Haryana Municipal Corporation Act, 1994

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    "id": 17018,
    "slug": "haryana-municipal-corporation-act-1994",
    "title": "Haryana Municipal Corporation Act, 1994",
    "short_title": "Haryana Municipal Corporation Act, 1994",
    "act_number": "(Haryana Act No. 16 of 1994)",
    "act_year": 1994,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Haryana",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "Haryana Municipal Corporation Act, 1994",
    "preamble": "",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
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            "content": "Object & Reasons 6\nStatement of Objects and Reasons - Haryana Act 16 of 1994.\nStatement of Objects and Reasons - Haryana Act 3 of 1996.\nStatement of Objects and Reasons - Haryana Act 19 of 1996.\nStatement of Objects and Reasons - Haryana Act 11 of 1997.\nStatement of Objects and Reasons - Haryana Act 2 of 2000.\nStatement of Objects and Reasons Haryana Act 9 of 2000.\nStatement of objects and Reasons - Haryana Act 15 of 2000.\nStatement of objects and Reasons - Haryana Act 9 of 2001.\nStatement of Objects and Reasons - Haryana Act 12 of 2002.\nStatement of Objects and Reasons - Haryana Act 22 of 2002.\nStatement of Objects and Reasons - Haryana Act 15 of 2003.\nStatement of Objects and Reasons - Haryana Act 23 of 2003.\nStatement of Objects and Reasons - Haryana Act 20 of 2004.\nStatement of Objects and Reasons - Haryana Act 9 of 2005.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "[(1) \"annual value\" notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, means, -\n(a) in the case of land, the gross annual rent -\n(i) to be calculated on the basis of fair rent fixed under the law relating to rent restriction for the time being in force; or\n(ii) where no fair rent referred to in item (i) is fixed, at which it is expected to be let or it is actually let, whichever is greater :\n(i) the amount of the land-revenue or any other tax in lieu thereof for the time being assessed on the land, whether such assessment is leviable or not; or when the land-revenue has been wholly or in Part compounded for or redeemed, the amount which, but for such composition or redemption, would have been leviable, and\n(ii) when the improvement of the land due to canal irrigation has been excluded from account in assessing the land-revenue, the amount of owner's rate or water advantage rate, or other rate imposed in respect of such improvement;\n(b) in the case of any land on which no building has been erected, but on which a building can be erected, and on any land on which a building is in the process of erection, five percent of the estimated market value of the land;\n(c) in the case of any house or building whether self occupied or tenanted, five per centum on the sum obtained by adding the estimated present cost of erecting the building, less such amount as the Government may deem reasonable to be deducted on account of depreciation, if any, to the estimated market value of the site and any land attached to the house or building :\n(i) in the calculation of the annual value of any premises, no account shall be taken of any machinery thereon;\n(ii) the basis of assessing the present market value of the land, the cost of erecting the building and depreciation shall be such as may be decided by the Government. Different rates may be determined for different categories of building and land;\n(iii) if the actual annual rent received by the owner is higher than the annual value as determined, then the actual annual rent shall be deemed to be the annual value for the purpose of this Act;\n(iv) the annual value of the building so determined shall be subject to a deduction of ten percent for the cost of repairs and other expenses necessary for the proper maintenance of the building.\n(v) when a building is occupied by the owner under such exceptional circumstances as to render a valuation at five per centum on the cost of erecting the building, less depreciation, excessive, a lower percentage may be taken;]\n(1A) \"budget-grant\" means the total sum entered on the expenditure side of a budget estimate under a major head and adopted by the Corporation and includes any sum by which such budget-grant may be increased or reduced by transfer from or to other heads in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the regulations made thereunder;\n(2) \"building\" means a shop, house, out-house, stable, latrine, urinal, shed, hut, well or any other structure whether of masonry, bricks, wood, mud, metal or other material and includes a well but does not include any portable shelter;\n(3) \"bye-law\" means a bye-law made under this Act, by notification in the Official Gazette;\n[(3A) \"Collector's rate\" means the value of land assessed by the Deputy Commissioner every year by exercising his authority as District Collector or for the purpose of assessing the value of stamp duty at the time of registration of sale deeds of land;]\n(4) \"Commissioner\" means the Commissioner of the Corporation, appointed by the State Government ;\n[(4A) Competent authority means the joint Commissioner of Corporation;]\n(5) \"Corporation\" means the Municipal Corporation declared and constituted under sections 3 and 4 of this Act;\n(6) \"Corrupt practice\" means any of the practices specified in section 22;\n(7) \"Casual Vacancy\" means a vacancy occurring otherwise than by efflux of time in the office of a member or in any other elective office;\n(8) \"dangerous disease\" means -\n(a) cholera, plague, chicken-pox, small-pox, tuberculosis, leprosy, enteric fever, cerebrospinal, meningitis and diphtheria; and\n(b) any other epidemic, endemic or infectious disease which the Commissioner may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be dangerous disease for the purposes of this Act;\n(9) \"dry latrine\" means a latrine or privey from where night soil is removed through manual scavenging;\n[(9A) \"Director\" Means the Director, Urban Local Bodies, Department, Haryana and includes any Other Officer for the time being appointed by the Government, by notification in the official Gazette, to exercise and perform all or any of the powers and functions of the Director under this Act and the rules made thereunder;]\n(10) \"District Judge\" means the District Judge having jurisdiction in the Municipal area;\n(11) \"Divisional Commissioner\" means the Commissioner of the Division in which the Corporation is situated and includes any other officer appointed by the Government to perform all or any of the functions of the Divisional Commissioner under this Act;\n(12) \"drain\" includes a sewer, a house drain, a drain of any other description, a tunnel, a culvert, a ditch, a channel and any other device for carrying of sewage, offensive matter, polluted water, waste water, rain water or subsoil water;\n(13) \"district\" means a district in the State;\n(14) \"entertainment\" includes any exhibition, performance, amusement, game or sport to which persons are ordinarily admitted on payment;\n(15) \"factory\" means a factory as defined in the Factories Act, 1948;\n(16) \"filth\" includes offensive matter and sewage;\n(17) \"Finance Commission\" means the Finance Commission constituted by the State Government under Articles 243-I and 243-Y of the Constitution of India;\n(18) \"goods\" includes animals;\n(19) \"Government\" means the Government of the State of Haryana;\n(20) \"house-gully\" or \"service passage\" means a passage or strip of land constructed, set aPart or utilised for the purpose of serving as or carrying a drain or affording access to a latrine, urinal, cesspool or other receptacle for filth or other polluted matter, by Corporation employees or other persons employed in the cleaning thereof or in the removal of such matter therefrom;\n(21) \"hut\" means any building which is constructed principally of wood, bamboo, mud, leaves, grass, cloth or thatch and includes any structure of whatever material made which the Corporation may declare to be a hut for the purposes of this Act;\n(22) \"land\" includes benefits that arise out of land, things attached to the earth or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth and rights created by law over any street;\n(23) \"licensed architect\", \"licensed draftsman\", \"licensed engineer\", \"licensed plumber\", \"licensed surveyor\" and \"licensed town planner\" means respectively a person licensed under the provisions of this Act as an architect, draftsman, engineer, plumber, surveyor and town planner;\n(24) \"member\" means a member of the Corporation [and includes the Mayor] ;\n(25) \"municipal drain\" means a drain vested in the Corporation;\n(26) \"municipal market\" means a market vested in or managed by the Corporation;\n(27) \"municipal slaughter house\" means a slaughter house vested in or managed by the Corporation;\n(28) \"municipal water works\" means water works vested in the Corporation;\n(29) \"Metropolitan area\" means an area having a population of ten lakhs or more, comprised in one or more districts and consisting of two or more municipalities or panchayats or other contiguous areas, specified by the Government by notification in the Official Gazette to be the metropolitan area for the purposes of this Act;\n(30) \"Municipal area\" means the territorial area of the Corporation declared under section 3 of this Act;\n(31) \"municipality\" means an institution of self-government constituted under section 2A of the Haryana Municipal Act, 1973, which may be a Municipal Committee or a Municipal Council or a Municipal Corporation;\n(32) \"nuisance\" includes any act, omission, place, animal or thing which causes or is likely to cause injury, danger, annoyance or offence to the sense of sight, smell or hearing or disturbance to rest or sleep, or which is or may be dangerous to life or injurious to health or property;\n(33) \"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 in occupation of, or otherwise using his land or building;\n(c) a rent-fee tenant of any land or building;\n(d) a licensee in occupation of any land or building; and\n(e) any person who is liable to pay to the owner damages for the use and occupation of any land or building;\n(34) [-]\n(35) \"offensive matter\" includes animal carcasses, kitchen or stable refuse, dung, dirt and putrid or putrefying substances, other than sewage;\n[(36) \"owner\", -\n(a) when used with reference to any building and land, includes -\n(i) the person who receives the rent thereof or who would be entitled to receive the rent thereof if the same were let;\n(ii) an agent or trustee who receives such rent on account of the owner;\n(iii) an agent or trustee who receives the rent of or is entrusted with or concerned for, any premises devoted to religious or charitable purposes;\n(iv) a receiver, 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;\n(v) 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 the boat;]\n(37) \"premises\" means any land or building or Part of a building and includes-\n(a) the garden, ground and out-houses, if any, appertaining to a building or Part of a building; and\n(b) any fittings affixed to a building or Part of a building for the more beneficial enjoyment thereof;\n(38) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under the Act;\n(39) \"private street\" means any street, which is not a public street and includes any passage securing access to two or more places belonging to the same or different owners;\n(40) \"private market\" means a market which is not a municipal market;\n(41) \"private slaughter house\" means a slaughter house which is not a municipal slaughter house;\n(42) \"public place\" means any place which is open to the use and enjoyment of the public, whether it is actually used or enjoyed by the public or not;\n(43) \"public securities\" means any securities of the Central Government or a State Government or any securities guaranteed by the Central Government or a State Government or any securities under this Act;\n(44) \"public street\" means any street which vests in the Corporation or which under the provisions of this Act becomes, or is declared to be a public street;\n(45) \"population\" means the population as ascertained at the last preceding census of which the relevant figures have been published;\n(46) \"Railway administration\" would have the same meaning as assigned to it in the Indian Railway Act, 1890 (Act 9 of 1890);\n(47) [-]\n(48) \"regulation\" means a regulation made by the Corporation under this Act, by notification in the Official Gazette;\n(49) \"reside\" -\n(a) a person shall be deemed to \"reside\" in any dwelling house which or some portion of which he sometimes, although not uninterruptedly, uses as a sleeping aPartment; and\n(b) a person shall not be deemed to cease to \"reside\" in any such dwelling house merely because he is absent from it or has elsewhere another dwelling house in which he resides, if there is liberty of returning to it at any time, and no abandonment of the intention of returning to it;\n(50) \"rubbish\" includes ashes, broken bricks, broken glass, dust, malba, mortar and refuse of any kind which is not filth;\n(51) \"rural areas\" means the Part of the Municipal area which immediately before their inclusion within the limits of the Municipal area were situated within the local limits of a Gram Panchayat but shall not include such portion thereof as may, by virtue of a notification under section 413 ceases to be included in the rural areas as herein defined;\n[(51A) \"Secretary\" means the secretary to Government, Haryana, Urban Local Bodies Department;]\n(52) \"sewage\" means night-soil and other contents of latrines, urinals, cesspools or drains and polluted water from sinks, bathrooms, stables, cattle sheds and other like places, and includes trade effluents and discharges from manufacturing of all kinds;\n[(52A) \"Shamlat Deh\" includes -\n(1) lands described in the revenue records as Shamlat Deh or Shamlat Tikkas;\n(2) lands described in the revenue records as Shamlat Tarafs, Pattis, Pannas or Tholas and used according to revenue records for common purposes or for the benefit of the community or Part thereof;\n(3) lands described as Banjar Qadim and used for common purpose according to revenue records;\n(4) lands used or reserved for the benefit of the community including streets, lanes, playgrounds, schools, drinking wells or ponds; and\n(5) lands belonging to the Gram Panchayat of a village the Abadi Deh of which has been included in a municipality and where the Panchayat consists of more than one village, the lands belonging to the Panchayat in respect of that village or villages, the Abadi Deh of which has been included in a municipality,\n(i) has been allotted on quasi permanent basis to a displaced person;\n(ii) has been acquired under the Displaced Persons (Compensation and Rehabilitation) Act, 1954 (Central Act 44 of 1954) or has been treated as evacuee property under the Administration of the Evacuee Property Act, 1950 (Central Act 31 of 1950) or is of composite nature in which evacuee and non- evacuee shares have not yet been separated;\n(iii) has been Partitioned and brought under cultivation by individual land-holders before the 26th January, 1970;\n(iv) having been acquired before the 26th January, 1970, by a person by purchase or in exchange for proprietary land from a co-sharer in the Shamlat Deh, is so record in the Jamabandi or is supported by a valid deed;\n(v) is described in the revenue records as Shamlat Tarafs, Pattis, Pannas or Tholas and is not used according to revenue records for common purpose or for the benefit of the community or a Part thereof;\n(vi) lies outside the Abadi Deh and is used as Gitwar, Bara, Manure-pit or house or for cottage industry;\n(vii) was Shamlat Deh, was assessed to land revenue and has been in the individual cultivating possession of co-sharers not being in excess of their respective shares in it on or before the 26th January, 1970;\n(viii) is used as a place of worship or for purpose sub-survient thereto; and\n(ix) belongs to the Gram Panchayat of a village the Abadi Deh of which has not been included in a municipality and where the Panchayat consists of more that one village, the lands, belonging to the Panchayat in respect of that village or villages, the Abadi Deh of which has not been included in municipality.]\n(53) \"shed\" means a slight or temporary structure for shade or shelter;\n(54) \"slaughter house\" means any place ordinarily used for the slaughter of animals for the purpose of selling the flesh thereof for human consumption;\n(55) \"street\" means any road, footway, square, Court, alley, gully or passage, accessible, whether permanently or temporarily to the public and whether a thoroughfare or not, and shall include every vacant space, notwithstanding that it may be private property and Partly or wholly obstructed by any gate, post, chain or other barrier, if houses, shops or other buildings abut thereon, and if it is used by any persons as means of access to or from any public place or thoroughfare, whether such person be occupiers of such buildings or not, but shall include any Part of such space which the occupier of any such building has right at all hours to prevent all other persons from using as aforesaid and shall include also the drains or gutters therein, or on either side and the land, whether covered or not by any pavement, verandah or other erection, up to the boundary of any abutting property not accessible to the public;\n(56) \"State Election Commission\" means the State Election Commission constituted by the State Government under Articles 243K and 243ZA of the Constitution of India;\n(57) \"trade effluent\" means any liquid either with or without Particles of matter in suspension therein, which is wholly or in Part produced in the course of any trade or industry carried on at trade premises, and in relation to any trade premises means any such liquid as aforesaid which is so produced in the course of any grade or industry carried on at those premises, but does not include domestic sewage;\n(58) \"trade premises\" means any premises used or intended to be used for carrying on any trade or industry;\n(59) \"trade refuse\" means the refuse of any trade or industry;\n(60) \"vehicle\" includes a carriage, cart, van, dray, truck, hand- craft, bicycle, tricycle, cycle-rickshaw, auto-rickshaw, motor vehicle and every wheeled conveyance which is used or is capable of being used in a street;\n(61) \"ward\" means a municipal ward of the Corporation made under sub-section (2) of section 4 for the purpose of election of a member;\n(62) \"water course\" includes any river, stream or channel whether natural or artificial;\n(63) \"water works\" includes all lakes, tanks, streams, cisterns, springs, pumps, wells, reservoirs, aqueducts, water trucks, sluices, main pipes, culverts, hydrants, stand-pipes and conduits and all lands, buildings, machinery, bridges and things used for, or intended for the purpose of supplying water;\n(64) \"workshop\" means any premises (including the precincts thereof) other than a factory, wherein any industrial process is carried on;\n(65) \"water-seal latrine\" means a latrine with a minimum water-seal of 20mm in which excreta is pushed in or flushed by water and is not required to be removed by human agency;\n(66) \"wards-committee\" means a ward committee constituted under section 10 of this Act; and\n(67) \"year\" means a year commencing on the 1st day of April.",
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        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Declaration of Municipal area as Corporation.",
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            "content": "EP = P X (1+AGR/100) n ; where -\n(i) EP- refers to existing population;\n(ii) P - refers to the population defined in clause (45) of section 2;\n(iii) AGR - refers to the annual growth rate in percent obtained from the last decennial census;\n(iv) n - refers to the number of years from the last decennial census year to the year in which the constitution of the Corporation is being considered.]\n(a) this Act, and all notifications, rules, bye-laws, orders, directions and powers issued, made or conferred under this Act, shall cease to apply thereto; and\n(b) the Government shall after consulting the Corporation, frame a scheme determining what portion of the balance of the Corporation fund and other property vesting in the Municipal Corporation shall vest in the Government and in what manner the liabilities of the Corporation shall be apportioned between the Corporation and the Government, and, on the scheme, being notified, the property and liabilities shall vest and be apportioned accordingly.\n[3A. Power to abolish Corporation.\nChapter II\nConstitution of Corporation",
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        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Incorporation and constitution of Corporation.",
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            "content": "[(i) not more than three persons having special knowledge or experience in municipal administration;]\n(ii) members of the House of the People and the members of the Legislative Assembly representing constituencies which comprise wholly or Partly the Municipal Area;\n(iii) members of the Council of States registered as electors within the Municipal Area :",
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        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Duration of Corporation.",
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            "content": "(a) before the expiry of its duration specified in sub-section (1);\n(b) before the expiration of a period of six months from the date of its dissolution:\n[6. Fixation of seats of Corporation.\n[6A. Bar to interference by Courts.\n[6B. Time limit for delimitation and reservation of wards.\n[7. Qualifications for Mayor and members.\n(a) he has attained twenty-one years of age; and\n(b) his name is registered as an elector in the electoral roll of a ward in the Municipal area.]\n8. [Disqualifications of Mayor and members] .\n(a) if he is so disqualified by or under any law for the time being in force for the purposes of elections to the Legislature of the state;\n(b) if he is so disqualified by or under any law made by the Legislature of the State.\n(a) if he is of unsound mind and stands so declared by a competent court;\n(b) if he is an undischarged insolvent;\n(c) if he is not a citizen of India, or has voluntarily acquired the citizenship of a foreign State, or is under any acknowledgement of allegiance or adherence to a foreign State;\n(d) if he has, in proceedings for questioning the validity or regularity of an election, been found to have been guilty of -\n(i) any corrupt practice under section 22 of this Act,\n(ii) any offence punishable under section 171-E or 171-F of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, or any offence punishable under section 30 or clause (a) of sub-section (2) of section 31 of this Act;\n(e) if he has been sentenced or convicted by a criminal court to imprisonment for an offence involving moral turpitude;\n(f) if he holds any office of profit under the Corporation;\n(g) if he is a licensed architect, draftsman, engineer, plumber, surveyor or town planner or is a Partner of a firm of which any such licensed person is also a Partner;\n(h) if he holds any office of profit under the Government;\n(i) if he is interested in any subsisting contract made with, or any, work being done for the Corporation except as a share holder (other than a director) in an incorporated company or as a member of a co-operative society;\n(j) if he is retained or employed in any professional capacity either personally or in the name of a firm of which he is a Partner or with which he is engaged in a professional capacity, in connection with any cause or proceedings in which the Corporation or any of municipal authorities is interested or concerned;\n(k) if he, having held any office under the Government, the Corporation or any other local authority, any Government company or any corporate body owned or controlled by the Government has been dismissed from service;\n(l) if he fails to pay any arrears of any kind due to him, otherwise, than as an agent, receiver, trustee or an executor, to the Corporation within three months after a notice in this behalf has been served upon him;\n[(m) if he furnishes a false caste certificate at the time of filing nomination and he shall be so disqualified for a period of six years from contesting the election of the Corporation;\n(n) if he is convicted or has been convicted of an offence punishable under Sections 29, 30 and 31 of the principal Act, the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (49 of 1988) or the Prevention of Terrorism Act, 2002 (15 of 2002).]\n(a) a disqualification under clause (e) of sub-section (2) shall not take effect until three months have elapsed since the date of such disqualification or if within these three months an appeal or petition for revision is brought in respect of the conviction or sentence until that appeal or petition is disposed of;\n(b) a person shall not be deemed to have incurred any disqualification under clause (f), or clause (g) of sub-section (2) by reason only of his receiving-\n(i) any pension; or\n(ii) any allowance or facility for serving as a Mayor or Deputy Mayor or as a member; or\n(iii) any fee for attendance at a meeting of any committee of the Corporation;\n(c) a person shall not be deemed to have any interest in a contract or work such as is referred to in clause (i) of sub-section (2) by reason only of his having a share or interest in -\n(i) any lease, sale, exchange or purchase of immovable property or any agreement for the same; or\n(ii) any agreement for the loan of money or any security for the payment of money only; or\n(iii) any newspaper in which any advertisement relating to the affairs of the Corporation is inserted; or\n(iv) the sale to the Corporation or to any other municipal authority or any officer or other employee of the Corporation on behalf of the Corporation of any article in which he regularly trades or purchases from the Corporation or from any such authority, officer or other employee on behalf of the Corporation of any article of a value in either case not exceeding five thousand rupees in the aggregate in any year during the period of the contract or work; or\n(v) the letting out on hire to the Corporation or the hiring from the Corporation of any article of a value not exceeding two thousand rupees in the aggregate in any year during the period of the contract or work;\n(v) any agreement or contract with the Corporation or any other municipal authority for taking water or any other thing which the Corporation may generally supply.\n[8A. Restriction on simultaneous or double membership.\n[8B. Disqualification for failure to keep account of election expenses and maximum thereof.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "8C",
            "title": "8C. Making false declaration.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the preparation, revision or correction of an electoral roll; or\n(b) the inclusion or exclusion of any entry in or from an electoral roll,",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 5
        },
        {
            "number": "8D",
            "title": "8D. Application of certain sections of Central Act 43 of 1951 to Haryana Act 16 of 1994.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[8E. Disqualification for failure to lodge account of election expenses.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 6
        },
        {
            "number": "8F",
            "title": "8F. Removal or reduction of period of disqualification.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 7
        },
        {
            "number": "8G",
            "title": "8G. Lodging of account with the Deputy Commissioner.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 8
        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Election to the Corporation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 9
        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Constitution and composition of Wards Committees etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) one ward, the member representing that ward in the Corporation; or\n(b) two or more wards, one of the members representing such wards in the Corporation elected by the members of the Wards Committee, shall be the Chairperson of that Wards Committee.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 10
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Reservation of seats.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 11
        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Right to vote.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 12
        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Filling of casual vacancies.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 13
        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Publication of results of elections.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 14
        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Election petitions.",
            "chapter": null,
            "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.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 15
        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Relief that may be claimed by the petitioner.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) a declaration that the election of all or any of the returned candidates is void; and\n(b) in addition thereto, a further declaration that he himself or any other candidate has been duly elected.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 16
        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Grounds for declaring election to be void.",
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            "content": "(a) that on the date of his election a returned candidate was not qualified or was disqualified, [to be chosen as a Mayor or member] ; or\n(b) that any corrupt practice has been committed by a returned candidate or his agent or by any other person with the consent of a returned candidate or his agent; or\n(c) that any nomination paper has been improperly rejected; or\n(d) that the result of the election in so far as it concerns a returned candidate has been materially affected -\n(i) by the improper acceptance of any nomination; or\n(ii) by any corrupt practice committed in the interests of the returned candidate by a person other than the candidate or his agent or a person acting with the consent of such candidate or agent; or\n(iii) by the improper acceptance or refusal of any vote or reception of any vote which is void; or\n(iv) by the non-compliance with the provisions of this Act, or any rules or orders made thereunder, such authority shall declare the election of the returned candidate to be void.\n(a) that no such corrupt practice is committed at the election by the candidate, or such corrupt practice was committed contrary to the orders, and without the consent of the candidate;\n(b) that the candidate took all reasonable means for preventing the commission of corrupt practices at the election; and\n(c) that in all other respects the election was free from any corrupt practice on the Part of candidate or any of his agents, such authority may decide that the election of the returned candidate is not void.",
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            "content": "(a) dismissing the election petition; or\n(b) declaring the election of all or any of the returned candidates to be void; or\n(c) declaring the election of all or any of the returned candidates to be void and the petitioner and any other candidate to have been duly elected.\n(a) that in fact the petitioner or such other candidate received a majority of the valid votes; or\n(b) that but for the votes obtained by the returned candidate the petitioner or such other candidate would have obtained a majority of the valid votes, such authority shall after declaring the election of the returned candidate to be void, declare the petitioner or such other candidate, as the case may be, to have been duly elected.",
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            "number": "20",
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            "number": "21",
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            "content": "(a) to persuade any person to give his vote at an election; or\n(b) to dissuade any person for 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": "29",
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            "number": "45",
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            "number": "46",
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            "number": "50",
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            "number": "51",
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            "title": "60. Right to attend meetings of Corporation and its committees, etc. and right of members to ask questions in relation to the administration of Municipal area.",
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            "content": "(a) not less than seven days' clear notice in writing specifying the question shall be given to the Corporation Secretary;\n(b) no question shall -\n(i) bring in any name or statement not strictly necessary to make the question intelligible;\n(ii) contain arguments, ironical expression, imputations, epithets or defamatory statements;\n(iii) ask for an expression of opinion or the solution of a hypothetical proposition;\n(iv) ask as to the character or conduct of any person except in his official or public capacity;\n(v) relate to a matter which is not primarily the concern of the Corporation or any of the municipal authorities;\n(vi) make or imply a charge of a personal character;\n(vii) raise question of policy too large to be dealt with within the limits of an answer to a question;\n(viii) repeat in substance questions already answered or to which an answer has been refused;\n(ix) ask for information on trivial matters;\n(x) ordinarily ask for information on matters of past history;\n(xi) ask for information set forth in accessible documents or in ordinary works of reference;\n(xii) raise matters under the control of bodies or persons not primarily responsible to the Corporation; or\n(xiii) ask for any information on a matter which is under adjudication by a Court of Law.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 57
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        {
            "number": "61",
            "title": "61. Powers to make regulations.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 58
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        {
            "number": "62",
            "title": "62. Presiding Officer at meetings of ad hoc committees.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 59
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        {
            "number": "63",
            "title": "63. Keeping of minutes and proceedings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 60
        },
        {
            "number": "64",
            "title": "64. Circulation of minutes and inspection of minutes and reports of proceedings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 61
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        {
            "number": "65",
            "title": "65. Forwarding minutes and reports of proceedings to the Government.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 62
        },
        {
            "number": "66",
            "title": "66. Validation of proceedings etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the seat of any member remaining unfilled for any cause whatsoever;\n(b) the existence of any vacancy in, or any defect in the constitution of the Corporation, or in any committee thereof;\n(c) any member having voted or taken Part in any proceedings in contravention of section 60;\n(d) any defect or irregularity not affecting the merits of the case.\nChapter VI\nCorporation Officers and other Corporation Employees",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 63
        },
        {
            "number": "67",
            "title": "67. Posts in Corporation and appointments thereto.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 64
        },
        {
            "number": "68",
            "title": "68. Officers and other employees not to undertake any extraneous work.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 65
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        {
            "number": "69",
            "title": "69. Officers and other employees not to be interested in any contract etc. with Corporation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 66
        },
        {
            "number": "70",
            "title": "70. Punishment of Corporation Officers and other employees.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) where an officer or other employee is removed or dismissed on the ground of conduct which has led to his conviction on a criminal charge; or\n(b) where the authority empowered to remove or dismiss such officer or the employee is satisfied that for some reason to be recorded by that authority, it is not reasonably practicable to give that person an opportunity of showing cause.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 67
        },
        {
            "number": "71",
            "title": "71. Power of Corporation to make regulations.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) where an officer or other employee is removed or dismissed on the ground of conduct which has led to his conviction on a criminal charge; or\n(b) where the authority empowered to remove or dismiss such officer or other employee is satisfied that for some reason to be recorded by that authority, it is not reasonably practicable to give that person an opportunity of showing cause.\nChapter VII\nRevenue and Expenditure",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 68
        },
        {
            "number": "72",
            "title": "72. Constitution of Corporation Fund.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) all funds which immediately before the declaration and constitution of the Corporation under sections 3 and 4 of this Act vested in the Municipal area of the Faridabad Complex or any Part thereof or any municipality including area comprising rural area or a Part thereof, if any;\n(b) all money received by or on behalf of the Corporation under the provision of this Act or of any law for the time being in force or under any contract;\n(c) all proceeds of the disposal of property by, or on behalf of the Corporation;\n(d) all rents accruing from any property of the Corporation;\n(e) all moneys raised by any tax, rate or cess levied for the purpose of this Act;\n(f) all fees collected and all fines levied under this Act or under any rule, regulation or bye-law made thereunder;\n(g) all moneys received by or on behalf of the Corporation from the Government or any individual or association of individuals by way of grant or gift or deposit;\n(h) all interest and profits arising from any investment of, or from any transactions in connection with, any money belonging to the Corporation including loans and advances under this Act;\n(i) all moneys received by or on behalf of the Corporation from any other source whatsoever, shall form one fund to be called the Corporation Fund.\n[72A. Constitution of Services to Poor Fund.\n(i) all moneys raised by any rent, tax, fine, rate or cess on any person or any property situated in slum area;\n(ii) a grant received from the Central/State or any other agency for development of slum area;\n(iii) moneys received from any individual or associations of individuals by way of grants or gifts or deposits for service to the poor;\n(iv) all moneys received by or on behalf of Corporation or any source specifically meant for this fund; and\n(v) any fund that may be transferred by the Commissioner from the Corporation Fund under the specific major head of account to ensure adequate funds for meeting the purpose of this fund.]",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 69
        },
        {
            "number": "73",
            "title": "73. Corporation Fund to be kept in treasury or in a nationalised bank.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 70
        },
        {
            "number": "74",
            "title": "74. Operation of account with banks.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) Officer incharge of the accounts; and\n(b) the Commissioner or an officer subordinate to him authorised by him in this behalf.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 71
        },
        {
            "number": "75",
            "title": "75. Payment not to be made unless covered by a Budget grant.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) repayment of money, belonging to contractors or other persons and held in deposit and of moneys collected or credited to the Corporation Fund by mistake;\n(b) refund of taxes and other moneys which are authorised under this Act;\n(c) sum payable in any of the following circumstances -\n(i) under orders of the Government on failure of the Corporation to take any action as required by the Government; or\n(ii) under any other enactment for the time being in force; or\n(iii) under the decree or order of a civil or criminal court passed against the Corporation; or\n(iv) under a compromise of any claim, suit or other legal proceedings; or\n(v) on account of cost incurred in taking immediate action by the Corporation or the Commissioner to avert a sudden threat of danger to the property of the Corporation or to human life;\n(d) temporary payment for works urgently required by the Government in the public interest;\n(e) sums payable as compensation under this Act or under any rules, regulations or bye-laws made thereunder;\n(f) expenses incurred by the Corporation on special measures taken on the outbreak of dangerous diseases;\n(g) amount payable to Government by way of audit fee.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 72
        },
        {
            "number": "76",
            "title": "76. Duty of persons signing cheques.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) required for a purpose or work specifically sanctioned by the proper authority and covered by a current budget grant; or\n(b) required for any payment referred to, or specified in section 75.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 73
        },
        {
            "number": "77",
            "title": "77. Procedure when money not covered by a budget grant is expended.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 74
        },
        {
            "number": "78",
            "title": "78. Application of Corporation Fund.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[78A. Utilization of Services to Poor Fund.\n(i) 20% of the total revenue income;\n(ii) 20% of the revenue expenditure; or\n(iii) 25% of the total capital expenditure,",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 75
        },
        {
            "number": "79",
            "title": "79. Payments from Corporation Fund for works urgently required for public service.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 76
        },
        {
            "number": "80",
            "title": "80. Investment of surplus money.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 77
        },
        {
            "number": "81",
            "title": "81. Constitution of special funds.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 78
        },
        {
            "number": "82",
            "title": "82. Finance Commission.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the principles which should govern -\n(i) the distribution between the State and the Corporation of the net proceeds of the taxes, duties, tolls and fees leviable by the State, which may be divided between them and the allocation between the Corporation at all levels of their respective shares of such proceeds;\n(ii) the determination of the taxes, duties, tolls and fees which may be assigned to, or appropriated by the Corporation;\n(iii) the grants-in-aid to the Corporation from the Consolidated Fund of the State;\n(b) the measures needed to improve the financial position of the Corporation;\n(c) any other matter conferred to the Finance Commission by the Government in the interest of sound finances of the Corporation.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 79
        },
        {
            "number": "83",
            "title": "83. Budget estimates.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 80
        },
        {
            "number": "84",
            "title": "84. Power of Corporation to alter Budget estimates.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) increase the amount of any budget grant under any head;\n(ii) make an additional budget grant for the purpose of meeting any special or unforeseen requirement arising during the said year;\n(iii) transfer the amount or portion of the amount of the budget grant under any head to the account of budget grant under any other head; or\n(iv) reduce the amount of the budget grant under any head :\n(a) reduce the amount of budget grant; or\n(b) sanction the transfer of any amount within a budget grant :",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 81
        },
        {
            "number": "85",
            "title": "85. Power of Corporation to readjust income and expenditure during the year.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 82
        },
        {
            "number": "86",
            "title": "86. Provisions as to unexpended budget grant.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter VIII\nTaxes and Fees",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 83
        },
        {
            "number": "87",
            "title": "87. Taxes etc. to be imposed by Corporation under this Act and arrangement of certain taxes collected by Government.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[(a) a property tax payable by the owner or occupier of building and land at the rates notified by the Government, from time to time depending upon the area in which the building or land is situated, its location, purpose for which it is used, its capacity for profitable use, quality of construction and other relevant factors;]\n(b) [such other tax, at such rates as the Government may, by notification, in each case direct;]\n(c) a duty on the transfer of immovable properties situated within the limits of the municipal area in addition to the duty imposed under the Indian Stamp Act, 1899, as in force for the time being in the State of Haryana, on every instrument of the description specified below and at such rate, as the Government may, by notification, direct, which shall not be less than one per centum and more than three per centum on the amount specified below against such instruments :-\n(i) Sale of immovable property\nthe amount or value of the consideration for the sale as set\n\t\t\t\tforth in the instrument.\n(ii) Exchange of immovable property\nthe value of the property or the greater value as set forth in\n\t\t\t\tthe instrument.\n(iii) Gift of immovable property\nthe value of the property set as set forth in the instrument.\n(iv) Mortgage with possession of immovable property\nthe amount secured by the mortgage as set forth in the\n\t\t\t\tinstrument.\n(v) Lease in perpetuity of immovable property\nthe amount equal to one-sixth of the whole amount or value of\n\t\t\t\tthe rent which would be paid or delivered in respect of the first\n\t\t\t\tfifty years of the lease, as set forth in the instrument.\n(a) a tax on profession, trades, callings and employments;\n[(b) a tax on vehicles, plying for hire or kept registered under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (Act 59 of 1988), within the Corporation, and animals;]\n(c) a development tax on the increase in urban land values caused by the execution of any development or improvement work;\n(d) show tax;\n[(e) a tax on consumption of energy at a rate of two percent of the electricity bill consumed by any person within the Municipal area;]\n[(ee) a tax on driving licenses issued under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (Act 59 of 1988), within the Corporation area;]\n(f) any other tax that may be imposed under the provisions of the Haryana Municipal Act, 1973 :\n[87A. Self assessment of tax.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 84
        },
        {
            "number": "87B",
            "title": "87B. Deposit of property tax.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 85
        },
        {
            "number": "87C",
            "title": "87C. Penalties.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 86
        },
        {
            "number": "88",
            "title": "88. Fees that may be charged by the Corporation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) a fee on advertisements other than advertisements in the newspapers;\n(ii) a fee on building applications;\n(iii) development fee for providing and maintaining civic amenities in certain areas;\n(iv) a fee with regard to lighting;\n(v) a fee with regard to a scavenging;\n(vi) a fee in the nature of costs for providing internal services in a building scheme or town planning schemes;\n(vii) any other fee as deemed fit by the Corporation for services rendered.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 87
        },
        {
            "number": "89",
            "title": "89. Components and rates of taxes of lands and buildings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) a water tax at such percentage of the rateable value of lands and buildings as the Government may deem reasonable for providing water supply in the Municipal area or in lieu thereof water charges of such rate as may be decided by the Government from time to time;\n[(b) a fire tax;]\n(c) [***]",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 88
        },
        {
            "number": "90",
            "title": "90. Premises in respect of which water tax or charges and Fire tax are to be levied.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to which a water supply is furnished from or which are connected by means of pipes with municipal water works; or\n(b) which are situated in any portion of the Municipal area in which the Commissioner has given public notice that sufficient water is available from municipal water works for a reasonable supply to all the lands and buildings in the said portion.\n91.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 89
        },
        {
            "number": "92",
            "title": "92. Taxation of union properties.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[93. Incidence of tax on lands and buildings.\n[94. Apportionment of liability of taxes on land and building when premises assessed are let or sub-let.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 90
        },
        {
            "number": "95",
            "title": "95. Recovery of taxes on lands and buildings from occupiers.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 91
        },
        {
            "number": "96",
            "title": "96. Taxes on lands, buildings a first charge on premises on which they are assessed.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[97. Property list.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 92
        },
        {
            "number": "98",
            "title": "98. Evidentiary value of assessment list.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 93
        },
        {
            "number": "99",
            "title": "99. Amendment of assessment list.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) by inserting therein the name of any person whose name ought to be inserted; or\n(b) by inserting therein any land or building previously omitted;\n(c) by striking out of the name of any person not liable for the payment of taxes on lands and buildings;\n(d) [***] or\n(e) by making or cancelling any entry exempting any land or building from liability to any tax; or\n(f) by altering the assessment on the land or building which has been erroneously valued or assessed through fraud, mistake or accident; or\n(g) by inserting or altering an entry in respect of any erected, re- erected, altered or added to, after the preparation of [property list] :\n[100. New property list.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 94
        },
        {
            "number": "101",
            "title": "101. Notice of transfers.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 95
        },
        {
            "number": "102",
            "title": "102. Notice of erection of building, etc.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 96
        },
        {
            "number": "103",
            "title": "103. Notice of demolition or removal of building.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 97
        },
        {
            "number": "104",
            "title": "104. Power of Commissioner to call for information.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) as to the name and place of residence of the owner or occupier or of both the owner and occupier of such land or building;\n(b) as to the measurements of dimensions of such land or building or any portion thereof and the rent, if any, obtained for such land or building or any portion thereof; and\n(c) as to the actual cost or other specified details connected with the determination of the value of such land or building.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 98
        },
        {
            "number": "105",
            "title": "105. Premises owned by or let to, two or more persons in severalty to be ordinarily assessed as one property.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 99
        },
        {
            "number": "106",
            "title": "106. Assessment in case of amalgamation of premises.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 100
        },
        {
            "number": "107",
            "title": "107. Power of Commissioner to assess separately out-houses and portion of buildings.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 101
        },
        {
            "number": "108",
            "title": "108. Power of Commissioner to employ valuers.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 102
        },
        {
            "number": "109",
            "title": "109. Levy of octroi or tax levied in lieu of octroi.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 103
        },
        {
            "number": "110",
            "title": "110. Power to examine articles liable to octroi.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 104
        },
        {
            "number": "111",
            "title": "111. Power to search where octroi leviable.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 105
        },
        {
            "number": "112",
            "title": "112. Penalty for evasion of octroi.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 106
        },
        {
            "number": "113",
            "title": "113. Recovery toll or taxes.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 107
        },
        {
            "number": "114",
            "title": "114. Tax on vehicles and animals.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) vehicles, other than motor vehicles, and other conveyances plying for hire and kept within the Municipal area;\n(b) animals used for riding, driving, draught or load when kept within the Municipal area.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 108
        },
        {
            "number": "115",
            "title": "115. Tax on whom leviable.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 109
        },
        {
            "number": "116",
            "title": "116. Exemption from taxes on vehicle and animals.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) vehicles belonging to the Corporation, Government or the Union of India;\n(b) vehicles used exclusively for the conveyance free of charge of the injured, the sick or the dead;\n(c) vehicles kept by bona fide dealers in vehicles merely for sale, and not for use.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 110
        },
        {
            "number": "117",
            "title": "117. Levy of development tax.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 111
        },
        {
            "number": "118",
            "title": "118. Amount of development tax.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 112
        },
        {
            "number": "119",
            "title": "119. Payment of development tax.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 113
        },
        {
            "number": "120",
            "title": "120. Assessment of development tax.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 114
        },
        {
            "number": "121",
            "title": "121. Fee on advertisements.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) appears in newspapers, relates to a public meeting, or to an election to Parliament or Legislative Assembly or the Corporation or to candidature in respect of such election; or\n(b) is exhibited within the window of any building if the advertisement relates to the trade, profession or business carried in that building; or\n(c) relates to the trade, profession or business carried on within the land or building upon or over which such advertisement is exhibited or to any sale or letting of such land or building or any effects therein or to any sale, entertainment or meeting to be held on or upon or in the same; or\n(d) relates to the name of the land or building upon or over which the advertisement is exhibited, or to the name of the owner or occupier of such land or building; or\n(e) relates to the business of a railway administration and is exhibited within any railway station or upon any wall or other property of the railway administration; or\n(f) relates to any activity of the Government or Union of India or the Corporation.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 115
        },
        {
            "number": "122",
            "title": "122. Prohibition of advertisement without written permission of Commissioner.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the advertisement contravenes any bye-law made under this Act; or\n(b) the fee, if any, due in respect of the advertisement has not been paid.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 116
        },
        {
            "number": "123",
            "title": "123. Permission of Commissioner to become void in certain cases.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) if the advertisement contravenes any bye-law made under this Act;\n(b) if any material change is made in the advertisement or any Part thereof without the previous permission of the Commissioner;\n(c) if the advertisement or any Part thereof falls otherwise than through accident;\n(d) if any addition or alteration is made to, or in the building, walls, boarding, frame, post or structure upon or over which the advertisement is erected, exhibited, fixed or retained if such addition or alteration involves the disturbance of the advertisement or any Part thereof; and\n(e) if the building, wall, boarding, frame, post or structure over which the advertisement is erected, exhibited, fixed or retained is demolished or destroyed.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 117
        },
        {
            "number": "124",
            "title": "124. Presumption in case of contravention.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 118
        },
        {
            "number": "125",
            "title": "125. Power of Commissioner in case of contravention.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 119
        },
        {
            "number": "126",
            "title": "126. Fee on building applications.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 120
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        {
            "number": "127",
            "title": "127. Time and manner of payment of taxes or fees.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 121
        },
        {
            "number": "128",
            "title": "128. Presentation of bill of tax or fee.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) tax on vehicles and animals;\n(b) show-tax.\n[(c) property tax.]",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 122
        },
        {
            "number": "129",
            "title": "129. Consequences of failure to pay tax or fee within thirty days.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 123
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        {
            "number": "130",
            "title": "130. Manner of recovering tax or fee.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) as arrears of land revenue;\n(ii) by distraint and sale of a defaulter's movable property;\n(iii) by the attachment and sale of a defaulter's immovable property;\n(iv) in the case of octroi and toll, by the seizure and sale of goods and vehicles;\n(v) in the case of taxes on lands and buildings by the attachment of rent due in respect of the property; and\n(vi) by a suit.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 124
        },
        {
            "number": "131",
            "title": "131. Power of seizure of vehicles and animals in case of non-payment of tax thereon.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 125
        },
        {
            "number": "132",
            "title": "132. Demolition, etc. of building.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "133.\n134.\n135.\n136.\n137.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 126
        },
        {
            "number": "138",
            "title": "138. Appeal against assessment etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[139. Conditions of right to appeal.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 127
        },
        {
            "number": "140",
            "title": "140. Finality of appellate orders.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 128
        },
        {
            "number": "141",
            "title": "141. Taxation not to be questioned except under this Act.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 129
        },
        {
            "number": "142",
            "title": "142. Power to inspect for purposes of determining the [property tax] or tax or fee.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) any land or building for the purpose of determining the rateable value of such land or building;\n(b) any stable, garage, or coach house or any place wherein he may have reason to believe that there is any vehicle or animal liable to a tax or fee under this Act;\n(c) any place or premises which he has reason to believe are being used or are about to be used for any performance or show in respect of which the show-tax is payable or would be payable; or\n(d) any land, building or vehicle in or upon which any advertisement liable to fee under this Act is exhibited or displayed.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 130
        },
        {
            "number": "143",
            "title": "143. Composition.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 131
        },
        {
            "number": "144",
            "title": "144. Irrecoverable debts.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 132
        },
        {
            "number": "145",
            "title": "145. Obligation to disclose liability.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) whether such inhabitant is liable to pay any tax or fee imposed by the Corporation under this Act;\n(b) at what amount he should be assessed; or\n(c) the [***] value of the land or building which he occupies and the name and address of the owner or lessee thereof.\n[146. Amendment of property list.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 133
        },
        {
            "number": "147",
            "title": "147. Immaterial error not to effect liability.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 134
        },
        {
            "number": "148",
            "title": "148. Power of exemption.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 135
        },
        {
            "number": "149",
            "title": "149. Power of Government in regard to taxes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter IX\nBorrowing",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 136
        },
        {
            "number": "150",
            "title": "150. Power of Corporation to borrow.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) for acquiring any land which it has power to acquire;\n(b) for erecting any building which it has power to erect;\n(c) for the execution of any permanent work, the provision of any plant, or the doing of any other thing which it has power to execute, provide or do, if the cost of carrying out the purpose in question ought to be spread over a term of years;\n(d) to pay off any debt due to the Government;\n(e) to repay a loan previously raised under this Act or any other Act previously in force; or\n(f) for any other purpose for which the Corporation is, by virtue of this Act or any other law for the time being in force, authorised to borrow :\n(i) no loan shall be raised without the previous sanction of the Government;\n(ii) the amount of loan, the rate of interest and the terms including the date of floatation, the time and method of the repayment and the like shall be subject to the approval of the Government.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 137
        },
        {
            "number": "150",
            "title": "151. Time for repayment of money borrowed under section 150.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 138
        },
        {
            "number": "152",
            "title": "152. Form and affects of debentures.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 139
        },
        {
            "number": "153",
            "title": "153. Payment to survivors of joint payees.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 140
        },
        {
            "number": "154",
            "title": "154. Receipt by joint olders for the interest or dividend.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 141
        },
        {
            "number": "155",
            "title": "155. Maintenance and investment of sinking funds.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 142
        },
        {
            "number": "156",
            "title": "156. Application to sinking fund.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 143
        },
        {
            "number": "157",
            "title": "157. Annual statement by Commissioner.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the amount which has been invested during the year under section 155;\n(b) the date of the last investment made previous to the submission of the statement;\n(c) the aggregate amount of the securities then in his hand; and\n(d) the aggregate amount which has up to the date of the statement been applied under section 156, in or towards discharging loans.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 144
        },
        {
            "number": "158",
            "title": "158. Priority of payment for interest and repayment of loans over other payments.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 145
        },
        {
            "number": "159",
            "title": "159. Attachment of Corporation fund for recovery of money borrowed from Government.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 146
        },
        {
            "number": "160",
            "title": "160. Power to make regulations.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 147
        },
        {
            "number": "161",
            "title": "161. Property vested in Corporation and management of public institutions.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) all such public town, walls, gates, markets, stalls, slaughter houses, manure and depots and public buildings of every description as have been constructed or are maintained out of the Corporation Funds;\n(b) all public streams, springs and works for the supply, storage and distribution of water for public purposes, and all bridges, buildings, engines, materials and things connected therewith or appertaining thereto, and also any adjacent land (not being private property) appertaining to any public tank or well;\n(c) all public sewers and all drains, and sewers, culverts and water courses in or under any public street, or constructed by or for the Corporation alongside any public street, and all works, materials and things appertaining thereto;\n(d) all public lamps, lamp-posts and apparatus connected therewith or appertaining thereto;\n(e) all land or other property transferred to the Corporation by the Government or acquired by gift, purchase or otherwise for public purposes;\n(f) all public streets, not being land owned by Government and the pavements, stones and other materials thereof, and also trees growing on and erections, materials, implements and things provided for such streets;\n[(fa) all the properties, funds and dues alongwith all the legal liabilities of the trust dissolved under sub-section (1) of section 105, vested in the State Government under clause (b) of sub-section (2) and transferred to the municipality under the proviso to clause (d) of sub-section (2) of section 105 of the Haryana Town Improvement Act, 2008 (36 of 2008);]\n[(g) Shamlat Deh.]\nChapter X\nProperties and Contracts",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 148
        },
        {
            "number": "162",
            "title": "162. Request for acquisition of land by the Corporation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 149
        },
        {
            "number": "163",
            "title": "163. Acquisition of immovable property by the Government.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 150
        },
        {
            "number": "164",
            "title": "164. Disposal of Property.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the Commissioner may, -\n(i) dispose of by sale or otherwise, any movable property belonging to the Corporation the value of which does not exceed twenty thousand rupees;\n(ii) grant a lease not exceeding a period of 10 years, of any immovable property belonging to the Corporation; or\n(iii) sell or grant a lease in perpetuity of any immovable property belonging to the Corporation the value of which does not exceed twenty thousand rupees or the annual rent of which does not exceed ten thousand rupees;\n(b) in cases not covered by clause (a) the Commissioner may, with the sanction of the Government on recommendation of the Corporation, lease, let out on hire or otherwise transfer any property movable or immovable belonging to the Corporation;\n[(c) the consideration for which any immovable property may be sold, leased or otherwise transferred shall not be less than the value at which such immovable property could be sold, leased or otherwise transferred in normal and fair competition:\n(d) the sanction of the Government under the aforesaid clauses may be given either generally for any class of cases or specially for any Particular case;\n(e) subject to any condition or limitation that may be specified by or under any other provision of this Act, the foregoing provisions of this section shall apply to every disposal of property belonging to the Corporation made under, or for any purposes of this Act;\n(f) every case of disposal of property under clause (a) shall be reported by the Commissioner without delay to the Corporation.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 151
        },
        {
            "number": "165",
            "title": "165. Contracts by Corporation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 152
        },
        {
            "number": "166",
            "title": "166. Procedure for making contracts.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) every such contract shall be made on behalf of the Corporation by the Commissioner ;\n(b) no such contract, for any purpose which in accordance with any provision of this Act the Commissioner may not carry out without the approval or sanction of the Corporation, shall be made by him until and unless such approval or sanction has been duly obtained;\n[(c) every contract involving an expenditure not exceeding twenty lac rupees in value or such other higher amount as the Government may fix, may be made by the Commissioner;]\n(d) no contract, other than a contract falling under clause (c) shall be valid unless the same has been made with the prior approval of the Corporation:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 153
        },
        {
            "number": "167",
            "title": "167. Mode of executing contracts.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter XI\nAccounts and Audit",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 154
        },
        {
            "number": "168",
            "title": "168. Maintenance of accounts and scrutiny thereof by Examiner, Local Fund Accounts, Haryana and by Corporation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 155
        },
        {
            "number": "169",
            "title": "169. Report by Examiner, Local Fund Accounts, Haryana.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) report to the Corporation any material impropriety or irregularity which he may at any time observe in the expenditure or in the recovery of moneys due to the Corporation or in the Corporation accounts;\n(b) furnish to the Corporation such information as it may from time to require concerning progress of the audit.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 156
        },
        {
            "number": "170",
            "title": "170. Action by Commissioner on the report.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 157
        },
        {
            "number": "171",
            "title": "171. Procedure to be followed by Examiner, Local Fund Accounts, Haryana.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) audit the accounts of expenditure of the Corporation and shall ascertain whether moneys shown therein as having been disbursed were legally available for, and applicable to the service or purpose to which they have been applied or charged, and whether the expenditure conforms to the authority which governs it;\n(b) audit the accounts of debt, deposits, sinking funds, advances, suspense and remittance transactions of the Corporation and report upon the accounts and upon the results of verification of the balances relating thereto.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 158
        },
        {
            "number": "172",
            "title": "172. Power of Examiner, Local Fund Accounts, Haryana to make queries etc. and call for returns etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter XII\nWater Supply, Drainage and Sewage Disposal",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 159
        },
        {
            "number": "173",
            "title": "173. Definitions.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(1) \"Communication pipe\" means -\n(a) where the premises supplied with water abut on the Part of the street in which the main is laid, and the service pipe enters those premises otherwise than through the outer wall of a building on the street and has a stopcock placed in those premises and as near to the boundary of that street as is reasonably practicable, so much of the service pipe as lies between the main and that stopcock.\n(b) in any other case, so much of the service pipe as lies between the main and the boundary of the street in which the main is laid, and includes the ferrule at the junction of the service pipe with the main, and also -\n(i) where the communication pipe ends at a stopcock that stopcock; and\n(ii) any stopcock fitted on the communication pipe between the end thereof and the main;\n(2) \"main\" means a pipe laid by the Corporation for the purpose of giving a general supply of water, individual consumers and includes any apparatus used in connection with such a pipe;\n(3) \"service pipe\" means so much of any pipe for supplying water from a main to any premises as is subject to water pressure from that main, or would be so subject but for the closing of some tap;\n(4) \"supply pipe\" means so much of any service pipe which is not a communication pipe;\n(5) \"trunk main\" means a main constructed for the purposes of conveying water from a source of supply to a filter or reservoir or from one filter or reservoir to another filter or reservoir, or for the purpose of conveying water in bulk from one Part of the limits of supply to another Part of those limits or for the purpose of giving or taking a supply of water in bulk;\n(6) \"water fitting\" includes pipes (other than mains), taps, cocks, valves, ferrules, meters, cisterns, baths and other similar apparatus used in connection with the supply and use of water.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 160
        },
        {
            "number": "174",
            "title": "174. Power to require Corporation to carry out surveys and formulate proposals.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) carry out a survey of the existing consumption of and demand for water supplies in the Municipal area and of the water resources in or available for the Municipal area;\n(b) prepare an estimate of the future water supply requirements of the Municipal area;\n(c) carry out a survey of the existing quality of sewage disposed of and the manner in which it is disposed of;\n(d) formulate proposals as to -\n(i) the existing or future sewage disposal requirements of the Municipal area;\n(ii) the existing or future sewage disposal requirements in the Municipal area including proposals for the manner in which and the place or places at which such sewage should be carried, treated and disposed of.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 161
        },
        {
            "number": "175",
            "title": "175. Power to construct additional works.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 162
        },
        {
            "number": "176",
            "title": "176. Function in relation to water supply.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) for ascertaining the sufficiency and wholesomeness of water supplies within the Municipal area;\n(b) for providing a supply of wholesome water in pipes to every Part of the Municipal area in which there are houses, for the domestic purpose of the occupants thereof, and for taking pipes affording that supply to such point or points as will enable the houses to be connected thereto at a reasonable cost, so, however, that this clause shall not require the Corporation to do anything which is not practicable at a reasonable cost or to provide such supply to any Part of Municipal area where such a supply is already available at such point or points aforesaid;\n(c) for providing, as far as possible, a supply of wholesome water otherwise than in pipes to every Part of the Municipal area in which there are houses, for the domestic purposes of the occupants thereof and to which it is not practicable to provide a supply in pipes at a reasonable cost, and in which danger to health arises from the insufficiency or unwholesomeness of the existing supply and a public supply is required and can be provided at a reasonable cost, and for securing that such supply is available within a reasonable distance of every house in that Part.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 163
        },
        {
            "number": "177",
            "title": "177. Supply of water to connected premises.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) for animals or for washing vehicles where such animals or vehicles are kept for sale or hire;\n(b) for any trade, manufacture or business;\n(c) for fountains, swimming baths, or for any ornamental or mechanical purposes;\n(d) for gardens or for purposes of irrigation;\n(e) for watering roads and paths;\n(f) for building purposes.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 164
        },
        {
            "number": "178",
            "title": "178. Power to supply water for non-domestic purposes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 165
        },
        {
            "number": "179",
            "title": "179. Making connections with municipal water works.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 166
        },
        {
            "number": "180",
            "title": "180. Obligation of owner or occupier to give notice of waste of water.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 167
        },
        {
            "number": "181",
            "title": "181. Cutting of supply to premises.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 168
        },
        {
            "number": "182",
            "title": "182. New premises not to be occupied without arrangement for water supply.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 169
        },
        {
            "number": "183",
            "title": "183. Public gratuitous water supply.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 170
        },
        {
            "number": "184",
            "title": "184. Power to lay mains.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) in any street; and\n(b) with the consent of every owner and occupier of any land not forming Part of a street, in, over or on that land, and may, from time to time in respect, repair, alter or renew or may at any time remove any main so laid whether by virtue or this section or otherwise:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 171
        },
        {
            "number": "185",
            "title": "185. Power to lay service pipes, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 172
        },
        {
            "number": "186",
            "title": "186. Provision of fire hydrants.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 173
        },
        {
            "number": "187",
            "title": "187. Power of Corporation to require owners of premises to set up pumps etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 174
        },
        {
            "number": "188",
            "title": "188. Power to enter premises to detect waste or misuse of water.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 175
        },
        {
            "number": "189",
            "title": "189. Power to test water fittings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 176
        },
        {
            "number": "190",
            "title": "190. Power to close or restrict use of water from polluted source of supply.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 177
        },
        {
            "number": "191",
            "title": "191. Water pipes etc. not to be a placed where water will be polluted.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 178
        },
        {
            "number": "192",
            "title": "192. Joint and several liability of owners and occupiers for offence in relation to water supply.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 179
        },
        {
            "number": "193",
            "title": "193. Public drains etc. to vest in Corporation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) before or after the commencement of this Act; and\n(b) for the use of the owner or occupier of such premises or not, shall unless the Corporation has otherwise determined, or does at any time otherwise determine, vest and be deemed always to have vested in the Corporation.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 180
        },
        {
            "number": "194",
            "title": "194. Control of drain and sewage disposal works.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 181
        },
        {
            "number": "195",
            "title": "195. Certain matters not to be passed into municipal drains.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) any matter likely to injure the drain or to interfere with the free flow of its contents, or to affect prejudicially the treatment and disposal of its contents; or\n(b) any chemical, refuse or waste steam, or any liquid of a temperature higher than forty-five degrees celsius being refuse or steam which, or a liquid which when so heated, is, either alone or in combination with the contents of the drain, dangerous or the cause of nuisance, or prejudicial to health; or\n(c) any dangerous petroleum.\nExplanation.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 182
        },
        {
            "number": "196",
            "title": "196. Application by owners and occupiers to drain into municipal drain.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to discharge directly or indirectly into any Corporation drain -\n(i) any trade effluent from any trade premises except in accordance with bye-laws made in this behalf; or\n(ii) any liquid or other matter the discharge of which into Corporation drains is prohibited by or under this Act or any other law; or\n(b) where separate Corporation drains are provided for foul water and for surface water to discharge directly or indirectly :-\n(i) foul water into a drain provided for surface water; or\n(ii) except with the permission of the Commissioner, surface water into drain provided for foul water; or\n(c) to have his drains made to communicate directly with a storm water overflow drain.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 183
        },
        {
            "number": "197",
            "title": "197. Drainage of undrained premises.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to make a drain emptying into such Corporation drain or place;\n(b) to provide and set up all such appliances and fittings as may appear to the Commissioner necessary for the purpose of gathering and receiving the filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter from, and conveying the same off, the said premises and of effectually flushing such drain and every fixture connected therewith;\n(c) to remove any existing drain or other appliance or thing used or intended to be used for drainage which is injurious to health;\n(d) to provide a close drain in substitution of an open drain or to provide such other appliance or thing either newly or in substitution of any existing appliance or thing or to provide both a closed drain and such other appliance or thing in substitution of the existing open drain and other appliance or thing, which is or likely to be injurious to health :\n(e) to provide and set up all such appliances and fittings as may appear to the Commissioner to be necessary for the purpose of gathering and receiving the waste water from floors and galleries of buildings when they are washed and conveying the same through spouts, by down take pipes so as to prevent such waste water from discharging directly on streets or inside and lower portion of the premises;\n(f) to carry out any work to improve or re-model as existing drain which is inadequate, insufficient or faulty.\n(a) to construct a drain up to a point to be prescribed in such notice but not at a distance of more than thirty meters from any Part of the premises; or\n(b) to construct a close cesspool or soakage pit and drain or drains emptying into such cesspool or soakage pit.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 184
        },
        {
            "number": "198",
            "title": "198. New premises not to be erected without drainage.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) a drain be constructed of such size, materials, and with such fall as shall appear to the Commissioner to be necessary for the effectual drainage of such premises;\n(b) there have been provided and set up on such premises, such appliances and fittings as may appear to the Commissioner to be necessary for the purpose of gathering or receiving the filth and other pollutted and obnoxious matter from, and conveying the same off, the said premises and of effectually flushing the drain of the said premises and every fixture connected therewith.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 185
        },
        {
            "number": "199",
            "title": "199. Power to drain group or block of premises by combined operations.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) written notice of the nature of the proposed work; and\n(b) an estimate of the expenses to be incurred in respect thereof and of the proportion of such expenses payable by him.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 186
        },
        {
            "number": "200",
            "title": "200. Power of Commissioner to close or limit the use of private drain in certain cases.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) that such drain be closed, discontinued or destroyed and that any work necessary for that purpose be done; or\n(b) that such drain shall, from such date as may be specified in the notice in this behalf, be used for filth and polluted water only or for rain water and unpolluted sub-soil water only :\n(i) no drain may be closed, discontinued or destroyed by the Commissioner under clause (a) except on condition of his providing another drain equally effectual for the drainage of the premises and communicating with any Corporation drain which he thinks fit; and\n(ii) the expenses of the construction of any drain so provided by the Corporation and of any work done under clause (a) may be paid out of the Corporation Fund.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 187
        },
        {
            "number": "201",
            "title": "201. Use of drain by a person other than owner.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the payment of rent or compensation by the owner of the premises;\n(b) the construction of a drain for the premises for the purpose of connecting with the aforesaid drain ;\n(c) the enter upon the land in which the aforesaid drain is situated with assistants and workmen at all reasonable hours; and\n(d) the respective responsibilities of the Parties for maintaining, repairing, flushing, cleaning and emptying the aforesaid drain.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 188
        },
        {
            "number": "202",
            "title": "202. Sewage and rain water drains to be distinct.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 189
        },
        {
            "number": "203",
            "title": "203. Powers of Commissioner to require owner to carry out certain works for satisfactory drainage.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) require any courtyard, alley or passage between two or more buildings to be paved by the owner for owners of such buildings, with such materials and in such manner as may be approved by the Commissioner; or\n(b) require such paving to be kept in proper repair.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 190
        },
        {
            "number": "204",
            "title": "204. Appointment of places for the emptying of drain and disposal of sewage.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 191
        },
        {
            "number": "205",
            "title": "205. Connection with water works and drains not to be made without permission.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 192
        },
        {
            "number": "206",
            "title": "206. Buildings, railways and private street not to be erected or constructed over drains or water works without permission.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 193
        },
        {
            "number": "207",
            "title": "207. Rights of user of property for aquaducts, lines etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 194
        },
        {
            "number": "208",
            "title": "208. Power of owner of premises to place pipes and drains through land belonging to other persons.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) cause the pipe or drain to be placed or carried with the least practicable delay;\n(b) fill in, reinstate and make good at his own cost any with the least practicable delay and land opened, broken up or removed for the purpose of placing or carrying such pipe or drain; and\n(c) pay compensation to the owner of the immovable property and to any other person who sustains damage by reason of the placing or carrying of such pipe or drain.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 195
        },
        {
            "number": "209",
            "title": "209. Railway administration be informed in certain cases.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 196
        },
        {
            "number": "210",
            "title": "210. Power of Commissioner to execute work after giving notice to the person liable to do so.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 197
        },
        {
            "number": "211",
            "title": "211. Power of Commissioner to affix shafts etc. for ventilation of drain or cesspool.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 198
        },
        {
            "number": "212",
            "title": "212. Power of Commissioner to examine and test drain etc. believed to be defective.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 199
        },
        {
            "number": "213",
            "title": "213. Employment of Government agencies for repairs, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 200
        },
        {
            "number": "214",
            "title": "214. Work to be done by licensed plumber.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the exercise of adequate control on all licensed plumbers;\n(b) the inspection of all works carried out by them; and\n(c) the hearing and disposal of complaints made by the owners or occupiers of premises with regard to the quality of work done, material used, delay in execution of work, and the charges made, by a licensed plumber.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 201
        },
        {
            "number": "215",
            "title": "215. Prohibition of certain acts.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) wilfully obstruct any person acting, under the authority of the Corporation or the Commissioner, in setting out the lines of any works or pull up or remove any pillar, post or stake fixed in the ground for the purpose of setting out lines of such work or deface or destroy any works made for the same purpose; or\n(b) wilfully or negligently break, injure, turn on, open, close, shut off or otherwise interfere with any lock, cock, valve, pipe, meter or other work or apparatus belonging to the Corporation; or\n(c) unlawfully obstruct the flow of, or flush, draw off, or divert, or take water from any water works belonging to the Corporation or any water course by which any such water is supplied; or\n(d) unlawfully obstruct the flow of, or flush, draw off, divert or take sewage from any sewage work belonging to the Corporation or break or damage any electrical transmission line maintained by the Corporation; or\n(e) obstruct any office or other employee of the Corporation in the discharge of his duties under this Chapter or refuse or wilfully neglect to furnish him with the means necessary or the making of any entry, inspection, examination or inquiry thereunder in relation to any water or sewage work;\n(f) bathe in, at or upon any water work or wash or throw or cause to enter therein any animal, or throw any rubbish, dirt, filth into any water work or wash or clean therein any cloth, wool or leather or the skin of any animal or cause the water of any sink or drain or any steam-engine or boiler or any polluted water to turn or be brought into any water-work, or do any other act whereby the water in any water-work is fouled or likely to be fouled.\nChapter XIII\nStreets",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 202
        },
        {
            "number": "216",
            "title": "216. Vesting of public streets in Corporation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 203
        },
        {
            "number": "217",
            "title": "217. Functions of Commissioner in respect of public streets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 204
        },
        {
            "number": "218",
            "title": "218. Disposal of land forming site of public streets permanently closed.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 205
        },
        {
            "number": "219",
            "title": "219. Power to make new public streets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) lay out and make new public streets;\n(b) construct bridges and sub-ways;\n(c) turn or divert any existing public streets; and\n(d) lay down and determine the position and direction of a street or streets in any Part of the Municipal area notwithstanding that no proposal for the erection of any building in the vicinity has been received.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 206
        },
        {
            "number": "220",
            "title": "220. Minimum width of new public streets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 207
        },
        {
            "number": "221",
            "title": "221. Power to prohibit use of public streets for certain kinds of traffic.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) prohibit vehicular traffic in any public street or any portion thereof so as to prevent danger, obstruction or inconvenience to the public or to ensure quietness in any locality ;\n(b) prohibit in respect of all public streets or any Particular public streets the transit of any vehicle of such form, construction, weight or size or laden with such heavy or unwieldy objects as may be likely to cause injury to the roadways or any construction thereon, except under such conditions as to time, mode of the traction or locomotion, use of appliances for the protection of roadways, number of lights and assistants and other general precautions and upon the payment of such charges as may be specified by the Commissioner generally or specially in each case;\n(c) prohibit access to premises from any Particular public street carrying high speed vehicular traffic:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 208
        },
        {
            "number": "222",
            "title": "222. Power to acquire land and buildings for public streets and for public parking places.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) acquire any land required for the purpose of opening, widening, extending or otherwise improving any public street or of making any new public street and any building standing upon such land;\n(b) acquire in relation to any such land or building, all such land with buildings, if any thereon as the Corporation may think expedient to acquire outside the regular line or the intended regular line, of such street.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 209
        },
        {
            "number": "223",
            "title": "223. Defining regular lines of streets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 210
        },
        {
            "number": "224",
            "title": "224. Setting back building to regular line of street.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 211
        },
        {
            "number": "225",
            "title": "225. Compulsory setting back of building to regular line of streets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 212
        },
        {
            "number": "226",
            "title": "226. Acquisition of open land and land occupied by platforms etc. within the regular line of streets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 213
        },
        {
            "number": "227",
            "title": "227. Acquisition of remaining Part of building and land after their portions within regular line of street have been acquired.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 214
        },
        {
            "number": "228",
            "title": "228. Setting forward of buildings to regular line of street.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 215
        },
        {
            "number": "229",
            "title": "229. Payment of compensation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 216
        },
        {
            "number": "230",
            "title": "230. Owner's obligation when dealing with land or building sites.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 217
        },
        {
            "number": "231",
            "title": "231. Layout plans.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the plots into which the land is proposed to be divided for the erection of building thereon and the purpose or purposes for which such buildings are to be used ;\n(b) the reservation or allotment of any site for any street, open space, park, recreation ground, school, market or any public purpose;\n(c) the intended level, direction and width of street or streets;\n(d) the regular line of street or streets; and\n(e) the arrangements to be made for levelling, paving, metalling, flagging, channelling, sewering, draining, conserving and lighting street or streets.\n(a) if the Particulars shown in the lay-out plan would conflict with any arrangements which have been made or which are in the opinion of the Corporation likely to be made for carrying out any general scheme of development of the Municipal area whether contained in the master plan or a zonal development plan prepared for the Municipal area or not; or\n(b) if the said lay-out plan does not conform to the provisions of the Act, and bye-laws made thereunder; or\n(c) if any street proposed in the plan is not designed so as to connect at one end with a street which is already open.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 218
        },
        {
            "number": "231",
            "title": "232. Alteration or demolition of street made in breach of section 231.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) require the offender to show cause by a written statement signed by him and sent to Commissioner on or before such date as may be specified in the notice, why such street should not be altered to the satisfaction of the Commissioner or if such alteration be impracticable why such street should not be demolished; or\n(b) require the offender to appear before the Commissioner whether personally or by a duly authorised agent on such day and at such time and place as may be specified in the notice and show cause as aforesaid.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 219
        },
        {
            "number": "233",
            "title": "233. Power of Commissioner to order work to be carried out or to carry it out himself in default.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 220
        },
        {
            "number": "234",
            "title": "234. Declaration of public streets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 221
        },
        {
            "number": "235",
            "title": "235. Prohibition of projection upon streets, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) overhand, jut or project into, or in any way encroach upon and obstruct in any way the safe or convenient passage of the public along any street, or\n(b) jut or project into or encroach upon any drain or open channel in any street so as in any way to interfere with the use or proper working of such drain or channel or to impede the inspection or cleaning thereof.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 222
        },
        {
            "number": "236",
            "title": "236. Projections over streets may be permitted in certain cases.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to erect an arcade, over such street or any portion thereof; or\n(b) to put up a verandah, balcony, arch, connecting passage, sunshade, weather frame, canopy, a awning or other such structure or thing projecting from any storey over or across any street or portion thereof:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 223
        },
        {
            "number": "237",
            "title": "237. Ground floor doors, etc. not to open outwards on streets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 224
        },
        {
            "number": "238",
            "title": "238. Prohibition of structures, fixtures or deposit of things in street.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 225
        },
        {
            "number": "239",
            "title": "239. Special provision regarding streets belonging to Government.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the Commissioner shall not, in respect of such street grant permission to do any act the doing of which without his written permission would contravene the provisions of section 235 or section 236 or allow any building to be set forward under the provision of section 228 except with the sanction of the Government which may be given in respect of a class of cases generally or in respect of a Particular case;\n(b) the Commissioner shall, if so required by the Government, exercise the power conferred upon him by sections 228, 235, 236 or clause (5) of Part C of section 392 or any bye-law made in exercise of the powers conferred by the aforesaid clause (5) in respect of encroachment or overhanging structure on or over such sheet or any materials, goods or articles of merchandise deposited on such street.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 226
        },
        {
            "number": "240",
            "title": "240. Power to remove anything deposited or exposed for sale in contravention of this Act.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) any stall, chair, bench, box, ladder, bale or other thing whatsoever placed, deposited, projected, attached or suspended in, upon, from or to any place in contravention of this Act;\n(b) any article whatsoever hawked or exposed for sale on any public place in contravention of this Act and any vehicle, package, box or any other thing in or on which such article is placed.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 227
        },
        {
            "number": "241",
            "title": "241. Prohibition of tethering of animals and milking of cattle.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 228
        },
        {
            "number": "242",
            "title": "242. Precautions during repair of streets etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) cause the same to be fenced and guarded;\n(b) take proper precautions against accident by shoring up and protecting the adjoining buildings;\n(c) cause such bars, chains or posts to be fixed across or in any street in which any such work of construction or repair is under execution as are necessary in order to prevent the passage of vehicles or animals and avert danger.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 229
        },
        {
            "number": "243",
            "title": "243. Streets not to be opened or broken up and building materials not be deposited therein without permission.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) open, break up, displace, take up or make any alteration in, or cause any injury to the soil or pavement or any wall, fence, post, chain or other material or thing forming Part of any street; or\n(b) deposit any building material in any street; or\n(c) set up in any street any scaffold or any temporary erection for the purpose of any work whatever, or any posts, bars, rolls, boards or other things by way of an enclosure, for the purpose of making mortar or depositing bricks, lime, rubbish or other materials.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 230
        },
        {
            "number": "244",
            "title": "244. Disposal of things removed under this Chapter.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 231
        },
        {
            "number": "245",
            "title": "245. Naming and numbering of streets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) with the sanction of the Corporation, determine the name or number by which any street or public place vested in the Corporation shall be known;\n(b) cause to be put up or painted at a conspicuous Part of any building, wall or place, at or near each end, corner or entrance of such street or on some convenient Part of such street, the name or number by which it is to be known;\n(c) cause to be put up or painted on boards of suitable size the name of any public place vested in the Corporation;\n(d) determine the number or sub-number by which any premises or Part of such premises shall be known and cause such number or sub-number to be fixed to the side or outer door of such premises or to some place at the entrance of the enclosure thereof.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 232
        },
        {
            "number": "246",
            "title": "246. Commissioner to take steps for repairing or enclosing places.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 233
        },
        {
            "number": "247",
            "title": "247. Measures for lighting.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) take measures for lighting in a suitable manner all such public streets and public places as may be specified by the Corporation;\n(b) procure, erect and maintain such number of lamps, lamp posts and other appurtenances as may be necessary for the said purpose;\n(c) cause such lamps to be lighted by means of oil, electricity or such other light as the Corporation may determine.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 234
        },
        {
            "number": "248",
            "title": "248. Prohibition of removal, etc. of lamps.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) any lamp or any appurtenance of any lamp or lamp posts or lamp iron set up in any public street or any public place;\n(b) any electric wire for lighting such lamp;\n(c) any post, pole, standard stay, strut, bracket or other contrivance for carrying, suspending or supporting any electric wire or lamp.\nChapter XIV\nBuilding Regulations",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 235
        },
        {
            "number": "249",
            "title": "249. Definitions.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to erect a new building on any site whether previously built upon or not;\n(b) to re-erect -\n(i) any building of which more than one half of the cubical contents above the level of the plinth have been pulled down, burnt or destroyed; or\n(ii) any building of which more than one-half of the superficial area of the external walls above the level of the plinth has been pulled down; or\n(iii) any frame building of which more than half of the number of the posts or beams in the external walls have been pulled down;\n(c) to convert into a dwelling house any building or any Part of a building not original constructed for human habitation or, if originally so constructed, subsequently appropriated for any other purpose;\n(d) to convert into a place more than one dwelling house a building originally constructed as one dwelling house only;\n(e) to convert into a place of religious worship or into sacred building any place or building not originally constructed for such purpose;\n(f) to roof or cover an open space between walls or buildings to the extent of the structure which is formed by the roofing or covering of such space;\n(g) to convert two or more tenements in a building into greater or lesser number;\n(h) to convert into a stall, shop, warehouse or godown, stable, factory or garage any building not originally constructed for use as such or which was not so used before the change;\n(i) to convert a building which when originally constructed was legally exempt from the operations of any building regulations contained in this Act or in any bye-laws made thereunder or in any other law, into a building which, had it been originally erected in its converted form, would have been subject to such building regulations;\n(j) to convert into or use as a dwelling house any building which has been discontinued as or appropriated for any purpose other than a dwelling house.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 236
        },
        {
            "number": "250",
            "title": "250. Prohibition of erection of building without sanction.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 237
        },
        {
            "number": "251",
            "title": "251. Erection of building.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 238
        },
        {
            "number": "252",
            "title": "252. Application for addition to, or repairs of building.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to make any addition to a building;\n(b) to make any alteration or repairs to a building involving the removal or re-erection of any external or Partition wall thereof or of any wall which supports the roof thereof to an extent exceeding one half of such wall above the plinth level, such half to be measured in superficial metres;\n(c) to make any alteration or repairs to a frame building involving the removal or re-erection of more than one half of the posts in any such wall thereof as aforesaid or involving the removal or re-erection of any such wall thereof as aforesaid to an extent exceeding one half of such wall above plinth level, such half to be measured in superficial metres;\n(d) to make any alteration in a building involving -\n(i) the sub-division of any room in such building so as to convert the same into two or more separate rooms; or\n(ii) the conversion of any passage or space in such building into a room or rooms;\n(e) to repair, remove, construct, reconstruct, or make any addition to or structural alteration in any portion of a building abutting on a street which stands within the regular line of such street;\n(f) to close permanently any door or window in an external wall;\n(g) to remove or reconstruct the principal staircase or to alter its position,",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 239
        },
        {
            "number": "253",
            "title": "253. Conditions of valid notice.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 240
        },
        {
            "number": "254",
            "title": "254. Sanction or refusal of building or works.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) that the building or work, or the use of the site for the building or work or any of the Particulars comprised in the site plan, ground plan, elevation, section or specification would contravene the provisions of any bye-law made in this behalf or of any other law or of rule, bye-law or order made under such other law;\n(b) that notice for sanction does not contain the Particulars or not prepared in the manner required under the bye-laws made in this behalf;\n(c) that any information or documents required by the Commissioner under this Act or any bye-laws made thereunder has or have not been duly furnished;\n(d) that in cases falling under section 230, lay-out plans have not been sanctioned in accordance with section 231;\n(e) that the building or work would be an encroachment on Government land or land vested in the Corporation;\n(f) that the site of the building or work does not abut on a street or projected street and that there is no access to such building or work from any such street by a passage or pathway appertaining to such site;\n(g) that the building or work would be in contravention of any scheme sanctioned under section 267;\n(h) that a building for habitation, does not provide for a flush or a water seal latrine.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 241
        },
        {
            "number": "255",
            "title": "255. When building or work may be proceeded with.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 242
        },
        {
            "number": "256",
            "title": "256. Sanction accorded under mis-representation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 243
        },
        {
            "number": "257",
            "title": "257. Buildings at corners of streets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 244
        },
        {
            "number": "258",
            "title": "258. Provisions as to buildings and works on new side.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 245
        },
        {
            "number": "259",
            "title": "259. Period of completion of building or work.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 246
        },
        {
            "number": "260",
            "title": "260. Prohibition against use of inflammable materials for buildings etc. without permission.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 247
        },
        {
            "number": "261",
            "title": "261. Order of demolition and stoppage of building and works in certain cases and appeal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 248
        },
        {
            "number": "262",
            "title": "262. Order of stoppage of building or works in certain cases.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 249
        },
        {
            "number": "263",
            "title": "263. Power of Commissioner to require alteration of work.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to make such alterations as may be specified in the said notice with the object of bringing the building or work in conformity with the said sanction, condition or provisions; or\n(b) to show cause why such alterations should not be made within the period stated in the notice.\n[263A. Power to seal premises.\n(a) allowing an opportunity to the owner to bring it in conformity with the sanctioned building plan as per the provisions of this Act, rules or bye-laws framed thereunder within a period, which shall not exceed three months; or\n(b) allowing the functionaries of the Corporation to bring it in conformity with the sanctioned building plan as per the provisions of this Act, rules or bye-laws framed thereunder at the cost of the owner; or\n(c) demolition, at the cost of the owner.\n(a) Under an order made by the commissioner under sub-section (2);or\n(b) under an order of the appellate authority.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 250
        },
        {
            "number": "264",
            "title": "264. Completion Certificate.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 251
        },
        {
            "number": "265",
            "title": "265. Restrictions on use of buildings and removal of dangerous buildings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) use or permit to be used for human habitation any Part of a building not originally erected or authorised to be used for that purpose or not used for that purpose before any alteration has been made therein by any work executed in accordance with the provisions of this Act and of the bye- laws made thereunder;\n(b) change or allow the change of the use of any land or building;\n(c) convert or allow the conversion of one kind of tenement into another kind.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 252
        },
        {
            "number": "266",
            "title": "266. Power to order building to be vacated in certain circumstances.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 253
        },
        {
            "number": "267",
            "title": "267. Building Scheme.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the restriction of the erection or re-erection of buildings or any class of buildings in the whole or any Part of the city, and of the use to which they may be put:\n(b) the prescription of a building line on either side or both sides of any street existing or proposed;\n[(c) the amount of land in such unbuilt area shall be transferred to the Corporation for public purpose including use as public streets by owners of land on payment of compensation :\n(d) the determination of the size and shape of a reconstituted plot so as to render it suitable for building purposes and where the plot is already built upon, to ensure that the building, so far as possible, complies with the provisions of the scheme in respect of open spaces;\n(e) the formation of a reconstituted plot by the alteration of the boundaries of an original plot;\n(f) the formation of a reconstituted plot by the transfer wholly or Partly of the adjoining lands;\n(g) the allotment of a plot to any owner dispossessed of land in furtherance of the scheme;\n(h) the transfer of ownership of a plot from one person to another; and\n(i) the details of the internal services, estimated cost for providing them, the extent of the liability of the owner of buildings and lands for the payment of the cost and the manner of payment of the same.\n(1) the reconstituted plot shall mean a plot which is altered in ownership or otherwise as a result of making of a town planning scheme;\n(2) internal services shall mean -\n(i) metalling of roads and paving of footpaths;\n(ii) turfing and plantation with trees of open spaces;\n(iii) street lighting;\n(iv) adequate and wholesome water supply;\n(v) sewers and drains both for storm and sullage water and necessary provision for their treatment and disposal; and\n(vi) any other works that the Corporation may think necessary for the development of the area comprised in the scheme.\n(i) 'building area' is that portion of a Municipal area of which the greater Part has been developed as a business or residential area; and\n(ii) 'unbuilt area' is an area within the local limits of a Municipal area which is declared as such at a special meeting of the Corporation by a resolution confirmed by the Government, or which is notified as such by the Government.\n[267A. Regularization of certain buildings.\nChapter XV\nSanitation and Public Health",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 254
        },
        {
            "number": "268",
            "title": "268. Provision for daily cleansing of streets and removal of rubbish and filth.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) for the daily surface cleansing of all streets and the removal of the sweepings therefrom; and\n(b) for the removal of the contents of all receptacles and depots and of the accumulations at all places provided for appointment by him under the provisions of this Act for the temporary deposit of rubbish, filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 255
        },
        {
            "number": "269",
            "title": "269. Rubbish etc. to be property of Corporation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 256
        },
        {
            "number": "270",
            "title": "270. Provision for placement of receptacles, depots and places for rubbish etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) provide or place in proper and convenient situations public receptacles, depots or places for the temporary deposit of rubbish, filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter and for the final disposal of rubbish, filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter;\n(b) provide dustbins for the temporary deposit of rubbish;\n(c) provide vehicles or other suitable means for the removal of rubbish and offensive matter; and\n(d) provide covered vehicles or vessels for the removal of filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter.\n[270A. Use of Municipal Corporation, Government or private land for the purpose of collection and disposal of solid waste.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 257
        },
        {
            "number": "271",
            "title": "271. Duty of owners and occupiers to collect and deposit rubbish etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to have the premises swept and cleaned;\n(b) to cause all filth, rubbish and other polluted and obnoxious matter to be collected from their respective premises and deposited at such times as the Commissioner, by the public notice prescribe, in public receptacles, depots or places provided or appointed under section 270 for temporary deposit or final disposal thereof;\n(c) to provide receptacles of the type and in the manner prescribed by the Commissioner for the collection therein of all filth, rubbish and other polluted and obnoxious matter from such premises and to keep such receptacles in good condition and repair.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 258
        },
        {
            "number": "272",
            "title": "272. Removal of rubbish etc. accumulated on premises used as factories, workshop, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) by written notice require the owner or occupier of any premises used for carrying on any manufacture, trade or business or used as a factory, workshop, trade premises or market or in any way so that rubbish, filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter are accumulated in large quantities, to collect all such rubbish, filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter accumulated thereon and to remove the same at such time and in such carts or receptacles and by such routes as may be specified in the notice to a depot or place provided or appointed under section 270; or\n(b) after giving such owner or occupier notice of his intention cause all rubbish, filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter accumulated in such premises to be removed and charge the said owner or occupier for such removal such fee as may, with the sanction of the Corporation, be specified in the notice issued under clause (a).",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 259
        },
        {
            "number": "273",
            "title": "273. Prohibition against accumulation of rubbish etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) deposit any rubbish, filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter in any street or on the verandah of any building or on any unoccupied ground along side any street or on the bank of a [water course or on public and vacant land] ; or\n(b) deposit any filth or other polluted and obnoxious matter in any dustbin or in any vehicle not intended for the removal of the same; or\n(c) deposit rubbish in any vehicle or vessel intended for the removal of filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 260
        },
        {
            "number": "274",
            "title": "274. Commissioner's power to get premises scavenged and cleansed.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 261
        },
        {
            "number": "275",
            "title": "275. Public latrines, urinals, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 262
        },
        {
            "number": "276",
            "title": "276. Constructions of latrines and urinals.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) whether the premises shall be served by flush system or premises shall have water seal latrine;\n(b) what shall be the site or position of each latrine or urinal.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 263
        },
        {
            "number": "277",
            "title": "277. Latrines and urinals etc. in new buildings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) whether such building shall be served by the flush system or by water seal system;\n(b) what shall be the site or position of each latrine, urinal, bathing or washing place or site and their number on each floor and their clear internal dimensions.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 264
        },
        {
            "number": "278",
            "title": "278. Latrines and urinals for labourers etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 265
        },
        {
            "number": "279",
            "title": "279. Provision of latrines and urinals for markets etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 266
        },
        {
            "number": "280",
            "title": "280. Other provisions as to private latrines.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) require the owner or other person having the control of any private latrine or urinal not to put the same to public use; or\n(b) require the owner or other persons having control of such private latrine or urinal which in the opinion of the Commissioner constitutes a nuisance, to remove the latrine or the urinal; or\n(c) require any person having the control whether as owner, lessee or occupier of any land or building -\n(i) to have any latrine provided for the same shut out by a sufficient roof, wall or fence from the view of persons passing by or dwelling in the neighbourhood; or\n(ii) to cleanse in such manner as the Commissioner may specify in the notice any latrine or urinal belonging to the land or building; or\n(d) where any premises intended or used for human habitation are without any latrine or urinal accommodation or are provided with insufficient latrine or urinal accommodation, require the owner, lessee or occupier of such premises to provide such or such additional latrine or urinal accommodation as may be prescribed, if necessary, by causing any Part of such premises to be vacated and demolished in accordance with the bye-laws made in this behalf.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 267
        },
        {
            "number": "281",
            "title": "281. Removal of congested buildings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 268
        },
        {
            "number": "282",
            "title": "282. Power of Commissioner require improvement of building unfit for human habitation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 269
        },
        {
            "number": "283",
            "title": "283. Enforcement of notice requiring execution of works of improvement.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 270
        },
        {
            "number": "284",
            "title": "284. Power of Commissioner to order demolition of buildings unfit for human habitation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) repair;\n(b) stability;\n(c) freedom from damp;\n(d) natural light and air;\n(e) water supply;\n(f) drainage and sanitary conveniences;\n(g) facilities for storage, preparation and cooking of food and for the disposal of rubbish, filth and other polluted matter,\n(a) necessary repairs;\n(b) structural alterations;\n(c) provision of light points and water taps;\n(d) construction of drains, open or covered;\n(e) provision of latrines and urinals;\n(f) provision of additional or improved fixtures and fittings;\n(g) opening up or paving of courtyard;\n(h) removal of rubbish, filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter;\n(i) any other work including the demolition of any building or any Part thereof which, in the opinion of the Commissioner, is necessary for executing any of the works specified above.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 271
        },
        {
            "number": "285",
            "title": "285. Insanitary huts and sheds.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 272
        },
        {
            "number": "286",
            "title": "286. Prohibition against washing by washermen.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 273
        },
        {
            "number": "287",
            "title": "287. Obligation to give information of dangerous disease.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 274
        },
        {
            "number": "288",
            "title": "288. Removal of patient to hospital suffering from dangerous disease.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) without proper lodging or accommodation; or\n(b) living in a room or house which he neither owns nor pays rent for, not occupies as the guest or relative of person who owns, or pays rent for it; or\n(c) living in a sarai, hotel, boarding house or other public hostel; or\n(d) lodged in premises occupied by members of two or more families, the Commissioner or any person authorised by him in this behalf, may, on the advice of any medical officer of the rank not inferior to that of an assistant surgeon, remove the patient to any hospital or place at which persons suffering from such disease are received for medical treatment and may do anything necessary for such removal.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 275
        },
        {
            "number": "289",
            "title": "289. Disinfection of buildings and articles.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 276
        },
        {
            "number": "290",
            "title": "290. Destruction of infection huts or shed.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 277
        },
        {
            "number": "291",
            "title": "291. Means of disinfection.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) provide proper places with necessary attendants and apparatus for the disinfection of conveyances, clothing, bedding and other articles which have been exposed to infection;\n(b) cause conveyances, clothing and other articles brought for disinfection to be disinfected either free of charge or on payment",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 278
        },
        {
            "number": "292",
            "title": "292. Special measures in case of outbreak of dangerous or epidemic disease.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) take such special measures; and\n(b) by public notice, give such directions to be observed by the public or by any class or section of the public, as he thinks necessary to prevent the outbreak or spread of the disease :",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 279
        },
        {
            "number": "293",
            "title": "293. Infected clothes not to be sent to washerman or to laundry.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 280
        },
        {
            "number": "294",
            "title": "294. Contamination and disinfection of public conveyances.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) uses a public conveyance while suffering from a dangerous disease; or\n(b) uses a public conveyance for the carriage of person who is suffering from any disease; or\n(c) uses a public conveyance for the carriage of the corpse of a person who had died from such disease, shall be bound to take proper precautions against the communication of the disease to other person using or who may thereafter use the conveyance and to notify such use to the owner, driver or person in charge of the conveyance and further report without delay to the Commissioner the number of the conveyance and the name of the person so notified.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 281
        },
        {
            "number": "295",
            "title": "295. Driver of conveyance not bound to carry persons suffering from dangerous disease.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 282
        },
        {
            "number": "296",
            "title": "296. Disinfection of buildings before letting the same.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 283
        },
        {
            "number": "297",
            "title": "297. Disposal of infected articles without disinfection.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 284
        },
        {
            "number": "298",
            "title": "298. Prohibition of making or selling of food, etc. or washing of clothes by infected persons.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) make, carry or offer for sale or take any Part in the business of making, carrying or offering for sale, any article of food or drink or any medicine or drug for human consumption, or any article of clothing or bedding for personal use or wear; or\n(b) take any Part in the business of the washing or carrying of clothes.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 285
        },
        {
            "number": "299",
            "title": "299. Power to restrict or prohibit sale of food or drink.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 286
        },
        {
            "number": "300",
            "title": "300. Control over wells and tanks etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) by public notice, prohibit the removal or use of such water for drinking; or\n(b) by notice in writing, require the owner or person having control of such well, tank or place to take such steps as may be directed by the notice to prevent the public from having access to or using such water; or\n(c) take such other steps as he may consider expedient to prevent the outbreak or spread of any such disease.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 287
        },
        {
            "number": "301",
            "title": "301. Duty of persons suffering from dangerous diseases.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) knowing that he is suffering from a dangerous disease expose other persons to the risk of infection by his presence or conduct in any public street or public place;\n(b) having the care of a person whom he knows to be suffering from a dangerous disease cause or permit that person to expose other person to the risk of infection by his presence or conduct in any such street or place as aforesaid;\n(c) place or cause to be placed in a dust bin or other receptacle for the deposit of rubbish, any matter which he knows to have been exposed to or having infection from a dangerous disease and which has not been disinfected properly;\n(d) throw or cause to be thrown into any latrine or urinal any matter which he knows to have been exposed to infection from a dangerous disease and which has not been disinfected properly.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 288
        },
        {
            "number": "302",
            "title": "302. Disposal of infectious corpse, where any person has died from any dangerous disease.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) require any person having charge of the corpse to convey the same to mortuary thereafter to be disposed of in accordance with law; or\n(b) prohibit the removal of corpses from the place where death occurred except for the purpose of being burnt, burried for from being conveyed to a mortuary.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 289
        },
        {
            "number": "303",
            "title": "303. Conditions of service of Safai Karamcharis and certain other classes of persons employed in Corporation service.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 290
        },
        {
            "number": "304",
            "title": "304. Power to call for information regarding burning and burial ground.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 291
        },
        {
            "number": "305",
            "title": "305. Permission for use of new burning or burial ground.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 292
        },
        {
            "number": "306",
            "title": "306. Power to require closing of burning and burial ground.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 293
        },
        {
            "number": "307",
            "title": "307. Removal of corpses.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 294
        },
        {
            "number": "308",
            "title": "308. Disposal of dead animals.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) convey the carcass to a place provided or appointed under section 270 for the final disposal of the carcasses of dead animals; or\n(b) give notice of the death to the Commissioner whereupon he shall cause the carcass to be disposed of.\nChapter XVI\nPublic Safety and Suppression of Nuisances",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 295
        },
        {
            "number": "309",
            "title": "309. Prohibition of nuisances.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) in any public street or public place -\n(i) ease himself; or\n(ii) carry meat exposed to public view; or\n(iii) picket animals or collect carts; or\n(iv) being engaged in the removal of rubbish, filth or other polluted and obnoxious matters wilfully or negligently permit any portion thereof to spill or fall or neglect to sweep away or otherwise effectually to remove any portion thereof which may spill or fall in such street or place; or\n(v) without proper authority affix, upon any building, monument, post, wall, fence, tree or other thing, any bill, notice or other document; or\n(vi) without proper authority deface or write upon or otherwise mark any building, monument, post, wall, fence, tree or other thing; or\n(vii) without proper authority remove, destroy, deface or otherwise obliterate any notice or other document put up or exhibited under this Act or the rules or bye-laws made thereunder; or\n(viii) without proper authority displace, damage, make any alteration in, or otherwise interfere with, the pavement, gutter, storm water-drain, sign-board or other materials of any such street, or any lamp, bracket, direction, post, hydrant or water-pipe maintained by the Corporation in any such street or place, or extinguish a public light; or\n(ix) carry rubbish, filth or other polluted or obnoxious matter at any hour prohibited by the Commissioner by public notice, or in any pattern of cart or receptacle which has not been approved for the purpose by the Commissioner, or fail to close such cart or receptacle when in use; or\n(b) carry rubbish, filth or other polluted or obnoxious matter along any route in contravention or any prohibition made in this behalf by the Commissioner by public notice; or\n(c) deposit or cause or permit to be deposited, earth or materials of any description or any rubbish or polluted or obnoxious matter in any place not intended for the purpose or in any public street or public place or unoccupied land under the management of the Corporation; or\n(d) make any grave or burn of bury any corpse at any place not set aPart for such purpose; or\n(e) at any time or place at which the same has been prohibited by the Commissioner by public or special notice, beat a drum to tomtom, or blow a horn or trumpet, or beat any utensil, or sound any brass or other instrument, or play any music; or\n(f) disturb the public peace or order by singing, screaming or shouting, or by using any apparatus for amplifying or reproducing the human voice, such as a megaphone or a loudspeaker; or\n(g) let loose any animal so as to cause, or negligently allow any animal to cause, injury, danger, alarm or annoyance to any person; or\n(h) save with the written permission of the Commissioner and in such manner as he may authorise, store or use night-soil, cow-dung, manure, rubbish or any other substance emitting an offensive smell; or\n(i) use or permit to be used as a latrine any place not intended for that purpose.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 296
        },
        {
            "number": "310",
            "title": "310. Power of Commissioner to require removal or abatement of nuisance.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 297
        },
        {
            "number": "311",
            "title": "311. Registration and control of dogs.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) require the registration by the registration authority appointed by the Commissioner in this behalf of all dogs kept within the Municipal areas;\n(b) require that every registered dog shall wear a collar to which shall be attached a metal token to be issued by the registration authority, and fix the fee payable for the issue thereof;\n(c) require that any dog which has not been registered or which is not wearing such token shall, if found in any public place, be detained at a place set aPart for the purpose; and\n[(d) fix the fee which shall be charged for such detention and provide that any such dog shall be detained at a place to be specified by the Commissioner unless it is claimed and the fee in respect thereof is paid within one week.]\n(a) cause to be destroyed, or to be confined for such period as he may direct, any dog or other animal which is, or is reasonably suspected to be suffering from rabies, or which has been bitten by any dog or other animal suffering or suspected to be suffering from rabies;\n[(b) by public notice direct that, after such date, as may be specified in the notice, dogs which are without collars or without marks, distinguishing them as private property and are found straying on the streets or beyond the enclosures of the houses of their owners, if any, may be detained at a place to be specified by the Commissioner.]\n(a) he knows that the dog is likely to annoy or intimidate any person;\n(b) the Commissioner has, by public notice during the prevalence of rabies, directed that dogs shall not be at large without muzzled and chain leads.\n(a) allow any ferocious dog which belongs to him or is in his charge to be at large without being muzzled; or\n(b) set on or urge any dog or other animal to attack, worry or intimidate any person; or\n(c) knowing or having reason to believe that any dog or animal belonging to him or in his charge has been bitten by any animal suffering or reasonably suspected to be suffering from rabies, fail or neglect to give immediate information of the fact to the Commissioner or give information which is false.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 298
        },
        {
            "number": "312",
            "title": "312. Stacking or collecting inflammable materials.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 299
        },
        {
            "number": "313",
            "title": "313. Care of naked lights.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 300
        },
        {
            "number": "314",
            "title": "314. Discharging fire works, firearms etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 301
        },
        {
            "number": "315",
            "title": "315. Power to require buildings, wells, etc. to be rendered safe.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 302
        },
        {
            "number": "316",
            "title": "316. Enclosure of waste land used for improper purposes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter XVII\nExtinction and Prevention of Fire",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 303
        },
        {
            "number": "317",
            "title": "317. Establishment and maintenance of fire-brigade.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 304
        },
        {
            "number": "318",
            "title": "318. Power of members of fire-brigades and other persons or suppression of fire.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) remove or order the removal of any person who by his presence interferes with or impedes the operations for extinguishing the fire or for saving life or property;\n(b) close any street or passage in or near which any fire is burning;\n(c) for the purposes of extinguishing the fire break into or through or pull down, or cause to be broken into or through or pulled down or used for the passage of houses 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 incharge of any fire engine to render such assistance as may be possible;\n(f) generally, take such measures as may appear necessary for the preservation of life or property.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 305
        },
        {
            "number": "319",
            "title": "319. Limitation on operation of this Chapter.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter XVIII\nMarkets, Slaughter Houses, Trades and Outpatients",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 306
        },
        {
            "number": "320",
            "title": "320. Provision of municipal markets and slaughter houses.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 307
        },
        {
            "number": "321",
            "title": "321. Use of Municipal markets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 308
        },
        {
            "number": "322",
            "title": "322. Private markets and slaughter houses.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to restrict the slaughter of any animal in any place on the occasion of any religious festival or ceremony subject to such conditions as the Commissioner may, by public or special notice, impose in this behalf; or\n(b) to prevent the Commissioner, with the sanction of the Corporation, from setting aPart place for the slaughter of animals in accordance with religious custom.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 309
        },
        {
            "number": "323",
            "title": "323. Conditions of grant of licence for private market.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 310
        },
        {
            "number": "324",
            "title": "324. Prohibition of keeping markets open without Licence etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 311
        },
        {
            "number": "325",
            "title": "325. Prohibition of use of unlicensed markets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 312
        },
        {
            "number": "326",
            "title": "326. Prohibition of business and trade.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 313
        },
        {
            "number": "327",
            "title": "327. Levy of stallages, rents and fees.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) charge such stallages, rents or fees as may from time to time be fixed by him in this behalf -\n(i) for the occupation or use of any stall, shop, stand, shed or pen in a municipal market or municipal slaughter house;\n(ii) for the right to expose articles for sale in a municipal market;\n(iii) for the use of machines, weights, scales and measures provided for in any municipal market; and\n(iv) for the right to slaughter animals in any municipal slaughter house; and for the feed of such animals before they are ready for slaughter; or\n(b) put up to public auction or dispose of by private sale, the privilege of occupying or using any stall, shop, stand, shed or pen in a municipal market or municipal slaughter house for such period and on such conditions as he may think fit.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 314
        },
        {
            "number": "328",
            "title": "328. Stallages, rents etc. to be published.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 315
        },
        {
            "number": "329",
            "title": "329. Butcher's, fishmonger's and poulterer's licence.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 316
        },
        {
            "number": "330",
            "title": "330. Factory, etc. not to be established without permission of Commissioner.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 317
        },
        {
            "number": "331",
            "title": "331. Premises not to be used for certain purposes without licence.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) any of the purposes specified in Part-I of the Second Schedule;\n(b) any purpose which is, in the opinion of the Commissioner; dangerous to life, health or property or likely to create a nuisance;\n(c) keeping horses, cattle or other quadruped animals or birds for transportation, sale or hire or for sale of the produce thereof; or\n(d) storing any of the articles specified in Part-II of the Second Schedule except for domestic use of those articles :",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 318
        },
        {
            "number": "332",
            "title": "332. Seizure of certain animals.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 319
        },
        {
            "number": "331",
            "title": "333. Power of the Commissioner to prevent use of premises in Particular area for purposes referred to in section 331.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 320
        },
        {
            "number": "334",
            "title": "334. Licences for hawking article etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) hawk or expose for sale in any place any article whatsoever, whether it be for human consumption or not;\n(b) use in any place his skill in any handicraft or for rendering service to and for the convenience of the public for the purpose of gain or making a living.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 321
        },
        {
            "number": "335",
            "title": "335. Eating houses, etc. not to be used without licence from Commissioner.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 322
        },
        {
            "number": "336",
            "title": "336. Licensing and control of theatre, circuses and places of public amusement.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 323
        },
        {
            "number": "337",
            "title": "337. Power of Commissioner to stop use of premises used in contravention of licences.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 324
        },
        {
            "number": "338",
            "title": "338. Power of Commissioner to inspect places where unlawful slaughter of animal etc. is suspected.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter XIX\nImprovement",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 325
        },
        {
            "number": "339",
            "title": "339. Improvement Scheme.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) that the buildings in that area are by reason of disrepair or sanitary defects unfit for human habitation or are by reason of their bad arrangement, or the narrowness or bad arrangement of the streets or for want of light, air, ventilation or proper conveniences, dangerous or injurious to the health of the inhabitants of the area; and\n(b) that the most satisfactory method of dealing with the conditions in the area is the rearrangement and reconstruction of the streets and buildings in the area in accordance with an improvement scheme, he may frame an improvement scheme in respect of the area in accordance with the bye-laws made in this behalf.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 326
        },
        {
            "number": "340",
            "title": "340. Matters to be provided for in an improvement scheme.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the acquisition by agreement or under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, of any property necessary for or affected by the execution of the scheme;\n(b) the relaying out of any land comprised in the scheme;\n(c) the redistribution of sites belonging to owners of property comprised in the scheme;\n(d) the closure or demolition of building portions of buildings unfit for human habitation;\n(e) the demolition of obstructive buildings or portions thereof;\n(f) the construction and reconstruction of buildings;\n(g) the construction and alteration of streets;\n(h) the water supply, street lighting, drainage and other conveniences;\n(i) the provision of urban amenities and facilities such as parks, gardens, playgrounds;\n(j) the sanitary arrangements required for the area comprised in the scheme;\n(k) the provision of accommodation for any class of the inhabitants;\n(l) the provision of facilities for communication;\n(m) the sale, letting or exchange of any property comprised in the scheme;\n(n) urban forestry, protection of the environment and promotion of ecological aspects;\n(o) urban poverty alleviation;\n(p) promotion of cultural, educational and aesthetic aspects;\n(q) cattle ponds, prevention of cruelty to animals;\n(r) public amenities including street light, parking lots, bus stops and public conveniences; and\n(s) any other matter for which, in the opinion of the Commissioner it is expedient to make provision with a view to the improvement of the area to which the scheme relates.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 327
        },
        {
            "number": "341",
            "title": "341. Submission of improvement scheme to the Corporation for approval and to the Government for sanction.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 328
        },
        {
            "number": "342",
            "title": "342. Publication of the notice after scheme is sanctioned.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the fact that the scheme has been sanctioned;\n(b) the boundaries of the area comprised in the scheme; and\n(c) the place at which Particular of the scheme, a map of the area comprised in the scheme and a statement of the land which it is proposed to acquire may be seen.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 329
        },
        {
            "number": "343",
            "title": "343. Rehousing Scheme.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 330
        },
        {
            "number": "344",
            "title": "344. Improvement scheme and rehousing scheme to comply with master plan and zonal development plan.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 331
        },
        {
            "number": "345",
            "title": "345. Provision of housing accommodation for the economically weaker sections.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) by the erection of buildings or by attachment of land belonging to the Corporation or of land acquired by the Corporation for the purpose;\n(b) by the conversion of any buildings belonging to the Corporation into dwellings for the economically weaker sections.\nChapter XX\nDeclaration and Publication of Plans of Controlled Area",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 332
        },
        {
            "number": "346",
            "title": "346. Declaration of controlled area.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the division of any site into plots for the erection or re- erection of any building and the manner in which such plots may be transferred to intending purchasers or lessees;\n(b) the allotment or reservation of land for roads, open spaces, gardens, recreation grounds, schools, market and other public purposes;\n(c) the development of any site into a colony and the restrictions and conditions subject to which such development may be undertaken or carried out;\n(d) the erection or re-erection of buildings on any site and the restrictions and conditions in regard to the open spaces to be maintained in or around buildings and the height and character of buildings;\n(e) the alignment of buildings on any site;\n(f) the architectural features of the elevation or frontage of buildings to be built on any site;\n(g) the amenities to be provided in relation to any site or buildings on such site whether before or after the erection or re-erection of buildings on such site and the person or authority by whom such amenities are to be provided;\n(h) the prohibition or restriction regarding erection or re-erection of shops, workshops, warehouses or factories or buildings of a specified architectural feature or buildings designed for Particular purposes in any locality;\n(i) the maintenance of walls, fences, hedges, or any other structural or architectural construction and the height at which they shall be maintained;\n(j) the restrictions regarding the use of any site for purposes other than the erection or re-erection of buildings;\n(k) any other matter which is necessary for the proper planning of any controlled area and for preventing buildings being erected or re-erected haphazardly in such area.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 333
        },
        {
            "number": "347",
            "title": "347. Erection or re-erection of building etc. in controlled area.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 334
        },
        {
            "number": "348",
            "title": "348. Prohibition on use of land in controlled area.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 335
        },
        {
            "number": "349",
            "title": "349. Application of permission or licence and the grant or refusal thereof.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) grant the permission or licence subject to such conditions, if any, as may be specified, in the order; or\n(b) refuse to grant such permission or licence; provided that the order of refusal shall not be passed unless the applicant has been afforded an opportunity of being heard.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 336
        },
        {
            "number": "350",
            "title": "350. Appeal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[350A. Offences and penalties.\n(a) erects or re-erects any building or makes or extends any excavation or lays out any means of access to a road in contravention of the provisions of Section 347 or in contravention of any conditions imposed by an order under Section 349 or Section 350; or\n(b) uses any land in contravention of the provisions of sub-section (1) of Section 348 or Section 350,",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 337
        },
        {
            "number": "350B",
            "title": "350B. Duty of police officers.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) to communicate without delay to the [Director] or any other officer authorized in writing by him, in this behalf, any information which he receives of a design to commit or of the commission of any offence against this Act or any rule or regulation made thereunder; and\n(ii) to assist the [Director] or any other officer authorized in writing by him, in this behalf, in the lawful exercise of any power vested in the [Director] or any other officer authorized in writing by him, in this behalf, under this Act or any rule or regulation made thereunder.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 338
        },
        {
            "number": "350C",
            "title": "350C. Power to arrest.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[350D. Effect of other laws.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 339
        },
        {
            "number": "351",
            "title": "351. Commissioner to carry out functions of the Director.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 340
        },
        {
            "number": "351A",
            "title": "351A. Commissioner to carry out functions of Director.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter XXI\nPowers, Procedure, Offences and Penalties",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 341
        },
        {
            "number": "352",
            "title": "352. Signature, Conditions, duration, suspension, revocation, etc. of licences and written permissions.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the date of the grant thereof;\n(b) the purpose and the period, if any, for which it is granted;\n(c) restrictions or conditions, if any subject to which it is granted;\n(d) the name and address of the person to whom it is granted; and\n(e) the fee, if any, paid for the licence or written permission.\n(a) before making any order of suspension or revocation, reasonable opportunity should be afforded to the grantee of the licence or the written permission to show cause why it should not be suspended or revoked;\n(b) every such order shall contain a brief statement of the reasons for the suspension or revocation of the licence or the written permission.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 342
        },
        {
            "number": "353",
            "title": "353. Power of entry and inspection.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) for the purpose of ascertaining whether there is or has been on or in connection with the land or building any contravention of the provisions of this Act or any bye-law made thereunder;\n(b) for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not circumstances exist which would authorise or require the Commissioner, or any Corporation officer or employee authorised or empowered in this behalf to take any action or execute any work under this Act or any bye-law made thereunder;\n(c) for the purpose of taking any action or executing any work authorised or required by this Act or any bye-law made thereunder;\n(d) to make any inquiry, inspection, examination, measurement, valuation or survey authorised or required by or under this Act or necessary for the proper administration of this Act;\n(e) generally for the purpose of efficient discharge of the functions by any of the municipal authorities under this Act or any bye-law made thereunder.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 343
        },
        {
            "number": "354",
            "title": "354. Power to enter land, adjoining land in relation to any work.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 344
        },
        {
            "number": "355",
            "title": "355. Breaking into building.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) if the considers the opening thereof necessary for the purpose of such entry; and\n(b) if the owner of occupier is absent or being present, refuses to open such door, gate or barrier.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 345
        },
        {
            "number": "356",
            "title": "356. Time of making entry.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 346
        },
        {
            "number": "357",
            "title": "357. Consent ordinarily to be obtained.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 347
        },
        {
            "number": "358",
            "title": "358. Regard to be had to social or religious usages.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 348
        },
        {
            "number": "359",
            "title": "359. Prohibition of obstruction or molestation in execution of work.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 349
        },
        {
            "number": "360",
            "title": "360. Public notice how to be made known.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 350
        },
        {
            "number": "361",
            "title": "361. Newspaper in which advertisement of notices to be published.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 351
        },
        {
            "number": "362",
            "title": "362. Proof of consent etc. of Commissioner, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 352
        },
        {
            "number": "363",
            "title": "363. Notices, etc. to fix reasonable time.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 353
        },
        {
            "number": "364",
            "title": "364. Signature on notices etc. may be stamped.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 354
        },
        {
            "number": "365",
            "title": "365. Notice etc. by whom to be served or issued.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 355
        },
        {
            "number": "366",
            "title": "366. Service of notices etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) where the person to be served is a company, if the document is addressed to a Director or the Secretary of the Company at its registered office or at its principal office or place of business and is either -\n(i) sent by registered post;\n(ii) delivered at the registered office or at the principal office or place of business of the company;\n(b) where the person to be served is a Partnership firm, if the document is addressed to the Partnership firm at its principal place of business, identifying it by the name or style under which its business is carried on, and is either-\n(i) sent by registered post; or\n(ii) delivered at the said place of business;\n(c) where the person to be served is a public body or a corporation, society or other body if the document is addressed to the Secretary, Treasurer or other head officer of that body, Corporation or society at its principal office, and is either, -\n(i) sent by registered post; or\n(ii) delivered at that office;\n(d) in any other case, if the document is addressed to the person to be served and-\n(i) is given or tendered to him; or\n(ii) if such person cannot be found, is affixed on some conspicuous Part of his last known place of residence or business, if within the Municipal area, or is given or tendered to some adult member of his family or is affixed on some conspicuous Part of the land or building, if any, to which it relates; or\n(iii) is sent by registered post to that person.\n(a) if the document so addressed is sent or delivered in accordance with clause (d) of sub-section (1); or\n(b) if the document so addressed or a copy thereof so addressed, is delivered to some person on the land or building to whom it can be delivered, is affixed to some conspicuous Part of the land or building.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 356
        },
        {
            "number": "367",
            "title": "367. Service of bills for tax or notice of demand by ordinary post.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 357
        },
        {
            "number": "368",
            "title": "368. Power in case of non-compliance with notice, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 358
        },
        {
            "number": "369",
            "title": "369. Liability of occupier to pay in default of owner.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 359
        },
        {
            "number": "370",
            "title": "370. Execution of work by occupier in default of owner and deduction of expenses from rent.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 360
        },
        {
            "number": "371",
            "title": "371. Relief to agents and trustees.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 361
        },
        {
            "number": "372",
            "title": "372. General power to pay compensation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 362
        },
        {
            "number": "373",
            "title": "373. Compensation to be paid by offenders for damage caused by them.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 363
        },
        {
            "number": "374",
            "title": "374. Mode of recovery of certain dues.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 364
        },
        {
            "number": "375",
            "title": "375. Right of owner to apply to court of the District Judge in case of obstruction by occupier.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 365
        },
        {
            "number": "376",
            "title": "376. General powers and procedure of the court of District Judge.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 366
        },
        {
            "number": "377",
            "title": "377. Fees in proceeding before court of the District Judge.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) on any application, appeal or reference under this Act or any bye-law made thereunder to the court of the District Judge; and\n(b) for the issue, in connection with any inquiry or proceedings before that court under this Act or bye-laws, of any summons or other process:\n(i) receive an application, appeal or reference made by or on behalf of a poor person; and\n(ii) issue process on behalf of any such person, without payment or on Part payment of the fees prescribed under this section.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 367
        },
        {
            "number": "378",
            "title": "378. Repayment of half fees on settlement before hearing.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 368
        },
        {
            "number": "379",
            "title": "379. Power of the court of District Judge to delegate certain powers and to make rules.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) delegate, either generally or specially, to the court of an Additional District Judge, power to receive applications, and reference under this Act or any rule, regulation or bye-laws made thereunder, and to hear and determine such application, and references;\n(b) with the approval of the Government, make rules not inconsistent with this Act or any rule, regulation or bye-law made thereunder, providing for any matter connected with the exercise to the jurisdiction conferred upon the court by this Act which is not herein specifically provided for.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 369
        },
        {
            "number": "380",
            "title": "380. Punishment for Certain Offences.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) contravenes any provision of any of the sections sub-sections, clauses, provisos or other provisions of this Act mentioned in the first column of the table in the Third Schedule; or\n(b) fails to comply with any order lawfully given to him or any requisition lawfully made upon him under any of the said sections, sub- sections, clauses, provisos or other provisions shall be punishable -\n(i) with fine which may extend to the amount, specified in the third column of the said Table; and\n(ii) in the case of a continuing contravention or failure; with an additional fine which may extend to the amount specified in the fourth column of that Table for every day during which such contravention or failure continues after conviction for the first such contravention or failure.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 370
        },
        {
            "number": "381",
            "title": "381. General.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 371
        },
        {
            "number": "382",
            "title": "382. Offences by Companies.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) \"Company\" means a body corporate, and includes a firm or other association of individuals; and\n(b) \"director\" in relation to a firm means a Partner in the firm.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 372
        },
        {
            "number": "383",
            "title": "383. Police Establishments.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 373
        },
        {
            "number": "384",
            "title": "384. Arrest of offenders.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the name and address of such person be unknown to him; and\n(b) such person on demand declines to give his name and address or gives a name and address which such officer has reason to believe to be false.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 374
        },
        {
            "number": "385",
            "title": "385. Power to institute etc. legal proceedings and obtain legal advice.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) take, or withdraw from, proceedings against any person who is charged with-\n(i) an offence against this Act or any rule, regulation or bye-law made thereunder; or\n(ii) any offence which affects or is likely to affect any property or interest of the Corporation or the due administration of this Act; or\n(iii) committing any nuisance whatsoever;\n(b) contest or compromise any appeal against rateable value or assessment of any tax or rate;\n(c) take, or withdraw from or compromise, proceedings under section 373 for the recovery of expenses or compensation claimed to be due to the Corporation;\n(d) withdraw or compromise any claim for a sum not exceeding one thousand rupees against any person;\n(e) defend any suit or other legal proceeding brought against the Corporation or against the Commissioner or a Corporation officer or other Corporation employee in respect of anything done or omitted to be done by any one of them in his official capacity;\n(f) with the approval of the Corporation, admit or compromise any claim, suit or other legal proceeding brought against the Corporation or against the Commissioner or any Corporation Officer or other Corporation employee in respect of anything done or omitted to be done as aforesaid;\n(g) withdraw or compromise any claim against any person in respect of a penalty payable under contract entered into with such person by the Commissioner on behalf of the Corporation;\n(h) obtain such legal advice and assistance as he from time to time thinks necessary or expedient to obtain or as he may be required by the Corporation to obtain for any of the purposes mentioned in the foregoing clauses or for securing lawful exercise or discharge of any power or duty vesting in or imposed upon any municipal authority or any Corporation Officer or other Corporation employee.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 375
        },
        {
            "number": "386",
            "title": "386. Prosecution.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 376
        },
        {
            "number": "387",
            "title": "387. Composition of offences.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 377
        },
        {
            "number": "388",
            "title": "388. Protection of action of the Corporation, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 378
        },
        {
            "number": "389",
            "title": "389. Notice to be given of suits.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter XXII\nRules, Regulations and Bye-laws",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 379
        },
        {
            "number": "390",
            "title": "390. Supplemental provisions respecting rules.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 380
        },
        {
            "number": "391",
            "title": "391. Supplemental provisions respecting regulations.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 381
        },
        {
            "number": "392",
            "title": "392. Powers to make bye-laws.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "A. Bye-laws relating to taxation -\nA. Bye-laws relating to taxation -\n(1) the maintenance of tax books and registers by the Commissioner and the Particulars which such books and registers should contain;\n(2) the inspection of and the obtaining of copies and extracts from such books and registers and fees, if any, to be charged for the same;\n(3) the publication of rates of taxes as determined by the Government from time to time;\n(4) the requisition by the Commissioner of information and returns from persons liable to pay taxes;\n(5) the notice to be given to the Commissioner by any person who becomes the owner or possessor of a vehicle or animal in respect of which any tax is payable under this Act ;\n(6) the wearing of badge by the driver of any such vehicle and the display of number plate on such vehicle;\n(7) the submission of returns by the persons liable to pay any tax under this Act;\n(8) any other matter relating to the levy, assessment, collection, refund or remission of taxes under this Act.\nB. Bye-laws relating to water supply, drainage and sewage disposal -\nB. Bye-laws relating to water supply, drainage and sewage disposal -\n(1) the power of the Commissioner to close water works for the supply of water, whether for domestic purposes or not, or for gratuitous use and to prohibit the same and use of water for the purpose of business;\n(2) the connection of supply pipes for conveying to any premises a supply of water from municipal water works;\n(3) the making and renewing connections with municipal water works;\n(4) the power of the Commissioner to take charge of private connection;\n(5) the power of the Commissioner to alter the position of connection;\n(6) the equitable distribution of water supplied to occupiers;\n(7) the size, material, quality, description and position of the pipes and fittings to be used for the purpose of any connection with or any communication from any municipal water works and the stamping of pipes and fittings and fees for such stamping;\n(8) the size, material, quality and description of pipes, cisterns and fittings which are found on an examination under the provisions of this Act to be so defective that they cannot be effectively repaired;\n(9) the provision and maintenance of meters when water is supplied by measurement;\n(10) the prohibition of fraudulent and un-authorised use of water and the prohibition of fraud in connection with meters;\n(11) the maintenance of pipes, cisterns and other water works;\n(12) the regulation or prohibition of the discharge or deposit of offensive or obstructive matter, polluted water or other polluted and obnoxious matter into sewers;\n(13) the regulation in any manner not specifically provided for in this Act of the construction, alteration, maintenance, preservation, cleaning and repairs of drains, ventilation shafts, pipes, latrines, urinals, cesspools and other drainage works;\n(14) the cleansing of drains;\n(15) the prohibition of erection of buildings over drains without the permission of the Commissioner;\n(16) the connection of private drains with municipal drains;\n(17) the location and construction of cesspools;\n(18) the covering and ventilation of cesspool;\n(19) the period or periods of the day during which trade effluent may be discharged from any trade premises into municipal drains;\n(20) the exclusion from trade effluent of all condensing water;\n(21) the elimination from trade effluent, before it enters a municipal drain, of any constituent which in the opinion of the Corporation would, either alone or in combination with any matter with which it is likely to come into contact while passing through municipal drains, injure or obstruct those drains or make specially difficult or expensive the treatment or disposal of the sewage from those drains;\n(22) the maximum quantity of trade effluent which may, without any consent or permission, be discharged from any trade premises into municipal drains on any one day and the highest rate at which trade effluent may, without such consent or permission, be discharged from any trade premises into municipal drains;\n(23) the regulation of the temperature of trade effluent at the time of its discharge into municipal drains and the securing of the neutrality of trade effluent (that is to say that it is neither acid nor alkaline) at the time of such discharge;\n(24) the charges to be paid to the Corporation by occupiers of trade premises for the reception of trade effluent into municipal drains and disposal thereof;\n(25) the provision and maintenance of such an inspection chamber or manhole as will enable a person readily to take at any time samples of what is passing into municipal drains from trade premises;\n(26) the provision and maintenance of such meters as may be required to measure the volume of any trade effluent being discharged from any trade premises into municipal drains, and the testing of such meters;\nC. Bye-laws relating to streets -\nC. Bye-laws relating to streets -\n(1) the closure of streets when any work is in progress and alternative passage during the progress of such work;\n(2) the erection of a temporary nature during festivals;\n(3) the setting up of boards on buildings adjacent to streets during their construction or repair;\n(4) the precautions to be taken when permission is granted to any private individual for opening or breaking up any public street and the fees to be paid for the restoration of a street in its original sanction;\n(5) the permission, regulation or prohibition of use or occupation of any street or place by itinerant vendors or hawkers of by any person for the sale of articles or the exercise of any calling or the setting up of any booth or stall and the fees chargeable for such occupation;\n(6) any other matter in connection with the construction, repair, maintenance, naming, numbering and lighting to streets for which provision is necessary or should be made;\nD. Bye-laws relating to buildings -\nD. Bye-laws relating to buildings -\n(1) the regulation or restriction of the use of sites for buildings for different areas;\n(2) the regulation or restriction of buildings in different areas;\n(3) the form of notice of erection of any building or execution of any work and the fee in respect of the same;\n(4) the plans and documents to be submitted together with such notice and the information and further information to be furnished;\n(5) the level and width of foundation, level of lowest floor and stability of structure;\n(6) the construction of buildings and the materials to be used in the construction of buildings;\n(7) the height of buildings whether absolute or relative to the width of streets or to different areas;\n(8) the number and height of storeys composing a building and the height of rooms and the dimensions of rooms intended for human habitation;\n(9) the provision of open spaces, external and internal, and adequate means of light and ventilation;\n(10) the provision of means of egress in case of fire, fire escapes and water lifting devices;\n(11) the provision of secondary means of access for the removal of house refuse;\n(12) the materials and methods of construction of external and Party walls, roofs and floors;\n(13) the position, materials and methods of construction of hearths, smoke-escapes, chimneys, staircases, staircases, drains, latrines and cesspools;\n(14) the provision of lifts;\n(15) the paving of yards;\n(16) the restrictions on the use of inflammable materials in buildings;\n(17) the restrictions on construction of foundation on certain sites;\n(18) the measures to be taken to protect buildings from damp arising from sub-soil;\n(19) the wells, tanks and cisterns and pumps for the supply of water for human consumption in connection with buildings;\n(20) in the case of wells, the dimensions of the well, the manner of enclosing it and if the well is intended for drinking purposes the means which shall be used to prevent pollution of the water;\n(21) the supervision of buildings;\n(22) the setting back of garages and shops from the regular line of a street;\n(23) the construction of portable structures and permission for such construction.\nE. Bye-laws relating to sanitation and public health -\nE. Bye-laws relating to sanitation and public health -\n(1) the position of latrines and urinals;\n(2) the provision of air spaces between latrines and buildings of places used for various purposes;\n(3) the white washing of buildings;\n(4) the provision of living accommodation for sweepers in buildings newly erected requiring ten or more latrines;\n(5) the regulation or prohibition of the stabling or herding of animals or any class of animals so as to prevent danger to public health;\n(6) the seizure of ownerless animals straying within the limits of the Municipal area and the regulation and control of ponds;\n(7) the fixing and regulation of the use of public bathing and washing places;\n(8) the prevention of the spread of dangerous diseases;\n(9) the segregation in or the removal or exclusion from any Part of the Municipal area or the destruction of animals suffering or reasonably suspected to be suffering from any infectious or contagious disease;\n(10) the supervision, regulation, conservation and protection from injury, contamination or trespass of sources and means of public water supply and of appliances for the distribution of water;\n(11) the enforcement of compulsory vaccination and inoculation;\n(12) the proper disposal of corpses, the regulation and management of burning and burial places and other places for the disposal of corpses and the fees chargeable for the use of such places where the same are provided or maintained at the expense of the Corporation Fund.\nF. Bye-laws relating to public safety and suppression of nuisances -\nF. Bye-laws relating to public safety and suppression of nuisances -\nthe regulation or prohibition for the purpose of sanitation or the prevention of disease or the promotion of public safety or convenience of any act which occasions or is likely to occasion a nuisance and for the regulation or prohibition of which no provision is made elsewhere by this Act.\nG. Bye-laws relating to markets, slaughter houses, trades and occupations -\nG. Bye-laws relating to markets, slaughter houses, trades and occupations -\n(1) the days on, and the hours during which any market or slaughter house may be kept open for use;\n(2) the regulation of the design, ventilation and drainage of markets and slaughter houses and the materials to be used in the construction thereof;\n(3) the keeping of markets and slaughter houses and the lands and buildings appertaining thereto in a clean and sanitary condition, the removal of filth, rubbish and other polluted and obnoxious matter therefrom and the supply therein of pure water and of a sufficient number of latrines and urinals for the use of persons using or frequenting the same;\n(4) the manner in which animals shall be admitted in slaughter houses;\n(5) the manner in which animals may be slaughtered;\n(6) the provision of passage of sufficient width between the stalls in market building and market places for the convenient use of the public and the prevention of encroachment of such passage;\n(7) the setting aPart of separate areas for different classes of articles in market buildings and market places;\n(8) the disposal of destruction of animals offered for slaughter which are, from disease or any other cause, unfit for human consumption;\n(9) the destruction of carcasses which from any disease or any other cause are found after slaughter to be unfit for human consumption;\n(10) the regulation of the entry of animals into slaughter house and the bringing out of the carcasses of such animals after slaughter and the fee to be paid for use of slaughter houses;\n(11) the proper custody and care of animals for the keeping of which licences are granted under section 331;\n(12) the regulation of the import of animals and flesh within the Municipal area;\n(13) the rendering necessity of licences for the use of premises within the Municipal area as stables or cow houses or as an accommodation for sheep, goat or buffalo and the fees payable for such licences and the conditions subject to which such licences may be granted, refused, suspended or revoked;\n(14) the regulation of sarais, hotels, dak bungalows, lodging houses, boarding houses, buildings, let-in-tenements, residential clubs, restaurants, eating houses, cafes, refreshment rooms and places of public recreation, entertainment or resorts;\n(15) the control and supervision of places where dangerous or offensive trades are carried on so as to secure cleanliness therein or to minimise injurious, offensive or dangerous effects arising or likely to arise therefrom;\n(16) the regulation of the posting of bills and advertisements and of the position, size, shade or style of the name boards, sign boards and signposts;\n(17) the fixation of a method for the sale of articles whether by measure, weight, price or any other method;\n(18) the procedure regarding grant of permit to establish a factory, workshop or trade premises;\n(19) the regulation of smoke in factories, workshop and trade premises;\n(20) the regulation of sanitary conditions in factories, workshop and trade premises;\n(21) the regulation of the use in any factory, workshop or trade premises of whistle, trumpet, siren or horn worked by steam, compressed air, electricity or other mechanical means;\n(22) the prevention of nuisance in any market building, market place, slaughter house or any factory, workshop or trade premises;\nH. Bye-laws relating to improvement -\nH. Bye-laws relating to improvement -\n(1) the form and contents of an improvement scheme or a rehousing scheme;\n(2) the procedure to be followed in connection with the framing, submission, approval and sanction of such scheme;\n(3) the local inquiries and other hearings that may be held before a scheme is framed, approved or sanctioned;\n(4) the alteration of improvement scheme or a rehousing scheme after approval and sanction.\nI. Bye-laws relating to miscellaneous matters -\nI. Bye-laws relating to miscellaneous matters -\n(1) the prevention and extinction of fire;\n(2) the circumstances and the manner in which owners of land or building in the Municipal area temporarily absent therefrom or not resident therein may be required to appoint as their agents for all or any of the purposes of this Act or of any bye-laws made thereunder, person residing within or near the municipal area;\n(3) the regulation and control of Corporation hospitals and dispensaries;\n(4) the rendering of necessary licences -\n(a) for the proprietors or drivers of hackney carriages, cycle rickshaws, thelas, the rehris kept or plying for hire or used for hawking articles;\n(b) for persons working as job porters for the conveyance of goods;\n(5) the classification of cinema theatres for the purposes of levying theatre-tax;\n[(5A) regulate the laying of communication cables (underground as well as over ground), erection of communication towers and dish antennas established and maintained by private agencies as well as semi-Government agencies;]\n(6) any other matter which is to be or may be prescribed by bye-laws made under this Act or in respect of which this Act makes no provision or makes insufficient provision and provision is, in the opinion of the Corporation, necessary for the efficient municipal governance of the Municipal area.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 382
        },
        {
            "number": "393",
            "title": "393. Penalty for breaches of bye-laws.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees; or\n(b) with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees and in the case of continuing contravention, with an additional fine which may extend to fifty rupees for every day during which such contravention continues after conviction for the first contravention; or\n(c) with fine which may extend to fifty rupees for every day during which the contravention continues, after the receipt of a notice from the Commissioner or any Corporation Officer duly authorised in that behalf by the person contravening the bye-law requiring such person to discontinue such contravention:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 383
        },
        {
            "number": "394",
            "title": "394. Supplemental provisions respecting bye-laws.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 384
        },
        {
            "number": "395",
            "title": "395. Bye-laws to be available for inspection and purchase.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter XXIII\nControl",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 385
        },
        {
            "number": "396",
            "title": "396. Power of Government to require production of documents.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to produce any record, correspondence, plan or other document in his possession or under his control;\n(b) to furnish any return, plan estimate, statement, account or statistics relating to the proceedings, duties or works of the Corporation or any of the Corporation authorities.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 386
        },
        {
            "number": "397",
            "title": "397. Inspection.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 387
        },
        {
            "number": "398",
            "title": "398. Direction by Government.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) that any duty imposed on the Corporation or any of its authority by or under this Act has not been performed or has been performed in an imperfect, insufficient or unsuitable manner; or\n(b) that adequate financial provision has not been made for the performance of any such duty, it may direct the Corporation or the Commissioner, within such period as it thinks fit, to make arrangements to its satisfaction for the proper performance of duty, or, as the case may be, to make financial provisions to its satisfaction for the performance of the duty and the Corporation or the Commissioner concerned shall comply with such direction:\n(a) various uses to which any land within the Corporation may be put;\n(b) repayment of debts and discharging of obligations;\n(c) collection of taxes;\n(d) observance of rules and bye-laws;\n(e) adoption of development measures and measures for promotion of public safety, health convenience and welfare;\n(f) sanitation and cleanliness;\n(g) establishment and maintenance of fire-brigade.]",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 388
        },
        {
            "number": "398",
            "title": "399. Power to provide for enforcement of direction under section 398.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 389
        },
        {
            "number": "400",
            "title": "400. Dissolution of Corporation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) all members shall, on such date as may be specified in the order, vacate their offices without prejudice to their eligibility for election under clause (d);\n(b) on the dissolution of the Corporation, all powers and duties conferred and imposed upon the Corporation by or under this Act or any other law shall be exercised and performed by such officer or authority as the Government may appoint in that behalf;\n(c) all property vested in the Corporation shall until it is reconstituted, vest in the Government;\n(d) election shall be held for the purpose of reconstituting the Corporation within a period of six months.\nChapter XXIV\nMiscellaneous",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 390
        },
        {
            "number": "401",
            "title": "401. Delegation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 391
        },
        {
            "number": "402",
            "title": "402. Validity of notices and other documents.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 392
        },
        {
            "number": "403",
            "title": "403. Admissibility of document or entry as evidence.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 393
        },
        {
            "number": "404",
            "title": "404. Evidence of Corporation Officer or employee.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 394
        },
        {
            "number": "405",
            "title": "405. Prohibition against obstruction of Mayor or any Corporation authority etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 395
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        {
            "number": "406",
            "title": "406. Prohibition against removal of mark.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 396
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        {
            "number": "407",
            "title": "407. Prohibition against removal or obliteration.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 397
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            "number": "408",
            "title": "408. Prohibition against unauthorised removal, deposit etc.",
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            "content": "[408A. Power to evict persons from Corporation premises/land.\n(a) that any person authorized to occupy any premises of the Corporation has-\n(i) not paid rent lawfully due from him in respect of such premises for a period of more than two months; or\n(ii) sublet, without the permission of the Commissioner or any other officer duly empowered to grant such permission, the whole or any part of such premises; or\n(iii) otherwise acted in contravention of any of the terms expressed or implied, under which he is authorized to occupy such premises; or\n(b) that any person is in unauthorized occupation of any premises/land or building/structure constructed thereon, of the Corporation,",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 398
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            "number": "408B",
            "title": "408B. Appeal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 399
        },
        {
            "number": "408C",
            "title": "408C. Finality of order.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 400
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        {
            "number": "409",
            "title": "409. Liability of members.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 401
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            "number": "410",
            "title": "410. Members and Corporation Officer and employees to be public servants.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 402
        },
        {
            "number": "411",
            "title": "411. Annual administration report.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 403
        },
        {
            "number": "412",
            "title": "412. Construction of reference.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 404
        },
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            "number": "413",
            "title": "413. Special provisions as to rural area.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the Corporation with previous approval of the Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare that any portion of the rural areas shall cease to the included therein and upon the issue of such notification that portion shall be included in and form Part of the urban areas;\n(b) the Corporation with previous approval of the Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, -\n(i) exempt the rural areas or any portion thereof from such of the provisions of this Act as it deems fit;\n(ii) levy taxes, rates, fee and other charges in the rural area or any portion thereof at rates lower than those at which such taxes, fee and other charges are levied in the urban areas or exempt such areas or portion from any such tax, rate, fee or other charge.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 405
        },
        {
            "number": "414",
            "title": "414. Power of Government to suspend any resolution or order of Corporation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 406
        },
        {
            "number": "415",
            "title": "415. Power of Government to modify proceedings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 407
        },
        {
            "number": "416",
            "title": "416. Power of Government to withdraw any area of municipal area from operation of Act.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 408
        },
        {
            "number": "417",
            "title": "417. Committee for Metropolitan planning.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the composition of the Metropolitan Planning Committee;\n(b) the manner in which the seats in the Committee shall be filled:\n(c) the representation in such Committees of the members of the Government of India and of the Government and of such organisations and institutions as may be deemed necessary for carrying out the functions assigned to such committees;\n(d) the functions relating to planning and coordination for the metropolitan area which may be assigned to the Committees;\n(e) the manner in which the Chairpersons of the Committees shall be chosen;\n(a) have regard to -\n(i) the plans prepared by the Corporation, municipalities and the Panchayats in the Metropolitan area;\n(ii) matters of common interest between the Corporation, municipalities and the panchayats, including coordinated special planning of the area, sharing of water and other physical and natural resources, the integrated development of infrastructure and environmental conservation;\n(iii) the overall objectives and priorities set by the Government of India and the Government ;\n(iv) the extent and nature of investments likely to be made in the Metropolitan area by agencies of the Government of India and of the Government and other available resources whether financial or otherwise;\n(b) consult such institutions and organisations as the Government may prescribe.\nChapter XXV\nTransitional Provisions, Repeals and Savings Pertaining to Faridabad Complex Administration",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 409
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            "number": "418",
            "title": "418. Transitional provisions.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) reference to Faridabad Complex Administration, Faridabad under the Faridabad Complex (Regulation and Development) Act, 1971, shall be construed as reference to the Municipal Corporation of Faridabad, and such enactment, rule, order or notification shall apply to the Municipal area of the Corporation;\n(b) references to the Chief Administrator under the Faridabad Complex (Regulation and Development) Act, 1971, shall be construed in respect of the Municipal area as reference to the Commissioner appointed under this Act;\n(c) references to any Chapter or section of the Faridabad Complex (Regulation and Development) Act, 1971, shall as far as possible be construed in respect of the Municipal area as references to this Act or its corresponding Chapter or section.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 410
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        {
            "number": "419",
            "title": "419. Provisions regarding staff of Faridabad Complex Administration.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 411
        },
        {
            "number": "420",
            "title": "420. Power to remove difficulties.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 412
        },
        {
            "number": "421",
            "title": "421. Repeal and saving.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) any appointment, notification, order, scheme, rule, form, notice, or bye-law made or issued, and any licence or permission granted under the Faridabad Complex (Regulation and Development) Act, 1971 and in force immediately before the commencement of this Act shall, in so far as it is not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act continue to be in force and be deemed to have been made, issued or granted under the provisions of this Act, unless and until it is superseded by any appointment notification, order, scheme, rule, form, notice or bye-law made or issued or any licence or permission granted under the said provisions;\n(b) all debts, obligations and liabilities incurred, all contracts entered into and all matters and things engaged to be done by, with or for the administration of the Faridabad Complex, before such commencement, shall be deemed to have been incurred, entered into or engaged to be done by with or for the Corporation;\n(c) all budget estimates, assessments, valuations, measurements or divisions made by the administration of the Faridabad Complex shall, in so far as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act continue in force and be deemed to have been made under the provisions of this Act unless and until they are superseded by any budget estimate, assessment, valuation, measurement or division made by the Corporation under the said provisions;\n(d) all properties, movable and immovable and all interests of whatsoever nature and kind therein, vested in the administration of the Faridabad Complex immediately before such commencement, shall with all rights of whatever description used, enjoyed or possessed by the administration of Faridabad Complex, vest in the Corporation;\n(e) all rates, taxes, fees, rents and other sums of money due to the administration of the Faridabad Complex immediately before such commencement, shall be deemed to be due to the Corporation;\n(f) all rates, taxes, fees, rents, fares and other charges shall, until and unless they are varied by the Corporation continue to be levied at the same rate at which they were being levied by the aforesaid administration of the Faridabad Complex immediately before such commencement;\n(g) all suits, prosecutions, land acquisition proceedings instituted or which might have been instituted by or against the administration of the Faridabad Complex may be continued or instituted by or against Corporation; and\n(h) all proceedings and appeals pending before any authority of the Faridabad Complex before such commencement, shall be deemed to have been instituted before the Commissioner and shall be continued by him or transferred to another authority under the provisions of this Act.\nChapter XXVI\nGeneral Provisions with Regard to Corporation other than the Corporation of Faridabad.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 413
        },
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            "number": "422",
            "title": "422. Provisions regarding officers and employees.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 414
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        {
            "number": "423",
            "title": "423. Assets, liabilities, obligations contracts and pending proceedings.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 415
        },
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            "number": "424",
            "title": "424. Repeal.",
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            "content": "First Schedule\n[See Section 3(1)]\n(i) Municipality of Faridabad Township\n(ii) Municipality of Faridabad Old\n(iii) Municipality of Ballabgarh\n(iv) Revenue estate of Ballabgarh not included in the municipality of Ballabgarh.\n(i) Atmadpur\n(ii) Annangur\n(iii) Palla\n(iv) Sarai Khaja\n(v) Wazirpur\n(vi) Mevla Maharajpur\n(vii) Fatehpur Chandila\n(viii) Budina\n(ix) Daulatabad\n(x) Ajronda\n(xi) Saran\n(xii) Mujesar\n(xiii) Ranera\n(xiv) Unchagaon\n(xv) Jharsainthi\n(xvi) Sehi\n(xvii) Ankhir\n(xviii) Badkhal\n(xix) Nawada Koh\n(xx) Dabua\n(xxi) Gaunchi\n(xxii) Nangla Gujran\n(xxiii) Gajipur\n(xxiv) Bajri\n(xxv) Bhankri\n(xxvi) Pali\n(xxvii) Gothra Mohabtabad\n(xxviii) Sehatpur\n(xxix) Agwanpur\nexcluding the area mentioned in Haryana Government, Local\n\t\t\t\tGovernment DePartment (Committees), notification number\n\t\t\t\t13/5/91-3C11, dated the 19th June, 1993, published in English and\n\t\t\t\tnumber 13/31/91-3C 2, dated the 19th June, 1993, published in\n\t\t\t\tHindi.\n(xxx) Ismailpur\n(xxxi) Basantpur\n(xxxii) Salarpur\n(xxxiii) Nasirpur\n(xxxiv) Aslatpur\n(xxxv) Mowali\n(xxxvi) Baselwa\n(xxxvii) Palwali\n(xxxviii) Lakkarpur\nSecond Schedule\n(See Section 331)\nPart I\nPurposes to which premises may not be used without a licence.\nPurposes to which premises may not be used without a licence.\n(i) Autocar or autocycle servicing or repairing\n(ii) Blacksmithy\n(iii) Coppersmithy\n(iv) Electroplating\n(v) Glass bevelling\n(vi) Glass cutting\n(vii) Glass polishing\n(viii) Goldsmithy\n(ix) Marble cutting, grinding, dressing or polishing\n(x) Metal (ferrous or non-ferrous or antimony but excluding precious metal) cutting or treating metal by harmoring drilling, pressing, filling, polishing, heating or by any other process whatever or assembling Parts of metal\n(xi) Photography-studio\n(xii) Radio (wireless receiving set) selling, repairing, servicing or manufacturing\n(xiii) Silversmithy\n(xiv) Spinning or weaving cotton, silk, art silk, or jute or wool with the aid of power\n(xv) Stones grinding, cutting, dressing or polishing\n(xvi) Timber or wood sawing or cutting, by mechanical or electric power\n(xvii) Tinsmithy\n(xvii) Washerman's trade\n(xix) Welding of metal by electric, gas or any process whatsoever.\n(i) aerated waters\n(ii) Bakelite goods\n(iii) Bidis (indigenous cigarettes), snuff, cigars or cigarettes\n(iv) Bitumen\n(v) Blasting powder\n(vi) Bones\n(vii) Bricks or tiles by hand power\n(viii) Bricks or tiles by mechanical power\n(ix) Brushes\n(x) Candles\n(xi) Catgut\n(xii) Celluloid or celluloid goods\n(xiii) Cement concrete designs or models\n(xiv) Charcoal\n(xv) Chemicals\n(xvi) Cinematograph films stripping in connection with any trade\n(xvii) Cosmetics or toilet goods\n(xviii) Cotton, cotton refuse, cotton waste, cotton yarn, silk, silk yarn, silk inclusive of waste yarn, art silk, art silk waste, art silk yarn, wool or woollen refuse or waste\n(xix) Cotton seeds\n(xx) Dammar\n(xxi) Dynamite\n(xxii) Fat\n(xxiii) Fireworks\n(xxiv) Flax\n(xxv) Ink for printing, writing, stamping etc.\n(xxvi) Gas\n(xxvii) Ghee\n(xxviii) Glass or glass articles\n(xxix) Gunpowder\n(xxx) Hemp\n(xxxi) Ice (including dry Ice)\n(xxxii) Insecticide or disinfectants\n(xxxiii) Leather cloth or rexine cloth or water proof cloth\n(xxxiv) Lime\n(xxxv) Lineseed oil\n(xxxvi) Matches for lighting (including Bengal matches)\n(xxxvii) Mattresses and pillows\n(xxxviii) Offal\n(xxxix) Oil Cloth\n(xI) Oil other than petroleum (either by mechanical power or by hand power or ghani driven by bullock or any other animal)\n(xli) Pharmaceutical or medical products\n(xlii) Rubber or rubber goods\n(xliii) Paints\n(xliv) Paper or cardboard\n(xlv) Pickers from hides\n(xlvi) Pitch\n(xlvii) Plastic goods\n(xlviii) Pottery by hand power\n(xlix) Pottery by mechanical or any power other than hand power\n(l) Sanitary-ware or china-ware\n(li) Soap\n(lii) Sugar\n(liii) Sweetmeat and confectionery goods\n(liv) Tallow\n(lv) Tar\n(lvi) Varnishes\n(lvii) Wooden furniture, boxes, barrels, khokas or other articles of wood or of plywood or of sandal wood.\nPart II\nArticles which may not be stored in any premises without a licence\nArticles which may not be stored in any premises without a licence\nThird Schedule\n(See Section 380)\nPenalties\nPenalties\nExplanation.\nSection, sub-section, clause or proviso\nSubject\nFine or imprisonment which may be imposed\nDaily fine which may be imposed\n1\n2\n3\n4\nRs.\nRs.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "101",
            "title": "Section 101, sub-sections (1) and (2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to give notice of transfer or devolution of land or\n\t\t\t\t\tbuilding\n500\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 417
        },
        {
            "number": "101",
            "title": "Section 101, sub-section (3)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to produce instrument of transfer\n500\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 418
        },
        {
            "number": "102",
            "title": "Section 102",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to give notice of erection of new building etc.\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 419
        },
        {
            "number": "103",
            "title": "Section 103",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to give notice of demolition or removal of building\n500\n50",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 420
        },
        {
            "number": "104",
            "title": "Section 104",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to furnish information,\n\t\t\t\t\tetc.\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 421
        },
        {
            "number": "108",
            "title": "Section 108, sub-section (2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Wilful delay or obstruction of valuers\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 422
        },
        {
            "number": "122",
            "title": "Section 122",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Prohibition of advertisement without permission\n500\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 423
        },
        {
            "number": "137",
            "title": "Section 137",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to give notice of re-occupation of vacant land or\n\t\t\t\t\tbuilding\n500\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 424
        },
        {
            "number": "142",
            "title": "Section 142, sub-section (2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Non-compliance with the requisition of attendance before the\n\t\t\t\t\tCommissioner\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 425
        },
        {
            "number": "145",
            "title": "Section 145",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to disclose liability\n500\n..",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 426
        },
        {
            "number": "180",
            "title": "Section 180",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to give notice\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 427
        },
        {
            "number": "182",
            "title": "Section 182",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Prohibition to occupy new premises without arrangement for\n\t\t\t\t\twater supply\n500\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 428
        },
        {
            "number": "188",
            "title": "Section 188",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Refusal of admittance, etc.\n500\n..",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 429
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        {
            "number": "191",
            "title": "Section 191, sub-section (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Laying of water pipes, etc. in a position where the same may\n\t\t\t\t\tbe injured or water therein polluted\n500\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 430
        },
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            "number": "191",
            "title": "Section 191, sub-section (2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Construction of latrines, etc., in a position where pipes may\n\t\t\t\t\tbe injured or water therein polluted\n500\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 431
        },
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            "number": "195",
            "title": "Section 195",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Injury to, or interference with free flow of contents of\n\t\t\t\t\tMunicipal drain or drains communicating with Municipal drains.\n500\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 432
        },
        {
            "number": "196",
            "title": "Section 196, sub-section (2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Private drains not to be connected with Municipal drain\n\t\t\t\t\twithout notice\n500\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 433
        },
        {
            "number": "197",
            "title": "Section 197",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Non-compliance with requisition for drainage of undrained\n\t\t\t\t\tpremises\n500\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 434
        },
        {
            "number": "198",
            "title": "Section 198",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Erection of new premises without drains\n1000\n100",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 435
        },
        {
            "number": "199",
            "title": "Section 199",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Non-compliance with requisition of maintenance of drainage\n\t\t\t\t\tworks for any group or block of premises\n500\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 436
        },
        {
            "number": "200",
            "title": "Section 200",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Non-compliance with direction to close or limit the use of\n\t\t\t\t\tprivate drains in certain cases\n500\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 437
        },
        {
            "number": "201",
            "title": "Section 201",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Non-compliance with Commissioner's order regarding the use of\n\t\t\t\t\ta drain by a person other than the owner thereof\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 438
        },
        {
            "number": "202",
            "title": "Section 202",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Non-compliance with requisition for keeping sewage and rain\n\t\t\t\t\twater drains distinct\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 439
        },
        {
            "number": "203",
            "title": "Section 203",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Non-compliance with requisition for the pavement of\n\t\t\t\t\tcourtyard, etc.\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 440
        },
        {
            "number": "205",
            "title": "Section 205",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Connection with Municipal Water works of drains without\n\t\t\t\t\twritten permission\n500\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 441
        },
        {
            "number": "208",
            "title": "Section 208, sub-section (4)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Non-compliance with requisition to close, remove or divert a\n\t\t\t\t\tpipe or drain\n500\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 442
        },
        {
            "number": "214",
            "title": "Section 214, sub-section (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Execution of work by a person other than a licensed plumber\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 443
        },
        {
            "number": "214",
            "title": "Section 214, sub-section (2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to furnish when required, name of licensed plumber\n\t\t\t\t\temployed\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 444
        },
        {
            "number": "214",
            "title": "Section 214, sub-section (6)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Licensed plumbers not to demand more than the charges\n\t\t\t\t\tprescribed\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 445
        },
        {
            "number": "214",
            "title": "Section 214, sub-section (8)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Licensed plumbers not to contravene bye-law or execute work\n\t\t\t\t\tcarelessly, or negligently etc.\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 446
        },
        {
            "number": "215",
            "title": "Section 215",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Prohibition of wilful or neglectful acts relating to water or\n\t\t\t\t\tsewage works\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 447
        },
        {
            "number": "223",
            "title": "Section 223, sub-section (3)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Construction of building within the regular line of street\n\t\t\t\t\twithout permission\n2000\n200",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 448
        },
        {
            "number": "228",
            "title": "Section 228",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to set forward building to\n\t\t\t\t\tregular line of street\n500\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 449
        },
        {
            "number": "231",
            "title": "Section 231, sub-section (5)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Utilising, settling or otherwise dealing with any land or\n\t\t\t\t\tlaying out a private street otherwise than in conformity with\n\t\t\t\t\torders of the Corporation\n500\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 450
        },
        {
            "number": "232",
            "title": "Section 232, sub-section (1), clauses (a) and (b)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to show cause for\n\t\t\t\t\talteration of street or for appearance before the Commissioner\n500\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 451
        },
        {
            "number": "233",
            "title": "Section 233, sub-section (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition on owner of private street\n\t\t\t\t\tor owner of adjoining land or building to level, etc. such\n\t\t\t\t\tstreet\n500\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 452
        },
        {
            "number": "235",
            "title": "Section 235, sub-section (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Prohibition of projections upon street, etc.\nImprisonment for one month or Rs. 1,000 or both\n100",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 453
        },
        {
            "number": "235",
            "title": "Section 235, sub-section (2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to remove projections from\n\t\t\t\t\tstreet\n500\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 454
        },
        {
            "number": "236",
            "title": "Section 236, sub-section (2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to remove a verandah,\n\t\t\t\t\tbalcony, etc. put out in accordance with section 236(1)\n500\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 455
        },
        {
            "number": "237",
            "title": "Section 237",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to have ground floor\n\t\t\t\t\tdoors, etc., so altered as not to open outwards\n1000\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 456
        },
        {
            "number": "238",
            "title": "Section 238, sub-section (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Erection, etc. of structures or fixtures which cause\n\t\t\t\t\tobstruction in streets\n1000\n100",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 457
        },
        {
            "number": "238",
            "title": "Section 238, sub-section (2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Deposit, etc. of things in streets\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 458
        },
        {
            "number": "241",
            "title": "Section 241, sub-sections (1) and (2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Tethering of animals and milking of cattle in public streets\n500\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 459
        },
        {
            "number": "242",
            "title": "Section 242, sub-section (4)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Unlawful removal of bar or sorting timber etc., or removal or\n\t\t\t\t\textinction of light\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 460
        },
        {
            "number": "243",
            "title": "Section 243, sub-section (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Streets not to be opened or broken up and building material\n\t\t\t\t\tnot to be deposited thereon without permission\n500\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 461
        },
        {
            "number": "245",
            "title": "Section 245, sub-section (2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Name of street and number of house not be destroyed or\n\t\t\t\t\tdefaced etc.\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 462
        },
        {
            "number": "246",
            "title": "Section 246, sub-section (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to repair, project or\n\t\t\t\t\tenclose a dangerous place\n500\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 463
        },
        {
            "number": "248",
            "title": "Section 248, sub-section (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Removal etc. of lamps\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 464
        },
        {
            "number": "248",
            "title": "Section 248, sub-section (2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Wilfully and negligently extinguishing light in public\n\t\t\t\t\tstreets etc.\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 465
        },
        {
            "number": "250",
            "title": "Section 250",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Erection of a building without the sanction of the\n\t\t\t\t\tCommissioner\n5000\n500",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 466
        },
        {
            "number": "251",
            "title": "Section 251, sub-section (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to give notice of intention to erect a building\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 467
        },
        {
            "number": "252",
            "title": "Section 252",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to give notice of intention to make additions, etc.,\n\t\t\t\t\tto buildings\n500\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 468
        },
        {
            "number": "255",
            "title": "Section 255, sub-section (4)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Commencement of work without notice, etc.\n2000\n200",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 469
        },
        {
            "number": "257",
            "title": "Section 257",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to round off buildings at\n\t\t\t\t\tcorners of streets\n500\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 470
        },
        {
            "number": "258",
            "title": "Section 258, sub-section (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Erection of buildings on new streets without levelling\n1000\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 471
        },
        {
            "number": "258",
            "title": "Section 258, sub-section (2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Erection of buildings or execution of work, within regular\n\t\t\t\t\tline of street or in contravention of any scheme for plan\n1000\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 472
        },
        {
            "number": "260",
            "title": "Section 260",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Use of inflammable material without permission\n1000\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 473
        },
        {
            "number": "261",
            "title": "Section 261",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to demolish buildings erected without sanction or\n\t\t\t\t\terection of buildings in contravention of order\n2000\n200",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 474
        },
        {
            "number": "262",
            "title": "Section 262",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Erection of buildings in contravention of conditions of\n\t\t\t\t\tsanction, etc.\n2000\n200",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 475
        },
        {
            "number": "263",
            "title": "Section 263",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to carry out alterations\n2000\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 476
        },
        {
            "number": "264",
            "title": "Section 264, sub-sections (1) and (2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Non-compliance with revision as to completion certificates,\n\t\t\t\t\toccupation or use, etc.\n500\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 477
        },
        {
            "number": "265",
            "title": "Section 265, sub-section (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Non-compliance with restrictions on user of buildings\n1000\n100",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 478
        },
        {
            "number": "265",
            "title": "Section 265, sub-sections (2) and (3)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition and to remove structures\n\t\t\t\t\twhich are in ruins or likely to fall\n2000\n200",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 479
        },
        {
            "number": "266",
            "title": "Section 266, sub-section (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to vacate buildings in\n\t\t\t\t\tdangerous conditions, etc.\n1000\n100",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 480
        },
        {
            "number": "271",
            "title": "Section 271",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to provide for collection, removal and deposit of\n\t\t\t\t\trefuse and provision of receptacles\n500\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 481
        },
        {
            "number": "272",
            "title": "Section 272",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition for removal of rubbish\n\t\t\t\t\tetc. from premises used as market etc.\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 482
        },
        {
            "number": "273",
            "title": "Section 273, sub-section (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Keeping rubbish and filth for more than twenty four hours\n\t\t\t\t\tetc.\n500\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 483
        },
        {
            "number": "273",
            "title": "Section 273, sub-section (2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Allowing filth to flow in streets\n500\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 484
        },
        {
            "number": "273",
            "title": "Section 273, sub-section (3)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Depositing rubbish or filth etc. in street etc.\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 485
        },
        {
            "number": "275",
            "title": "Section 275, sub-section (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Latrines and urinals not to be constructed without permission\n\t\t\t\t\tor in contravention of terms prescribed\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 486
        },
        {
            "number": "277",
            "title": "Section 277, sub-section (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to provide buildings newly erected or re-erected with\n\t\t\t\t\tlatrine, urinal and other accommodation\n1000\n100",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 487
        },
        {
            "number": "277",
            "title": "Section 277, sub-section (3)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to provide residential buildings composed of separate\n\t\t\t\t\ttenements with latrine, bathing or washing place for servants on\n\t\t\t\t\tthe ground floor\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 488
        },
        {
            "number": "278",
            "title": "Section 278",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to provide latrines for premises used by large number\n\t\t\t\t\tof people and to keep them clean and in proper order\n500\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 489
        },
        {
            "number": "279",
            "title": "Section 279",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to enforce provision of\n\t\t\t\t\tlatrine or urinal etc.\n500\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 490
        },
        {
            "number": "280",
            "title": "Section 280, Clauses (a), (b), (c) and (d)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to enforce provision of\n\t\t\t\t\tlatrine or urinal accommodation etc.\n500\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 491
        },
        {
            "number": "281",
            "title": "Section 281, sub-section (2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition for removal of congested\n\t\t\t\t\tbuildings\n1000\n100",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 492
        },
        {
            "number": "282",
            "title": "Section 282",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to improve buildings unfit\n\t\t\t\t\tfor human habitation\n1000\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 493
        },
        {
            "number": "284",
            "title": "Section 284, sub-section (1), (2), (3) and (4)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with order of demolition of buildings unfit\n\t\t\t\t\tfor human habitation\n2000\n200",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 494
        },
        {
            "number": "285",
            "title": "Section 285",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition of the Commissioner to\n\t\t\t\t\tremove insanitary huts and sheds etc.\n500\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 495
        },
        {
            "number": "286",
            "title": "Section 286, sub-section (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Prohibition against washing by washerman\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 496
        },
        {
            "number": "287",
            "title": "Section 287",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to give information of dangerous disease\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 497
        },
        {
            "number": "289",
            "title": "Section 289",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to cleanse and disinfect\n\t\t\t\t\tbuildings or articles\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 498
        },
        {
            "number": "290",
            "title": "Section 290",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to destroyinfectious huts\n\t\t\t\t\tor sheds\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 499
        },
        {
            "number": "291",
            "title": "Section 291",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Washing of clothing, bedding etc. at any place not\nnotified by the Commissioner\n500",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 500
        },
        {
            "number": "293",
            "title": "Section 293, sub-section (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Sending infected clothes to washerman or laundry\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 501
        },
        {
            "number": "293",
            "title": "Section 293, sub-section (2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to furnish address of washerman or laundry to which\n\t\t\t\t\tclothes have been sent\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 502
        },
        {
            "number": "294",
            "title": "Section 294, sub-section (1), (2) and (3)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Use of public conveyances by persons suffering from a\n\t\t\t\t\tdangerous disease etc.\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 503
        },
        {
            "number": "296",
            "title": "Section 296",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to disinfect buildings before letting the same\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 504
        },
        {
            "number": "297",
            "title": "Section 297",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Disposal of infected articles without disinfection\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 505
        },
        {
            "number": "298",
            "title": "Section 298",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Making or selling of food, etc. or washing of clothes by\n\t\t\t\t\tinfected persons\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 506
        },
        {
            "number": "299",
            "title": "Section 299",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Sale of food or drink in contravention of restriction or\n\t\t\t\t\tprohibition of the Commissioner\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 507
        },
        {
            "number": "300",
            "title": "Section 300",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Removal or use of water from wells and tanks in contravention\n\t\t\t\t\tof prohibition of Commissioner\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 508
        },
        {
            "number": "301",
            "title": "Section 301",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Exposure of persons to risk of infection by the presence or\n\t\t\t\t\tconduct of a person suffering from a dangerous disease, etc.\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 509
        },
        {
            "number": "302",
            "title": "Section 302",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Removal of infectious corpses in contravention of the\n\t\t\t\t\tprovision of the section\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 510
        },
        {
            "number": "303",
            "title": "Section 303, sub-section (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Absence of sweepers, etc., from duty without notice\nImprisonment which may extend to one month or\n\t\t\t\t\tRs. 1,000 or both\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 511
        },
        {
            "number": "304",
            "title": "Section 304",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to supply information by persons incharge of burning\n\t\t\t\t\tor burial grounds\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 512
        },
        {
            "number": "305",
            "title": "Section 305",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Use of new burning or burial ground without permission\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 513
        },
        {
            "number": "306",
            "title": "Section 306, sub-section (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to close a burning or\n\t\t\t\t\tburial grounds\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 514
        },
        {
            "number": "306",
            "title": "Section 306, sub-section (2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Burning or burial of corpses in a burial ground after it has\n\t\t\t\t\tbeen closed\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 515
        },
        {
            "number": "307",
            "title": "Section 307",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Removal of corpses by other than prescribed routes\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 516
        },
        {
            "number": "308",
            "title": "Section 308, sub-section (1) Clause (b)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to give notice for removal for corpses of dead\n\t\t\t\t\tanimals\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 517
        },
        {
            "number": "309",
            "title": "Section 309, sub-sections (1), (2) and (3)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Commission of nuisances\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 518
        },
        {
            "number": "310",
            "title": "Section 310",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition for removal or abatement\n\t\t\t\t\tof nuisance\n500\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 519
        },
        {
            "number": "311",
            "title": "Section 311, sub-section (4)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Dogs not to be at large in a street without being secured by\n\t\t\t\t\ta chain lead\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 520
        },
        {
            "number": "311",
            "title": "Section 311, sub-section (5)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Ferocious dogs at large without being muzzled, etc.\n500",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 521
        },
        {
            "number": "312",
            "title": "Section 312",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Stacking inflammable material in contravention of prohibition\n5000\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 522
        },
        {
            "number": "313",
            "title": "Section 313",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Setting a naked light\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 523
        },
        {
            "number": "314",
            "title": "Section 314",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Discharging fire-works, fire arms, etc. likely to cause\n\t\t\t\t\tdanger\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 524
        },
        {
            "number": "315",
            "title": "Section 315",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to render buildings, wells\n\t\t\t\t\tetc., safe\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 525
        },
        {
            "number": "316",
            "title": "Section 316",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to enclose land used for\n\t\t\t\t\timproper purposes\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 526
        },
        {
            "number": "320",
            "title": "Section 320, sub-section (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Sale in municipal markets without permission\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 527
        },
        {
            "number": "322",
            "title": "Section 322, sub-section (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Use of places as private market without a licence and use of\n\t\t\t\t\tplaces other than a municipal slaughter house as slaughter\n\t\t\t\t\thouses\n500\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 528
        },
        {
            "number": "322",
            "title": "Section 322, sub-section (2) Proviso (a)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Non-compliance with conditions imposed by Commissioner\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 529
        },
        {
            "number": "324",
            "title": "Section 324",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Keeping market open without licence, etc.\n2000\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 530
        },
        {
            "number": "325",
            "title": "Section 325",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Sale in unlicensed market\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 531
        },
        {
            "number": "326",
            "title": "Section 326",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Carrying on business or trades near a market\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 532
        },
        {
            "number": "329",
            "title": "Section 329",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Carrying on butcher, fish-monger's or poulterer's trade\n\t\t\t\t\twithout licence, etc.\n500\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 533
        },
        {
            "number": "330",
            "title": "Section 330",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Establishment of factory, etc., without permission\n5000\n500",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 534
        },
        {
            "number": "331",
            "title": "Section 331",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Certain things not to be kept and certain trades and\n\t\t\t\t\toperations not to be carried on without a licence\n500\n100",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 535
        },
        {
            "number": "332",
            "title": "Section 332 sub-section (3)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Keeping, abandonment or tethering of animals, etc.\n300 which may extend to 2000\n100",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 536
        },
        {
            "number": "333",
            "title": "Section 333 sub-section (5)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Use of premises in contravention of declaration\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 537
        },
        {
            "number": "334",
            "title": "Section 334",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Hawking articles for sale without a licence, etc.\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 538
        },
        {
            "number": "335",
            "title": "Section 335",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Keeping a lodging house, eating house, tea shop, etc.,\n\t\t\t\t\twithout licence or contrary to licence\n500\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 539
        },
        {
            "number": "336",
            "title": "Section 336",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Keeping open theatre circus or other place of public\n\t\t\t\t\tamusement without licence or contrary to terms of licence\n1000\n100",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 540
        },
        {
            "number": "353",
            "title": "Section 353",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Preventing the Commissioner or any person authorised in this\n\t\t\t\t\tbehalf from exercising his powers of entry, etc.\n500\n100",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 541
        },
        {
            "number": "354",
            "title": "Section 354",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Presenting the Commissioner or any person authorised in this\n\t\t\t\t\tbehalf from exercising his powers of entry upon any adjoining\n\t\t\t\t\tland\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 542
        },
        {
            "number": "359",
            "title": "Section 359",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Obstruction or molestation in execution of work\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 543
        },
        {
            "number": "366",
            "title": "Section 366, sub-section (4)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to state the name and\n\t\t\t\t\taddress of owners of premises\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 544
        },
        {
            "number": "375",
            "title": "Section 375, sub-section (3)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure of occupier of land or building to afford owner\n\t\t\t\t\tfacilities for complying with provisions of the order, etc.\n\t\t\t\t\tafter eight days from issue of order by District Judge\n500\n50",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 545
        },
        {
            "number": "405",
            "title": "Section 405",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Obstruction of Mayor or any Corporation authority, etc.\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 546
        },
        {
            "number": "406",
            "title": "Section 406",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Removal of any mark set up for indicating level, etc.\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 547
        },
        {
            "number": "407",
            "title": "Section 407",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Removal etc. of notice exhibit by or under order of the\n\t\t\t\t\tCorporation Commissioner, etc.\n500\n..",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 548
        },
        {
            "number": "408",
            "title": "Section 408",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Unlawful removal of earth, sand or other material or deposit\n\t\t\t\t\tof any matter or making of any encroachment from any land vested\n\t\t\t\t\tin the Corporation\n500\n..\nNotifications\nNotifications\nHaryana Government, Urban Development DePartment, Notification, dated 2nd January, 2006\nNo. 14/47/2003-3II.\n\"6. All buildings and lands of the ex-servicemen or families of deceased soldiers or freedom fighters and ex-servicemen :",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 549
        }
    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "Last Updated 18th October, 2019 [hl479]",
        "Act Number": "(Haryana Act No. 16 of 1994)",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1994",
        "Short Title": "Haryana Municipal Corporation Act, 1994",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Haryana"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}