{ "id": 27154, "slug": "new-delhi-municipal-council-act-1994", "title": "The New Delhi Municipal Council Act, 1994", "short_title": "The New Delhi Municipal Council Act, 1994", "act_number": "(44 of 1994)", "act_year": 1994, "act_type": "STATE", "location": "Delhi", "law_status": "unknown", "enactment_date": null, "description": "The New Delhi Municipal Council Act, 1994", "preamble": "", "section_label": "Section", "sections": [ { "number": "1", "title": "CHAPTER 1", "chapter": "CHAPTER 1", "content": "Preliminary", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 0 }, { "number": "1", "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 1 }, { "number": "2", "title": "2. Definitions.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) cholera, plague, chicken-pox, small-pox, tuberculosis, leprosy, enteric fever, cerebrospinal meningitis and diptheria; and\n(b) any other epidemic, endemic or infectious disease which the Chairperson may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be a dangerous disease for the purposes of this Act;\n(a) any person who for the time being is paying or is liable to pay to the owner the rent or any portion of the rent of the land or building in respect of which such rent is paid or is payable;\n(b) an owner in occupation of or otherwise using his land or building;\n(c) a rent-free tenant of any land or building;\n(d) a licensee in occupation of any land or building; and\n(e) any person who is liable to pay to the owner damages for the use and occupation of any land or building;\n(a) the custodian of evacuee property in respect of evacuee property vested in him under the Administration of Evacuee Property Act, 1950 (31 of 1950 ); and\n(b) the estate officer to the Government of India, the Secretary of the Delhi Development Authority, constituted under the Delhi Development Act, 1957 (11 of 1957 ), the General Manager of a railway and the head of a Government department, in respect of properties under their respective control;\n(a) the garden, ground and out-houses, if any, appertaining to a building or part of a building, and\n(b) any fittings affixed to a building or part of a building for the more beneficial enjoyment thereof;\n(a) a person shall be deemed to\" reside\" in any dwelling-house which or some portion of which he sometimes, although not uninterruptedly, uses as a sleeping apartment, and\n(b) a person shall not be deemed to cease to\" reside\" in any such dwelling-house merely because he is absent from it or has elsewhere another dwelling-house in which he resides, if there is the liberty of returning to it at any time and no abandonment of the intention of returning to it;", "footnote": "", "is_definition": true, "sort_order": 2 }, { "number": "4", "title": "CHAPTER II", "chapter": "CHAPTER II", "content": "The Council\nConstitution of the Council", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 3 }, { "number": "3", "title": "3. Establishment of the Council.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 4 }, { "number": "4", "title": "4. Composition of the Council.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) a Chairperson, from amongst the officers, of the Central Government or the Government, of or above the rank of Joint Secretary to the Government of India to be appointed by the Central Government in consultation with the Chief Minister of Delhi;\n(b) [two members] of Legislative Assembly of Delhi representing constituencies which comprise wholly or partly the New Delhi area;\n(c) five members from amongst the officers of the Central Government or the Government or their undertakings, to be nominated by the Central Government; and\n(d) [four members] to be nominated by the Central Government in consultation with the Chief Minister of Delhi to represent from amongst lawyers, doctors, chartered accountants, engineers, business and financial consultants, intellectuals, traders, labourers, social workers including social scientists, artists, media persons, sports persons and any other class of persons as may be specified by the Central Government in this behalf.\n[(e) the Member of Parliament, representing constituency which comprises wholly or partly the New Delhi area.]\n(a) three members who are women;\n(b) two members belonging to the Scheduled Castes, out of which one member shall be from the members nominated under clause (d) of sub-section (1).]", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 5 }, { "number": "5", "title": "5. Duration of the Council.", "chapter": null, "content": "(b) where it is dissolved after the expiry of its duration, shall be reconstituted before such expiry.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 6 }, { "number": "6", "title": "6. Disqualification for membership of the Council.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 7 }, { "number": "7", "title": "7. Oath or affirmation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 8 }, { "number": "8", "title": "8. Vacation of seat.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 9 }, { "number": "9", "title": "9. Setting-up of committees.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 10 }, { "number": "12", "title": "CHAPTER III", "chapter": "CHAPTER III", "content": "Functions Of The Council", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 11 }, { "number": "10", "title": "10. General powers of the Council.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) to produce any record, correspondence, plan or other document which is in his possession or under his control as Chairperson or which is recorded or filed in his office or in the office of any municipal officer or other municipal employee subordinate to him;\n(b) to furnish any return, plan, estimate, statement, account or statistics concerning or connected with any matter pertaining to the administration of this Act or the municipal government of New Delhi.\n(c) to furnish a report by himself or to obtain from the head of any department subordinate to him and furnish with his own remarks thereon, a report, upon any subject concerning or connected with the administration of this Act or the municipal government of New Delhi.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 12 }, { "number": "11", "title": "11. Obligatory functions of the Council.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the construction, maintenance and cleansing of drains and drainage works and of public latrines, urinals and similar conveniences;\n(b) the construction and maintenance of works and means for providing supply of water for public and private purposes;\n(c) the scavenging, removal and disposal of filth, rubbish and other obnoxious or polluted matters;\n(d) the construction or purchase, maintenance, extension, management for -\n(i) supply and distribution of electricity to the public;\n(ii) providing a sufficient supply of pure and wholesome water;\n(e) the reclamation of unhealthy localities, the removal of noxious vegetation and generally the abatement of all nuisances;\n(f) the regulation of places for the disposal of the dead and the provision and maintenance of places for the said purpose;\n(g) the registration of births and deaths;\n(h) public vaccination and inoculation;\n(i) measures for preventing and checking the spread of dangerous diseases;\n(j) the establishment and maintenance of hospitals, dispensaries and maternity and child welfare centres and the carrying out of other measures necessary for public medical relief;\n(k) the construction and maintenance of municipal markets and regulation of all markets;\n(l) the regulation and abatement of offensive or dangerous trade or practices;\n(m) the securing or removal of dangerous buildings and places;\n(n) the construction, maintenance, alteration and improvements of public streets, bridges, culverts, causeways and the like;\n(o) the lighting, watering and cleansing of public streets and other public places;\n(p) the removal of obstructions and projections in or upon streets, bridges and other public places;\n(q) the naming and numbering of streets and premises;\n(r) the establishment, maintenance of, and aid to, schools for primary educations subject to such grants as may be determined by the Central Government from time to time;\n(s) the maintenance of municipal offices;\n(t) the laying out or the maintenance of public parks, gardens or recreation grounds;\n(u) the maintenance of monuments and memorials vested in any local authority in New Delhi immediately before the commencement of this Act or which may be vested in the Council after such commencement;\n(v) the maintenance and development of the value of all properties vested in or entrusted to the management of the Council;\n(w) the preparation of plans for economic development and social justice;\n(x) the maintenance including the expansion and upgradation of facilities of the hospitals existing on the date of the commencement of this Act;\n(y) sanction or refuse erection or re-erection of buildings; and\n(z) the fulfilment of any other obligation imposed by or under this Act or any other law for the time being in force.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 13 }, { "number": "12", "title": "12. Discretionary functions of the Council.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the furtherance of education including cultural and physical education, by measures other than the establishment and maintenance of, and aid to, schools for primary education;\n(b) the establishment and maintenance of, and aid to, libraries, museums, art galleries, botanical or zoological collections;\n(c) the establishment and maintenance of, and aid to, stadia, gymnasia, akharas and places for sports and games;\n(d) the planting and care of trees on roadsides and elsewhere;\n(e) the surveys of buildings and lands;\n(f) the registration of marriages;\n(g) the taking of a census of population;\n(h) the provision of housing accommodation for the inhabitants of any area or for any class of inhabitants;\n(i) the providing of music or other entertainments in public places or places of public resort and the establishment of theatres and cinemas;\n(j) the organisation and management of fairs and exhibitions;\n(k) the acquisition of movable or immovable property for any of the purpose before mentioned, including payment of the cost of investigations, surveys or examinations in relation thereto for the construction or adaptation of building necessary for such purposes;\n(l) the construction and maintenance of-\n(i) rest-houses,\n(ii) poor-houses,\n(iii) infirmaries,\n(iv) children' s homes,\n(v) houses for the deaf and dumb and for disabled and handicapped children,\n(vi) shelters for destitute and disabled persons,\n(vii) asylums for persons of unsound mind;\n(m) the construction and maintenance of cattle pounds;\n(n) the building or purchase and maintenance of dwelling-houses for municipal officers and other municipal employees;\n(o) any measures for the welfare of the municipal officers and other municipal employees or any class of them including the sanctioning of loans to such officers and employees or any class of them for construction of houses and purchase of vehicles;\n(p) the organisation or management of chemical or bacteriological laboratories for the examination or analysis of water, food and drugs for the detection of diseases or research connected with the public health or medical relief;\n(q) the provision for relief to destitute and disabled person;\n(r) the establishment and maintenance of veterinary hospitals;\n(s) the organisation, construction, maintenance and management of swimming pools, public wash houses, bathing places and other institutions designed for the improvement of public health;\n(t) the organisation and management of farms and dairies within or without New Delhi for the supply, distribution and processing of milk and milk products for the benefit of the residents of New Delhi;\n(u) the organisation and management of cottage industries, handicraft centres and sales emporia;\n(v) the construction and maintenance of warehouses and godowns;\n(w) the construction and maintenance of garrages, sheds and stands for vehicles and cattle biers;\n(x) the provision for unfiltered water supply;\n(y) the improvement of New Delhi in accordance with improvement schemes approved by the Council;\n(z) any measure not hereinbefore specifically mentioned, likely to promote public safety, health, convenience or general welfare.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 14 }, { "number": "16", "title": "CHAPTER IV", "chapter": "CHAPTER IV", "content": "The Chairperson", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 15 }, { "number": "13", "title": "13. Appointment, etc, of the Chairperson.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 16 }, { "number": "14", "title": "14. Leave of absence of Chairperson.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 17 }, { "number": "15", "title": "15. Appointment of officiating Chairperson in case of death, resignation or removal of Chairperson.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 18 }, { "number": "16", "title": "16. Salary and allowances of the Chairperson and members.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 19 }, { "number": "17", "title": "17. Service regulations of members.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 20 }, { "number": "18", "title": "18. Functions of the Chairperson.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) exercise all the powers and perform all the duties specifically conferred or imposed upon him by this Act or by any other law for the time being in force;\n(b) prescribe the duties of and exercise supervision and control over the acts and proceedings of, all municipal officers and other municipal employees and subject to any regulation that may be made in this behalf, dispose of all questions relating to the service of the said officers and other employees and their pay, privileges, allowances and other conditions of service;\n(c) on the occurrence or threatened occurrence of any sudden accident or any unforeseen event or natural calamity involving or likely to involve extensive damage to any property of the Council, or danger to human life, take such immediate action as he considers necessary and make a report forthwith to the Council and the Administrator of the action he has taken and the reasons for the same as also of the amount of cost, if any, incurred or likely to be incurred in consequence of such action, which is not covered by a budget-grant; and\n(d) subject to any regulation that may be made in this behalf, be the disciplinary authority in relation to all municipal officers and other municipal employees.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 21 }, { "number": "19", "title": "19. Chairperson not to be interested in any contract, etc", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 22 }, { "number": "20", "title": "20. Exercise of powers to be subject to sanction.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) that such expenditure, in so far as it is to be incurred in the year in which such power is exercised or duty performed, shall be provided for under a current budget-grant; and", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 23 }, { "number": "25", "title": "CHAPTER V", "chapter": "CHAPTER V", "content": "Procedure\nTransaction of business by the Council", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 24 }, { "number": "21", "title": "21. Meetings.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 25 }, { "number": "22", "title": "22. First meeting of the Council.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 26 }, { "number": "23", "title": "23. Notice of meetings and business.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 27 }, { "number": "24", "title": "24. Quorum.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 28 }, { "number": "25", "title": "25. Presiding Officer.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the Chief Minister of Delhi, if he is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Delhi representing the constituency which comprises wholly or partly the New Delhi area, and attends the meeting being a member of the Council under clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 4; or\n(b) the Union Minister, if he is a Member of Parliament representing the constituency which comprises wholly or partly the New Delhi area, and attends the meeting being a member of the Council under clause (e) of sub-section (1) of section 4; or\n(c) the Minister in the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi, if he is a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Delhi representing the constituency which comprises wholly or partly the New Delhi area, and attends the meeting being a member of the Council under clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 4; or\n(d) the Member of Parliament not being a Minister for the Union representing the constituency which comprises wholly or partly the New Delhi area, and attends the meeting being a member of the Council under clause (e) of sub-section (1) of section 4; or\n(e) the Chairperson of the Council.]", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 29 }, { "number": "26", "title": "26. Method of deciding questions.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 30 }, { "number": "27", "title": "27. Members not to vote on matter in which they are interested.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 31 }, { "number": "28", "title": "28. Right to attend meetings of Council and its committees, etc, and right of members and to ask questions in relation to the municipal government of New Delhi.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) not less than seven clear days' notice in writing specifying the question shall be given to the 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 argument, ironical expressions, imputations, epithets or defamatory statements,\n(iii) ask for an expression of opinion or the solution of a hypothetical proposition,\n(iv) ask as to the character or conduct of any person except in his official or public capacity,\n(v) relate to a matter which is not primarily the concern of the Council,\n(vi) make or imply a charge of a personal character,\n(vii) raise questions of policy too large to be dealt with within the limits of an answer to a question,\n(viii) repeat in substance questions already answered or to which an answer has been refused,\n(ix) ask for information on trivial matters,\n(x) ordinarily ask for information on matters of past history,\n(xi) ask for information set forth in accessible documents or in ordinary works of reference,\n(xii) raise matters under the control of bodies or persons not primarily responsible to the Council,\n(xiii) ask for any information on matter which is under adjudication by a court of law.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 32 }, { "number": "29", "title": "29. Keeping of minutes proceedings.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 33 }, { "number": "30", "title": "30. Circulation of minutes and inspection of minutes and reports of proceedings.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 34 }, { "number": "31", "title": "31. Forwarding minutes and reports of proceedings to the Administrator.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 35 }, { "number": "32", "title": "32. Validation of proceedings, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the seat of any member remaining unfilled from any cause whatsoever;\n(b) the existence of any vacancy in, or any defect in the constitution of, the Council or in any committee thereof;\n(c) any member having voted or taken part in any proceedings in contravention of section 27;\n(d) any defect or irregularity not affecting the merits of the case.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 36 }, { "number": "38", "title": "CHAPTER VI", "chapter": "CHAPTER VI", "content": "Municipal Officers And Other Municipal Employees", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 37 }, { "number": "33", "title": "33. Appointment of certain officers.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 38 }, { "number": "34", "title": "34. Schedule of permanent posts and creation of temporary posts.", "chapter": null, "content": "(i) \" category A' post\" means any post, which having regard to its scale of pay or emoluments, would, if such post had been in the Central Government, be classified as a Group A' post under the Central Government in accordance with the orders issued by that Government from time to time;\n(ii) \" category B' post\" means any post which having regard to its scale of pay or emoluments, would, if such post had been in the Central Government, be classified as a Group B' post under the Central Government in accordance with the orders issued by that Government from time to time;\n(iii) \" category C' posts\" means any post, which having regard to its scale of pay or emoluments would, if such post had been in the Central Government, be classified as a Group C' post under the Central Government, in accordance with the orders issued by that Government from time to time;\n(iv) \" category D' posts\" means any post, other than a category A' or category B' or category C' post.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 39 }, { "number": "35", "title": "35. Restriction on employment of permanent officers and other employees.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 40 }, { "number": "36", "title": "36. Power to make appointments.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) to category A', category B' and category C' posts, shall vest in the Chairperson; and\n(b) to category D' posts shall vest in the Secretary.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 41 }, { "number": "37", "title": "37. Officers and other employees not to undertake any extraneous work.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 42 }, { "number": "38", "title": "38. Officers and other employees not to be interested in any contract, etc", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 43 }, { "number": "39", "title": "39. Punishment for municipal officers and other employees.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) where an officer or other employee is removed or dismissed on the ground of conduct which had led to his conviction on a criminal charge; or\n(b) where the authority empowered to remove or dismiss such officer or other employee is satisfied that for some reason, to be recorded by that authority, it is not reasonably practicable to give that person an opportunity of showing cause.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 44 }, { "number": "40", "title": "40. Consultation with the Union Public Service Commission.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) to any acting or temporary post for a period not exceeding one year; or\n(b) to such ministerial posts as may from time to time be specified by the Council in consultation with the Commission when such posts are to be filled by promotion; or\n(c) to a post when at the time of such appointment the person to be appointed thereto is in the service of the Central Government or a State Government in a Group A post;\n(d) to a permanent or temporary post, if the officer or other employee to be appointed is not likely to hold that post for more than one year; or if such officer or other employee is likely to hold the post for more than one year but not more than three years and the Commission advises that the appointment may be made without consulting the Commission; or\n(e) to such other posts, as may, from time to time, be specified by the Central Government in consultation with the Commission.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 45 }, { "number": "41", "title": "41. Power of Commission to make regulations and reference to the Central Government in case of difference between the Commission and the Council.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the procedure to be followed by the Commission in advertising posts, inviting applications, scrutinising the same and selecting candidates for interview;\n(b) the procedure to be followed by the Commission for selecting candidates for appointment and by the Council for consultation with the Commission;\n(c) any other matter which is incidental to, or necessary for, the purpose of consultation with the Commission.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 46 }, { "number": "42", "title": "42. Recruitment to category B and category C posts.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 47 }, { "number": "43", "title": "43. Power of Council to make regulations.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the tenure of office, salaries and allowances, provident funds, pensions, gratuities, leave of absence and other conditions of service of officers and other employees appointed under this Chapter;\n(b) the powers, duties and functions of Secretary;\n(c) the qualifications of candidates for appointment to posts specified in section 33 and to posts dealt with in the Schedule of posts referred to in sub-section (1) of section 34 and the manner of selection for appointments to such posts;\n(d) the procedure to be followed in imposing any penalty under sub-section (1) of section 39, suspension pending departmental inquiries before the imposition of such penalty and the authority by whom such suspension may be ordered; the officer or authority to whom an appeal shall lie under sub-section (4) of that section;\n(e) any other matter which is incidental to or necessary for, the purpose of regulating the appointment and conditions of service of persons appointed to services and posts under the Council and any other matter for which in the opinion of the Council provisions should be made by regulations.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 48 }, { "number": "50", "title": "CHAPTER VII", "chapter": "CHAPTER VII", "content": "Revenue And Expenditure\nThe New Delhi Municipal Fund", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 49 }, { "number": "44", "title": "44. Constitution of the New Delhi Municipal Fund.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) all funds which immediately before the establishment of the Council vested in the New Delhi Municipal Committee;\n(b) all moneys received by or on behalf of the Council under the provisions of this Act or of any other law for the time being in force, or under any contract;\n(c) all proceeds of the disposal of property by, or on behalf of, the Council;\n(d) all rents accruing from any property of the Council;\n(e) all moneys raised by any tax, rate or cess levied for the purposes of this Act;\n(f) all fees collected and all fines levied under this Act or under any rule, regulation or bye-law made thereunder;\n(g) all moneys received by or on behalf of the Council from the Government or Central Government or any individual or association of individuals by way of grant or gift or deposit;\n(h) all interests and profits arising from any investment of, or from any transaction in connection with, any money belonging to the Council, including loans advanced under this Act; and\n(i) all moneys received by or on behalf of the Council from any other source whatsoever, shall form one Fund to be entitled\" the Municipal Fund of New Delhi\" (hereafter in this Act referred to as\" the New Delhi Municipal Fund\").", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 50 }, { "number": "45", "title": "45. New Delhi Municipal Fund to be kept in the State Bank of India.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 51 }, { "number": "46", "title": "46. Operation of the Accounts.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the Financial Adviser or an officer subordinate to him authorised by the Chairperson in this behalf; and\n(b) the Chairperson or the Secretary or an officer subordinate to the Chairperson authorised by him in this behalf.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 52 }, { "number": "47", "title": "47. Payments not to be made unless covered by a budget-grant.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) refund of taxes and other moneys which are authorised under this Act;\n(b) repayment of moneys belonging to contractors or other persons and held in deposit and of moneys collected or credited to the New Delhi Municipal Fund by mistake;\n(c) sums payable in any of the following circumstances-\n(i) under orders of the Central Government on failure of the Council to take any action as required by that Government; or\n(ii) under any other enactment for the time being in force; or\n(iii) under the decree or order of a civil or criminal court passed against the Council; 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 Chairperson under clause (c) of section 18 to avert a sudden threat of danger to the property of the Council or to human life;\n(d) temporary payments for works urgently required by the Central Government in the public interest;\n(e) sums payable as compensation under this Act or under any rules, regulations or bye-laws made thereunder;\n(f) expenses incurred under section 287 by the Chairperson on special measures taken on the outbreak of dangerous diseases.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 53 }, { "number": "48", "title": "48. 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 47.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 54 }, { "number": "49", "title": "49. Procedure when money not covered by a budget grant is expended.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 55 }, { "number": "50", "title": "50. Application of New Delhi Municipal Fund.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 56 }, { "number": "51", "title": "51. Temporary payments from the New Delhi Municipal Fund for works urgently required for the public service.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 57 }, { "number": "52", "title": "52. Investment of surplus moneys.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 58 }, { "number": "53", "title": "53. Constitution of Finance Commission.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the principles which should govern,-\n(i) the distribution between the National Capital Territory of Delhi and the Council of the net proceeds of the taxes, duties, tolls and fees leviable by the National Capital Territory of Delhi which may be divided between them;\n(ii) the determination of the taxes, duties, tolls and fees which may be assigned to or appropriated by, the Council;\n(iii) the grants- in-aid to the Council from the Consolidated Fund of the National Capital Territory of Delhi;\n(b) the measures needed to improve the financial position of the Council,\n(c) any other matter referred to the Finance Commission by the Administrator in the interest of sound finance of the Council.\nSpecial Funds", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 59 }, { "number": "54", "title": "54. Constitution of special funds.", "chapter": null, "content": "Budget estimates", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 60 }, { "number": "55", "title": "55. Adoption of budget estimates.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 61 }, { "number": "56", "title": "56. Power of Council to alter budget estimates.", "chapter": null, "content": "(i) increase the amount of budget grant under any head;\n(ii) make 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 any other head; or\n(iv) reduce the amount of the budget grant under any head:\n(a) reduce the amount of a budget grant; or\n(b) sanction the transfer of any amount within a budget grant.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 62 }, { "number": "57", "title": "57. Power of Council to re-adjust income and expenditure during the year.", "chapter": null, "content": "ACCOUNTS AND AUDIT\nScrutiny and audit of accounts", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 63 }, { "number": "58", "title": "58. Account to be kept.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 64 }, { "number": "59", "title": "59. Audit.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) audit the accounts of expenditure from the revenue of the Council, expenditure on account of loan works and expenditure incurred out of special funds and shall ascertain whether moneys shown therein as have been disbursed were legally available for, and applicable to, the service or purpose to which they have been applied or charged, and whether the expenditure conforms to the authority which governs it;\n(b) audit the accounts of debts, deposits, sinking funds, advances, suspense and remittance transactions of the Council and report upon those accounts and upon the results of verification of the balance relating thereto.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 65 }, { "number": "67", "title": "CHAPTER VIII", "chapter": "CHAPTER VIII", "content": "Taxation\nLevy of taxes", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 66 }, { "number": "60", "title": "60. Taxes to be imposed by the Council under this Act.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) property tax;\n(b) a tax on vehicles and animals;\n(c) a theatre-tax;\n(d) a tax on advertisements other than advertisements published in the newspapers;\n(e) a duty on the transfer of property; and\n(f) a tax on buildings payable along with the application for sanction of the building plan.\n(a) an education cess;\n(b) a tax on professions, trades, callings and employments;\n(c) a tax on the consumption, sale or supply of electricity;\n(d) a betterment tax on the increase in urban land values caused by the execution of any development or improvement work;\n(e) tolls.\nProperty tax", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 67 }, { "number": "61", "title": "61. Rates of property tax.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 68 }, { "number": "62", "title": "62. Premises in respect of which property tax is to be levied.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) lands and buildings or portions of lands and buildings exclusively occupied and used for public worship or by a society or body for a charitable purpose:\n(b) lands and buildings vested in the Council, in respect of which the said tax, if levied, would under the provisions of this Act be leviable primarily on the Council;\n(c) agricultural lands and buildings (other than dwelling houses).", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 69 }, { "number": "63", "title": "63. Determination of rateable value of lands and buildings assessable to property tax.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 70 }, { "number": "64", "title": "64. Charge for supply of water.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 71 }, { "number": "65", "title": "65. Taxation of Union properties.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 72 }, { "number": "66", "title": "66. Incidence of property tax.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) if the land or building is let, upon the lessor;\n(b) if the land or building is sub-let, upon the superior lessor;\n(c) if the land or building is unlet, upon the person in whom the right to let the same vests:", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 73 }, { "number": "67", "title": "67. Apportionment of liability for property tax when the premises are let or sub-let.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 74 }, { "number": "68", "title": "68. Recovery of property tax from occupiers.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 75 }, { "number": "69", "title": "69. Property tax a first charge on premises on which it is assessed.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) in the case of any land or building held immediately from the Council or Government or Central Government, upon the interest in such land or building of the person liable for such tax and upon the goods and other movable properties, if any, found within or upon such land or building and belonging to such person; and\n(b) in the case of any other land or building, upon such land or building and upon the goods and other movable properties, if any, found within or upon such land or building and belonging to the person liable for such tax.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 76 }, { "number": "70", "title": "70. Assessment list.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 77 }, { "number": "71", "title": "71. Evidential value of assessment list.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 78 }, { "number": "72", "title": "72. 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; or\n(c) by striking out the name of any person not liable for the payment of property tax; or\n(d) by increasing or reducing for adequate reasons the amount of any rateable value and of the assessment thereupon; or\n(e) by making or cancelling any entry exempting any land or building from liability to property 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 building erected, re-erected, altered or added to, after the preparation of the assessment list:", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 79 }, { "number": "73", "title": "73. Preparation of new assessment list.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 80 }, { "number": "74", "title": "74. Notice of transfers.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 81 }, { "number": "75", "title": "75. Notice of erection of building, etc", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 82 }, { "number": "76", "title": "76. Notice of demolition or removal of buildings.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 83 }, { "number": "77", "title": "77. Power of Chairperson to call for information and returns and to enter and inspect premises.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) as to the name and place of residence of the owner or occupier, or of both the owner and occupier of such land or buildings;\n(b) as to the measurements or dimensions of such land or building or of any portion thereof and the rent, if any, obtained for such land or building or any portion thereof; and\n(c) as to the actual cost or other specified details connected with the determination of the value of such land or building.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 84 }, { "number": "78", "title": "78. 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": 85 }, { "number": "79", "title": "79. Assessment in case of amalgamation of premises.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 86 }, { "number": "80", "title": "80. Power of Chairperson to assess separately outhouses and portions of buildings.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 87 }, { "number": "81", "title": "81. Power of Chairperson to employ valuers.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 88 }, { "number": "82", "title": "82. Tax on certain vehicles and animals and rates thereof.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 89 }, { "number": "83", "title": "83. The tax on whom leviable.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) vehicles and animals belonging to the Central Government or to the Government or to the Council used or intended to be used solely for public purposes;\n(b) vehicles intended exclusively for the conveyance free of charge, of the injured, the sick or the dead;\n(c) children' s perambulators or tricycles;\n(d) a cow or a she-buffalo kept for milking for domestic use if the cow or the she-buffalo is the only cow or she-buffalo kept by the owner or the person having possession or control thereof for such milking and is registered in accordance with bye-laws made in this behalf, so, however, that -\n(i) where more cows or, as the case may be, more she buffaloes than one are kept by several such owners or persons constituting a family, the tax under this section shall be levied in respect of all such cows or all such she-buffaloes;\n(ii) where a cow and also a she-buffalo are kept by the owner or the person having the possession or control thereof or by several such owners or persons constituting a family, the tax under this section shall be levied in respect of the cow and the she-buffalo.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 90 }, { "number": "84", "title": "84. Tax when payable.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 91 }, { "number": "85", "title": "85. Power of Chairperson to compound with livery stable keeper, etc, for tax.", "chapter": null, "content": "Theatre-tax", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 92 }, { "number": "86", "title": "86. Theatre-tax.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) that the entire receipts from such performance or show will be devoted to philanthropic, religious or charitable purposes; or\n(b) that the performance or show is of a wholly educational character; or\n(c) that the performance or show is provided for partly educational or partly scientific purposes by a society not conducted or established for profit.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 93 }, { "number": "87", "title": "87. Liability to pay theatre-tax.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 94 }, { "number": "88", "title": "88. Tax on advertisements.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) relates to a public meeting, or to an election to Parliament or the Legislative Assembly of Delhi; or\n(b) is exhibited within the window of any building if the advertisement relates to the trade, profession or business carried on in that building; or\n(c) relates to the trade, profession or business carried on within the land or building upon or over which such advertisement is exhibited or to any sale or letting of such land or building or any effects therein or to any sale, entertainment or meeting to be held on or upon or in the same; or\n(d) relates to the name of the land or building upon or over which the advertisement is exhibited, or to the name of the owner or occupier of such land or building; or\n(e) relates to the business of a railway administration and is exhibited within any railway station or upon any wall or other property of a railway administration; or\n(f) relates to any activity of the Central Government or the Government or the Council.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 95 }, { "number": "89", "title": "89. Prohibition of advertisements without written permission of the Chairperson.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the advertisement contravenes any bye-law made under this Act; or\n(b) the tax, if any, due in respect of the advertisement has not been paid.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 96 }, { "number": "90", "title": "90. Permission of the Chairperson 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 Chairperson;\n(c) if the advertisement or any part thereof falls otherwise than through accident;\n(d) if any addition or alteration is made to, or in the building, wall, hoarding, frame, post or structure upon or over which the advertisement is erected, exhibited, fixed or retained if such addition or alteration involves the disturbance of the advertisement or any part thereof; and\n(e) if the building, wall, hoarding, frame, post or structure over which the advertisement is erected, exhibited, fixed or retained is demolished or destroyed.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 97 }, { "number": "91", "title": "91. Presumption in case of contravention.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 98 }, { "number": "92", "title": "92. Power of Chairperson in case of contravention.", "chapter": null, "content": "Duty on transfer of property", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 99 }, { "number": "93", "title": "93. Duty on transfer of property and method of assessment thereto.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) in the form of a surcharge on the duty imposed by the Stamp Act, 1899 (2 of 1899 ) as in force for the time being in the National Capital Territory of Delhi, on every instrument of the description specified below, and\n(b) at such rate as may be determined by the Council not exceeding five per cent on the amount specified below against such instruments:\nDescription of instrument\nDescription of instrument\nAmount on which duty should be levied\nAmount on which duty should be levied\n(i) Sale of immovable property.\nThe amount of value of the consideration for the sale, as set\n\t\t\t\t\tforth in the instrument.\n(ii) Exchange of immovable property.\nThe value of the property of the greater value, as set forth\n\t\t\t\t\tin the instrument.\n(iii) Gift of immovable property.\nThe value of the property as set forth in the instrument.\n(iv) Mortgage with possession of immovable property.\nThe amount security by the mortgage as set forth in the\n\t\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\t\tthe rent which would be paid or delivered in respect of the\n\t\t\t\t\tfirst fifty years of the lease as set forth in the instrument.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 100 }, { "number": "94", "title": "94. Provisions applicable on the introduction of transfer duty.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) section 27 of the Stamp Act, 1899 (2 of 1899 ), as in force in the National Capital Territory of Delhi shall be read as if it specifically required the particulars to be set forth separately in respect of property situated within and without New Delhi;\n(b) section 64 of the said Act shall be read as if it referred to the Council as well as the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi.\nTax on buildings payable along with the application for sanction of building plans", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 101 }, { "number": "95", "title": "95. Tax on building applications.", "chapter": null, "content": "Other taxes", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 102 }, { "number": "96", "title": "96. Imposition of other taxes.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 103 }, { "number": "97", "title": "97. Supplementary taxation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 104 }, { "number": "98", "title": "98. Time and manner of payment of taxes.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 105 }, { "number": "99", "title": "99. Presentation of bill.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) a tax on vehicles and animals;\n(b) a theatre-tax; and\n(c) a tax on advertisements.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 106 }, { "number": "100", "title": "100. Notice of demand and notice fee.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 107 }, { "number": "101", "title": "101. Penalty in case of default of payment of taxes.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 108 }, { "number": "102", "title": "102. Recovery of tax.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 109 }, { "number": "103", "title": "103. Distress.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the following property shall not be distrained:-\n(i) the necessary wearing apparel and bedding of the defaulter, his wife and children and their cooking and eating utensils;\n(ii) tools of artisans;\n(iii) books of account; or\n(iv) when the defaulter is an agriculturist his implements of husbandry, seed, grain and such cattle as may be necessary to enable the defaulter to earn his livelihood;\n(b) the distress shall not be excessive, that is to say, the property distrained shall be as nearly as possible equal in value to the amount recoverable under the warrant, and if any property has been distrained which, in the opinion of the Chairperson, should not have been distrained it shall forthwith be released.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 110 }, { "number": "104", "title": "104. Disposal of distrained property and attachment and sale of immovable property.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 111 }, { "number": "105", "title": "105. Recovery from a person about to leave New Delhi or Delhi.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 112 }, { "number": "106", "title": "106. Power to institute suit for recovery.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 113 }, { "number": "107", "title": "107. Power of seizure of vehicles and animals in case of non-payment of tax thereon.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 114 }, { "number": "108", "title": "108. Occupiers may be required to pay rent towards satisfaction of property tax.", "chapter": null, "content": "Remission and refund", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 115 }, { "number": "109", "title": "109. Demolition, etc, of buildings.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 116 }, { "number": "110", "title": "110. Remission or refund of tax.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 117 }, { "number": "111", "title": "111. Power to require entry in assessment list of details of buildings.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 118 }, { "number": "112", "title": "112. Notice to be given of the circumstances in which remission or refund is claimed.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 119 }, { "number": "113", "title": "113. What buildings are to be deemed vacant.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 120 }, { "number": "114", "title": "114. Notice to be given of every occupation of vacant land or building.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 121 }, { "number": "115", "title": "115. Appeal against assessment, etc", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 122 }, { "number": "116", "title": "116. Conditions of right to appeal.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the appeal is, in the case of a property tax, brought within thirty days next after the date of authentication of the assessment list under section 70 (exclusive of the time requisite for obtaining a copy of the relevant entries therein) or, as the case may be, within thirty days of the date on which an amendment is finally made under section 72 and, in the case of any other tax, within thirty days next after the date of the receipt of the notice of assessment or of alteration of assessment or, if no notice has been given, within thirty days after the date of the presentation of the first bill or, as the case may be, the first notice of demand in respect thereof;\n(b) the amount, if any, in dispute in the appeal has been deposited by the appellant in the office of the Council.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 123 }, { "number": "117", "title": "117. Condonation of delay in preferring the appeal.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 124 }, { "number": "118", "title": "118. Finality of appellate orders.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 125 }, { "number": "119", "title": "119. Power to inspect for purposes of determining rateable value or tax.", "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 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 theatre-tax is payable or would be payable;\n(d) any land, building or vehicle in or upon which any advertisement liable to tax under this Act is exhibited or displayed.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 126 }, { "number": "120", "title": "120. Composition.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 127 }, { "number": "121", "title": "121. Irrecoverable debts.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 128 }, { "number": "122", "title": "122. Obligation to disclose liability.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) whether such inhabitant is liable to pay any tax imposed by the Council under this Act;\n(b) at what amount he should be assessed; or\n(c) the rateable value of the land or building which he occupies and the name and address of the owner or lessee thereof.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 129 }, { "number": "123", "title": "123. Immaterial error not to affect liability.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 130 }, { "number": "124", "title": "124. General power of exemption.", "chapter": null, "content": "Taxes on entertainment and betting", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 131 }, { "number": "125", "title": "125. Payment of proceeds of entertainment and betting taxes to Council.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 132 }, { "number": "134", "title": "CHAPTER IX", "chapter": "CHAPTER IX", "content": "Borrowing", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 133 }, { "number": "126", "title": "126. Power of Council to borrow.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) for acquiring any land which it has power to acquire;\n(b) for erecting any building which it has power to erect;\n(c) for the execution of any permanent work, the provision of any plant, or the doing of any other thing which it has power to execute, provide or do, if the cost of carrying out the purpose in question ought to be spread over a term of years;\n(d) to pay off any debt due to the Central Government or the Government;\n(e) to repay a loan previously raised under this Act or any other Act previously in force; or\n(f) for any other purpose for which the Council is, by virtue of this Act or any other law for the time being in force, authorised to borrow:\n(i) no loan shall be raised without the previous sanction of the Central Government or without previous publication of the application for sanction under the Local Authorities Loans Act, 1914 (9 of 1914 ), and the rules made thereunder; and\n(ii) the amount of loan, the rate of interest and the terms including the date of floatation, the time and method of the repayment and the like shall be subject to the approval of the Central Government.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 134 }, { "number": "126", "title": "127. Time for repayment of money borrowed under section 126.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 135 }, { "number": "128", "title": "128. Form and effect of debenture.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 136 }, { "number": "129", "title": "129. Payment to survivors of joint payees.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 137 }, { "number": "130", "title": "130. Receipt by joint holders for interest or dividend.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 138 }, { "number": "131", "title": "131. Maintenance and investment of sinking funds.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 139 }, { "number": "132", "title": "132. Application of sinking funds.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 140 }, { "number": "133", "title": "133. Annual statement by Chairperson.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the amount which has been invested during the year under section 131;\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 132, in or towards discharging loans.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 141 }, { "number": "134", "title": "134. Power of Council to consolidate loans.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 142 }, { "number": "135", "title": "135. Priority of payment for interest and repayment of loans over other payments.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 143 }, { "number": "136", "title": "136. Power to make regulations.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 144 }, { "number": "146", "title": "CHAPTER X", "chapter": "CHAPTER X", "content": "Property And Contracts\nProperty", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 145 }, { "number": "137", "title": "137. Acquisition of property.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 146 }, { "number": "138", "title": "138. Acquisition of immovable property by agreement.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 147 }, { "number": "139", "title": "139. Procedure when immovable property cannot be acquired by agreement.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 148 }, { "number": "140", "title": "140. Disposal of movable property.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 149 }, { "number": "141", "title": "141. Disposal of immovable property.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 150 }, { "number": "142", "title": "142. Contracts by the Council.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 151 }, { "number": "143", "title": "143. Procedure for making contracts.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) every such contract shall be made on behalf of the Council by the Chairperson;\n(b) no such contract, for any purpose which in accordance with any provision of this Act the Chairperson may not carry out without the approval or sanction of the Council shall be made by him until and unless such approval or sanction has been duly obtained;\n(c) no contract which will involve an expenditure exceeding ten lakh rupees or such higher amount as the Central Government may from time to time, fix, shall be made by the Chairperson unless the same is previously approved by the Council; and\n(d) every contract made by the Chairperson involving an expenditure exceeding one lakh rupees but not exceeding ten lakh rupees or such higher amount as may be fixed under clause (c) shall be reported by him, within one month after the same has been made to the Council.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 152 }, { "number": "144", "title": "144. Mode of executing contracts.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 153 }, { "number": "155", "title": "CHAPTER XI", "chapter": "CHAPTER XI", "content": "Water Supply, Drainage And Sewage Collection\nGeneral", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 154 }, { "number": "145", "title": "145. Definitions.", "chapter": null, "content": "(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 abutting 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;", "footnote": "", "is_definition": true, "sort_order": 155 }, { "number": "146", "title": "146. Council may 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 New Delhi and of the water resources in or likely to be made available in New Delhi;\n(b) prepare an estimate of the future water supply requirements of New Delhi;\n(c) carry out a survey of the existing quantity of sewage collection;\n(d) formulate proposals as to-\n(i) the existing or future water supply requirements of New Delhi;\n(ii) the existing or future sewage collection requirement in New Delhi including proposals for the manner in which and the place or places at which sewage should be carried and collected.\nWater supply", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 156 }, { "number": "147", "title": "147. Functions in relation to water supplies.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) for ascertaining the sufficiency and wholesomeness of water supplies within New Delhi and receiving bulk supplies of water from the authority prescribed by the Central Government;\n(b) for providing a supply of wholesome water in pipes to every part of New Delhi in which there are houses, for the domestic purposes of the occupants thereof, and for taking the 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 Council to do anything which is not practicable at a reasonable cost or to provide such a supply to any part of New Delhi 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 New Delhi 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": 157 }, { "number": "148", "title": "148. Water supplied for domestic purposes not to be used for non-domestic purposes.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 158 }, { "number": "149", "title": "149. Supply of water for domestic purposes not to include any supply for certain specified purposes.", "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 any ornamental or mechanical purpose;\n(d) for gardens or for purposes of irrigation;\n(e) for making or for watering streets; or\n(f) for building purposes.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 159 }, { "number": "150", "title": "150. Power to supply water for non-domestic purposes.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 160 }, { "number": "151", "title": "151. Use of water for extinguishing fire.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 161 }, { "number": "152", "title": "152. Power to require water supply to be taken.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) to take a connection from the municipal water works adequate for the requirements of the persons occupying or employed in the premises, or to take such additional or enlarged connection or connections from the municipal water works; and\n(b) to provide, supply pipes and water fittings, install and work a pump and do all such works and take all such measures as may, in the opinion of the Chairperson be necessary for the above purposes.\n(a) the size, material and quality of the pipes and water fittings to be provided;\n(b) the position of the pipes and water fittings to be provided;\n(c) the means of access for the inspection of the pipes and water fittings;\n(d) the type of pump that should be installed and the period or periods of the day for which it should be kept working;\n(e) the period within which any or all the requisitions specified in the notice should be carried out.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 162 }, { "number": "153", "title": "153. New premises not to be occupied without arrangement for water supply.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 163 }, { "number": "154", "title": "154. Public gratuitous water supply.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 164 }, { "number": "155", "title": "155. 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, inspect, repair, alter or renew or may at any time remove any main so laid whether by virtue of this section or otherwise:", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 165 }, { "number": "156", "title": "156. Power to lay service pipes, etc", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 166 }, { "number": "157", "title": "157. Provision of fire hydrants.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 167 }, { "number": "158", "title": "158. Supply of water.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 168 }, { "number": "159", "title": "159. Laying of supply pipes, etc", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) he shall give to the Chairperson fourteen days' notice of his intention to lay the necessary supply pipe; and\n(b) he shall lay the supply pipe at his own expense, having first obtained, as respects any land not forming part of a street, the consent of the owners or occupiers thereof: Provided that where any part of the supply pipe is to be laid in a street, he shall not himself break open the street or lay that part of the pipe.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 169 }, { "number": "160", "title": "160. Power to require separate service pipes.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 170 }, { "number": "161", "title": "161. Stopcocks.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) a stopcock in private premises shall be placed as near as is reasonably practicable to the street from which the service pipe enters those premises; and\n(b) a stopcock in a street shall be placed as near to the boundary thereof as is reasonably practicable.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 171 }, { "number": "162", "title": "162. Power of Chairperson to provide meters.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 172 }, { "number": "163", "title": "163. Presumption as to correctness of meters.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 173 }, { "number": "164", "title": "164. Prohibition of waste or misuse of water.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) to be or remain so out of order or so in need of repair, or\n(b) to be or remain so constructed or adapted or to be so used, that the water supplied to him by the Council is or is likely to be wasted, misused or unduly consumed, or contaminated before use, or that foul air or any impure matter is likely to return into any pipe belonging to, or connected with, a pipe belonging to the Council.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 174 }, { "number": "165", "title": "165. Power to enter premises to detect waste or misuse of water.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 175 }, { "number": "166", "title": "166. Power to test water fittings.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 176 }, { "number": "167", "title": "167. Power to close or restrict use of water from polluted source of supply.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 177 }, { "number": "168", "title": "168. Water pipes, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 178 }, { "number": "169", "title": "169. Power to cut off private water supply or to turn off water.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 179 }, { "number": "170", "title": "170. Joint and several liability of owners and occupiers for offence in relation to water supply.", "chapter": null, "content": "Drainage and sewerage", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 180 }, { "number": "171", "title": "171. Public drains, etc., to vest in the Council.", "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 Council has otherwise determined, or does at any time otherwise determine, vest and be deemed always to have vested in the Council.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 181 }, { "number": "172", "title": "172. Control of drains and sewage collection works.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 182 }, { "number": "173", "title": "173. 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 centigrade, 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 a nuisance, or prejudicial to health; or\n(c) any dangerous petroleum.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 183 }, { "number": "174", "title": "174. Application by owners and occupiers to drain into municipal drains.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) to discharge directly or indirectly into any municipal 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 municipal drains is prohibited by or under this Act or any other law; or\n(b) where separate municipal 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 Chairperson, surface water into a 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": 184 }, { "number": "175", "title": "175. Drainage of and rained premises.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) to make a drain emptying into such municipal drain or place;\n(b) to provide and set up all such appliances and fittings as may appear to the Chairperson necessary for the purposes 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 closed 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 close drain and such other appliance or thing in substitution of the existing open drain and other appliance or thing, which is or is likely to be injurious to health;\n(e) to provide and set up all such appliances and fittings as may appear to the Chairperson 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 any lower portion of the premises;\n(f) to carry out any work to improve or re-model an 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 closed cesspool or soakage pit and drain or drains emptying into such cesspool or soakage pit.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 185 }, { "number": "176", "title": "176. New premises not to be erected without drains.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) a drain be constructed of such size, materials and description, at such level and with such fall as shall appear to the Chairperson 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 Chairperson to be necessary for the purposes of gathering or receiving the filth and other polluted 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": 186 }, { "number": "177", "title": "177. 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": 187 }, { "number": "178", "title": "178. Power of Chairperson to close or limit the use of private drains 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 subsoil water only:\n(i) no drain may be closed, discontinued or destroyed by the Chairperson under clause (a) except on condition of his providing another drain equally effectual for the drainage of the premises and communicating with any municipal drain which he thinks fit; and\n(ii) the expenses of the construction of any drain so provided by the Council and of any work done under clause (a) may be paid out of the New Delhi Municipal Fund.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 188 }, { "number": "179", "title": "179. Use of drain by a person other than the 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 it with the aforesaid drain;\n(c) the entry upon the land in which the aforesaid drain is situate with assistants and workmen at all reasonable hours;\n(d) the respective responsibilities of the parties for maintaining, repairing, flushing, cleaning and emptying the aforesaid drain.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 189 }, { "number": "180", "title": "180. Sewage and rain water drains to be distinct.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 190 }, { "number": "181", "title": "181. Power of Chairperson to require own 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 or owners of such buildings with such materials and in such manner as may be approved by the Chairperson, and\n(b) require such paving to be kept in proper repair.\nCollection of sewage", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 191 }, { "number": "182", "title": "182. Appointment of places for the emptying of drains and collection of sewage.", "chapter": null, "content": "Miscellaneous", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 192 }, { "number": "183", "title": "183. Connection with water works and drains not to be made without permission.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 193 }, { "number": "184", "title": "184. Buildings railways and private streets not to be erected or constructed over drains or water works without permission.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 194 }, { "number": "185", "title": "185. Rights of user of property for aqueducts, lines, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 195 }, { "number": "186", "title": "186. 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, re-instate and make good at his own cost and with the least practicable delay, any 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": 196 }, { "number": "187", "title": "187. Power to require railway level, etc., to be raised or lowered.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 197 }, { "number": "188", "title": "188. Power of Chairperson to execute work after giving notice to the person liable.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 198 }, { "number": "189", "title": "189. Power of Chairperson to affix shafts, etc., for ventilation of drain or cesspool.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 199 }, { "number": "190", "title": "190. Power of Chairperson to examine and test drains, etc., believed to be defective.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 200 }, { "number": "191", "title": "191. Bulk receipt of water and delivery of sewage by the Council.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 201 }, { "number": "192", "title": "192. Employment of Government agencies for repairs, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 202 }, { "number": "193", "title": "193. 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": 203 }, { "number": "194", "title": "194. Prohibition of certain acts.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) wilfully obstruct any person acting under the authority of the Council, or the Chairperson, 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 Council; or\n(c) unlawfully obstruct the flow of or flush, draw off, or divert, or take water from any water work belonging to the Council; or\n(d) unlawfully obstruct the flow of, or flush, draw off, divert or take sewage from any sewage work belonging to the Council or break or damage any electrical transmission line maintained by the Council; or\n(e) obstruct any officer or other employee of the Council in the discharge of his duties under this Chapter or refuse or wilfully neglect to furnish him with the means necessary for the making of any entry, inspection, examination or inquiry thereunder in relation to any water or sewage work; or\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 or 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.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 204 }, { "number": "206", "title": "CHAPTER XII", "chapter": "CHAPTER XII", "content": "Electricity Supply", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 205 }, { "number": "195", "title": "195. Functions in relation to electricity supply.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) acquiring supplies of electricity and its distribution to consumers;\n(b) for preparing and carrying out in accordance with rules made in this behalf schemes for distribution of electricity.\n(a) promote the use of all economical methods of transmitting and distributing electricity;\n(b) secure the development of supplies of electricity;\n(c) secure the extension of supplies of electricity to areas without such supplies;\n(d) promote the standardisation of systems of supply and types of electrical fittings;\n(e) promote the simplification and standardisation of methods of charge for supplies of electricity.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 206 }, { "number": "196", "title": "196. Additional functions in relation to electricity supply.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 207 }, { "number": "197", "title": "197. Council to have powers and obligations of licensee under Act 9 of 1910.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 208 }, { "number": "198", "title": "198. Restriction on building and other acts interfering with the works of electric supply.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 209 }, { "number": "199", "title": "199. Power of Council to make arrangements with licensees.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 210 }, { "number": "200", "title": "200. Charges for supply of electricity.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 211 }, { "number": "201", "title": "201. Bulk receipt of electricity by the Council.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 212 }, { "number": "214", "title": "CHAPTER XIII", "chapter": "CHAPTER XIII", "content": "Streets\nConstruction, maintenance and improvement of streets", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 213 }, { "number": "202", "title": "202. Vesting of public streets in the Council.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 214 }, { "number": "203", "title": "203. Functions of Chairperson in respect of public streets.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 215 }, { "number": "204", "title": "204. Disposal of land forming site of public streets permanently closed.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 216 }, { "number": "205", "title": "205. Power to make new public streets.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) lay out and make new public streets;\n(b) construct bridges and sub-ways;\n(c) turn or divert any existing public street; and\n(d) lay down and determine the position and direction of a street or streets in any part of New Delhi notwithstanding that no proposal for the erection of any building in the vicinity has been received.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 217 }, { "number": "206", "title": "206. Minimum width of new public streets.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 218 }, { "number": "207", "title": "207. Power to prohibit or regulate use of public streets for certain kind of traffic.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) prohibit or regulate vehicular traffic in any public street or any portion thereof so as to prevent danger, obstruction or inconvenience to the public or to ensure decongestion or smooth flow or quietness in any locality;\n(b) prohibit or regulate in respect of all public streets, or any particular public street, the transit of any vehicle of such form, construction weight or size or laden with such heavy or unwieldy objects as may be likely to cause injury to the road-ways or any construction thereon, except under such conditions as to time, mode of traction or locomotion, use of appliances for the protection of roadways, number of lights and assistants and other general precautions and upon the payment of such charges as may be specified by the Chairperson generally or specially in each case; and\n(c) prohibit or regulate access to premises from any particular public street carrying high speed vehicular traffic:", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 219 }, { "number": "208", "title": "208. Power to acquire lands 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 Council may think expedient to acquire outside of the regular line, or of the intended regular line, of such street;\n(c) acquire any land for the purpose of laying out or making a public parking place.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 220 }, { "number": "209", "title": "209. Defining the regular line of streets.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) a register containing such particulars as may be specified by him in this behalf with plans attached thereto showing all public streets in respect of which the regular line of the street has been defined or redefined and containing any other particulars which the Chairperson may deem necessary;\n(b) a register of all agreements executed under sub-section (4) and of all deposits made thereunder.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 221 }, { "number": "210", "title": "210. Setting back building to regular line of street.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) to repair, rebuild or construct such building or to take down such building to an extent exceeding one-half thereof above the ground level, such half to be measured in cubic metres; or\n(b) to repair, remove, construct or reconstruct or make any additions to, or structural alterations of, any portion of such building which is within the regular line of the street, by any order which he issues concerning the addition to, rebuilding construction, repair or alterations of, such building, require such building to be set back to the regular line of the street.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 222 }, { "number": "211", "title": "211. Compulsory setting back of building to regular line of street.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 223 }, { "number": "212", "title": "212. Acquisition of open land and land occupied by platform, etc., within the regular line of street.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 224 }, { "number": "213", "title": "213. Acquisition of the remaining part of a building and land after their portions within a regular line of street have been acquired.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 225 }, { "number": "214", "title": "214. Setting forward of buildings to the regular line of street.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 226 }, { "number": "215", "title": "215. Compensation to be paid in certain cases of setting back or setting forward of buildings, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) any increase or decrease in the value of the remainder of the property of which the building or land so acquired formed part, likely to accrue from the setting back to the regular line of the street shall be taken into consideration and allowed for in determining the amount of such compensation;\n(b) if any such increase in the value exceeds the amount of loss sustained or expenses incurred by the owner, the Chairperson may recover from him half the amount of such excess as a betterment charge.\nPrivate streets", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 227 }, { "number": "216", "title": "216. Owner' s obligation when dealing with land as building sites.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 228 }, { "number": "217", "title": "217. Lay-out plans.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the plots into which the land is proposed to be divided for the erection of buildings thereon and the purpose or purposes for which such buildings are to be used;\n(b) the reservation or allotment of any site for any street, open space, park, recreation ground, school, market or any other public purpose;\n(c) the intended level, direction and width of street or streets;\n(d) the regular line of street or streets;\n(e) the arrangement 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 arrangement which have been made or which are in the opinion of the Council likely to be made for carrying out any general scheme of development of New Delhi whether contained in the master plan or a zonal development plan prepared for New Delhi or not; or\n(b) if the said lay-out plan does not conform to the provisions of this Act and bye-laws made thereunder; or\n(c) if any street proposed in the plan is not designed so as to connect at one end with a street which is already open.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 229 }, { "number": "217", "title": "218. Alteration or demolition of street made in breach of section 217.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) require the offender to show cause by a written statement signed by him and sent to the Chairperson on or before such date as may be specified in the notice, why such street should not be altered to the satisfaction of the Chairperson or if such alteration be impracticable, why such street should not be demolished; or\n(b) require the offender to appear before the Chairperson either personally or by a duly authorised agent on such day and at such time and place as may be specified in the notice and show cause as aforesaid.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 230 }, { "number": "219", "title": "219. Power of Chairperson to order work to be carried out or to carry it out himself in default.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 231 }, { "number": "220", "title": "220. Right of owner to require streets to be declared public.", "chapter": null, "content": "Encroachments on streets", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 232 }, { "number": "221", "title": "221. Prohibition of projections upon streets, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) overhang, jut or project into, or in any way encroach upon, and obstruct in any way the safe or convenient passage of the public along any street, or\n(b) jut or project into or encroach upon any drain or open channel in any street so as in any way to interfere with the use or proper working of such drain or channel or to impede the inspection or cleansing thereof.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 233 }, { "number": "222", "title": "222. Projections over streets may be permitted in certain cases.", "chapter": null, "content": "(i) to erect an arcade over such street or any portion thereof; or\n(ii) to put up a verandah, balcony, arch, connecting passage, sunshade, weather frame, canopy, owning or other such structure or thing projecting from any storey over or across any street or portion thereof;", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 234 }, { "number": "223", "title": "223. Ground floor doors, etc., not to open outwards on streets.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 235 }, { "number": "224", "title": "224. Prohibition of structures or fixtures which cause obstruction in street.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 236 }, { "number": "225", "title": "225. Prohibition of deposit, etc, of things in streets.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 237 }, { "number": "226", "title": "226. Power to remove anything deposited or exposed for sale in contravention of this Act.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) any stall, chair, bench, box, ladder, bale, or other thing whatsoever, placed, deposited, projected, attached or suspended in, upon, from or to any place in contravention of this Act.\n(b) any article whatsoever hawked or exposed for sale on any public street or in other public place in contravention of this Act and any vehicle, package, box or any other thing in or on which such article is placed.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 238 }, { "number": "227", "title": "227. Prohibition of the tethering of animals and milking of cattle.", "chapter": null, "content": "Provision concerning execution of works in or near to streets", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 239 }, { "number": "228", "title": "228. Precautions during repair of streets.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) cause the same to be fenced and guarded,\n(b) take proper precautions against accident by shoring up and protecting the adjoining buildings,\n(c) cause such bars, chains or posts to be fixed across or in any street in which any such work of construction or repair is under execution as are necessary in order to prevent the passage of vehicles or animals and avert danger.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 240 }, { "number": "229", "title": "229. Streets not to be opened or broken up and building materials not to be deposited thereon without permission.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) open, break up, displace, take up or make any alteration in, or cause any injury to the soil or pavement or any wall, fence, post, chain or other materials or thing forming part of any street; or\n(b) deposit any building materials in any street; or\n(c) set up in any street any scaffold or any temporary erection for the purpose of any work whatever, or any posts, bars, rails, boards or other things by way of an enclosure, for the purpose of making mortar or depositing bricks, lime, rubbish or other materials.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 241 }, { "number": "230", "title": "230. Disposal of things removed under this Chapter.", "chapter": null, "content": "Naming and numbering of streets and numbering of buildings", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 242 }, { "number": "231", "title": "231. Naming and numbering of streets.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) with the sanction of the Council determine the name or number by which any street or public place vested in the Council 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 Council;\n(d) determine the number or sub-number by which any premises or part of such premises shall be known and cause such number or sub-number to be fixed to the side or outer door of such premises or to some place at the entrance of the enclosure thereof.\nRepair or enclosure of dangerous places", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 243 }, { "number": "232", "title": "232. Chairperson to take steps for repairing or enclosing dangerous places.", "chapter": null, "content": "Lighting of streets", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 244 }, { "number": "233", "title": "233. 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 him;\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 he may determine.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 245 }, { "number": "234", "title": "234. Prohibition of removal, etc., of lamps.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) any lamp or any appurtenance of any lamp or lamp post or lamp iron set up; in any public street or any public place;\n(b) any electric wire for lighting such lamp;\n(c) any post, pole, standard, stay, strut, bracket or other contrivance for carrying, suspending or supporting any electric wire or lamp.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 246 }, { "number": "248", "title": "CHAPTER XIV", "chapter": "CHAPTER XIV", "content": "Building Regulations", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 247 }, { "number": "235", "title": "235. General superintendence, etc., of the Central Government.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 248 }, { "number": "236", "title": "236. Definition.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) to erect a new building on any site whether previously built upon or not;\n(b) to re-erect-\n(i) any building of which more than one-half of the cubical contents above the level of the plinth have been pulled down, burnt or destroyed; or\n(ii) any building of which more than one-half of the superficial area of the external walls above the level of the plinth has been pulled down; or\n(iii) any frame building of which more than-half of the number of the columns or beams in the external walls have been pulled down;\n(c) to convert into a dwelling house any building or any part of a building not originally constructed for human habitation or, if originally so constructed, subsequently appropriated for any other purpose;\n(d) to convert into more than one dwelling house a building originally constructed as one dwelling house only;\n(e) to convert into a place of religious worship or into a sacred building any place or building not originally constructed for such purpose;\n(f) to roof or cover an open space between walls or buildings to the extent of the structure which is formed by the roofing or covering of such space;\n(g) to convert two or more tenements in a building into a greater or lesser number;\n(h) to convert into a stall, shop, warehouse or godown, stable, factory or garage any building not originally constructed for use as such or which was not so used before the change;\n(i) to convert a building which when originally constructed was legally exempt from the operations of any building regulations contained in this Act or in any bye-laws made thereunder or in any other law, into a building which had it been originally erected in its converted form, would have been subject to such building regulations;\n(j) to convert into or use as a dwelling house any building which has been discontinued as or appropriated for any purpose other than, a dwelling house.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": true, "sort_order": 249 }, { "number": "237", "title": "237. Prohibition of building without sanction.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 250 }, { "number": "238", "title": "238. Erection of building.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 251 }, { "number": "239", "title": "239. Applications for additions to, or repairs of, buildings.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) to make any addition to a building;\n(b) to make any alteration or repairs to a building involving the removal or re-erection of any external or partly 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 columns or 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": 252 }, { "number": "240", "title": "240. Conditions of valid notice.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 253 }, { "number": "241", "title": "241. Sanction or refusal of building or work.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) that the building or work or the use of the site for the building or work or any of the particulars comprised in the site plan, ground plan, elevation, section or specification would contravene the provisions of any bye-law made in this behalf or of any other law or rule, bye-law or order made under such other law;\n(b) that the notice for sanction does not contain the particulars or is not prepared in the manner required under the bye-laws made in this behalf;\n(c) that any information or documents required by the Chairperson under this Act or any bye-laws made thereunder has or have not been duly furnished;\n(d) that in cases falling under section 216, lay-out plans have not been sanctioned in accordance with section 217;\n(e) that the building or work would be an encroachment on Central Government or Government land or land vested in the Council;\n(f) that the site of the building or work does not but 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 land on which it is proposed to erect or re-erect such building is vested in the Central Government or Government or in the Council, and the consent of the Government concerned or, as the case may be, of the Council has not been obtained, or if the title of the land is in dispute between such person and the Council or any Government, or for any other reason, to be communicated in writing to the person, which is deemed to be just and sufficient as effecting such building.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 254 }, { "number": "242", "title": "242. When building or work may be proceeded with.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 255 }, { "number": "243", "title": "243. Sanction accorded under misrepresentation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 256 }, { "number": "244", "title": "244. Buildings at corners of streets.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 257 }, { "number": "245", "title": "245. Provisions as to buildings and works on either side of new streets.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 258 }, { "number": "246", "title": "246. Period for completion of building or work.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 259 }, { "number": "247", "title": "247. Order of demolition and stoppage of buildings or works in certain cases and appeal.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 260 }, { "number": "248", "title": "248. Order of stoppage of buildings or works in certain cases.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 261 }, { "number": "249", "title": "249. Power of Chairperson to require alteration of work.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) to make such alterations as may be specified in the said notice with the object of bringing the building or work in conformity with the said sanction, condition or provisions, or\n(b) to show cause why such alterations should not be made, within a period stated in the notice.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 262 }, { "number": "250", "title": "250. Power to seal unauthorised constructions.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) under an order made by the Chairperson under sub-section (2); or\n(b) under an order of an Appellate Tribunal or the Administrator, made in an appeal under this Act.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 263 }, { "number": "251", "title": "251. Completion certificates.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 264 }, { "number": "252", "title": "252. Restrictions on uses of buildings.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) use or permit to be used for human habitation any part of a building not originally erected or authorised to be used for that purpose or not used for that purpose before any alteration has been made therein by any work executed in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the bye-laws made thereunder;\n(b) change or allow the change of the use of any land or building;\n(c) convert or allow the conversion of one kind of tenement into antoher kind.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 265 }, { "number": "253", "title": "253. Appellate Tribunal.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 266 }, { "number": "254", "title": "254. Appeals against certain orders or notices issued under the Act.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) an order according or disallowing sanction to a lay-out plan under section 217;\n(b) an order directing the alteration or demolition of any street under section 218;\n(c) a notice under sub-section (1) of section 219;\n(d) a notice under sub-section (2) of section 221;\n(e) an order directing the disposal of things removed under Chapter XIII or seized under section 248, or an order rejecting the claim of any person for the balance of the proceeds of sale of things so disposed of;\n(f) an order sanctioning or refusing to sanction the erection of any building or the execution of any work under section 241;\n(g) an order withholding sanction under the proviso to sub-section (1) of section 242;\n(h) an order cancelling a sanction under section 243;\n(i) an order requiring the rounding off, splaying or cutting off the height of a building intended to be erected, or for the acquisition of any portion of a site under section 244;\n(j) an order disallowing the erection of any building or the execution of any work under section 245;\n(k) an order requiring the stoppage of any erection or work under section 248;\n(l) an order requiring the alteration of any building or work under section 249;\n(m) an order directing the sealing of unauthorised constructions under section 250;\n(n) an order refusing to grant permission under sub-section (2) of section 251;\n(o) an order granting or refusing permission under section 252;\n(p) any such other order or notice relating to or arising out of planned development under the provisions of this Act as may be prescribed by rules.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 267 }, { "number": "255", "title": "255. Procedure of the Appellate Tribunal.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) summoning and enforcing the attendance of persons and examining them on oath;\n(b) requiring the discovery and inspection of documents;\n(c) receiving evidence on affidavits;\n(d) requisitioning any public record or copies thereof from any court or office;\n(e) issuing commissions for the examination of witnesses or documents; and\n(f) any other matter which may be prescribed by rules.\nand every proceeding of an Appellate Tribunal in hearing or deciding an appeal or in connection with the execution of its order, shall be deemed to be a judicial proceeding within the meaning of sections 193 and 228 and for the purpose of section 196 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860 ), and every Appellate Tribunal shall be deemed to be a Civil Court for the purposes of section 195 and Chapter XXVI of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974 ),", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 268 }, { "number": "256", "title": "256. Appeal against orders of Appellate Tribunal.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 269 }, { "number": "257", "title": "257. Bar of jurisdiction of courts.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 270 }, { "number": "258", "title": "258. Removal of dangerous buildings.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 271 }, { "number": "259", "title": "259. Power to order building to be vacated in certain circumstances.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 272 }, { "number": "260", "title": "260. Power of the Central Government to make bye-laws.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the regulation or restriction of the use of sites for buildings for different areas;\n(b) the regulation or restriction of buildings in different areas;\n(c) the form of notice of erection of any building or execution of any work and the fee in respect of the same;\n(d) the plans and documents to be submitted together with such notice and the information and further information to be furnished;\n(e) the level and width of foundation, level of lowest floor and stability of structure;\n(f) the construction of buildings and the materials to be used in the construction of buildings;\n(g) the height of buildings whether absolute or relative to the width of streets or to different areas;\n(h) the number and height of storeys composing a building and the height of rooms and the dimensions of rooms intended for human habitation;\n(i) the provision of open spaces external and internal, and adequate means of light and ventilation;\n(j) the provision of means of egress in case of fire, fire-escapes and water lifting devices;\n(k) the provision of secondary means of access for the removal of house refuse;\n(l) the materials and methods of construction of external and party walls, roofs and floors;\n(m) the position, materials and methods of construction of hearths, smoke-escapes, chimneys, stair-cases, latrines, drains and cesspools;\n(n) the provision of lifts;\n(o) the paving of yards;\n(p) the restrictions on the use of inflammable materials in buildings;\n(q) the restriction on construction of foundation on certain sites;\n(r) the measures to be taken to protect building from dump arising from sub-soil;\n(s) the wells, tanks and cisterns and pumps for the supply of water for human consumption in connection with buildings;\n(t) in the case of wells, the dimensions of the well, the manner of enclosing it and; if the well is intended for drinking purposes, the means which shall be used to prevent pollution of the water;\n(u) the supervision of buildings;\n(v) the setting back of garages and shops from the regular line of a street;\n(w) the construction of partable structures and permission for such construction.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 273 }, { "number": "275", "title": "CHAPTER XV", "chapter": "CHAPTER XV", "content": "Sanitation And Public Health\nConservancy and sanitation", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 274 }, { "number": "261", "title": "261. Provision for daily cleansing of streets and removal of rubbish and filth.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) for the daily surface-cleansing of all streets and the removal of the sweepings therefrom, and\n(b) for the removal of the contents of all receptacles and depots and of the accumulations at all places provided or appointed by him under the provisions of this Act for the temporary deposit of rubbish, filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 275 }, { "number": "262", "title": "262. Rubbish, etc., to be the property of the Council.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 276 }, { "number": "263", "title": "263. Provision or appointment of receptacles, depots and places for rubbish, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) provide or appoint in proper and convenient situations public receptacles, depots or places for the temporary deposit of rubbish, filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter and for the final disposal of rubbish, filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter;\n(b) provide dustbins for the temporary deposit of rubbish;\n(c) provide vehicles or other suitable means for the removal of rubbish and offensive matter; and", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 277 }, { "number": "264", "title": "264. Duty of owners and occupiers to collect and deposit rubbish, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) to have the premises swept and cleaned;\n(b) to cause all filth, rubbish and other polluted and obnoxious matter to be collected from their respective premises and to be deposited at such times as the Chairperson, by public notice prescribes, in public receptacles, depots or places provided or appointed under section 263 for the temporary deposit or final disposal thereof;\n(c) to provide receptacles of the type and in the manner prescribed by the Chairperson 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": 278 }, { "number": "265", "title": "265. Collection and removal of filth and polluted matter.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 279 }, { "number": "266", "title": "266. 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 accumulating thereon and to remove the same at such times and in such carts or receptacles and by such routes as may be specified in the notice to a depot or place provided or appointed under section 263, 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 Council, be specified in the notice issued under clause (a).", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 280 }, { "number": "267", "title": "267. Prohibition against accumulation of rubbish, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) deposit any rubbish, filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter in any street or on the verandah of any building or on any unoccupied ground alongside any street or on the bank of a water course; or\n(b) deposit any filth or other polluted and obnoxious matter in any dustbin or in any vehicle not intended for the removal of the same; or\n(c) deposit rubbish in any vehicle or vessel intended for the removal of filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 281 }, { "number": "268", "title": "268. Prohibition in respect of air pollutant.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 282 }, { "number": "269", "title": "269. Chairperson' s power to get premises scavenged and cleansed.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 283 }, { "number": "270", "title": "270. Public latrines, urinals, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "Latrines and urinals", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 284 }, { "number": "271", "title": "271. Construction of latrines and urinals.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) whether the premises shall be served by the service system or by the flush system or partly by the one and partly by the other; and\n(b) what shall be the site or position of each latrine or urinal.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 285 }, { "number": "272", "title": "272. Latrines and urinals, etc., in new buildings.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) that such building shall be served by the flush system only;\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": 286 }, { "number": "273", "title": "273. Latrines and urinals for labourers, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 287 }, { "number": "274", "title": "274. Provision of latrines and urinals for markets, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 288 }, { "number": "275", "title": "275. Other provisions as to private latrines.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) require the owner or other person having the control of any private latrine or urinal not to put the same to public use; or\n(b) require the owner or other person having the control of such private latrine or urinal which in the opinion of the Chairperson 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 clean in such manner as the Chairperson may prescribe in the notice any latrine or urinal belonging to the land or building; or\n(d) where any premises intended or used for human habitation are without any latrine or urinal accommodation or are provided with insufficient latrine or urinal accommodation, require the owner, lessee or occupier of such premises to provide such or such additional latrine or urinal accommodation as he may prescribe, if necessary by causing any part of such premises to be vacated and demolished in accordance with bye-laws made in this behalf.\nRemoval of congested buildings and buildings unfit for human habitation", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 289 }, { "number": "276", "title": "276. Removal of congested buildings.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 290 }, { "number": "277", "title": "277. Power of Chairperson to require improvement of building unfit for human habitation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 291 }, { "number": "278", "title": "278. Enforcement of notice requiring execution of works of improvement.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 292 }, { "number": "279", "title": "279. Power of Chairperson to order demolition of buildings unfit for human habitation.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) repair;\n(b) stability;\n(c) freedom from damp;\n(d) natural light and air;\n(e) water supply;\n(f) drainage and sanitary conveniences;\n(g) facilities for storage, preparation and cooking of food and for the disposal of rubbish, filth and other polluted matter, and the building shall be deemed to be unfit as aforesaid if it is so far defective, in one or more of the said matters that it is not reasonably suitable for occupation in that condition.\n(a) necessary repairs;\n(b) structural alterations;\n(c) provision of light points and water taps;\n(d) construction of drains, open or covered;\n(e) provision of latrines and urinals;\n(f) provision of additional or improved fixtures and fittings;\n(g) opening up or paving of courtyard;\n(h) removal of rubbish, filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter;\n(i) any other work including the demolition of any building or any part thereof which, in the opinion of the Chairperson, is necessary for executing any of the works specified above.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 293 }, { "number": "280", "title": "280. Insanitary huts and sheds.", "chapter": null, "content": "Regulation of washing by washermen", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 294 }, { "number": "281", "title": "281. Prohibition against washing by washerman.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 295 }, { "number": "282", "title": "282. Obligation to give information of dangerous disease.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 296 }, { "number": "283", "title": "283. Removal to hospital of patients, suffering from dangerous disease.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) without proper lodging or accommodation; or\n(b) living in a room or house which he neither owns or pays rent for nor occupies as the guest or relative of any person who owns, or pays rent for it; or\n(c) living in a sarai, dharamshala, hotel, boarding house, hostel, guest house, lodging house, club; or\n(d) lodged in premises occupied by members of two or more families;\nthe Chairperson 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 a general duty medical officer remove the patient to any hospital or place at which persons suffering from such diseases are received for medical treatment and may do anything necessary for such removal.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 297 }, { "number": "284", "title": "284. Disinfection of buildings and articles.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 298 }, { "number": "285", "title": "285. Destruction of infectious huts or sheds.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 299 }, { "number": "286", "title": "286. Means of disinfection.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) provide proper places with necessary attendants and apparatus for the disinfection of conveyances, clothing, bedding and other articles which have been exposed to infection;\n(b) cause conveyances, clothing and other articles brought for disinfection to be disinfected either free of charge or on payment of such charges as he may fix.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 300 }, { "number": "287", "title": "287. Special measures in case of out-break of dangerous or epidemic diseases.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) take such special measures; and\n(b) by public notice, give such directions to be observed by the public or by any class or section of the public, as he thinks necessary to prevent the outbreak or spread of the disease: Provided that where in the opinion of the Chairperson immediate measures are necessary, he may take action, without such sanction as aforesaid and if he does so, shall forthwith report such action to the Council.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 301 }, { "number": "288", "title": "288. Infected clothes not to be sent to washerman or to laundry.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 302 }, { "number": "289", "title": "289. Contamination and disinfection of public conveyance.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) uses a public conveyance while suffering from a dangerous disease; or\n(b) uses a public conveyance for the carriage of a person who is suffering from any dangerous disease; or\n(c) uses a public conveyance for the carriage of the corpse of a person who has died from any such disease, shall be bound to take proper precautions against the communication of the disease to other persons using or who may thereafter use the conveyance and to notify such use to the owner, driver, or person in charge of the conveyance, and further report without delay to the Chairperson the number of the conveyance and the name of the person so notified.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 303 }, { "number": "290", "title": "290. Driver of conveyance not bound to carry persons suffering from dangerous disease.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 304 }, { "number": "291", "title": "291. Disinfection of buildings before letting the same.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 305 }, { "number": "292", "title": "292. Disposal of infected articles without disinfection.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 306 }, { "number": "293", "title": "293. 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": 307 }, { "number": "294", "title": "294. Power to restrict or prohibit sale of food or drink.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 308 }, { "number": "295", "title": "295. 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": 309 }, { "number": "296", "title": "296. Duty of persons suffering from dangerous disease.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) knowing that he is suffering from a dangerous disease expose other persons to the risk of infection by his presence or conduct in any public street or public place;\n(b) having the care of a person whom he knows to be suffering from a dangerous disease, cause or permit that person to expose other persons to the risk of infection by his presence or conduct in any such street or place as aforesaid;\n(c) place or cause to be placed in a dustbin or other receptacle for the deposit of rubbish, any matter which he knows to have been exposed to infection from a dangerous disease and which has not been disinfected properly;\n(d) throw or cause to be thrown into any latrine or urinal any matter which he knows to have been exposed to infection from a dangerous disease and which has not been disinfected properly.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 310 }, { "number": "297", "title": "297. Disposal of infectious corpses where any person has died from any dangerous disease.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) require any person having charge of the corpse to convey the same to mortuary thereafter to be disposed of in accordance with law, or\nSpecial conditions regarding essential services", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 311 }, { "number": "298", "title": "298. Conditions of service of sweepers and certain other class of persons employed in municipal service.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 312 }, { "number": "299", "title": "299. Conditions of service of sweepers employed for doing house scavenging.", "chapter": null, "content": "Burning and burial grounds", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 313 }, { "number": "300", "title": "300. Power to call for information regarding burning and burial grounds.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 314 }, { "number": "301", "title": "301. Permission for use of new burning or burial ground.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 315 }, { "number": "302", "title": "302. Power to require closing of burning and burial grounds.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 316 }, { "number": "303", "title": "303. Removal of corpses.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 317 }, { "number": "304", "title": "304. Disposal of dead animals.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) convey the carcass to a place provided or appointed under section 263 for the final disposal of the carcasses of dead animals, or\n(b) give notice of the death to the Chairperson whereupon he shall cause the carcass to be disposed of on such fee as may be prescribed by the Council.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 318 }, { "number": "320", "title": "CHAPTER XVI", "chapter": "CHAPTER XVI", "content": "Vital Statistics", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 319 }, { "number": "305", "title": "305. Appointment of Chief Registrar, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 320 }, { "number": "306", "title": "306. Duties of registrar.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 321 }, { "number": "307", "title": "307. Information of births and deaths.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 322 }, { "number": "324", "title": "CHAPTER XVII", "chapter": "CHAPTER XVII", "content": "Public Safety And Suppression Of Nuisances\nNuisances", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 323 }, { "number": "308", "title": "308. 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 matter wilfully or negligenty 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, flags or other materials of any such street, or any lamp bracket, direction-post, hydrant or water-pipe maintained by the Council in any such street or place or extinguish a public light; or\n(ix) carry rubbish, filth or other polluted and obnoxious matter at any hour prohibited by the Chairperson by public notice, or in any pattern of cart or receptacle which has not been approved for the purpose by the Chairperson, or fail to close such cart or receptacle when in use; or\n(b) carry rubbish, filth or other polluted and obnoxious matter along any route in contravention of any prohibition made in this behalf by the Chairperson by public notice; or\n(c) deposit or cause or permit to be deposited, earth or materials of any description or any rubbish or polluted and obnoxious matter in any place not intended for the purpose in any public street or public place or waste or unoccupied land under the control and management of the Council; or\n(d) make any grave or burn or bury any corpse at any place not set apart for such purpose; or\n(e) at any time or place at which the same has been prohibited by the Chairperson by public or special notice, beat a drum or tom-tom, or blow a horn or trumpet, or beat any utensil, or sound any brass or other instrument, or play any music; or\n(f) disturb the public peace or order by singing, screaming or shouting, or by using any apparatus for amplifying or reproducing the human voice, such as a megaphone or a loudspeaker; or\n(g) let loose any animal so as to cause, or negligently allow any animal to cause injury, danger, alarm or annoyance to any person; or\n(h) save with the written permission of the Chairperson and in such manner as he may authorise, store or use night-soil, cowdung, manure, rubbish or any other substance emitting an offensive smell; or\n(i) use or permit to be used as a latrine or urinal any place not intended for that purpose.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 324 }, { "number": "309", "title": "309. Power of Chairperson to require removal or abatement of nuisance.", "chapter": null, "content": "Dogs", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 325 }, { "number": "310", "title": "310. Registration and control of dogs.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) require the registration, by the registration authority appointed by the Chairperson in this behalf of all dogs kept within New Delhi.\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 and fee payable for the issue thereof;\n(c) require that any dog which has not been registered or which is not wearing such token shall, if found in any public place, be detained at a place set apart for the purpose; and\n(d) fix the fee which shall be charged for such detention and provide that any such dog shall be liable to be destroyed or otherwise disposed of unless it is claimed and the fee in respect thereof is paid within one week.\n(a) cause to be destroyed, or to be confined for such period as he may direct, any dog or other animal which is, or is reasonably suspected to be, suffering from rabies, or which has been bitten by any dog or other animal suffering or suspected to be suffering from rabies;\n(b) by public notice direct that, after such date as may be specified in the notice, dogs which are without collars or without marks distinguishing them as private property and are found straying on the streets or beyond the enclosures of the houses of their owners, if any, may be destroyed and cause them to be destroyed accordingly.\n(a) he knows that the dog is likely to annoy or intimidate any person, or\n(b) the Chairperson has, by public notice during the prevalence of rabies, directed that dogs shall not be at large without muzzles and chain leads.\n(a) allow any ferocious dog which 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 an animal suffering or reasonably suspected to be suffering from rabies, fail or neglect to give immediate information of the fact to the Chairperson or give information which is false.\nPrevention of fire, etc.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 326 }, { "number": "311", "title": "311. Stacking or collecting inflammable materials.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 327 }, { "number": "312", "title": "312. Care of naked lights.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 328 }, { "number": "313", "title": "313. Discharging fireworks, fire-arms, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 329 }, { "number": "314", "title": "314. Power to require buildings, wells, etc., to be rendered safe.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 330 }, { "number": "315", "title": "315. Enclosure of waste land used for improper purpose.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 331 }, { "number": "333", "title": "CHAPTER XVIII", "chapter": "CHAPTER XVIII", "content": "Markets, Trades And Occupations\nMaintenance and regulations of markets", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 332 }, { "number": "316", "title": "316. Provision of municipal market.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 333 }, { "number": "317", "title": "317. Use of municipal markets and slaughter house.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 334 }, { "number": "318", "title": "318. Private markets.", "chapter": null, "content": "(i) to restrict the slaughter of any animal in any place on the occasion of any religious festival or ceremony, subject to such conditions (non-compliance with which shall be punishable under this Act) as the Chairperson may, by public or special notice, impose in this behalf, or\n(ii) to prevent the Chairperson, with the sanction of the Council, from setting apart place for the slaughter of animal in accordance with religious custom.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 335 }, { "number": "319", "title": "319. Conditions of grant of licence for private market.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 336 }, { "number": "320", "title": "320. Prohibition of keeping market open without licence, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 337 }, { "number": "321", "title": "321. Prohibition of use of unlicensed markets.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 338 }, { "number": "322", "title": "322. Prohibition of business and trade near a market.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 339 }, { "number": "323", "title": "323. Levy of stallages, rents and fees.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) charge such stallages, rents and fees as may from time to time be fixed by him in this behalf-\n(i) for the occupation or use of any stall, shop, stand, shed or pen in a municipal market or municipal slaughter house;\n(ii) for the right to expose articles for sale in a municipal market;\n(iii) for the use of machines, weights, scales and measures provided for in any municipal market; and\n(iv) for the right to slaughter animals in any municipal slaughter house, and for the feed of such animals before they are ready for slaughter; or\n(b) farm the stallages, rents and fees chargeable as aforesaid or any portion thereof for such period as he thinks fit; or\n(c) put up to public auction or dispose by the private sale the privilege of occupying or using any stall, shop, 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": 340 }, { "number": "324", "title": "324. Power to expel disturbers, etc., from markets.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 341 }, { "number": "325", "title": "325. Butcher' s fish-monger' s and poulter's licence.", "chapter": null, "content": "(ii) The Chairperson may remove and sell by auction or otherwise dispose of any animal or carcass of any animal or any flesh seized under clause (i) of this sub-section.\n(iii) If within one month of such seizure the owner of the animal, carcass or flesh fails to appear and prove his claim to the satisfaction of the Chairperson or if the owner is convicted of an offence under this Act in respect of such animal, carcass or flesh, the proceeds of any sale under clause (i) of this sub-section shall vest in the Council.\n(iv) Any person slaughtering any animal or selling or exposing for sale the flesh of any such animal in any place or manner not duly authorised under the provisions of this Act may be arrested by any police officer without a warrant.\n(v) No claim shall lie against any person for compensation for any damage necessarily caused by any such entry or by the use of any force necessary for affecting such entry.\nTrades and occupations", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 342 }, { "number": "326", "title": "326. Factory, etc., not to be established without permission of the Chairperson.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 343 }, { "number": "327", "title": "327. Premises not to be used for certain purposes without licence.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) any of the purposes specified in Part I of the Ninth Schedule;\n(b) any purpose which is, in the opinion of the Chairperson 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 Ninth Schedule except for domestic use of any of those articles:", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 344 }, { "number": "328", "title": "328. Seizure of certain animals.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 345 }, { "number": "327", "title": "329. Power of Chairperson to prevent use of premises in particular areas for purposes referred to in section 327.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 346 }, { "number": "330", "title": "330. Licences for hawking articles, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) hawk or expose for sale in any place any article whatsoever whether it be for human consumption or not;\n(b) use in any place his skill in any handicraft or for rendering services to and for the convenience of the public for the purposes of gain or making a living.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 347 }, { "number": "331", "title": "331. Eating houses, etc, not to be used without licence from the Chairperson.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 348 }, { "number": "332", "title": "332. Licensing and control of theatres, circuses and places of public amusement.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 349 }, { "number": "333", "title": "333. Power of Chairperson to stop use of premises used in contravention of licences.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 350 }, { "number": "352", "title": "CHAPTER XIX", "chapter": "CHAPTER XIX", "content": "Improvement", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 351 }, { "number": "334", "title": "334. Improvement scheme.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) that the buildings in that area are by reason of disrepair or sanitary defects unfit for human habitation or are by reason of their bad arrangement, or the narrowness or bad arrangement of the streets or the want of light, air, ventilation or proper conveniences, dangerous or injurious to the health of the inhabitants of the area; and\n(b) that the most satisfactory method of dealing with the conditions in the area is the re-arrangement and reconstruction of the streets and buildings in the area in accordance with an improvement scheme, he may frame an improvement scheme in respect of the area in accordance with the bye-laws made in this behalf.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 352 }, { "number": "335", "title": "335. Matters to be provided for in an improvement scheme.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the acquisition by agreement or under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (1 of 1894 ), of any property necessary for or affected by the execution of the scheme;\n(b) the relaying out of any land comprised in the scheme;\n(c) the redistribution of sites belonging to owners of property comprised in the scheme;\n(d) the closure or demolition of buildings or portions of buildings unfit for human habitation;\n(e) the demolition of obstructive buildings or portions thereof;\n(f) the construction and reconstruction of buildings;\n(g) the construction and alteration of streets;\n(h) the water supply, street lighting, electric supply, drainage and other conveniences;\n(i) the provision of open spaces for the benefit of any area comprised in the scheme;\n(j) the sanitary arrangements required for the area comprised in the scheme;\n(k) the provision of accommodation for any class of the inhabitants;\n(l) the provision of facilities for communication;\n(m) the sale, letting or exchange of any property comprised in the scheme;\n(n) any other matter for which, in the opinion of the Chairperson 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": 353 }, { "number": "336", "title": "336. Submission of improvement scheme to the Council for approval and to the Central Government for sanction.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 354 }, { "number": "337", "title": "337. Rehousing scheme.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 355 }, { "number": "338", "title": "338. Improvement scheme and rehousing scheme to comply with the master plan and zonal development plan.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 356 }, { "number": "358", "title": "CHAPTER XX", "chapter": "CHAPTER XX", "content": "Powers, Procedure, Offences And Penalties\nLicences and written permissions", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 357 }, { "number": "339", "title": "339. 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 shall be accorded 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.\nEntry and inspection", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 358 }, { "number": "340", "title": "340. Powers of entry and inspection.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) for the purpose of ascertaining whether there is or has been on or in connection with the land or building any contravention of the provisions of this Act, rules, regulations or any bye-law made there-under;\n(b) for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not circumstances exist which would authorise or require the Chairperson or any municipal officer or employee authorised or empowered in this behalf to take any action or execute any work under this Act, rules, regulations 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, rules, regulations or bye-laws made thereunder;\n(d) to make any inquiry, inspection, examination, measurement, valuation or survey authorised or required by or under this Act, rules, regulations or bye-laws made thereunder or necessary for the proper administration of this Act;\n(e) generally for the purpose of efficient discharge of the functions by the Council under this Act, rules, regulations or any bye-law made thereunder.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 359 }, { "number": "341", "title": "341. Power to enter land adjoining land in relation to any work.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 360 }, { "number": "342", "title": "342. Breaking into building.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) if he considers the opening thereof necessary for the purpose of such entry; and\n(b) if the owner or occupier is absent or being present refuses to open such door, gate or barrier.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 361 }, { "number": "343", "title": "343. Time of making entry.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 362 }, { "number": "344", "title": "344. Consent ordinarily to be obtained.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 363 }, { "number": "345", "title": "345. Regard to be had to social or religious usages.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 364 }, { "number": "346", "title": "346. Prohibition of obstruction or molestation in execution of work.", "chapter": null, "content": "Public notices and advertisements", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 365 }, { "number": "347", "title": "347. Public notices how to be made known.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 366 }, { "number": "348", "title": "348. Newspapers in which advertisements or notices to be published.", "chapter": null, "content": "Evidence", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 367 }, { "number": "349", "title": "349. Proof of consent, etc., of Chairperson.", "chapter": null, "content": "Notices, etc.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 368 }, { "number": "350", "title": "350. Notices, etc., to fix reasonable time.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 369 }, { "number": "351", "title": "351. Signature on notices, etc., may be stamped.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 370 }, { "number": "352", "title": "352. Notices, etc. by whom to be served or issued.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 371 }, { "number": "353", "title": "353. Services of notices, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) where the person to be served is a company, if the document is addressed to the secretary of the company at its registered office or at its principal office or place of the business and is either-\n(i) sent by registered post, or\n(ii) delivered at the registered office or at the principal office or place of business of the company;\n(b) where the person to be served is a partnership 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 as 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 National Capital Territory of Delhi, or is given or tendered to some adult member of his family or is affixed on some conspicuous part of the land or building, if any, to which it relates, or\n(iii) is sent by registered post to that person.\n(a) if the document so addressed is sent or delivered in accordance with clause (d) of sub-section (1); or\n(b) if the document so addressed or a copy thereof so addressed, is delivered to some person on the land or building or, where there is no person on the land or building to whom it can be delivered, is affixed to some conspicuous part of the land or building.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 372 }, { "number": "354", "title": "354. Service of bills for tax or notice of demand by ordinary post.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 373 }, { "number": "355", "title": "355. Powers in case of non-compliance with notice, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "Recovery of expenses", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 374 }, { "number": "356", "title": "356. Liability of occupier to pay in default of owner.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 375 }, { "number": "357", "title": "357. Execution of work by occupier in default of owner and deduction of expenses from rent.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 376 }, { "number": "358", "title": "358. Relief to agents and trustees.", "chapter": null, "content": "Payment of compensation", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 377 }, { "number": "359", "title": "359. General power to compensation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 378 }, { "number": "360", "title": "360. Compensation to be paid by offenders for damage caused by them.", "chapter": null, "content": "Recovery of expenses or compensation in case of dispute", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 379 }, { "number": "361", "title": "361. Reference to the court of the district judge in certain cases.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) to the Appellate Tribunal, if such demand relates to the expenses incurred in taking necessary action or steps for the completion of any act or work required to be done or executed in the event of non-compliance with any notice, order or requisition under sections 221, 229, 247, 248 and 249;\n(b) to the court of the district judge of Delhi, in any other case.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 380 }, { "number": "362", "title": "362. Application to the court of the district judge in other cases.", "chapter": null, "content": "Recovery of certain dues", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 381 }, { "number": "363", "title": "363. Mode of recovery of certain dues.", "chapter": null, "content": "Obstruction of owner by occupier", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 382 }, { "number": "364", "title": "364. Right of owner to apply to the court of the district judge in case of obstruction by occupier.", "chapter": null, "content": "Proceedings before the court of the district judge", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 383 }, { "number": "365", "title": "365. General powers and procedure of the court of the district judge.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 384 }, { "number": "366", "title": "366. Fees in proceedings before the court of the district judge.", "chapter": null, "content": "(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": 385 }, { "number": "367", "title": "367. Repayment of half fees on settlement before hearing.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 386 }, { "number": "368", "title": "368. Power of the court of the district judge to delegate certain powers and to make rules.", "chapter": null, "content": "Offences and penalties", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 387 }, { "number": "369", "title": "369. 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 Tenth Schedule; or\n(b) fails to comply with any order or direction lawfully given to him or any requisition lawfully made upon him under any of the said sections, sub-sections, clauses, provisos or other provisions, shall be punishable-\n(i) with fine which may extend to the amount or with imprisonment for a term which may extend to the period, specified in that behalf in third column of the said Table or with both; and\n(ii) in the case of a continuing contravention or failure, with an additional fine which may extend to the amount specified in the fourth column of that Table for every day during which such contravention or failure continues after conviction for the first such contravention or failure.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 388 }, { "number": "370", "title": "370. General penalty.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 389 }, { "number": "371", "title": "371. 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": 390 }, { "number": "372", "title": "372. Certain offences to be cognizable.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) an offence under sub-section (5) of section 217 or section 237 or sub-section (1) of section 238 or sub-section (1) of section 239 or section 247 or section 248 or section 249 or section 252;\n(b) an offence under sub-section (1) of section 221 or sub-section (1) of section 224 or sub-section (1) of section 225 or sub-section (1) of section 229 or section 244 in relation to any street which is a public street, as if it were a cognizable offence-\n(i) for the purposes of investigation of such offence; and\n(ii) for the purposes of all matters other than-", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 391 }, { "number": "373", "title": "373. Prosecutions.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) under sub-section (5) of section 217 or section 237 or sub-section (1) of section 238 or sub-section (1) of section 239 or section 247 or section 248 or section 249 or section 252 except on the complaint of or upon information received from, such officer of the Council, not being below the rank of a Secretary as may be appointed by the Chairperson.\n(b) under sub-section (1) of section 221 or sub-section (1) of section 224 or sub-section (1) of section 225 or sub-section (1) of section 229 or section 244, if any such offence was committed in relation to any street which is a public street, except on the complaint of, or upon information received from, such officer of the Council, not being below the rank of a Secretary as may be appointed by the Chairperson;\n(c) other than those specified in clauses (a) and (b) except on the complaint of, or upon information received from the Chairperson or a person authorised by him by a general or special order in this behalf.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 392 }, { "number": "374", "title": "374. Composition of offences.", "chapter": null, "content": "Magistrates and proceedings before magistrates", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 393 }, { "number": "375", "title": "375. Municipal magistrates.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 394 }, { "number": "376", "title": "376. Cognizance of offences.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 395 }, { "number": "377", "title": "377. Limitation of time for prosecution.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the date of the commission of the offence; or\n(b) the date on which the commission or existence of such offence was first brought to the notice of the complainant.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 396 }, { "number": "378", "title": "378. Power of magistrate to hear cases in absence of accused when summoned to appear.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) service of the summons is proved to his satisfaction, and\n(b) no sufficient cause is shown, for the non-appearance of such person.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 397 }, { "number": "379", "title": "379. Complaints concerning nuisances.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 398 }, { "number": "380", "title": "380. Procedure to be followed by magistrate regarding complaints concerning nuisances.", "chapter": null, "content": "Powers and duties of police officers", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 399 }, { "number": "381", "title": "381. 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": 400 }, { "number": "382", "title": "382. Duties of police officers.", "chapter": null, "content": "Legal proceedings", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 401 }, { "number": "383", "title": "383. Power to institute, etc, legal proceedings and obtain legal advice.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) take, or withdraw from, proceedings against any person who is charged with-\n(i) any offence against this Act or any rules, regulation or bye-law made thereunder; or\n(ii) any offence which affects or is likely to affect any property or interest of the Council or the due administration of this Act; or\n(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, compromise proceedings under sections 360, 361 and 362 for recovery of expenses or compensation claimed to be due to the Council;\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 Council or against the Chairperson or a municipal officer or municipal employee in respect of anything done or omitted to be done by any one of them in his official capacity;\n(f) with the approval of the Council admit or compromise any claim, suit or other legal proceeding brought against the Council or against the Chairperson or any officer or other employee in respect of anything done or omitted to be done as aforesaid;\n(g) withdraw or compromise any claim against any person in respect of a penalty payable under a contract entered into with such person by the Chairperson on behalf of the Council;\n(h) institute and prosecute any suit or other legal proceeding, or with the approval of the Council withdraw from or compromise any suit or any claim for any sum not exceeding five hundred rupees which has been instituted or made in the name of the council or the Chairperson;\n(i) obtain such legal advice and assistance as he from time to time thinks necessary or expedient to obtain or as he may be required by the Council 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 officer or other municipal employee.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 402 }, { "number": "384", "title": "384. Protection of action of the Council, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 403 }, { "number": "385", "title": "385. Notice to be given of suits.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 404 }, { "number": "406", "title": "CHAPTER XXI", "chapter": "CHAPTER XXI", "content": "Rules, Regulations And Bye-Laws", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 405 }, { "number": "386", "title": "386. Supplemental provisions respecting rules.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 406 }, { "number": "387", "title": "387. Supplemental provisions respecting regulations.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 407 }, { "number": "388", "title": "388. Power to make bye-laws.", "chapter": null, "content": "A. Bye-laws relating to taxation\n(1) the maintenance of tax books and registers by the Chairperson 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 Council from time to time;\n(4) the requisition by the Chairperson of information and returns from persons liable to pay taxes;\n(5) the notice to be given to the Chairperson 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 persons liable to pay any tax under this Act;\n(8) the collection by the registrar or sub-registrar of Delhi appointed under the Registration Act, 1908 of the additional stamp duty payable to the Council under this Act, the periodical payment of such duty to the council and the maintenance by such registrar or sub-registrar of separate accounts in relation thereto;\n(9) 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 collection\n(1) the power of the Chairperson to close water works for the supply of water, whether for domestic purposes or not, or for gratuitous use and to prohibit the sale and use of water for purpose of business;\n(2) the connection of supply pipes for conveying to any premises a supply of water from a municipal water works;\n(3) the making and renewing connections with municipal water works;\n(4) the power of the Chairperson to take charge of private connections;\n(5) the power of the Chairperson to alter the position of connections;\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 unauthorised 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 Chairperson;\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 cesspools;\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 Council 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 Council 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 mainhole 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 electric supply\n(1) all matters relating to the conduct and management in respect of electricity supply;\n(2) the provisions for electric sub-stations in New Delhi.\nD. 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 erections of a temporary nature during festivals;\n(3) the setting up of hoards 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 condition;\n(5) the permission, regulation or prohibition or use or occupation of any street or place by it, itinerant vendors or hawkers or 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 of streets for which provision is necessary or should be made.\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 or places used for various purposes;\n(3) the white-washing of buildings;\n(4) 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(5) the seizure of ownerless animals straying within the limits of New Delhi and the regulation and control of pounds;\n(6) the fixing and regulation of the use of public bathing and washing places;\n(7) the prevention of the spread of dangerous disease;\n(8) the segregation in or the removal or exclusion from any part of New Delhi or the destruction of animals suffering or reasonably suspected to be suffering from any infectious or contagious disease;\n(9) 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(10) the enforcement of compulsory vaccination and inoculation;\n(11) 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 New Delhi Municipal Fund;\n(12) the provision of living accommodation for sweepers in buildings newly erected requiring ten or more latrines;\nF. Bye-laws relating to vital statistics\n(1) the prescribing of qualifications of persons to be appointed as chief registrar, additional chief registrar and registrar under Chapter XVI;\n(2) the registration of births and deaths and marriages and taking of a census.\nG. Bye-laws relating to public safety and suppression of nuisances\nH. Bye-laws relating to markets, slaughter houses, trades and occupations\n(1) the days on, and 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 house the materials to be used in the construction thereof;\n(3) the keeping of markets and the slaughter house 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 provision of passages of sufficient width between the stalls in market buildings and market places for the convenient use of the public and the prevention of encroachment of such passages;\n(5) the setting apart of separate areas for different classes of article in market buildings and market places;\n(6) the proper custody and care of animals for the keeping of which licences are granted under section 327;\n(7) the regulation of the import of animals and flesh within New Delhi;\n(8) the rendering necessary of licences for the use of premises within New Delhi 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(9) the regulation of sarais, hotels, hostels, guest houses, 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 resort;\n(10) the control and supervision of places where dangerous or offensive trades are carried on so as to secure cleanliness therein or to minimise injurious, offencive or dangerous effects arising or likely to arise therefrom;\n(11) the regulation of the posting of bills and advertisements and of the position, size, shade or style of the name boards, sign boards, hoarding and sign-posts;\n(12) the fixation of a method for the sale of articles whether by measure, weight, piece or any other method;\n(13) the procedure regarding the grant of permit to establish a factory, workshop or trade premises;\n(14) the regulation of smoke in factories, workshops and trade premises;\n(15) the regulation of sanitary conditions in factories, workshops, and trade premises;\n(16) 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(17) the prevention of nuisance in any market building, market place, or any factory, workshop or trade premises.\nI. Bye-laws relating to improvement\n(1) the form and content 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 schemes;\n(3) the local enquiries and other hearings that may be held before a scheme is framed, approved or sanctioned;\n(4) the alteration of an improvement scheme or a rehousing scheme after approval and sanction.\nJ. Bye-laws relating to miscellaneous matters\n(1) the circumstances and the manner in which owners of land or building in New Delhi 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, persons residing within or near New Delhi;\n(2) the maintenance of schools and the furtherance of education generally;\n(3) the regulation and control of municipal dispensaries;\n(4) the rendering necessary of licences-\n(a) for the proprietors or drivers of hackney-carriages; cycle-rickshaws, thelas and rehries kept or plying for hire or used for hawking articles;\n(b) for persons working as job-porters for the conveyance of goods;\n(5) the classification of cinema theatres for the purpose of the Third Schedule;\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 provisions or makes insufficient provision and provision is, in the opinion of the Council necessary for the efficient municipal government of New Delhi.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 408 }, { "number": "389", "title": "389. Regulations and bye-laws to be laid before Parliament.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 409 }, { "number": "390", "title": "390. Penalty for breaches of bye-laws.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees; and\n(b) with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees and in the case of a continuing contravention, with an additional fine which may extend to twenty rupees for every day during which such contravention continues after conviction for the first such contravention;\n(c) with fine which may extend to twenty rupees for every day during which the contravention continues, after the receipt of a notice from the Chairperson or any municipal 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": 410 }, { "number": "391", "title": "391. Supplemental provisions respecting bye-laws.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 411 }, { "number": "392", "title": "392. Bye-laws to be available for inspection and purchase.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 412 }, { "number": "414", "title": "CHAPTER XXII", "chapter": "CHAPTER XXII", "content": "Control", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 413 }, { "number": "393", "title": "393. 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 Council;\n(c) to furnish or obtain and furnish any report.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 414 }, { "number": "394", "title": "394. Inspection.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 415 }, { "number": "395", "title": "395. Directions by Central Government.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) that any duty imposed on the Council 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 Council within such period as it thinks fit, to make arrangements to its satisfaction for the proper performance of the duty, or as the case may be, to make financial provision, to its satisfaction for the performance of the duty and the Council shall comply with such direction:", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 416 }, { "number": "395", "title": "396. Power to provide for enforcement of direction under section 395.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 417 }, { "number": "397", "title": "397. Power of Central Government to give directions in relation to primary schools, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 418 }, { "number": "398", "title": "398. Dissolution of the Council.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) in the performance of, the duties imposed on it by or under this Act or any other law, or exceeds or abuses its power; or\n(b) fails to deliver efficient service to the public and generally in regard to the municipal administration, or\n(c) to comply with the directions given to the Council by the Central Government in regard to matters relating to clauses (a) and (b), the Central Government may by an order published, together with a statement of the reasons therefor, in the Official Gazette, dissolve the Council: Provided that the Council shall be given reasonable opportunity of being heard before its dissolution.\n(a) all members shall, on the date of dissolution, vacate their offices as such members;\n(b) during the period of dissolution of the Council, all powers and duties conferred and imposed upon the Council by or under this Act or any other law, shall be exercised and performed by such officer or authority as the Central Government may appoint in that behalf; and\n(c) all property vested in the Council shall, until it is reconstituted, vest in the Central Government.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 419 }, { "number": "421", "title": "CHAPTER XXIII", "chapter": "CHAPTER XXIII", "content": "Miscellaneous", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 420 }, { "number": "399", "title": "399. Delegation of power by the Central Government.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 421 }, { "number": "400", "title": "400. Power to delegate functions of Chairperson.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 422 }, { "number": "401", "title": "401. Validity of notices and other documents.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 423 }, { "number": "402", "title": "402. Admissibility of document or entry as evidence.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 424 }, { "number": "403", "title": "403. Evidence of Municipal officer or employee.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 425 }, { "number": "404", "title": "404. Prohibition against obstruction of any municipal authority.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 426 }, { "number": "405", "title": "405. Prohibition against removal of mark.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 427 }, { "number": "406", "title": "406. Prohibition against removal or obliteration of notice.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 428 }, { "number": "407", "title": "407. Prohibition against unauthorised dealings with public place or materials.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 429 }, { "number": "408", "title": "408. Liability of Chairperson, etc, for loss, waste or misapplication of New Delhi Municipal Fund or property.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 430 }, { "number": "409", "title": "409. Members and municipal officers and employees to be public servants.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 431 }, { "number": "410", "title": "410. Annual administration report.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 432 }, { "number": "411", "title": "411. Other laws not to be disregarded.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 433 }, { "number": "412", "title": "412. Exemption of diplomatic or consular missions from payment of tax, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 434 }, { "number": "413", "title": "413. Construction of references.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 435 }, { "number": "414", "title": "414. Council to undertake work on agency basis.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 436 }, { "number": "415", "title": "415. Power to remove difficulties.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 437 }, { "number": "416", "title": "416. Repeal and savings.", "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 Act referred to in sub-section (1) of this section and in force immediately before the establishment of the Council, shall, in so far as it is not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act continue in force and be deemed to have been made, issued or granted, under the provisions of this Act, unless and until it is superseded by any appointment, notification, order, scheme, 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 New Delhi Municipal Committee before the establishment of the Council shall be deemed to have been incurred, entered into or engaged to be done by, with or for the Council under this Act;\n(c) all budget estimates, assessments, valuations, measurements or divisions made by the New Delhi Municipal committee 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 Council under the said provisions;\n(d) all properties, movable and immovable and all interests of whatsoever nature and kind therein, vested in the New Delhi Municipal Committee immediately before the establishment of the Council shall with all rights of whatsoever description, use, enjoyed or possessed by New Delhi Municipal Committee vest in the Council;\n(e) all rates, taxes, fees, rents and other sums of money due to the New Delhi Municipal Committee immediately before the establishment of the Council shall be deemed to be due to the Council;\n(f) all rates, taxes, fees, rents, fares and other charges shall, until and unless they are varied by the Council continue to be levied at the same rate at which they were being levied by the New Delhi Municipal Committee immediately before the commencement of this Act;\n(g) all suits, prosecutions and other legal proceedings instituted or which might have been instituted by or against the New Delhi Municipal Committee may be continued or instituted by or against the Council.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 438 }, { "number": "417", "title": "417. Expenditure in connection with the Council from the commencement of this Act to the adoption of the budget by the Council.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 439 }, { "number": "418", "title": "418. Transitory provision.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 440 }, { "number": "419", "title": "419. Repeal of Ordinance 8 of 1994.", "chapter": null, "content": "THE FIRST SCHEDULE\n[See Section 2(27)]\nBOUNDARIES OF NEW DELHI\nBOUNDARIES OF NEW DELHI\nTHE SECOND SCHEDULE\n(See section 82)\nRATES OF TAXES LEVIABLE ON VEHICLES AND ANIMALS\nRATES OF TAXES LEVIABLE ON VEHICLES AND ANIMALS\nMaximum amount of tax per annum\nFor vehicles eith pneumatic tyres\nFor vehicles without pneumatic tyres\nRs.\nRs.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 441 }, { "number": "1", "title": "1. Each four wheeled vehicle drawn by camels, horses, ponies,\n\t\t\t\t\tmules, donkeys bullocks or buffaloes -", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) Labour carts\n12\n24\n(b) Other vehicles in this class\n32\n48", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 442 }, { "number": "2", "title": "2. Each two wheeled vehicle drawn by camels, horses, ponies,\n\t\t\t\t\tmules, donkeys, bullocks or buffaloes-", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) Labour carts\n8\n16\n(b) Other vehicles in this class\n16\n24", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 443 }, { "number": "3", "title": "3. Each vehicle drawn or impelled otherwise than by camel,\n\t\t\t\t\thorses, ponies, mules, donkeys, buffaloes or machinery.", "chapter": null, "content": "8\n12\nMaximum amount of tax per annum", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 444 }, { "number": "4", "title": "4. Each cycle rickshaw", "chapter": null, "content": "6", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 445 }, { "number": "5", "title": "5. Each bicycle", "chapter": null, "content": "3", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 446 }, { "number": "6", "title": "6. Each Camels", "chapter": null, "content": "10", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 447 }, { "number": "7", "title": "7. Each horse, pony or mule of a height of 12 hand or upwards", "chapter": null, "content": "20", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 448 }, { "number": "8", "title": "8. Each horse, pony or mule of a height of less\tthan 12 hands", "chapter": null, "content": "10", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 449 }, { "number": "9", "title": "9. Each bullock or buffalo kept for draught or pack purposes", "chapter": null, "content": "8", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 450 }, { "number": "10", "title": "10. Each donkey/ass kept for draught or pack purposes or for\n\t\t\t\t\triding", "chapter": null, "content": "6", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 451 }, { "number": "11", "title": "11. Each pig", "chapter": null, "content": "4", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 452 }, { "number": "12", "title": "12. Each dog", "chapter": null, "content": "5", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 453 }, { "number": "13", "title": "13. Each she-buffalo kept for milking", "chapter": null, "content": "50", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 454 }, { "number": "14", "title": "14. Each cow kept for milking", "chapter": null, "content": "30\nTHE THIRD SCHEDULE\n(See section 86)\nTHEATRE-TAX\nTHEATRE-TAX\nType of\n\t\t\t\t\tentertainment\nType of\n\t\t\t\t\tentertainment\nMaximum amount of tax\nMaximum amount of tax", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 455 }, { "number": "1", "title": "1. Class I cinema theatre", "chapter": null, "content": "Rs. 10 per show.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 456 }, { "number": "2", "title": "2. Class II cinema theatre", "chapter": null, "content": "Rs. 7 per show.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 457 }, { "number": "3", "title": "3. Drama, concert, circus, variety entertainment or tamasha", "chapter": null, "content": "Rs. 7 per show.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 458 }, { "number": "4", "title": "4. Carnival or fete", "chapter": null, "content": "Rs. 10 per day.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 459 }, { "number": "5", "title": "5. Any other entertainment", "chapter": null, "content": "Rs. 7 per show or if there are no separate shows Rs.7 per\n\t\t\t\t\tday.\nTHE FOURTH SCHEDULE\n[See section 88(1)]\nTAX ON ADVERTISEMENTS OTHER THAN ADVERTISEMENTS PUBLISHED IN THE NEWSPAPERS\nTAX ON ADVERTISEMENTS OTHER THAN ADVERTISEMENTS PUBLISHED IN THE NEWSPAPERS\nSl. No.\nSl. No.\nParticulars\nParticulars\nMaximum amount of tax per annum\nMaximum amount of tax per annum\nRs.\n1.\nNon-illuminated advertisements on land, building, wall,\n\t\t\t\t\thoardings, frame post, structures, etc: -\n(a) For a space upto 10 sq. ft.\n18\n(b) For a space over 10 sq. ft. and upto 25 sq. ft.\n30\n(c) For every additional 25 sq. ft. or less\n30\n2.\nNon-illuminated advertisements carried on vehicles, drawn by\n\t\t\t\t\tbullocks, horses or other animals, human beings, cycle or any\n\t\t\t\t\tother device, carried on any vehicle or tramcar -\n(a) For space upto 50 sq. ft.\n120\n(b) For every additional 50 sq. ft. or less\n120\n3.\nIlluminated advertisement boards carried on vehicles -\n(a) For a space upto 50 sq. ft.\n240\n(b) For every additional 50 sq. ft. or less\n240\n4.\nNon-illuminated advertisement boards, carried by sandwich\n\t\t\t\t\tboardmen -\n(a) For each board not exceeding 10 sq.. ft.\n24\n(b) For each board exceeding 10 sq. ft. and upto 35 sq. ft.\n48\n(c) For each additional 10 sq. ft. in area or less\n24\n5.\nIlluminated advertisements boards, carried by sandwich\n\t\t\t\t\tboardmen -\n(a) For each board not exceedings 10 sq. ft.\n48\n(b) For each board exceeding 10 sq. ft. and upto 25 sq. ft.\n96\n(c) For each additional 10 sq. ft. or less.\n48\n6.\nIlluminated advertisements on land, building, wall or\n\t\t\t\t\thoarding, frame, post, structures etc -\n(a) For a space over 2 sq. ft.\n24\n(b) For a space over 2 sq. ft. and upto 5 sq. ft.\n48\n(c) For a space over 5 sq. ft. and upto 25 sq. ft.\n60\n(d) For every additional 25 sq. ft. or less.\n60\n7.\nAdvertisements exhibited on screen in cinema houses and other\n\t\t\t\t\tpublic places by means of lantern slides or similar devices -\n(a) For a space upto 5 sq. ft.\n96\n(b) For a space over 5 sq. ft. and upto 25 sq. ft.\n120\n(c) For every additional 25 sq. ft. or less\n120\n8.\nNon-Illuminated advertisements suspended across streets -\n(a) For a space upto 10 sq. ft.\n18\n(b) For a space over 10 sq. ft. and upto 25 sq. ft.\n30\n(c) For every additional 25 sq. ft. or less\n30\nN.B. The tax for item 3 will be in addition to the space will\n\t\t\t\t\tbe chargeable according to the scale to be determined by the\n\t\t\t\t\tChairperson.\n9.\nNon-Illuminated advertisements hoarding standing blank but\n\t\t\t\t\tbearing the name of the advertiser or with the announcement \"To\n\t\t\t\t\tbe let\" displayed thereon\n(a) For a space upto 10 sq. ft.\n9\n(b) For a space over 10 sq. ft. and upto 25 sq.ft.\n15\n(c) For every additional 25 sq. ft. or less\n15\n10.\nPermission to auctioneers to put up not more than two boards\n\t\t\t\t\tor reasonable size advertising each auction sale, other than\n\t\t\t\t\tthose in premises where the auction is held, one on a prominent\n\t\t\t\t\tsite in the locality and one on municipal lamp post.\n200 including the\n\t\t\t\t\trent for exhibiting the board on a municipal of lamp post.\nTHE FIFTH SCHEDULE\n[See section 95(1)]\nTAX ON BUILDING APPLICATIONS\nTAX ON BUILDING APPLICATIONS\nS. No.\nS. No.\nArea\nArea\nFor the first storey\nFor the first storey\nFor the second storey or any subsequent storey.\nFor the second storey or any subsequent storey.\nRs.\nRs. per storey\n1.\nFor a ground area up to 100 sq. yds.\n20\n40\n2.\nFor a ground area of more than 100 sq. yds. but not exceeding\n\t\t\t\t\t250 sq. yds.\n60\n120\n3.\nFor a ground area of more than 250 sq. yds. but not exceeding\n\t\t\t\t\t500 sq. yds.\n150\n300\n4.\nFor a ground area of more than 500 sq. yds. but not exceeding\n\t\t\t\t\t1,000 sq. yds.\n300\n600\n5.\nFor a ground area of more than 1,000 sq. yds.\n600\n1500\nTHE SIXTH SCHEDULE\n[See section 100(1)]\nNOTICE OF DEMAND\nNOTICE OF DEMAND\nShri /Shrimati ............................................................................................................................ residing at .........................................................................................................................................\nDated this .......................day of.......................20...................\n(Signed)\nChairperson\nNew Delhi Municipal Council\nTHE SEVENTH SCHEDULE\n[See section 102(1)]\nFORM OF WARRANT\nFORM OF WARRANT\n(Here insert the Name of the Officer Charged with the Execution of the Warrant)\nDated this .......................day of.......................20.......................\n(Signed)\nChairperson\nNew Delhi Municipal Council\nDescription of immovable property\nTHE EIGHTH SCHEDULE\n[See section 103(2)]\nFORM OF INVENTORY OF PROPERTY DISTRAINED AND NOTICE OF SALE.\nFORM OF INVENTORY OF PROPERTY DISTRAINED AND NOTICE OF SALE.\nShri /Shrimati ............................................................................................................................\nresiding at ..................................................................................................................................\nDated this .......................day of......................., 20...........\n(Signature of officer executing the warrant)\nTHE NINTH SCHEDULE\n[See section 327(1)]\nPART I\nPURPOSES FOR WHICH PREMISES MAY NOT BE USED WITHOUT A LICENCE\nPURPOSES FOR WHICH PREMISES MAY NOT BE USED WITHOUT A LICENCE", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 460 }, { "number": "1", "title": "1. Baking", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 461 }, { "number": "2", "title": "2. Cinematograph films, Shooting of -", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 462 }, { "number": "3", "title": "3. Cinematograph films by any process whatsoever. Treating of -", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 463 }, { "number": "4", "title": "4. Chillies or masala or corn or seeds. Grinding of by mechanical means -", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 464 }, { "number": "5", "title": "5. Cloth, yarn or leather in indigo or in other colours. Dyeing or printing of-", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 465 }, { "number": "6", "title": "6. Cloth or yarn Bleaching -", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 466 }, { "number": "7", "title": "7. Eating house or a catering establishment. Keeping of an -", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 467 }, { "number": "8", "title": "8. Grain. Parching-", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 468 }, { "number": "9", "title": "9. Ground-nut-seeds, tamarind seeds or any other seeds. Parching -", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 469 }, { "number": "10", "title": "10. Hair dressing saloon or a barber's shop, keeping of a -", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 470 }, { "number": "11", "title": "11. Hides or skins, whether raw or dried. Tanning, pressing or packing -", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 471 }, { "number": "12", "title": "12. Laundry shop. Keeping a -", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 472 }, { "number": "13", "title": "13. Leather goods. Manufacturing of by mechanical means -", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 473 }, { "number": "14", "title": "14. Litho press. Keeping a -", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 474 }, { "number": "15", "title": "15. Lodging house. Keeping of a -", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 475 }, { "number": "16", "title": "16. Metal. Casting -", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 476 }, { "number": "17", "title": "17. Precious metals. Refining of or recovering of them from embroideries -", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 477 }, { "number": "18", "title": "18. Printing press. Keeping a -", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 478 }, { "number": "19", "title": "19. Sweetmeat shop except in premises already licensed as an eating house. Keeping -", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 479 }, { "number": "20", "title": "20. Carrying on the trade or business of or any operation connected with the trade of -", "chapter": null, "content": "(i) Autocar or autocycle servicing or repairing.\n(ii) Blacksmithy.\n(iii) Coppersmithy.\n(iv) Electroplating.\n(v) Glass bevelling.\n(vi) Glass cutting.\n(vii) Glass polishing.\n(viii) Goldsmithy.\n(ix) Marble cutting, grinding, dressing or polishing.\n(x) Metal (ferrous or non-ferrous or antimony but excluding previous metal) cutting or treating metal by hammering, drilling, pressing, 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) Stone grinding, cutting, dressing or polishing.\n(xvi) Timber or wood sawing or cutting by mechanical or electrical power.\n(xvii) Tinsmithy.\n(xviii) Washerman's trade.\n(xix) Welding of metal by electric, gas or any process whatsoever.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 480 }, { "number": "21", "title": "21. Manufacturing, parching, packing, pressing, cleaning, cleansing, boiling, melting, grinding or preparing by any process whatever any of the following articles -", "chapter": null, "content": "(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) Linseed oil.\n(xxxvi) Matches for lighting (including Bengal matches).\n(xxxvii) mattresses and pillows.\n(xxxviii) Offal.\n(xxxix) Oil-cloth.\n(xl) Oil other than petroleum (either by mechanical power or by hand power or ghani driven by bullock or any other animal).\n(xli) Pharmaceutical or medical products.\n(xlii) Rubbers or rubber goods.\n(xliii) Paints.\n(xliv) Paper or cardboard.\n(xlv) Pickers from hides.\n(xlvi) Pitch.\n(xlvii) Plastic goods.\n(xlviii) Pottery by hand power.\n(xlix) Pottery by mechanical or any power other than hand power.\n(1) Sanitary-ware or china-ware.\n(Ii) Soap.\n(Iii) Sugar.\n(liii) Sweetmeat and confectionery goods.\n(liv) Tallow.\n(lv) Tar.\n(Ivi) Varnishes.\n(lvii) Wooden furniture, boxes, barrels, khokas, or other articles of wood or of plywood or sandalwood.\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", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 481 }, { "number": "1", "title": "1. Asafoetida.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 482 }, { "number": "2", "title": "2. Ashses.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 483 }, { "number": "3", "title": "3. Bamboos.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 484 }, { "number": "4", "title": "4. Bidi leaves.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 485 }, { "number": "5", "title": "5. Blasting powder.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 486 }, { "number": "6", "title": "6. Blood.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 487 }, { "number": "7", "title": "7. Bones, bone meal or bone powder.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 488 }, { "number": "8", "title": "8. Champhor.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 489 }, { "number": "9", "title": "9. Carbide of calcium.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 490 }, { "number": "10", "title": "10. Cardboard.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 491 }, { "number": "11", "title": "11. Celluloid or celluloid goods.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 492 }, { "number": "12", "title": "12. Charcoal.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 493 }, { "number": "13", "title": "13. Chemicals, liquid.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 494 }, { "number": "14", "title": "14. Chemicals, non-liquid.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 495 }, { "number": "15", "title": "15. Chillies.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 496 }, { "number": "16", "title": "16. Chlorate mixture.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 497 }, { "number": "17", "title": "17. Cinematograph films-non-inflammable or accetate or safety base.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 498 }, { "number": "18", "title": "18. Cloth in pressed bales or boras.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 499 }, { "number": "19", "title": "19. Cloth or clothes of cotton, wool silk, art silk, etc", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 500 }, { "number": "20", "title": "20. Coal.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 501 }, { "number": "21", "title": "21. Coconut fibre.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 502 }, { "number": "22", "title": "22. Coke.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 503 }, { "number": "23", "title": "23. Compound gas, such as oxygen gas, hydrogen gas, nitrogen gas, carbon dioxide gas, sulphur dioxide gas, chlorine gas, accetylene gas, etc", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 504 }, { "number": "24", "title": "24. Copra.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 505 }, { "number": "25", "title": "25. Cotton including Kahok, surgical cotton and silky cotton.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 506 }, { "number": "26", "title": "26. Cotton refuse or waste or cotton yarn refuse or waste.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 507 }, { "number": "27", "title": "27. Cotton seed.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 508 }, { "number": "28", "title": "28. Detonators.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 509 }, { "number": "29", "title": "29. Dry leaves.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 510 }, { "number": "30", "title": "30. Dynamite.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 511 }, { "number": "31", "title": "31. Explosive paint such as nitro-cellulose paint, lacquer paint, enamel paint, etc", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 512 }, { "number": "32", "title": "32. Fat.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 513 }, { "number": "33", "title": "33. Felt.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 514 }, { "number": "34", "title": "34. Fines.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 515 }, { "number": "35", "title": "35. Firewood.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 516 }, { "number": "36", "title": "36. Fireworks.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 517 }, { "number": "37", "title": "37. Fish (dried).", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 518 }, { "number": "38", "title": "38. Flax.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 519 }, { "number": "39", "title": "39. Fulminate.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 520 }, { "number": "40", "title": "40. Fulminate of mercury.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 521 }, { "number": "41", "title": "41. Fulminate of silver.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 522 }, { "number": "42", "title": "42. Gelatine.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 523 }, { "number": "43", "title": "43. Gelignite.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 524 }, { "number": "44", "title": "44. Grass.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 525 }, { "number": "45", "title": "45. Gun-cotton.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 526 }, { "number": "46", "title": "46. Gunpowder.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 527 }, { "number": "47", "title": "47. Gunny Bags.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 528 }, { "number": "48", "title": "48. Hair.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 529 }, { "number": "49", "title": "49. Hay or fodder.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 530 }, { "number": "50", "title": "50. Hemp.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 531 }, { "number": "51", "title": "51. Hessian cloth (gunny-bag cloth).", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 532 }, { "number": "52", "title": "52. Hides (dried).", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 533 }, { "number": "53", "title": "53. Hides (raw).", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 534 }, { "number": "54", "title": "54. Hoofs.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 535 }, { "number": "55", "title": "55. Horns.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 536 }, { "number": "56", "title": "56. Incense or esas.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 537 }, { "number": "57", "title": "57. Jute.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 538 }, { "number": "58", "title": "58. Khokas, boxes barrels, furniture or any other article of wood.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 539 }, { "number": "59", "title": "59. Lacquer.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 540 }, { "number": "60", "title": "60. Leather.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 541 }, { "number": "61", "title": "61. Matches for lighting (including Bengal matches).", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 542 }, { "number": "62", "title": "62. Methylated spirit, denatured spirit or French polish.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 543 }, { "number": "63", "title": "63. Netro-cellulose.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 544 }, { "number": "64", "title": "64. Netro-compound.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 545 }, { "number": "65", "title": "65. Netro-glycerine.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 546 }, { "number": "66", "title": "66. Netro-mixture.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 547 }, { "number": "67", "title": "67. Offal.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 548 }, { "number": "68", "title": "68. Oil, other than petroleum.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 549 }, { "number": "69", "title": "69. Oilseeds including almonds, but excluding cotton seeds.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 550 }, { "number": "70", "title": "70. Old paper or waste paper including old newspaper, periodicals, magazines, etc", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 551 }, { "number": "71", "title": "71. Packing stuff (paper cuttings, husk, saw dust, etc).", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 552 }, { "number": "72", "title": "72. Paints.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 553 }, { "number": "73", "title": "73. Papery other than old paper in pressed bales or loose or in reams.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 554 }, { "number": "74", "title": "74. Petroleum, other than dangerous petroleum, as defined in the Petroleum Act, 1934.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 555 }, { "number": "75", "title": "75. Phosphorus.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 556 }, { "number": "76", "title": "76. Plastic or plastic goods.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 557 }, { "number": "77", "title": "77. Plywood.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 558 }, { "number": "78", "title": "78. Rags, including small peices or cuttings of cloth, hessian cloth, gunny-bag cloth, silk, art silk or woollen cloth.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 559 }, { "number": "79", "title": "79. Rosin or dammar Battar otherwise known as Ral.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 560 }, { "number": "80", "title": "80. Safety fuses, fog signals, cartridges, etc", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 561 }, { "number": "81", "title": "81. Saltpetre.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 562 }, { "number": "82", "title": "82. Sandalwood.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 563 }, { "number": "83", "title": "83. Silk waste, or silk yarn waste, art silk waste, or art silk yarn waste.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 564 }, { "number": "84", "title": "84. Sisal fibre.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 565 }, { "number": "85", "title": "85. Skins (raw or dried).", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 566 }, { "number": "86", "title": "86. Straw.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 567 }, { "number": "87", "title": "87. Sulphur.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 568 }, { "number": "88", "title": "88. Tallow.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 569 }, { "number": "89", "title": "89. Tar, pitch, dammar or bitumen.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 570 }, { "number": "90", "title": "90. Tarpauline.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 571 }, { "number": "91", "title": "91. Thinner.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 572 }, { "number": "92", "title": "92. Timber.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 573 }, { "number": "93", "title": "93. Turpentine.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 574 }, { "number": "94", "title": "94. Varnish.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 575 }, { "number": "95", "title": "95. Wool (raw).", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 576 }, { "number": "96", "title": "96. Yarn other than waste yarn.", "chapter": null, "content": "THE TENTH SCHEDULE\n[See section 369(1)]\nPENALTIES\nPENALTIES\nTABLE\nTABLE\nSection, sub-section, clause or proviso\nSection, sub-section, clause or proviso\nSubject\nSubject\nFine or imprisonment which may be imposed\nFine or imprisonment which may be imposed\nDaily fine which may imposed\nDaily fine which may imposed\n1\n1\n2\n2\n3\n3\n4\n4\nRs.\nRs.\nRs.\nRs.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 577 }, { "number": "74", "title": "Section 74, 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\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 578 }, { "number": "74", "title": "Section 74, sub-section (3)", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to produce instrument of transfer\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 579 }, { "number": "75", "title": "Section 75", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to give notice of erection of new building, etc\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 580 }, { "number": "76", "title": "Section 76", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to give notice of demolition or removal of building\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 581 }, { "number": "77", "title": "Section 77", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to furnish information,\n\t\t\t\t\tetc\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 582 }, { "number": "81", "title": "Section 81, sub-section (2)", "chapter": null, "content": "Willful delay or obstruction of valuers\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 583 }, { "number": "89", "title": "Section 89", "chapter": null, "content": "Prohibition of advertisement without permission\n200\n5", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 584 }, { "number": "114", "title": "Section 114", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to give notice of vacant land or building\n50\n5", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 585 }, { "number": "119", "title": "Section 119, sub-section (2)", "chapter": null, "content": "Non-compliance with the requisition of attendance before the\n\t\t\t\t\tChairperson\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 586 }, { "number": "122", "title": "Section 122", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to disclose liability\n100\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 587 }, { "number": "148", "title": "Section 148", "chapter": null, "content": "Use for non-domestic purposes of water supplied for domestic\n\t\t\t\t\tpurposes\n100\n5", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 588 }, { "number": "152", "title": "Section 152, sub-section (1)", "chapter": null, "content": "Non-compliance with the requisition to take water supply\n200\n20", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 589 }, { "number": "153", "title": "Section 153", "chapter": null, "content": "Prohibition to occupy new premises without arrangement for\n\t\t\t\t\twater supply\n200\n20", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 590 }, { "number": "164", "title": "Section 164", "chapter": null, "content": "Water or misuse of water\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 591 }, { "number": "165", "title": "Section 165", "chapter": null, "content": "Refusal of admittance, etc\n100\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 592 }, { "number": "168", "title": "Section 168, sub-section (1)", "chapter": null, "content": "Laying of water piper, etc, in a positionwhere pipes may be\n\t\t\t\t\tinjured or water therein polluted\n100\n10", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 593 }, { "number": "168", "title": "Section 168, sub-section (2)", "chapter": null, "content": "Construction of latrines, etc, in a position where pipes may\n\t\t\t\t\tby injured or water therein polluted\n100\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 594 }, { "number": "173", "title": "Section 173", "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 drain\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 595 }, { "number": "174", "title": "Section 174, sub-section (2)", "chapter": null, "content": "Private drain not to be connected with municipal drain\n\t\t\t\t\twithout notice\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 596 }, { "number": "175", "title": "Section 175", "chapter": null, "content": "Non-compliance with requisition for drainage of undrained\n\t\t\t\t\tpremises\n100\n25", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 597 }, { "number": "176", "title": "Section 176", "chapter": null, "content": "Erection of new premises without drain\n1000\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 598 }, { "number": "177", "title": "Section 177", "chapter": null, "content": "Non-compliance with requisition of maintenance of drainage\n\t\t\t\t\tworks for any group or block of premises\n50\n5", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 599 }, { "number": "178", "title": "Section 178", "chapter": null, "content": "Non-compliance with directions to close or limit the use of\n\t\t\t\t\tprivate drains in certain cases\n50\n5", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 600 }, { "number": "179", "title": "Section 179", "chapter": null, "content": "Non-compliance with Chairperson's orders regarding the use of\n\t\t\t\t\ta drain by a person other than the owner thereof\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 601 }, { "number": "180", "title": "Section 180", "chapter": null, "content": "Non-compliance with requisition for keeping sewage and rain\n\t\t\t\t\twater drains distinct\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 602 }, { "number": "181", "title": "Section 181", "chapter": null, "content": "Non-compliance with requisition for the pavement of\n\t\t\t\t\tcourtyard, etc\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 603 }, { "number": "183", "title": "Section 183", "chapter": null, "content": "Connection with municipal water works or drains without\n\t\t\t\t\twritten permission\n200\n50", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 604 }, { "number": "186", "title": "Section 186, sub-section (4)", "chapter": null, "content": "Non-compliance with requisition to close, remove or divert a\n\t\t\t\t\tpipe or drain\n50\n5", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 605 }, { "number": "193", "title": "Section 193, sub-section (1)", "chapter": null, "content": "Execution of work by a person other than a licensed plumber\n200\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 606 }, { "number": "193", "title": "Section 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"chapter": null, "content": "Construction of building within the regular line of street\n\t\t\t\t\twithout permission\n1000\n10", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 611 }, { "number": "211", "title": "Section 211", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to set back buildings to\n\t\t\t\t\tregular line of street\n200\n50", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 612 }, { "number": "214", "title": "Section 214", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to set forward buildings\n\t\t\t\t\tto regular line of street\n200\n10", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 613 }, { "number": "217", "title": "Section 217, sub-section (5)", "chapter": null, "content": "Utilising, selling or otherwise dealing with any land or\n\t\t\t\t\tlaying out a private street otherwise than in conformity with\n\t\t\t\t\torder of the Council\nRigourous imprisonment which may extend to three\n\t\t\t\t\tyears\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 614 }, { "number": "218", "title": "Section 218, 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 Chairperson\n50\n5", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 615 }, { "number": "219", "title": "Section 219, 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\n100\n10", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 616 }, { "number": "221", "title": "Section 221, sub-section (1)", "chapter": null, "content": "Prohibition of projections upon streets, etc\n200\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 617 }, { "number": "221", "title": "Section 221, sub-section (2)", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to comply with 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"Deposit, etc, of things in streets\n100\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 622 }, { "number": "227", "title": "Section 227, sub-sections (1) and (2)", "chapter": null, "content": "Tethering of animals and milking of cattle in public streets\n100\n5", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 623 }, { "number": "228", "title": "Section 228, sub-section (4)", "chapter": null, "content": "Unlawful removal of bar or shorting timber, etc, or removal\n\t\t\t\t\tor extinction of light\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 624 }, { "number": "229", "title": "Section 229, sub-section (1) Streets not to be opened or\n\t\t\t\t\tbroken and building materials not to be deposited thereon\n\t\t\t\t\twithout permission", "chapter": null, "content": "200\n10", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 625 }, { "number": "231", "title": "Section 231, sub-section (2)", "chapter": null, "content": "Name of street and number of house not to be destroyed or\n\t\t\t\t\tdefaced, etc\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 626 }, { "number": "232", "title": "Section 232, sub-section (1)", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to repair, protect or\n\t\t\t\t\tenclose a dangerous place\n100\n25", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 627 }, { "number": "234", "title": "Section 234, sub-section (1)", "chapter": null, "content": "Removal, etc, of lamps\n100\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 628 }, { "number": "234", "title": "Section 234, sub-section (2)", "chapter": null, "content": "Willfully and negligently extinguishing lights in public\n\t\t\t\t\tstreets, etc\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 629 }, { "number": "237", "title": "Section 237, sub-section (1)", "chapter": null, "content": "Erection of a building without the sanction of the\n\t\t\t\t\tChairperson\nSimple imprisonment which may extend to six months\n\t\t\t\t\tor with fine which may extend to Rs. 5000 or with both", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 630 }, { "number": "237", "title": "Section 237, sub-section (2)", "chapter": null, "content": "Use of inflammable materials without permission\n100\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 631 }, { "number": "238", "title": "Section 238, sub-section (1)", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to give notice of intention to erect a building\nSimple imprisonment which may extent to six months\n\t\t\t\t\tor with find which may extend to Rs. 5000 or with both", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 632 }, { "number": "239", "title": "Section 239, sub-section (1)", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to give notice of intention to make additions, etc,\n\t\t\t\t\tto buildings\nSimple imprisonment which may extend to six months\n\t\t\t\t\tor with fine which may extend to Rs. 5000 or with both", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 633 }, { "number": "242", "title": "Section 242, sub-section (4)", "chapter": null, "content": "Commencement of work without notice, etc\n10000\n500", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 634 }, { "number": "244", "title": "Section 244", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to round off buildings at\n\t\t\t\t\tcorners of streets\n100\n5", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 635 }, { "number": "245", "title": "Section 245, sub-section (1)", "chapter": null, "content": "Erection of buildings on new streets without levelling\n1000\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 636 }, { "number": "245", "title": "Section 245, 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 or plan\n1000\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 637 }, { "number": "247", "title": "Section 247", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to demolish buildings erected without sanction or\n\t\t\t\t\terection of buildings contravention of order\nSimple imprisonment which may extend to six months\n\t\t\t\t\tor with fine which may extend to Rs. 5000 or with both", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 638 }, { "number": "248", "title": "Section 248", "chapter": null, "content": "Erection of buildings in contravention of conditions of\n\t\t\t\t\tsanction, etc\nSimple imprisonment which may extend to six months\n\t\t\t\t\tor with fine which may extend to Rs. 5000 or with both", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 639 }, { "number": "249", "title": "Section 249", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to carry out alterations\nSimple imprisonment which may extend to six months\n\t\t\t\t\tor with fine which may extend to Rs. 5000 or with both", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 640 }, { "number": "251", "title": "Section 251, sub-sections (1) and (2)", "chapter": null, "content": "Non-compliance with provision as to completion certificates,\n\t\t\t\t\toccupation or use, etc, without permission\n200\n10", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 641 }, { "number": "252", "title": "Section 252", "chapter": null, "content": "Non-compliance with restrictions on user of buildings\nSimple imprisonment which may extend to six months\n\t\t\t\t\tor with fine which may extend to Rs. 5000 or with both\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 642 }, { "number": "258", "title": "Section 258,sub-section (1) and (2)", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to remove structures which\n\t\t\t\t\tare in ruins or likely to fall\n500\n20", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 643 }, { "number": "259", "title": "Section 259, sub-section (1)", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to vacate buildings in\n\t\t\t\t\tdangerous conditions, etc\n200\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 644 }, { "number": "264", "title": "Section 264", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to provide for collection, removal and deposit of\n\t\t\t\t\trefuse and provision of receptacles\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 645 }, { "number": "265", "title": "Section 265, sub-section (1)", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to collect and remove filth and polluted matter\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 646 }, { "number": "265", "title": "Section 265, sub-section (3)", "chapter": null, "content": "Scavenger's duties in certain cases not to be discharged by\n\t\t\t\t\tany person without permission\n25\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 647 }, { "number": "266", "title": "Section 266", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to comply with requisition for removal of rubbish,\n\t\t\t\t\tetc, from premises used as market, etc\n100\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 648 }, { "number": "267", "title": "Section 267, sub-section (1)", "chapter": null, "content": "Keeping rubbish and filth for more than twenty-four hours,\n\t\t\t\t\tetc\n50\n10", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 649 }, { "number": "267", "title": "Section 267, sub-section (2)", "chapter": null, "content": "Allowing filth to flow in streets\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 650 }, { "number": "267", "title": "Section 267, sub-section (3)", "chapter": null, "content": "Depositing rubbish or filth, etc, in street, etc\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 651 }, { "number": "271", "title": "Section 271, sub-section (1)", "chapter": null, "content": "Latrines and urinals not to be constructed without permission\n\t\t\t\t\tor in contravention of terms prescribed\n200\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 652 }, { "number": "272", "title": "Section 272, sub-section (1)", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to provide buildings newly erected or re-erected with\n\t\t\t\t\tlatrine, urinal and other accommodation\n500\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 653 }, { "number": "272", "title": "Section 272, 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": 654 }, { "number": "273", "title": "Section 273", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to provide latrines for premises used by large number\n\t\t\t\t\tof people and to keep them clean and in proper order\n100\n20", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 655 }, { "number": "274", "title": "Section 274", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to provide latrines for\n\t\t\t\t\tmarket, cattle shed, cart stand, etc, and to keep them clean and\n\t\t\t\t\tin proper order\n100\n20", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 656 }, { "number": "275", "title": "Section 275, clauses (a), (b), (c) and (d)", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to enforce provision of\n\t\t\t\t\tlatrine or urinal accommodation, etc\n100\n10", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 657 }, { "number": "276", "title": "Section 276, sub-section (2)", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to comply with requisition for removal of congested\n\t\t\t\t\tbuildings\n1000\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 658 }, { "number": "277", "title": "Section 277", "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": 659 }, { "number": "279", "title": "Section 279, sub-sections (1), (2), (3) and (4)", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to comply with order of demolition of buildings unfit\n\t\t\t\t\tfor human habitation\n1000\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 660 }, { "number": "280", "title": "Section 280", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to comply with requisition of the Chairperson to\n\t\t\t\t\tremove insanitary huts and sheds, etc\n100\n15", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 661 }, { "number": "281", "title": "Section 281, sub-section (1)", "chapter": null, "content": "prohibition against washing by washerman\n25\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 662 }, { "number": "282", "title": "Section 282", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to give information of dangerous disease\n100\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 663 }, { "number": "284", "title": "Section 284", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to cleanse and disinfect\n\t\t\t\t\tbuildings or articles\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 664 }, { "number": "285", "title": "Section 285", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to destroy infectious huts\n\t\t\t\t\tor sheds\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 665 }, { "number": "286", "title": "Section 286", "chapter": null, "content": "Washing of clothing, bedding, etc, at any place not notified\n\t\t\t\t\tby the Chairperson\n25\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 666 }, { "number": "288", "title": "Section 288,", "chapter": null, "content": "sub-section (1)\nSending infected clothes to washerman or laundry\n25", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 667 }, { "number": "288", "title": "Section 288, sub-section (2)", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to furnish address of washerman or laundry to which\n\t\t\t\t\tclothes have been sent\n25\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 668 }, { "number": "289", "title": "Section 289, sub-sections (1), (2) and (3)", "chapter": null, "content": "Use of public conveyances by persons suffering from a\n\t\t\t\t\tdangerous disease, etc\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 669 }, { "number": "291", "title": "Section 291", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to disinfect buildings before letting the same\n100\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 670 }, { "number": "292", "title": "Section 292", "chapter": null, "content": "Disposal of infected articles without disinfection\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 671 }, { "number": "293", "title": "Section 293", "chapter": null, "content": "Making or selling of food, etc, or washing of clothes by\n\t\t\t\t\tinfected persons\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 672 }, { "number": "294", "title": "Section 294", "chapter": null, "content": "Sale of food or drink in contravention of restriction or\n\t\t\t\t\tprohibition of Chairperson\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 673 }, { "number": "295", "title": "Section 295", "chapter": null, "content": "Removal or use of water from wells and tanks in contravention\n\t\t\t\t\tof prohibition of Chairperson\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 674 }, { "number": "296", "title": "Section 296", "chapter": null, "content": "Exposure of persons to risk of infection by the presence or\n\t\t\t\t\tconduct of a person suffering from a dangerous disease, etc\n100\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 675 }, { "number": "297", "title": "Section 297", "chapter": null, "content": "Removal of infectious corpses in contravention of the\n\t\t\t\t\tprovisions of the section\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 676 }, { "number": "298", "title": "Section 298, sub-section (1) and (2)", "chapter": null, "content": "Absence of sweepers, etc, from duty without notice\nImprisonment which may extend do one month\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 677 }, { "number": "299", "title": "Section 299", "chapter": null, "content": "A sweeper employed for doing house scavenging not to\n\t\t\t\t\tdiscontinue work without notice\n10\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 678 }, { "number": "300", "title": "Section 300", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to supply information by persons incharge of burning\n\t\t\t\t\tor burial grounds\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 679 }, { "number": "301", "title": "Section 301", "chapter": null, "content": "Use of new burning or burial ground without permission\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 680 }, { "number": "302", "title": "Section 302, sub-section (1)", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to copply with requisition to close a burning or\n\t\t\t\t\tburial ground\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 681 }, { "number": "302", "title": "Section 302, sub-section (2)", "chapter": null, "content": "Burning or burial of corpses in a burning or burial ground\n\t\t\t\t\tafter it has been closed\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 682 }, { "number": "303", "title": "Section 303", "chapter": null, "content": "Removal of corpses by other than prescribed routes\n25\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 683 }, { "number": "304", "title": "Section 304, clause (b)", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to give notice for removal of carcasses of dead\n\t\t\t\t\tanimals\n10\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 684 }, { "number": "307", "title": "Section 307, sub-sections (1) and (2)", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to give information of births and deaths\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 685 }, { "number": "308", "title": "Section 308, sub-sections (1), (2) and (3)", "chapter": null, "content": "Commission of nuisances\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 686 }, { "number": "309", "title": "Section 309", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to comply with requisition for removal or abatement\n\t\t\t\t\tof nuisance\n500\n25", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 687 }, { "number": "310", "title": "Section 310, sub-section (4)", "chapter": null, "content": "Dogs not to be at large in a street without being secured by\n\t\t\t\t\ta chain lead\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 688 }, { "number": "310", "title": "Section 310, sub-section (5)", "chapter": null, "content": "Ferocious dogs at large without being muzzled, etc\n100\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 689 }, { "number": "311", "title": "Section 311", "chapter": null, "content": "Staking inflammable material in contravention of prohibition\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 690 }, { "number": "312", "title": "Section 312", "chapter": null, "content": "Setting a naked light\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 691 }, { "number": "313", "title": "Section 313", "chapter": null, "content": "Discharging fireworks, firearms, etc, likely to cause danger\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 692 }, { "number": "314", "title": "Section 314", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to render buildings,\n\t\t\t\t\twells, etc, safe\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 693 }, { "number": "315", "title": "Section 315", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to enclose land use for\n\t\t\t\t\timproper purposes\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 694 }, { "number": "317", "title": "Section 317, sub-section (1)", "chapter": null, "content": "Sale in municipal markets without permission\n200\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 695 }, { "number": "318", "title": "Section 318, sub-sections (1) and (2)", "chapter": null, "content": "Use of places as private markets without a licence and use\n\t\t\t\t\tof places other than a municipal slaughter house as slaughter\n\t\t\t\t\thouses\n500\n25", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 696 }, { "number": "318", "title": "Section 318, sub-section (2) proviso (a)", "chapter": null, "content": "Non-compliance with conditions imposed by Chairperson\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 697 }, { "number": "320", "title": "Section 320", "chapter": null, "content": "Keeping market open without licence, etc\n2000\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 698 }, { "number": "321", "title": "Section 321", "chapter": null, "content": "Sale in 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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\n1000\n100", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 704 }, { "number": "328", "title": "Section 328, sub-section (3)", "chapter": null, "content": "Keeping, abandonment or tethering of animals, etc\n100\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 705 }, { "number": "329", "title": "Section 329, sub-section (5)", "chapter": null, "content": "Use of premises in contravention of declaration\n500\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 706 }, { "number": "330", "title": "Section 330", "chapter": null, "content": "Hawking articles for sale without a licence, etc\n100\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 707 }, { "number": "331", "title": "Section 331", "chapter": null, "content": "Keeping a lodging house, eating house, tea shop, etc, without\n\t\t\t\t\tlicence or contrary to licence\n100\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 708 }, { "number": "332", "title": "Section 332", "chapter": null, "content": "Keeping open theatre, circus or other place of public\n\t\t\t\t\tamusement without licence or contrary to terms of licence\n500\n50", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 709 }, { "number": "339", "title": "Section 339, sub-section (5)", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to produce licence or written permission\n50\n5", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 710 }, { "number": "340", "title": "Section 340", "chapter": null, "content": "Preventing the Chairperson or any person authorised in this\n\t\t\t\t\tbehalf from exercising his powers of entry, etc\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 711 }, { "number": "341", "title": "Section 341", "chapter": null, "content": "Preventing the Chairperson 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\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 712 }, { "number": "346", "title": "Section 346", "chapter": null, "content": "Obstruction or molestation in execution of work\n200\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 713 }, { "number": "353", "title": "Section 353, sub-section (4)", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to state the name and\n\t\t\t\t\taddress of owner of premises\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 714 }, { "number": "364", "title": "Section 364, 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 provision of the Act, etc, after\n\t\t\t\t\teight days from issue of order by district judge\n200\n50", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 715 }, { "number": "404", "title": "Section 404", "chapter": null, "content": "Obstruction of Chairperson or a member, etc\n200\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 716 }, { "number": "405", "title": "Section 405", "chapter": null, "content": "Removal of any mark set up for indicating level, etc\n100\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 717 }, { "number": "406", "title": "Section 406", "chapter": null, "content": "Removal, etc, of notice exhibited by or under orders of the\n\t\t\t\t\tCouncil, Chairperson, etc\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 718 }, { "number": "407", "title": "Section 407", "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 Council.\n50\n...", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 719 } ], "metadata": { "Act ID": "dl064", "Act Number": "(44 of 1994)", "Enactment Date": "", "Act Year": "1994", "Short Title": "The New Delhi Municipal Council Act, 1994", "Type": "UNION_TERRITORY", "Location": "Delhi" }, "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:51:55" }