and\n(b) a person shall not be deemed to cease to \"reside\" in any such dwelling house merely because he is absent from it or has elsewhere another dwelling house in which he resides, if there is the liberty of returning to it at any time and no abandonment of the intention of returning to it;\nChapter II\nThe Corporation",
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            "content": "(b) the following persons shall be represented in the Corporation, namely:\n(i) ten persons, who are not less than 25 years of age and who have special knowledge or experience in municipal administration, to be nominated by the Administrator:\n(ii) members of the House of the People representing constituencies which comprise wholly or partly the area of the [a Corporation] and the members of the Council of States registered as electors within the area of the Corporation;\n(iii) as nearly as possible one-fifth of the members of the Legislative Assembly of the National Capital Territory of Delhi representing constituencies which comprise wholly or partly the area of the [a Corporation] to be nominated by the Speaker of that Legislative Assembly, by rotation, every year:\n(iv) the Chairpersons of the Committees, if any, constituted under sections 39, 40 and 45, if they are not councillors.\n[3A. Division of the area of a Corporation into zones and wards.\n[4. Duration of] [a Corporation.]\n(i) before the expiry of its duration specified in sub-section (1);\n(ii) before the expiration of a period of six months from the date of its dissolution:\nElection of Councillors\n[5. Delimitation of wards.]\n(a) the number of wards;\n(b) the extent of each ward; [***]\n(c) the wards in which seats shall be reserved for the Scheduled Castes;\n[(d) the wards in which seats shall be reserved for women; and\n(e) the manner in which seats shall be rotated under sub-sections (6) and (8) of section 3.]",
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            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Power to alter or amend delimitation orders.",
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            "content": "[7. Elections to] [a Corporation.]\n[7A. Electoral roll for every ward.\n[7B. Electoral registration officers.\n(a) unless otherwise directed by the Election Commission for reasons to be recorded in writing, be revised in the manner prescribed by rules by reference to the qualifying date before each bye-election to fill a casual vacancy in a seat allotted to the ward; and\n(b) be revised in any year in the manner prescribed by rules by reference to the qualifying date if such revision has been directed by the [Election Commission:]\n[7F. Correction of entries in electoral roll.\n(a) is erroneous or defective in any particular; or\n(b) should be transposed to another place in the roll on the ground that the person concerned has changed his place of ordinary residence within such ward; or\n(c) should be deleted on the ground that the person concerned is dead or has ceased to be ordinarily resident within such ward or is otherwise not entitled to be registered in that roll, the electoral registration officer shall, subject to such general or special the directions, if any, as may be given by the [Election Commission] in this behalf, amend, transpose or delete the entry:\n[7G. Inclusion of names in electoral roll.\n[7H. Appeal.\n[7I. Jurisdiction of civil courts barred.\n(a) to entertain or adjudicate upon any question whether any person is or is not entitled to be registered in an electoral roll for a ward; or\n(b) to question the legality of any action taken by or under the authority of an electoral registration officer or of any decision given by the [Election Commission.]",
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            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Qualifications for councillorship.",
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            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Disqualifications for membership of Corporation.",
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            "content": "(a) if he is of unsound mind and stands so declared by a competent court;\n(b) if he is an undischarged insolvent;\n(c) if he is not a citizen of India, or has voluntarily acquired the citizenship of a foreign State, or is under any acknowledgement of allegiance or adherence to a foreign State;\n[(d) if he is so disqualified by or under any law for the time being in force for the purposes of elections to the Legislative Assembly of the National Capital Territory of Delhi;\n(e) if he is so disqualified by or under any law made by the Legislative Assembly of the National Capital Territory of Delhi;]\n(f) if he holds any office of profit under the [Corporation];\n(g) if he holds any office of profit under the Government [or Central Government;]\n(h) if he is a licensed architect, draughtsman, engineer, plumber, surveyor or town planner or is a partner of a firm of which any such licensed person is also a partner;\n(i) if he is interested in any subsisting contract made with, or any work being done for, [a Corporation] except as a shareholder (other than a director) in an incorporated company or as a member of a co-operative society;\n(j) if he is retained or employed in any professional capacity either personally or in the name of a firm of which he is a partner or with which he is engaged in a professional capacity, in connection with any cause or proceeding in which the [a Corporation] or any of the municipal authorities is interested or concerned;\n(k) if he, having held any office under the Government, the [a Corporation] or any other authority, has been dismissed for corruption or disloyalty to the State unless a period of four years has elapsed since his dismissal or the disqualification has been removed by the [Election Commission;]\n(l) if he fails to pay any arrears of any kind due by him, otherwise than as an agent, receiver, trustee or an executor, to the [a Corporation] within three months after a notice in this behalf has been served upon him.\n(b) a person shall not be deemed to have incurred any disqualification under clause (f) or clause (g) of that sub-section by reason only of his receiving\n(i) any pension; or\n(ii) any allowance or facility for serving as the Mayor or Deputy Mayor or as a councillor [***] ; or\n[(iii) any fee for attendance at meetings of any committee of the Corporation;]\n(c) a person shall not be deemed to have any interest in a contract or works such as is referred to in clause (i) of that sub-section by reason only of his having a share or interest in\n(i) any lease, sale, exchange or purchase of immovable property or any agreement for the same; 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 [a Corporation] is inserted; or\n(iv) the sale to the [a Corporation] or to any municipal authority or any officer or other employee of the [a Corporation] on behalf of the [a Corporation] , of any article in which he regularly trades or the purchase from the [a Corporation] or from any such authority, officer or other employee on behalf of the [a Corporation ] , of any article of a value in either case not exceeding five thousand rupees in the aggregate in any year during the period of the contract or work; or\n(v) the letting out on hire to the [a Corporation] or the hiring from the [a Corporation] of any article of a value not exceeding two thousand rupees in the aggregate in any year during the period of the contract or work; or\n[(vi) any agreement or contract with the [a Corporation] or any municipal authority for any goods or services which the [a Corporation] may generally supply.]",
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            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Right to vote.",
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            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. General elections of councillors.",
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            "number": "12",
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            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Election of aldermen.",
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            "content": "[14. Publication of result of election.\nDisputes regarding elections",
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            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Election petitions.",
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            "content": "(a) shall contain a concise statement of the material facts on which the petitioner relies;\n(b) shall, with sufficient particulars, set forth the ground or grounds on which the election is called in question; and\n(c) shall be signed by the petitioner and verified in the manner laid down in the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908), for the verification of pleadings.",
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            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Relief that may be claimed by the petitioner.",
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            "content": "(a) a declaration that the election of all or any of the returned candidates is void, and\n(b) in addition thereto, a further declaration that he himself or any other candidate has been duly elected.",
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            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Grounds for declaring elections to be void.",
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            "content": "(a) that on the date of his election a returned candidate was not qualified or was disqualified, to be chosen as a councillor [***] under this Act, or (b) that any corrupt practice has been committed by a returned candidate or his agent or by any other person with the consent of a returned candidate or his agent, or\n(c) that any nomination paper has been improperly rejected, or\n(d) that the result of the election, in so far as it concerns a returned candidate, has been materially affected\n(i) by the improper acceptance of any nomination, or\n(ii) by any corrupt practice committed in the interests of the returned candidate by a person other than that candidate or his agent or a person acting with the consent of such candidate or agent, or\n(iii) by the improper acceptance or refusal of any vote or reception of any vote which is void, or\n(iv) by the non-compliance with the provisions of this Act or of any rules or orders made thereunder, the court shall declare the election of the return candidate to be void.\n(a) that no such corrupt practice was committed at the election by the candidate, and every such corrupt practice was committed contrary to the orders, and without the consent of the candidate;\n(b) that the candidate took all reasonable means for preventing the commission of corrupt practices at the election; and\n(c) that in all other respects the election was free from any corrupt practice on the part of the candidate or any of his agents, then, the court may decide that the election of the returned candidate is not void",
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            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Procedure to be followed by the district judge.",
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            "footnote": "",
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        },
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            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Decision of the district judge.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) dismissing the election petition; or\n(b) declaring the election of all or any of the returned candidates to be void; or\n(c) declaring the election of all or any of the returned candidates to be void and the petitioner and any other candidate to have been duly elected.\n(a) that in fact the petitioner or such other candidate received a majority of the valid votes, or\n(b) that but for the votes obtained by the returned candidate the petitioner or such other candidate would have obtained a majority of the valid votes, the court shall, after declaring the election of the returned candidate to be void, declare the petitioner or such other candidate, as the case may be, to have been duly elected.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Procedure in case of equality of votes.",
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            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Finality of decisions.",
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            "content": "Corrupt practices and electoral offences",
            "footnote": "",
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        {
            "number": "22",
            "title": "22. Corrupt practices.",
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            "content": "",
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        },
        {
            "number": "23",
            "title": "23. Maintenance of secrecy of voting.",
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            "number": "24",
            "title": "24. Officers, etc, at elections not to act for candidates or to influence voting.",
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            "content": "(a) to persuade any person to give his vote at an election; or\n(b) to dissuade any person from giving his vote at an election; or\n(c) to influence the voting of any person at an election in any manner.",
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            "number": "25",
            "title": "25. Prohibition of canvassing in or near polling station and of public meeting on election day.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) canvassing for votes; or\n(b) soliciting the vote of any elector; or\n(c) persuading any elector not to vote for any particular candidate; or\n(d) persuading any elector not to vote at the election; or\n(e) exhibiting any notice or sign (other than official notice) relating to the election.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 20
        },
        {
            "number": "26",
            "title": "26. Penalty for disorderly conduct in or near polling station.",
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            "content": "(a) use or operate within or at the entrance of the polling station or in any public or private place in the neighbourhood thereof any apparatus for amplifying or reproducing the human voice, such as a megaphone or a loud-speaker; or\n(b) shout or otherwise act in a disorderly manner, within or at the entrance of the polling station or in any public or private place in the neighbourhood thereof, so as to cause annoyance to any person visiting the polling station for the poll, or so as to interfere with the work of the officer and other persons on duty at the polling station.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "27",
            "title": "27. Penalty for misconduct at the polling station.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "28",
            "title": "28. Breaches of official duty in connection with election.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 23
        },
        {
            "number": "29",
            "title": "29. Removal of ballot papers [or ballot boxes or the voting machines] from polling station to be an offence.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[29A. Prohibition of going armed to or near a polling station.\n[29B. Offence of booth capturing.\n(a) seizure of a polling station or a place fixed for the poll by any person or persons making polling authorities surrender the ballot papers, used ballot box or boxes or voting machines, use and doing of any other act which affects the orderly conduct of elections;\n(b) taking possession of a polling station or a place fixed for the poll by any person or persons and allowing only his or their own supporters to exercise their right to vote and prevent others from free exercise of their right to vote;\n(c) coercing or intimidating or threatening directly or indirectly any elector and preventing him from going to the polling station or a place fixed for the poll to cast his vote;\n(d) seizure of place for counting of votes by any person or persons making the counting authorities surrender the ballot papers or voting machines and the doing of anything which affects the orderly counting of votes;\n(e) doing by any person in the service of Government of all or any of the aforesaid activities or aiding or conniving at, any such activity in the furtherance of the prospects of the election of a candidate.]\n[29C. Liquor not to be sold, given or distributed on polling day.",
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        },
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            "number": "30",
            "title": "30. Other offences and penalties therefor.",
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            "content": "(a) fraudulently defaces or destroys any nomination paper; or\n(b) fraudulently defaces, destroys or removes any list, notice or other document affixed by or under the authority of the returning officer; or\n(c) fraudulently defaces or destroys any ballot paper or the official mark on any ballot paper; or\n(d) without due authority supplies any ballot paper to any person or receives any ballot paper from any person or is in possession of any ballot paper; or\n(e) fraudulently puts into any ballot box anything other than the ballot paper which he is authorised by law to put in; or\n(f) without due authority destroys, takes, opens or otherwise interferes with any ballot box or ballot paper then in use for the purposes of the election; or\n(g) fraudulently or without due authority, as the case may be, attempts to do any of the foregoing acts or wilfully aids or abets the doing of any such acts.\n(a) if he is a returning officer or an assistant returning officer or a presiding officer or a polling officer or any other officer or clerk employed on official duty in connection with the election, be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years or with fine, or with both;\n(b) if he is any other person, be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine, or with both.\nPower to make rules 31. Power to make rules regulating the election of councillors [***]. - (1) The Central Government may make rules to provide for or regulate all or any of the following matters [for the purpose of preparation, revision and maintenance of electoral rolls of wards and holding elections] of councillors [***] under this Act, namely:",
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            "content": "(a) becomes subject to any of the disqualifications mentioned in [section 9 or sub-section (2) of section 32A or,]\n(b) resigns his seat by writing under his hand addressed to the Mayor and delivered to the Commissioner, his seat shall thereupon become vacant.\n[33A. Powers of Elections Commission.]\n[33B. Statements made by persons to the Election Commission.\n(a) is made in reply to a question which he is required by the Commission to answer; or\n(b) is relevant to the subject-matter of the inquiry.]\n[33C. Procedure to be followed by the Election Commission.\n[33D. Protection of action taken in good faith.",
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            "title": "34. Payment of allowances to [councillors and the persons referred to in clause (b) of sub-section 3 of section 3.]",
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            "number": "37",
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            "number": "38",
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            "number": "39",
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            "content": "(a) to make recommendations to the [a Corporation] \n(i) in relation to the functions of the [a Corporation] which may be discharged within the rural areas and questions of policy and schemes relating to the development of such areas;\n(ii) in relation to taxes which the [a Corporation] proposes to levy in the rural areas; and\n(iii) generally in relation to the expenditure that may be incurred by the [ a Corporation] for the municipal government in those areas;\n(b) to review the progress of work of the [a Corporation] in the rural areas;\n(c) to bring to the notice of the appropriate municipal authorities deficiencies in the rural areas and make proposals to those authorities for the removal of such deficiencies;\n(d) to discharge such other functions in relation to the rural areas as may be assigned to it by resolution made by the [a Corporation] or by regulations made under this Act.",
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            "number": "40",
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            "number": "41",
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            "number": "42",
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            "number": "43",
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            "content": "(a) the furtherance of education including cultural and physical education, by measures other than the establishment and maintenance of, and aid to, schools for primary education;\n(b) the establishment and maintenance of, and aid to, libraries, museums, art galleries, botanical or zoological collections;\n(c) the establishment and maintenance of, and aid to, stadia, gymnasia, akharas and places for sports and games;\n(d) the planting and care of trees on roadsides and elsewhere;\n(e) the surveys of buildings and lands;\n(f) the registration of marriages;\n(g) the taking of a census of population;\n(h) the civic reception to persons of distinction;\n(i) the providing of music or other entertainments in public places or places of public resort and the establishment of theatres and cinemas;\n(j) the organisation and management of fairs and exhibitions;\n(k) the acquisition of movable or immovable property for any of the purposes before mentioned, including payment of the cost of investigations, surveys or examinations in relation thereto for the construction or adaptation of buildings necessary for such purposes;\n(l) the construction and maintenance of\n(i) rest-houses,\n(ii) poor-houses,\n(iii) infirmaries,\n(iv) children's homes,\n(v) houses for the deaf and dumb and for disabled and handicapped children,\n(vi) shelters for destitute and disabled persons,\n(vii) asylums for persons of unsound mind;\n(m) the construction and maintenance of cattle pounds;\n(n) the building or purchase and maintenance of dwelling houses for municipal officers and other municipal employees;\n(o) any measures for the welfare of the municipal officers and other municipal employees or any class of them including the sanctioning of loans to such officers and employees or any class of them for construction of houses and purchase of vehicles;\n(p) the organisation or management of chemical or bacteriological laboratories for the examination or analysis of water, food and drugs for the detection of diseases or research connected with the public health or medical relief;\n(q) the provision for relief to destitute and disabled persons;\n(r) the establishment and maintenance of veterinary hospitals;\n(s) the organisation, construction, maintenance and management of swimming pools public wash houses, bathing places and other institutions designed for the improvement of public health;\n(t) the organisation and management of farms and dairies within or without Delhi for the supply, distribution and processing of milk products for the benefit of the residents of [the area of the Corporation] ;\n(u) the organisation and management of cottage industries, handicraft centres, and sales emporia;\n(v) the construction and maintenance of warehouses and godowns;\n(w) the construction and maintenance of garages, sheds and stands for vehicles and cattle biers;\n(x) the provision for unfiltered water supply;\n(y) the improvement of [the area of the corporation] in accordance with improvement schemes approved by the [a Corporation] ;\n(z) the provision of housing accommodation for the inhabitants of any area or for any class of inhabitants; and\n(za) any measure not hereinbefore specifically mentioned, likely to promote public safety, health, convenience or general welfare.\nChapter IV\nMunicipal Authorities under [Each Corporation]\nMunicipal authorities\n[44. Enumeration of municipal authorities.]\n(a) the Standing Committee;\n(b) the Wards Committee; and\n(c) the Commissioner.]",
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            "number": "45",
            "title": "45. Constitution of the Standing Committee.",
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            "content": "(i) six members elected by the councillors from among themselves at the first meeting of the [a Corporation]\n(ii) one member each elected by the members of each Wards Committee from among themselves at the first meeting of the Wards Committee; after each general election or as soon as possible at any other meeting subsequent thereto.]",
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            "number": "46",
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            "number": "47",
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            "number": "48",
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            "number": "49",
            "title": "49. Functions of the Standing Committee.",
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            "content": "The Wards Committees\n[50. Constitution of the Wards Committee.\n(a) all the councillors elected from the wards comprised in that Zone; and\n(b) the person, if any, nominated by the Administrator under sub-clause (i) of clause (b) of sub-section (3) of section 3 if his name is registered as an elector within the territorial limits of the Zone concerned.\n[51. Application of sections 47 and 48.\n[52. Powers and functions of the Wards Committee.\n53.\nThe Commissioner",
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            "number": "54",
            "title": "54. Appointment, etc., of the Commissioner.",
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            "content": "(a) shall remove the Commissioner from office if at a special meeting of the [a Corporation] called for the purpose a resolution for such removal has been passed by a majority of not less than three fifths of the total number of members;\n(b) may remove the Commissioner from office at any time if it appears to that Government that he is incapable of performing the duties of his office or has been guilty of neglect or misconduct in the discharge of such duties which renders his removal expedient.",
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            "number": "55",
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            "number": "56",
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            "number": "57",
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            "number": "58",
            "title": "58. Service regulations of Commissioner.",
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            "content": "(a) the amount of any such leave and leave allowances, gratuity or pension shall in no case, without the special sanction of the Central Government, exceed what would be admissible in the case of Government servants of similar standing and status; and\n(b) the conditions under which such allowances, gratuity or pension are granted or any leave, superannuation or retirement is sanctioned shall not without similar sanction be more favourable than those for the time being prescribed for such Government servants.",
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            "number": "59",
            "title": "59. Functions of the Commissioner.",
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            "content": "(a) exercise all the powers and perform all the duties specifically conferred or imposed upon him by this Act or by any other law for the time being in force;\n(b) prescribe the duties of, and exercise supervision and control over the acts and proceedings of, all municipal officers and other municipal employees other than the Municipal Secretary and the Municipal Chief Auditor and the municipal officers and other municipal employees immediately subordinate to them and subject to any regulation that may be made in this behalf, dispose of all questions relating to the service of the said officers and other employees and their pay, privileges, allowances and other conditions of service;\n(c) on the occurrence or threatened occurrence of any sudden accident or any unforeseen event or natural calamity involving or likely to involve extensive damage to any property of the [a Corporation] , or danger to human life, take such immediate action as he considers necessary and make a report forthwith to the Standing Committee and the [a Corporation] of the action he has taken and the reasons for the same as also of the amount of cost, if any, incurred or likely to be incurred in consequence of such action, which is not covered by a budget-grant;\n[(d) Subject to any regulation that may be made in this behalf, be the disciplinary authority in relation to all municipal officers and other municipal employees.]",
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            "number": "60",
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            "number": "61",
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            "number": "62",
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            "number": "63",
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            "number": "64",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "65",
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            "number": "66",
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            "number": "67",
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            "number": "68",
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            "number": "69",
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            "number": "70",
            "title": "70. Power of Corporation to require the Commissioner, etc, to produce documents and furnish returns, reports, etc.",
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            "content": "(a) to produce any record, correspondence, plan or other document which is in his possession or under his control as Commissioner or which is recorded or filed in his office or in the office of any municipal officer or other municipal employee subordinate to him;\n(b) to furnish any return, plan, estimate, statement, account or statistics concerning or connected with any matter pertaining to the administration of this Act or the municipal government of [the area of the Corporation] [***] [***] ;",
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            "number": "71",
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            "content": "(a) that such expenditure, in so far as it is to be incurred in the year in which such power is exercised or duty performed, shall be provided for under a current budget-grant; and\n(b) that if the exercise of such power or the performance of such duty involves or likely to involve expenditure for any period or at any time after the close of the said year, such expenditure shall not be incurred without the sanction\n(i) of the Standing Committee [***] , [***] if it is incurred in the year next following such year, or\n(ii) of the [a Corporation] , if it is incurred at any time after the next following year.\nChapter V\nProcedure\nTransaction of business by the [a Corporation]",
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            "number": "72",
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            "number": "73",
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            "number": "74",
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            "number": "75",
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            "number": "76",
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            "number": "77",
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            "content": "(a) at a meeting for the election of a Mayor the Administrator shall nominate a councillor [***] who is not a candidate for such election to preside over the meeting;\n(b) if during the election of Mayor it appears that there is an equality of votes between any candidates at such election and that the addition of a vote would entitle any of those candidates to be elected as Mayor, then, the person presiding over the meeting shall decide between them by lot to be drawn in the presence of the candidates and in such manner as he may determine, and the candidate on whom the lot falls shall be deemed to have received an additional vote.",
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            "number": "78",
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            "number": "3",
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            "number": "3",
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            "number": "81",
            "title": "81. Right to attend meetings of the [a Corporation] and its committees, etc, and right of councillors to ask questions in relation to the municipal government of Delhi.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) not less than seven clear days' notice in writing specifying the question shall be given to the Municipal Secretary;\n(b) no question shall\n(i) bring in any name or statement not strictly necessary to make the question intelligible,\n(ii) contain arguments, ironical expressions, imputations, epithets or defamatory statements,\n(iii) ask for an expression of opinion or the solution of a hypothetical proposition,\n(iv) ask as to the character or conduct of any person except in his official or public capacity,\n(v) relate to a matter which is primarily the concern of the [a Corporation] or of any of the municipal authorities,\n(vi) make or imply a charge of a personal character,\n(vii) raise questions of policy too large to be dealt with within the limits of an answer to a question,\n(viii) repeat in substance questions already answered or to which an answer has been refused,\n(ix) ask for information on trivial matters,\n(x) ordinarily ask for information on matters of past history,\n(xi) ask for information set forth in accessible documents or in ordinary works of reference,\n(xii) raise matters under the control of bodies or persons not primarily responsible to the [a Corporation] ,\n(xiii) ask for any information on matter which is under adjudication by a court of law.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 70
        },
        {
            "number": "82",
            "title": "82. Power to make regulations.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Transaction of business by Standing and other committees",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 71
        },
        {
            "number": "83",
            "title": "83. Presiding officers at meetings of the Standing and other committees.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 72
        },
        {
            "number": "84",
            "title": "84. Conduct of business at meetings of Standing and other committees.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Minutes and reports of proceedings",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 73
        },
        {
            "number": "85",
            "title": "85. Keeping of minutes and proceedings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 74
        },
        {
            "number": "86",
            "title": "86. Circulation of minutes and inspection of minutes and reports of proceedings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 75
        },
        {
            "number": "87",
            "title": "87. Forwarding minutes and reports of proceedings, to the Administrator.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Validation",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 76
        },
        {
            "number": "88",
            "title": "88. Validation of proceedings, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the seat of any councillor [***] remaining unfilled from any cause whatsoever;\n(b) the existence of any vacancy in, or any defect in the constitution of, the [a Corporation] , or in any committee thereof;\n(c) any [councillor or any person referred to in sub-clauses (ii), (iii) and (iv) of clause (b) of sub-section (3) of section 3 having voted] or taken part in any proceedings in contravention of section 80;\n(d) any defect or irregularity not affecting the merits of the case.\nChapter VI\nMunicipal Officers and Other Municipal Employees",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 77
        },
        {
            "number": "89",
            "title": "89. Appointment of certain officers.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 78
        },
        {
            "number": "90",
            "title": "90. Schedule of permanent posts and creation of temporary posts.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[(i) \"category A post\" means any post, which, having regard to its scale of pay or emoluments, would, if such post had been in the Central Government, be classified as a Group A post under the Central Government in accordance with the orders issued by that Government from time to time;\n(ii) \"category B post\" means any post which, having regard to its scale of pay or emoluments, would, if such post had been in the Central Government, be classified as a Group B post under the Central Government in accordance with the orders issued by that Government from time to time;]\n(iii) \"category C post\" means any post, other than a category A or category B post.]\n[90A. Certain officers and employees of the erstwhile Corporation to become officers and employees of respective Corporations-\n(a) the officers and employees of the erstwhile Corporation at the ward and zonal level shall become officers and employees of the respective new Corporations. (b) the officers and employees of the erstwhile Corporation, other than those covered under clause (a), shall be divided amongst the new Corporations by the Director of Local Bodies in consultation with the Commissioner of the erst while Corporation]\n(a) the officers and employees of the erstwhile Corporation at the ward and zonal level shall become officers and employees of the respective new Corporations. (b) the officers and employees of the erstwhile Corporation, other than those covered under clause (a), shall be divided amongst the new Corporations by the Director of Local Bodies in consultation with the Commissioner of the erst while Corporation]\n(b) the officers and employees of the erstwhile Corporation, other than those covered under clause (a), shall be divided amongst the new Corporations by the Director of Local Bodies in consultation with the Commissioner of the erst while Corporation]\n(b) the officers and employees of the erstwhile Corporation, other than those covered under clause (a), shall be divided amongst the new Corporations by the Director of Local Bodies in consultation with the Commissioner of the erst while Corporation]",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 79
        },
        {
            "number": "89",
            "title": "91. Restriction on employment of permanent officers and other employees. - No permanent officer or other employee shall be entertained in any department of the municipal administration unless he has been appointed under sub-section (1) of section 89 or his office and emoluments are included in one of the schedules for the time being in force prepared and sanctioned under section 40.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 80
        },
        {
            "number": "91",
            "title": "91. Restriction on employment of permanent officers and other employees.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 81
        },
        {
            "number": "92",
            "title": "92. Power to make appointments.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[92A. Recruitment to category B and category C posts.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 82
        },
        {
            "number": "93",
            "title": "93. Officers and other employees not to undertake any extraneous work.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 83
        },
        {
            "number": "94",
            "title": "94. Officers and other employees not to be interested in any contract, etc, with the [a Corporation.]",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 84
        },
        {
            "number": "95",
            "title": "95. Punishment for municipal officers and other employees.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) where an officer or other employee is removed or dismissed on the ground of conduct which had led to his conviction on a criminal charge; or\n(b) where the authority empowered to remove or dismiss such officer or other employee, is satisfied that for some reason to be recorded by that authority, it is not reasonably practicable to give that person an opportunity of showing cause.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 85
        },
        {
            "number": "96",
            "title": "96. Consultation with Union Public Service Commission.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to any acting or temporary post for a period not exceeding one year; or\n(b) to such ministerial posts as may from time to time be specified by the [a Corporation] in consultation with the Commission when such posts are to be filled by promotion; or\n(c) to a post when at the time of such appointment the person to be appointed thereto is in the service of the Central Government or a State Government in a class I post; or\n(d) to a permanent or temporary post, if the officer or other employee to be appointed is not likely to hold that post for more than one year; or if such officer or other employee is likely to hold the post for more than one year but not more than three years and the Commission advises that the appointment may be made without consulting the Commission; or\n[(e) to such other posts, as may, from time to time, be specified by the Central [Government] in consultation with the Commission.]",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 86
        },
        {
            "number": "97",
            "title": "97. Power of Commission to make regulations and reference to the Central Government in case of difference between the Commission and the Corporation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the procedure to be followed by the Commission in advertising posts, inviting applications, scrutinising the same and selecting candidates for interview;\n(b) the procedure to be followed by the Commission for selecting candidates for appointment and by the [a Corporation] for consultation with the Commission;\n(c) any other matter which is incidental to, or necessary for, the purpose of consultation with the Commission.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 87
        },
        {
            "number": "98",
            "title": "98. Power of Corporation to make regulations.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the tenure of office, salaries and allowances, provident funds, pensions, gratuities, leave of absence and other conditions of service of officers and other employees appointed under this Chapter;\n(b) the powers, duties and functions of the Municipal Secretary;\n(c) the qualifications of candidates for appointment to posts specified in sub-section (1) of section 89 and to posts dealt with in the first schedule of posts referred to in sub-section (2) of section 90 and the manner of selection for appointments to posts dealt with in the second schedule of posts referred to in that sub-section;\n(d) the procedure to be followed in imposing any penalty under sub-section (1) of section 95, suspension pending departmental inquiries before the imposition of such penalty and the authority by whom such suspension may be ordered; the officer or authority to whom an appeal shall lie under sub-section (4) of that section;\n(e) any other matter which is incidental to, or necessary for, the purpose of regulating the appointment and conditions of service of persons appointed to services and posts under the [a Corporation] and any other matter for which in the opinion of the [a Corporation] provisions should be made by regulations.\nChapter VII\nRevenue and Expenditure\nThe Municipal Fund",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 88
        },
        {
            "number": "99",
            "title": "99. Constitution of the Municipal Fund.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) all funds which immediately before the establishment of the [a Corporation] vested in any body or local authority specified in the Second Schedule;\n(b) all moneys received by or on behalf of the [a Corporation] under the provisions of this Act or of any other law for the time being in force, or under any contract;\n(c) all proceeds of the disposal of property by, or on behalf of, the Corporation;\n(d) all rents accruing from any property of the [a Corporation;]\n(e) all moneys raised by any tax, rate or cess levied for the purposes of this Act;\n(f) all fees collected and all fines levied under this Act or under any rule, regulation or bye-law made thereunder;\n(g) all moneys received by or on behalf of the [a Corporation] from the Government or any individual or association of individuals by way of grant or gift or deposit;\n(i) all interests and profits arising from any investment of, or from any transaction in connection with, any money belonging to the [a Corporation] , including loans advanced under this Act; and\n(j) all moneys received by or on behalf of the [a Corporation] from any other sources whatsoever, shall form one Fund to be entitled the [by the name of the Corporation as specified by the Government under sub-section (1A) of section 3 (hereinafter in this Act referred to as \"the Municipal Fund\")] [(2) The Municipal Fund shall be held by the [a Corporation] in trust for the purposes of this Act subject to the provisions herein contained and a General Account relating to all moneys received by or on behalf of the [a Corporation] shall be maintained.]\nshall form one Fund to be entitled the [by the name of the Corporation as specified by the Government under sub-section (1A) of section 3 (hereinafter in this Act referred to as \"the Municipal Fund\")]\n[100. Municipal Fund to be kept in the State Bank of India.\nOLD LAW 6",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 89
        },
        {
            "number": "100",
            "title": "100. Municipal Fund to be kept in the State Bank of India.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 90
        },
        {
            "number": "101",
            "title": "101. Operation of the Accounts.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the Chief Accountant or an officer subordinate to him authorised by the Standing Committee in this behalf; and\n[(b) the Commissioner or a Deputy Commissioner or an officer subordinate to the Commissioner authorised by the Standing Committee in this behalf.]",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 91
        },
        {
            "number": "102",
            "title": "102. Payments not to be made unless covered by a budget-grant.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) refund of taxes and other moneys which are authorised under this Act;\n(b) repayment of moneys belonging to contractors or other persons and held in deposit and of moneys collected or credited to the Municipal Fund by mistake;\n(c) sums payable in any of the following circumstances\n(i) under orders of the Central [Government] on failure of the [a Corporation] to take any action as required by that Government; or\n(ii) under any other enactment for the time being in force; or\n(iii) under the decree or order of a civil or criminal court passed against the [a Corporation] ; or\n(iv) under a compromise of any claim, suit or other legal proceedings; or\n(v) on account of cost incurred in taking immediate action by the [a Corporation] or any of the municipal authorities to avert a sudden threat of danger to the property of the [a Corporation] or to human life;\n(d) temporary payment for works urgently required by the Central [Government] in the public interest;\n(e) sums payable as compensation under this Act or under any rules, regulations or bye-laws made thereunder;\n(f) expenses incurred by the [a Corporation] on special measures taken on the outbreak of dangerous diseases.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 92
        },
        {
            "number": "103",
            "title": "103. Duty of persons signing cheques.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) required for a purpose or work specifically sanctioned by the proper authority and covered by a current budget-grant, or\n(b) required for any payment referred to, or specified in section 102.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 93
        },
        {
            "number": "104",
            "title": "104. Procedure when money not covered by a budget-grant is expended.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 94
        },
        {
            "number": "105",
            "title": "105. Application of Municipal Fund.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 95
        },
        {
            "number": "106",
            "title": "106. Temporary payments from the Municipal Fund for works urgently required for the public service.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[107. Investment of surplus moneys.\n[107A. Constitution of Finance Commission.\n(a) the principles which should govern,\n(i) the distribution between the National Capital Territory of Delhi and the [a Corporation] of the net proceeds of the taxes, duties, tolls and fees leviable by the National Capital Territory of Delhi which may be divided between them;\n(ii) the determination of the taxes, duties, tolls and fees which may be assigned to or appropriated by the [a Corporation] ;\n(iii) the grants-in-aid to the [a Corporation] from the consolidated fund of the National Capital Territory of Delhi;\n(b) the measures needed to improve the financial position of the [a Corporation] ;\n(c) any other matter referred to the Finance Commission by the Administrator in the interest of sound finance of the [a Corporation.]\nSpecial funds",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 96
        },
        {
            "number": "108",
            "title": "108. Constitution of special funds.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Budget Estimates",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 97
        },
        {
            "number": "109",
            "title": "109. Adoption of budget estimates.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 98
        },
        {
            "number": "110",
            "title": "110. Power of Corporation to alter budget estimate.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) increase the amount of budget grant under any head;\n(ii) make an additional budget grant for the purpose of meeting any special or unforeseen requirement arising during the said year; or\n(iii) reduce the amount of the budget-grant under any head:\n(a) reduce the amount of a budget-grant; or\n(b) sanction the transfer of any amount within a budget-grant:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 99
        },
        {
            "number": "111",
            "title": "111. Power of [a Corporation] to re-adjust income and expenditure during the year.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 100
        },
        {
            "number": "112",
            "title": "112. Provisions as to unexpended budget-grant.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter VIII\nTaxation\nLevy of taxes",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 101
        },
        {
            "number": "113",
            "title": "113. Taxes to be imposed by the [a Corporation] under this Act.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) property taxes;\n(b) a tax on vehicles and animals;\n(c) a theatre-tax;\n(d) a tax on advertisements other than advertisements published in the newspapers;\n(e) a duty on the transfer of property; and\n[(f) a tax on buildings payable along with the application for sanction of the building plan.]\n(a) an education cess;\n(b) a local rate on land revenues;\n(c) a tax on professions, trades callings and employments;\n(d) a tax on the consumption, [sale or supply] of electricity;\n(e) a betterment tax on the increase in urban land values caused by the execution of any development or improvement work;\n(f) a tax on boats; and\n(g) tolls.\nProperty taxes [114. Components of property tax. - Save as otherwise provided in this Act, the property taxes shall be levied on lands and buildings in Delhi and shall consist of the following, namely:\nProperty taxes\n[114. Components of property tax.\n(a) a building tax, and\n(b) a vacant land tax.]\n[114A.] Building tax.\n[114B.] Rebate for senior citizens, women and physically challenged persons.\n[114C.] Vacant land tax.\n[114D.] Rate of building tax.\n[114E.] Rate of vacant land tax.\n[115.] Exemption of vacant lands and buildings from property tax.\n(i) vacant lands and buildings (other than dwelling houses) exclusively used for agricultural purposes in accordance with the guidelines prescribed in the bye-laws;\n(ii) any vacant land or building included in any village abadi, which is occupied for residential purpose by any original owner or his legal heir, subject to a maximum of one hundred square metres of covered space;\n(iii) vacant lands or buildings or portions thereof, exclusively used for the purpose of public worship;\n(iv) vacant land or buildings or portions thereof, exclusively occupied and used, with the approval of [a Corporation] , for the purpose of public charity as may be specified in the bye-laws or for the purpose of medical relief to, or education of the poor, free of charge;\n(v) vacant lands or buildings exclusively used for the purpose of public burial or as cremation ground, or any other place used for the disposal of the dead, duly registered under this Act;\n(vi) such heritage lands or buildings as are specifically notified for exemption by [a Corporation] as also such premises as are so specified by the Archaeological Survey of India;\n(vii) vacant lands and buildings owned exclusively by war widows, gallantry award winners in Defence Forces, Police and Para-military Forces as also civilians who have received bravery awards of the highest order from the Government including Annual Bravery Awards given by the President:\n(a) the premises in question is in self-occupation for residential use and no portion thereof is let out for any purposes, whatsoever;\n(b) in case the person concerned has more than one property in Delhi, the exemption shall be applicable to only one property which is permanently used for self-residence;\n(c) the benefit of exemption shall be limited to the life-time of the person concerned, except where the award has been granted posthumously, in which case the exemption will be granted to the widow of the gallantry award winner.\n(viii) vacant lands and buildings owned by, or vested in, [a Corporation] but not leased out or rented out, and in respect of which the property tax, if levied, would, under the provisions of this Act, be leviable primarily on [a Corporation] .\n[115A.] Unit of assessment.\n[116.] Constitution of Municipal Valuation Committee.\n(a) a Chairperson, and\n(b) such other members, being not less than two and not more than six, as the Government may determine.\n(a) to make recommendations to 1[a Corporation] on matters relating to classification of vacant lands and buildings in any ward of Delhi into colonies and groups of lands and buildings and fixation of base value per unit area of vacant land or per unit area of covered space of building and factors for increase or decrease, or for no increase or decrease, thereof;\n(b) to consider objections under section 116C, and to make recommendation thereon; and\n(c) to perform such other functions as the Government may require.] [116A.] Classification of vacant lands and buildings into colonies and groups and specification of base unit area values therefor. - (1) The Municipal Valuation Committee shall recommend the classification of the vacant lands and buildings in any ward of Delhi, referred to in section 5, into colonies and groups of lands and buildings after taking into account the following parameters: (a) settlement pattern such as plotted housing, group housing, colony with flats only, urban village, unauthorised colony, resettlement colony, rural village and non-residential areas; (b) availability of civil and social infrastructure; (c) access to roads; (d) access to district centres, local shopping centres, convenience-shopping centres, and other markets; (e) land prices as may, from time to time, be notified by the [Government] or the Delhi Development Authority; (f) use-wise category of any building including residential building, business building, mercantile building, building for recreation and sports purposes, industrial building, hazardous building and public purpose building including educational, medical and such other institutional building and farmhouse, as may be specified by [a Corporation;] (g) in the case of buildings used for business, mercantile, recreation and sports, industrial, hazardous, storage or farmhouse purposes, the location of such buildings adjacent to such categories of streets, as may, subject to the provisions of sub-section (2), be specified by [a Corporation] ; (h) the types of buildings which may be classified as pucca, semi-pucca or katcha, as may be specified by [a Corporation] ; (i) the age-wise grouping of buildings as may be specified by [a Corporation] ; and (j) such other parameters as may be considered relevant by the Municipal Valuation Committee. (2) The Municipal Valuation Committee shall recommend, group wise, (a) the base unit area value of any owner-occupied vacant land, or any wholly owner-occupied building of pucca structure, constructed in the year 2000 or thereafter, and put to exclusive residential use, and (b) the factor for increasing or decreasing, or for not increasing or decreasing, the base unit area values specified in clause (a), separately in respect of each of the parameters of type of colony, use, age, type of structure and occupancy status of the vacant land or building, as the case may be, subject to a lower limit of zero point five and upper limit often point zero.] [116B.] Notification of classification of vacant lands and buildings into colonies and groups and specification of base unit area values therefor and factors for increase or decrease. - (1) [A Corporation] shall, having regard to the recommendations of the Municipal Valuation Committee, declare its intention to classify vacant lands and buildings in each ward into such colonies and groups of lands and buildings as [a Corporation] may; by public notice, specify, and shall also specify in such public notice the base value it proposes to specify per unit area of vacant land and per unit area of covered space of building within each such group and also the factors for increasing or decreasing, or for not increasing or decreasing, the base unit area values of vacant lands and buildings referred to in clause (b) of sub-section (2) of section 116A.\n[116A.] Classification of vacant lands and buildings into colonies and groups and specification of base unit area values therefor. - (1) The Municipal Valuation Committee shall recommend the classification of the vacant lands and buildings in any ward of Delhi, referred to in section 5, into colonies and groups of lands and buildings after taking into account the following parameters:\n[116A.] Classification of vacant lands and buildings into colonies and groups and specification of base unit area values therefor.\n(a) settlement pattern such as plotted housing, group housing, colony with flats only, urban village, unauthorised colony, resettlement colony, rural village and non-residential areas;\n(b) availability of civil and social infrastructure;\n(c) access to roads;\n(d) access to district centres, local shopping centres, convenience-shopping centres, and other markets;\n(e) land prices as may, from time to time, be notified by the [Government] or the Delhi Development Authority; (f) use-wise category of any building including residential building, business building, mercantile building, building for recreation and sports purposes, industrial building, hazardous building and public purpose building including educational, medical and such other institutional building and farmhouse, as may be specified by [a Corporation;] (g) in the case of buildings used for business, mercantile, recreation and sports, industrial, hazardous, storage or farmhouse purposes, the location of such buildings adjacent to such categories of streets, as may, subject to the provisions of sub-section (2), be specified by [a Corporation] ; (h) the types of buildings which may be classified as pucca, semi-pucca or katcha, as may be specified by [a Corporation] ; (i) the age-wise grouping of buildings as may be specified by [a Corporation] ; and (j) such other parameters as may be considered relevant by the Municipal Valuation Committee. (2) The Municipal Valuation Committee shall recommend, group wise,\n(f) use-wise category of any building including residential building, business building, mercantile building, building for recreation and sports purposes, industrial building, hazardous building and public purpose building including educational, medical and such other institutional building and farmhouse, as may be specified by [a Corporation;]\n(g) in the case of buildings used for business, mercantile, recreation and sports, industrial, hazardous, storage or farmhouse purposes, the location of such buildings adjacent to such categories of streets, as may, subject to the provisions of sub-section (2), be specified by [a Corporation] ;\n(h) the types of buildings which may be classified as pucca, semi-pucca or katcha, as may be specified by [a Corporation] ;\n(i) the age-wise grouping of buildings as may be specified by [a Corporation] ; and\n(j) such other parameters as may be considered relevant by the Municipal Valuation Committee.\n(a) the base unit area value of any owner-occupied vacant land, or any wholly owner-occupied building of pucca structure, constructed in the year 2000 or thereafter, and put to exclusive residential use, and\n(b) the factor for increasing or decreasing, or for not increasing or decreasing, the base unit area values specified in clause (a), separately in respect of each of the parameters of type of colony, use, age, type of structure and occupancy status of the vacant land or building, as the case may be, subject to a lower limit of zero point five and upper limit often point zero.]\n[116B.] Notification of classification of vacant lands and buildings into colonies and groups and specification of base unit area values therefor and factors for increase or decrease.\n[116C.] Objection to classification of vacant lands and buildings into colonies and groups and fixation of base unit area values and factors for increasing or decreasing such base unit area values.\n[116D.] Final base unit area values of vacant land and of covered space of building.\n[116E.] Determination of annual value of covered space of building and of vacant land.\n[116F.] Determination of annual value of building where land is exempted from property tax.\n[116G.] Transitory provisions.\n[116H. One-time tax.\n[116-I. Validity of base unit area values of vacant land and covered space of building.\n[116J. Indexation of unit area value.\n[116K.] Hardship and Anomaly Committee.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 102
        },
        {
            "number": "117",
            "title": "117. Charge by measurement in lieu of water tax in certain cases.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 103
        },
        {
            "number": "118",
            "title": "118. Special rates of scavenging tax in certain cases.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 104
        },
        {
            "number": "119",
            "title": "119. Taxation of Union properties.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[120. Incidence of property tax.\n(b) The liability of the several owners of any land or building constituting a single unit of assessment, which is, or purports to be, severally owned in parts including flats or rooms, for payment of property tax or any instalment thereof, payable during the period of such ownership, shall be joint and several:\n(c) In the case of any land or building which is not self-occupied and where the owner is constrained by any law, order of the Government, or order of a court from recovering the tax due, such tax shall be recovered from the occupier or occupiers, as the case may be:\n(d) The property tax on any land or building, which is the property of 3[a Corporation] and the possession of which has been delivered under any agreement or licensing arrangement, shall be leviable upon the transferee or the licensee, as the case may be.\n(e) The property tax in respect of any land or building, being the property of the Union, the possession of which has been delivered in pursuance of section 20 of the Displaced Persons (Compensation and Rehabilitation) Act, 1954 (44 of 1954), shall be leviable upon the transferee.\n[120A.] Levy of service charge in slums and resettlement colonies.\n[120B.] Grant to group housing society, resident welfare association, market association or industrial estate.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 105
        },
        {
            "number": "121",
            "title": "121. Apportionment of liability for property taxes when the premises assessed are let or sub-let.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 106
        },
        {
            "number": "122",
            "title": "122. Recovery of property taxes from occupiers.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 107
        },
        {
            "number": "123",
            "title": "123. Property taxes a first charge on premises on which they are assessed.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) in the case of any land or building held immediately from the Government, upon the interest in such land or building of the person liable for such taxes and upon the goods and other movable properties, if any, found within or upon such land or building and belonging to such person; and\n(b) in the case of any other land or building, upon such land or building and upon the goods and other movable properties, if any, found within or upon such land or building and belonging to the person liable for such taxes.\n[123A.] Submission of returns.\n(a) the name of the owner and the occupier;\n(b) the number of the ward, the name of the colony, and the number and the sub-number of the premises of such vacant land or covered space of building, as the case may be;\n(c) whether the building is pucca, semi-pucca or katcha;\n(d) year of completion of construction of the building, or year or years of part construction thereof, as the case may be;\n(e) the use with reference to the provisions of clause (f) of sub-section (1) of section 116A to which such vacant land or covered space of building is put or intended to be put;\n(f) the area of the vacant land and the covered space of the building with break-up of the area under various uses;\n(g) whether wholly owner-occupied or wholly tenanted, or partly owner- occupied and partly tenanted, and the areas thereof; and\n(h) such other particulars as may be prescribed by bye-laws.\n(b) Whoever omits to comply with such requisition, shall in addition to any penalty to which he may be liable, be precluded from objecting to any assessment made by the Commissioner in respect of such land or building.\n[123B.] Self-assessment and submission of return.\n(a) any new building or existing building which has not been assessed;\n(b) any existing building which has been redeveloped or substantially altered or improved after the last assessment, but has not been subjected to revision of assessment consequent upon such redevelopment or alteration or improvement, as the case may be.\n[123C.] Revision of assessment.\n(i) where the nature of use changes; or\n(ii) where the nature of occupancy changes; or\n(iii) where a new building is erected or an existing building is redeveloped or substantially altered or improved during the period the annual value remains in force; or\n(iv) where, on an application made, in writing, by the owner or the person liable to pay the property tax, it is established that during the period the annual value is in force, such value has been reduced by reason of any substantial demolition or has suffered depreciation on account of any accident or any calamity proved to the satisfaction of the Commissioner to have been beyond the control of such owner or person, or\n(v) where any vacant land or covered space of building or portion thereof is acquired by purchase or otherwise by the '[Government] or the [Government] or [a Corporation] , or\n(vi) where any vacant land or covered space of building or portion thereof is sold or otherwise transferred to the '[Government] or the Government or [a Corporation] , or\n(vii) where, upon the acquisition or transfer of a part of any vacant land or covered space of building, a residual portion remains, or\n(viii) where it becomes necessary so to do for any other reason to be recorded in writing.\n(i) has not, for any reason, been determined under this Act, the annual value of such vacant land or covered space of building, as the case may be, may be determined by the Commissioner at any time during the currency of the period of assessment in respect of such vacant land or covered space of building under section 116E or section 116F, as the case may be; or\n(ii) has been cancelled on the ground of irregularity, the annual value of such vacant land or covered space of building, as the c-1se may be, may be determined by the Commissioner at any tin after such cancellation, and such annual value of such vacant land or covered space of building, as the case may be, shall remain in force until a fresh valuation or revision is made.\n[123D.] Power of Commissioner regarding assessment.\n(a) make, suo motu, an assessment in any case where a return on the basis of self-assessment has not been filed;\n(b) revise any assessment where the information furnished in the return of self-assessment is found to be incorrect;\n(c) reopen any assessment even after the period of one year in any case where it has been detected that there is wilful suppression of information; and\n(d) impose a penalty not exceeding thirty per cent. of the difference in tax arising from non-filing of a return in time, giving wrong information or wilful suppression of facts.\n[124.] Municipal Assessment Book.\n[125.] Assignment of property identification code.\n[126. Amendment of assessment list.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 108
        },
        {
            "number": "127",
            "title": "127. Preparation of new assessment list.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 109
        },
        {
            "number": "128",
            "title": "128. Notice of transfers.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 110
        },
        {
            "number": "129",
            "title": "129. Notice of erection of building, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 111
        },
        {
            "number": "130",
            "title": "130. Notice of demolition or removal of buildings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 112
        },
        {
            "number": "131",
            "title": "131. Power of Commissioner to call for information and returns and to enter and inspect premises.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) as to the name and place of residence of the owner or occupier, or of both the owner and occupier of such land or buildings;\n(b) as to the measurements or dimensions of such land or building or of any portion thereof and the rent, if any, obtained for such land or building or any portion thereof; and\n(c) as to the actual cost or other specified details connected with the determination of the value of such land or building.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 113
        },
        {
            "number": "132",
            "title": "132. Premises owned by, or let to, two or more persons in severalty to be ordinarily assessed as one property.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 114
        },
        {
            "number": "133",
            "title": "133. Assessment in case of amalgamation of premises.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 115
        },
        {
            "number": "134",
            "title": "134. Power of Commissioner to assess separately outhouses and portions of buildings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 116
        },
        {
            "number": "135",
            "title": "135. Power of Commissioner to employ valuers.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Tax on vehicles and animals",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 117
        },
        {
            "number": "136",
            "title": "136. Tax on certain vehicles and animals and rates thereof.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 118
        },
        {
            "number": "137",
            "title": "137. The tax on whom leviable.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) vehicles and animals belonging to the Central [Government] or to the [a Corporation] used or intended to be used solely for public purposes;\n(b) vehicles intended exclusively for the conveyance free of charge, of the injured, the sick or the dead;\n(c) children's perambulators or tricycles;\n[(d) a cow or a she-buffalo kept for milking for domestic use if the cow or the she-buffalo is the only cow or she-buffalo kept by the owner or the person having possession or control thereof for such milking and is registered in accordance with bye-laws made in this behalf, so, however, that\n(i) where more cows or, as the case may be, more she-buffaloes than one are kept by several such owners or persons constituting a family, the tax under this section shall be levied in respect of all such cows or all such she-buffaloes;\n(ii) where a cow and also a she-buffalo are kept by the owner or the person having the possession or control thereof or by several such owners or persons constituting a family, the tax under this section shall be levied in respect of the cow and the she-buffalo.]",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 119
        },
        {
            "number": "138",
            "title": "138. Tax when payable.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 120
        },
        {
            "number": "139",
            "title": "139. Power of Commissioner to compound with livery stable keeper, etc., for tax.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 121
        },
        {
            "number": "140",
            "title": "140. Theatre-tax.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) that the entire receipts from such performance or show will be devoted to philanthropic, religious or charitable purposes; or\n(b) that the performance or show is of a wholly educational character; or\n(c) that the performance or show is provided for partly educational or partly scientific purposes by a society not conducted or established for profit.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 122
        },
        {
            "number": "141",
            "title": "141. Liability to pay theatre-tax.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Tax on advertisements other than advertisements published in the newspapers",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 123
        },
        {
            "number": "142",
            "title": "142. Tax on advertisements.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) relates to a public meeting, or to an election to Parliament or the [a Corporation] or to candidature in respect of such election; or\n(b) is exhibited within the window of any building if the advertisement relates to the trade, profession or business carried on in that building; or\n(c) relates to the trade, profession or business carried on within the land or building upon or over which such advertisement is exhibited or to any sale or letting of such land or building or any effects therein or to any sale, entertainment or meeting to be held on or upon or in the same; or\n(d) relates to the name of the land or building upon or over which the advertisement is exhibited, or to the name of the owner or occupier of such land or building; or\n(e) relates to the business of a railway administration and is exhibited within any railway station or upon any wall or other property of a railway administration; or\n(f) relates to any activity of the Central [Government] or the [a Corporation.]",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 124
        },
        {
            "number": "143",
            "title": "143. Prohibition of advertisements without written permission of the Commissioner.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the advertisement contravenes any bye-law made under this Act; or\n(b) the tax, if any, due in respect of the advertisement has not been paid.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 125
        },
        {
            "number": "144",
            "title": "144. Permission of the Commissioner to become void in certain cases.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) if the advertisement contravenes any bye-law made under this Act;\n(b) if any material change is made in the advertisement or any part thereof without the previous permission of the Commissioner;\n(c) if the advertisement or any part thereof falls otherwise than through accident;\n(d) if any addition or alteration is made to, or in the building, wall, hoarding, frame, post or structure upon or over which the advertisement is erected, exhibited, fixed or retained if such addition or alteration involves the disturbance of the advertisement or any part thereof; and\n(e) if the building, wall, hoarding, frame, post or structure over which the advertisement is erected, exhibited, fixed or retained is demolished or destroyed.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 126
        },
        {
            "number": "145",
            "title": "145. Presumption in case of contravention.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 127
        },
        {
            "number": "146",
            "title": "146. Power of Commissioner in case of contravention.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Duty on transfer of property",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 128
        },
        {
            "number": "147",
            "title": "147. Duty on transfer of property and method of assessment thereto.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) in the form of a surcharge on the duty imposed by the Indian Stamp Act, 1899 (2 of 1899) as in force for the time being in the Union territory of Delhi, on every instrument of the description specified below, and\n(b) at such rate as may be determined by the [a Corporation] not exceeding five per cent., on the amount specified below against such instruments:\nDescription of instrument\nAmount on which duty should be levied\n(i) Sale of immovable property\nThe amount or value of the consideration for the sale, as set\n\t\t\t\tforth in the instrument.\n(ii) Exchange of immovable property\nThe value of the property of the greater value, as set forth\n\t\t\t\tin the instrument.\n(iii) Gift of immovable property\nThe value of the property, as set forth in the instrument\n(iv) Mortgage with possession of immovable property\nThe amount secured by the mortgage as set forth in the\n\t\t\t\tinstrument.\n(v) Lease in perpetuity of immovable Property\nThe amount equal to one-sixth of the whole amount or value of\n\t\t\t\tthe rent which would be paid or delivered in respect of the first\n\t\t\t\tfifty years of the lease as set forth in the instrument.\n(Vi) Contract for transfer of immovable property\nNinety per cent of the value of the consideration for the\n\t\t\t\ttransfer as set out in the conract.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 129
        },
        {
            "number": "148",
            "title": "148. Provisions applicable on the introduction of transfer duty.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) section 27 of the Indian Stamp Act, 1899 (2 of 1899), as in force in Delhi shall be read as if it specifically required the particulars to be set forth separately in respect of property situated within and without Delhi;\n(b) section 64 of the said Act shall be read as if it referred to the [a Corporation] as well as the Government.\nTax on buildings payable along with the application for sanction of building plans",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 130
        },
        {
            "number": "149",
            "title": "149. Tax on building applications.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Other Taxes",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 131
        },
        {
            "number": "150",
            "title": "150. Imposition of other taxes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 132
        },
        {
            "number": "151",
            "title": "151. Supplementary taxation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Payment and recovery of taxes\n[152.] Time and manner of payment of taxes.\n>[152A.] Punishment for wilful default in payment of property tax, furnishing wrong information in return of assessment, etc.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 133
        },
        {
            "number": "153",
            "title": "153. Presentation of bill.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[(aa)] a tax on vehicles and animals;\n(b) a theatre-tax; and\n(c) a tax on advertisements.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 134
        },
        {
            "number": "154",
            "title": "154. Notice of demand and notice fee.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 135
        },
        {
            "number": "155",
            "title": "155. Penalty in case of default of payment of taxes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 136
        },
        {
            "number": "156",
            "title": "156. Recovery of tax.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[156A.] Recovery of property tax.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 137
        },
        {
            "number": "157",
            "title": "157. Distress.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the following property shall not be distrained:\n(i) the necessary wearing apparel and bedding of the defaulter, his wife and children and their cooking and eating utensils;\n(ii) tools of artisans;\n(iii) books of account; or\n(iv) when the defaulter is an agriculturist his implements of husbandry, seed, grain and such cattle as may be necessary to enable the defaulter to earn his livelihood;\n(b) the distress shall not be excessive, that is to say, the property distrained shall be as nearly as possible equal in value to the amount recoverable under the warrant, and if any property has been distrained which, in the opinion of the Commissioner, should not have been distrained, it shall forthwith be released.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 138
        },
        {
            "number": "158",
            "title": "158. Disposal of distrained property and attachment and sale of immovable property.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 139
        },
        {
            "number": "159",
            "title": "159. Recovery from a person about to leave Delhi.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 140
        },
        {
            "number": "160",
            "title": "160. Power to institute suit for recovery.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 141
        },
        {
            "number": "161",
            "title": "161. Power of seizure of vehicles and animals in case of non-payment of tax thereon.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 142
        },
        {
            "number": "162",
            "title": "162. Occupiers may be required to pay rent towards satisfaction of property taxes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Remission and refund",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 143
        },
        {
            "number": "163",
            "title": "163. Demolition, etc., of buildings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 144
        },
        {
            "number": "164",
            "title": "164. Remission, or refund of tax.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 145
        },
        {
            "number": "165",
            "title": "165. Power to require entry in assessment list of details of buildings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 146
        },
        {
            "number": "166",
            "title": "166. Notice to be given of the circumstances in which remission or refund is claimed.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 147
        },
        {
            "number": "167",
            "title": "167. What buildings are to be deemed vacant.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 148
        },
        {
            "number": "168",
            "title": "168. Notice to be given of every occupation of vacant land or building.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Appeals\n[169.] Appeal against assessment, etc.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 149
        },
        {
            "number": "170",
            "title": "170. Conditions of right to appeal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the appeal is, in the case of a property tax, brought within thirty days next after the date of authentication of the assessment list under section 124 (exclusive of the time requisite for obtaining a copy of the relevant entries therein) or, as the case may be, within thirty days of the date on which an amendment is finally made under section 126, and, in the case of any other tax, within thirty days next after the date of the receipt of the notice of assessment or of alteration of assessment or, if no notice has been given, within thirty days after the date of the presentation of the first bill or, as the case may be, the first notice of demand in respect thereof:\n(b) the amount, if any, in dispute in the appeal has been deposited by the appellant in the office of the [a Corporation.]",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 150
        },
        {
            "number": "171",
            "title": "171. Finality of appellate orders.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 151
        },
        {
            "number": "172",
            "title": "172. Power to inspect for purposes of determining [annual value] or tax.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) any land or building for the purpose of determining the annual value] of such land or building;\n(b) any stable, garage, or coach house or any place wherein he may have reason to believe that three is any vehicle or animal liable to a tax under this Act;\n(c) any place of premises which he has reason to believe are being used or are about to be used for any performance or show in respect of which the theatre tax is payable or would be payable;\n(d) any land, building or vehicle in or upon which any advertisement liable to tax under this Act is exhibited or displayed.\n[172A.] Power to appoint an agency for administration of property tax.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 152
        },
        {
            "number": "173",
            "title": "173. Composition.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 153
        },
        {
            "number": "174",
            "title": "174. Irrecoverable debts.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 154
        },
        {
            "number": "175",
            "title": "175. Obligation to disclose liability.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) whether such inhabitant is liable to pay any tax imposed by the [a Corporation] under this Act;\n(b) at what amount he should be assessed; or\n(c) the rateable value of the land or building which he occupies and the name and address of the owner or lessee thereof.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 155
        },
        {
            "number": "176",
            "title": "176. Immaterial error not to affect liability.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 156
        },
        {
            "number": "177",
            "title": "177. General power of exemption.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[*] Terminal taxes on goods\n[*] 178. Terminal tax on goods carried by railway or road.\n[*] 179. Recovery of terminal taxes.\n[*] 180. Payment by the Central Government to the Corporation and other local authorities.\n[*] 181. Power of exemption.\n[*] 182. Powers and liabilities of persons authorised to collect terminal taxes.\n[*] 183. Power to make rules.\n(a) the examination of goods liable to payment of terminal tax;\n(b) the inspection, weighing or otherwise examining the contents of any conveyance or package for the purpose of ascertaining whether it contains any goods in respect of which terminal tax is payable;\n(c) the seizure and confiscation of goods liable to terminal tax in case of refusal to pay such tax;\n(d) the measures to prevent evasion of terminal tax;\n(e) any other matter which is to be or may be prescribed for the levy, assessment or collection of the terminal tax.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 157
        },
        {
            "number": "184",
            "title": "184. Proceeds of entertainment tax.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter IX\nBorrowing",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 158
        },
        {
            "number": "185",
            "title": "185. Power of Corporation to borrow.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) for acquiring any land which it has power to acquire;\n(b) for erecting any building which it has power to erect;\n(c) for the execution of any permanent work, the provision of any plant, or the doing of any other thing which it has power to execute, provide or do, if the cost of carrying out the purpose in question ought to be spread over a term of years;\n[(d) to pay off any debt due to the Central Government or the Government.]\n(e) to repay a loan previously raised under this Act or any other Act previously in force; or\n(f) for any other purpose for which the [Corporation] is, by virtue of this Act or any other law for the time being in force, authorised to borrow :\n(i) no loan shall be raised without the previous sanction of the Central Government or without previous publication of the application for sanction under the Local Authorities Loans Act, 1914 (9 of 1914), and the rules made thereunder; and\n(ii) the amount of loan, the rate of interest and the terms including the date of flotation, the time and method of the repayment and the like shall be subject to the approval of the Central Government.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 159
        },
        {
            "number": "185",
            "title": "186. Time for repayment of money borrowed under section 185.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 160
        },
        {
            "number": "187",
            "title": "187. Form and effect of debentures.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 161
        },
        {
            "number": "188",
            "title": "188. Payment to survivors of joint payees.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 162
        },
        {
            "number": "189",
            "title": "189. Receipt by joint holders for interest or dividend.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 163
        },
        {
            "number": "190",
            "title": "190. Maintenance and investment of sinking funds.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 164
        },
        {
            "number": "191",
            "title": "191. Application of sinking funds.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 165
        },
        {
            "number": "192",
            "title": "192. Annual statement by Commissioner.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the amount which has been invested during the year under section 190;\n(b) the date of the last investment made previous to the submission of the statement;\n(c) the aggregate amount of the securities then in his hands; and\n(d) the aggregate amount which has up to the date of the statement been applied under section 191, in or towards discharging loans.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 166
        },
        {
            "number": "193",
            "title": "193. Power of Corporation to consolidate loans.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 167
        },
        {
            "number": "194",
            "title": "194. Priority of payments for interest and repayment of loans over other payments.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 168
        },
        {
            "number": "195",
            "title": "195. Attachment of Municipal Fund for recovery of money borrowed from Government.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 169
        },
        {
            "number": "196",
            "title": "196. Power to make regulations.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter X\nProperty and Contracts\nProperty",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 170
        },
        {
            "number": "197",
            "title": "197. Acquisition of property.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 171
        },
        {
            "number": "198",
            "title": "198. Acquisition of immovable property by agreement.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 172
        },
        {
            "number": "199",
            "title": "199. Procedure when immovable property cannot be acquired by agreement.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 173
        },
        {
            "number": "200",
            "title": "200. Disposal of property.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the Commissioner may, in his discretion, dispose of, by sale or otherwise, any movable property belonging to [a Corporation] not exceeding in value in each instance one thousand rupees, or such higher amount as [a Corporation] may prescribe, or let out on hire any movable property or grant a lease of any immovable property belonging to [a Corporation] , including any right of gathering and taking fruits and the like, for a period not exceeding one year at a time;\n(b) the Commissioner may, with the sanction of the Standing Committee,\n(i) dispose of, by sale or otherwise, any movable property belonging to [a Corporation] the value of which does not exceed five thousand rupees;\n(ii) grant a lease (other than a lease in perpetuity) of any immovable property belonging to [a Corporation] ; or\n(iii) sell or grant a lease in perpetuity of any immovable property belonging to [a Corporation] the value of which does not exceed fifty thousand rupees or the annual rent of which does not exceed three thousand rupees;\n(c) in cases not covered by clause (a) or clause (b), the Commissioner may, with the sanction of [a Corporation] , lease, sell, let out on hire or otherwise transfer any property, movable or immovable, belonging to [a Corporation] ;\n(d) the consideration for which any immovable property may be sold, leased or otherwise transferred shall not be less than the value at which such immovable property could be sold, leased or otherwise transferred in normal and fair competition;\n(e) the sanction of the Standing Committee or of [a Corporation] under the aforesaid clauses may be given either generally for any class of cases or specially for any particular case;\n(f) subject to any conditions or limitations that may be specified in any other provisions of this Act, the foregoing provisions of this section shall apply to every disposal of property belonging to [a Corporation] made under, or for any purpose of, this Act;\n(g) every case of disposal of property under clause (a) and clause (b) shall be reported by the Commissioner without delay to the Standing Committee and [a Corporation] respectively.\nContracts",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 174
        },
        {
            "number": "201",
            "title": "201. Contracts by the Corporation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 175
        },
        {
            "number": "202",
            "title": "202. Procedure for making contracts.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) every such contract shall be made on behalf of [a Corporation] by the Commissioner;\n(b) no such contract, for any purpose which in accordance with any provision of this Act the Commissioner may not carry out without the approval or sanction of [a Corporation] or some other municipal authority shall be made by him until and unless such approval or sanction has been duly obtained;\n[(c) no contract which will involve an expenditure exceeding ten lakh rupees or such higher amount as the [Central Government] may from time to time, fix, shall be made by the Commissioner unless the same is previously approved by the Standing Committee; and\n(d) every contract made by the Commissioner involving an expenditure exceeding one lakh rupees but not exceeding ten lakh rupees or such higher amount as may be fixed under clause (c) shall be reported by him, within one month after the same has been made to the Standing Committee.]",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 176
        },
        {
            "number": "203",
            "title": "203. Mode of executing contracts.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter XI\nAccounts and Audit\nScrutiny and audit of accounts\n[204. Accounts to be kept.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 177
        },
        {
            "number": "205",
            "title": "205. Scrutiny of accounts by Municipal Chief Auditor and by the Standing Committee.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 178
        },
        {
            "number": "206",
            "title": "206. Report by the Municipal Chief Auditor.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) report to the Standing Committee any material impropriety or irregularity which he may at any time observe in the expenditure or in the recovery of moneys due to [a Corporation] or in the municipal accounts;\n(b) furnish to the Standing Committee such information as that Committee may from time to time require concerning the progress of the audit.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 179
        },
        {
            "number": "207",
            "title": "207. Special audit at the direction of the Central [Government.]",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Powers and duties of the Municipal Chief Auditor",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 180
        },
        {
            "number": "208",
            "title": "208. Procedure to be followed by the Municipal Chief Auditor.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) audit the accounts of expenditure from the revenue of [a Corporation] , expenditure on account of loan works and expenditure incurred out of special funds and shall ascertain whether moneys shown therein as having been disbursed were legally available for, and applicable to, the service or purpose to which they have been applied or charged, and whether the expenditure conforms to the authority which governs it;\n(b) audit the accounts of debts, deposits, sinking funds advances, suspense and remittance transactions of [a Corporation] and report upon those accounts and upon the results of verification of the balances relating thereto.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 181
        },
        {
            "number": "209",
            "title": "209. Power of Municipal Chief Auditor to make queries, etc., and call for returns, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 182
        },
        {
            "number": "184",
            "title": "CHAPTER XII.",
            "chapter": "CHAPTER XII",
            "content": "Water Supply, Drainage and Sewage Disposal.\n210 to 273.\nELECTRICITY SUPPLY.\nTRANSPORT SERVICES.\nChapter XV\nStreets\nConstruction, maintenance and improvement of streets",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 183
        },
        {
            "number": "298",
            "title": "298. Vesting of public streets in [a Corporation.]",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 184
        },
        {
            "number": "299",
            "title": "299. Functions of Commissioner in respect of public streets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 185
        },
        {
            "number": "300",
            "title": "300. Disposal of land forming site of public streets permanently closed.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 186
        },
        {
            "number": "301",
            "title": "301. Power to make new public streets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) lay out and make new public streets;\n(b) construct bridges and sub-ways;\n(c) turn or divert any existing public street; and\n(d) lay down and determine the position and direction of a street or streets in any part of [the area of the Corporation] notwithstanding that no proposal for the erection of any building in the vicinity has been received.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 187
        },
        {
            "number": "302",
            "title": "302. Minimum width of new public streets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 188
        },
        {
            "number": "303",
            "title": "303. Power to prohibit use of public streets for certain kind of traffic.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) prohibit vehicular traffic in any public street or any portion thereof so as to prevent danger, obstruction or inconvenience to the public or to ensure quietness in any locality;\n(b) prohibit in respect of all public streets, or any particular public street, the transit of any vehicle of such form, construction, weight or size or laden with such heavy or unwieldy objects as may be likely to cause injury to the roadways or any construction thereon, except under such conditions as to time, mode of traction or locomotion, use of appliances for the protection of roadways, number of lights and assistants and other general precautions and upon the payment of such charges as may be specified by the Commissioner generally or specially in each case;\n(c) prohibit access to premises from any particular public street carrying high speed vehicular traffic:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 189
        },
        {
            "number": "304",
            "title": "304. Power to acquire lands and buildings for public streets and public parking places.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(b) acquire in relation to any such land or building, all such land with buildings, if any, thereon as [a Corporation] may think expedient to acquire outside of the regular line, or of the intended regular line, of such street;\n(c) acquire any land for the purpose of laying out or making a public parking place.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 190
        },
        {
            "number": "305",
            "title": "305. Defining the regular line of streets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) a register containing such particulars as may be specified by him in this behalf with plans attached thereto showing all public streets in respect of which the regular line of the street has been defined or redefined and containing any other particulars which the Commissioner may deem necessary;\n(b) a register of all agreements executed under sub-section (4) and of all deposits made thereunder.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 191
        },
        {
            "number": "306",
            "title": "306. Setting back building to regular line of street.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to repair, rebuild or construct such building or to take down such building to an extent exceeding one-half thereof above the ground level, such half to be measured in cubic feet; or\n(b) to repair, remove, construct or reconstruct or make any additions to, or structural alterations of, any portion of such building which is within the regular line of the street, by any order which he issues concerning the additions to, rebuilding construction, repair or alterations of, such building, require such building to be set back to the regular line of the street.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 192
        },
        {
            "number": "307",
            "title": "307. Compulsory setting back of building to regular line of street.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 193
        },
        {
            "number": "308",
            "title": "308. Acquisition of open land and land occupied by platform, etc, within the regular line of street.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 194
        },
        {
            "number": "309",
            "title": "309. Acquisition of the remaining part of a building and land after their portions within a regular line of street have been acquired.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 195
        },
        {
            "number": "310",
            "title": "310. Setting forward of buildings to the regular line of street.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 196
        },
        {
            "number": "311",
            "title": "311. Compensation to be paid in certain cases of setting back or setting forward to buildings, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) any increase or decrease in the value of the remainder of the property of which the building or land so acquired formed part, likely to accrue from the setting back to the regular line of the street shall be taken into consideration and allowed for in determining the amount of such compensation;\n(b) if any such increase in the value exceeds the amount of loss sustained or expenses incurred by the owner, the Commissioner may recover from him half the amount of such excess as a Betterment charge.\nPrivate streets",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 197
        },
        {
            "number": "312",
            "title": "312. Owners, obligation when dealing with land as building sites.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 198
        },
        {
            "number": "313",
            "title": "313. Lay-out plans.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the plots into which the land is proposed to be divided for the erection of buildings thereon and the purpose or purposes for which such buildings are to be used;\n(b) the reservation or allotment of any site for any street, open space, park, recreation ground, school, market or any other public purpose;\n(c) the intended level, direction and width of street or streets;\n(d) the regular line of street or streets;\n(e) the arrangements to be made for levelling, paving, metalling, flagging, channelling, sewering, draining, conserving and lighting street or streets;\n(a) if the particulars shown in the lay-out plan would conflict with any arrangements which have been made or which are in the opinion of the Standing Committee likely to be made for carrying out any general scheme of development of Delhi whether contained in the master plan or a zonal development plan prepared for Delhi or not; or\n(b) if the said lay-out plan does not conform to the provisions of this Act and bye-laws made thereunder; or\n(c) if any street proposed in the plan is not designed so as to connect at one end with a street which is already open.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 199
        },
        {
            "number": "313",
            "title": "314. Alteration or demolition of street made in breach of section 313.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) require the offender to show cause by a written statement signed by him and sent to the Commissioner on or before such date as may be specified in the notice, why such street should not be altered to the satisfaction of the Commissioner or if such alteration be impracticable, why such street should not be demolished; or\n(b) require the offender to appear before the Commissioner either personally or by a duly authorised agent on such day and at such time and place as may be specified in the notice and show cause as aforesaid.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 200
        },
        {
            "number": "315",
            "title": "315. Power of Commissioner to order work to be carried out or to carry it out himself in default.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 201
        },
        {
            "number": "316",
            "title": "316. Right of owners to require streets to be declared public.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Encroachments on streets",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 202
        },
        {
            "number": "317",
            "title": "317. Prohibition of projections upon streets, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) overhang, jut or project into, or in any way encroach upon, and obstruct in any way the safe or convenient passage of the public along, any street, or\n(b) jut or project into or encroach upon any drain or open channel in any street so as in any way to interfere with the use or proper working of such drain or channel or to impede the inspection or cleansing thereof.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 203
        },
        {
            "number": "318",
            "title": "318. Projections over streets may be permitted in certain cases.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to erect an arcade over such street or any portion thereof; or\n(b) to put up a verandah, balcony, arch, connecting passage, sun-shade, weather frame, canopy, awning or other such structure or thing projecting from any storey over or across any street or portion thereof:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 204
        },
        {
            "number": "319",
            "title": "319. Ground floor doors, etc, not to open outwards on streets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 205
        },
        {
            "number": "320",
            "title": "320. Prohibition of structures or fixtures which cause obstruction in streets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 206
        },
        {
            "number": "321",
            "title": "321. Prohibition of deposit, etc. , of things in streets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 207
        },
        {
            "number": "322",
            "title": "322. Power to remove anything deposited or exposed for sale in contravention of this Act.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) any stall, chair, bench, box, ladder, bale or other thing whatsoever, placed, deposited, projected, attached or suspended in, upon, from or to any place in contravention of this Act;\n(b) any article whatsoever hawked or exposed for sale on any public street or in other public place in contravention of this Act and any vehicle, package, box or any other thing in or on which such article is placed.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 208
        },
        {
            "number": "323",
            "title": "323. Prohibition of the tethering of animals and milking of cattle.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Provision concerning execution of works in or near to streets",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 209
        },
        {
            "number": "324",
            "title": "324. Precautions during repair of streets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) cause the same to be fenced and guarded,\n(b) take proper precautions against accident by shoring up and protecting the adjoining buildings,\n(c) cause such bars, chains or posts to be fixed across or in any street in which any such work of construction or repair is under execution as are necessary in order to prevent the passage of vehicles or animals and avert danger.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 210
        },
        {
            "number": "325",
            "title": "325. Streets not to be opened or broken up and building materials not to be deposited thereon without permission.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) open, break up, displace, take up or make any alteration in, or cause any injury to the soil or pavement or any wall, fence, post, chain or other material or thing forming part of any street; or\n(b) deposit any building materials in any street; or\n(c) set up in any street any scaffold or any temporary erection for the purpose of any work whatever, or any posts, bars, rails, boards or other things by way of an enclosure, for the purpose of making mortar or depositing bricks, lime, rubbish or other materials.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 211
        },
        {
            "number": "326",
            "title": "326. Disposal of things removed under this Chapter.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Naming and numbering of streets and numbering of buildings",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 212
        },
        {
            "number": "327",
            "title": "327. Naming and numbering of streets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) with the sanction of [a Corporation] , determine the name or number by which any street or public place vested in the Corporation shall be known;\n(b) cause to be put up or painted at a conspicuous part of any building, wall or place at or near each end, corner or entrance of such street or on some convenient part of such street, the name or number by which it is to be known;\n(c) cause to be put up or painted on boards of suitable size the name of any public place vested in [a Corporation]\n(d) determine the number or sub-number by which any premises or part of such premises shall be known and cause such number or sub-number to be fixed to the side or outer door of such premises or to some place at the entrance of the enclosure thereof.\nRepair or enclosure of dangerous places",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 213
        },
        {
            "number": "328",
            "title": "328. Commissioner to take steps for repairing or enclosing dangerous places.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Lighting of streets",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 214
        },
        {
            "number": "329",
            "title": "329. Measures for lighting.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) take measures for lighting in a suitable manner all such public streets and public places as may be specified by the Standing Committee;\n(b) procure, erect and maintain such number of lamps, lamp posts and other appurtenances as may be necessary for the said purpose;\n(c) cause such lamps to be lighted by means of oil, electricity or such other light as the Standing Committee may determine.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 215
        },
        {
            "number": "330",
            "title": "330. Prohibition of removal, etc, of lamps.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) any lump or any appurtenance of any lamp or lamp post or lamp iron set up in any public street or any public place;\n(b) any electric wire for lighting such lamp.\n(c) any post, pole, standard, stay, strut, bracket or other contrivance for carrying, suspending or supporting any electric wire or lamp.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 216
        },
        {
            "number": "218",
            "title": "CHAPTER XVI",
            "chapter": "CHAPTER XVI",
            "content": "Building Regulations\nBuilding Regulations\n[330A.] General supreintendence, etc., of the [Government.]",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 217
        },
        {
            "number": "331",
            "title": "331. Definition.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to erect a new building on any site whether previously built upon or not;\n(b) to re-erect\n(i) any building of which more than one-half of the cubical contents above the level of the plinth have been pulled down, burnt or destroyed, or\n(ii) any building of which more than one-half of the superficial area of the external walls above the level of the plinth has been pulled down, or\n(iii) any frame building of which more than half of the number of the posts or beams in the external walls have been pulled down;\n(c) to convert into a dwelling house any building or any part of a building not originally constructed for human habitation or, if originally so constructed, subsequently appropriated for any other purpose;\n(d) to convert into more than one dwelling house a building originally constructed as one dwelling house only;\n(e) to convert into a place of religious worship or into a sacred building any place or building not originally constructed for such purpose;\n(f) to roof or cover an open space between walls or buildings to the extent of the structure which is formed by the roofing or covering of such space;\n(g) to convert two or more tenements in a building into a greater or lesser number;\n(h) to convert into a stall, shop, warehouse or godown, stable, factory or garage any building not originally constructed for use as such or which was not so used before the change;\n(i) to convert a building which when originally constructed was legally exempt from the operations of any building regulations contained in this Act or in any bye-laws made thereunder or in any other law, into a building which had it been originally erected in its converted form, would have been subject to such building regulations;\n(j) to convert into or use as a dwelling house any building which has been discontinued as or appropriated for any purpose other than, a dwelling house.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 218
        },
        {
            "number": "332",
            "title": "332. Prohibition of building without sanction.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 219
        },
        {
            "number": "333",
            "title": "333. Erection of building.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 220
        },
        {
            "number": "334",
            "title": "334. Applications for additions to, or repairs of, buildings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to make any addition to a building;\n(b) to make any alteration or repairs to a building involving the removal or re-erection of any external or party wall thereof or of any wall which supports the roof thereof to an extent exceeding one-half of such wall above the plinth level, such half to be measured in superficial feet;\n(c) to make any alteration or repairs to a frame building involving the removal or re-erection of more than one-half of the posts in any such wall thereof as aforesaid; or involving the removal or re-erection of any such wall thereof as aforesaid to an extent exceeding one-half of such wall above plinth level, such half to be measured in superficial feet;\n(d) to make any alteration in a building involving\n(i) the sub-division of any room in such building so as to convert the same into two or more separate rooms, or\n(ii) the conversion of any passage or space in such building into a room or rooms;\n(e) to repair, remove, construct, reconstruct or make any addition to or structural alteration in any portion of a building abutting on a street which stands within the regular line of such street;\n(f) to close permanently any door or window in an external wall;\n(g) to remove or reconstruct the principal staircase or to alter its position, shall apply for sanction by giving notice in writing of his intention to the Commissioner in such form and containing such information as may be prescribed by bye-laws made in this behalf.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "335",
            "title": "335. Conditions of valid notice.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 222
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        {
            "number": "336",
            "title": "336. Sanction of refusal of building or work.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) that the building or work or the use of the site for the building or work or any of the particulars comprised in the site plan, ground plan, elevation, section or specification would contravene the provisions of any bye-law made in this behalf or of any other law or rule, bye-law or order made under such other law;\n(b) that the notice for sanction does not contain the particulars or is not prepared in the manner required under the bye-laws made in this behalf;\n(c) that any information or documents required by the Commissioner under this Act or any bye-laws made thereunder has or have not been duly furnished;\n(d) that in cases falling under section 312, lay-out plans have not been sanctioned in accordance with section 313;\n(e) that the building or work would be an encroachment on Government land or land vested in [a Corporation] ;\n(f) that the site of the building or work does not abut on a street or projected street and that there is no access to such building or work from any such street by a passage or pathway appertaining to such site.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "337",
            "title": "337. When building or work may be proceeded with.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 224
        },
        {
            "number": "338",
            "title": "338. Sanction accorded under misrepresentation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 225
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        {
            "number": "339",
            "title": "339. Buildings at corners of streets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 226
        },
        {
            "number": "340",
            "title": "340. Provisions as to buildings and works on either side of new streets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 227
        },
        {
            "number": "341",
            "title": "341. Period for completion of building or work.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 228
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        {
            "number": "342",
            "title": "342. Prohibition against use of inflammable materials for building, etc, without permission.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[343.] Order of demolition and stoppage of buildings and works in certain cases and appeal.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 229
        },
        {
            "number": "344",
            "title": "344. Order of stoppage of buildings or works in certain cases.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 230
        },
        {
            "number": "345",
            "title": "345. Power of Commissioner to require alteration of work.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to make such alterations as may be specified in the said notice with the object of bringing the building or work in conformity with the said sanction, condition or provisions, or\n(b) to show cause why such alterations should not be made, within a period stated in the notice.\n[345A.] Power to seal unauthorised constructions.\n(a) under an order made by the Commissioner under sub-section (2); or\n(b) under an order of an Appellate Tribunal or the Administrator, made in an appeal under this Act.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 231
        },
        {
            "number": "346",
            "title": "346. Completion certificates.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 232
        },
        {
            "number": "347",
            "title": "347. Restrictions on uses of buildings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) use or permit to be used for human habitation any part of a building not originally erected or authorised to be used for that purpose or not used for that purpose before any alteration has been made therein by any work executed in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the bye-laws made thereunder;\n(b) change or allow the change of the use of any land or building;\n(c) convert or allow the conversion of one kind of tenement into another kind.\n[347A.] Appellate Tribunal.\n[347B.] Appeals against certain orders or notices issued under the Act.\n(a) an order according or disallowing sanction to a lay-out plan under section 313;\n(b) an order directing the alteration or demolition of any street under section 314;\n(c) a notice under sub-section (1) of section 315;\n(d) a notice under sub-section (2) of section 317;\n(e) an order directing the disposal of things removed under Chapter XV or seized under section 334, or an order rejecting the claim of any person for the balance of the proceeds of sale of things so disposed of;\n(f) an order sanctioning or refusing to sanction the erection of any building or the execution of any work under section 336;\n(g) an order withholding sanction under the proviso to sub-section (1) of section 337;\n(h) an order cancelling a sanction under section 338;\n(i) an order requiring the rounding off, splaying or cutting off the height of a building intended to be erected, or for the acquisition of any portion of a site, under section 339;\n(j) an order disallowing the erection of any building or the execution of any work under section 340;\n(k) an order requiring the stoppage of any erection or work under section 344;\n(l) an order requiring the alteration of any building or work under section 345;\n(m) an order directing the sealing of unauthorised constructions under section 345A;\n(n) an order refusing to grant permission under sub-section (2) of section 346;\n(o) an order granting or refusing permission under section 347;\n(p) any such other order or notice relating to or arising out of planned development under the provisions of this Act as may be prescribed by rules.\n[347C.] Procedure of the Appellate Tribunal.\n(a) summoning and enforcing the attendance of persons and examining them on oath;\n(b) requiring the discovery and inspection of documents;\n(c) receiving evidence on affidavits;\n(d) requisitioning any public record or copies thereof from any court or office;\n(e) issuing commissions for the examination of witnesses or documents; and\n(f) any other matter which may be prescribed by rules, and every proceeding of an Appellate Tribunal in hearing or deciding an appeal or in connection with execution of its order, shall be deemed to be a judicial proceeding within the meaning of sections 193 and 228 and for the purpose of section 196, of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860), and every Appellate Tribunal shall be deemed to be a Civil Court for the purposes of section 195 and Chapter XXVI of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974).\n[347D.] Appeal against orders of Appellate Tribunal.\n[347E.] Bar of jurisdiction of courts.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 233
        },
        {
            "number": "348",
            "title": "348. Removal of dangerous buildings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 234
        },
        {
            "number": "349",
            "title": "349. Power to order building to be vacated in certain circumstances.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[349A.] Power of the Central [Government] to make bye-laws.\n(a) the regulation or restriction of the use of sites for buildings for different areas;\n(b) the regulation or restriction of buildings in different areas;\n(c) the form of notice of erection of any building or execution of any work and the fee in respect of the same;\n(d) the plans and documents to be submitted together with such notice and the information and further information to be furnished;\n(e) the level and width of foundation, level of lowest floor and stability of structure;\n(f) the construction of buildings and the materials to be used in the construction of buildings;\n(g) the height of buildings whether absolute or relative to the width of streets or to different areas;\n(h) the number and height of storeys composing a building and the height of rooms and the dimensions of room intended for human habitation;\n(i) the provision of open spaces, external and internal, and adequate means of light and ventilation;\n(j) the provision of means of egress in case of fire, fire-escapes and water lifting devices;\n(k) the provision of secondary means of access for the removal of house refuse;\n(l) the materials and methods of construction of external and party-walls, roofs and floors;\n(m) the position, materials and methods of construction of hearths, smoke-escapes, chimneys, stair-cases, latrines, drains and cesspools;\n(n) the provision of lifts;\n(o) the paving of yards;\n(p) the restriction on the use of inflammable materials in buildings;\n(q) the restriction on construction of foundation on certain sites;\n(r) the measures to be taken to protect buildings from damp arising from sub-soil;\n(s) the wells, tanks and cisterns and pumps for the supply of water for human consumption in connection with buildings;\n(t) in the case of wells, the dimensions of the well, the manner of enclosing it and if the well is intended for drinking purposes, the means which shall be used to prevent pollution of the water;\n(u) the supervision of buildings;\n(v) the setting back of garages and shops from the regular line of a street;\n(w) the construction of portable structures and permission for such construction.\nChapter XVII\nSanitation and Public Health\nConservancy and sanitation",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 235
        },
        {
            "number": "350",
            "title": "350. Provision for daily cleansing of streets and removal of rubbish and filth.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) for the daily surface-cleansing of all streets and the removal of the sweepings therefrom, and\n(b) for the removal of the contents of all receptacles and depots and of the accumulations at all places provided or appointed by him under the provisions of this Act for the temporary deposit of rubbish, filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 236
        },
        {
            "number": "351",
            "title": "351. Rubbish, etc, to be the property of [a Corporation.]",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 237
        },
        {
            "number": "352",
            "title": "352. Provision or appointment of receptacles, depots and places for rubbish, etc.",
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            "content": "(a) provide or appoint in proper and convenient situations public receptacles, depots or places for the temporary deposit of rubbish, filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter and for the final disposal of rubbish, filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter;\n(b) provide dustbins for the temporary deposit of rubbish;\n(c) provide vehicles or other suitable means for the removal of rubbish and offensive matter; and\n(d) provide covered vehicles or vessels for the removal of filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 238
        },
        {
            "number": "353",
            "title": "353. Duty of owners and occupiers to collect and deposit rubbish, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to have the premises swept and cleaned;\n(b) to cause all filth, rubbish and other polluted and obnoxious matter to be collected from their respective premises and to be deposited at such times as the Commissioner, by public notice prescribes, in public receptacles, depots or places provided or appointed under section 352 for the temporary deposit or final disposal thereof;\n(c) to provide receptacles of the type and in the manner prescribed by the Commissioner for the collection therein of all filth, rubbish and other polluted and obnoxious matter from such premises and to keep such receptacles in good condition and repair.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 239
        },
        {
            "number": "354",
            "title": "354. Collection and removal of filth and polluted matter.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 240
        },
        {
            "number": "355",
            "title": "355. Collection and removal of filth and polluted matter through municipal agency.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 241
        },
        {
            "number": "356",
            "title": "356. Removal of rubbish, etc., accumulated on premises used as factories, workshops, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) by written notice require the owner or occupier of any premises used for carrying on any manufacture, trade or business or used as a factory, workshop, trade premises or market or in any way so that rubbish, filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter are accumulated in large quantities, to collect all such rubbish, filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter accumulating thereon and to remove the same at such times and in such carts or receptacles and by such routes as may be specified in the notice to a depot or place provided or appointed under section 352, or\n(b) after giving such owner or occupier notice of his intention, cause all rubbish, filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter accumulated in such premises to be removed, and charge the said owner or occupier for such removal such fee as may, with the sanction of the Standing Committee, be specified in the notice issued under clause (a).",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 242
        },
        {
            "number": "357",
            "title": "357. Prohibition against accumulation of rubbish, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) deposit any rubbish, filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter in any street or on the verandah of any building or on any unoccupied ground alongside any street or on the bank of a water course; or\n(b) deposit any filth or other polluted and obnoxious matter in any dustbin or in any vehicle not intended for the removal of the same; or\n(c) deposit rubbish in any vehicle or vessel intended for the removal of filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 243
        },
        {
            "number": "358",
            "title": "358. Commissioner's power to get premises scavenged and cleansed.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 244
        },
        {
            "number": "359",
            "title": "359. Public latrines, urinals, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Latrines and urinals",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 245
        },
        {
            "number": "360",
            "title": "360. Construction of latrines and urinals.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) whether the premises shall be served by the service system or by the flush system or partly by the one and partly by the other; and\n(b) what shall be site or position of each latrine or urinal.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 246
        },
        {
            "number": "361",
            "title": "361. Latrines and urinals, etc., in new buildings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) whether such building shall be served by the service system or by the flush system or partly by the one and partly by the other;\n(b) what shall be the site or position of each latrine, urinal, bathing or washing place or site and their number of each floor and their clear internal dimensions.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 247
        },
        {
            "number": "362",
            "title": "362. Latrines and urinals for labourers, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 248
        },
        {
            "number": "363",
            "title": "363. Provision of latrines and urinals for markets, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 249
        },
        {
            "number": "364",
            "title": "364. Other provisions as to private latrines.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) require the owner or other person having the control of any private latrine or urinal not to put the same to public use; or\n(b) require the owner or other person having the control of such private latrine or urinal which in the opinion of the Commissioner constitutes a nuisance, to remove the latrine or the urinal; or\n(c) require any person having the control whether as owner, lessee or occupier of any land or building\n(i) to have any latrines provided for the same shut out by a sufficient roof, wall or fence from the view of persons passing by or dwelling in the neighbourhood; or\n(ii) to cleanse in such manner as the Commissioner may prescribe in the notice any latrine or urinal belonging to the land or building; or\n(d) where any premises intended or used for human habitation are without any latrine or urinal accommodation or are provided with insufficient latrine or urinal accommodation, require the owner, lessee or occupier of such premises to provide such or such additional latrine or urinal accommodation as he may prescribe, if necessary by causing any part of such premises to be vacated and demolished in accordance with bye-laws made in this behalf.\nRemoval of congested buildings and buildings unfit for human habitation",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 250
        },
        {
            "number": "365",
            "title": "365. Removal of congested buildings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 251
        },
        {
            "number": "366",
            "title": "366. Power of Commissioner to require improvement of buildings unfit for human habitation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 252
        },
        {
            "number": "367",
            "title": "367. Enforcement of notice requiring execution of works of improvement.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 253
        },
        {
            "number": "368",
            "title": "368. Power of Commissioner to order demolition of buildings unfit for human habitation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) repair;\n(b) stability;\n(c) freedom from damp;\n(d) natural light and air;\n(e) water supply;\n(f) drainage and sanitary conveniences;\n(g) facilities for storage preparation and cooking of food and for the disposal of rubbish, filth and other polluted matter, and the building shall be deemed to be unfit as aforesaid if it is so far defective in one or more of the said matters that it is not reasonably suitable for occupation in that condition.\n(a) necessary repairs;\n(b) structural alterations;\n(c) provision of light points and water taps;\n(d) construction of drains, open or covered;\n(e) provision of latrines and urinals;\n(f) provision of additional or improved fixtures and fittings;\n(g) opening up or paving of courtyard;\n(h) removal of rubbish, filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter;\n(i) any other work including the demolition of any building or any part thereof which, in the opinion of the Commissioner, is necessary for executing any of the works specified above.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 254
        },
        {
            "number": "369",
            "title": "369. Insanitary huts and sheds.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Regulation of washing by washermen",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 255
        },
        {
            "number": "370",
            "title": "370. Prohibition against washing by washermen.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Prevention of dangerous diseases",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 256
        },
        {
            "number": "371",
            "title": "371. Obligation to give information of dangerous disease.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 257
        },
        {
            "number": "372",
            "title": "372. Removal to hospital of patients suffering from dangerous disease.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) without proper lodging or accommodation, or\n(b) living in a room or house which he neither owns or pays rent for nor occupies as the guest or relative of any person who owns, or pays rent for it, or\n(c) living in a sarai, hotel, boarding house or other public hotel, or\n(d) lodged in premises occupied by members of two or more families, the Commissioner or any person authorised by him in this behalf, may on the advice of any medical officer of the rank not inferior to that of an assistant surgeon remove the patient to any hospital or place at which persons suffering from such disease are received for medical treatment and may anything necessary for such removal.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 258
        },
        {
            "number": "373",
            "title": "373. Disinfection of buildings and articles.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 259
        },
        {
            "number": "374",
            "title": "374. Destruction of infectious huts or sheds.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 260
        },
        {
            "number": "375",
            "title": "375. Means of disinfection.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) provide proper places with necessary attendants and apparatus for the disinfection of conveyances, clothing, bedding and other articles which have been exposed to infection;\n(b) cause conveyances, clothing and other articles brought for disinfection to be disinfected either free of charge or on payment of such charges as he may fix.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 261
        },
        {
            "number": "376",
            "title": "376. Special measures in case of outbreak of dangerous or epidemic diseases.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) take such special measures, and\n(b) by public notice, give such directions to be observed by the public or by any class or section of the public, as he thinks necessary to prevent the outbreak or spread of the disease:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 262
        },
        {
            "number": "377",
            "title": "377. Infected clothes not to be sent to washerman or to laundry.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 263
        },
        {
            "number": "378",
            "title": "378. Contamination and disinfection of public conveyance.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) uses a public conveyance while suffering from a dangerous disease, or\n(b) uses a public conveyance for the carriage of a person who is suffering from any disease, or\n(c) uses a public conveyance for the carriage of the corpse of a person who has died from any such disease, shall be bound to take proper precautions against the communication of the disease to other persons using or who may thereafter use the conveyance and to notify such use to the owner, driver or person in charge of the conveyance, and further report without delay to the Commissioner the number of the conveyance and the name of the person so notified.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 264
        },
        {
            "number": "379",
            "title": "379. Driver of conveyance not bound to carry persons suffering from dangerous disease.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 265
        },
        {
            "number": "380",
            "title": "380. Disinfection of buildings before letting the same.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 266
        },
        {
            "number": "381",
            "title": "381. Disposal of infected articles without disinfection.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 267
        },
        {
            "number": "382",
            "title": "382. Prohibition of making or selling of food, etc, or washing of clothes by infected persons.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) make, carry or offer for sale or take any part in the business of making, carrying or offering for sale, any article of food or drink or any medicine or drug for human consumption, or any article of clothing or bedding for personal use or wear; or\n(b) take any part in the business of the washing or carrying of clothes.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 268
        },
        {
            "number": "383",
            "title": "383. Power to restrict or prohibit sale of food or drink.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 269
        },
        {
            "number": "384",
            "title": "384. Control over wells and tanks, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) by public notice, prohibit the removal or use of such water for drinking; or\n(b) by notice in writing require the owner or person having control of such well, tank or place to take such steps as may be directed by the notice to prevent the public from having access to or using such water; or\n(c) take such other steps as he may consider expedient to prevent the outbreak or spread of any such disease.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 270
        },
        {
            "number": "385",
            "title": "385. Duty of persons suffering from dangerous disease.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) knowing that he is suffering from a dangerous disease, expose other persons to the risk of infection by his presence or conduct in any public street or public place;\n(b) having the care of a person whom he knows to be suffering from a dangerous disease, cause or permit that person to expose other persons to the risk of infection by his presence or conduct in any such street or place as aforesaid;\n(c) place or cause to be placed in a dustbin or other receptacle for the deposit of rubbish, any matter which he knows to have been exposed to infection from a dangerous disease and which has not been disinfected properly;\n(d) throw or cause to be thrown into any latrine or urinal any matter which he knows to have been exposed to infection from a dangerous disease and which has not been disinfected properly.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 271
        },
        {
            "number": "386",
            "title": "386. Disposal of infectious corpses where any person has died from any dangerous disease.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) require any person having charge of the corpse to convey the same to mortuary thereafter to be disposed of in accordance with law, or\n(b) prohibit the removal of corpses from the place where death occurred except for the purpose of being burnt, buried or for being conveyed to a mortuary.\nSpecial conditions regarding essential services",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 272
        },
        {
            "number": "387",
            "title": "387. Conditions of service of sweepers and certain other class of persons employed in municipal service.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 273
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        {
            "number": "388",
            "title": "388. Conditions of service of sweepers employed for doing house scavenging.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Burning and burial grounds",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 274
        },
        {
            "number": "389",
            "title": "389. Power to call for information regarding burning and burial grounds.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 275
        },
        {
            "number": "390",
            "title": "390. Permission for use of new burning or burial ground.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 276
        },
        {
            "number": "391",
            "title": "391. Power to require closing of burning and burial grounds.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 277
        },
        {
            "number": "392",
            "title": "392. Removal of corpses.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Disposal of dead animals",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 278
        },
        {
            "number": "393",
            "title": "393. Disposal of dead animals.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) convey the carcass to a place provided or appointed under section 352 for the final disposal of the carcasses of dead animals, or\n(b) give notice of the death to the Commissioner whereupon he shall cause the carcass to be disposed of.\nChapter XVIII\nVital Statistics",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 279
        },
        {
            "number": "394",
            "title": "394. Appointment of Chief Registrar and registrars.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 280
        },
        {
            "number": "395",
            "title": "395. Duties of registrar.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 281
        },
        {
            "number": "396",
            "title": "396. Information of births and deaths.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter XIX\nPublic Safety and Suppression of Nuisances\nNuisances",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 282
        },
        {
            "number": "397",
            "title": "397. Prohibition of nuisances.",
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            "content": "(a) in any public street or public place\n(i) ease himself; or\n(iv) carry meat exposed to public view; or\n(v) picket animals, or collect carts; or\n(vi) being engaged in the removal of rubbish, filth or other polluted and obnoxious matter wilfully or negligently permit any portion thereof to spill or fall, or neglect to sweep away or otherwise effectually to remove any portion thereof which may spill or fall in such street or place; or\n(vii) without proper authority affix, upon any building, monument, post, wall, fence, tree or other thing, and bill, notice or other document; or\n(viii) without proper authority deface or write upon or otherwise mark any building, monument, post, wall, fence, tree or other thing; or\n(ix) without proper authority remove, destroy, deface or otherwise obliterate any notice or other document put up or exhibited under this Act or the rules or bye-laws made thereunder; or\n(x) without proper authority displace, damage, make any alteration in, or otherwise interfere with, the pavement, gutter, storm water-drain, flags or other materials of any such street, or any lamp bracket, direction-post, hydrant or water-pipe maintained by [a Corporation] in any such street or place, or extinguish a public light; or\n(xi) carry rubbish, filth or other polluted and obnoxious matter at any hour prohibited by the Commissioner by public notice, or in any pattern of cart or receptacle which has not been approved for the purpose by the Commissioner, or fail to close such cart or receptacle when in use; or\n(b) carry rubbish, filth or other polluted and obnoxious matter along any route in contravention of any prohibition made in this behalf by the Commissioner by public notice; or\n(c) deposit or cause or permit to be deposited, earth or materials of any description or any rubbish or polluted and obnoxious matter in any place not intended for the purpose in any public street or public place or waste or unoccupied land under the management of [a Corporation] ; or\n(d) make any grave or burn or bury any corpse at any place not set apart for such purpose; or\n(e) at any time or place at which the same has been prohibited by the Commissioner by public or special notice, beat a drum or tom-tom, or blow a horn or trumpet, or beat any utensil, or sound any brass or other instrument, or play any music; or\n(f) disturb the public peace or order by singing, screaming or shouting, or by using any apparatus for amplifying or reproducing the human voice, such as a megaphone or a loudspeaker; or\n(g) let loose any animal so as to cause, or negligently allow any animal to cause, injury, danger, alarm or annoyance to any person; or\n(h) save with the written permission of the Commissioner and in such manner as he may authorise, store or use night-soil, cow dung, manure, rubbish or any other substance emitting an offensive smell; or\n(i) use or permit to be used as a latrine any place not intended for that purpose.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 283
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        {
            "number": "398",
            "title": "398. Power of Commissioner to require removal or abetment of nuisance.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Dogs",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 284
        },
        {
            "number": "399",
            "title": "399. Registration and control of dogs.",
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            "content": "(a) require the registration, by the registration authority appointed by the Commissioner in this behalf of all dogs kept within [the area of the Corporation] ;\n(b) require that every registered dog shall wear a collar to which shall be attached a metal token to be issued by the registration authority, and fix the fee payable for the issue thereof;\n(c) require that any dog which has not been registered or which is not wearing such token shall, if found in any public place, be detained at a place set apart for the purpose; and\n(d) fix the fee which shall be charged for such detention and provide that any such dog shall be liable to be destroyed or otherwise disposed of unless it is claimed and the fee in respect thereof is paid within one week.\n(a) cause to be destroyed, or to be confined for such period as he may direct, any dog or other animal which is, or is, reasonably suspected to be, suffering from rabies, or which has been bitten by any dog or other animal suffering or suspected to be suffering from rabies;\n(b) by public notice direct that, after such date as may be specified in the notice, dogs which are without collars or without marks distinguishing them as private property and are found straying on the streets or beyond the enclosures of the houses of their owners, if any, may be destroyed and cause them to be destroyed accordingly.\n(a) he knows that the dog is likely to annoy or intimidate any person, or\n(b) the Commissioner has, by public notice during the prevalence of rabies, directed that dogs shall not be at large without muzzles and chain leads.\n(a) allow any ferocious dog which belong to him or is in his charge to be at large without being muzzled, or\n(b) set on or urge any dog or other animal to attack, worry or intimidate any person; or\n(c) knowing or having reason to believe that any dog or animal belonging to him or in his charge has been bitten by an animal suffering or reasonably suspected to be suffering from rabies, fail or neglect to give immediate information of the fact to the Commissioner or give information which is false.\nPrevention of fire, etc.]",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 285
        },
        {
            "number": "400",
            "title": "400. Stacking or collecting inflammable materials.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 286
        },
        {
            "number": "401",
            "title": "401. Care of naked lights.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 287
        },
        {
            "number": "402",
            "title": "402. Discharging fire-works, fire-arms, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 288
        },
        {
            "number": "403",
            "title": "403. Power to require buildings, wells, etc., to be rendered safe.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 289
        },
        {
            "number": "404",
            "title": "404. Enclosure of waste land used for improper purpose.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter XX\nMarkets, Slaughter Houses, Trades and Occupations\nMaintenance and regulation of markets and slaughter houses",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 290
        },
        {
            "number": "405",
            "title": "405. Provision of municipal market and slaughter houses.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 291
        },
        {
            "number": "406",
            "title": "406. Use of municipal markets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 292
        },
        {
            "number": "407",
            "title": "407. Private markets and slaughter houses.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to restrict the slaughter of any animal in any place on the occasion of any religious festival or ceremony, subject to such conditions (non-compliance with which shall be punishable under this Act) as the Commissioner may, by public or special notice, impose in this behalf, or\n(b) to prevent the Commissioner, with the sanction of [a Corporation] , from setting apart places for the slaughter of animals in accordance with religious custom.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 293
        },
        {
            "number": "408",
            "title": "408. Conditions of grant of licence for private market.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 294
        },
        {
            "number": "409",
            "title": "409. Prohibition of keeping market open without licence, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 295
        },
        {
            "number": "410",
            "title": "410. Prohibition of use of unlicensed markets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 296
        },
        {
            "number": "411",
            "title": "411. Prohibition of business and trade near a market.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 297
        },
        {
            "number": "412",
            "title": "412. Levy of stallages, rents and fees.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) charge such stallages, rents or fees as may from time to time be fixed by him in this behalf\n(i) for the occupation or use of any stall, shop, stand, shed or pen in a municipal market or municipal slaughter house,\n(ii) for the right to expose articles for sale in a municipal market,\n(iii) for the use of machines, weights, scales and measures provided for in any municipal market, and\n(iv) for the right to slaughter animals in any municipal slaughter house, and for the feed of such animals before they are ready for slaughter; or\n(b) farm the stallages, rents and fees chargeable as aforesaid or any portion thereof for such period as he may think fit; or\n(c) put up to public auction or dispose of by private sale, the privilege of occupying or using any stall, shop, stand, shed or pen in a municipal market or municipal slaughter house for such period and on such conditions as he may think fit.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 298
        },
        {
            "number": "413",
            "title": "413. Stallages, rents, etc., to be published.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 299
        },
        {
            "number": "414",
            "title": "414. Power to expel lepers and disturbers, etc, from markets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 300
        },
        {
            "number": "415",
            "title": "415. Butcher's, fish-monger's and poulterer's licence.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Trades and Occupations",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 301
        },
        {
            "number": "416",
            "title": "416. Factory, etc, not to be established without permission of the Commissioner.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 302
        },
        {
            "number": "417",
            "title": "417. Premises not to be used for certain purposes without licence.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) any of the purposes specified in Part I of the Eleventh Schedule;\n(b) any purpose which is, in the opinion of the Commissioner dangerous to life, health or property or likely to create a nuisance;\n(c) keeping horses, cattle or other quadruped animals or birds for transportation, sale or hire or for sale of the produce thereof; or\n(d) storing any of the articles specified in Part II of the Eleventh Schedule except for domestic use of any of those articles:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 303
        },
        {
            "number": "418",
            "title": "418. Seizure of certain animals.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 304
        },
        {
            "number": "417",
            "title": "419. Power of Commissioner to prevent use of premises in particular areas for purposes referred to in section 417.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 305
        },
        {
            "number": "420",
            "title": "420. Licences for hawking articles, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) hawk or expose for sale in any place any article whatsoever whether it be for human consumption or not;\n(b) use in any place his skill in any handicraft or for rendering services to and for the convenience of the public for the purposes of gain or making a living.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 306
        },
        {
            "number": "421",
            "title": "421. Eating houses, etc., not to be used without licence from the Commissioner.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 307
        },
        {
            "number": "422",
            "title": "422. Licensing and control of theatres, circuses and places of public amusement.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 308
        },
        {
            "number": "423",
            "title": "423. Power of Commissioner to stop use of premises used in contravention of licences.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Inspection of places of Sales, etc.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 309
        },
        {
            "number": "424",
            "title": "424. Power of Commissioner to inspect places where unlawful slaughter of animals, etc, is suspected.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter XXI\nImprovement",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 310
        },
        {
            "number": "425",
            "title": "425. Improvement scheme.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) that the buildings in that area are by reason of disrepair or sanitary defects unfit for human habitation or are by reason of their bad arrangement, or the narrowness or bad arrangement of the streets or the want of light, air, ventilation or proper conveniences, dangerous or injurious to the health of the inhabitants of the area; and\n(b) that the most satisfactory method of dealing with the conditions in the area is the re-arrangement and reconstruction of the streets and buildings in the area in accordance with an improvement scheme, he may frame an improvement scheme in respect of the area in accordance with the bye-laws made in this behalf.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 311
        },
        {
            "number": "426",
            "title": "426. Matters to be provided for in an improvement scheme.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the acquisition by agreement or under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (1 of 1894), of any property necessary for or affected by the execution of the scheme;\n(b) the relaying out of any land comprised in the scheme;\n(c) the redistribution of sites belonging to owners of property comprised in the scheme;\n(d) the closure or demolition of buildings or portions of buildings unfit for human habitation;\n(e) the demolition of obstructive buildings or portions thereof;\n(f) the construction and reconstruction of buildings;\n(g) the construction and alteration of streets;\n(h) the water supply, street lighting, drainage and other conveniences;\n(i) the provision of open spaces for the benefit of any area comprised in the scheme;\n(j) the sanitary arrangements required for the area comprised in the scheme;\n(k) the provision of accommodation for any class of the inhabitants;\n(l) the provision of facilities for communication;\n(m) the sale, letting or exchange of any property comprised in the scheme;\n(n) any other matter for which, in the opinion of the Commissioner it is expedient to make provision with a view to the improvement of the area to which the scheme relates.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 312
        },
        {
            "number": "427",
            "title": "427. Submission of improvement scheme to [a Corporation] for approval and to the Central [Government] for sanction.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 313
        },
        {
            "number": "428",
            "title": "428. Rehousing scheme.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 314
        },
        {
            "number": "429",
            "title": "429. Improvement scheme and rehousing scheme to comply with the master plan and zonal development plan.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter XXII\nPowers, Procedure, Offences and Penalties\nLicences and written permissions",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 315
        },
        {
            "number": "430",
            "title": "430. Signature, conditions, duration, suspension, revocation, etc, of licences and written permissions.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the date of the grant thereof;\n(b) the purpose and the period (if any) for which it is granted;\n(c) restrictions or conditions, if any, subject to which it is granted;\n(d) the name and address of the person to whom it is granted; and\n(e) the fee, if any, paid for the licence or written permission.\n(b) every such order shall contain a brief statement of the reasons for the suspension or revocation of the licence or the written permission.\nEntry and inspection",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 316
        },
        {
            "number": "431",
            "title": "431. Powers of entry and inspection.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) for the purpose of ascertaining whether there is or has been on or in connection with the land or building any contravention of the provisions of this Act or any bye-law made thereunder;\n(b) for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not circumstances exist which would authorise or required the Commissioner [***] [***] or any municipal officer or employee authorised or empowered in this behalf to take any action or execute any work under this Act or any bye-law made thereunder;\n(c) for the purpose of taking any action or executing any work authorised or required by this Act or bye-law made thereunder;\n(d) to make any inquiry, inspection, examination, measurement, valuation or survey authorised or required by or under this Act or necessary for the proper administration of this Act;\n(e) generally for the purpose of efficient discharge of the functions by any of the municipal authorities under this Act or any bye-law made thereunder.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 317
        },
        {
            "number": "432",
            "title": "432. Power to enter land adjoining land in relation to any work.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 318
        },
        {
            "number": "433",
            "title": "433. Breaking into building.",
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            "content": "(a) if he considers the opening thereof necessary for the purpose of such entry; and\n(b) if the owner or occupier is absent or being present refuses to open such door, gate or barrier.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 319
        },
        {
            "number": "434",
            "title": "434. Time of making entry.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 320
        },
        {
            "number": "435",
            "title": "435. Consent ordinarily to be obtained.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 321
        },
        {
            "number": "436",
            "title": "436. Regard to be had to social or religious usages.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 322
        },
        {
            "number": "437",
            "title": "437. Prohibition of obstruction or molestation in execution of work.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Public notices and advertisements",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 323
        },
        {
            "number": "438",
            "title": "438. Public notices how to be made known.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 324
        },
        {
            "number": "439",
            "title": "439. Newspapers in which advertisements or notices to be published.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Evidence",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 325
        },
        {
            "number": "440",
            "title": "440. Proof of consent, etc., of Commissioner, General Managers, etc.",
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            "content": "Notices, etc.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 326
        },
        {
            "number": "441",
            "title": "441. Notices, etc, to fix reasonable time.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 327
        },
        {
            "number": "442",
            "title": "442. Signature on notices, etc, may be stamped.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 328
        },
        {
            "number": "443",
            "title": "443. Notices, etc, by whom to be served or issued.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 329
        },
        {
            "number": "444",
            "title": "444. Service of notices, etc.",
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            "content": "(a) where the person to be served is a company, if the document is addressed to the secretary of the company at its registered office or at its principal office or place of the business and is either\n(i) sent by registered post, or\n(ii) delivered at the registered office or at the principal office or place of business of the company;\n(b) where the person to be served is a partnership, if the document is addressed to the partnership at its principal place of business, identifying it by the name or style under which its business is carried on, and is either\n(i) sent by registered post, or\n(ii) delivered at the said place of business;\n(c) where the person to be served is a public body, or a corporation, society or other body, if the document is addressed to the secretary, treasurer or other head officer of that body, corporation or society at its principal office, and is either\n(i) sent by registered post, or\n(ii) delivered at that office;\n(d) in any other case, if the document is addressed to the person to be served and\n(i) is given or tendered to him, or\n(ii) if such person cannot be found, is affixed on some conspicuous part of his last known place of residence or business, if within the Union Territory of Delhi, or is given or tendered to some adult member of his family or is affixed on some conspicuous part of the land or building, if any, to which it relates, or\n(iii) is sent by registered post to that person.\n(a) if the document so addressed is sent or delivered in accordance with clause (d) of sub-section (1); or\n(b) if the document so addressed or a copy thereof so addressed, is delivered to some person on the land or building or, where there is no person on the land or building to whom it can be delivered, is affixed to some conspicuous part of the land or building.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 330
        },
        {
            "number": "445",
            "title": "445. Service of bills for tax or notice of demand by ordinary post.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 331
        },
        {
            "number": "446",
            "title": "446. Powers in case of non-compliance with notice, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Recovery of expenses",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 332
        },
        {
            "number": "447",
            "title": "447. Liability of occupier to pay in default of owner.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 333
        },
        {
            "number": "448",
            "title": "448. Execution of work by occupier in default of owner and deduction of expenses from rent.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 334
        },
        {
            "number": "449",
            "title": "449. Relief to agents and trustees.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Payment of compensation\n[450.] General power to pay compensation.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 335
        },
        {
            "number": "451",
            "title": "451. Compensation to be paid by offenders for damage caused by them.",
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            "content": "Recovery of expenses or compensation in case of dispute",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 336
        },
        {
            "number": "452",
            "title": "452. Reference to the court of the district judge in certain cases.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to the Appellate Tribunal, if such demand relates to the expenses incurred in taking necessary action or steps for the completion of any act or work required to be done or executed in the event of non-compliance with any notice, order or requisition under sections 317, 325, 343, 344 and 345;\n(b) to the court of the district of Delhi, in any other case.]",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 337
        },
        {
            "number": "453",
            "title": "453. Application to the court of the district judge in other cases.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 338
        },
        {
            "number": "454",
            "title": "454. Power to sue for expenses or compensation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Recovery of certain dues",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 339
        },
        {
            "number": "455",
            "title": "455. Mode of recovery of certain dues.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Obstruction of owner by occupier",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 340
        },
        {
            "number": "456",
            "title": "456. Right of owner to apply to the court of the district judge in case of obstruction by occupier.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the provisions of section 317, section 325, section 343, section 344, section 345 or section 347 or any bye-law made thereunder or with any notice or order issued under any such provision, apply to the Appellate Tribunal; and\n(b) any other provision or any bye-law made thereunder or with any notice, order or requisition issued under such provision, apply to the court of the district judge of Delhi, and where such application is made] , within any time that may be fixed for the compliance with such provision or notice, order or requisition the owner shall not be liable for his failure to comply with the provision, or notice, order or requisition within the time so fixed.\nProceedings before the court of the district judge",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 341
        },
        {
            "number": "457",
            "title": "457. General powers and procedure of the court of the district judge.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 342
        },
        {
            "number": "458",
            "title": "458. Fees in Proceedings before the court of the district judge.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) on any application, appeal or reference under this Act or any bye-law made thereunder to the court of the district judge of Delhi; and\n(b) for the issue, in connection with any inquiry or proceedings before that court under this Act or such bye-law, of any summons or other process:\n(i) receive an application, appeal or reference made by or on behalf of a poor person, and\n(ii) issue process on behalf of any such person, without payment or on part payment of the fees prescribed under this section.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 343
        },
        {
            "number": "459",
            "title": "459. Repayment of half fees on settlement before hearing.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 344
        },
        {
            "number": "460",
            "title": "460. Power of the court of the district judge to delegate certain powers and to make rules.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) delegate, either generally or specially, to the court of an additional district judge, power to receive applications, [election petitions] , appeals and references under this Act or any rule, regulation or bye-law made thereunder, and to hear and determine such applications, [election petitions] , appeals and references;\n(b) with the approval of the [***] Government, make rules not inconsistent with this Act or any rule, regulation or by-law made thereunder, providing for any matter connected with the exercise of the jurisdiction conferred upon the court by this Act which is not herein specifically provided for.\nOffences and penalties",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 345
        },
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            "number": "461",
            "title": "461. Punishment for certain offences.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) contravenes any provision of any of the sections, sub-sections, clauses, provisos or other provisions of this Act mentioned in the first column of the Table in the Twelfth Schedule; or\n(b) fails to comply with any order or direction lawfully given to him or any requisition lawfully made upon him under any of the said sections, sub-sections, clauses, provisos or other provisions, shall be punishable\n(i) with fine which may extend to the amount, or with imprisonment for a term which may extend to the period, specified in that behalf in the third column of the said Table or with both; and\n(ii) in the case of a continuing contravention or failure, with an additional fine which may extend to the amount specified in the fourth column of that Table for every day during which such contravention or failure continues after conviction for the first such contravention or failure.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 346
        },
        {
            "number": "462",
            "title": "462. Punishment for acquiring share or interest in contract, etc, with [a Corporation.]",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[*] 463. Punishment for offences relating to terminal tax.\n[*] 464. Penalty for evasion of terminal taxes.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 347
        },
        {
            "number": "465",
            "title": "465. General penalty.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 348
        },
        {
            "number": "466",
            "title": "466. Offences by companies.",
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            "content": "(a) \"company\" means a body corporate, and includes a firm or other association of individuals; and\n(b) \"director\" in relation to a firm means a partner in the firm.\n[466A.] Certain offences to be cognizable.\n(a) an offence under sub-section (5) of section 313 or section 332 or sub-section (1) of section 333 or sub-section (1) of section 334 or section 343 or section 344 or section 345 or section 347;\n(b) an offence under sub-section (1) of section 317 or sub-section (1) of section 320 or sub-section (1) of section 321 or sub-section (1) of section 325 or section 339 in relation to any street which is a public street, as if it were a cognizable offence\n(i) for the purposes of investigation of such offence; and\n(ii) for the purposes of all matters other than",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 349
        },
        {
            "number": "467",
            "title": "467. Prosecutions.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) under sub-section (5) of section 313 or section 332 or sub-section (1) of section 333 or sub-section (1) of section 334 or section 343 or section 344 or section 345 or section 347 except on the complaint of or upon information received from, such officer of\n(b) under sub-section (1) of section 317 or sub-section (1) of section 320 or sub-section (1) of section 321 or sub-section (1) of section 325 or section 339, if any such offence was committed in relation to any street which is a public street, except on the complaint of, or upon information received from, such officer of [a Corporation] , not being below the rank of a Deputy Commissioner as may be appointed by the Administrator;\n(c) other than those specified in clauses (a) and (b), except on the complaint of, or upon information received from, [the Commissioner, or a person authorised by him] by a general or special order in this behalf.\n[468.] Composition of offences.\nMagistrates and proceedings before magistrates\n[*] 469. Municipal magistrates.\n[*] 470. Cognizance of offences.\n[*] 471. Limitation of time for prosecution.\n(a) the date of the commission of such offence, or\n(b) the date on which the commission or existence of such offence was first brought to the notice of the complainant.\n[*] 472. Power of magistrate to hear cases in absence of accused when summoned to appear.\n(a) service of the summons is proved to his satisfaction, and\n(b) no sufficient cause is shown, for the non-appearance of such person.\n[*] 473. Complaints concerning nuisances and procedure therefor.\nPowers and duties of police officers",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 350
        },
        {
            "number": "474",
            "title": "474. Arrest of offenders.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the name and address of such person be unknown to him, and\n(b) such person on demand declines to give his name and address or gives a name and address which such officer has reason to believe to be false.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 351
        },
        {
            "number": "475",
            "title": "475. Duties of police officers.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Legal proceedings",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 352
        },
        {
            "number": "476",
            "title": "476. Power to institute, etc, legal proceedings and obtain legal advice.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) take, or withdraw from, proceedings against any person who is charged with\n(i) any offence against this Act or any rule, regulation or bye-law made thereunder; or\n(ii) any offence which affects or is likely to affect any property or interest of [a Corporation] or the due administration of this Act; or\n(iii) committing any nuisance whatsoever;\n(b) contest or compromise any appeal against rateable value or assessment of any tax or rate;\n(c) take, or withdraw from, or compromise, proceedings under sections 451, 452 and 453 for the recovery of expenses or compensation claimed to be due to [a Corporation] ;\n(d) withdraw or compromise any claim for a sum not exceeding one thousand rupees against any person;\n(e) defend any suit or other legal proceeding brought against [a Corporation] or against the Commissioner or a municipal officer or other municipal employee in respect of anything done or omitted to be done by any one of them in his official capacity;\n(f) with the approval of the Standing Committee admit or compromise any claim, suit or other legal proceeding brought against [a Corporation] or against the Commissioner or any municipal officer or other municipal employee in respect of anything done or omitted to be done as aforesaid;\n(g) withdraw or compromise any claim against any person in respect of a penalty payable under a contract entered into with such person by the Commissioner on behalf of [a Corporation] ;\n(h) institute and prosecute any suit or other legal proceeding, or with the approval of the Standing Committee withdraw from or compromise any suit or any claim for any sum not exceeding five hundred rupees which has been instituted or made in the name of [a Corporation] or of the Commissioner;\n(i) obtain such legal advice and assistance as he from time to time thinks necessary or expedient to obtain or as he may be required by [a Corporation] or the Standing Committee [or the Wards Committee] to obtain, for any of the purposes mentioned in the foregoing clauses or for securing lawful exercise or discharge of any power or duty vesting in or imposed upon any municipal authority or any municipal officer or other municipal employee.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 353
        },
        {
            "number": "477",
            "title": "477. Protection of action of [a Corporation] , etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 354
        },
        {
            "number": "478",
            "title": "478. Notice to be given of suits.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter XXIII\nRules, Regulations and Bye-laws",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 355
        },
        {
            "number": "479",
            "title": "479. Supplemental provisions respecting rules.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 356
        },
        {
            "number": "480",
            "title": "480. Supplemental provisions respecting regulations.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 357
        },
        {
            "number": "481",
            "title": "481. Power to make bye-laws.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "A. Bye-laws relating to taxation\n[***]\n[***]\n[***]\nE. Bye-laws relating to streets\n[***]\nG. Bye-laws relating to sanitation and public health\nH. Bye-laws relating to vital statistics.\nI. Bye-laws relating to public safety and suppression of nuisances\nJ. Bye-laws relating to markets, slaughter houses, trades and occupations\nK. Bye-laws relating to improvement\nL. Bye-laws relating to miscellaneous matters\n(a) for the proprietors or drivers of hackney-carriages; cycle-rickshaws, thelas and rehries kept or plying for hire or used for hawking articles;\n(b) for persons working as job-porters for the conveyance of goods;\n[481A.]",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 358
        },
        {
            "number": "482",
            "title": "482. Penalty for breaches of bye-laws.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees; or\n(b) with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees and in the case of a continuing contravention, with an additional fine which may extend to twenty rupees for every day during which such contravention continues after conviction for the first such contravention",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 359
        },
        {
            "number": "483",
            "title": "483. Supplemental provisions respecting bye-laws.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 360
        },
        {
            "number": "484",
            "title": "484. Bye-laws to be available for inspection and purchase.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter XXIV\nControl\n[484A.] Director of Local Bodies.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 361
        },
        {
            "number": "485",
            "title": "485. Power of Central Government [or the Government] to require production of documents.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to produce any record, correspondence, plan or other document in his possession or under his control;\n(b) to furnish any return, plan estimate, statement, account or statistics relating to the proceedings, duties or works of [a Corporation] or any of the municipal authorities;\n(c) to furnish or obtain and furnish any report.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 362
        },
        {
            "number": "486",
            "title": "486. Inspection.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 363
        },
        {
            "number": "487",
            "title": "487. Directions by Central Government.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) that any duty imposed on [a Corporation] or any municipal authority by or under this Act has not been performed or has been performed in an imperfect, insufficient or unsuitable manner, or\n(b) that adequate financial provision has not been made for the performance of any such duty,",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 364
        },
        {
            "number": "487",
            "title": "488. Power to provide for enforcement of direction under section 487.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 365
        },
        {
            "number": "489",
            "title": "489. Power of Central [Government] to give directions in relation to primary schools, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[490.] Dissolution of [a Corporation.]\n(a) all councillors shall, on the date of the dissolution, vacate their office as such councillors and the persons referred to in clause (b) of sub-section (3) of section 3 shall cease to be represented in [a Corporation] ;\n(b) during the period of dissolution of [a Corporation] , all powers and duties conferred and imposed upon [a Corporation] by or under this Act or any other law, shall be exercised and performed by such officer or authority as the Central Government may appoint in that behalf;\n(c) all property vested in [a Corporation] shall, until it is re-constituted, vest in the Central Government.\nChapter XXV\nMiscellaneous\n[490A.] Delegation of power by the Central Government.\n[490B.] Delegation of power by the Government.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 366
        },
        {
            "number": "491",
            "title": "491. Power to delegate functions of Commissioner.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 367
        },
        {
            "number": "492",
            "title": "492. Validity of notices and other documents.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 368
        },
        {
            "number": "493",
            "title": "493. Admissibility of document or entry as evidence.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 369
        },
        {
            "number": "494",
            "title": "494. Evidence of Municipal officer or employee.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 370
        },
        {
            "number": "495",
            "title": "495. Prohibition against obstruction of Mayor or any municipal authority, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 371
        },
        {
            "number": "496",
            "title": "496. Prohibition against removal of mark.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 372
        },
        {
            "number": "497",
            "title": "497. Prohibition against removal or obliteration of notice.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 373
        },
        {
            "number": "498",
            "title": "498. Prohibition against unauthorised dealings with public place or materials.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 374
        },
        {
            "number": "499",
            "title": "499. Liability of Commissioner, etc. , for loss, waste or misapplication of Municipal Fund or property.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 375
        },
        {
            "number": "500",
            "title": "500. Councillors and municipal officers and employees to be public servants.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 376
        },
        {
            "number": "501",
            "title": "501. Annual administration report.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 377
        },
        {
            "number": "502",
            "title": "502. Other laws not to be disregarded.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 378
        },
        {
            "number": "503",
            "title": "503. Exemption of diplomatic or consular missions from payment of tax, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 379
        },
        {
            "number": "504",
            "title": "504. Construction of references.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 380
        },
        {
            "number": "505",
            "title": "505. Amendment of Delhi Act 3 of 1995.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 381
        },
        {
            "number": "506",
            "title": "506. Amendment of Act 43 of 1950.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 382
        },
        {
            "number": "507",
            "title": "507. Special provisions as to rural areas.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) [a Corporation] with the previous approval of the [***] Government, may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare that any portion of the rural areas shall cease to be included therein and upon the issue of such notification that portion shall be included in and form part of the urban areas;\n(b) [a Corporation] with the previous approval of the [***] Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette,\n(i) exempt the rural areas or any portion thereof from such of the provisions of this Act as it deems fit,\n(ii) levy taxes, rates, fees and other charges in the rural areas or any portion thereof at rates lower than those at which such taxes, rates, fees and other charges are levied in the urban areas or exempt such areas or portion from any such tax, rate, fee or other charge;\n(c) [a Corporation] shall pay a Gaon Sabha\n(i) an amount equal to the proceeds of the tax on profession, trades, callings and employments, as and when that tax is levied in the Gaon Sabha area, and\n(ii) an amount equal to such portion of the proceeds of the property taxes on lands and buildings in that area as may from time to time be determined by [a Corporation] ,",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 383
        },
        {
            "number": "508",
            "title": "508. Special provisions as to Red Fort area.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[508A.]\nChapter XXVI\nSupplemental and Transitional Provisions",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 384
        },
        {
            "number": "509",
            "title": "509. Power of [Government] to make first appointments.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 385
        },
        {
            "number": "510",
            "title": "510. Provisions relating to existing local authorities in Delhi till the establishment of [a Corporation.]",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the persons who immediately before such commencement are members of any of the local authorities specified in items 1 to 10 of the Second Schedule shall cease to be such members;\n(b) all the powers, duties and functions which may, under any of the aforesaid Acts or any other law, be exercised and performed by any such local authority, or by its President or Chairman, or by any Committee thereof shall, until the establishment of [a Corporation] , be exercised and performed by a person (whether an officer of Government or not) to be appointed by the Central Government with such designation as it may specify:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 386
        },
        {
            "number": "511",
            "title": "511. Provisions as to employees of bodies and local authorities whose functions are taken over by [a Corporation.]",
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            "content": "[511A.] Temporary provision with respect to electricity, water, sewage, etc.\n(a) water supply, drainage and sewage disposal;\n(b) electric supply; and\n(c) prevention and extinguishing of fire, and matters connected therewith or incidental thereto shall be deemed to continue in operation till such date as the Central [Government] may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify and different dates may be specified by the Central [Government] for any of the aforementioned different matters.\n[511B.] Special provision as to transferred functions.\n(a) all lands and buildings (together with all interests of whatsoever nature and kind therein) vested in [a Corporation] immediately before such commencement and used for the purposes of \"transferred functions\" shall pass to and vest in the new authority concerned;\n(b) all stores, articles and other movable properties belonging to [a Corporation] immediately before such commencement and utilised for or in connection with the \"transferred functions\" shall pass to and vest in the new authority concerned;\n(c) all appointment, notifications, orders, schemes, rules, forms, notices or bye-laws made or issued or any licence or permissions granted by [a Corporation] immediately before such commencement in connection with the \"transferred functions\" shall continue in force and be deemed to have been made, issued or granted by the new authority concerned unless and until they are superseded by any appointment, notification, order, scheme, rule, form, notice or bye-laws made or issued or any licence or permission granted by the new authority concerned;\n(d) all debts, obligations and liabilities incurred, all contracts entered into and all matters and things engaged to be done by, with or for, [a Corporation] immediately before such commencement for or in connection with the \"transferred functions\" shall be deemed to have been incurred, entered into, engaged to be done by, with or for, the new authority concerned;\n(e) all assessments, valuations, measurements or divisions made by [a Corporation] immediately before such commencement in or in connection with the \"transferred functions\" shall continue in force and be deemed to have been made by the new authority concerned unless and until they are superseded by any assessment, valuation, measurement or division made by that authority;\n(f) all rates, taxes, fees, rents and other sums of money due to [a Corporation] in relation to the \"transferred functions\" immediately before such commencement shall be deemed to be due to the new authority concerned;\n(g) all rates, fees, rents and other charges leviable in, or in relation to, the \"transferred functions\" shall, unless and until they are varied by the new authority concerned continue to be levied at the same rate at which they were being levied by [a Corporation] immediately before such commencement;\n(h) all suits, prosecutions and other legal proceedings instituted or which might have been instituted by or against [a Corporation] immediately before such commencement for any matter in relation to the \"transferred functions\" may be continued or instituted by or against the new authority concerned;\n(i) every officer and other employee serving under [a Corporation] immediately before such commencement in connection with the \"transferred functions\" shall be transferred to and become an officer or other employee of the new authority concerned with such designation as such authority may determine and hold office by the same tenure and at the same remuneration and on the same terms and conditions of service as he would have held the same if the new authority concerned had not been established and shall continue to do so unless and until such tenure, remuneration and terms and conditions are duly altered by that authority:\n(a) which stores, articles and other movable properties referred to in clause (b) of sub-section (2) have been utilised by [a Corporation] for or in connection with the \"transferred functions\";\n(b) which debts, obligations, liabilities, contracts, matters and things referred to in clause (d) of the said sub-section have been incurred, entered into or engaged to be done by, with or for, [a Corporation] for or in connection with the \"transferred functions\";\n(c) which officers and other employees referred to in clause (i) of that sub-section served under [a Corporation] in connection with the \"transferred functions\".",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 387
        },
        {
            "number": "512",
            "title": "512. Special provisions as to the area transferred from New Delhi to Delhi.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) all lands and buildings (together with all interest of whatsoever nature and kind therein) situated in the transferred area and vested in the New Delhi Municipal Committee immediately before such establishment shall pass to and vest in [a Corporation] ;\n(b) all stores, articles and other movable properties belonging to the New Delhi Municipal Committee immediately before such establishment and utilised for or in connection with the transferred area shall pass to and vest in [a Corporation] ;\n(c) all appointments, notifications, orders, schemes, rules, forms, notices or bye-laws made or issued or any licence or permission granted by the New Delhi Municipal Committee immediately before such establishment in or in connection with thetransferred area shall, in so far as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act continue in force and be deemed to have been made, issued or granted under the provisions of this Act unless and until they are superseded by any appointment, notification, order, scheme, rule, form, notice or bye-law made or issued or any licence or permission granted under the said provisions;\n(d) all debts, obligations and liabilities incurred, all contracts entered into and all matters and things engaged to be done by, with or for the New Delhi Municipal Committee immediately before such establishment for or in connection with the transferred area shall be deemed to have been incurred, entered into, engaged to be done by, with or for [a Corporation] or the municipal authority concerned;\n(e) all assessments, valuations, measurements or divisions made by the New Delhi Municipal Committee immediately before such establishment in or in connection with the transferred area shall in so far as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, continue in force and be deemed to have been made under the provisions of this Act unless and until they are superseded by any assessment, valuation, measurement or division made by [a Corporation] or the municipal authority concerned under the said provisions;\n(f) all rates, taxes, fees, rents and other sums of money due to the New Delhi Municipal Committee in, or in relation to, the transferred area immediately before such establishment shall be deemed to be due to [a Corporation] ;\n(g) all rates, taxes, fees, rents and other charges leviable in, or in relation to, transferred area shall unless and until they are varied by [a Corporation] , continue to be levied at the same rate at which they were being levied by the New Delhi Municipal Committee immediately before such establishment;\n(h) all suits, prosecutions and other legal proceedings instituted or which might have been instituted by or against the New Delhi Municipal Committee immediately before such establishment for any matter in relation to the transferred area may be continued or instituted by or against [a Corporation] ;\n(i) every officer and other employee serving under the New Delhi Municipal Committee immediately before such establishment in connection with the transferred area shall be transferred to and become an officer or other employee of [a Corporation] with such designation as the Commissioner may determine and hold office by the same tenure and at the same remuneration and on the same terms and conditions of service as he would have held the same if [a Corporation] had not been established and shall continue to do so unless and until such tenure, remuneration and terms and conditions are duly altered by [a Corporation] :\n(a) which stores, articles and other movable properties referred to in clause (b) of sub-section (2) have been utilised by the New Delhi Municipal Committee for or in connection with the transferred area;\n(b) which debts, obligations, liabilities, contracts, matters and things referred to in clause (d) of the said sub-section have been incurred, entered into or engaged to be done by, with or for the New Delhi Municipal Committee for or in connection with the transferred area;\n(c) which officer and other employees referred to in clause (i) of that sub-section served under the said Committee in connection with the transferred area.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "513",
            "title": "513. Expenditure in connection with the municipal affairs from the commencement of this Act to the adoption of the budget by [a Corporation.]",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 389
        },
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            "number": "514",
            "title": "514. Limits of New Delhi Municipality.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[514A.] Transitory provision.\n[514B.] Overriding effect of the provisions of the Delhi Development Act 1957.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 390
        },
        {
            "number": "515",
            "title": "515. Power to remove difficulties.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 391
        },
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            "number": "516",
            "title": "516. Repeal, etc, and savings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the Delhi Joint Water and Sewage Board Act, 1926 (23 of 1926), and the Delhi Road Transport Authority Act, 1950 (13 of 1950), shall stand repealed; and\n(b) the enactments specified in the Thirteenth Schedule shall cease to have effect within Delhi.\n(a) any appointment, notification, order, scheme, rule, form, notice or bye-law made or issued, and any licence or permission granted under any of the Acts or enactments referred to in sub-section (1) of this section or under the Act referred to in clause (a) of sub-section (2) of section 286 and in force immediately before the establishment of [a Corporation] shall, in so far as it is not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, continue in force and be deemed to have been made, issued or granted, under the provisions of this Act, unless and until it is superseded by any appointment, notification, order, scheme, rules, form, notice or bye-law made or issued or any licence or permission granted under the said provisions;\n(b) all debts, obligations and liabilities incurred, all contracts entered into and all matters and things engaged to be done by, with or for any of the bodies or local authorities specified in the Second Schedule before such establishment shall be deemed to have been incurred, entered into or engaged to be done by, with or for [a Corporation] or the municipal authority concerned;\n(c) all budget estimates, assessments, valuations, measurements or divisions made by any of the aforesaid bodies or local authorities shall in so far as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, continue in force and be deemed to have been made under the provisions of this Act unless and until they are superseded by any budget estimate, assessment, valuation, measurement or division made by [a Corporation] or the municipal authority concerned under the said provisions;\n(d) all properties, movable and immovable and all interest of whatsoever nature and kind therein, vested in any of the aforesaid bodies and local authorities immediately before such establishment shall, with all rights of whatsoever description, used, enjoyed or possessed by any such body or authority, vest in the Corporation;\n(e) all rates, taxes, fees, rents and other sums of money due to any of the aforesaid bodies or local authorities immediately before such establishment shall be deemed to be due to [a Corporation] ;\n(f) all rates, taxes, fees, rents, fares and other charges shall, until and unless they are varied by [a Corporation] continue to be levied at the same rate at which they were being levied by the aforesaid bodies or local authorities immediately before such establishment;\n(g) all suits, prosecutions and other legal proceedings instituted or which might have been instituted by or against any of the aforesaid bodies or local authorities may be continued or instituted by or against [a Corporation]\nThe First Schedule\n[ see section 2(32) and section 514 ]\nBoundaries of New Delhi\nBoundaries of New Delhi\nTHE SECOND SCHEDULE\n(See sections 99, 286, 504, 511 and 516)\nBODIES AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES WHOSE FUNCTIONS ARE\nBODIES AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES WHOSE FUNCTIONS ARE\nTAKEN OVER BY [A CORPORATION]\nTAKEN OVER BY [A CORPORATION]\nTHE THIRD SHEDULE\n(See Dection 136)\nRATES OF TAXES LEVIABLE ON VEHICLE AND ANIMALS\nRATES OF TAXES LEVIABLE ON VEHICLE AND ANIMALS\nMaximum amount of tax per annum\nFor vehicles with pneumatic tyres Rs.\nFor vehicles without pneumatic tyres Rs.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 392
        },
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Each two wheeled vehicle drawn\n\t\t\t\tby camels, horses, ponies, mules, donkeys, bullocks or buffaloes-",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) Labour carts\n(b) Other vehicles in this class\n12 32\n24 48",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 393
        },
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Each two wheeled vehicle drawn\n\t\t\t\tby camels, horses, ponies, mules, donkeys, bullocks or buffaloes-",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) Labour carts (b) Other vehicles in this class\n8 16\n16 24",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 394
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Each vehicle drawn or impelled otherwise than by camels,\n\t\t\t\thorses, ponies, mules, donkeys, bullocks, buffaloes or machinery",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "8\n12\nMaximum amount of tax per annum",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 395
        },
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            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Each cycle rickshaw",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "...\n6",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 396
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            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Each bicycle",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "...\n3",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 397
        },
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            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Each camel",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "...\n10",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 398
        },
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            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Each horse, pony or mule of a height of 12 hands or\n\t\t\t\tupwards.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "...\n20",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 399
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Each horse, pony or mule of a height of less than 12 hands",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "...\n10",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 400
        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Each bullock or buffalo kept for draught or pack purposes",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "...\n8\n10.Each donkey/ass kept for draught or pack purposes or for\n\t\t\t\triding\n...\n6",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 401
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Each pig",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "...\n4\n12.Each dog\n...\n5\n13.Each she-buffalo kept for milking\n...\n50\n14.Each cow kept for milking\n...\n30\nTHE FOURTH SCHEDULE\n(See section 140)\nTHEATRE-TAX\nTHEATRE-TAX\nTypes of Entertainment\nTypes of Entertainment\nMaximum amount of tax\nMaximum amount of tax",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 402
        },
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Class I cinema theatre",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Rs. 10 per show.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 403
        },
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Class II cinema theatre",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Rs. 7 per show.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 404
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Drama, concert, circus, variety entertainment or\n\t\t\t\ttamasha",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Rs. 7 per show.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 405
        },
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            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Carnival or fete",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Rs. 10 per day.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 406
        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Any other entertainment",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Rs. 7 per show or if there are no separate shows\n\t\t\t\tRs.7 per day.\nTHE FIFTH SCHEDULE\n(See section 142)\nTAX ON ADVERTISEMENTS OTHER THAN ADVERTISEMENTS PUBLISHED IN THE NEWSPAPERS TABLE S. No. Particulars Maximum amount of tax per annum Rs. 1. Non-illuminated advertisement on land, building, wall,\n\t\t\t\t\thoardings, frame post, structures, etc.:- (a) For a space up to 10 sq. ft. 18 (b) For a space over 10 sq. ft. and up to 25 sq. ft. 30 (c) For every additional 25 sq. ft. or less 30 2. Non-illuminated advertisement carried on vehicles,  drawn by\n\t\t\t\t\tbullocks, horses, or other animals, human  beings, cycle or any\n\t\t\t\t\tother device, carried on any  vehicle or tramcar- (a) For a space up to 50 sq. ft. 120 (b) For every additional 50 sq. ft. or less 120 3. Illuminated advertisement boards carried on vehicles- (a) For a space up to 50 sq. ft. 240 (b) For every additional 50 sq. ft. or less 240 4. Non-illuminated advertisement boards, carried by sandwich\n\t\t\t\t\tboardmen- (a) For each board not exceeding 10 sq. ft. 24 (b) For each board exceeding 10 sq. ft. and up to 35 sq. ft. 48 (c) For each additional 10 sq. ft. in area or less 24 5. Illuminated advertisement boards carried by sandwich\n\t\t\t\t\tboardmen- (a) For each board not exceeding 10 sq. ft. 48 (b) For each board exceeding 10 sq. ft. and up to 25 sq. ft. 96 (c) For each additional 10 sq. ft. in area or less 48 6. Illuminated advertisements on land, building, wall or\n\t\t\t\t\thoardings, frame, post, structures, etc.- (a) For a space up to 2 sq. ft. 24 (b) For a space over 2 sq. ft. and up to 5 sq. ft. 48 (c) For a space over 5 sq. ft. and up to 25 sq. ft. 60 (d) For every additional 25 sq. ft. or less 60 7. Advertisements exhibited on screen in cinema houses and other\n\t\t\t\t\tpublic places by means of lantern slides or similar devices- (a) For a space up to 5 sq. ft. 96 (b) For a space over 5 sq. ft. and upto 25 sq. ft. 120 (c) For every additional 25 sq. ft. or less. 120 8. Non-illuminated advertisements suspended across streets- (a) For a space up to 10 sq. ft. 18 (b) For a space over 10 sq. ft. and up to 25 sq. ft. 30 (c) For every additional 25 sq. ft. or less 30 N.B. The tax for item 8 will be in addition to the space \n\t\t\t\t\twill be chargeable according to the scale to be  determined by\n\t\t\t\t\tthe Commissioner. 9. Non-illuminated advertisement hoarding standing blank  but\n\t\t\t\t\tbearing the name of the advertiser or with the  announcement \"To\n\t\t\t\t\tbe let\" displayed thereon (a) For a space up to 10 sq. ft. 9 (b) For a space over 10 sq. ft. and up to 25 sq. ft 15 (c) For every additional 25 sq. ft. or less 15 10. Permission to auctioneers to put up not more than  two boards\n\t\t\t\t\tof reasonable size advertising each auction  sale, other than\n\t\t\t\t\tthose in the premises where the auction  is held, one on a\n\t\t\t\t\tprominent site in the locality and one  on municipal lamp post. 200 including the rent for exhibition the board on\n\t\t\t\t\ta municipal lamp post.\nTAX ON ADVERTISEMENTS OTHER THAN ADVERTISEMENTS PUBLISHED IN THE NEWSPAPERS\nS. 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The tax for item 8 will be in addition to the space \n\t\t\t\t\twill be chargeable according to the scale to be  determined by\n\t\t\t\t\tthe Commissioner.\n9.\nNon-illuminated advertisement hoarding standing blank  but\n\t\t\t\t\tbearing the name of the advertiser or with the  announcement \"To\n\t\t\t\t\tbe let\" displayed thereon\n(a) For a space up to 10 sq. ft.\n9\n(b) For a space over 10 sq. ft. and up to 25 sq. ft\n15\n(c) For every additional 25 sq. ft. or less\n15\n10.\nPermission to auctioneers to put up not more than  two boards\n\t\t\t\t\tof reasonable size advertising each auction  sale, other than\n\t\t\t\t\tthose in the premises where the auction  is held, one on a\n\t\t\t\t\tprominent site in the locality and one  on municipal lamp post.\n200 including the rent for exhibition the board on\n\t\t\t\t\ta municipal lamp post.\n[***] THE SEVENTH SCHEDULE [See section 154 (1)] NOTICE OF DEMAND To\nTHE SEVENTH SCHEDULE\n[See section 154 (1)]\nNOTICE OF DEMAND\nDated this .....................day of...............20........\nCommissioner\nDelhi Municipal Corporation.\nTHE EIGHTH SCHEDULE\n[See section 156(1)]\nFORM OF WARRANT\nFORM OF WARRANT\nDated this ..............................day of............20.........\nCommissioner,\nDelhi Municipal Corporation.\nDescription of immovable property\nTHE NINTH SCHEDULE\n[See section 157(2)]\nFORM OF INVENTORY OF PROPERTY DISTRAINED AND NOTICE OF SALE\nFORM OF INVENTORY OF PROPERTY DISTRAINED AND NOTICE OF SALE\nDated this .......................day of.......................20...........\n(Signature of officer executing the warrant).\nInventory\n[*] THE TENTH SCHEDULE\n[See section 178(1)]\nRATES OF TERMINAL TAXES ON GOODS\nArticles\nTerminal tax pay- able per maund  of gross weight except\n\t\t\t\t\twhere  otherwise stated\nRs.\nClass I.-Articles of food and drink",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 407
        },
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Refined sugar, i.e., khand, sugarcandy, bura, qand,\n\t\t\t\t\tkachchi khand, ilaichidana, nuqal, batasha, ola,\n\t\t\t\t\tkhand-ka-khilona, gindora khand and all kinds of sharbat or\n\t\t\t\t\tshira khand not in bottle",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "1.75",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 408
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Unrefined sugar, i.e. gur, shakkar, shira, rab, mizan\n\t\t\t\t\tkhand, muthia, sonthia, gindora and tiloncha-khand (a sort of\n\t\t\t\t\tunrefined sugar)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "0.58",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 409
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Ghee including vegetable ghee, and admixtures of ghee also\n\t\t\t\t\tvegetables solidified oil, dripping, marvo, trex, cocogold,\n\t\t\t\t\tpurico, crisco and cocogem",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "1.75",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 410
        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Butter and cream",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "1.75",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 411
        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Dried fruits and nuts excluding betel-nuts",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "0.29",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 412
        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Betal-nuts",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "0.07",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 413
        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Provisions (not included in any other class) including\n\t\t\t\t\toilman's stores, confectionery, jams, pickles, cheese, coffee\n\t\t\t\t\tand essences of fruits.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "1.17",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 414
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Country sweets made wholly or partly from or coated with\n\t\t\t\t\tsugar (refined or unrefined) fresh meat, fish and eggs.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "0.15",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 415
        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Oranges, apples, locat, peaches (aru), grapes, lichi,\n\t\t\t\t\tmelon (kharbooza), lemon (of all kinds), pears (nashpati), plums\n\t\t\t\t\t(alucha), appricot (Khubani), banana, pomegranates (annar),\n\t\t\t\t\tsarda, water-melon (tarbuz), custard apple (sharifa) and\n\t\t\t\t\trasberry",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "0.15",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 416
        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Country and foreign liquors",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "1.17",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 417
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Bhang",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "0.07",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 418
        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Betel leaf",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "1.75",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 419
        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Tea (Indian or foreign)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "0.29",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 420
        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Grain or pulses including parched grains",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "0.04",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 421
        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Flour",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "0.04",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 422
        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Animal fat, tallow and oil of all kinds except oils\n\t\t\t\t\tmentioned in class III, V & IX",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "0.29\nClass II.-Animals",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 423
        },
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Oxen, cows, buffaloes and calves (per head)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "0.58",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 424
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Sheep, goats, lambs and kids (per head)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "0.15",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 425
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Pigs (per head)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "0.58\nClass III.-Articles used for fuel, lighting\n\t\t\t\t\tand washing",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 426
        },
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Mava oil",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "0.15",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 427
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Kerosene oil (per gallon)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "0.02",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 428
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Diesel oil",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "0.07",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 429
        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Methylated spirit",
            "chapter": null,
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            "number": "7",
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            "number": "8",
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            "number": "9",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "10",
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            "number": "11",
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            "number": "12",
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            "number": "5",
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            "number": "7",
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            "number": "8",
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            "number": "9",
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            "number": "10",
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            "number": "11",
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            "number": "12",
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            "number": "13",
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            "number": "14",
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            "number": "1",
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            "number": "2",
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            "number": "3",
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            "number": "4",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "5",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "1",
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            "number": "2",
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            "number": "4",
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            "number": "2",
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            "number": "3",
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            "number": "4",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "5",
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            "number": "6",
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            "number": "7",
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        {
            "number": "8",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "9",
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            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "10",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "11",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "12",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 476
        },
        {
            "number": "1",
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            "number": "2",
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        {
            "number": "3",
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            "number": "4",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "5",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "6",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "7",
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            "number": "8",
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            "number": "9",
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            "number": "10",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "11",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "1",
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        {
            "number": "2",
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            "number": "3",
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            "number": "4",
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            "number": "5",
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            "number": "6",
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            "number": "7",
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        {
            "number": "8",
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            "number": "9",
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            "number": "10",
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            "number": "11",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "12",
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        {
            "number": "13",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "14",
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            "number": "15",
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            "number": "16",
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        {
            "number": "17",
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            "number": "18",
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        {
            "number": "19",
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            "number": "20",
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            "footnote": "",
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            "sort_order": 507
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            "number": "21",
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            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 508
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            "number": "22",
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            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 509
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        {
            "number": "23",
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            "sort_order": 510
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            "number": "24",
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            "sort_order": 511
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            "sort_order": 512
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            "number": "26",
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            "number": "27",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 514
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            "number": "28",
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            "sort_order": 515
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        {
            "number": "29",
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            "sort_order": 516
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            "number": "30",
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            "number": "31",
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            "content": "0.04\nTHE ELEVENTH SCHEDULE\n(See section 417)\nPART I\nPURPOSES FOR WHICH PREMISES MAY NOT BE USED WITHOUT A LICENCE\nPURPOSES FOR WHICH PREMISES MAY NOT BE USED WITHOUT A LICENCE\n(i) autocar or autocycle servicing or repairing.\n(ii) Blacksmithy.\n(iii) Coppersmithy.\n(iv) Electroplating.\n(v) Glass bevelling\n(vi) Glass cutting.\n(vii) Glass polishing.\n(viii) Goldsmithy.\n(ix) Marble cutting, grinding, dressing or polishing.\n(x) Metal (ferrous or non-ferrous or antimony but excluding previous metal)  cutting or treating metal by hammering, drilling, pressing, filing, polishing,  heating or by any other process whatever or assembling parts of metal.\n(xi) Photography-studio.\n(xii) Radio (wireless receiving set) selling, repairing, servicing or manufacturing.\n(xiii) Silversmithy.\n(xiv) Spinning or weaving cotton, silk, art silk, or jute or wool with the aid of power.\n(xv) Stone grinding, cutting, dressing or polishing.\n(xvi) Timber or wood sawing or cutting by mechanical or electric power.\n(xvii) Tinsmithy.\n(xviii) Washerman's trade.\n(xix) Welding of metal by electric, gas or any process whatsoever.\n(i) Aerated waters.\n(ii) Bakelite goods.\n(iii) Bidis (indigenous cigarettes), snuff, cigars or cigarettes.\n(iv) Bitumen.\n(v) Blasting powder.\n(vi) Bones.\n(vii) Bricks or tiles by hand power.\n(viii) Bricks or til'2s by mechanical power.\n(ix) Brushes.\n(x) Candles.\n(xi) Catgut.\n(xii) Celluloid or celluloid goods.\n(xiii) Cement concrete designs or models.\n(xiv) Charcoal.\n(xv) Chemicals.\n(xvi) Cinematograph films stripping in connection with any trade.\n(xvii) Cosmetics or toilet goods.\n(xviii) Cotton, cotton refuse, cotton waste, cotton yarn, silk, silk yarn, silk inclusive of waste yarn, art silk, art silk waste, art silk yarn, wool or woollen refuse or waste.\n(xix) Cotton seeds.\n(xx) Dammar.\n(xxi) Dynamite.\n(xxii) Fat.\n(xxiii) Fireworks.\n(xxiv) Flax.\n(xxv) Ink for printing, writing, stamping, etc.\n(xxvi) Gas.\n(xxvii) Ghee.\n(xxviii) Glass or glass articles.\n(xxix) Gunpowder.\n(xxx) Hemp.\n(xxxi) Ice (including dry ice).\n(xxxii) Insecticide or disinfectants.\n(xxxiii) Leather cloth or rexine cloth or water proof cloth.\n(xxxiv) Lime.\n(xxxv) Linseed oil.\n(xxxvi) Matches for lighting (including Bengal matches).\n(xxxvii) Matresses and pillows.\n(xxxviii) Offal.\n(xxxix) Oil-cloth.\n(xl) Oil other than petroleum (either by mechanical power or by hand power or ghani driven by bullock or any other animal).\n(xli) Pharmaceutical or medical products.\n(xlii) Rubber or rubber goods.\n(xliii) Paints.\n(xliv) Paper or cardboard.\n(xlv) Pickers from hides.\n(xlvi) Pitch.\n(xlvii) Plastic goods.\n(xlviii) Pottery by hand power.\n(xlix) Pottery by mechanical or any power other than hand power.\n(1) Sanitary-ware or china-ware.\n(li) Soap.\n(1ii) Sugar.\n(liii) Sweetmeat and confectionery goods.\n(liv) Tallow.\n(1v) Tar\n(lvi) Varnishes.\n(lvii) Wooden furniture, boxes, barrels, khokas, or other articles of wood or of plywood or of sandalwood.\nPART II\nPART II\nARTICLES WHICH MAY NOT BE STORED IN ANY PREMISES WITHOUT A LICENCE\nARTICLES WHICH MAY NOT BE STORED IN ANY PREMISES WITHOUT A LICENCE\nTHE TWELFTH SHEDULE\n(See section 461)\nPENALITIES\nPENALITIES\nSection, sub-section, clause or proviso\nSubject\nFine or imprisonment which may be imposed\nDaily fine which may be imposed\nRs.\nRs.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 518
        },
        {
            "number": "128",
            "title": "Section 128, subsections (1) and (2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to give notice of transfer of devolution of land or\n\t\t\t\t\tbuilding.\n50\n....",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 519
        },
        {
            "number": "128",
            "title": "Section 128, subsection (3)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to produce instrument of transfer.\n50\n....",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 520
        },
        {
            "number": "129",
            "title": "Section 129",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to give notice of erection of new building etc.\n50\n....",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 521
        },
        {
            "number": "130",
            "title": "Section 130",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to give notice of demolition or removal of building.\n50\n....",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 522
        },
        {
            "number": "135",
            "title": "Section 135, subsection (2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Wilful delay or obstruction of valuers.50\n....",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 523
        },
        {
            "number": "143",
            "title": "Section 143",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Prohibition of advertisement without permission.\n200\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 524
        },
        {
            "number": "172",
            "title": "Section 172, sub-section (2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Non-compliance with the requisition of attendance before the\n\t\t\t\t\tCommissioner.\n50\n....",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 525
        },
        {
            "number": "175",
            "title": "Section 175",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to disclose liability.\n100\n....\n[***]",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 526
        },
        {
            "number": "305",
            "title": "Section 305, sub-section (3)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Construction of building within the regular line of street\n\t\t\t\t\twithout permission.\n1,000\n100",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 527
        },
        {
            "number": "307",
            "title": "Section 307",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to set back buildings to\n\t\t\t\t\tregular line of street.\n200\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 528
        },
        {
            "number": "310",
            "title": "Section 310",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to set  forward buildings\n\t\t\t\t\tto regular line of street.\n200\n10",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 529
        },
        {
            "number": "313",
            "title": "Section 313, sub-section (5)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Utilising, selling or otherwise dealing with  any land or\n\t\t\t\t\tlaying out a private street  otherwise than in conformity with\n\t\t\t\t\torders  of the Standing Committee.\n[Rigorous imprisonment which may extend to three years]\n[***]",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 530
        },
        {
            "number": "314",
            "title": "Section 314, sub-section (1), clauses (a) and (b)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to  show cause for\n\t\t\t\t\talteration of street or for  appearance before the Commissioner.\n50\n5",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 531
        },
        {
            "number": "315",
            "title": "Section 315, sub-section (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition on  owner of private\n\t\t\t\t\tstreet or owner of  adjoining land or buildings to level, etc., \n\t\t\t\t\tsuch street.\n100\n10",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 532
        },
        {
            "number": "317",
            "title": "Section 317, sub-section (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Prohibition of projections upon streets*,  etc.\n200\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 533
        },
        {
            "number": "317",
            "title": "Section 317, sub-section (2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to  remove projections\n\t\t\t\t\tfrom streets.\n200\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 534
        },
        {
            "number": "318",
            "title": "Section 318, sub-section (2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to  remove a verandah,\n\t\t\t\t\tbalcony, etc., put up  in accordance with section 317(1).\n200\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 535
        },
        {
            "number": "319",
            "title": "Section 319",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to have  ground floor\n\t\t\t\t\tdoors, etc., so altered as not  to open outwards.\n50\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 536
        },
        {
            "number": "320",
            "title": "Section 320, sub-section (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Erection, etc., of structures or fixtures  which cause\n\t\t\t\t\tobstruction in streets*.\n200\n10",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 537
        },
        {
            "number": "321",
            "title": "Section 321",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Deposit, etc., of things in streets*.\n100\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 538
        },
        {
            "number": "323",
            "title": "Section 323, sub-section (1) and (2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Tethering of animals and milking of cattle  in public\n\t\t\t\t\tstreets.\n100\n5",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 539
        },
        {
            "number": "324",
            "title": "Section 324, sub-section (4)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Unlawful removal of bar or shorting  timber, etc., or removal\n\t\t\t\t\tor extinction of  light.\n503\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 540
        },
        {
            "number": "325",
            "title": "Section 325, sub-section (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Streets not to be opened or broken up  and building materials\n\t\t\t\t\tnot to be  deposited thereon without permission.\n200\n10",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 541
        },
        {
            "number": "327",
            "title": "Section 327, sub-section (2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Name of street and number of house not  to be destroyed or\n\t\t\t\t\tdefaced, etc.\n50\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 542
        },
        {
            "number": "328",
            "title": "Section 328, sub-section (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to repair, protect or\n\t\t\t\t\tenclose a dangerous place.\n100\n25",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 543
        },
        {
            "number": "330",
            "title": "Section 330, sub-section (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Removal, etc., of lamps.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 544
        },
        {
            "number": "330",
            "title": "Section 330, sub-section (2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Wilfully and negligently extinguishing lights in public\n\t\t\t\t\tstreets, etc.\n50\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 545
        },
        {
            "number": "332",
            "title": "Section 332",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Erection of a building without the sanction of the\n\t\t\t\t\tCommissioner.\n[Simple imprisonment which may extend to  six\n\t\t\t\t\tmonths or  with fine which  may extend to  Rs. 5,000 or  with\n\t\t\t\t\tboth]\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 546
        },
        {
            "number": "333",
            "title": "Section 333, sub-section (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to give notice of intention to erect a building.\n[Simple imprisonment which  may extend to  six months or \n\t\t\t\t\twith fine which  may extend to  Rs. 5,000 or  with both]\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 547
        },
        {
            "number": "334",
            "title": "Section 334, sub-section (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to give notice of intention to make additions, etc.,\n\t\t\t\t\tto buildings.\nSimple imprisonment which  may extend to  six months or \n\t\t\t\t\twith fine which  may extend to  Rs. 5,000 or  with both]\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 548
        },
        {
            "number": "337",
            "title": "Section 337, sub-section (4)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Commencement of work without notice, etc\n10,000\n500",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 549
        },
        {
            "number": "339",
            "title": "Section 339",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to round off buildings at\n\t\t\t\t\tcorners of streets*.\n100\n5",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 550
        },
        {
            "number": "340",
            "title": "Section 340, sub-section (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Erection of buildings on new streets  without levelling.\n1,000\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 551
        },
        {
            "number": "340",
            "title": "Section 340, sub-section (2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Erection of buildings or execution of work 1,000 within\n\t\t\t\t\tregular line of street or in contravention of any scheme or\n\t\t\t\t\tplan.\n1000\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 552
        },
        {
            "number": "342",
            "title": "Section 342",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Use of inflammable materials without permission.\n100\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 553
        },
        {
            "number": "343",
            "title": "Section 343",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to demolish buildings erected without sanction [or\n\t\t\t\t\terection of buildings in contravention of order] .\n[Simple imprisonment which  may extend to six\n\t\t\t\t\tmonths or  with fine which  may extend to  Rs. 5,000 or  with\n\t\t\t\t\tboth]",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 554
        },
        {
            "number": "344",
            "title": "Section 344",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Erection of buildings in contravention of conditions of\n\t\t\t\t\tsanction, etc.\n[Simple imprisonment which  may extend to six\n\t\t\t\t\tmonths or  with fine which  may extend to  Rs. 5,000 or  with\n\t\t\t\t\tboth]",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 555
        },
        {
            "number": "345",
            "title": "Section 345",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to carry out alterations.\n[Simple impri- sonment which  may extend to  six months or \n\t\t\t\t\twith fine which  may extend to  Rs. 5,000 or  with both]",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 556
        },
        {
            "number": "346",
            "title": "Section 346, sub-sections (1) and (2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Non-compliance with provision as to completion certificates,\n\t\t\t\t\toccupation or use, etc., without permission.\n200\n10",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 557
        },
        {
            "number": "347",
            "title": "Section 347",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Non-compliance with restrictions on user of buildings.\n[Simple impri- sonment which  may extend to  six months or \n\t\t\t\t\twith fine which  may extend to  Rs. 5,000 or  with both]",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 558
        },
        {
            "number": "348",
            "title": "Section 348, sub-sections (1) and (2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to  remove structures\n\t\t\t\t\twhich are in ruins or  likely to fall.\n500\n20",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 559
        },
        {
            "number": "349",
            "title": "Section 349, sub-section (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to  vacate buildings in\n\t\t\t\t\tdangerous condition,  etc.\n200\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 560
        },
        {
            "number": "353",
            "title": "Section 353",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to provide for collection, removal  and deposit of\n\t\t\t\t\trefuse and provision of  receptacles.\n50\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 561
        },
        {
            "number": "354",
            "title": "Section 354",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to collect and remove filth and  polluted matter.\n50\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 562
        },
        {
            "number": "355",
            "title": "Section 355, sub-section (2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Scavenger's duties in certain cases not to be  discharged by\n\t\t\t\t\tany person without  permission.\n25\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 563
        },
        {
            "number": "356",
            "title": "Section 356",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition for  removal of rubbish,\n\t\t\t\t\tetc., from premises  used as market, etc.\n100\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 564
        },
        {
            "number": "357",
            "title": "Section 357, sub-section (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Keeping rubbish and filth for more than twenty-four hours,\n\t\t\t\t\tetc.\n50\n10",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 565
        },
        {
            "number": "357",
            "title": "Section 357, sub-section (2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Allowing filth to flow in streets.\n50\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 566
        },
        {
            "number": "357",
            "title": "Section 357, sub-section (3)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Depositing rubbish or filth, etc., in street, etc.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 567
        },
        {
            "number": "360",
            "title": "Section 360, sub-section (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Latrines and urinals not to be constructed without permission\n\t\t\t\t\tor in contravention of terms prescribed.\n200\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 568
        },
        {
            "number": "361",
            "title": "Section 361, sub-section (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to provide buildings newly erected or re-erected with\n\t\t\t\t\tlatrine, urinal and other accommodation.\n500\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 569
        },
        {
            "number": "361",
            "title": "Section 361, sub-section (3)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to provide residential buildings composed of separate\n\t\t\t\t\ttenements with latrine, bathing or washing place for servants on\n\t\t\t\t\tthe ground floor.\n500\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 570
        },
        {
            "number": "362",
            "title": "Section 362",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to provide latrines for premises used by large number\n\t\t\t\t\tof people and to keep them clean and in proper order.\n100\n20",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 571
        },
        {
            "number": "363",
            "title": "Section 363",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to provide latrines for\n\t\t\t\t\tmarket, cattle shed, cart stand, etc., and to keep them clean\n\t\t\t\t\tand in proper order.\n100\n20",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 572
        },
        {
            "number": "364",
            "title": "Section 364, clauses (a), (b), (c) and (d)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to enforce provision of\n\t\t\t\t\tlatrine or urinal accommodation, etc.\n100\n10",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 573
        },
        {
            "number": "365",
            "title": "Section 365, sub-section (2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition for removal of congested\n\t\t\t\t\tbuildings.\n1000\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 574
        },
        {
            "number": "366",
            "title": "Section 366",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to improve buildings unfit\n\t\t\t\t\tfor human habitation.\n1000\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 575
        },
        {
            "number": "368",
            "title": "Section 368, sub-sections (1), (2), (3) and (4)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with order of demolition of buildings unfit\n\t\t\t\t\tfor human  habitation.\n1000\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 576
        },
        {
            "number": "369",
            "title": "Section 369",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition of the Commissioner to\n\t\t\t\t\tremove insanitary huts and sheds, etc.\n100\n15",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 577
        },
        {
            "number": "370",
            "title": "Section 370, sub-section (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Prohibition against washing by washerman.\n25\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 578
        },
        {
            "number": "371",
            "title": "Section 371",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to give information of dangerous disease.\n100\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 579
        },
        {
            "number": "373",
            "title": "Section 373",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to cleanse and disinfect\n\t\t\t\t\tbuildings or articles.\n50\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 580
        },
        {
            "number": "374",
            "title": "Section 374",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to destroy infectious huts\n\t\t\t\t\tor sheds.\n50\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 581
        },
        {
            "number": "375",
            "title": "Section 375",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Washing of clothing, bedding, etc., at any place not notified\n\t\t\t\t\tby the Commissioner.\n25\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 582
        },
        {
            "number": "377",
            "title": "Section 377, sub-section (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Sending infected clothes to washerman or laundry.\n25\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 583
        },
        {
            "number": "377",
            "title": "Section 377, sub-section (2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to furnish address of washerman or laundry to which\n\t\t\t\t\tclothes have been sent.\n25\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 584
        },
        {
            "number": "378",
            "title": "Section 378, sub-sections (1), (2) and (3)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Use of public conveyances by persons suffering from a\n\t\t\t\t\tdangerous disease, etc.\n50\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 585
        },
        {
            "number": "380",
            "title": "Section 380",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to disinfect buildings before letting the same.\n100\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 586
        },
        {
            "number": "381",
            "title": "Section 381",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Disposal of infected articles without disinfection.\n50\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 587
        },
        {
            "number": "382",
            "title": "Section 382",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Making or selling of food, etc., or washing of clothes by\n\t\t\t\t\tinfected persons.\n50\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 588
        },
        {
            "number": "383",
            "title": "Section 383",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Sale of food or drink in  contravention of restriction or \n\t\t\t\t\tprohibition of the Commissioner.\n50\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 589
        },
        {
            "number": "384",
            "title": "Section 384",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Removal or use of water from wells and  tanks in\n\t\t\t\t\tcontravention of prohibition of  Commissioner.\n50\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 590
        },
        {
            "number": "385",
            "title": "Section 385",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Exposure of persons to risk of infection by  the presence or\n\t\t\t\t\tconduct of a person  suffering from a dangerous disease, etc.\n100\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 591
        },
        {
            "number": "386",
            "title": "Section 386",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Removal of infectious corpses in  contravention of the\n\t\t\t\t\tprovisions of the  section.\n50\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 592
        },
        {
            "number": "387",
            "title": "Section 387, sub-sections (1) and (2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Absence of sweepers, etc., from duty without notice.\nImprisonment which may extend to one month\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 593
        },
        {
            "number": "388",
            "title": "Section 388",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "A sweeper employed for doing house  scavenging not to\n\t\t\t\t\tdiscontinue work  without notice.\n10\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 594
        },
        {
            "number": "389",
            "title": "Section 389",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to supply information by persons  incharge of burning\n\t\t\t\t\tor burial grounds.\n50\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 595
        },
        {
            "number": "390",
            "title": "Section 390",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Use of new burning or burial ground  without permission.\n50\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 596
        },
        {
            "number": "391",
            "title": "Section 391, sub-section (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to close  a burning or\n\t\t\t\t\tburial ground.\n50\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 597
        },
        {
            "number": "391",
            "title": "Section 391, sub-section (2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Burning or burial of corpses in a burning  or burial ground\n\t\t\t\t\tafter it has been closed.\n50\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 598
        },
        {
            "number": "392",
            "title": "Section 392",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Removal of corpses by other than  prescribed routes.\n25\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 599
        },
        {
            "number": "393",
            "title": "Section 393, sub-section (1), clause (b)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to give notice for removal of  carcasses of dead\n\t\t\t\t\tanimals.\n10\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 600
        },
        {
            "number": "396",
            "title": "Section 396, sub-sections (1) and (2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to give information of births and  deaths.\n50\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 601
        },
        {
            "number": "397",
            "title": "Section 397, sub-sections (1), (2) and (3)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Commission of nuisances.\n50\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 602
        },
        {
            "number": "398",
            "title": "Section 398",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition for removal or abatement\n\t\t\t\t\tof nuisance.\n500\n25",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 603
        },
        {
            "number": "399",
            "title": "Section 399, sub-section (4)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Dogs not to be at large in a street without  being secured by\n\t\t\t\t\ta chain lead.\n50\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 604
        },
        {
            "number": "399",
            "title": "Section 399, sub-section (5)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Ferocious dogs at large without being muzzled, etc.\n100\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 605
        },
        {
            "number": "400",
            "title": "Section 400",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Stacking inflammable material in contravention of\n\t\t\t\t\tprohibition.\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 606
        },
        {
            "number": "401",
            "title": "Section 401",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Setting a naked light.\n50\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 607
        },
        {
            "number": "402",
            "title": "Section 402",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Discharging fireworks, firearms, etc., likely to cause\n\t\t\t\t\tdanger.\n50\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 608
        },
        {
            "number": "403",
            "title": "Section 403",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to render buildings,\n\t\t\t\t\twells, etc., safe.\n50\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 609
        },
        {
            "number": "404",
            "title": "Section 404",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to enclose land used for\n\t\t\t\t\timproper purposes.\n50\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 610
        },
        {
            "number": "406",
            "title": "Section 406, sub-section (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Sale in municipal markets without permission.\n200\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 611
        },
        {
            "number": "407",
            "title": "Section 407, sub-sections (1) and (2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Use of places as private markets without a licence and use of\n\t\t\t\t\tplaces other than a municipal slaughter house as slaughter\n\t\t\t\t\thouses.\n500\n25",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 612
        },
        {
            "number": "407",
            "title": "Section 407, sub-section (2), proviso (a)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Non-compliance with conditions imposed  by Commissioner.\n50\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 613
        },
        {
            "number": "409",
            "title": "Section 409",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Keeping market open without licence, etc.\n2,000\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 614
        },
        {
            "number": "410",
            "title": "Section 410",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Sale in unlicensed market.\n50\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 615
        },
        {
            "number": "411",
            "title": "Section 411",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Carrying on business or trade near a market.\n50\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 616
        },
        {
            "number": "414",
            "title": "Section 414",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure of person in charge of markets to expel lepers and\n\t\t\t\t\tdisturbers from the market.\n50\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 617
        },
        {
            "number": "415",
            "title": "Section 415",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Carrying on butcher's, fish-monger's or poulterer's trade\n\t\t\t\t\twithout licence, etc.\n100\n10",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 618
        },
        {
            "number": "416",
            "title": "Section 416",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Establishment of factory, etc. without permission.\n5,000\n500",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 619
        },
        {
            "number": "417",
            "title": "Section 417",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Certain things not to be kept and certain trades and\n\t\t\t\t\toperations not to be carried on without a licence.\n1,000\n100",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 620
        },
        {
            "number": "418",
            "title": "Section 418, sub-section (3)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Keeping, abandonment or tethering of  animals, etc.\n100\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 621
        },
        {
            "number": "419",
            "title": "Section 419, sub-section (5)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Use of premises in contravention of declaration.\n500\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 622
        },
        {
            "number": "420",
            "title": "Section 420",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Hawking articles for sale without a licence, etc.\n100",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 623
        },
        {
            "number": "421",
            "title": "Section 421",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Keeping a lodging house, eating house, tea 100  shop, etc.,\n\t\t\t\t\twithout licence or contrary to licence.\n100\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 624
        },
        {
            "number": "422",
            "title": "Section 422",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Keeping open theatre, circus or other place of public\n\t\t\t\t\tamusement without licence or contrary to terms of licence.\n500\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 625
        },
        {
            "number": "430",
            "title": "Section 430, sub-section (5)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to produce licence or written  permission.\n50\n5",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 626
        },
        {
            "number": "431",
            "title": "Section 431",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Preventing the Commissioner or any person  authorised in this\n\t\t\t\t\tbehalf from exercising his powers of entry, etc.\n50\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 627
        },
        {
            "number": "432",
            "title": "Section 432",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Preventing the Commissioner or any person   authorised in\n\t\t\t\t\tthis behalf from exercising his power of entry upon any\n\t\t\t\t\tadjoining land.\n50\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 628
        },
        {
            "number": "437",
            "title": "Section 437",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Obstruction or molestation in execution of work.\n200\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 629
        },
        {
            "number": "444",
            "title": "Section 444, sub-section (4)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to state the name and\n\t\t\t\t\taddress of owners of  premises.\n50\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 630
        },
        {
            "number": "456",
            "title": "Section 456, sub-section (3)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure of occupier of land or building to  afford owner\n\t\t\t\t\tfacilities for complying with provisions of the Act, etc., after\n\t\t\t\t\teight days  from issue of order by district judge.\n200\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 631
        },
        {
            "number": "495",
            "title": "Section 495",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Obstruction of Mayor or any municipal authority, etc.\n200\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 632
        },
        {
            "number": "496",
            "title": "Section 496",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Removal of any mark set up for indicating level, etc.\n100\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 633
        },
        {
            "number": "497",
            "title": "Section 497",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Removal, etc., of notice exhibited by or under orders of the\n\t\t\t\t\tCorporation, Commissioner, etc.\n50\n...",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 634
        },
        {
            "number": "498",
            "title": "Section 498",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Unlawful removal of earth, sand or other material or deposit\n\t\t\t\t\tof any matter or making of any encroachment from any land vested\n\t\t\t\t\tin the Corporation.\n50\n...\nTHE THIRTEENTH SCHEDULE\n(See section 516)\nENACTMENT CEASING TO HAVE EFFECT IN DELHI\nENACTMENT CEASING TO HAVE EFFECT IN DELHI\nTHE FOURTEENTH SCHEDULE\n(See section 3A)\nTHE NAME, AREAS AND LIMITS OF CORPORATIONS\nTHE NAME, AREAS AND LIMITS OF CORPORATIONS\nSl. No.\nName of the Corporation\nWard No.\nName of the Ward\nName of the Zone\n(1)\n(2)\n(3)\n(4)\n(5)\n1.\nNorth Delhi Municipal\n1.\nNarela\nNarela\n2.\nBankner\n3.\nAlipur\n4.\nBakhtawar Pur\n5.\nBhalswa Jahangir Puri\nCivil Lines\n6.\nMukund Pur\n7.\nBurari\n8.\nJharoda\n9.\nMalka Ganj\n10.\nTimar Pur\n11.\nMukherjee Nagar\n12.\nGTB. Nagar\n13.\nDhir Pur\n14.\nAdarsh Nagar\n15.\nSarai Pipal Thala\n16.\nJahangir Puri-I\n17.\nSamaypur Badli\n18.\nLibas Pur\n19.\nBhalswa\n20.\nJahangir Puri-II\n21.\nRohini\n22.\nRithala\n23.\nBudh Vihar\n24.\nVijay Vihar\n25.\nPooth Kalan\n26.\nSahibabad Dault Pur\n27.\nBegampur\nNarela\n28.\nBawana\n29.\nKarala\n30.\nMundaka\nNajafgarh\n31.\nNangloi Jat West\n32.\nNilothi\nNarela\n33.\nPratap Nagar\nRohini\n34.\nNithari\n35.\nKirai Suleman Nagar\n36.\nPrem Nagar\n37.\nSultanpuri East\n38.\nMangol Puri North\nRohini\n39.\nSultanpur Majra\n40.\nSultanpuri South\n41.\nGuru Harikishan Nagar\nWest\n42.\nPeeragarhi\n43.\nNangloi East\n44.\nQuammruddin Nagar\n45.\nRohini South\n46.\nMangolpuri East\nRohini\n47.\nMangolpuri\n48.\nMangolpuri West\n49.\nRohini North\n50.\nRohini Central\n51.\nRohini East\n52.\nNaharpur\n53.\nPitampura South\n54.\nPitampura North\n55.\nShalimar Bagh North\n56.\nShalimar Bagh South\n57.\nPaschim Vihar South\nWest\n58.\nPaschimVihar North Corporation\n59.\nRani Bagh\nRohini\n60.\nSaraswati Vihar\n61.\nTri Nagar\n62.\nRampura\n63.\nKohat Enclave\n64.\nShakur Pur\n65.\nNimri Colony\n66.\nSawan Park\n67.\nWazirpur\n68.\nAshok Vihar\n69.\nKamla Nagar\nCivil Lines\n70.\nRana Partap Bagh\n71.\nSangam Park\n72.\nModel Town\n73.\nShastri Nagar\nS.P. Zone\n74.\nInder Lok Colony\nKarol Bagh Zone\n75.\nKishan Ganj\n76.\nDeputy Ganj\n77.\nKashmere Gate\nCivil Lines\n78.\nMajnu Ka Tilla\n79.\nJama Masjid\ncity\n80.\nChandni Chowk\n81.\nMinto Road\n82.\nKucha Pandit\n83.\nBazaar Sita Ram\n84.\nTurkman Gate\n85.\nIdgah Road\nS.P. Zone\n86.\nBallimaran\nCity\n87.\nRam Nagar\nS.P. Zone\n88.\nQasabpura\n89.\nPaharganj\n90.\nModel Basti\n91.\nKarol Bagh\nKarol Bagh Zone\n92.\nDev Nagar\n93.\nBaljit Nagar\n94.\nWest Patel Nagar\n95.\nEast Patel Nagar\n96.\nNew Ranjit Nagar\n97.\nKirti Nagar\nWest\n98.\nMansarovar Garden\n99.\nMoti Nagar\n100.\nKaram Pura\n149.\nRajinder Nagar\nKarol Bagh Zone\n150.\nPusa\n151.\nInderpuri\n152.\nNaraina\n2.\nSouth Delhi Municipal Corporation\n101.\nRaja Garden\nWest\n102.\nRaghubir Nagar\n103.\nPunjabi Bagh\n104.\nMadipur\n105.\nRajouri Garden\n106.\nTagore Garden\n107.\nVishnu Garden\n108.\nKhyala\n109.\nJanak Puri North\n110.\nNangal Raya\n111.\nHari Nagar\n112.\nSubash Nagar\n113.\nMahavir Nagar\n114.\nTilak Nagar\n115.\nMajor Bhupinder Singh Nagar\nWest\n116.\nVikaspuri East\n117.\nJanakpuri West\n118.\nJanakpuri South\n119.\nMilap Nagar\nNajafgarh\n120.\nSitapuri\nNajafgarh\n121.\nKanwar Singh Nagar\n122.\nHastsal\nWest\n123.\nVikaspuri\n124.\nVikas Nagar\n125.\nMohan Garden\n126.\nNawada\nWest\n127.\nUttam Nagar\n128.\nBindapur\n129.\nDabri\n130.\nManglapuri\n131.\nSagarpur\n132.\nSagarpur West\n133.\nChhawla\n134.\nNangli Sakravati\nNajafgarh\n135.\nKakraula\n136.\nMatiala\n137.\nRoshanpura\n138.\nNajafgarh\n139.\nDichaon Kalan\n140.\nKhera\n141.\nBijwasan\n142.\nRaj Nagar\n143.\nKapdshera\n144.\nMahipalpur\nNajafgarh\n145.\nPalam\n146.\nSadh Nagar\n147.\nMahavir Enclave\n148.\nMadhu Vihar\n153.\nDarya Ganj\n154.\nNizamuddin\ncity\n155.\nLajpat Nagar\n156.\nBhogal\n157.\nKasturba Nagar\nCentral\n158.\nKotla Mubarakpur\n159\nAndrews Ganj\n160\nAmar Colony\n161\nMalviya Nagar\n162\nVillage Hauz Rani\n163\nSafdarjung Enclave\n164\nHauz Khas\n165\nVasant Vihar\n166.\nMunirka\nSouth\n167.\nR.K. Puram\n168.\nNanak Pura\n169.\nLado Sarai\n170.\nMehrauli\n171.\nVasant Kunj\n172.\nKishangarh\nNajafgarh\n173.\nSaidul Ajaib\n174.\nChhatarpur\n175.\nAya Nagar\n176.\nBhati\n177.\nSangam Vihar\n178.\nDeoli\nSouth\n179.\nTigri\n180.\nDakshin Puh Extn.\n181.\nKhanpur\n182.\nAmbedkar Nagar\n183.\nMadangir\n184.\nPushp Vihar\n185.\nTughlakabad Extn.\n186.\nSangam Vihar West\n187.\nSangam Vihar Central\nCentral\n188.\nSangam Vihar East\n189.\nChiragh Delhi\nSouth\n190.\nChittaranjan Park\nCentral\n191.\nShahput Jat\nSouth\n192.\nGreater Kailash-I\n193.\nSriniwas Puri\n194.\nEast of Kailash\n195.\nGovind Puri\n196.\nKalkaji\n197.\nTughlakabad\n198.\nPul Pehlad\n199.\nTeh Khand\n200.\nHarkeshnagar\nCentral\n201.\nJaitpur\n202.\nMeetha Pur\n203.\nBadarpur\n204.\nMolarband\n205.\nZakir Nagar\n206.\nOkhla\n207.\nMadanpur Khadar\n208.\nSarita Villar\n3.\nEast Delhi Municipal Corporation\n209.\nMayur Vihar Ph-I\n210.\nDallupura\n211.\nTrilok Puri\n212.\nNew Ashok Nagar\n213.\nKalpan Puri\n214.\nKhichripur\nShahdara South\n215.\nKondli\n216.\nGharoli\n217.\nVinod Nagar\n218.\nMandawali\n219.\nMayur Vihar Ph-II\n220.\nPatparganj\n221.\nKishan Kunj\n222.\nLaxmi Nagar\n223.\nShakarpur\n224.\nPandav Nagar\n225.\nAnand Vilhar\n226.\nVishwash Nagar\n227.\nI.P. Extension\nShahdara South\n228.\nPreet Vihar\n229.\nKrishna Nagar\n230.\nGeeta Colony\n231.\nGhondli\n232.\nAnarkali\n233.\nDhara Pura\n234.\nGandhi Nagar\n235.\nAzad Nagar\n236.\nRaghubar Pura\n237.\nShahadara\n238.\nJhilmil\n3.\nEast Delhi Municipal Corporation\n239.\nVivekVihar\n240.\nDilshad Colony\n241.\nDilshad Garden\n242.\nNew Seema Puri\n243.\nNand Nagri\n244.\nSunder Nagri\n245.\nDurga Puri\n246.\nAshok Nagar\n247.\nRam Nagar\nShahdara North\n248.\nWelcome Colony\n249.\nChauhan Bangar\n250.\nZaffrabad\n251.\nNew Usmanpur\n252.\nMauj Pur\n253.\nBhajanpura\n254.\nBrahampuri\n255.\nGhonda\n256.\nYamuna Vihar\n257.\nSubbash Mohalla\n258.\nKardampuri\n259.\nJanta Colony\n260.\nBabarpur\n261.\nJiwanpur\n262.\nGokalpur\n263.\nSaboli\n264.\nHarsh Vihar\nShahdara North\n265.\nShiv Vihar\n266.\nKarawal Nagar East\n267.\nNehru Vihar\n268.\nMustafabad\n269.\nKhajoori Khas\n270.\nTukhim Puri\n271.\nKarawal Nagar West\n272.\nSonia Viharl\nTHE FIFTEENTH SCHEDULE\n(See section 52)\nPOWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF THE WARDS COMMITTEE\nPOWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF THE WARDS COMMITTEE",
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        "Act ID": "dl019",
        "Act Number": "Delhi Act 66 of 1957",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1957",
        "Short Title": "The Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957",
        "Type": "UNION_TERRITORY",
        "Location": "Delhi"
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    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:10"
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The Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957

Sections

1. Short title, extent and commencement.

2. Definitions.

3. Establishment of the [Corporation.]

6. Power to alter or amend delimitation orders.

8. Qualifications for councillorship.

9. Disqualifications for membership of Corporation.

10. Right to vote.

11. General elections of councillors.

12. Filling of casual vacancies in councillorship.

13. Election of aldermen.

15. Election petitions.

16. Relief that may be claimed by the petitioner.

17. Grounds for declaring elections to be void.

18. Procedure to be followed by the district judge.

19. Decision of the district judge.

20. Procedure in case of equality of votes.

21. Finality of decisions.

22. Corrupt practices.

23. Maintenance of secrecy of voting.

24. Officers, etc, at elections not to act for candidates or to influence voting.

25. Prohibition of canvassing in or near polling station and of public meeting on election day.

26. Penalty for disorderly conduct in or near polling station.

27. Penalty for misconduct at the polling station.

28. Breaches of official duty in connection with election.

29. Removal of ballot papers [or ballot boxes or the voting machines] from polling station to be an offence.

30. Other offences and penalties therefor.

31. Power to make rules regulating the election of councillors [***].

33. Vacation of seat.

34. Payment of allowances to [councillors and the persons referred to in clause (b) of sub-section 3 of section 3.]

35. Annual election of Mayor and Deputy Mayor.

36. Term of office of the Mayor and Deputy Mayor and facilities and privileges of the Mayor.

37. Discharge of functions of the Mayor by the Deputy Mayor.

38. Resignation of Mayor and Deputy Mayor.

39. Rural Areas Committee and Education Committee.

40. Special and ad hoc committees and ward committees, etc.

41. General powers of the [a Corporation.]

42. Obligatory functions of the [a Corporation.]

43. Discretionary functions of the [a Corporation.]

45. Constitution of the Standing Committee.

46. Casual vacancies.

47. Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Standing Committee.

48. Resignation of Chairman and members of the Standing Committee.

49. Functions of the Standing Committee.

54. Appointment, etc., of the Commissioner.

55. Salary and allowances of the Commissioner.

56. Leave of absence of Commissioner.

57. Appointment of officiating Commissioner in case of death, resignation or removal of Commissioner.

58. Service regulations of Commissioner.

59. Functions of the Commissioner.

60. Appointment, etc., of the General Manager.

61. Salary and allowance of General Manager.

62. Leave of absence to the General Manager.

63. Service regulations of the General Manager.

64. Functions of General Manager.

65. Appointment of sub-committees by the various committees.

66. Commissioner [a Corporation.]

67. Vacation of seats by members of committees.

68. Committees to continue in office till new committees are constituted.

69. Power of Corporation to call for extracts of proceedings from the committees.

70. Power of Corporation to require the Commissioner, etc, to produce documents and furnish returns, reports, etc.

71. Exercise of powers to be subject to sanction.

72. Meetings.

73. First meeting of the [a Corporation] after general election.

74. Notice of meetings and business.

75. Quorum.

76. Presiding Officer.

77. Presiding officer at meeting for the election of Mayor.

78. Method of deciding questions.

79. Maintenance of order at and admission of public to, meetings; withdrawal and suspension of councillors and [persons referred to in clause (b) of sub-section (b) of sub-section (3) of section 3.]

80. Councillors or [plerson referred to in sub-clauses (ii), (iii), and (iv) of clause(b) of sub-section (3) of section 3] not to vote on matter in which they are interested.

81. Right to attend meetings of the [a Corporation] and its committees, etc, and right of councillors to ask questions in relation to the municipal government of Delhi.

82. Power to make regulations.

83. Presiding officers at meetings of the Standing and other committees.

84. Conduct of business at meetings of Standing and other committees.

85. Keeping of minutes and proceedings.

86. Circulation of minutes and inspection of minutes and reports of proceedings.

87. Forwarding minutes and reports of proceedings, to the Administrator.

88. Validation of proceedings, etc.
