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Goa Municipalities Act, 1968
Goa Municipalities Act, 1968
Sections
1. Short title, extent and commencement.
Section 12. Definitions.
Section 23. Areas to be declared as municipal areas.
Section 34. Classification of municipal areas.
Section 45. Effect of reclassification of a municipal area.
Section 56. Alteration of the limits of a municipal area.
Section 67. Municipal authorities charged with execution of the Act.
Section 78. Establishment and incorporation of Councils.
Section 89. Composition of Councils.
Section 910. Division of municipal area into wards and reservation of wards for women, [Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Class] .
Section 1011. List of voters.
Section 1112. Right to vote.
Section 1213. Manner of voting.
Section 1314. Other restrictions on voting.
Section 1415. Qualifications for candidates.
Section 1516. Disqualifications for becoming a Councillor.
Section 1617. Director to decide the question of disqualification.
Section 1718. Power to make rules regulating elections.
Section 1819. Failure to elect.
Section 1920. Declaration of results of election.
Section 2022. Disputes in respect of election, [* * *] of Councillors.
Section 2223. Corrupt practices.
Section 2324. Prohibition of public meetings on the election day.
Section 2425. Disturbances at election meeting.
Section 2526. Prohibition of canvassing in or near polling stations.
Section 2627. Penalty for disorderly conduct in or near polling stations.
Section 2728. Penalty for misconduct at polling station.
Section 2829. Penalty for illegal hiring or procuring of conveyances at election.
Section 2930. Maintenance of secrecy of voting.
Section 3031. Officers, etc. at election not to act for candidates or to influence voting.
Section 3132. Breaches of official duty in connection with election.
Section 3233. Removal of ballot papers from polling station to be an offence.
Section 3334. Other electoral offences and penalties therefor.
Section 3435. Prosecution regarding certain offences.
Section 3536. Requisitioning of premises, vehicles, etc., for election.
Section 3637. Payment of compensation.
Section 3738. Power to obtain information.
Section 3839. Eviction from requisitioned premises.
Section 3940. No civil court to have jurisdiction.
Section 4041. Release of premises from requisition.
Section 4142. Term of office of Councillors.
Section 4244. Liability of Councillors to removal from office.
Section 4445. Resignation not to affect subsequent disqualification of a Councillor.
Section 4546. Disqualification of Councillor during his term of office.
Section 4647. Special provisions regarding disqualification for failure to pay taxes due to the Council.
Section 4748. Section 47 not to affect Council's other powers for recovery of taxes.
Section 4749. Councillor to vacate all offices if he ceases to be Councillor.
Section 4950. Casual vacancies how to be filled up.
Section 5051. Duties and functions of the Council.
Section 5153. Term of office of [Chairperson] and [Vice-Chairperson] .
Section 5355. Resignation of [Vice-Chairperson] .
Section 5556. Removal of [Chairperson] and [Vice-Chairperson] .
Section 5657. Consequences of absence of [Chairperson] or [Vice-Chairperson] without leave.
Section 5759. Functions of [Chairperson] .
Section 5960. Functions of [Vice-Chairperson] .
Section 6061. Simultaneous vacancy in the office of [Chairperson] and [Vice-Chairperson] .
Section 6162. Honorarium or allowances to [Chairperson] and members of Council.
Section 6263. Standing and Subjects Committees for all classes of Councils.
Section 6364. Constitution of Standing Committee of Councils.
Section 6468. Functions and power of Standing Committees and Subjects Committees.
Section 6870. Subordination of Committees to Council.
Section 7072. Appointment of Chief Officer, Engineer, Water Works Engineer, Health Officer, Auditor and certain other officers [or servants of the Council] .
Section 7273. Appointment of other officers and servants.
Section 7374. Powers and duties of Chief Officer.
Section 7475. Powers and duties of other officers and servants.
Section 7576. Punishment of officers and servants.
Section 7677. Bye-laws to be made regulating certain conditions of service.
Section 7778. Provision in regard to meetings of Council.
Section 7879. Meetings of Committees.
Section 7980. Chief Officer to be present at every meeting of the Council and if required at a meeting of a Committee, but not to vote or make any proposition.
Section 8081. Power of Council or Committee to require information, document, etc., from Chief Officer.
Section 8182. Joint Committees of local bodies.
Section 8283. Acts and proceedings of Council and Committees not vitiated by disqualifications, etc., of members thereof.
Section 8384. Power to acquire and hold property.
Section 8485. Decision of claims to property by or against the Council.
Section 8586. Municipal fund.
Section 8687. Constitution of Salary Reserve Fund.
Section 8788. Provisions regarding transfer of municipal property.
Section 8889. Provisions relating to contracts and tenders.
Section 8990. Bar against officers, and servants being interested in contract.
Section 9091. Penalty to Councillors, officers and servants for improper interest in contracts, etc.
Section 9192. Liability of Councillors, officers and servants for loss, or damage.
Section 9293. Application of municipal property and funds within and without the municipal area.
Section 9394. Special provision regarding loan of fire fighting equipment, etc.
Section 9495. Depositing or investing of Surplus Funds of a Council.
Section 9596. Power of Council to compromise suits.
Section 9697. Budget.
Section 9798. Municipal accounts.
Section 9899. Publication of accounts.
Section 99100. Audit of Accounts.
Section 100101. Imposition of compulsory taxes.
Section 101102. Loss of income from tax due to exemption to be reimbursed by Government.
Section 102103. Provision for exempting 'C' Class Councils from levying certain taxes temporarily.
Section 103104. Other taxes which Council may impose.
Section 104105. Procedure preliminary to imposing tax under section 104.
Section 104106. Discretionary tax when sanctioned not to be abolished without previous sanction of Government.
Section 106107. Local publication of bye-laws relating to taxes, with notice.
Section 107108. Council may vary rates of tax within prescribed limits.
Section 108109. Appointment of authorised Valuation Officer.
Section 109110. Rateable value how to be determined.
Section 110111. Preparation of assessment list.
Section 111112. Person primarily liable for a property tax how to be designated if his name cannot be ascertained.
Section 112113. Authorised Valuation Officer to check assessment.
Section 113114. Publication of notice of assessment list.
Section 114115. Public notice of time fixed for lodging objections.
Section 115116. Objection how to be dealt with.
Section 116117. Authentication of list of assessment.
Section 117118. Authentic list how far conclusive.
Section 118119. Amendment of assessment list.
Section 119120. Reassessment to be done after every four years.
Section 120121. Primary responsibility for property taxes on whom to rest.
Section 121122. When occupiers may be held liable for payment of property taxes.
Section 122123. Partial remission in respect of property remaining unoccupied.
Section 123124. When building or land deemed to be productive of rent.
Section 124125. Parties to transfer of property to give notice of transfer.
Section 125126. Form of notice.
Section 126127. In absence of notice, liability to taxes to continue on original holder.
Section 127128. Power to fix special rate in lieu of special sanitary tax.
Section 128129. Recovery of sums claimed under the last two preceding sections.
Section 129130. Council may sell surplus water for use outside municipal area.
Section 130131. Octroi limits.
Section 131132. Power to examine articles liable to octroi.
Section 132133. Presentation of bills for octroi.
Section 133134. Penalty for evasion of octroi.
Section 134135. Tables of tolls to be shown on demand.
Section 135136. Power to seize vehicle or animal or goods for non-payment of octroi or toll and to dispose of seized property.
Section 136137. Power to keep account current.
Section 137138. Joint collection of octroi by agreement how made.
Section 138139. Farming of tools.
Section 139140. Power to compound tax on vehicles or animals.
Section 140141. Assessment not invalid for defect of form.
Section 141142. Power of Government to require Councils to impose taxes.
Section 142143. Fees may be charged for certain licences, permission, etc.
Section 143144. Mode of recovery of any money claimable under this Act.
Section 144145. Presentation of bill for sums due to Council and discount for prompt payment.
Section 145146. When notice of demand issued.
Section 146147. When warrant may issue.
Section 147148. To whom warrant addressed.
Section 148149. Power of entry by force ander special order.
Section 149150. Warrant how to be executed.
Section 150151. Sale of property distrained or attached; application of proceeds of sale.
Section 151152. Surplus, if any, how dealt with.
Section 152153. Sale outside municipal area.
Section 153154. Fees and costs chargeable.
Section 154155. Summary proceedings may be taken against person about to leave municipal area.
Section 155156. Sales in other cases by whom to be ordered and the manner of making and confirming them.
Section 156157. Liability of lands, buildings, etc. for taxes.
Section 157158. Receipts to be given for all payments.
Section 158159. Certain amounts to be recovered as arrears of land revenue.
Section 159160. Stay orders on warrants by whom to be issued.
Section 160161. Interest payable on dues for taxes.
Section 161162. Power to write off.
Section 162163. Appointment of Recovery Officer.
Section 163164. Appeals to Magistrates.
Section 164165. Procedure in Appeal.
Section 165166. Revision by Court.
Section 166167. Bar of other proceedings.
Section 167168. Powers in respect of public streets.
Section 168169. Powers to declare any street a public street, subject to objections by owners.
Section 169170. Power to require repair, etc. of private streets and to declare them as public streets.
Section 170171. Regular line of a public street.
Section 171172. Setting back projecting buildings.
Section 172173. Setting forward to regular line of street.
Section 173174. Surface projections, obstructions and encroachments in respect of public streets.
Section 174175. Prohibition of projections other than surface projections upon streets, etc.
Section 175176. Projections, encroachment, etc., in public places and open spaces whether vesting in Council or not.
Section 176177. Power to require boundary walls, hedges, etc., to be constructed or removed.
Section 177178. New private streets.
Section 178179. Troughs and pipes for rain water.
Section 179180. Naming and numbering streets and numbering of premises.
Section 180181. Displacing pavements, etc.
Section 181182. Prohibition of sale of articles in public streets, without licence.
Section 182183. Prohibition of plying hand-carts without licence.
Section 183184. Notice of construction of building.
Section 184184B. Appellate Tribunal.
Section 184B184C. Procedure of the Appellate Tribunal.
Section 184C184D. Appeal against order of Appellate Tribunal.
Section 184D184E. Bar of jurisdiction of Civil Courts.
Section 184E185. Powers of Chief Officer and Council to refuse permission.
Section 185186. Level of buildings.
Section 186187. Roofs and external walls of buildings not to be made of inflammable materials.
Section 187188. Completion certificate, permission to occupy or use.
Section 188189. Building for human habitation not to be used as godown, etc. and vice versa.
Section 189190. Removal of buildings, structures, etc., which are in ruins or likely to fall.
Section 190191. Penalty for defacing building, etc.
Section 191192. Fixing of lamps, brackets, etc., to houses.
Section 192193. Regulation of huts.
Section 193194. Improvement of huts.
Section 194195. Municipal control over drainage.
Section 195196. Power of making and repairing drains.
Section 196197. Power to require sufficient drainage of houses.
Section 197198. New building not to be erected without drains.
Section 198199. Powers of owners and occupiers of buildings or lands to drain into municipal drains.
Section 199200. Right to carry drain through land or into drain belonging to other persons.
Section 200201. Rights of owner of land through which drain is carried in regard to subsequent building thereon.
Section 201202. Provision of privies, etc.
Section 202203. Power to require owners to keep drains, etc., in proper order; or to demolish or close a privy or cess-pool.
Section 203204. Power to close private drains and cesspools.
Section 204205. Encroachment on municipal drains.
Section 205206. Power in respect of drains, etc., unauthorisedly constructed, re-built or unstopped.
Section 206207. Inspection of drains, etc.
Section 207208. Council may execute certain works without option to person concerned of executing the same.
Section 208209. Pipes, etc. constructed by Council to be municipal property.
Section 209210. Prohibition of certain acts affecting the municipal water works.
Section 210211. Prohibition of wilful or neglectful acts relating to water works.
Section 211212. Prohibition of constructing drains, etc. near sources of water supply.
Section 212213. Power of carrying water mains.
Section 213214. Power to require water supply to be taken.
Section 214215. Powers and duties with regards to dangerous, stagnant or insanitary sources of water supply.
Section 215216. Power to regulate bathing and washing places.
Section 216217. Digging of wells, etc., without permission prohibited.
Section 217218. Fencing and lighting during repairs, etc.
Section 218219. Dangerous quarrying.
Section 219220. Hoards to be set up during repairs, etc.
Section 220221. Power to require precaution in place of public entertainments.
Section 221222. Powers for suppression of fires.
Section 222223. Depositing dust, etc., committing nuisance.
Section 223224. Discharging sewage, etc.
Section 224225. Non-removal of filth, etc.
Section 225226. Removal of night-soil.
Section 226227. Using offensive manure, etc.
Section 227228. Abatement of nuisance from wells, etc.
Section 228229. Buildings or rooms in buildings unfit for human habitation.
Section 229230. Filthy buildings, etc.
Section 230231. Dangerous diseases.
Section 231232. Power to prohibit use of public conveyances for carriage of persons suffering from dangerous diseases.
Section 232233. Restrictions on persons suffering from dangerous diseases.
Section 233234. Control and prevention of dangerous diseases.
Section 234235. Information to be given to Chief Officer or Health Officer about incidence of dangerous diseases.
Section 235236. Power of entry into places where cases of dangerous disease suspected.
Section 236237. Chief Officer or Health Officer may direct owner or occupier to take certain precautionary measures and in default, carry out the same.
Section 237238. Prohibition of use of water likely to spread dangerous diseases.
Section 238239. Additional powers of Council on threatened outbreak of dangerous disease.
Section 239240. Penalty for contravention of provisions relating ito dangerous diseases.
Section 240241. Payment of compensation.
Section 241242. Diseases among animals.
Section 242243. Proceedings to abate over-crowding of interiors of buildings.
Section 243244. Withdrawal and modification of powers and orders under this chapter.
Section 244245. Special powers in respect of overcrowding area.
Section 245246. Council to provide or permit burning and burial grounds.
Section 246247. Closing of places for disposal of dead.
Section 247248. Acts prohibited in connection with disposal of dead.
Section 248249. Certificate for disposal of the dead.
Section 249250. Disposal of dead animals.
Section 250251. Power to provide and maintain municipal markets and slaughter-houses.
Section 251252. Private markets, etc., not to be held without licence.
Section 252253. Slaughter-houses, etc., beyond municipal area.
Section 253254. Restriction on slaughter of animals for sale.
Section 254255. Provisions for requiring private market buildings and slaughter-houses to be properly paved and drained.
Section 255256. Provisions regarding approaches and environs of private markets.
Section 256257. Levy of stallages, rents and fees.
Section 257258. Farming of market and slaughter-house rents.
Section 258259. Control on preparation of food, eating houses, hotels, lodging houses, etc.
Section 259260. Control on dairies and business in milk, milk products and sweet-meats.
Section 260261. Control of stables.
Section 261262. No separate licence necessary if one is obtained under Prevention of Food Adulteration Law.
Section 262263. Factory, etc., not to be established without licence.
Section 263264. Prohibition of use of steam whistles, etc.
Section 264265. Certain other trades and occupations not to be carried on without licence.
Section 265266. Certain articles not to be kept without licence.
Section 266267. Cattle-trespass Act to cease to apply to municipal areas.
Section 267268. Power to establish cattle-pounds and appoint pound-keepers.
Section 268269. Duties of pound-keepers.
Section 269270. Impounding cattle.
Section 270271. Delivery of cattle claimed.
Section 271272. Security in respect of impounded cattle.
Section 272273. Sale of cattle not claimed.
Section 273274. Pound-fees and expenses chargeable to be fixed.
Section 274275. Complaints of illegal seizure or detention.
Section 275276. Penalty for allowing cattle to stray in street or to trespass upon private or public property.
Section 276277. Tethering cattle, etc.
Section 277278. Provision as to dogs.
Section 278279. Provisions as to keeping of pigs.
Section 279280. Feeding animals on filth prohibited.
Section 280281. Provisions as respects institution, compounding, etc., of criminal actions.
Section 281282. Distress lawful though defective in form.
Section 282283. Damage to municipal property how made good.
Section 283284. General penalty.
Section 284285. Minimum penalty for offences under this Act.
Section 285286. Power to institute, defend suits, etc.
Section 286287. Councillors, officers, servants, etc., to be public servants.
Section 287288. Bar of suits against Council, its officers, servants, etc., for acts done in good faith.
Section 288289. Limitation of suits against Council, its committees, officers and servants for acts done in pursuance or execution of this Act.
Section 289290. Powers of police officers.
Section 290291. Power of inspection and supervision.
Section 291292. Power to call for returns and reports.
Section 292293. Powers to suspend execution or orders and resolutions of Council on certain grounds.
Section 293294. Extraordinary Powers of execution of certain works in case of emergency.
Section 294295. Power of Director to prevent extravagance in the employment of establishment.
Section 295296. Inquiry into municipal matters by Government.
Section 296297. Power of Director to enforce performance of duties.
Section 297298. Power to appoint Municipal Administrator in certain circumstances.
Section 298299. Powers of Municipal Administrator.
Section 299300. Review of Municipal Administrator's work by Director and if necessary dissolution of Council.
Section 300301. Consequences of dissolution.
Section 301302. Re-establishment of Council after dissolution.
Section 302303. Revisional powers of Government.
Section 303304. Government's powers to enforce its orders.
Section 304305. Powers of review.
Section 305306. Power of Government to make rules.
Section 306307. Power of Councils to make bye-laws.
Section 307308. Power to make and enforce acceptance of model bye-laws.
Section 308309. Copies of Act, rules and bye-laws to be made available at Council's office for public inspection and for sale.
Section 309310. Service of notices, etc., addressed to individuals.
Section 310311. Publication of public and general notices.
Section 311312. Reasonable time to be fixed when no time fixed under the Act for any requisition.
Section 312313. Council in default of owner or occupier may execute works and recover expenses.
Section 313314. Proceedings, if any occupier opposes the execution of the Act.
Section 314315. Determination of damages, compensation, etc.
Section 315316. Costs or expenses how determined and recovered.
Section 316317. Informalities and errors in assessment etc., not to be deemed to invalidate such assessment, etc.
Section 317318. Entry for purposes of the Act.
Section 318319. Chief Officer may authorise any person to enter upon adjoining premises.
Section 319320. Power of Chief Officer to call for information as to ownership of any property.
Section 320321. Power of Collector to recover record and money.
Section 321322. Power to grant expost facto sanction.
Section 322322B. Constitution of Development Committee.
Section 322B323. General provisions regarding grant, suspension or withdrawal of licences and written permission and levy of fees, etc.
Section 323324. Power to order closure of place.
Section 324325. Power of Govt. to make suitable provisions by order when a municipal area is created or altered.
Section 325326. Abolition of municipalities.
Section 326327. Repeal.
Section 327328. Interpretation.
Section 328329. Special provisions regarding the term of Councillors of existing Council whose term is due to expire.
Section 329330. Consequences of replacement of existing Councils.
Section 330331. Pensions relating to officers and servants.
Section 331332. Obligation to carry out certain duties and functions of existing Councils.
Section 332334. Power to remove difficulty.
Section 3341. Urban Planning including town planning.
Section 12. Regulation of land-use and construction of buildings.
Section 23. Roads and bridges.
Section 34. Urban forestry, protection of the environment and promotion of ecological aspects.
Section 45. Slum improvement and upgradation.
Section 56. Provision of urban amenities and facilities such as parks, gardens, playgrounds.
Section 67. Burials and burial grounds; cremations, cremation grounds and electric crematoriums.
Section 78. Cattle pounds; prevention of cruelty to animals.
Section 89. Vital statistics including registration of births and deaths.
Section 910. Public amenities including street lighting, parking lots, bus stops and public conveniences.
Section 1011. Regulation of slaughter houses and tanneries.
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"content": "(1) \"Administrative Tribunal\" means the Administrative Tribunal constituted under the Goa, [* * *] Administrative Tribunal Act, 1965;\n[(1A) \"Appellate Tribunal\" means as Appellate Tribunal constituted under section 184 B.]\n(2) \"appointed day\" , in relation to an area, means the date on which the relevant provisions of this Act come into force in that area;\n(3) \"building\" includes a house, out-house, stable, shed, hut and other enclosure or structure, whether of masonry, bricks, wood, mud, metal or any other material whatever, whether used as a human dwelling or otherwise, and also includes verandahs , fixed platforms, plinths, door steps, walls, (including coumpound walls) and fencing and the like;\n(4) \"bye-law\" means a bye-law made or deemed to be made by the Council under this Act;\n(5) \"Cess-pool\" includes a tank for the reception or disposal of foul matter from buildings;\n[(5a) \"Chairperson\" and \"Vice-Chairperson\" means Chairperson and 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other place from which milk is sold or supplied in hermetically closed and unopened receptacles in the same original condition in which it was first received in such shop or other place;\n[(10a) \"Development Committee\" means the Development Committee constituted under section 322 B;]\n(11) [ \"drain\" means the person appointed by the Government to be the Director of Urban Development] ;\n[(11a) \"drain\" means a district in the State of Goa;]\n(12) \"drain\" includes a sewer, tunnel, pipe, ditch, gutter or channel and any cistern, flush-tank, septic tank, or other device for carrying off or treating sewage, offensive matter, polluted water, sullage, waste water, rain water or sub-soil water and any culvert, ventilation shaft or pipe or other appliance or fitting connected therewith, and any ejectors, compressed air mains, sealed sewage mains and special machinery or apparatus for raising, collecting, expelling or removing sewage or offensive matter from any place;\n(13) \"eating house\" means any premises to which the public or any section of the public are admitted and where any kind of food is prepared or supplied for consumption on the premises or elsewhere for the profit or gain of any person owning or having an interest in or managing such premises;\n(14) \"election\" means an election to a Council, and includes a bye-election;\n(15) \"factory\" means a factory as defined in the Factories Act, 1948;\n(16) \"filth\" includes sewage, night-soil and all offensive matter;\n(17) \"food\" includes every article. used as food or drink for human consumption other than drugs or water, and any article which ordinarily enters into or is used in the composition or preparation of human food, and also includes confectionary, flavouring and coloring matters and spices and condiments;\n(18) \"goods\" includes animals;\n(19) \"Government\" means the Government of Goa [* * *] ;\n(20) \"house-drain\" means any drain of, and used for the drainage of, one or more buildings or premises and made merely for the purpose of communicating therefrom with a municipal drain;\n(21) \"house-gully\" or \"service passage,\" means a passage or strip of land constructed, set apart or utilized for the purpose of serving as a drain or of affording access to a privy, urinal, cesspool or other receptacle for filthy or polluted matter, to servants of the Council or to persons employed in the cleansing thereof or in the removal of such matter there from;\n(22) \"land\" includes land which is being built upon or is built upon or covered with water, benefits to arise out of land, things attached to the earth or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth and rights created by legislative enactment over any street;\n(23) \"local authority\" means a municipality or village panchayat, as the case may be, constituted under any law for the time being in force in the [State of Goa] ;\n(24) \"lodging house\" means a building or part of a building where lodging with or without board or other service is provided for a monetary consideration, and includes a lodging house for pilgrims whether lodging is provided for or without any monetary consideration;\n(25) \"market\" includes any place where persons assemble for the sale of, or for the purpose of exposing for sale, live-stock or food for live-stock or meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, drinks, animals intended for human food or any other articles of human food whatsoever with or without the consent of the owner of such place, notwithstanding that there may be no common regulation of the concourse of buyers and sellers and whether or not any control is exercised over the business of or the persons frequenting the market by the owner of the place or any other person;\n(26) \"milk\" includes cream, skimmed milk, separated milk and condensed, sterilized, desiccated or toned milk;\n(27) \"municipal area\" means any local area declared or deemed to be declared as municipal area by or under this Act;\n(28) \"municipal market\" or \"municipal slaughter-house\" means a market or a slaughter-house, as the case may be, which belongs to or is maintained by the Council;\n(29) \"nuisance\" includes any act, omission, place or thing which causes or is likely to cause injury, danger, annoyance or offence to the sense of sight, smell or hearing or which is or may be dangerous to life or injurious to health or property;\n(30) \"occupier\" includes-\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 living in or otherwise using his land or building,\n(c) a rent-free tenant,\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(31) \"octroi\" means a tax on the entry of goods into a municipal area for consumption, use or sale therein;\n(32) \"offensive matter\" includes animal carcasses, dung, dirt and putrid or putrifying substances other than sewage;\n(33) \"officer or servant of the Council\" means an officer or servant [appointed by the Government or the Council] or any other competent authority subordinate to it, and includes any Government Officer or servant, who is for the time being serving under the, Council [and the classification of posts of officers or servants of Council as Group A, Group B, Group C and Group D posts will have the meaning as assigned by the Government for equivalent posts in Government Departments] ;\n(34) \"official year\" or \"financial year\" means the year commencing on the first day of April;\n(35) \"owner\" means,-\n(a) when used with reference to any premises, the person who receives the rent of the said premises, or who would be entitled to receive the rent thereof if the premises were let, and includes -\n(i) an agent or trustee who receives such rent on account of the owner;\n(ii) an agent or trustee who receives the rent of, or is entrusted with or concerned for, any premises devoted to religious for charitable purposes;\n(iii) a receiver, sequestrator or manager appointed by any Court of competent jurisdiction to have the charge of, or to exercise the rights of an owner of, the said premises; and\n(iv) a mortgagee-in-possession; and\n(b) when used with reference to any animal, vehicle or boat, includes the person for the time being in charge of the animal, vehicle or boat;\n[(36) \"population\" means the population as ascertained at the last preceding Census of which the relevant figures have been published, but where figures of Census are not available, the population shall be ascertained from other relevant authenticated records maintained by the Government.]\n(37) \"premises\" includes messages, buildings and lands of any tenure, whether open or enclosed, whether built on or not and whether public or private;\n(38) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by 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"content": "A municipal area-\n(a) with a population of more than 50,000 shall be a 'A' Class municipal area;\n(b) with a population of more than 10,000 but not more than 50,000 shall be a 'B' Class municipal area; and\n(c) with a population of 10,000 or less shall be a 'C' Class municipal area.",
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"number": "5",
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"number": "6",
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"content": "(a) alter the limits of a municipal area so as to include therein or to exclude therefrom such local area as may be specified in the notification;\n(b) amalgamate two or more municipal areas so as to form one municipal area;\n(c) split up any municipal area into two or more municipal areas;\n(d) declare that the whole of any local area comprising a municipal area shall cease to be a municipal area:",
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"number": "7",
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"content": "(a) the Council;\n(b) the [Chairperson ] ;\n(c) the Standing Committee;\n(d) the Subjects Committees, if any; and\n(e) the Chief Officer.\n[(f) the Municipal Engineer;]",
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"number": "11",
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"number": "16",
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"content": "(a) [Omitted]\n(b) has been removed from office under section 44 and five years have not elapsed from the date of such removal;\n(c) has been disqualified under section 45 [46] or under sub-sections (4), and (6) of section [47] and five years have not elapsed from the date of such disqualification; or\n(d) has been disqualified under sub-section (11) or (12) of section 22 and the period for which he has been disqualified has not elapsed from the date of such disqualification; or\n(e) is an undischarged insolvent; or\n(f) is of unsound mind and stands so declared by a competent Court; or\n(g) has voluntarily acquired the citizenship of a foreign State or is under any acknowledgement of allegiance or adherence to a foreign State; or\n(h) is a Judge; or\n(i) is a subordinate officer or servant of the Government or any local authority or holds an office of profit under the Government or any local authority; or\n(j) is in arrears (otherwise than as a trustee) of any sum due by him to the Council after the presentation of a bill therefor to him under section [147] ; or\n(k) save as hereinafter provided, has directly or indirectly, by himself or his partner, any share or interest in any work done by order of the Council or in any contract with or under or by or on behalf of the Council; or\n(l) [omitted]\n(a) having any share or interest in any lease, sale or purchase of any immovable property or in any agreement for the same; or\n(b) having a share or interest in any company or co-operative society which contracts with or be employed by or on behalf of the Council; or\n(c) having a share or interest in any newspaper in which any advertisement relating to the affairs of the Council may be inserted; or\n(d) holding debentures or being otherwise interested in any loan raised by or on behalf of the Council; or\n(e) having a share or interest in the occasional sale to the Council of any article in which he regularly trades, or in the purchase from the Council of any article, of a value in either case not exceeding in any official year two thousand rupees , or such higher amount not exceeding ten thousand rupees as the Council with the sanction of the Government may fix in this behalf; or\n(f) having share or interest in the occasional letting out on hire to the Council or in the hiring from the Council of any article for an amount not exceeding in any official year two hundred rupees , or such higher amount not exceeding one thousand rupees as the Council with the sanction of the [Director] may fix in this behalf; or\n(g) being a party to any agreement made with the Council for paying fixed charges or lump sum in lieu of any taxes or for construction of any drainage or water connections for his premises.",
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"number": "17",
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"number": "18",
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"content": "(a) the maintenance of list of voters;\n(b) the fixation of dates, time and places for various stages of elections;\n(c) the appointment and duties of returning officers, presiding officers, and other staff appointed for elections;\n(d) the nomination of candidates, form of nomination paper, objections to nominations, scrutiny of nominations and appeals against acceptance or rejection of nomination papers;\n(e) the deposits to be made by candidates and circumstances under which such deposits may be refunded to candidates or forfeited to the Council;\n(f) the assignment of symbols to candidates;\n(g) the withdrawal of candidature;\n(h) the appointment of agents of candidates;\n(i) the form of ballot paper;\n(j) the procedure in contested and uncontested elections;\n(k) the steps to be taken to prevent personation of voters;\n(l) the manner of recording votes;\n(m) the procedure to be followed in respect of challenged votes and tendered votes;\n(n) the scrutiny of votes, counting or recounting of votes, declaration of results and procedure in case of equality of votes;\n(o) the custody and disposal of papers relating to elections;\n(p) the circumstances in which poll may be suspended or held afresh;\n(q) any other matter relating to elections which is to be or may be prescribed under this Act.",
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"number": "19",
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"number": "22",
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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, for the verification of pleadings.\n(a) that the election of all or any of the returned candidates is void; or\n(b) that the election of all or any of the returned candidates is void and that he himself or any other candidate has been duly elected; or\n(c) [deleted] .\n(a) where the petitioner claims a declaration under clause (a) of sub-section (3), the returned candidate or candidates in respect of whom such declaration is claimed;\n(b) where the petitioner claims a declaration under clause (b) of sub-section (3), all the contesting candidates other than the petitioner;\n(c) any other candidate against whom allegations of any corrupt or illegal practice are made in the petition;\n(d) [deleted]\nExplanation:\n(a) discovery and inspection;\n(b) enforcing the attendance of witnesses, and requiring the deposit of their expenses;\n(c) compelling the production of documents;\n(d) examining witnesses on oath;\n(e) granting adjournments;\n(f) reception of evidence on affidavit; and\n(g) issuing commissions for the examination of witnesses;\n(a) any application to be compromised or withdrawn, or\n(b) any person to alter or amend any pleading,\n(a) the petitioner or such other candidate received sufficient number of valid votes to have been elected; or\n(b) but for the votes obtained by the returned candidate by corrupt practices the petitioner or such other candidate would have obtained a sufficient number of valid votes to have been elected,\n(i) for the purpose of such computation, no vote shall be reckoned as valid if the Judge finds that any corrupt practice was committed by any person known or unknown in giving or obtaining it;\n(ii) after such computation, if any equality of vote is found to exist between any candidates and the addition of one vote would entitle any of the candidates to be declared elected, one additional vote shall be added to the total number of valid votes found to have been recorded in favour of the candidate, selected by lot drawn in the presence of the Judge in such manner as he may determine.\n(a) he has been given notice to appear before the Judge and to show cause why he should not be so named; and\n(b) if he appears in pursuance of the notice, he has been given an opportunity of cross-examining any witness who has already been examined by the Judge and has given evidence against him, of calling evidence in his defence and of being heard.",
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"number": "23",
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"content": "(A) any gift, offer or promise by a candidate or his agent or by any other person with the consent of a candidate or his election agent, of any gratification, to any person whomsoever, with the object, directly or indirectly, of inducing -\n(a) a person to stand or not to stand as, or to withdraw from being, a candidate at an election; or\n(b) a voter to vote or refrain from voting at an election; or as a reward to-\n(i) a person for having so stood or not stood, or for having withdrawn, his candidature; or\n(ii) a voter for having voted or refrained from voting;\n(B) the receipt of, or agreement to receive any gratification, whether as a motive or a reward,-\n(a) by a person for standing or not standing as, or for withdrawing from being, a candidate; or\n(b) by any person whomsoever for himself or any other person for voting or refraining from voting or inducing or attempting to induce any voter to vote or refrain from voting, or any candidate to withdraw his candidature.\nExplanation:\n(a) without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of this clause any such person as is referred to therein, who-\n(i) threatens any candidate or any voter, or any person in whom a candidate or a voter is interested, with injury of any kind including social ostracism and excommunication or expulsion from any caste or community; or\n(ii) induces or attempts to induce a candidate or a voter to believe that he, or any person in whom he is interested, will become or will be rendered an object of divine displeasure or spiritual censure, shall be deemed to interfere with the free exercise of the electoral right of such candidate or voter within the meaning of this clause;\n(b) a declaration of public policy, or a promise of public action, or the mere exercise of a legal right without intent to interfere with an electoral right, shall not be deemed to be interference within the meaning of this clause.\nExplanation:",
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"number": "24",
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"number": "25",
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"number": "26",
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"content": "(a) canvassing for votes; or\n(b) soliciting the vote of any voter; or\n(c) persuading any voter not to vote for any particular candidate; or\n(d) persuading any voter not to vote at the election; or\n(e) exhibiting any notice or sign (other than official notice) relating to the election.",
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"number": "27",
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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 loudspeaker, 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,",
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"number": "28",
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"number": "29",
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"number": "30",
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"number": "31",
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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": "32",
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"number": "33",
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"number": "34",
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"content": "(a) fraudulently defaces or fraudulently 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 a returning officer; or\n(c) fraudulently defaces or fraudulently 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 papers 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 a presiding officer at a polling station or any other officer or clerk employed on official duty in connection with the election, on conviction, be punished 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, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months , or with fine, or with both.",
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"number": "36",
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"content": "(a) any premises are needed or are likely to be needed for the purpose of being used as a polling station or for the storage of ballot boxes after a poll has been taken; or\n(b) any vehicle, vessel or animal is needed or likely to be needed for the purpose of transport of ballot boxes to, or from, any polling station or transport of members of the police force for maintaining order during the conduct of such election, or transport of any officer or other person for the performance of any duties in connection with such election.\nExplanation:",
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"number": "37",
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"content": "(a) in the case of premises,-\n(i) the rent payable in respect of the premises or if no rent is payable the rent payable for similar premises in the locality;\n(ii) if in consequence of the requisition of the premises the person interested is compelled to change his residence or place of business, the reasonable expenses (if any) incidental to such change;\n(b) in the case of any vehicle, vessel or animal, the fares or rates prevailing in the locality for the hire of such vehicle, vessel or animal.\n(i) the amount of compensation determined, or\n(ii) the title for any person entitled to receive compensation, or\n(iii) the apportionment's of the amount of compensation among two or more persons,\nExplanation:\n(a) in the case of premises, -\n(i) the person who was in actual possession of the premises immediately before the requisition; or\n(ii) when no person was in actual possession, the owner of such premises;\n(b) in the case of any vehicle, vessel or animal, the owner thereof; and\n(c) any other person who is entitled to receive compensation:",
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"number": "38",
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"number": "39",
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"number": "40",
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"number": "46",
"title": "46. Disqualification of Councillor during his term of office.",
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"content": "(a) is or becomes subject to any of the disqualifications specified in section 16 except the disqualification specified in clause (j) of sub-section (1) of that section; or\n(b) as a Councillor or as a member of any committee of the Council votes in favour of any matter in which he has directly or indirectly by himself or his partner any such share or interest as is described in clauses (a), (b), (c), (e), and (g) of sub-section (2) of section 16, whatever may be the value of such share or interest or in which he is professionally interested on behalf of a client, principal or other person; or\n(c) is professionably interested or engaged in any case for or against the Council; or\n(d) absents, himself during four successive [* * *] meetings of the Council, except with the leave of absence granted by the Council by a resolution on his written application for such leave, and he shall be disabled subject to the provisions of sub-section (3) from continuing to be a Councillor and his office shall become vacant:\n(i) a Councillor shall not be disqualified under clause (c) if he is engaged for the Council without receiving any remuneration therefor or appears and conducts his own case in a court of law or before any authority under this Act against the Council irrespective of whether such a Councillor is a legal practitioner by profession or not;\n(ii) for the purpose of clause (d), when the Councillor applies for leave, such leave shall be deemed to have been granted unless it is refused within, a period of sixty days from the date of his application.\nExplanation:",
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"number": "47",
"title": "47. Special provisions regarding disqualification for failure to pay taxes due to the Council.",
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"content": "(i) the name of each Councillor included in the list prepared under sub-section (1);\n(ii) the amount of tax due from each such Councillor by way of each such tax and the date on which it became payable;\n(iii) the date of the special notice issued to such Councillor under sub-section (2); and\n(iv) the amount of tax paid by the Councillor and the reasons for the non-payment of the balance, if any.",
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"number": "47",
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"number": "49",
"title": "49. Councillor to vacate all offices if he ceases to be Councillor.",
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"number": "50",
"title": "50. Casual vacancies how to be filled up.",
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"number": "51",
"title": "51. Duties and functions of the Council.",
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"content": "(a) lighting public streets, places and bilildings;\n(b) watering public streets, and places;\n(c) cleansing public streets, places and sewers, and all spaces, not being private property, which are open to the enjoyment of the public, whether such spaces are vested in the Council or not; removing noxious vegetation; and abating all public nuisances;\n(d) extinguishing fires, and protecting life and property when fires occur;\n(e) regulating or abating offensive or dangerous trades or practices;\n(f) removing obstructions and projections in public streets or places and, in spaces, not being private property, which are open to the enjoyment of the public, whether such spaces are vested in the Council or in Government;\n(g) securing or removing dangerous buildings or places and reclaiming unhealthy localities;\n(h) acquiring and maintaining, changing; and regulating places for the disposal of the dead;\n(i) constructing, altering and maintaining public streets, culverts, municipal boundary marks, markets, slaughter-houses, latrines, privies, urinals, drains, sewers, drainage-works, sewerage works, baths, washing places, drinking fountains, tanks, wells, dams and the like;\n(j) obtaining a supply or an additional supply of water, proper and sufficient for preventing danger to the health of the inhabitants from the insufficiency or unwholesomeness of the existing supply, when such supply or additional supply can be obtained at a reasonable cost;\n(k) naming streets and numbering of premises;\n(l) public vaccination;\n(m) suitable accommodation for any calves, cows or buffaloes required within the municipal area for the supply of animal lymph;\n(n) printing such annual reports on the municipal administration of the municipal area as the Government by general or special orders requires the Council to submit;\n(o) erecting substantial boundary marks of such description and in such position as shall be approved by the [ Director] , defining the limits, or any alteration in the limits of the municipal area;\n(p) disposing of night-soil and rubbish and if so required by the Government, preparation of compost manure, from such night-soil and rubbish;\n(q) providing special medical aid and accommodation for the sick in time of dangerous or communicable disease and taking such measures as may be required to prevent the outbreak or to suppress and prevent the recurrence of such disease;\n(r) giving relief and establishing and maintaining relief works in time of scarcity or for destitute persons within the limits of the municipal area;\n(s) imposing compulsory taxes which are specified in section, 101;\n(t) establishing and maintaining public dispensaries, and providing public medical relief and organising Family Planning Centres;\n(u) establishing and maintaining primary schools.\n(a) laying out, whether in areas previously built upon or not, new public streets, and acquiring the land for that purpose, and the land required for the construction of buildings or curtilages thereof to abut on such streets;\n(b) establishing or maintaining public hospitals, institutions for pre-primary and secondary education, libraries, museums, lunatic asylums, gymnasiums, akhadas , and homes for disabled and destitute persons, and constructing and maintaining buildings therefor, along with such other public buildings like town halls, municipal offices, shops, dharmashalas , open air theatres, stadia and rest houses;\n(c) laying out or maintaining public parks and gardens, and also planting and maintaining road-side and other trees;\n(d) providing music for the people;\n(e) taking a census, and granting rewards for information which may tend to secure the correct registration of vital statistics;\n(f) making a survey;\n(g) paying the salaries and allowances, rent and other charges incidental to the maintenance of the Court of any stipendiary or honorary Magistrate; or any portion of any such charges;\n(h) arranging for the destruction or the detention and preservation of dogs which may be destroyed or detained under section 278 of this Act or under any law for the time being in force the Union territory;\n(i) securing or assisting to secure suitable places for the carrying on of the offensive trades specified in section 265;\n(j) supplying, constructing and maintaining, in accordance with a general system approved by the Director of Public Health, receptacles, fittings, pipes and other appliances whatsoever on or for the use of private, premises, for receiving and conducting the sewage thereof into sewers under the control of the Council;\n(k) the acquisition and maintenance of grazing grounds; and the establishment and maintenance of dairy farms and breeding stud;\n(l) establishing and maintaining a farm or factory for the disposal of sewage;\n(m) promoting the well-being of municipal employees or any class of municipal employees and of their dependants;\n(n) providing accommodation for servants employed by the Council;\n(o) the construction of sanitary dwellings for the poorer classes;\n(p) the purchase, organisation, maintenance, extension and management of mechanically propelled transport facilities for the conveyance of the public;\n(q) the construction, maintenance, repairs, purchase of any works for the supply of electrical energy or gas;\n(r) making contributions towards the construction, establishment or maintenance of educational institutions including libraries and museums, any hospital, dispensary or similar institution providing for public medical relief, or any other institution of a charitable nature;\n(s) giving grants or donations to privately run primary or secondary schools or hostels for students;\n(t) the setting up of dairies or farms for the supply, distribution and processing of milk or milk products for the benefit of the inhabitants of the municipal area;\n(u) [any public reception, ceremony. fair, entertainment or exhibition held in the municipal area, within the amount as may be determined by Director from time to time.]\n(i) in each case, where the expenses are above the permissible limits herein before specified;\n(ii) in each case, whatever the expense involved, after the annual limits hereinbefore specified are reached;\n(v) any other measure not specified in sub-section (2) likely to promote public safety, health and convenience.\n(a) of lunatics, not being persons for whose confinement an order under Chapter [XXV] of the Code of Criminal Procedure, [1973 (Central Act 2 of 1974 )] , is in force, and\n(b) of leprosy patients,\n52. 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"number": "53",
"title": "53. Term of office of [Chairperson] and [Vice-Chairperson] .",
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"content": "[54. Resignation of Chairperson.",
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"number": "55",
"title": "55. Resignation of [Vice-Chairperson] .",
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"number": "56",
"title": "56. Removal of [Chairperson] and [Vice-Chairperson] .",
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"content": "(a) of the [Chairperson] , or of the [Chairperson] as well as the [Vice-Chairperson] , be sent to the [Director] ;\n(b) of the [Vice-Chairperson] be sent to the, [Chairperson] .\n(a) by the Director or any other officer authorised by him in this behalf, when a resolution for the removal of the [Chairperson] or of the [Chairperson] and [Vice-Chairperson] is under consideration, but he shall have no right to vote;\n(b) by the [Chairperson] , when a resolution for the removal of the [Vice-Chairperson] is under consideration:",
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"number": "57",
"title": "57. Consequences of absence of [Chairperson] or [Vice-Chairperson] without leave.",
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"content": "(a) for a period exceeding three months at a time unless leave so to absent himself has been granted by the Council, or\n(b) for an aggregate period exceeding six months during a year whether or not leave for such absence has been granted by the Council, shall cease to be [Chairperson] or [Vice-Chairperson] , as the case may be.\n58. [Chairperson] or [Vice-Chairperson] to hand over charge.\n(i) to the [Vice-Chairperson] , if he is the [Chairperson] ,\n(ii) to the [Chairperson] , if he is the [Vice-Chairperson] .",
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"number": "59",
"title": "59. Functions of [Chairperson] .",
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"content": "(a) preside, unless prevented by reasonable cause, at all meetings of the Council and regulate the conduct of business at such meetings;\n(b) watch over the financial and executive administration of the Council;\n(c) perform such executive functions or exercise such powers as are conferred upon him by or under this Act or any other law for the time being in force;\n(d) exercise supervision and control over the acts and proceedings of all officers and servants of the Council in matters of executive administration and in matters concerning the accounts and records of the Council; and\n(e) furnish to the Government or the Director [* * *] or any other Government officer authorised by the Government from time to time, such reports, returns or records as may be prescribed by rules or as may be called for at any time by the Government, the Director, [* * *] or such officer.\n(a) he shall not act under this section in contravention of any order of the Council prohibiting the execution of any particular work or the doing of any particular act; and\n(b) he shall report forthwith the action taken under this section and the reasons therefor to the Standing Committee and the Council at their respective next meeting.",
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"number": "60",
"title": "60. Functions of [Vice-Chairperson] .",
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"content": "(a) in the absence of the [Chairperson] and unless prevented by reasonable cause, to preside at the meetings of the Council;\n(b) whenever there is a casual vacancy in the office of the [Chairperson] , to exercise all the powers and to perform all the duties of the [Chairperson] , pending the election or, as the case may be, nomination of a new [Chairperson] ;\n(c) to exercise such of the powers and perform such of the duties of the [Chairperson] as the [Chairperson] may from time to time depute to him;\n(d) during the absence of the [Chairperson] , to exercise the powers and to perform the duties of the [Chairperson] .",
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"number": "61",
"title": "61. Simultaneous vacancy in the office of [Chairperson] and [Vice-Chairperson] .",
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"content": "[61A. Disqualification of Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson.\n(a) he persistently fails to discharge his duties conferred under the Act; or\n(b) he commits illegality or acts in a manner highly prejudicial to the interest of the Council; or exercises any powers not vested in him either under the Act or by any order of the Government;\n(c) he is employed in any corporation, whether statutory or otherwise, owned or controlled or financed in part or fully by the Central Government, the Government or any State Government; or\n(d) he has so abused his position in the opinion of the Director as to render his continuation as Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson is detrimental to the interest of the Council or has been guilty of misconduct in neglect of his duties or otherwise unfit to hold his office.",
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"number": "62",
"title": "62. Honorarium or allowances to [Chairperson] and members of Council.",
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"number": "63",
"title": "63. Standing and Subjects Committees for all classes of Councils.",
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"content": "(a) determining the number of members of the Standing Committee;\n[(b) determining the Subject Committee or Committees, if any, to be constituted and the number of members of each such committee;]\n(c) holding elections to the Standing Committee and the Subjects Committee, or Committees, if any, in the manner prescribed by the Government.",
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"number": "64",
"title": "64. Constitution of Standing Committee of Councils.",
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"content": "(a) the [Chairperson] of the Council as the Chairman,\n(b) [the Vice-Chairperson] ,\n(c) such other members elected by the Councillors from amongst their number in the manner laid down in clause (c) of sub-section (4) of section 63, so however that the total number of members of the Standing Committee shall not exceed the number determined under clause (a) of sub-section (4) of the said section:\n65.\n[66. Term of office of Chairman and members of Standing and Subjects Committees.\n[67. Vacancies in the Committees of the Council.",
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"number": "68",
"title": "68. Functions and power of Standing Committees and Subjects Committees.",
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"content": "(a) allotment of subjects to the Standing Committee and the Subjects Committees (if any):\n(b) extent of powers of the Council under this Act or any other law for the time being in force to be exercised by the Standing Committee and the Subjects Committees (if any), in respect of the subjects allotted to such Committees.\n69. [Limits of powers of Committees in respect of financial sanction.\nClass of municipal area\nLimit of financial sanctions in respect of\nStanding Committee\nSubjects Committee\n1\n2\n3\nA\nB\nC\nRupees\n10 Lakhs\n6 Lakhs\n4 Lakhs\nRupees\n2 Lakhs\n1,20,000\n80,000]",
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"number": "70",
"title": "70. Subordination of Committees to Council.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "Chapter IV\n[Director of Urban Development]\n71. [Appointment of Director of Urban Development and his powers] .\nChapter V\nProvisions regarding Officers and Servants",
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"number": "72",
"title": "72. Appointment of Chief Officer, Engineer, Water Works Engineer, Health Officer, Auditor and certain other officers [or servants of the Council] .",
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"content": "(i) a Municipal Engineer;\n(ii) a Water Works Engineer;\n(iii) a Municipal Health Officer;\n(iv) a Municipal Auditor;\n(v) a Municipal Education Officer;\n(vi) [any other officer or servants of the Council except Group 'D' posts as may be designated by the Government in this behalf.]\n(a) a common cadre of the Chief Officers,\n(b) [common cadre of all or any of the officers or servants of the Council specified in sub-section (2)] .",
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"number": "73",
"title": "73. Appointment of other officers and servants.",
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"number": "74",
"title": "74. Powers and duties of Chief Officer.",
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"content": "(a) subject to the control, direction and supervision of the [Chairperson] , supervise the financial and executive administration of the Council and exercise such powers and perform such duties and functions as may be conferred or imposed upon him or allotted to him by or under this Act;\n(b) take steps to give effect to all the decisions or resolutions of the Council;\n(c) cause to be maintained and supervise the accounts and registers of the Council;\n(d) subject to the orders of the competent authority, take prompt steps to remove any irregularity pointed out by the Municipal Auditor;\n(e) prepare budget estimates and submit them to the Standing Committee;\n(f) report to the [Chairperson] and the Committee concerned all cases of fraud, embezzlement, theft or loss of municipal money and property;\n(g) exercise supervision and control over the acts and proceedings of all the officers and servants of the Council;\n(h) subject to the rules, bye-laws and general or special orders made under this Act, dispose of all questions such as the pay and allowances, leave and other privileges in respect of the officers and servants of the Council.",
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"number": "75",
"title": "75. Powers and duties of other officers and servants.",
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"number": "76",
"title": "76. Punishment of officers and servants.",
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"content": "(i) Censure;\n(ii) Withholding of increments or promotion including stoppage at an efficiency bar;\n(iii) Reduction to a lower post on a fixed pay or a time-scale or to a lower stage in a time-scale;\n(iv) Recovery from his pay of the whole or part of any pecuniary loss caused to the Council by negligence or breach of orders;\n(v) Removal from the service, which does not disqualify from future employment;\n(vi) Dismissal from the service, which ordinarily disqualifies from future employment.\n(a) where a person is reduced, removed or dismissed on the ground of conduct which has led to his conviction on a criminal charge; or\n(b) where the competent authority is satisfied that, for reasons to be recorded in writing by such authority, it is not reasonably practicable to give that person an opportunity of showing cause.\n(i) the finding at the inquiry is perverse; or\n(ii) the penalty of removal or dismissal or reduction, as the case may be, is too severe.\nAuthority imposing the penalty\nSuperior authority to which appeal may be made\n(i)\nChief Officer ........................\nStanding Committee.\n(ii)\nStanding Committee ........................\nCouncil.\n(iii)\nCouncil ........................\nAdministrative Tribunal.",
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"number": "77",
"title": "77. Bye-laws to be made regulating certain conditions of service.",
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"content": "(a) fixing the amount and nature of the security to be furnished by any employee who is required to handle property, cash or securities belonging to the Council or by any other employee from whom it may be deemed expedient to require security;\n(b) regulating the grant of leave to the employees and the payment of leave salary and allowances to them whilst absent on leave;\n(c) determining the remuneration to be paid to the persons appointed to act for any of the said employees during their absence on leave;\n(d) authorising the payment of travelling or conveyance allowance to the employees;\n(e) regulating the period of service of all employees;\n(f) determining the conditions under which the employees or any of them shall on retirement or discharge or in the event of injury or disability receive pension, gratuity or compassionate allowance and under which heirs or surviving relatives shall receive pension, gratuity or compassionate allowance and the rate of amount of such pension, gratuity or compassionate allowance;\n(g) authorising payment of contributions, out of the Municipal Fund, to any pension or provident fund which may be established for the benefit of the employees;\n(h) determining subsistence allowance, in lieu of pay, during the period of suspension of any employee, pending inquiry;\n(i) generally prescribing any other conditions of service of the employees.\nChapter VI\nConduct of Business",
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"number": "78",
"title": "78. Provision in regard to meetings of Council.",
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"content": "(1) There shall be held six ordinary meetings in each year for the disposal of general business, in every alternate month commencing from the month in which the first meeting of the Council under section 52 is held, and such other ordinary meetings as the [Chairperson] may find necessary. It shall be the duty of the [Chairperson] to fix the dates for all ordinary meetings and to call such meetings.\n(2) The [Chairperson] may, whenever he thinks fit, and shall, upon the written request of [not less than one-third ] of the total number of Councillors and on a date not later than fifteen days after the receipt of such request by the [Chairperson] , call a special meeting.\n[(3) If the Chairperson fails to call a meeting within the period specified in clause (1) or clause (2), the Councillors who had made a request for the special meeting being called, may request the Director to call a special meeting. On receipt of such request, the Director may, if he is satisfied that the subjects proposed for discussion in the special meeting are of such public importance that the same cannot be postponed for discussion in an ordinary meeting, call the special meeting within fifteen days from the date of receipt of such request by him. In case the Director decides not to call a special meeting, he shall direct the Chairperson to include those subjects in the next ordinary meeting of the Council. The meeting, when called by the Director, shall be presided over by the Director or the Officer designated by him but he shall have no right to vote.] .\n(4) (a) Seven clear days' notice of an ordinary meeting, and three clear days' notice of a special meeting, specifying the date, hour and place at which such meeting is to be held and the business to be transacted thereat shall be served upon the Councillors, and posted up at the municipal office. The notice shall include any motion or proposition of which a Councillor shall have given written notice, not less than ten clear days previous to the meeting, of his intention to bring forward thereat and in the case of a special meeting, any motion or proposition mentioned in any written request made for such meeting;\n(b) notwithstanding anything contained in sub-clause (a) in an emergency, for reasons to be recorded in writing, the [Chairperson] may call a special meeting of the Council with only one day's notice served upon the Councillors and posted up at the municipal office.\n(5) Every meeting of a Council shall, except for reasons to be specified in the notice convening the meeting, be held in any of the buildings used as a municipal office by such Council.\n(6) Every meeting shall, in the absence of both the [Chairperson] and the [Vice-Chairperson] , be presided over by such one of the Councillors present as may be chosen by the meeting to be the Chairman for the occasion and such Chairman shall exercise thereat the powers vested in the [Chairperson] by clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 59.\n(7) (a) The presiding authority shall preserve order at the meeting. All points of order shall be decided by the presiding authority with or without discussion as it may deem fit, and the decision of the presiding authority shall be final;\n(b) (i) the presiding authority may direct any Councillor whose conduct is in its opinion disorderly to withdraw immediately from the meeting of the Council [and any Councillor or the Member of Legislative Assembly of Goa or Ex-Councillor associated with the Council so ordered] to withdraw shall do so forthwith and shall absent himself during the remainder of the day's meeting: Provided that the presiding authority may withdraw such order on receiving an apology from the councillor or without such apology;\n(ii) if any [Councillor or the Member of Legislative Assembly of Goa or Ex-Councillor associated with the Council] who has been ordered to withdraw continues to remain in the meeting, the presiding authority may take such steps as it may deem fit to cause him to be removed.\n(8) Every meeting shall be open to the public unless the presiding authority considers that any inquiry or deliberation pending before the Council should be held in private:\n(9) (a) The quorum necessary for the transaction of business-\n(i) at an ordinary meeting shall be one-third of the total number of Councillors;\n(ii) at a special meeting shall be one-half of the total number of Councillors:\n(b) if at any time during a meeting the presiding authority notices or if it is brought to the notice of the presiding authority that the number of Councillors present including the presiding authority falls short of the quorum required, the presiding authority shall after waiting for not less than fifteen minutes and not more than thirty minutes adjourn the meeting to such hour on the following or some other future day as it may reasonably fix. A notice of such adjournment shall be posted up at the municipal office and the business which would have been brought before the original meeting, had there been a quorum thereat, but no other business, shall be brought before the adjourned meeting and may be disposed of at such meeting.\n(10) Except with the permission of the presiding authority (which shall not be given in the case of a motion or proposition to modify or cancel any resolution within three months after the passing thereof), no business shall be transacted and no proposition shall be discussed at any meeting unless it had been mentioned in the notice convening such meeting or in the case of a special meeting, in the written request for such meeting.\n(11) Subject to any rules made in this behalf, the order in which the business shall be transacted at any meeting shall be determined by the presiding authority:\n(12) Minutes containing the names of the Councillors and of the Government officers, if any, present under the provisions of clause (17), and of the proceedings at each meeting shall be kept in English in a book to be maintained for this purpose. Except when votes are recorded by ballot, the names of the Councillors voting for or against any proposal or motion shall be recorded in the minute book. The minutes shall be signed, as soon as practicable, by the presiding authority of such meeting and shall at all reasonable times be open to inspection by any inhabitant of the municipal area. Such minutes shall be placed before the next meeting of the Council and shall, after confirmation by the meeting, be signed by the presiding authority of such meeting.\n(13) Except as otherwise provided by or under this Act, all questions shall be decided by a majority of votes of the Councillors present and voting, the presiding authority having a second or casting vote in all cases of equality of votes. Votes shall be taken and results recorded in such manner as may be prescribed by rules.\n(14) Any meeting may, with the consent of a majority of the Councillors present, be adjourned from time to time to a latter hour on the same day or to any other day; but no business shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting other than that left undisposed of at the meeting from which the adjournment took place. A notice of such adjournment posted up at the municipal office shall be deemed to be sufficient notice of the adjourned meeting:\n(15) No resolution of a Council shall be modified or cancelled within three months after the passing thereof except by a resolution supported by not less than one-half of the total number of Councillors and passed at the meeting of which notice shall have been given fulfilling the requirements of clause (4) and setting forth fully the resolution which it is proposed to modify or cancel at such meeting and the motion or proposition for the modification or cancellation of such resolution.\n(16) Except for reasons which the presiding authority deems emergent, no business relating to any work which is being or is to be executed for the Council by any Department of the Government shall be transacted at any meeting of a Council unless at least seven days previous to such meeting, a letter has been addressed to the concerned officer of the Government informing him of the intention to transact such business thereat and of the motions or propositions to be brought forward concerning such business.\n(17) If it appears to a Council that the presence of any Government officer or an officer of a village panchayat is desirable for the purpose of discussion or consideration of any question, on which, in virtue of the duties of his office, his opinion or information which he could supply will be useful to such Council, at any meeting of such Council, it shall be competent to such Council, by letter addressed to such officer not less than 15 days previous to the intended meeting, to invite him to be present thereat; and the said officer shall, as far as possible, attend such meeting:\n(18) No officer attending a meeting of the Council under clause (16) or (17) shall be entitled to vote on any proposition at such meeting.\n(19) The Government may make rules in respect of matters relating to the conduct of business at meetings of the Council not provided for in this section.",
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"number": "79",
"title": "79. Meetings of Committees.",
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"content": "(1) Subject to any general or special orders of the Committee, the ordinary meetings of a Committee shall be held on such days and at such time as the Chairman may fix.\n(2) Upon the written request of the [Chairperson] or of not less than one-fourth of the members of the Committee, the Chairman shall call a special meeting of the Committee on a date not later than seven days after the receipt of such request:\n(3) If the Chairman of a Committee has been absent from the municipal area for a period exceeding fifteen days or if the Chairman fails to call a meeting within the period specified in clause (2), the [Chairperson] or in his absence the [Vice-Chairperson] may call a meeting of the Committee.\n(4) If the Chairman, the [Chairperson] and the [Vice-Chairperson] fail to call a meeting as required by clause (2) or (3), one-third of the members of the Committee or two members, whichever is more, may call such meeting:\n(5) (a) A notice of every meeting specifying the date on which and the time and the place at which such meeting is to be held and the business to be transacted thereat shall be served upon each member of the Committee and shall also be posted up at the municipal office at least three clear days before the date of the meeting;\n(b) notwithstanding anything contained in sub-clause (a), in an emergency, for reasons to be recorded in writing, the Chairman may call a meeting of the Committee with only one day's notice served upon the members and posted up at the municipal office.\n(6) One-half of the members of a Committee shall form a quorum, but such number shall not be less than two:\n(7) Every meeting of a Committee shall be presided over by the Chairman and in the absence of the Chairman, by one of the members of the Committee as may be chosen by the meeting to preside.\n(8) The Government may make rules in respect of matters relating to the conduct of business at meetings of Committees not provided for in this section.\n(9) Save as otherwise provided by clauses (1) to (7) and the rules made under clause (8), the provisions of clauses (5), (7), (10), (11), (12), (13), (14), (15), (17) and (18) of the last preceding section and the rules made under clause (19) of that section shall mutatis mutandis apply to the meetings of all Committees.",
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"number": "80",
"title": "80. Chief Officer to be present at every meeting of the Council and if required at a meeting of a Committee, but not to vote or make any proposition.",
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"number": "81",
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"content": "(a) any return, statement, estimate, statistics or plan or other information regarding any matter pertaining to the administration of the Council;\n(b) report or clarification on any such matter; and\n(c) a copy of any record, correspondence, plan or other document which is in his possession or under his control in his official capacity or, which is recorded or filed in his office or in the office of any officer or servant subordinate to him.",
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"number": "82",
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"content": "(a) in appointing, out of their respective bodies, a joint committee for any purpose in which they are jointly interested and in appointing a Chairman of such Committee; and\n(b) in delegating to any such Committee power to frame terms binding on each such body as to the construction and future maintenance of any joint work and any power which might be exercised by either or any of such bodies; and\n(c) in framing and modifying regulation for regulating the proceedings of any such Committee and the conduct of correspondence relating to the purpose for which the Committee is appointed.",
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"number": "83",
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"number": "84",
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"content": "(a) all public town-walls, gates, markets, slaughter-houses, manure and night-soil depots and all public buildings of every description which have been constructed or are maintained out of the municipal fund;\n(b) all public sewers and drains, and all sewers, drains, culverts and watercourses, in alongside or under any street, and all works, materials and things appertaining thereto; constructed or maintained out of Municipal funds;\n(c) all dust, dirt, dung, ashes, refuse, animal matter or filth, or rubbish of any kind and, or unclaimed dead bodies of animals, collected by the Council from the streets, houses, privies, sewers, cess-pools or elsewhere, or deposited in places fixed by the Council in that behalf;\n(d) all public lamps, lamp-posts and apparatus connected therewith or appertaining thereto, constructed or maintained out of Municipal funds;\n(e) all lands, buildings or other property transferred to the Council by the Central Government or the Government or acquired by gift, purchase or otherwise for local public purposes;\n(f) all lands, buildings or other property specified in clauses (a), (b) and (d) belonging to or constructed by the Central Government or the Government and which may be transferred to the Council by the said Government; and\n(g) all public streets, (excluding national highways and such roads as may be specified by the Government in this behalf by order published in the Official Gazette) not being open spaces or lands owned by Government and the pavements, stones and other materials thereof, and also all trees, erections, materials, implements and things provided for such streets.",
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"number": "85",
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"content": "(b) the inquiry referred to in this section shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions relating to conduct of formal inquiry or inquiry contained in any relevant law for the time being in force in the [State of Goa] .",
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"number": "86",
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"content": "(a) nothing in this section or in section 84 shall in any way affect any obligation accepted by or imposed upon any Council by any declarations of trust executed by or on behalf of such Council or by any scheme settled under the Charitable Endowments Act, 1890, for the administration of any trust, or by a trust of the nature specified in clause (b);\n(b) a Council may, subject to the condition that reasonable provision shall be made for the performance of all obligations imposed or that may be imposed on it by or under this Act or any other law for the time being in force, after crediting the necessary sums to the funds created under section 87, credit to a separate heading in the municipal accounts any portion of the municipal fund received or set apart by it specially for such purposes as the Director in this behalf approves, and the Council shall apply sums so credited exclusively to the special purposes for which such sums were received or set apart;\n(c) (i) every Council which levies a tax on pilgrims resorting periodically to a shrine within its area shall, subject to the condition that reasonable provision shall be made for the purposes specified in sub-clause (ii), credit the proceeds of the said tax to a separate heading in the municipal account to be called the \"Pilgrim Fund Account\";\n(ii) the purposes for which provision shall be made by a Council before the proceeds of the pilgrim tax are credited to the Pilgrim Fund Account shall be the following, namely, the payment to the Council of such percentage of the proceeds of the said tax as may be determined from time to time by the Council with the approval of the Director for-\n(A) making reasonable provision for the performance of all obligations imposed or which may be imposed on it by or under this Act or any other law for the time being in force;\n(B) such general duties of the Council as are connected with the health, convenience and safety of the said pilgrims; and\n(C) the cost of collection of the said tax;\n(iii) the sums credited under sub-clause (i) shall be devoted to such works conducive to the health, convenience and safety of the said pilgrims as may be approved by the Director.\n(a) Water supply;\n(b) Drainage;\n(c) Primary and Secondary Education;\n(d) Development plan and town planning schemes under any law for the time being in force in the [State of Goa] ;\n(e) Dearness allowance to the officers and servants of the Council;\n(f) [Pay and allowances to the officers and servants of the Council posted on deputation from Government Departments;]\n(g) Public health;\n(h) Fire brigade;\n(i) Construction and maintenance of roads;\n(j) and such other amenities as the Government may from time to time determine.",
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"number": "87",
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"content": "(a) recoupment of the Salary Reserve Fund',\n(b) payment of salaries and allowances.",
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"number": "88",
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"number": "89",
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"content": "(a) of every contract which will involve expenditure not covered by a budget grant,\n(b) of every contract the performance of which cannot be completed within the official year current at the date of the contract, the sanction of the Council by a resolution passed at an ordinary meeting shall be necessary.\n(b) No such contract which the Chief Officer is not empowered by this Act to carry out without the approval or sanction of some other municipal authority shall be made by him until or unless such approval or sanction has first of all been duly given;\n(c) [No contract which involve such amount of expenditure as notified by the Government from time to time] , shall be made by the Chief Officer of 'A' Class, 'B' Class and 'C' Class Council, respectively, unless otherwise authorised in this behalf by the Council, except with the approval or sanction of the Council;\n(d) Every contract made by the Chief Officer involving an expenditure exceeding 75 per cent of the limits in clause (c) but not exceeding those limits shall be reported by him within fifteen days after the same has been made to the council;\n(e) The foregoing provisions of this section shall apply to every variation or discharge of a contract to the same extent as to an original contract.\n(a) where any such contract, if entered into by a Chief Officer, would require to be under seal, the same shall be sealed with the common seal of the Council;\n(b) every contract for the execution of any work or for the supply or any materials or goods which will involve an expenditure [exceeding such amount as may be notified by the Government from time to time] shall be in writing and shall be sealed with the common seal of the Council and shall specify the work to be done or the materials or goods to be supplied, as the case may be, the price to be paid for such work, materials or goods and in the case of a contract for work, the time or times within which the same or specified portions thereof shall be completed.",
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"number": "90",
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"number": "91",
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"number": "92",
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"number": "93",
"title": "93. Application of municipal property and funds within and without the municipal area.",
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"content": "(a) to incur expenditure in the acquisition of land or in the construction, maintenance, repair or purchase of works beyond the limits of its area for the purpose of obtaining a supply of water required for the inhabitants of the municipal area or of providing the supply of electrical energy or gas for the use of the inhabitants of the municipal area or of establishing slaughter-houses or places for the disposal of night-soil or sewage or carcasses of animals or for drainage works or for the purpose of providing mechanically propelled transport facilities for the conveyance of the public or for the purpose of setting up of dairies or farms for the supply, distribution and processing of milk or milk products for the benefit of the inhabitants of the municipal area or for any other purpose calculated to promote the health, safety or convenience of the inhabitants of the municipal area; or\n(b) to make a contribution towards expenditure incurred by any other local authority or out of any public funds for measures affecting the health, safety or convenience of the public and calculated to benefit directly the residents within the limits of the contributing Council:\n(i) to supply or extend to or for the benefit of any persons or buildings or lands in any place whether such place is or is not within the limits of the municipal area, any quantity of water or electrical energy or gas not required for the purposes of this Act within the municipal area, or the advantages afforded by the system of drainage works on such terms and conditions with regard to payment and to the continuance of such supply or advantages as shall be settled by agreement between the Council and such persons or the occupiers or owners of such buildings or lands, or\n(ii) to incur any expenditure, on such terms with regard to payment as may be settled as aforesaid, for the construction, maintenance, repairs, or alteration of any connection pipes or any electric or gas supply lines or other works necessary for the purpose of such supply or for the extension of such advantages, or\n(iii) to make contribution towards the Construction, establishment or maintenance of institutions referred to in clause (t) of sub-section (3) of section 51, subject to the condition that the total of such contributions in any financial year shall not exceed two per cent. of the general revenues (excluding Government grants) of the Council for the previous financial year:",
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"number": "94",
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"number": "95",
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"number": "96",
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"content": "Chapter VIII\nBudget and Accounts",
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"number": "97",
"title": "97. Budget.",
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"content": "(i) a statement showing the income and expenditure of the Council for the previous financial year;\n(ii) a statement showing the income and expenditure of the Council from the 1st day of April to the 30th day of November of the financial year then current and an estimate of the income and expenditure for the remaining portion of the current year;\n(iii) an estimate of the income and expenditure of the Council during the ensuing financial year and an estimate of the closing balance in the municipal fund at the end of the current year;\n(iv) proposals for any change in the taxes, fees or other charges to be levied for the ensuing year.\n(a) for the payment as they fall due of all sums and of all instalments of principal and interest for which the Council may be liable under this Act or any other law for the time being in force;\n(b) for the payment of contributions to the special funds constituted under this Act such as the Salary Reserve Fund;\n(c) for the payment of salaries and allowances of the officers and servants of the Council;\n(d) for a minimum cash balance at the end of the year (exclusive of the balance, if any, in any statutory fund) of such amount as may be prescribed by rules made by the Government.\n(b) If any sum which is not so included in the budget, is expended in an emergency, the circumstances in which such sum was expended shall forthwith be reported by the [Chairperson] to the Council and the Director, with an explanation of the way in which it is proposed to cover such extra expenditure.",
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"number": "98",
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"number": "99",
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"number": "100",
"title": "100. Audit of Accounts.",
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"content": "Chapter IX\nMunicipal Taxation",
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"number": "101",
"title": "101. Imposition of compulsory taxes.",
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"content": "(a) a consolidated property tax on lands or buildings or both situated within municipal area, [other than those belonging to the Government, Central Government or duly registered Freedom Fighters] based on their rateable value as determined in accordance with section 110;\n(b) a tax on professions, trades, calling and employments;\n(c) a theatre tax;\n(d) a tax on advertisements other than advertisements published in the newspapers:\n(a) a general tax;\n(b) a general water tax;\n(c) a lighting tax;\n(d) a general sanitary tax.",
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"number": "102",
"title": "102. Loss of income from tax due to exemption to be reimbursed by Government.",
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"content": "(i) the mode of assessing the loss; and\n(ii) the amount of loss incurred by each Council concerned each year, shall be final.",
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"number": "103",
"title": "103. Provision for exempting 'C' Class Councils from levying certain taxes temporarily.",
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"number": "104",
"title": "104. Other taxes which Council may impose.",
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"content": "(a) a tax on all vehicles (excluding motor vehicles as defined in the Motor Vehicles Act, [1988] ), boats or animals used for riding, draught or burden and kept for use within the municipal area, whether they are actually kept within or outside such area;s\n(b) a toll on vehicles and animals used as aforesaid, entering the municipal area but not liable to taxation under clause (a);\n(c) a tax on dogs kept within the municipal area;\n[(cc) a garbage treatment tax for disposing solid waste by incineration or other scientific method;]\n(d) a special sanitary tax upon private latrines, premises or compounds cleansed by municipal agency, after notice given as hereinafter required;\n(e) a drainage tax;\n(f) a special water tax for water supplied by the Council in individual cases, charges for such supply being fixed in such mode or modes as shall be best suited to the varying circumstances of any class of cases or of any individual case;\n(g) a tax on pilgrims resorting periodically to a shrine within the limits of the Council;\n(h) a special educational tax;\n(i) an octroi;\n(j) any other tax which under the Constitution of India the Legislature of the [State of Goa] has power to impose in the [State of Goa] :\n(i) made provision for the cleansing thereof by manual labour, or for conducting or receiving the sewage thereof into municipal sewers, and\n(ii) issued either severally to the persons to be charged, or generally to the inhabitants of the municipal area or part thereof to be charged with such tax, one month's notice of the intention of the Council to perform such cleansing and to levy such tax.",
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"number": "104",
"title": "105. Procedure preliminary to imposing tax under section 104.",
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"content": "(a) it shall, by resolution passed at a special meeting, select for the purpose one or other of the taxes specified in that section and approve the bye-laws concerning the tax selected, and in such bye-laws specify-\n(i) the classes of persons or of property or of both, which the Council proposes to make liable, and any exemptions which it proposes to make;\n(ii) the amount or rate at which the Council proposes to assess each such class;\n(iii) the mode of levying and recovering the tax and the dates on which it or instalments (if any) thereof shall be payable;\n(iv) all other matters which the Government by rules made in this behalf may require to be specified therein;\n(b) when such a resolution is passed, the Council shall take further action to obtain the previous sanction of the Government to the bye-laws under section 307.",
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"number": "106",
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"number": "107",
"title": "107. Local publication of bye-laws relating to taxes, with notice.",
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"content": "(a) a tax leviable by the year shall not come into force except on one of the following days, namely, the first day of April, the first day of July, the first day of October or the first day of January in any year; and if it comes into force on any day other than the first day of April, it shall be leviable by the quarter till the first day of April than next ensuing.\n(b) if the levy of a tax, or a portion of a tax, has been sanctioned for a fixed period only, the levy shall cease at the conclusion of that period, except so far as regards recovery of arrears which may have become due during that period.",
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"number": "108",
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"number": "109",
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"number": "110",
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"number": "111",
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"number": "112",
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"number": "113",
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"number": "114",
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"number": "115",
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"number": "116",
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"number": "117",
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"number": "118",
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"content": "(i) for the purposes of all municipal taxes, of the valuation, or annual rent, on the basis prescribed in section 110, of buildings or lands or both buildings and lands to which such entries respectively refer; and\n(ii) for the purposes of the tax for which such assessment list has been prepared of the amount of the tax leviable on such buildings or lands or both buildings and lands in any official year in which such list is in force.",
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"number": "119",
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"number": "120",
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"number": "121",
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"content": "(a) if the premises are held immediately from the Government or from the Council, from the actual occupier thereof:\n(b) if the premises are not so held-\n(i) from the lessor if the premises are let;\n(ii) from the superior lessor if the premises are sub-let;\n(iii) from the person in whom the right to let the premises vests if they are unlet;\n(iv) from the person in possession, if the premises are not let out to him.",
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"number": "122",
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"number": "123",
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"content": "(a) has been vacant and unproductive of rent for any period of not less than ninety consecutive days, or\n(b) consists of separate tenements one or more of which has or have been vacant and unproductive of rent for any such period as aforesaid, or\n(c) wholly or in great part demolished or destroyed by fire or otherwise deprived of value, the Council may remit or refund such portion, if any, of the tax or instalment as it may think equitable.",
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"number": "124",
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"number": "125",
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"number": "126",
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"number": "127",
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"number": "128",
"title": "128. Power to fix special rate in lieu of special sanitary tax.",
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"content": "(a) in accordance with the bye-laws for the time being in force; or\n(b) by written agreement with the person who would have been otherwise liable for the tax, provided that in fixing the amount of such rate proper regard shall be had to the probable cost to the Council of the service to be rendered.",
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"number": "129",
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"number": "130",
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"number": "131",
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"number": "132",
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"content": "(a) permit that officer to inspect, examine, weigh and otherwise deal with such animal or goods;\n(b) communicate to that officer any information and exhibit to him any bill, invoice or document of a like nature, which he may possess relating to such animal or goods; and\n(c) make a declaration in writing to that officer regarding the correctness and accuracy of the document shown to him.",
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"number": "133",
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"number": "134",
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"number": "135",
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"number": "136",
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"number": "137",
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"number": "138",
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"number": "139",
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"number": "140",
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"number": "141",
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"number": "142",
"title": "142. Power of Government to require Councils to impose taxes.",
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"content": "[142A. Assignment of certain taxes, etc.\n(a) assign to the Council, such taxes, duties, tolls and fees levied and collected by the Government for such purposes and subject to such conditions and limits as may be prescribed;\n(b) provide for making such grants-in-aid to the Council for the Consolidated Fund of the State as may be determined from time to time by an order published in the Official Gazette.]",
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"number": "143",
"title": "143. Fees may be charged for certain licences, permission, etc.",
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"content": "[143A. Finance Commission.\n(a) the principal which should govern-\n(i) the distribution between the State and the Councils and the net proceeds of the tax, duties, tolls and fees leviable by the Government which may be divided between them and allocation between them of their respective share of such proceeds;\n(ii) the determination of the taxes, duties, tolls and fees which may be assigned to or appropriated by the Councils;\n(iii) the grants-in-aid to the Councils from the Consolidated Fund of the State;\n(b) the measures needed to improve the financial position of the Council;\n(c) any other matter referred to the Finance Commission by the Governor in the interest of sound finance of the Council.\n(a) to call for any record from any officer or authority;\n(b) to summon any person to give evidence or produce records;\n(c) such other power as may be prescribed.\nChapter X\nRecovery of Municipal Claims",
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"number": "144",
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"number": "145",
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"number": "146",
"title": "146. When notice of demand issued.",
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"content": "(a) pay the sum claimed due as in the bill, or\n(b) show cause to the satisfaction of the Chief Officer why he is not liable to pay the same, or\n(c) prefer an appeal in accordance with the provisions of section 164 against the claim, the Chief Officer may cause to be served upon the person liable for the payment of the said sum a notice of demand in the form of Schedule IV or to the like effect.",
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"number": "147",
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"number": "148",
"title": "148. To whom warrant addressed.",
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"content": "(b) Where the property is in another municipal area, the warrant shall be addressed to the Chief Officer of that area;\n(c) Where the property is in a Cantonment, the warrant shall be addressed to the Executive Officer of the Cantonment;\n(d) Where the property is not within the limits of a municipal area or a Cantonment, the warrant shall be addressed to a Government Officer not lower in rank than a Mamlatdar:",
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"number": "149",
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"number": "150",
"title": "150. Warrant how to be executed.",
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"content": "(a) the following property shall not be distrained:-\n(i) the necessary wearing apparel and bedding of the defaulter, his wife and children,\n(ii) the tools of artisans,\n(iii) when the defaulter is an agriculturist, his implements of husbandry and such cattle and seed-grain as may be necessary to enable the defaulter to earn his livelihood;\n(b) 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 Chief Officer or the person to whom the warrant was addressed, should not have been so distrained, it shall forthwith be returned to the defaulter;\n(c) the officer shall, on distraining or attaching the property, forthwith make an inventory thereof and give to the person in possession thereof at the time of distraint or attachment a written notice in the form of Schedule VI;\n(d) (i) when the property is immovable, the attachment shall be made by an order prohibiting the defaulter from transferring or charging the property in any way and all persons from taking any benefit from such transfer or charge;\n(ii) the order shall be proclaimed at some place on or adjacent to the property by beat of drum or other customary mode, and a copy of the order shall be fixed on a conspicuous part of the property and then upon the notice board of the municipal office and also, when the property is land paying revenue to the Government, in the office of the Collector of the district in which the land is situated;\n(e) any transfer of or charge on the property attached or of any interest therein made without the written permission of the Chief Officer shall be void as against all claims of the Council enforceable under the attachment.",
"footnote": "",
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"number": "151",
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"content": "",
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"number": "152",
"title": "152. Surplus, if any, how dealt with.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
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"number": "153",
"title": "153. Sale outside municipal area.",
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"content": "",
"footnote": "",
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"number": "154",
"title": "154. Fees and costs chargeable.",
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"content": "",
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"number": "155",
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"content": "",
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"number": "156",
"title": "156. Sales in other cases by whom to be ordered and the manner of making and confirming them.",
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"content": "",
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"number": "157",
"title": "157. Liability of lands, buildings, etc. for taxes.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
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"number": "158",
"title": "158. Receipts to be given for all payments.",
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"content": "",
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"number": "159",
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"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
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"number": "160",
"title": "160. Stay orders on warrants by whom to be issued.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 149
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"number": "161",
"title": "161. Interest payable on dues for taxes.",
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"content": "(a) one-half per cent. of the sum due for each complete month for the first six months , from the date of the expiry of the period of fifteen days aforesaid; and\n(b) one per cent. of the sum due for each complete month thereafter, during the time he continues to make default in the payment of the sum due.",
"footnote": "",
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"number": "162",
"title": "162. Power to write off.",
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"content": "",
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"number": "163",
"title": "163. Appointment of Recovery Officer.",
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"content": "",
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"number": "164",
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"content": "",
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"number": "165",
"title": "165. Procedure in Appeal.",
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"content": "(a) the appeal is brought within fifteen days next after the presentation of the bill complained of; and\n(b) an application in writing stating the grounds on which the claim of the Council is disputed, has been made to the Council in the case of a tax on buildings or lands or both within the time fixed in the notice given under section 115 or 119 of the assessment or alteration thereof, according to which the bill is prepared; and\n(c) the amount claimed from the appellant has been deposited by him in the municipal office.",
"footnote": "",
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"number": "166",
"title": "166. Revision by Court.",
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"content": "",
"footnote": "",
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"number": "167",
"title": "167. Bar of other proceedings.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "Chapter XI\nStreets and Open Spaces",
"footnote": "",
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"number": "168",
"title": "168. Powers in respect of public streets.",
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"content": "(a) to lay out and make new public streets, including tunnels, bridges, sub-ways and other works subsidiary to public streets;\n(b) to widen, open, extend or otherwise improve any public street or any work subsidiary to a public street;\n(c) to divert, or close temporarily any public street;\n(d) subject to the provisions of sub-section (2), to close any public street permanently.",
"footnote": "",
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"number": "169",
"title": "169. Powers to declare any street a public street, subject to objections by owners.",
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"content": "",
"footnote": "",
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"sort_order": 158
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"number": "170",
"title": "170. Power to require repair, etc. of private streets and to declare them as public streets.",
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"content": "",
"footnote": "",
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"number": "171",
"title": "171. Regular line of a public street.",
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"content": "(b) Where the Chief Officer refuses permission to construct or reconstruct any building in any area within the regular line of the public street, such area shall, with the approval of the Council, be added to the street and shall henceforth be deemed part of the public street and shall be vested in the Council;\n(c) Compensation, the amount of which shall, in case of dispute, be ascertained and determined in the manner provided in section 315 shall be paid by the Council to the owner of any land added to a street under clause (b) for the value of the said land, and to the owner of any building for any loss, damage or expense incurred by such owner in consequence of any action taken or order passed by the Chief Officer under this sub-section:",
"footnote": "",
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"number": "172",
"title": "172. Setting back projecting buildings.",
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"content": "(a) (i) if the projecting part thereof is any structure external to the main building, then at any time; or\n(ii) if the projecting part is not an external structure as aforesaid, then whenever the greater portion of such building or whenever any material portion of such projecting part has been taken down or burned down or has fallen down, require by written notice either that the part or some portion of the part projecting beyond the said regular line shall be removed or that such building when rebuilt shall be set back to or towards the said regular line;\n(b) if the provisions of clause (a) do not apply and if in the opinion of the Council it is necessary to set back the building to the regular line of the public street require by written notice to show cause within such period as may be specified in such notice, why such projecting part shall not be pulled down and the land within the said line acquired by the Council.",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
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"number": "173",
"title": "173. Setting forward to regular line of street.",
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"content": "(a) the Council may, upon such terms as it thinks fit, permit it to be set forward for the purpose of improving the line of the street; and\n(b) whenever it is proposed to rebuild such building or to alter or repair such building in any manner that will involve the removal or re-erection of such building or of the greater portion thereof which adjoins the said street, the Council may, in granting any permission for such work, require such building to be set forward for improving the line of the street.",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
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"number": "174",
"title": "174. Surface projections, obstructions and encroachments in respect of public streets.",
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"content": "(a) build or set up, any fence, rail, post, stall, platform or any projecting structure or thing, or make any other encroachment or obstruction,\n(b) place or deposit or cause to be placed or deposited any box, bale, package or merchandise or any other thing,\n(i) made in contravention of sub-section (1) or contrary in any manner to any permission granted under sub-section (4); or\n(ii) in respect of which the period specified in the permission under sub-section (4), has expired.\n(i) on occasions of festivals and ceremonies in such manner as not to inconvenience the public or any individual;\n(ii) for depositing timber, bricks, or other material that has been or is intended to be used for building purposes;\n(iii) for any other purpose specified in the bye-laws.",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 163
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"number": "175",
"title": "175. Prohibition of projections other than surface projections upon streets, etc.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "(a) overhang, jut or project into or over, or obstruct in any way the safe or convenient passage of the public along any public street; or\n(b) jut or project into or over any drain or open channel in any public street or interfere with the use of proper working of such drain or channel or to impede the inspection or cleansing thereof.\n(i) which has been constructed or made whether with or without or contrary in any manner to the permission granted under sub-section (2) ;\n(ii) which has been constructed or made contrary to the provision of any law for the time being in force if such projection or obstruction was constructed or made before the appointed day;\n(iii) when the period for which the permission under sub-section (2) was granted has expired.",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
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{
"number": "176",
"title": "176. Projections, encroachment, etc., in public places and open spaces whether vesting in Council or not.",
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"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 165
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"number": "177",
"title": "177. Power to require boundary walls, hedges, etc., to be constructed or removed.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "(a) to remove partially or wholly from the land any boundary wall, hedge, or other fence which is, in its opinion, likely to obstruct or cause a hindrance to traffic or is otherwise objectionable;\n(b) to construct on the land sufficient boundary walls, hedges or other fences of such material, description and dimensions as may be specified in the notice;\n(c) to maintain the boundary walls, hedges or other fences on the land in good order;\n(d) to cut or trim trees growing on the land and overhanging the street and obstructing the traffic or causing danger to such traffic.",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
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"number": "178",
"title": "178. New private streets.",
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"content": "(a) the intended level, direction and width of the street;\n(b) the situation and the boundaries of any buildings or plots abutting on such street or likely to be served by such street;\n(c) the position of any public street or streets which the new street may have an access to;\n(d) the arrangements to be made for the levelling, paving, metalling, flagging, channelling, draining, lighting, or cleansing of the street;\n(a) sanction the laying out or making of the new street subject to such modifications or conditions as it may think fit; or\n(b) disallow it for reasons which shall be communicated to the applicant in writing.",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
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"number": "179",
"title": "179. Troughs and pipes for rain water.",
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"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 168
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"number": "180",
"title": "180. Naming and numbering streets and numbering of premises.",
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"content": "(a) give a name or a number to every public street;\n(b) cause to be put up or painted on a conpicuous part of any building, wall or any other place at or near each end or corner of or entrance to a public street, the name or the number by which such street is to be known;\n(c) determine the number or sub-number by which any premises or part thereof shall be known;\nExplanation:",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
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{
"number": "181",
"title": "181. Displacing pavements, etc.",
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"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 170
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"number": "182",
"title": "182. Prohibition of sale of articles in public streets, without licence.",
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"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 171
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"number": "183",
"title": "183. Prohibition of plying hand-carts without licence.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "Chapter XII\nControl over Buildings",
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"number": "184",
"title": "184. Notice of construction of building.",
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"content": "(a) any material alteration, enlargement or reconstruction of any building, or of any wall including compound wall and fencing, verandah , fixed platform, plinth, door step or the like, whether constituting part of a building or not;\n(b) the conversion into a place for human habitation of any building not originally constructed for human habitation;\n(c) the conversion into more than one place for human habitation of any place originally constructed as one such place;\n(d) the conversion of two or more places of human habitation into a greater number of such places;\n(e) such alterations of the internal arrangements of a building, as affect its drainage, ventilation or other sanitary arrangements, or its security or stability; and\n(f) the addition of any rooms, buildings, or other structures to any buildings, and a building so altered, enlarged, reconstructed, converted or added to, is throughout this Chapter included under the expression \"a new building\".\n(i) furnish all the information and documents required under sub-section (2); or\n(ii) the Chief Officer deems it necessary to call for any further information or documents, the Chief Officer shall, within sixty days of the receipt of the notice, require such person by an order in writing to furnish such information or documents.\n(a) grant the necessary permission to construct according to the plans and information furnished under sub-section (2) and sub-section (3);\n(b) impose any conditions in accordance with this Act or the rules and bye-laws made thereunder, as to the level, drainage, sanitation, materials or to the number of storeys to be erected, or with reference to the location of the building in relation to any street existing or projected or to the means of access to such building on the purpose for which the building is to be used;\n(c) direct that the work shall not be proceeded with unless and until all questions connected with the respective location of the building or street have been decided to his satisfaction;\n(d) subject to the provisions of the next succeeding section, refuse such permission for reasons which shall be communicated to the applicant in writing.\n(i) without the permission of the Chief Officer under sub-section (4) or of the Council under sub-section (5), save as otherwise provided under sub-section (6); or\n(ii) having received permission under clause (a) of sub-section (4), contrary to the plans and information furnished under sub-sections (2) and (3); or\n(iii) having received permission under clause (b) of sub-section (4), contrary to the conditions imposed under that clause or contrary to the plans and information submitted under sub-sections (2) and (3) in so far as such plans and information are not modified by such conditions; or\n(iv) contrary to the provisions of sub-section (6), when construction is begun under that sub-section, the Chief Officer may, by a written notice, require such person to stop such construction and to alter or demolish any construction already made as specified in the notice. If, within fifteen days from the service of such notice for demolishing any such construction, the work of demolishing it is not commenced, the Chief Officer may cause such work to be done and the expenses incurred therefor shall be recoverable from the person concerned in the same manner as an amount due on account of a property tax.\n[184A. Power to seal unauthorized constructions.\n(a) Under an order made by the Chief Officer under sub-section (2); or\n(b) under an order of an Appellate Tribunal or the Government, made in appeal under this Act.",
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"is_definition": false,
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"number": "184B",
"title": "184B. Appellate Tribunal.",
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"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 174
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"number": "184C",
"title": "184C. Procedure of the Appellate Tribunal.",
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"content": "(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 records 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 the 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 (Central Act 45 of 1860), and every Appellate Tribunal shall be deemed to be a Civil Court for the purpose of section 195 and Chapter XXVI of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Central Act 2 of 1974).",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
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"number": "184D",
"title": "184D. Appeal against order of Appellate Tribunal.",
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"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
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"number": "184E",
"title": "184E. Bar of jurisdiction of Civil Courts.",
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"content": "[184F. Preparation of development plan.\n184G.",
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"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 177
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"number": "185",
"title": "185. Powers of Chief Officer and Council to refuse permission.",
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"content": "(i) if the Council passes a resolution proposing to acquire the land on which the building is proposed to be constructed; or\n(ii) if the proposed construction would contravene the provisions of this Act, or any other law for the time being in force or any scheme, rules, bye-laws or other orders under this Act or any other law for the time being in force; or\n(iii) if the notice under sub-section (2) of the last preceding section is not in accordance with the provisions of that sub-section or is not accompanied by the information and documents required by that sub-section or if the person giving such notice fails to furnish all the information and documents required under sub-section (3) of that section; or\n(iv) if no plan has been prepared for the laying out of streets for the area in which the building is to be constructed; or\n(v) if there is no adequate provision for access to the building; or\n(vi) if the proposed construction be an encroachment on Government or municipal land; or\n(vii) for any other reasons to be recorded in writing, which may be deemed sufficient by the Chief Officer.\n(a) if the property is acquired and no agreement is arrived at as regards the amount of compensation payable to the person giving notice under sub-section (2) of the last preceding section, the same shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of section 315 regard being had to the likely benefit, which would have accrued to such person, if the permission had not been refused;\n(b) if within a period of six months from the date of the resolution of the Council proposing to acquire the land, the land is not acquired by the Council by agreement upon payment, or if within such period, an application has not been made to the Collector for the institution of proceedings for compulsory acquisition under the provision of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, or if the Council abandons the proposal to acquire the land, the notice given under sub-section (2) of the last preceding section shall be deemed to have been revived with effect from the date on which the said period of six months expires, or with effect from the date on which the decision of the Council to abandon the proposal is arrived at, as the case may be. Such decision shall be communicated to the person giving notice, within fifteen days from the date of the decision; and the notice shall be dealt with as if the Council had not passed a resolution to acquire the land. The Council shall be liable to pay compensation to the said person in respect of the loss which he may prove to have incurred by reason of the Council's refusal to grant the permission:",
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"number": "186",
"title": "186. Level of buildings.",
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"content": "",
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"number": "187",
"title": "187. Roofs and external walls of buildings not to be made of inflammable materials.",
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"content": "(i) the areas in which permission shall be granted by the Chief Officer for the construction of external roofs and walls of buildings from any inflammable material;\n(ii) the conditions which may be imposed by the Chief Officer in granting permission for such construction in any other area.",
"footnote": "",
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"number": "188",
"title": "188. Completion certificate, permission to occupy or use.",
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"content": "(a) such inspection shall be commenced with in seven days from the date of receipt or the notice of completion; and\n(b) the Chief Officer may, not later than one month from the date of receipt of the notice of completion, by written intimation addressed to the person from whom the notice of completion was received,-\n(i) give permission for the occupation of such building or for the use of the building or part thereof affected by such construction; or\n(ii) refuse such permission in case such building has been constructed so as to contravene any provision of this Act or of any bye-law made under this Act at the time in force or of any order passed under section 184 intimating to the person who gave the notice under sub-section (2) of that section, the reasons for such refusal and requiring such person, or if the person responsible for giving notice under sub-section (2) of the said section is not at the time of such notice owner of such building, then such owner to cause anything which is contrary to any provision of this Act or of any bye-law made under this Act at the time in force or of any order passed under section 184 to be amended or to do anything which by any such provision or bye-law or order he is required to do but which has been omitted.\n(a) the permission referred to in proviso (b) to sub-section (1) has been received, or\n(b) the Chief Officer has failed for one month after the receipt of the notice of completion to intimate as aforesaid his refusal of the said permission.\n(a) occupies or permits to be occupied any such building or part thereof affected by such construction without giving any notice as required under sub-section (1) or in contravention of the provisions of sub-section (2); or\n(b) fails to comply with any order or requisition made under sub-section (1) shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to [ten thousand rupees] , and in the case of continuing contravention or non-compliance with further fine which may extend to [one hundred rupees] for every day after the first during which such contravention or non-compliance continues.",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 181
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"number": "189",
"title": "189. Building for human habitation not to be used as godown, etc. and vice versa.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "(i) use or permit to be used any building or part thereof originally constructed or authorised to be used for human habitation as a godown, warehouse, workshop, workplace, factory, stable or a motor garage; or\n(ii) use or permit to be used for human habitation any part of a building not originally constructed or authorised to be used for that purpose.",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 182
},
{
"number": "190",
"title": "190. Removal of buildings, structures, etc., which are in ruins or likely to fall.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 183
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{
"number": "191",
"title": "191. Penalty for defacing building, etc.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "(a) who, without the consent of the owner or occupier, and in the case of municipal property without the permission in writing of the Chief Officer, affixes any posting bill, placard or other paper or means of advertisement against or upon any building, wall, board, fence, pale, post, lamp-post or the like; or\n(b) who, without such consent or permission, as aforesaid, writes upon, soils, defaces or marks any such building, wall, board, fence, pale, post, lamp-post or the like, with chalk or paint or in any other way whatsoever, shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to fifty rupees.",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 184
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{
"number": "192",
"title": "192. Fixing of lamps, brackets, etc., to houses.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 185
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{
"number": "193",
"title": "193. Regulation of huts.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 186
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"number": "194",
"title": "194. Improvement of huts.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "(a) of insufficient ventilation or of the manner in which such hut is crowded together with other huts; or\n(b) of the want of a plinth or of a sufficient plinth or of sufficient drainage; or\n(c) of the impracticability of scavenging, attended with risk of disease to the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, the Council shall cause a notice to be affixed to some conspicuous part of such hut, requiring the owner or occupier thereof, or the owner of the land on which such hut is built, within such reasonable time as may be fixed by the Council in this behalf, to take down and remove such hut or to carry out such alteration or works as the Council may deem necessary for the avoidance of such risk.\nChapter XIII\nDrainage",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 187
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"number": "195",
"title": "195. Municipal control over drainage.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 188
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{
"number": "196",
"title": "196. Power of making and repairing drains.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 189
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{
"number": "197",
"title": "197. Power to require sufficient drainage of houses.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "(a) some drain or sewer, if there be a suitable, drain or sewer within [fifty metres] of any part of such building or land; or\n(b) a covered cesspool to be provided by such owner and approved by the Chief Officer.",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 190
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{
"number": "198",
"title": "198. New building not to be erected without drains.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "(a) a drain is constructed of such size, materials and description, at such level and with such fall, as may be required by the bye-laws or if no bye-laws have been framed by the Council, as shall appear to the Chief Officer to be necessary for the effectual drainage of such building;\n(b) there have been provided for and set up in such building and in the land appurtenant thereto, all such appliances and fittings as may be required by the bye-laws ; or if no bye-laws have been framed by the Council as may appear to the Chief Officer to be necessary for the purposes of gathering and receiving the drainage from, and conveying the same off, the said building and the said land, and of effectually flushing the drain of the said building and every fixture connected therewith.",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 191
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{
"number": "199",
"title": "199. Powers of owners and occupiers of buildings or lands to drain into municipal drains.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 192
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"number": "200",
"title": "200. Right to carry drain through land or into drain belonging to other persons.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "(a) for the construction or connection of the drain, as may be authorised by the said order;\n(b) for renewing, repairing, or altering the same as may be necessary from time to time; or\n(c) for discharging any responsibility attaching to him under the terms of the order as to maintaining, repairing, flushing, cleaning or emptying the said drain or any part thereof.\n(a) cause the work to be executed with the least practicable delay;\n(b) fill in, reinstate and make good at his own cost and with the least practicable delay the ground or any portion of any building or other construction opened, broken up or removed for the purpose of executing the said work; and\n(c) pay compensation to any person who sustains damage by the execution of the said work.",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 193
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{
"number": "201",
"title": "201. Rights of owner of land through which drain is carried in regard to subsequent building thereon.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 194
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{
"number": "202",
"title": "202. Provision of privies, etc.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 195
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{
"number": "203",
"title": "203. Power to require owners to keep drains, etc., in proper order; or to demolish or close a privy or cess-pool.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 196
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{
"number": "204",
"title": "204. Power to close private drains and cesspools.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 197
},
{
"number": "205",
"title": "205. Encroachment on municipal drains.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "(i) make or cause to be made any drain into or out from any of the drains vested in the Council; or\n(ii) construct a building over any drain, culvert or gutter vested in the Council.\n(i) to demolish, alter, remake, or otherwise deal with any drain constructed in contravention of sub-section (1), as he may think fit; or\n(ii) to pull down or otherwise deal with any building or part thereof constructed in contravention of sub-section (1) as he may think fit.",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 198
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{
"number": "206",
"title": "206. Power in respect of drains, etc., unauthorisedly constructed, re-built or unstopped.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 199
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{
"number": "207",
"title": "207. Inspection of drains, etc.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 200
},
{
"number": "208",
"title": "208. Council may execute certain works without option to person concerned of executing the same.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 201
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{
"number": "209",
"title": "209. Pipes, etc. constructed by Council to be municipal property.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "Chapter XIV\nWater Supply",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 202
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{
"number": "210",
"title": "210. Prohibition of certain acts affecting the municipal water works.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "(a) erect any building for any purpose whatever within such limits;\n(b) remove, alter, injure, damage or in any way interfere with any boundary marks of such water-shed;\n(c) extend, alter or apply to any purpose different to that to which the same has been heretofore applied, any building already existing within the said limits; or\n(d) carry on, within the said limits, any operation of manufacture, trade or agriculture in any manner, or do any act whatever, whereby injury may arise to any such lake, tank, well or reservoir or to any portion thereof or whereby the water of such lake, tank, well or reservoir may be fouled or rendered less wholesome.\n(a) cause or suffer to percolate or drain into or upon any municipal water-work or to be brought thereinto or thereupon anything, or to be done any act, whereby the water therein may be in any way fouled or polluted or its quality altered;\n(b) alter the surface of any municipal land adjacent to or forming part of any such work by digging thereinto or depositing thereon any substance;\n(c) cause or suffer to enter into the water in such work any animal;\n(d) bathe in or near such work;\n(e) throw or put anything into or upon the water in such work;\n(f) wash or cause to be washed in or near such work any animal or thing.",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 203
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"number": "211",
"title": "211. Prohibition of wilful or neglectful acts relating to water works.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "(a) injure or suffer to be injured any meter belonging to the Council or any of the fittings of any such meter;\n(b) break, injure or open any lock, seal, cock, valve, pipe, work engine, cistern or fitting appertaining to any municipal water-work;\n(c) do any act or suffer any act to be done whereby the water in, or derived from, any municipal water-work, shall be wasted;\n(d) obstruct, divert or in any way injure or alter any water-main or duct;\n(e) except with the permission of the Chief Officer, open, break, injure or tamper with any lock furnished under the provisions of this Act.",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 204
},
{
"number": "212",
"title": "212. Prohibition of constructing drains, etc. near sources of water supply.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 205
},
{
"number": "213",
"title": "213. Power of carrying water mains.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 206
},
{
"number": "214",
"title": "214. Power to require water supply to be taken.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 207
},
{
"number": "215",
"title": "215. Powers and duties with regards to dangerous, stagnant or insanitary sources of water supply.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "(a) keep and maintain any such source of water-supply, other than a stream in good repairs; or\n(b) cleanse any such source of water-supply from silt, refuse and decaying vegetation; or\n(c) in such manner as the Chief Officer may prescribe, protect any such source of water-supply from pollution or contamination; or\n(d) repair, protect or enclose in such manner as the Chief Officer approves any such source of water-supply, if for want of sufficient repair, protection or enclosure, such source of water-supply is, in the opinion of the Chief Officer, dangerous to the health or safety of the public or of any person having occasion to use or to pass or approach the same; or\n(e) desist from using and from permitting others to use for drinking purposes any such source of water-supply, which is proved to the satisfaction of the Chief Officer to be unfit for drinking; or\n(f) if, notwithstanding any such notice under clause (e), such use continues and cannot in the opinion of the Chief Officer be otherwise prevented, close either temporarily or permanently or fill up or enclose or fence in such manner as the Chief Officer considers sufficient to prevent such use of such source of water-supply as aforesaid; or\n(g) drain off or otherwise remove from any source of water-supply or from any land or premises or receptacle or reservoir attached or adjacent thereto, any stagnant water which the Chief Officer considers to be injurious to health or offensive to the neighbourhood.",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 208
},
{
"number": "216",
"title": "216. Power to regulate bathing and washing places.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 209
},
{
"number": "217",
"title": "217. Digging of wells, etc., without permission prohibited.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "(a) by written notice require the owner or other person who has done such work to fill up or demolish such work in such manner as the Chief Officer shall prescribe; or\n(b) grant written permission to retain such work but such permission shall not exempt such owner from any proceedings for contravening the provisions of sub-section (1).\nChapter XV\nPublic Safety and Conveniences",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 210
},
{
"number": "218",
"title": "218. Fencing and lighting during repairs, etc.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 211
},
{
"number": "219",
"title": "219. Dangerous quarrying.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 212
},
{
"number": "220",
"title": "220. Hoards to be set up during repairs, etc.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "(a) first obtain permission in writing from the Chief Officer so to do; and\n(b) cause sufficient hoards or fences to be put up in order to separate the area where the work is to be carried on from the street, and shall maintain such hoard or fence standing and in good condition to the satisfaction of the Chief Officer during such time as the Chief Officer considers necessary for the public safety or convenience, and shall cause the same to be sufficiently lighted during the night, and shall remove the same when directed by the Chief Officer.",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 213
},
{
"number": "221",
"title": "221. Power to require precaution in place of public entertainments.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 214
},
{
"number": "222",
"title": "222. Powers for suppression of fires.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "(a) remove or order removal of any person who by his presence interferes with or impedes the operations for extinguishing the fire or for saving life or property;\n(b) close any street or passage in or near which any fire is burning;\n(c) for the purpose of extinguishing the fire, break into or through or pull down or cause to be broken into or through or pulled down, or use for the passage of hoses or other appliances, any premises;\n(d) cause mains and pipes to be shut off so as to give greater pressure of water in or near the place where the fire has occurred;\n(e) call on the persons in charge of any fire-engine to render such assistance as may be possible; and\n(f) generally, take such measures as may appear necessary for the preservation of life or property.\nChapter XVI\nNuisances",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 215
},
{
"number": "223",
"title": "223. Depositing dust, etc., committing nuisance.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 216
},
{
"number": "224",
"title": "224. Discharging sewage, etc.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 217
},
{
"number": "225",
"title": "225. Non-removal of filth, etc.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 218
},
{
"number": "226",
"title": "226. Removal of night-soil.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "(a) when the Chief Officer has fixed such hours [,manner] and routes and given such public notice, removes or causes to be removed along any street any such offensive matter at any time except within the hours so fixed, or by any route other than that fixed by the Chief Officer; or\n(b) at any time, whether such hours [,manner] or routes have been fixed by the Chief Officer or not,-\n(i) uses for any such purpose any cart, carriage, receptacle or vessel, not having a covering sufficient for preventing the escape of the contents thereof and of the stench therefrom; or\n(ii) wilfully or negligently slops or negligently slops or spills any such offensive matter in the removal thereof; or\n(iii) does not carefully sweep and clean every place in which any such offensive matter has been slopped or spilled; or\n(iv) places or sets down in any public place any vessel containing such offensive matter, shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to [Five thousand rupees] .",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 219
},
{
"number": "227",
"title": "227. Using offensive manure, etc.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 220
},
{
"number": "228",
"title": "228. Abatement of nuisance from wells, etc.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "(a) any pool, ditch, quarry, hole, excavation, tank, well, pond, drain, water course, or any collection of water; or\n(b) any cistern or other receptacle for water whether within or outside a building; or\n(c) any land on which water is accumulated, is or is likely to become a breeding place of mosquitoes or in any other respect a nuisance, the Chief Officer may, by notice in writing, require the owner thereof to-\n(i) fill up, cover over or drain off the same in such manner and with such materials as the Chief Officer shall prescribe; or\n(ii) take such measure with respect to the same including treatment by such physical, chemical or biological methods for removing or abating the nuisance as may be prescribed in the notice.",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 221
},
{
"number": "229",
"title": "229. Buildings or rooms in buildings unfit for human habitation.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 222
},
{
"number": "230",
"title": "230. Filthy buildings, etc.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "(i) in an insanitary, filthy or unwholesome state; or\n(ii) in the opinion of the Chief Officer a nuisance to persons residing in the neighbourhood; or\n(iii) overgrown with prickly-pear or rank and noisome vegetation, the Chief Officer may, by written notice, require the owner or occupier of such building or land to clean, lime-wash internally or externally, clear, or otherwise put such building or land in a proper state.\n(a) becoming a resort of idle and disorderly persons, or of persons who have no ostensible means of subsistence or who cannot give a satisfactory account of themselves; or\n(b) coming into use for any insanitary or immoral purpose; or\n(c) affording a shelter to snakes, rats or other dangerous or offensive animals, is open to objection that it is a source of nuisance or danger or so unwholesome or unsightly as to be a source of discomfort, inconvenience or annoyance to the neighbourhood or to persons passing by such building, the Council, if it considers such objection cannot under any other provision of this Act be otherwise removed, may, if there is any person known or resident within the municipal area who claims to be the owner of such building, by written notice directed to such person, require such person, or in any other case by written notice fixed on the door or any other conspicuous part of the building, require all persons claiming to be interested in such building, within a period which shall be specified in the notice and which shall not be less than one month from the date of such notice, to-\n(i) take such measure as may be specified in the notice to remove or to prevent such nuisance, danger, discomfort, inconvenience or annoyance; or\n(ii) cause such building to be taken down and the materials thereof to be removed.\nChapter XVII\nPrevention and Control of Dangerous Diseases",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 223
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{
"number": "231",
"title": "231. Dangerous diseases.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "(i) Anthrax;\n(ii) Cerebrospinal fever;\n(iii) Chicken-pox;\n(iv) Cholera;\n(v) Diphtheria;\n(vi) Enteric group of fevers;\n(vii) Erysipelas;\n(viii) Influenzal Pneumonia-acute influenza;\n(ix) Leprosy;\n(x) Measles;\n(xi) Plague;\n(xii) Polioniyelities;\n(xiii) Rabies;\n(xiv) Relapsing fever;\n(xv) Scarlet fever;\n(xvi) Small-pox;\n(xvii) Tuberculosis of lungs and intestines;\n(xviii) Typhus;\n(xix) Yellow fever;\n(xx) Continuous pyrexia of unknown origin of more than four days' duration;\n(xxi) Any other disease which the Government may, from time to time, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be a dangerous disease.",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 224
},
{
"number": "232",
"title": "232. Power to prohibit use of public conveyances for carriage of persons suffering from dangerous diseases.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 225
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{
"number": "233",
"title": "233. Restrictions on persons suffering from dangerous diseases.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "(a) make or offer for sale any article of food or drink for human consumption or any medicine or drug; or\n(b) wilfully touch any such article, medicine or drug when exposed for sale by others; or\n(c) take any part in the business of washing or carrying clothes.",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 226
},
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"number": "234",
"title": "234. Control and prevention of dangerous diseases.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 227
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"number": "235",
"title": "235. Information to be given to Chief Officer or Health Officer about incidence of dangerous diseases.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "(i) every medical practitioner who, in the course of his practice, becomes cognizant of a case or a suspected case of a dangerous disease in any house or place other than a public hospital;\n(ii) the medical officer in charge of any hospital or dispensary at which any person suffering from or suspected to be suffering from any dangerous disease is treated or brought for treatment;\n(iii) the manager of a factory or the headmaster of a school, or the keeper of a lodging house who knows or has reason to believe that any person in any premises under his management or control is suffering from or has died of any dangerous disease;\n(iv) any head of the house-hold who knows or has reason to believe that any person residing with him is suffering from a dangerous disease; to give information of the same with the least practicable delay to the Chief Officer or the Health Officer of the Council.",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 228
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{
"number": "236",
"title": "236. Power of entry into places where cases of dangerous disease suspected.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 229
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"number": "237",
"title": "237. Chief Officer or Health Officer may direct owner or occupier to take certain precautionary measures and in default, carry out the same.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "(a) require the owner or the occupier of any building or part of a building in which a case of a dangerous disease occurs, to get such building cleaned, white-washed or disinfected or get any article in such building cleansed or disinfected to the satisfaction of the officer issuing such notice;\n(b) prohibit the letting of or the providing of accommodation in any hotel, in, dharmashala , or sarai in which a person has, or in which there is reason to believe that a person has been suffering from a dangerous disease, unless and until the person desiring so to let or provide accommodation shall have had the building, or part thereof, cleansed, white-washed or disinfected or any article therein cleansed or disinfected to the satisfaction of the officer issuing such notice:\n(i) if, in the opinion of the Chief Officer, or the Health Officer, or such authorised officer, the owner or occupier is too poor to pay for the cost of disinfecting, cleansing or whitewashing, he may direct such disinfecting, cleansing or white-washing to be done at the cost of the municipal fund;\n(ii) when a declaration has been made by the Collector under sub-section (2) of section 234, the Chief Officer, the Health Officer or such authorised officer may at any time get such disinfecting, cleansing or white-washing done without notice by the municipal staff at the cost of the municipal fund.",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 230
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"number": "238",
"title": "238. Prohibition of use of water likely to spread dangerous diseases.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "(i) require the owner or the person in charge of such well, tank or other place by a written notice to take such measures as may be necessary to prevent danger to public health or prevent the spread of any dangerous disease;\n(ii) by public notice, prohibit the removal or use of the said water for any such purpose and may take such steps as may be necessary to prevent any person from removing or using water from such well, tank, or other place:",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 231
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{
"number": "239",
"title": "239. Additional powers of Council on threatened outbreak of dangerous disease.",
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"content": "(a) to order with the previous permission of an Executive Magistrate, the evacuation of an infected building used as a dwelling or of any part thereof, or of any building so used adjacent to such building by the person or persons residing, whether habitually or temporarily, therein provided that accommodation for all persons affected by the order is available or is provided elsewhere;\n(b) to order with the previous permission of an Executive Magistrate, the destruction of any insanitary shed or hut in which there is or has been a case of a dangerous disease or which is likely to spread any dangerous disease;\n(c) to prohibit either generally or by special order in any individual case, assemblages consisting of any number of persons exceeding fifty, in any place whether public or private, or in any circumstances, or for any purpose, if in the opinion, recorded in writing, of the Health Officer of the Council or of the Civil Surgeon, such assemblages in such place or in such circumstances, or for such purpose, would be likely to become a means of spreading the disease or of rendering it more virulent;\n(d) to direct the examination by a medical officer of persons and if necessary, the disinfection of the clothing, bedding or other articles suspected of being infected, belonging to persons either arriving from places outside the municipal area or residing in any building adjacent to any infected building, and to direct that any such person shall give his name and address and present himself daily for a medical examination at such times and places as may be prescribed, for a period not exceeding ten days.",
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"number": "240",
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"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
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"number": "241",
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"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
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"number": "242",
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"chapter": null,
"content": "",
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"number": "243",
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"number": "244",
"title": "244. Withdrawal and modification of powers and orders under this chapter.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "(a) withdraw all or any of the powers conferred under sections 232 to 243 from any Council;\n(b) impose any limitations, restrictions or conditions on any Council in respect of the exercise of any such powers; or\n(c) cancel any order passed by a Council in the exercise of any such power.",
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"is_definition": false,
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{
"number": "245",
"title": "245. Special powers in respect of overcrowding area.",
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"content": "(a) the manner in which either buildings or blocks of buildings, already existing or projected therein, are, or are likely to become, crowded together; or\n(b) the impracticability of cleansing any such buildings or blocks of buildings, already existing or projected; or\n(c) the want of drainage or scavenging, or the difficulty of arranging therein for the drainage or scavenging of any such buildings or blocks as aforesaid; or\n(d) the narrowness, closeness, bad arrangement or bad condition of the streets or buildings or group of buildings, the Council may, if any of its powers are not withdrawn under the last preceding section, exercise the following powers, namely:-\n(i) power when any building or block already existing or in course of erection, by reason of any defect specified in clause (a), (b), (c) or (d), has given or is in the opinion of the Council likely to give rise to such risk as aforesaid, to require by a written notice, to be fixed upon some conspicuous part of such building or block and addressed, as the Council deems fit, either to the owners thereof or to the owners of the land on which such building or block is erected or is in course of erection that the persons so addressed shall, within such reasonable time as shall be specified in the notice, either pull down or remove such building or block, or execute such works or take such action in connection therewith as the Council deems necessary to prevent such risk;\n(ii) power by municipal or other agency to pull down or remove such building or block, or to execute such works or to take such action as aforesaid, if the persons addressed in the said notice neglect so to do within the time specified therein.\nChapter XVIII\nDisposal of Dead Bodies and Carcasses of Animals",
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"is_definition": false,
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"number": "246",
"title": "246. Council to provide or permit burning and burial grounds.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "(i) no such permission shall be granted by the Council without the sanction of the Collector;\n(ii) in granting such permission, it shall be lawful for the Council to impose, with the sanction of the Collector, such conditions as it may deem fit.",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
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"number": "247",
"title": "247. Closing of places for disposal of dead.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
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"number": "248",
"title": "248. Acts prohibited in connection with disposal of dead.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "(a) burn, bury or otherwise dispose of any corpse except at a place provided or maintained for the purpose;\n(b) retain a corpse on any premises, without burning, burying or otherwise lawfully disposing of the same, for so long a time after death as to create a nuisance;\n(c) carry a corpse along any street without having and keeping the same decently covered or without taking such precautions to prevent risk of infection or injury to the public health as the Council may, by public notice, from time to time, think fit to require;\n(d) except when no other route is available, carry a corpse along any street along which the carrying of corpses is prohibited by a public notice issued by the Council in this behalf;\n(e) remove a corpse which has been kept or used for purposes of dissection, otherwise than in a closed receptacle or vehicle;\n(f) whilst conveying a corpse, place or leave the same on or near any street without urgent necessity;\n(g) reopen for the interment of a corpse a grave or vault already occupied;\n(h) after bringing or causing to be brought to a burning ground any corpse fail to burn or cause the same to be burnt within six hours from the time of the arrival thereof at such ground;\n(i) when burning or causing to be burnt any corpse, permit the same or any portion thereof to remain without being completely reduced to ashes or permit any cloth or other article used for the conveyance or burning of such corpse to be removed or to remain on or near the place of burning without its being completely reduced to ashes;\n(j) exhume any body except under the provision of section 176 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 or of any other law for the time being in force, from any place for the disposal of the dead.\nExplanation:",
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"number": "249",
"title": "249. Certificate for disposal of the dead.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
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"sort_order": 242
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{
"number": "250",
"title": "250. Disposal of dead animals.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "Chapter XIX\nMarkets, Slaughter-Houses, Trades and Occupations",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 243
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"number": "251",
"title": "251. Power to provide and maintain municipal markets and slaughter-houses.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 244
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"number": "252",
"title": "252. Private markets, etc., not to be held without licence.",
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"content": "(i) as a private market; or\n(ii) as a private slaughter-house; or\n(iii) for the storage or sale of flesh or fish or animals or birds intended for human food, except under and in accordance with the conditions of a licence granted in accordance with the provisions of the bye-laws made in this behalf:",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 245
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"number": "253",
"title": "253. Slaughter-houses, etc., beyond municipal area.",
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"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 246
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"number": "254",
"title": "254. Restriction on slaughter of animals for sale.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
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"sort_order": 247
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"number": "255",
"title": "255. Provisions for requiring private market buildings and slaughter-houses to be properly paved and drained.",
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"content": "(a) the whole or any portion of the floor of the market place or slaughter-house to be raised or paved with dressed stone or other suitable material;\n(b) such drains to be made in or from the market-building, market-place or slaughter-house, of such material, size and description, at such level and with such outfall, as to the Council may appear necessary;\n(c) a supply of water to be provided for keeping such market-building, market-place or slaughter-house in a clean and wholesome state;\n(d) any shop, stall, shed, standing or other structure, in any private market to be altered or improved, in such manner as the Council may consider necessary;\n(e) any privy, water-closet or urinal or any other sanitary arrangement to be constructed or made at such site and in such manner as the Council may deem necessary and expedient; and\n(f) any other measures to be taken which in its opinion are necessary in the interest of public health or sanitation.",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 248
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"number": "256",
"title": "256. Provisions regarding approaches and environs of private markets.",
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"content": "(a) define or determine the limits of any private market or declare what portions of such market shall be made part of the existing approaches, streets, passages and ways to and in such market; and\n(b) after hearing the owner or the person in charge of such market, by written notice, require such owner or person to-\n(i) lay out, construct, alter, clear, widen, pave, drain and light, to the satisfaction of the Council, such approaches, streets, passages and ways to or in such market,\n(ii) provide such conveniences for the use of persons resorting to such market, and\n(iii) provide adequate ventilation and lighting of the market-building, or any portion thereof including shops and stalls, as the Council may think fit.",
"footnote": "",
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"number": "257",
"title": "257. Levy of stallages, rents and fees.",
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"content": "(a) charge such stallages, rents or fees as may from time to time be fixed by it in this behalf-\n(i) for the occupation or use of any stall, shop, stand, shed, pen or space 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 feeding and watering of such animals before they are ready for slaughter; or\n(b) put up to public auction or dispose of by private sale, the privilege of occupying or using any stall, shop, stand, shed, pen or space in a municipal market or municipal slaughter-house for such period and on such conditions as it may think fit.\n(i) occupying any stall, shop, stand, shed, pen or space in such market or slaughter-house or exposing for sale therein any articles without a licence from the Council; or\n(ii) using or attempting to use any municipal slaughter-house without a licence; or\n(iii) contravening any bye-laws pertaining to such markets or slaughter-houses; or\n(iv) suffering from any infectious or contagious disease; or\n(v) creating disturbance in such market or slaughter-house.",
"footnote": "",
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"number": "258",
"title": "258. Farming of market and slaughter-house rents.",
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"content": "",
"footnote": "",
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"number": "259",
"title": "259. Control on preparation of food, eating houses, hotels, lodging houses, etc.",
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"content": "(a) as an eating house, tea or coffee shop, restaurant, dining-saloon, refreshment room or for a like purpose; or\n(b) for the preparation or sale for the purposes of trade of any article of human food or drink; or\n(c) as a hotel or a lodging house,",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
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"number": "260",
"title": "260. Control on dairies and business in milk, milk products and sweet-meats.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "(a) carry on the trade or business of a dealer in, or importer or seller of, sweet-meats, milk, butter or other milk-products; or\n(b) use or permit to be used for the purposes of trade, any premises for storing or selling milk or for making, storing or selling butter or other milk-products or sweet-meats, except under and in accordance with the conditions of a licence granted under the provisions of the bye-laws made in this behalf.",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 253
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"number": "261",
"title": "261. Control of stables.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "(a) as a stable for milch cattle; or\n(b) for the stallage or keeping of horses, camels, donkeys and animals other than milch cattle and animals intended for human food, except under and in accordance with a licence granted under the provisions of the byelaws made in this behalf.",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 254
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"number": "262",
"title": "262. No separate licence necessary if one is obtained under Prevention of Food Adulteration Law.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 255
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{
"number": "263",
"title": "263. Factory, etc., not to be established without licence.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "Explanation:",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 256
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"number": "264",
"title": "264. Prohibition of use of steam whistles, etc.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 257
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"number": "265",
"title": "265. Certain other trades and occupations not to be carried on without licence.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 258
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"number": "266",
"title": "266. Certain articles not to be kept without licence.",
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"content": "(a) any of the articles specified in Part I of Schedule IX in or upon any premises in quantities exceeding at any one time the respective maximum quantities specified opposite such article; or\n(b) any of the articles specified in Part II of the said Schedule in or upon any premises for sale or for purposes other than domestic use.\nChapter XX\nCattle Pounds and Other Provisions Relating to Animals",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 259
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"number": "267",
"title": "267. Cattle-trespass Act to cease to apply to municipal areas.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "(a) nothing in this section shall affect the liability of any person to any penalty under the said Act so ceasing to be in force;\n(b) any appointment, notification, order, rule made or issued or deemed to be made or issued under the said Act in respect of any cattle-pounds within the limits of any municipal area shall, so far as it is not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, be deemed to have been made or issued under this Act, and continue in force until superseded by any appointment, notification, order or rule made under this Act;\n(c) any cattle-pound in the local area established or deemed to be established under the said Act so ceasing to be in force shall be deemed to be vested in the Council within whose limits it is situated and shall be maintained and managed by the Council in accordance with the provisions in this Act.\nExplanation:",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
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"number": "268",
"title": "268. Power to establish cattle-pounds and appoint pound-keepers.",
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"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 261
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"number": "269",
"title": "269. Duties of pound-keepers.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "(a) the number and description of the animals;\n(b) the day and hour on and at which they were so brought;\n(c) the name and residence of the seizer; and\n(d) the name and residence of the owner, if known;",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 262
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"number": "270",
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"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 263
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"number": "271",
"title": "271. Delivery of cattle claimed.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 264
},
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"number": "272",
"title": "272. Security in respect of impounded cattle.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 265
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"number": "273",
"title": "273. Sale of cattle not claimed.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 266
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{
"number": "274",
"title": "274. Pound-fees and expenses chargeable to be fixed.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 267
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"number": "275",
"title": "275. Complaints of illegal seizure or detention.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 268
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"number": "276",
"title": "276. Penalty for allowing cattle to stray in street or to trespass upon private or public property.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "(i) for the first offence, with fine which may extend to [one thousand rupees] ;\n(ii) for a second or subsequent offence, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to [two thousand rupees] , or with both.\n(a) that the accused shall pay such compensation not exceeding [one thousand rupees] as the Magistrate considers reasonable, to any person for any damage proved to have been caused to his property or to the produce of land, by the cattle under the control of the accused, trespassing on his land; and also,\n(b) that the cattle in respect of which an offence has been committed shall be forfeited to the Government.",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 269
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"number": "277",
"title": "277. Tethering cattle, etc.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "(a) for a first offence, with fine which may extend to [one thousand rupees] ;\n(b) for a second or subsequent offence, with fine which may extend to [two thousand rupees] .",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 270
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{
"number": "278",
"title": "278. Provision as to dogs.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 271
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"number": "279",
"title": "279. Provisions as to keeping of pigs.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 272
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"number": "280",
"title": "280. Feeding animals on filth prohibited.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "Chapter XXI\nProsecutions, Suits and Powers of Police",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 273
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"number": "281",
"title": "281. Provisions as respects institution, compounding, etc., of criminal actions.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "(a) any offence against this Act or any rules or bye-laws made thereunder;\n(b) any offence which affects or is likely to affect any property or interest of the Council or the due administration of this Act; or\n(c) committing any nuisance whatever:\n(i) sub-section (7) of section 171 read with sub-sections (8) and (9) of section 184;\n(ii) sub-section (6) of section 178; (iii) sub-section (5) of section 243.",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 274
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"number": "282",
"title": "282. Distress lawful though defective in form.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 275
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"number": "283",
"title": "283. Damage to municipal property how made good.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 276
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"number": "284",
"title": "284. General penalty.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "(a) does or omits to do any act in contravention of any provisions of this Act, or the rules or bye-laws made thereunder; or\n(b) disobeys or fails to comply with any lawful direction given by any written notice or order issued by or on behalf of a Council under any power conferred by or under this Act; or\n(c) fails to comply with the conditions subject to which any permission or licence was given to him by or on behalf of a Council under any power conferred by or under this Act; or\n(d) when lawfully called upon by the Chief Officer or any officer duly authorised to supply an information in his possession which may be required for the purpose of this Act or of any rules or bye-laws made thereunder, fails to supply such information or wilfully supplies false information, shall, if no other penalty is provided for the offence, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to [Five thousand rupees] , and in the case of continuing offence with further fine which may extend to [one hundred rupees] for every day after the first during which such contravention continues:",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 277
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"number": "285",
"title": "285. Minimum penalty for offences under this Act.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 278
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"number": "286",
"title": "286. Power to institute, defend suits, etc.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "(a) institute and prosecute any suit or other proceeding for any claim or demand on behalf of the Council or for any injury to any property, rights or privileges of the Council;\n(b) withdraw from or compromise or compound any suit or any claim or demand which has been instituted or made on behalf of the council;\n(c) institute, withdraw from or compromise or compound any suit or proceeding for the recovery of expenses or compensation claimed to be due to the Council;\n(d) defend, admit or compromise or compound any appeal against a rateable value or tax;\n(e) defend any suit or other legal proceedings brought against the Council or any municipal officer or servant in respect of anything done or omitted to be done by them, respectively in their official capacity;\n(f) admit or compromise any claim, suit or legal proceeding brought against the Council or any municipal officer or servant, in respect of anything done or omitted to be done as aforesaid:\n(i) if any sanction in the making of any contract is required by this Act, the like sanction shall be obtained for compounding or compromising any claim or demand arising out of such contract;\n(ii) if any such suit is in respect of land leased or sold under sub-section (3) of section 168 or in respect of any immovable property sold or leased for a term exceeding three years or other-wise transferred, it shall not be lawful for the Council to compound or compromise in respect of the suit except with the previous sanction of the Director.",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 279
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{
"number": "287",
"title": "287. Councillors, officers, servants, etc., to be public servants.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 280
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"number": "288",
"title": "288. Bar of suits against Council, its officers, servants, etc., for acts done in good faith.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 281
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"number": "289",
"title": "289. Limitation of suits against Council, its committees, officers and servants for acts done in pursuance or execution of this Act.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "(a) unless it is commenced within six months next after the accrual of the cause of action; and\n(b) until the expiration of one month after notice in writing has been, in the case of a Council or its committee, delivered or left at the municipal office and, in the case of an officer or servant of a Council, delivered to him or left at his office or place of abode;\n(a) the plaintiff shall not be permitted to adduce evidence relating to any cause of action save such as is set forth in the notice delivered or left by him as aforesaid;\n(b) if the suit be for damages and if tender of sufficient amends shall have been made before the action was brought, the plaintiff shall not recover more than the amount so tendered and shall pay all costs incurred by the defendant after such tender.",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 282
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{
"number": "290",
"title": "290. Powers of police officers.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "[290A. Certain offences to be cognizable.\n(i) for the purpose of investigation of such offence;\n(ii) for the purposes of all matters other than-\n(a) matters referred to in section 42 of that Code, and\n(b) arrest of a person, except on the complaint of, or upon information received from, such officer of the Council, not being below the rank of a Chief Officer, as may be appointed by the Government:\nChapter XXII\nControl",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 283
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{
"number": "291",
"title": "291. Power of inspection and supervision.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "(a) to enter on and inspect, or cause to be entered on and inspected any immovable property occupied by or movable property belonging to any Council or any institution under its control or management or any work in progress under it or under its direction;\n(b) to call or inspect any extract from any Council's or its committee's proceedings and any book or document in the possession of or under the control of the Council or any of its Committees.",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 284
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"number": "292",
"title": "292. Power to call for returns and reports.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "(a) to call for any return, statement, account or report which he may think fit to require any Council to furnish;\n(b) to require the Council to take into its consideration any objection which appears to him to exist to the doing of anything which is about to be done or is being done by or on behalf of such Council or any information which he is able to furnish and which appears to him to necessitate the doing of a certain thing by the Council, and to make a written reply to him within a reasonable time stating its reasons for not desisting from doing, or for not doing, such thing.",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 285
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{
"number": "293",
"title": "293. Powers to suspend execution or orders and resolutions of Council on certain grounds.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 286
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{
"number": "294",
"title": "294. Extraordinary Powers of execution of certain works in case of emergency.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 287
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{
"number": "295",
"title": "295. Power of Director to prevent extravagance in the employment of establishment.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 288
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{
"number": "296",
"title": "296. Inquiry into municipal matters by Government.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "(a) discovery and inspection,\n(b) enforcing the attendance of witnesses, and requiring the deposits of their expenses,\n(c) compelling the production of documents,\n(d) examination of witnesses on oath,\n(e) granting adjournments,\n(f) reception of evidence on affidavit, and\n(g) issuing commissions for the examination of witnesses, and may summon and examine suo motu any person whose evidence appears to him to be material; and shall be deemed to be a Civil Court within the meaning of sections 480 and 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898.\nExplanation:",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 289
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{
"number": "297",
"title": "297. Power of Director to enforce performance of duties.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
"sort_order": 290
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{
"number": "298",
"title": "298. Power to appoint Municipal Administrator in certain circumstances.",
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"content": "(a) a Council is not competent to perform duties imposed upon it by or under this Act or any other law for the time being in force, or\n(b) persistently makes default in the performance of such duties, or in complying with the lawful directions and orders issued by the Collector, the Director, the Government or any other authority empowered under any law for the time being in force to issue such direction or orders to a Council, or\n(c) exceeds or abuses its powers, or\n(d) a situation has arisen in which the administration of the Council cannot be carried out in accordance with the provisions of this Act, or\n(e) the financial position and the credit of the Council is seriously threatened, the Government may, by an order published in the Official Gazette, appoint a Government officer as the Municipal Administrator of the Council for a period not exceeding three years. The order shall state the reasons for making the order.",
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"number": "299",
"title": "299. Powers of Municipal Administrator.",
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"number": "300",
"title": "300. Review of Municipal Administrator's work by Director and if necessary dissolution of Council.",
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"number": "301",
"title": "301. Consequences of dissolution.",
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"content": "(a) all Councillors of the Council shall, as from the date specified in the order of dissolution, vacate their offices as such Councillors;\n(b) all powers and duties of the Council shall, during the period of dissolution, be exercised and performed by such person or persons as the Government from time to time appoints in this behalf;\n(c) all property vested in the Council shall, during the period of dissolution, vest in the Government.",
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"number": "302",
"title": "302. Re-establishment of Council after dissolution.",
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"content": "[302A. Duration of Council constituted upon dissolution.",
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"number": "303",
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"number": "304",
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"number": "305",
"title": "305. Powers of review.",
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"content": "(i) no order shall be varied or reversed or no sanction or approval reviewed unless notice has been given to the parties interested to appear and be heard;\n(ii) no order from which an appeal has been made, or which is the subject of any revision proceedings, shall so long as such appeal or proceedings are pending, be reviewed;\n(iii) no order affecting any question of right between private persons shall be reviewed, except on the application of a party to the proceedings and no application for the review of such order shall be entertained unless it is made within ninety days from the passing of the order.\nChapter XXIII\nRules and Bye-laws",
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"number": "306",
"title": "306. Power of Government to make rules.",
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"number": "307",
"title": "307. Power of Councils to make bye-laws.",
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"content": "(b) The Council shall put up the draft on its notice board and publish it in a local newspaper, as soon as may be possible, after such resolution is passed, inviting the inhabitants to submit their objections and suggestions to the Council within a reasonable period to be specified in such notice.\n(c) The Council at a special meeting shall then consider the objections and suggestions received, if any, and shall by a resolution approve the final draft of the bye-laws.\n(d) Within seven days of the passing of such resolution, the Council shall send such final draft to the Director.\n(e) The Director shall examine the final draft of the bye-laws sent to him under clause (d) and may-\n(i) refuse to sanction them or return them to the Council if in his opinion,-\n(A) the bye-laws are inconsistent with this Act or the rules made thereunder and the inconsistency cannot be removed except by materially altering the bye- -laws; or\n(B) objection, if any, to the bye-laws has not been duly considered by the Council; or\n(C) there is any new objection to the bye-laws; or\n(D) the rates of taxes or fees proposed in the bye-laws are inadequate; or\n(ii) sanction them, with or without such modifications as he considers necessary.\n(f) Notwithstanding anything contained in clause (e), if the bye-laws sent by any Council under clause (d) relate to imposition, abolition, remission, alteration or regulation of any tax, the Director shall forward them to the Government for sanction and thereupon the provisions of clause (e) shall apply as if for the word \"Director\" in the said clause the word \"Government\" had been substituted.",
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"number": "308",
"title": "308. Power to make and enforce acceptance of model bye-laws.",
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"number": "309",
"title": "309. Copies of Act, rules and bye-laws to be made available at Council's office for public inspection and for sale.",
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"content": "Chapter XXIV\nService of Notices, Execution of Works on Default and Compensation",
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"number": "310",
"title": "310. Service of notices, etc., addressed to individuals.",
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"content": "(a) by giving or tendering the notice to the person to whom it is addressed; or\n(b) if such person is not found, by giving or tendering it to some adult member or servant of his family found at his usual place of residence or at his last known place of abode;\n(c) If none of the means aforesaid be available, or if the person to whom such notice is given or tendered refuses to accept it, then by causing the notice to be affixed on some conspicuous part of the building or land, if any, to which the notice relates.\n(i) it shall not be necessary to name the owner or occupier in such notice,\n(ii) if there be more owners or occupiers than one, such notice may be served upon or issued or presented to any one of them.",
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"number": "311",
"title": "311. Publication of public and general notices.",
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"content": "(a) by putting up such notice at such prominent places within the municipal area or if such notice pertains to any locality in the municipal area only, then at such prominent places within that locality as the Council may from time to time select;\n(b) by publishing such notice in such newspapers circulating within the municipal area as the Council may from time to time approve;\n(c) by beat of drum or any other customary mode of publicity within the municipal area.",
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"number": "312",
"title": "312. Reasonable time to be fixed when no time fixed under the Act for any requisition.",
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"content": "",
"footnote": "",
"is_definition": false,
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"number": "313",
"title": "313. Council in default of owner or occupier may execute works and recover expenses.",
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"content": "(a) except as otherwise provided by or under this Act, a notice shall be issued to such person requiring him to execute such work or to do such thing;\n(b) where any drainage scheme or water works scheme has been commenced by any Council, it shall be lawful for the Council, without prejudice to its powers under section 195 or any other provision of this Act, to make a special agreement with the owner of any building or land as to the manner in which the drainage or water connection thereof shall be carried out, and the pecuniary or other assistance, if any, which the Council shall render; and any payment agreed upon by the owner shall be recovered in accordance with the terms of such agreement or in default, in the manner described in sub-sections (2) and (3);\n(c) where an order or requisition has been passed under sub-section (1) of section 170, section 178, sub-section (4) or (12) of section 184 or under section 195, 197, 202 or 203 or where permission has been given under section 199 or where an arrangement has been made under proviso (b) of this sub-section, the Council may, without prejudice to any other powers under this Act, if it thinks fit, declare any expenses incurred by the Council in the execution of such order or in the carrying out of such requisition, permission or arrangement to be improvement expenses. Improvement expenses shall be a charge upon the premises or land, and shall be levied in such instalments as the Council may decide, including interest at the rate of seven and a half per cent, per annum, and shall be recoverable in the manner described in sub-sections (2) and (3).",
"footnote": "",
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"number": "314",
"title": "314. Proceedings, if any occupier opposes the execution of the Act.",
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"footnote": "",
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"number": "315",
"title": "315. Determination of damages, compensation, etc.",
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"content": "(a) no application to the Collector for a reference shall be necessary; and\n(b) the Court shall have full power to give and apportion, the costs of all proceedings in any manner it thinks fit.",
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"number": "316",
"title": "316. Costs or expenses how determined and recovered.",
"chapter": null,
"content": "Chapter XXV\nMiscellaneous",
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"number": "317",
"title": "317. Informalities and errors in assessment etc., not to be deemed to invalidate such assessment, etc.",
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"content": "(a) when any special procedure has been laid down by or under this Act for the rectification of such informality, clerical error, omission or other defect, after following such procedure; and\n(b) where no such procedure has been laid down, after giving an intimation in writing to the person affected by such rectification.",
"footnote": "",
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"number": "318",
"title": "318. Entry for purposes of the Act.",
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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.",
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"number": "319",
"title": "319. Chief Officer may authorise any person to enter upon adjoining premises.",
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"content": "(i) cause the work to be executed with the least practicable delay; and\n(ii) pay compensation to any person who sustains damage by the execution of such work.",
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"number": "320",
"title": "320. Power of Chief Officer to call for information as to ownership of any property.",
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"content": "",
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"number": "321",
"title": "321. Power of Collector to recover record and money.",
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"content": "(a) for recovering any such money, to direct that such money may be recovered as an arrear of land revenue and on such direction being given by the Director such money shall be recoverable as an arrear of land revenue from such person;\n(b) for recovering any such records or stores or other property, to issue a search warrant and to exercise all such powers with respect thereto as may lawfully be exercised by a Magistrate under the provisions of Chapter VII of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 [\"(Central Act 2 of 1974)\"] .",
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"number": "322",
"title": "322. Power to grant expost facto sanction.",
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"content": "[322A. Powers for preparation of plans etc.",
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"number": "322B",
"title": "322B. Constitution of Development Committee.",
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"number": "323",
"title": "323. General provisions regarding grant, suspension or withdrawal of licences and written permission and levy of fees, etc.",
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"content": "(a) for every such licence at such rates as shall from time to time be specified in the respective provision of the bye-laws relating to the grant of such licence; and\n(b) for every such written permission at such rates as shall from time to time be specified in the bye-laws made in this behalf:\n(i) such fee may be a recurring fee;\n(ii) the bye-laws may provide for the levy of a higher fee by way of penalty for any act done by any person without licence or written permission;\n(iii) the higher fee levied under clause (ii) of this proviso shall be leviable in addition to any other penalty or liability to which such person may be liable under the provisions of this Act or any rules or bye-laws made thereunder.",
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"number": "324",
"title": "324. Power to order closure of place.",
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"number": "325",
"title": "325. Power of Govt. to make suitable provisions by order when a municipal area is created or altered.",
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"content": "(a) \"specified day\" rnean the day from which any local area is declared to be a municipal area under sub-section (1) of section 3 or the day from which a change referred to in any of the clauses (a) to (d) of sub-section (1) of section 6 takes effect;\n(b) \"existing local authority\", in relation to any local area, means the Municipal Council or the panchayat having jurisdiction over such area immediately before the specified day;\n(c) \"successor local authority\", in relation to any local area, means the Municipal Council or the panchayat having jurisdiction over such area from the specified day;\n(d) \"Panchayat\" means a village panchayat established or deemed to be established for any village or group of villages under the [Goa Panchayat Raj Act, 1993]\n(a) any local area is declared to be a municipal area;\n(b) any local area is added to a municipal [ or ] ;\n(c) any local area is excluded from a municipal area;\n(d) [* * *]\n(e) [* * *] the Government may notwithstanding anything contained in this Act or any other law for the time being in force, by an order published in the Official Gazette, provide for all or any of the following matters, namely: -\n[(i) in a case falling under clause (a) or (b), all relevant provisions of this Act shall apply and all rules, bye-laws, orders, notifications, directions issued and in force in the municipal area at the time of inclusion of such area shall apply to the area or areas so included] ;\n(ii) [* * *]\n(iii) in a case falling under clause (c), the removal of the Councillors, who, in the opinion of the Government represent the area excluded from the municipal areas;\n(iv) [* * *]\n(v) [* * *]\n(vi) the transfer, in whole or in part, of the assets, rights and liabilities of an existing local authority (including the rights and liabilities under any agreement or contract made by it) to any successor, local authorities or the Government and the terms and conditions for such transfer;\n(vii) the substitution of any such transferee for an existing local authority or the addition of any such transferee as a party to any legal proceeding to which an existing local authority is a party; and the transfer of any proceedings pending before the existing local authority or any authority or officer subordinate to it to any such transferee or any authority or officer subordinate to it;\n(viii) the transfer or re-employment of any employees of an existing local authority to, or by, any such transferee or the termination of service of any employees of an existing local authority and the terms and conditions applicable to such employees after such transfer or re-employment or termination;\n(ix) the continuance within the area of an existing local authority of all or any appointments, notifications, notices, taxes, orders, schemes, licences, permissions, rules, bye-laws, regulations or forms made, issued, imposed or granted by, or in respect of, such existing local authority and in force within its area immediately before the specified day, until superseded or modified under this Act;\n(x) the extension and commencement of all or any appointments, notifications, notices, taxes, orders, schemes, licences, permissions, rules, bye-laws, regulations or forms made, issued, imposed or granted under this Act by, or in respect of, any existing Council and in force within its area immediately before the specified day, to and in all or any of the other areas of the successor Council, in supersession of corresponding appointments, notifications, notices, taxes, orders, schemes, licences, permissions, rules, bye-laws, regulations or forms (if any) in force in such other areas immediately before the specified day, until the matters so extended and brought into force are further superseded or modified under this Act;\n(xi) the continuance within the area of an existing local authority of all or any budget estimates, assessments, assessment lists, valuations, measurements or divisions made or authenticated by, or in respect of, such existing local authority and in force within its area immediately before the specified day, until superseded or modified under the relevant law;\n(xii) the removal of any difficulty which may arise on account of any change referred to in clause (a) to [(c)] .\n(b) [the Councillors of the Council in whose case there is an interim increase in their number, shall, notwithstanding the expiry of the term for which they may have been elected, continue in office for the area concerned, until immediately before the first meeting of the new Council or Councils, as the case may be;]\n(c) save as otherwise provided by or under this section, the provisions of this Act shall mutatis mutandis apply to any such Council, its Councillors [* * *] .",
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"number": "326",
"title": "326. Abolition of municipalities.",
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"content": "(i) the Council constituted for such municipal area shall cease to exist or function;\n(ii) the Councillors of the Council shall vacate office;\n(iii) the Director may, notwithstanding anything contained in this Act or any other law for the time being in force, by an order published in the Official Gazette provide in respect of such area for all or any of the matters specified in paragraphs (vi) to (xii) (both inclusive) of sub-section (2) of section 325 and the provision of sub-section (3) of that section shall apply to such order.\nChapter XXVI\nRepeals and Transitory Provisions",
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"number": "327",
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"number": "328",
"title": "328. Interpretation.",
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"number": "329",
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"number": "330",
"title": "330. Consequences of replacement of existing Councils.",
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"content": "(a) the Municipal Councils (Camaras Municipals) (hereinafter and in section 329 called the \"existing Councils\"), shown in column 5 of Schedule I, which were functioning immediately before the appointed day, shall be deemed to be succeeded by the Councils shown against them in column 3 thereof (hereinafter called the \"successor Councils\");\n(b) all property, movable and immovable, situated within the local area of a successor Council (and all interests of whatever nature and kind in such property) which vested in the corresponding existing Council immediately before the appointed day and which was being used immediately before the said day for the performance of any of the functions or duties which are required to be performed by the successor Council under the provisions of this Act, shall be deemed to be transferred to and shall vest, without further assurances to such successor Council, subject to all limitations, conditions and rights of interest of any person, body or authority in force or subsisting immediately before the appointed day;\n(c) all property, movable and immovable, situated outside the local areas of a successor Council but within the jurisdiction of a Village Panchayat constituted under the Goa, Daman and Diu Village Panchayats Regulation, 1962 (and all interests of whatsoever nature and kind in such property) which vested in an existing Council immediately before the constitution of such Village Panchayat for the performance of any of the functions or duties which are required to be performed by the said Village Panchayat under the provisions of the Goa, Daman and Diu village. Panchayats Regulation, 1962, and are not required by the Council for the performance of its duties under this Act, shall be deemed to be transferred to and shall vest, without further assurances in such Village Panchayat, subject to all limitations, conditions and rights or interests of any person, body or authority in force or subsisting immediately before the appointed day;\n(d) all property, movable and immovable, wherever situated (and all interests of whatsoever nature and kind in such property) which vested in an existing Council immediately before the appointed day and which was being used by it for a function which on and from the appointed day is not required to be performed by an existing Council under the provisions of this Act or by a Village Panchayat under the Goa, Daman and Diu Village Panchayats Regulation, 1962, shall be deemed to be transferred to and shall vest, without further assurances, in the Government, subject to all limitations, conditions and right or interests of any person, body or authority in force or subsisting immediately before the appointed day;\n(e) all rights, liabilities and obligations of an existing Council (including those arising under an agreement or contract) shall be deemed to be the rights, liabilities and obligations of the corresponding successor Council, the Village Panchayat or the Government, according as the function or duty out of which such rights, liabilities and obligation have arisen, is required to be performed on and from the appointed day by such successor Council, Village Panchayat or the Government, as the case may be;\n(f) all sums due to an existing Council, whether on account of any tax or otherwise, shall be recoverable by the successor Council, Village Panchayat, or the Government, according as the duty or function out of which such sum has become due, is required to be performed on and from the appointed day by the successor Council, the Village Panchayat or the Government and the successor 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any authority under any of the repealed laws immediately before the appointed day, shall be deemed to be transferred to the corresponding authority under this Act competent to entertain and dispose of such proceedings or matters;\n(j) in all suits and legal proceedings pending on the appointed day in or to which an existing Council was a party, the successor Council or local authority shall be deemed to have been substituted therefor;\n(k) any appointment, notification, notice, tax, order, scheme, licence, permission, rule, bye-law, regulation or form held, made, issued, imposed or granted by or in respect of an existing Council under any of the repealed laws or any other law for the time being in force in the area of such existing Council, and in force immediately before the appointed day, shall, in so far as it is not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, continue to be in force as if made, issued, imposed or granted in respect of the corresponding area of the successor Council, until superseded by an authority competent so to do:\n(i) no rule made under any of the repealed laws in respect of an existing Council and in force immediately before the appointed day shall be deemed to be inconsistent with the provisions of this Act by reason only of the fact that under this Act it is permissible to make only a bye-law or any other instrument other than a rule in respect of the matter provided for in such rule;\n(ii) the provisions of clause (i) of this proviso shall mutatis mutandis apply to any bye-laws, regulations, or any other instruments made under any of the repealed laws in respect of an existing Council and in force immediately before the appointed day;\n(l) all budget estimates, assessments, asessment lists, valuations, measurements and divisions made by or in respect of an existing Council under any of the repealed laws or any other law for the time being in force in the area of such existing Council and in force immediately before the appointed day, shall, in so far as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, be deemed to have been made by, or in respect of, the successor Council for that area;\n(m) any reference in any law or in any instrument to the provisions of any repealed law, shall, unless a different intention appears, be construed as a reference to the corresponding provisions of this Act;\n(n) any reference in any law or in any instrument to an existing Council shall, unless a different intention appears, be construed as a reference to the successor Council and such law or instrument shall apply to the successor Council;\n(o) any reference in the above clauses to an existing Council shall, in case such Council has been superseded or dissolved or is not otherwise functioning, be deemed, to be a reference to the person or persons appointed to exercise the powers and discharge the duties and functions of such Council.",
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"number": "331",
"title": "331. Pensions relating to officers and servants.",
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"number": "332",
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"content": "333.",
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"number": "334",
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Ps.\nOn account of the said tax\n...\n...\n...\n...\nFor service of notice\n...\n...\n...\n...\nFor issue of warrant\n...\n...\n...\n...\n(Signed) Chief Officer\nSchedule VI\n( See clause (c) of section 150 and sub-section (1) of section 136\nForm of Inventory and Notice\nForm of Inventory and Notice\nSignature of Officer executing the warrant collecting octroi or toll\nInventory\n(Here state particulars of goods and chattels property seized).\nSchedule VII [* * *]\nSchedule VIII\n[ See sub-section (1) of section 266]\nArticles which shall not be kept in or upon any premises without a licence\nArticles which shall not be kept in or upon any premises without a licence\nSchedule IX\n[ See sub-section (2) of section 266]\nPart I\nArticles which shall not be kept without a licence in or upon any premises in quantities exceeding at any one time the respective maximum quantities hereunder specified opposite such articles\nArticles which shall not be kept without a licence in or upon any premises in quantities exceeding at any one time the respective maximum quantities hereunder specified opposite such articles\nArticles\nMaximum quantity which may be kept at any one\n\t\t\t\t\ttime without a licence\n1\n2\n(1)\nBamboos\n500 kg.\n(2)\nBidi leaves\n50 kg.\n(3)\nCamphor\n2 kg.\n(4)\nCelluloid\n25 kg.\n(5)\nCelluloid goods\n25 kg.\n(6)\nCinematograph film\n1 kg.\n(7)\nCopra\n50 kg.\n(8)\nCotton refuse and waste\n50 kg.\n(9)\nCotton seed\n200 kg.\n(10)\nDry leaves (patravali, etc.)\n25 kg.\n(11)\nFish (dried)\n500 kg.\n(12)\nGun-powder\n500 gms.\n(13)\nMatches for lighting\n1 gross boxes\n(14)\nMethylated spirit and denatured spirit\n5 litres\n(15)\nPaints\n50 kg.\n(16)\nPetroleum as defined in the Petroleum Act, 1934\n25 litres\n(17)\nOil (other sorts)\n25 litres\n(18)\nOil-seeds other than cotton seed\n500 kg.\n(19)\nOil paper (waste) including news-papers, periodicals,\n\t\t\t\t\tmagazines, etc.\n50 kg.\n(20)\nRags\n500 kg.\n(21)\nSulphur\n2 kg.\n(22)\nTar, pitch, dammer or bitumen\n5 kg.\n(23)\nTurpentine\n5 litres\n(24)\nVarnish\n10 litres\n(25)\nWool (raw)\n50 kg.\nPart II\nArticles which shall not be kept without a licence in or upon any premises\nArticles which shall not be kept without a licence in or upon any premises\nFor sale or for purposes other than domestic use\nFor sale or for purposes other than domestic use\n(1) Bones\n(2) Coconut fibre\n(3) Charcoal\n(4) Coal\n(5) Coke\n(6) Fat\n(7) Firewood\n(8) Fireworks\n(9) Grass (Dry)\n(10) Gunny bags\n(11) Hair\n(12) Hay and fodder\n(13) Hemp\n(14) Hessian cloth (Gunny bag cloth)\n(15) Hides (dried)\n(16) Hides (raw)\n(17) Hoofs\n(18) Horns.\n(19) Khokas or wooden boxes or barrels (Manufacturing and storing)\n(20) Skins\n(21) Timber\nSchedule - X\n( See Section 322 A)",
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"title": "3. Roads and bridges.",
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"number": "4",
"title": "4. Urban forestry, protection of the environment and promotion of ecological aspects.",
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"number": "5",
"title": "5. Slum improvement and upgradation.",
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"number": "6",
"title": "6. Provision of urban amenities and facilities such as parks, gardens, playgrounds.",
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"number": "7",
"title": "7. Burials and burial grounds; cremations, cremation grounds and electric crematoriums.",
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"number": "8",
"title": "8. Cattle pounds; prevention of cruelty to animals.",
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"number": "9",
"title": "9. Vital statistics including registration of births and deaths.",
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"number": "10",
"title": "10. Public amenities including street lighting, parking lots, bus stops and public conveniences.",
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"number": "11",
"title": "11. Regulation of slaughter houses and tanneries.",
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"content": "Department of Labour\nDepartment of Labour\nNotifications\nNotifications\n25/8/85-ILD.\nSchedule\nSr. No.\nClass of work/ category of employment\nAll inclusive minimum rates of wages in the State\n\t\t\t\tof Goa\n1.\nMinisterial and Non-Ministerial Class III & Class IV\n\t\t\t\temployees in all Municipal Councils.\nSame rates of wages inclusive of all allowances declared from\n\t\t\t\ttime to time in respect of scales of pay in Column No. 4 of the\n\t\t\t\tSchedule of the Notification No. 10/47/85/DMA (Vol. I) dated\n\t\t\t\t10-3-1986 published in the Official Gazette, Series I No. 4 dated\n\t\t\t\t24-4-1986, if the same categories of employees are employed on\n\t\t\t\tdaily rates of wages, they shall be paid 1/26th (one twenty\n\t\t\t\tsixth) of the respective monthly rates per day.\n(i) Where in any area/establishment/scheduled employment, wages fixed under the Scheduled Employment, namely \"Employment under any local authority-Municipal Councils\" in the State of Goa or by agreement/settlement or contract or contractors' regulations attached to the conditions of contract, higher rates of wages are payable to the employees then such higher rate would be payable as minimum wages under this notification.\n(ii) Unskilled work is one which involves simple operations requiring little or no skill or experience on the job.\n(a) Semi-skilled work is one which involves skill or competence acquired through experience on the job and which is capable of being performed under the supervision or guidance of skilled employee and includes unskilled supervisory work.\n(b) Skilled work is one which involves skill or competence required through experience on the job or through training as an apprentice or in a technical or vocational institute and the performance of which calls for initiative and judgement.\n(iii) The minimum rates of wages fixed is an all inclusive rate including the wages for the weekly day of rest but does not include daily batta/food allowance.\n(iv) The minimum rates of wages are applicable to employees engaged by the principal employers or contractors or sub-contractors.\n(v) Both men and women workers have to be paid same rates of wages fixed for the category and for equal work.\n(vi) In case of employees employed on piece-rate basis, the minimum rates of wages payable to him shall be at the rate not less than the minimum rates of wages fixed for the class/category to which he belongs under this notification.\n(vii) The minimum rates of wages payable to an adolescent certified to work as an adult shall be same as an adult. In case he or she is certified to work as an adolescent only, the rate of wages payable shall be 80% of the minimum rates of wages fixed for adults.",
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"Act ID": "goa119",
"Act Number": "(Act No. 16 of 1968)",
"Enactment Date": "",
"Act Year": "1968",
"Short Title": "Goa Municipalities Act, 1968",
"Type": "STATE",
"Location": "Goa"
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}