The Bihar Municipal Act, 2007

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    "title": "The Bihar Municipal Act, 2007",
    "short_title": "The Bihar Municipal Act, 2007",
    "act_number": "Bihar Act 11 of 2007",
    "act_year": 2007,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Bihar",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "The Bihar Municipal Act, 2007",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
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            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(1) \"Ad hoc Committee\" means an Ad hoc Committee appointed under Section 33;\n(2) \"Administrator\" means any officer appointed by the State Government to exercise the powers and perform the duties conferred or imposed on the Municipalities, the Empowered Standing Committee and the Chief Executive Officer, by or under this Act;\n(3) \"Annual Rental Value\" of a holding means the gross annual rental at which a holding may reasonably be expected to be let out.\n(3A) \"Auditor\" means an Auditor appointed under Section 90, and includes any officer authorized by him to perform all or any of the functions of an Auditor under this Act;\n(4) \"assessment list\" means any municipal assessment register referred to under this Act, and includes any register subsidiary thereto;\n(5) \"authorise\" means authorised by the Corporation either generally or specially;\n(6) \"balance sheet\" means the balance sheet prepared under Section 89;\n(7) \"bio-medical waste\" means any waste generated during diagnosis, treatment or immunization of human beings or animals or in research activities pertaining thereto or in the production or testing of biologicals;\n(8) \"bridge\" includes culvert;\n(9) \"budget estimate\" means the budget estimate prepared under Section 82; '\n(10) \"budget grant\" means the total sum entered on the expenditure side of a budget estimate under a major head and adopted by the Municipality, and includes any sum by which such budget grant is increased or reduced by transfer from or to other heads in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the Rules and the Regulations made thereunder;\n(11) \"building\" means a structure constructed for whatever purpose and of whatever materials, and includes the foundation, plinth, walls, floors, roofs, chimneys, fixed platforms, verandas, balconies, cornices or projections or part of a building or anything affixed thereto or any wall (other than a boundary wall of less than three metres in height) enclosing, or intended to enclose, any land, sign or outdoor display-structure but does not include a tent, shamiana or tarpaulin shelter;\n[(11a) Total built-up area means the carpet area that is actual usable area within the walls plus the thickness of walls and the balcony on each floor in a premise;]\n(12) \"building line\" means a line beyond which the outer face or any part of an external wall of building should not project in the direction of any street, existing or proposed and sanctioned;\n(13) \"cadres of common municipal services\" means the cadres of common municipal services constituted under sub-section (1) of Section 43;\n(14) \"carriage\" means any wheeled vehicle, with springs or other appliances acting as springs, which is ordinarily used for the conveyance of human beings, and includes an in-rickshaw, cycle-rickshaw, bicycle or tricycle, but does not include a perambulator or other form of vehicle designed for the conveyance of children or elderly, infirm or handicapped persons;\n(15) \"cart\" means any cart, hackney or wheeled vehicle with or without springs, which is not a carriage, and includes a hand-cart, a cycle van and a push van, but does not include any wheeled vehicle which is propelled by mechanical power or its trailer;\n(16) 'category' A' post means a category 'A' post classified as such under Section 37;\n(17) \"category 'B' post\" means a category 'B' post classified as such under Section 37;\n(18) 'category 'C' post\" means a category 'C' post classified as such under Section 37;\n(19) \"category 'D' post\" means a category 'D' post classified as such under Section 37;\n(20) \"Chief Councillor\" means-\n(i) in relation to a Municipal Corporation, the Mayor,\n(ii) in relation to a Municipal Council, the Municipal Chairperson, and\n(iii) in relation to a Nagar Panchayat, the Municipal President;\n(21) \"Chief Municipal Officer\" means,-\n(i) in relation to a Municipal Corporation, the Municipal Commissioner, and\n(ii) in relation to a Municipal Council or Nagar Panchyat, the Municipal Executive Officer;\n(22) \"City\" means a larger urban area declared to be a City under Section 3;\n(23) \"Class 'A' medium urban area\" means a smaller urban area classified as such under Section 7;\n(24) \"Class 'B' medium urban area\" means a smaller urban area classified as such under Section 7;\n(25) \"Class 'C' medium urban area\" means a smaller urban area classified as such under Section 7;\n(26) \"conservancy\" means the removal and disposal of sewage, offensive matter and rubbish;\n(27) \"Councillor\" , in relation to a Municipality, means a person chosen by direct election from a ward of that Municipality;\n(28) \"cubical extent,\" with reference to the measurement of a building, means the space contained with the external surface of its walls and roof and the upper surface of the floor of its lowest or only storey;\n(29) \"dangerous disease\" means-\n(a) cholera, plague, small-pox, cerebrospinal meningitis, diphtheria, tuberculosis, leprosy, influenza, encephalitis, polimyelitis, or syphilis; or\n(b) any other epidemic, endemic or infectious disease which the State Government may, by notification, declare to be a dangerous disease for the purposes of this Act;\n(30) \"Deputy Chief Councillor\" means,-\n(a) in relation to a Municipal Corporation, the Deputy Mayor,\n(b) in relation to a Municipal Council, the Municipal Vice-Chairperson, and\n(c) in relation to a Nagar Panchayat, the Municipal Vice President;\n(31) [Director of Municipal Administration] means an officer appointed as such by the State Government, and includes an Additional Director, a Joint Director, a Deputy Director, or any other officer of the State Government authorized by it to perform the functions of the [Director of Municipal Administration] under this Act;\n(32) \"domestic purposes\" , in relation to the supply of water, means the purposes other than those referred to in sub-section (3) of Section 171;\n(33) \"drain\" includes a sewer, a house-drain, a drain of any other description, a tunnel, a culvert, a ditch, a channel or any other device for carrying off sullage, sweage, offensive matter, polluted water, rain-water or subsoil water;\n(34) \"drug\" means any substance used as medicine or in the composition or preparation of medicine, whether for internal or external use, but does not include a drug within the meaning of clause (b) of Section 3 of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 (23 of, 1940).\n(35) \"dwelling-house\" means a masonry building constructed, used, or adapted to be used, wholly or principally for human habitation;\n(36) \"Empowered Standing Committee\" means the Empowered Standing Committee referred to in Section 21;\n(37) \"Establishment Schedule\" means the Establishment Schedule prepared under Section 37;\n(38) \"Financial statement\" means the Financial statement prepared under Section 88.\n(39) \"food\" includes every article used for food or drink by man, other than drugs or water, and any article which ordinarily enters into, or is used in the composition or preparation of, human food, and also includes confectionery, flavouring and colouring matters, spices and condiments;\n(40) \"footpath\" means a pavement, for use by pedestrians, which abuts a category I or category II or category III or category IV road;\n(41) \"habitable room\" means a room constructed or adapted for human habitation;\n(42) \"hazardous process\" means the hazardous process defined in 63 clause (cb) of Section 2 of the Factories Act, 1948;\n(43) \"hazardous wastes\" means the categories of wastes specified under Section 29 as such in the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986;\n(44) \"holding\" means land held under one title or agreement and surrounded by one set of boundaries:\nExplanation.\n(45) \"house-drain\" means any drain of one or more premises used for the drainage of such premises;\n(46) \"house-gully\" means a passage or a strip of land constructed, set apart or utilized for the purpose of serving as a drain or affording access to a privy, urinal, cesspool or other receptacle for filthy or polluted matter for municipal employees or for persons employed in the cleaning thereof or removal of such matter therefrom, and includes the air space above such passage or land;\n(47) \"hut\" means any building, no substantial part of which, excluding the walls up to a height of fifty centimeters above the floor or floor level, is constructed of masonry, reinforced concrete, steel, iron or other metal;\n(48) \"industrial township\" means such urban area or part thereof as the Governor may, having regard to the size of the area and the municipal services being provided or proposed to be provided by an industrial establishment in that area and such other factors as he may deem fit, by notification, specify to be an industrial township;\n(49) \"infectious disease\" or \"communicable disease\" means any disease which may be transmitted from one person to another and declared as such by the State Government by notification;\n(50) \"Joint Committee\" means a Joint Committee constituted under Section 34;\n(51) \"larger urban area\" means a municipal area classified as a larger urban area under Section 7;\n(52) \"land or building\" includes a slum;\n(53) \"licensed surveyor\" means a surveyor licensed by the Corporation under the provisions of this Act;\n(54) \"market\" includes any place, by whatever name called, where persons assemble for the sale of meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, live stock, or any other article of food of a perishable nature, or any other article for which there is a collection of shops or warehouses or stalls, declared and licensed by the Municipality as a market;\n(55) \"masonry building\" means any building, other than a hut, and includes any structure, a substantial part of which is made of masonry, reinforced concrete, steel, iron or other metal;\n(56) \"milk\" includes cream, skimmed milk, separated milk, and condensed, sterilized, desiccated or toned milk;\n(57) \"Municipal Accounts Committee\" means a Municipal Accounts Committee constituted under Section 190;\n(58) \"Municipal Accounting Manual\" means the Municipal Accounting Manual prepared and maintained under Section 89;\n(59) \"Municipal area\" means an area constituted as a municipal area under Section 6;\n(60) \"Municipal drain\" means a drain vested in the Municipality;\n(61) \"Municipal Fund\" means the Municipal Fund referred to in Section 73;\n(62) \"Municipal Magistrate\" means the Municipal Magistrate appointed under Section 398;\n(63) \"Municipal market\" means a market belonging to, or maintained, by, the Municipality;\n(64) \"Government\" means Government of State of Bihar.\n(65) \"Municipal slaughterhouse\" means a slaughterhouse belonging to, or maintained by, the Municipality;\n(66) \"Municipality\" means an institution of Self-Government constituted under Section 12, read with Article 243Q of the Constitution of India, and includes a Municipal Corporation, a Municipal Council, and a Nagar Panchayat, referred to in Section 13;\n(67) \"notification\" means a notification published in the Official Gazette;\n(68) \"nuisance\" includes any act, omission, place or thing which causes, or is likely to cause, injury, danger, annoyance, offence to the sense of sight, smell or hearing, or disturbance to rest or sleep, or which is, or may be, dangerous to life or injurious to health or property;\n(69) \"occupier\" includes any person for the time being paying, liable to pay, to the owner the rent or any portion of the rent (the land or the building in respect of which the word is used or for damages on account of the occupation of such land or building, and also includes a rent-free tenant:\n(70) \"offensive matter\" means kitchen or stable refuse, dung, dirt, putrid or purifying substance, or fifth of any kind which is not included in sewage;\n(71) \"other agency\" means a company, firm, society, or body corporate in the private sector, or any institution, or government agency, or any joint sector agency, or any agency under any other law for the time being in force;\n(72) \"owner\" includes the person for the time being receiving rent of any land or building or of any part of any land or building, whether on his own account or as an agent or trust for any person or society or for any religious or charitable purpose or as a receiver who would receive such rent if the land or the building or of any part of the land or the building were let to a tenant;\n(73) \"platform\" means any structure which is placed on or covers or projects over any street or any open drain and includes balconies or other extension of buildings projecting at any height over such street or drain;\n(74) \"population\" means the population as ascertain at the last preceding census of which the relevant figures have been published;\n(75) \"premises\" means any land or building or part of a building Or any hut or part of a hut, and includes-\n(a) the garden, ground and outhouses, if any, appertaining thereto, add any fittings or fixtures affixed to a building or part of a building or hut or part of a hut for the more beneficial enjoyment thereof;\n(76) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by Rules made under this Act;\n(77) \"presiding officer\" means,-\n(i) in the case of a Municipal Corporation, the Mayor,\n(ii) in the case of a Municipal Council, the Municipal Chairperson, and\n(iii) in the case of a Nagar Panchayat, the Municipal President;\n(78) \"private drain\" means any drain which is not a municipal drain;\n(79) \"private street\" means any street, road, lane, gully, alley, passage or square which is not a public street, and includes any passage securing access to four or more premises belonging to the same or different owners, but does not include a passage provided in effecting a partition of any masonry building amongst joint owners where such passage is less than two metres and fifty centimeters wide;\n(80) \"public building\" means a masonry building constructed, used, or adapted to be used,\n(a) as a place of public worship or as a school, college or other place of instruction (not being a dwelling- house so used) or as a hospital, workhouse, public theatre, public cinema, public hall, public concert-room, public ballroom, public lecture-room, public library or public exhibition room or as a public place of assembly, or *\n(b) for any other public purpose, or\n(c) as a hotel, lodging-house, refuge or shelter, where the building, in cubical extent, exceeds seven thousand cubic metres or has sleeping accommodation for more than one hundred persons;\n(81) \"Metropolitan Area\" means an area having a population of ten lakhs or more comprised in one or more districts and consisting of two or more municipalities or Panchayats or other contiguous area, specified by the State Government, by Gazette Notification, to be a Metropolitan area for the purposes of this Act.\"\n(82) \"Public Service Commission\" means the Public Service Commission for the State of Bihar constituted under Article 315 of the Constitution of India;\n(83) \"Public street\" means any street, road, lane, gully, alley, passage, pathway, square or courtyard, whether a thoroughfare or not, over which the public have a right of way, and includes-\n(a) the access or approach to a public ferry,\n(b) the roadway over any public bridge or causeway,\n(c) the footpath attached to any such street, public bridge or causeway;\n(d) the passage connecting two public streets;\n(e) the drains attached to any such street, public bridge or cause way and where there is no drain attached to any such street shall be deemed to include also, unless the contrary is shown, all land up to the boundary wall, hedge or pillar of the premises, if any, abutting on the street, or, where a street alignment has been fixed, up to such alignment;\n(84) \"Regulations\" means the Regulations made by a Municipality under this Act;\n(85) \"rubbish\" includes dust, ashes, broken bricks, mortar, broken glass, garden and stable refuse of any kind which is not an \"offensive matter\" or \"sewage\" as defined in this Section;\n(86) \"Rules\" means the Rules made by the State Government under this Act;\n(87) \"Sewage\" means night-soil and other contents of privies, urinals, cesspools or drains, and includes trade effluents and discharges from manufactories of all kinds;\n(88) \"Slaughter-house\" means any place used for the slaughter of cattle, sheep, goats, kids or pigs for the purpose of selling the flesh thereof as meat;\n(89) \"Smaller urban area\" means a municipal area classified as a smaller urban area under Section 7;\n(90) \"State Election Commission\" means the State Election Commission constituted under Section 123 of the Bihar Panchayati Raj Act, 2006 read with Article 243-ZA of the Constitution of India.\n(91) \"Development Plan/Master Plan\" means the draft Development Plan/ Master Plan and the final Development Plan/Master Plan prepared under this Act;\n(92) \"State Municipal Vigilance Authority\" means the State Municipal Vigilance Authority appointed under Section 44;\n(93) \"Street\" means a public street or a private street;\n(94) \"Street alignment\" means the line dividing the land comprised in, and forming part of, a street from the adjoining land;\n(95) \"Subject Committee\" means a Subject Committee constituted under Section 32;\n(96) \"Ward Committee\" means a Ward Committee referred to in Section 31;\n(97) \"Wards Committee\" means a Wards Committee constituted under Section 30;\n(98) \"water-course\" includes a river, stream or channel, whether, natural or artificial;\n(99) \"Year\" means a Financial Year beginning on the first day of April;\n(100) \"Backward Classes\" means and includes the list of Backward Classes of Citizens Specified in Annexure 1 of the Bihar Reservation of Vacancies in Post and Services (for SC, ST and other Backward Classes) Act 1991 (Bihar Act, 3/92)\n[(101) \"Action Taken Report\" means the Report to be submitted by the Chief Municipal Officer on the action taken by the Municipality under Section 94;]\n[(102) \"Area Sabha\" means Area Sabha constituted under Section 31 of this Act;\n(103) \"Basic Services for the Urban Poor\" means water supply, sewerage and drainage, toilets, solid waste management, streetlight, [shelter] and internal roads;\n(104) \"Board of Councillors\" means the elected body of the Municipality consisting of Councillors elected in general election under Section- 12 of this Act or in a byelection of a Municipality;\n(105) \"Examiner of Local Accounts\" means the Examiner of Local Accounts under the Bihar and Orissa Local Fund Audit Act, 1925\n(106) \"Government\" means the State Government of Bihar;\n(107) \"Lok Prahari\" means Lok Prahari to be appointed under Section-44 of this Act (108) \"Property Tax Board\" means the Bihar Property Tax Board created under Section 138A of this Act; (109) \"Slum\" means a compact area of at least 100 people or about 20 households of poorly built congested tenements, in unhygienic environment usually with inadequate infrastructure and lacking proper sanitation and drinking water facilities. (110) \"Vacant Land\" means any land acquired through purchase, gift or otherwise on which building is not constructed after acquisition and also the appurtenant land of a building that exceed the permissible ground coverage under the building bye-laws.] Part II Constitution and Government Chapter II Constitution of Municipal Areas and Classification of Municipalities 3. Declaration of intention to constitute a municipal area. - (1) The State Government may, after making such inquiry as it may deem fit, and having regard to the population of any urban area, density of population there in, the revenue generated for the local administration of such area, the percentage of employment in non-agriculture activities in such area, the economic importance of such area, and such other factors as may be prescribed, by notification, declare its intention to specify such area to be a larger urban area, or a medium urban area, or a transitional area:\n(108) \"Property Tax Board\" means the Bihar Property Tax Board created under Section 138A of this Act;\n(109) \"Slum\" means a compact area of at least 100 people or about 20 households of poorly built congested tenements, in unhygienic environment usually with inadequate infrastructure and lacking proper sanitation and drinking water facilities.\n(110) \"Vacant Land\" means any land acquired through purchase, gift or otherwise on which building is not constructed after acquisition and also the appurtenant land of a building that exceed the permissible ground coverage under the building bye-laws.]\nPart II\nConstitution and Government\nChapter II\nConstitution of Municipal Areas and Classification of Municipalities",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Declaration of intention to constitute a municipal area.",
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            "content": "(a) in the case of a larger urban area, is two lacs or more,\n(b) in the case of medium urban area, is forty thousand or more but is less than two lacs, and\n(c) in the case of a transitional area, that is a small town, is twelve thousand and more but not more than forty thousand:\nExplanation.\n(a) taxes, if any, distributed to the Municipality by the State Government,\n(b) loans and grants from the State Government, and\n(c) loans and grants from the Central Government or institution or other source.\n(i) a larger urban area to be a city,\n(ii) a medium urban area to be a town, and\n(iii) a small town or transitional area to be a Nagar Panchayat or urban growth centre",
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        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Publication of declaration.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Consideration of objection.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Constitution of Municipal Area.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Classification of Municipal areas.",
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            "content": "(a) a larger urban area having population above 2,00,000\n(b) a medium urban area of-\nClass 'A'\nClass 'B'\nClass 'C'\n(c) transitional small urban area having population above 12,000 but not exceeding 40,000:",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Power to abolish or alter limits of municipal area.",
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            "content": "(a) withdraw any municipal area or part thereof from the operation of this Act, or\n(b) exclude from a municipal area any local area comprised therein and defined in the notification, or\n(c) include within a municipal area any local area contiguous to such municipal area and defined in the notification, or\n(d) divide any municipal area into two or more municipal areas, or unite two or more contiguous municipal areas so as to constitute one municipal area, or\n(f) revise the boundary of two or more contiguous municipal areas: Provided that the procedure laid down for the constitution of a municipal area under this Act shall be followed mutatis mutandis in each such case:",
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        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Power to include certain dwelling house, manufactory, etc. within a particular municipal area.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Power to exempt municipal area from operation of any provisions of the Ordinance unsuited thereto.",
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            "content": "Chapter III\nMunicipality and Municipal Councillors",
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        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. The Municipality.",
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            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Constitution of Municipality.",
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            "content": "(i) Scheduled Castes;\n(ii) Scheduled Tribes; and\n(iii) Backward Classes.\n(b) As nearly as possible but not exceeding fifty percent of the total number of seats reserved under sub-section [(a)] shall be reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and the Backward Classes, as the case may be.\n(c) As nearly as but not exceeding fifty percent of the total number of the seats not reserved for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Backward Classes shall be reserved for women.\n(d) Such total number of seats reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes, the Backward Classes and unreserved category may be allotted by rotation under the direction, control and supervision of the State Election Commission, to different constituencies, in a Municipality in such mariner as may be prescribed by it. [after two Consecutive General Elections]\nExplanation.\n(i) the members of the House of People and members of the Legislative Assembly representing constituencies which comprise wholly or partly the municipal area.\n(ii) the members of the Council of States and members of the State Legislative Council registered as electors within the municipal area and members of State Legislative Council elected from the Local Bodies Constituencies of the municipal area.\n(a) before the expiry of the period specified in sub-section (5), or\n(b) before the expiry of a period of six months from the date of its dissolution:",
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            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Composition of Municipality.",
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            "content": "The Table\nThe Table\nNumber of Councillors/Wards\nNumber of Councillors/Wards\nPopulation range\nMinimum\nIncremental Number\nMaximum\nMunicipal Corporation\nMunicipal Corporation\nAbove 10 lakh\nAbove 5 lakh upto 10 lakh\nAbove 2 lakh upto 5 lakh\n67\n57\n45\nOne additional Councillor for every\n\t\t\t\t75,000 above 10 lakh\nOne additional Councillor for every\n\t\t\t\t50,000 above 5 lakh\nOne additional Councillor for every 25,000 above 2 lakh\n75\n67\n57\nMunicipal Councils\nMunicipal Councils\nClass 'A' Municipal Council\nClass 'B' Municipal Council\nClass 'C' Municipal Council\n42\n37\n25\nOne additional Councillor for every\n\t\t\t\t15,000 above 1,50,000\nOne additional Councillor for every\n\t\t\t\t10,000 above 1 lakh\nOne additional Councillor for every 5,000 above 40,000\n45\n42\n37\nNagar Panchayat\nNagar Panchayat\nNagar Panchayat\n10\nOne additional Member for every 2,000 above 12,000\n25",
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        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Election of Councillors.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Oath of allegiance to be taken by Councillors.",
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            "content": "(a) in the case of a Municipal Corporation, the Secretary to the State Government in-charge of municipal affairs or his nominee not below the rank of a Deputy Secretary to the State Government, and\n(b) in the case of a Municipal Council or a Nagar Panchayat, the District Magistrate or the Magistrate-in charge of the sub-division in which the municipal area is situated or an officer of the State Government authorized in this behalf by the District Magistrate.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Terms of office of councillors of municipality.",
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            "content": "(a) the Municipality is dissolved earlier, or\n(b) he resigns his office by notice, in writing, under his hand addressed to the Chief Councillor, and, thereupon, his office shall become vacant from the date of the notice, or\n(c) his election is void, or is declared to be void, under the provisions of any law relating to municipal elections in the State, or\n(d) the entire area of the ward from which he has been elected is withdrawn from the operation of this Act under clause (a) of Section 8:,\n[(e) Recalled under section- 17 of this Act, disqualified under section- 18 or section- 475 of this Act or removed under section- 18 (A).]\n[16A. Powers and functions of the Councillor.",
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            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Recall of Councillor.",
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            "content": "(i) within a period of two years from the date on which a Councillor is elected and enters upon his office, or\n(ii) if half of the term of office of a Councillor elected in a bye-election has not expired:",
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        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Disqualifications.",
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            "content": "(a) is not a citizen of India;\n(b) is so disqualified by or under any law, for the time being in force, for the purpose of elections to the Legislature of the State:\n(c) is in the service of the Central or State Government or any Local Authority;\n(d) is in the service of any such institution receiving aids from the Central or State Government or any local authority;\n(e) has been adjudged by a competent court to be of unsound mind;\n(f) has been dismissed from the service of the Central or State Government or any local authority for misconduct and has been declared to be disqualified for employment in the public service;\n(g) has been sentenced by a criminal Court, whether within or without India, to imprisonment for an offence, other than a political offence, for a term exceeding six months or has been ordered to furnish security for keeping good behaviour under section-109 or Section 110 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Act 2,1974) and such sentence or order not having subsequently been reversed; or absconding being an accused in a criminal case for more than six months.\n(h) has under any law for the time being in force become ineligible to be a member of any local authority;\n(i) holds any salaried office or office of profits under the Municipality;\n(j) has been found guilty of corrupt practices:\n(k) if he has not paid all taxes due by him to the Municipality at the end of the financial year immediately preceding that in which the election is held.\n(l) has been wilfully omits or refuses to perform his duties and functions or abuses the power vested in him or is found to be guilty of misconduct in the discharge of his duties or become physically or mentally incapacitated for performing his duties\n(m) If he has more than two living children:-\n(n) Has been absent from three consecutive meetings or sitting of the Municipality without having previously obtained permission form the councillors at a meeting.",
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            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Remuneration and allowances for Councillors.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter IV\nMunicipal Authorities",
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            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Municipal authorities.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) in the case of larger urban area,-\n(i) the Municipal Corporation,\n(ii) the Empowered Standing Committee,\n(iii) the Mayor, and\n(iv) the Municipal Commissioner;\n(b) in the case of a Class 'A' or Class B' or Class 'C' medium urban area,-\n(i) the Municipal Council,\n(ii) the Empowered Standing Committee,\n(iii) the Municipal Chairperson, and\n(iv) the Municipal Executive Officer;\n(c) in the case of a transitional or smaller urban area,-\n(i) the Nagar Panchayat,\n(ii) the Empowered Standing Committee,\n(iii) the Municipal President, and\n(iv) the Municipal Executive Officer.\n(a) the Municipal Corporation, the Mayor,\n(b) the Municipal Council, the Municipal Chairperson, and\n(c) the Nagar Panchayat, the Municipal President.",
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            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Constitution of Empowered Standing Committee of Municipality.",
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            "content": "(a) in the case of a Municipal Corporation, the Mayor, the Deputy Mayor, and seven other Councillors;\n(b) in the case of a Class 'A' or Class 'B' Municipal Council, the Municipal Chairperson, the Municipal Vice Chairperson, and five other Councillors;\n(c) in the case of a Class 'C' Municipal Council, the Municipal Chairperson, the Municipal Vice-Chairperson, and three other Councillors; and\n(d) in the case of a Nagar Panchayat, the Municipal President, the Municipal Vice-President, and three other Councillors.",
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            "number": "22",
            "title": "22. Executive power of Municipality to be exercised by Empowered Standing Committee.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "23",
            "title": "23. Election of Chief Councillor and Deputy Chief Councillor.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
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        },
        {
            "number": "24",
            "title": "24. Oath of secrecy to be taken by Chief Councillor and members of Empowered Standing Committee of God/solemnly.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "\"I,.........do swear in the name of God/solemnly affirm that I will not directly or indirectly communicate or reveal to any person or persons any matter which shall be brought under my consideration or shall become known to me as the Presiding Officer Or as a member of the Empowered Standing Committee except as may be required for the due discharge of my duties.\"\n(a) in the case of a Municipal Corporation, the Secretary to the State Government in-charge of municipal affairs or his nominee not below the rank of a Deputy Secretary to the State Government, and\n(b) in the case of a Municipal Council or Nagar Panchayat, the District Magistrate or the Magistrate-in-charge of the sub-division in which the municipal area is situated or an officer of the State Government authorized in this behalf by the District Magistrate.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "25",
            "title": "25. Removal of Chief Councillor/Deputy Chief Councillor.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "26",
            "title": "26. Deputy Chief Councillor.",
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            "content": "(a) the office of the Chief Councillor falls vacant by reason of death, resignation, removal or otherwise, or\n(b) the Chief Councillor is, by reason of leave, illness or other cause, temporarily unable to exercise the powers, perform the functions, or discharge the duties, of his office, the Deputy Chief Councillor shall exercise the powers, perform the functions, and discharge the duties, of the Chief Councillor until a Chief Councillor is elected under subsection (3) of Section 23 and enters office or until the Chief Councillor resumes his duties.\n[27. The term of office of the Chief Councillor and the members of Empowered Standing Committee.\n(a) he ceases to be a Councillor, or\n(b) he resigns his office by writing under his hand addressed to the Chairman in which case the resignation shall take effect from the date of its acceptance by the Chairman, or\n(c) he is removed from office by a written order of the Chairman, or provided that no member of empowered State Committee shall be removed from his post within two yeas of his nomination.\n(d) a newly elected Chief Councillor under sub-section (3) of section 23 enters upon his office in the case of any casual vacancy in the office of the Chairman of the Empowered Standing Committee caused by death, resignation, removal or otherwise.",
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        {
            "number": "28",
            "title": "28. Delegation of Powers and Functions.",
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            "content": "(a) the Chief Councillor may, by order, delegate, subject to such conditions as may be specified in the order any of his powers or functions to the Deputy Chief Councillor or the Chief Municipal Officer;\n(b) the Chief Municipal Officer may, by order, delegate, subject to such conditions as may be specified in the order, any of his powers or functions, excluding the powers or functions under sub-section (2) of Section 354 or Section 365, to any officer or other employee of the Municipality; and\n(c) any officer of the Municipality, other than the Chief Municipal Officer, may, by order, delegate, subject to such conditions as may be specified in the order, any of his powers or functions to any other officer subordinate to him.\n(a) any of its or his powers or functions delegated to it or him under this Section, or\n(b) such of its or his powers or functions as may be specified by Regulations.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "29",
            "title": "29. Reservation of office of Chief Councillor.",
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            "content": "(a) For the post of Chairman of every Municipality, as nearly as but not exceeding fifty percent of the total seats of Chairman in the State shall be reserved for\n(i) Scheduled Castes;\n(ii) Scheduled Tribes; and\n(iii) Backward Classes.\n(b) As nearly as but not exceeding fifty percent of the total number of seats reserved under sub-section (1) shall be reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and the Backward Classes, as the case may be.\n(c) As nearly as but not exceeding fifty percent of the total number of the seats not reserved for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Backward Classes shall be reserved for women.\n(d) Such total number of seats reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes, the Backward Classes and unreserved category may be allotted by rotation under the direction, control and supervision of the State Election Commission to different Municipalities in such manner as may be prescribed [after two Consecutive General Elections] by it.\nExplanation.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "30",
            "title": "30. Wards Committee.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "31. Ward Committee.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Explanation.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "32",
            "title": "32. Subject Committee.",
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            "content": "(a) water-supply drainage and sewerage, and solid waste management;\n(b) urban environment management and land use control; and\n(c) slum services.\n(a) seven members in the case of a Subject Committee of a Municipal Corporation, and\n(b) five members in the case of a Subject Committee of a Class 'A' Municipal Council.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "33",
            "title": "33. Ad hoc Committee.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "34",
            "title": "34. Joint Committee.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) two elected members of each constituent Municipality or local authority,\n(ii) one nominee of each of the concerned departments of the State Government or of the concerned Statutory Authorities under the State Government,\n(iii) such expert or experts as the State Government nominate, and\n(iv) the Director of Local Bodies or his representative shall act as the convener of the Joint Committee.",
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        {
            "number": "35",
            "title": "35. First meeting of Municipality.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter V\nOrganizational Structure of Municipality\nA. Statutory Officers of Municipality",
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        {
            "number": "36",
            "title": "36. Officers of Municipality.",
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            "content": "(a) in the case of Municipal Corporation,-\n(i) the Municipal Commissioner, an Officer of Indian Administrative Service or Bihar Administrative Service,\n(ii) the Controller of Municipal Finances and Accounts, a senior Audit Officer/Accounts Officer from Accountant General Office or senior member of Bihar Finance Service,\n(iii) the Municipal Internal Auditor,\n(iv) the Chief Municipal Engineer,\n(v) the Municipal Architect and Town Planner,\n(vi) the Chief Municipal Health Officer,\n(vii) the Municipal Law Officer,\n(viii) the Municipal Secretary,\n(ix) three Additional Municipal Commissioners, preferably in the rank of A.D.M. but not below the rank of S.D.M. of Bihar Administrative Service, and\n(x) Such number of Joint Municipal Commissioners or Deputy Municipal Commissioners or Deputy Chief Municipal Engineers as the Empowered Standing Committee may, from time to time, determine, and\n(b) in the case of a Municipal Council or Nagar Panchayat,-\n(i) the Municipal Executive Officer,\n(ii) the Municipal Finance Officer,\n(iii) the Municipal Engineer,\n(iv) the Municipal Health Officer,\n(v) the Municipal Secretary, and\n(vi) such other officers as may be designated by the State Government in this behalf:\n(a) by the State Government in consultation with the Empowered Standing Committee by notification from amongst the persons who are or have been in the service of that Government, or\n(b) by the Empowered Standing Committee with the prior approval of the State Government from amongst the officers who are or have been in the municipal service of any Municipality, or\n(c) by the Empowered Standing Committee with the prior approval of the State Government and in consultation with the State Public Service Commission:\nB. Municipal Establishment and Schedule of Posts",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "37",
            "title": "37. Establishment of Municipality and schedule of posts.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "38",
            "title": "38. Appointing Authorities.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) in the case of category, 'A' posts, the Chief Municipal Officer,\n(b) in the case of category 'B' posts,-\n(i) an Additional Municipal Commissioner or a Joint Municipal Commissioner, in the case of a Municipal Corporation, or\n(ii) the Municipal Executive Officer, in the case of a Municipal Council or a Nagar Panchayat, and\n(c) in the case of category 'C' posts and category 'D' posts, such officer or officers of the Municipality as the Chief Municipal Officer may, with the prior approval of the Empowered Standing Committee, designate in this behalf.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "39",
            "title": "39. Salaries and allowances of officers and other employees.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "40",
            "title": "40. Leave and other conditions of service.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[40A",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 38
        },
        {
            "number": "41",
            "title": "41. Appointment of officers of the State Government for Municipalities.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "C. Municipal Establishment Audit Commission",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "42",
            "title": "42. Municipal Establishment Audit Commission.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "D. Municipal Services Cadres",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "43",
            "title": "43. Cadres of common municipal services, appointments etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "E. State Municipal Vigilance Authority",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "44",
            "title": "44. State Municipal Vigilance Authority.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter VI\nFunctional Domain of Municipalities",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 42
        },
        {
            "number": "45",
            "title": "45. Core Municipal Functions.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) provide on its own or arrange to provide through any agency the following core municipal services:-\n(i) water-supply for domestic, industrial, and commercial purposes,\n(ii) drainage and sewerage,\n(iii) solid waste management,\n(iv) preparation of plans for [economic] development and social justice,\n(v) communication systems, construction and maintenance of roads, footpaths, pedestrian pathways, transportation terminals, both for passengers and goods, bridges, over-bridges, subways, ferries, and inland water transport system,\n(vi) transport system accessories including traffic engineering schemes, street furniture, street lighting, parking areas, and bus stops,\n(vii) community health and protection of environment including planting and caring of trees on road sides and elsewhere,\n(viii) markets and slaughterhouses,\n(ix) promotion of educational, sports and cultural activities, and\n(x) aesthetic environment, and\n[(xi) Provision of basic services for urban poor and urban poverty alleviation.]\n(b) perform such other statutory or regulatory functions as may be provided by or under this Act or under any other law for the time being in force.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "46",
            "title": "46. Functions assigned by the Government.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 44
        },
        {
            "number": "47",
            "title": "47. Other functions.",
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            "content": "(1) in the sphere of town planning, urban development and development of commercial infrastructure,-\n(1) in the sphere of town planning, urban development and development of commercial infrastructure,-\n(a) planned development of new areas for human settlement,\n(b) measures for beautification of the municipal area by setting up parks and fountains, providing recreational areas, improving river banks, and landscaping,\n(c) collection of statistics and data, significant to the community, and\n(d) integration of the development plans and schemes of the municipal area with the district or regional development plan, if any;\n(2) in the sphere of protection of environment,-\n(2) in the sphere of protection of environment,-\n(a) reclamation of waste lands, promotion of social forestry and maintenance of open spaces,\n(b) establishment and maintenance of nurseries for plants, vegetables and trees and promotion of greenery through mass participation,\n(c) organization of flower-shows and promotion of flower-growing as a civic culture, and\n(d) promotion of measures for abatement of all forms of pollution;\n(3) in the sphere of public health and sanitation,-\n(3) in the sphere of public health and sanitation,-\n(a) mass inoculation campaigns for eradication of infectious diseases,\n(b) construction and maintenance of municipal markets and slaughterhouses and regulation of all markets and slaughterhouses,\n(c) reclamation of unhealthy localities, removal of noxious vegetation and abatement of all nuisances,\n(d) maintenance of all public tanks and regulating the re-excavation, repair and up-keep of all private tanks, wells and other sources of water-supply on such terms and conditions as the Municipality may deem proper,\n(e) construction and maintenance of cattle pounds,\n(f) provision for unfiltered water-supply for non-domestic uses,\n(g) advancement of civic consciousness of public health and general welfare by organizing discourses, seminars and conferences, and\n(h) measures for eradication of addiction of all kinds including addiction to drugs and liquor;\n(4) in the sphere of education and culture,-\n(4) in the sphere of education and culture,-\n(a) promotion of civic education, adult education, social education and non-formal education,\n(b) promotion of cultural activities including music, physical education, sports and theatres and infrastructure therefore,\n(c) advancement of science and technology in urban life,\n(d) publication of municipal journals, periodicals and souvenirs, purchase of books, and subscription to 'C' journals, magazines and newspapers,\n(e) installation of statues, portraits and pictures in appropriate manner,\n(f) organization, establishment and maintenance of art galleries and botanical or zoological collections, and\n(g) maintenance of monuments and places of historical, artistic and other importance;\n(5) in the sphere of public welfare,-\n(5) in the sphere of public welfare,-\n(a) establishment and maintenance of shelters, in times of drought, flood, earthquake, or other natural technological disasters, and relief works, for, destitute persons within the limits of the municipal area, .\n(b) construction or maintenance of, or provision of to, hospitals, dispensaries, asylums, rescue homes, maternity houses, and child welfare centres,\n(c) provision of shelter for the homeless,\n(d) implementation programmes for liberation and rehabilitation of scavengers and their families,\n(e) organization of voluntary labour and co-ordination of activities of voluntary agencies for community welfare, and\n(f) campaigns for dissemination of such information, vital for public welfare; and\n(6) in the sphere of community relations,-\n(6) in the sphere of community relations,-\n(a) civic receptions to persons of distinction and paying homage on death to persons of repute,\n(b) organization and management of fairs and exhibitions, and\n(c) dissemination of information of public interest.\nChapter VII\nConduct of Business\nA. Transaction of Business by Municipality",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "48",
            "title": "48. Meetings.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 46
        },
        {
            "number": "49",
            "title": "49. Notice of meeting and list of business.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Explanation.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 47
        },
        {
            "number": "50",
            "title": "50. Quorum for transaction of business at a meeting of Municipality and method of deciding question.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 48
        },
        {
            "number": "51",
            "title": "51. Presiding Officer of a meeting of Municipality.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 49
        },
        {
            "number": "52",
            "title": "52. Maintenance of order at a meeting of Municipality and withdrawal and suspension of councillors.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 50
        },
        {
            "number": "53",
            "title": "53. Councillor having pecuniary interest in any contract etc. with Municipality.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) the provisions of this sub-section shall not apply to a Councillor who is a member of, or is in employment under, any public institution or organization under any law for the time being in force, and\n(ii) a Councillor shall not, by reason of his membership of a company or other body, be treated as having any pecuniary interest in such company or other body if he has no beneficial interest in any share or stock of such company or other body.\nExplanation.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "54",
            "title": "54. Disclosure of pecuniary interest.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 52
        },
        {
            "number": "55",
            "title": "55. Meeting to be ordinarily open to public.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 53
        },
        {
            "number": "56",
            "title": "56. Right of Chief Municipal Officer and other Officers to attend meeting of Municipality and Committees etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 54
        },
        {
            "number": "57",
            "title": "57. Right of Councillors to ask questions.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) not less than seven working days' notice, in writing, specifying the question shall be given to the Municipal Secretary;\n(b) no question shall-\n(i) bring in any name or statement not strictly necessary to make the question intelligible,\n(ii) contain arguments, ironical expressions, imputations, epithets or defamatory statements,\n(iii) ask for an expression of opinion or the solution of a hypothetical proposition,\n(iv) ask as to the character or conduct of any person except in his official or public capacity,\n(v) relate to matter which is not primarily the concern of the Municipality,\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) 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 Municipality, or\n(xiii) ask for any information on any matter which is under adjudication by a court of law.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 55
        },
        {
            "number": "58",
            "title": "58. Discussion on urgent public matters.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 56
        },
        {
            "number": "59",
            "title": "59. Asking for statement from Empowered Standing Committee.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "B. Minutes and Proceedings",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "60",
            "title": "60. Keeping of minutes and proceedings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 58
        },
        {
            "number": "61",
            "title": "61. Circulation and inspection of minutes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 59
        },
        {
            "number": "62",
            "title": "62. Forwarding of minutes to the State Government.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 60
        },
        {
            "number": "63",
            "title": "63. Rules relating to conduct of business of the Municipality.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "C. Validation",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 61
        },
        {
            "number": "64",
            "title": "64. Validation of acts and proceedings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the existence of any vacancy in, or any defect, initial or subsequent, in the constitution of, the Municipality or any committee of the Municipality, or\n(b) any Councillor having voted or taken part in any proceeding in contravention of the provisions of Section 55, or\n(c) any defect or irregularity not affecting the merit of any case to which such defect or irregularity relates.\nChapter VIII\nDirection and Control",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 62
        },
        {
            "number": "65",
            "title": "65. Power of State Government to call for the Records etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to produce any record, correspondence, or other documents,\n(b) to furnish any return, plan, estimate, statement, accounts, or, statistics, and\n(c) to furnish or obtain any report and thereupon such municipal authority shall comply with such requirement.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 63
        },
        {
            "number": "66",
            "title": "66. Power of State Government to depute officers to make inspection or examination and report.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) a Deputy Secretary to the State Government in the case of a Municipal Corporation, and Municipal Council of class \"A\" and \"B\",\n(b) an Under Secretary to the State Government in the case of a Class 'C' Municipal Council or Nagar Panchayat, as the case may be.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 64
        },
        {
            "number": "67",
            "title": "67. Power of State Government to require Municipal Authorities to take action.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) any action taken by a Municipal Authority is unlawful or irregular or any duty imposed on such authority by or under this Act has not been performed or has been performed in an imperfect, insufficient or unsuitable manner, or\n(b) adequate financial provision has not been made for the performance of any duty under this Act, the State Government may, by order, annal such action, or require such Municipal Authority to regularize such unlawful or irregular action or perform such duty or restrain such authority from taking such unlawful or irregular action or direct such authority to make, to the satisfaction of the State Government or within such period as may be specified in the order, arrangement, or financial provision, as the case may be, for the proper performance of such duty:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "67",
            "title": "68. Power of State Government to provide for enforcement of order under Section 67.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 66
        },
        {
            "number": "69",
            "title": "69. Power of State Government to dissolve Municipality.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(b) On receipt of such representation, if any, the State Government shall constitute a committee consisting of five persons nominated by the State Government, of whom-\n(i) one shall be a member of the State Higher Judicial Service who shall be the Chairperson of the committee,\n(ii) one shall be the Chief Councillor of any other Municipality of the same class,\n(iii) one shall be a Chartered Accountant or a person having experience in financial matters,\n(iv) one shall be an Engineer, and\n(v) one shall be an officer of the State Government, not below the rank of a Sub-divisional Officer, and shall forward the representation to the committee for its consideration and report within such time as the State Government may specify.\n(c) The State Government shall, on receipt of the report from the committee, consider the representation:",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 67
        },
        {
            "number": "70",
            "title": "70. Consequences of dissolution.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) all the Councillors including the members of the Empowered Standing Committee and of any committee of the Municipality constituted under this Act, and the Chief Councillor and the Deputy Chief Councillor shall vacate their respective offices, and\n(b) all the powers and duties which, under the provisions of this Act or the Rules or the Regulations made thereunder or any other law for the time being in force, may be exercised or performed by the members of the Empowered Standing Committee or of any Committee of the Municipality or the Chief Councillor, shall be exercised or performed, subject to such directions as the State Government may give from time to time, by such person or persons as the State Government may appoint in this behalf:\nPart III\nFinancial Management of Municipalities\nChapter IX\nMunicipal Finance and Municipal Fund",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 68
        },
        {
            "number": "71",
            "title": "71. Implementation of recommendations of State Finance Commission.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the devolution of net proceeds of the taxes, duties, tolls and fees to the Municipalities,\n(b) the assignment of taxes, duties, tolls and fees to the Municipalities,\n(c) the sanction of grants-in-aid to the Municipalities from the Consolidated Fund of the State, and\n(d) the other measures required to improve the financial position of the Municipalities.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 69
        },
        {
            "number": "72",
            "title": "72. Financial assistance from State Government.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 70
        },
        {
            "number": "73",
            "title": "73. Municipal Fund.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Explanation.\nChapter-X\nApplication of Municipal Fund",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 71
        },
        {
            "number": "74",
            "title": "74. Application of Municipal Fund.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 72
        },
        {
            "number": "75",
            "title": "75. Payments not to be made out of Municipal Fund unless covered by budget grant.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) refund of taxes and other money which are authorized by this Act,\n(b) repayment of money belonging to contractors or other persons and held in deposit and all money collected by the Municipality or credited to the Municipal Fund by mistake,\n(c) temporary payment for works urgently required by the State Government in the public interest,\n(d) expenses incurred by the Municipality on special measures on the outbreak of dangerous diseases, natural or technological hazards or in any other emergent case,\n(e) sums payable as compensation under this Act or the Rules or the Regulations made thereunder,\n(f) sums payable-\n(i) under orders of the State Government on failure of the Municipality to take any action required by the State Government under any provision of this Act, or\n(ii) under any other law for the time being in force, or\n(iii) under the decree or order of a civil or criminal court against the Municipality, or\n(iv) under a compromise of any claim, suit or other legal proceeding, or\n(v) on account of the cost incurred in taking immediate action by any of the Municipal Authorities to avert a sudden threat or danger to the property of the Municipality or to human life, and\n(g) such other cases as may be determined by Regulations.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 73
        },
        {
            "number": "76",
            "title": "76. Procedure when money not covered by budget grant is paid.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 74
        },
        {
            "number": "77",
            "title": "77. Temporary payment from Municipal Fund for works urgently required in public interest.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 75
        },
        {
            "number": "78",
            "title": "78. Power to incur expenditure beyond the limits of the Municipality.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 76
        },
        {
            "number": "79",
            "title": "79. Exclusive use of fund for particular purpose.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 77
        },
        {
            "number": "80",
            "title": "80. Operation of accounts.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 78
        },
        {
            "number": "81",
            "title": "81. Investment of surplus money.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter XI\nBudget Estimates",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 79
        },
        {
            "number": "82",
            "title": "82. Preparation of budget estimate of Municipality.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 80
        },
        {
            "number": "83",
            "title": "83. Report on services provided at subsidised rate.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) water-supply and disposal of sewage, and\n(b) scavenging, transporting and disposal of solid wastes.\nExplanation.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 81
        },
        {
            "number": "84",
            "title": "84. Sanction of budget estimate of Municipality.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the State Government, in the case of a Municipal Corporation,\n(b) the Director of Local Bodies,\" in the case of a Class 'A' Municipal Council, and\n(c) the Regional Deputy Director of Local Bodies, in the case of a Class 'B' Municipal Council, a Class 'C' Municipal Council or a Nagar Panchayat.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 82
        },
        {
            "number": "85",
            "title": "85. Power to alter budget grant.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) increase the amount of any budget grant under any head,\n(b) make an additional budget grant for the purpose of meeting any special or unforeseen requirement arising during the said year,\n(c) transfer the amount of any budget grant or portion thereof under one head to the amount of budget grant under any other head, or\n(d) reduce the amount of the budget grant under any head:\nChapter XII\nAccounts and Audit",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 83
        },
        {
            "number": "86",
            "title": "86. Maintenance of accounts.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[87. Preparation of Municipal Accounting Manual.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 84
        },
        {
            "number": "88",
            "title": "88. Financial Statement.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 85
        },
        {
            "number": "89",
            "title": "89. Balance sheet.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 86
        },
        {
            "number": "90",
            "title": "90. Submission of financial statement and balance sheet to auditor.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 87
        },
        {
            "number": "91",
            "title": "91. Power of Auditor.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) require, by a notice, in writing, the production before him, or before any officer subordinate to him, of any document which he considers necessary for the proper conduct of the audit,\n(b) require, by a notice, in writing, any person accountable for, or having the custody or control of, any document, cash or article, to appear in person before him or before any officer subordinate to him,\n(c) require any person so appearing before him, or before any officer subordinate to him, to make or sign a declaration with respect to such document, cash or article or to answer any question or prepare and submit any statement, and\n(d) cause physical verification of any stock of articles in course of examination of accounts.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 88
        },
        {
            "number": "92",
            "title": "92. Audit Report.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) every payment which appears to the Auditor to be contrary to law,\n(b) the account of any deficiency or loss, which appears to have been caused by gross negligence or misconduct of any person,\n(c) the account of any sum received which ought to have been, but has not been, brought into account by any person, and\n(d) any other material impropriety or irregularity in the account.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 89
        },
        {
            "number": "93",
            "title": "93. Placing of audited accounts before Municipality.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 90
        },
        {
            "number": "94",
            "title": "94. Submission of audited accounts.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 91
        },
        {
            "number": "95",
            "title": "95. Power of State Government to enforce order upon audit report.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 92
        },
        {
            "number": "96",
            "title": "96. Special Audit.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 93
        },
        {
            "number": "97",
            "title": "97. Internal Audit.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 94
        },
        {
            "number": "98",
            "title": "98. Municipal Accounts Committee.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) such number of members, not being less than three and not more than fifteen as the State Government may determine, by notification for the Municipality to be elected by the Councillors, not being the members of the Empowered Standing Committee, from amongst themselves, and\n(b) such number of persons, not being Councillors, or officers or other employees of the Municipality and not exceeding two in number, having knowledge and experience in financial matters, as may be nominated by the Municipality.\n(a) to examine the accounts of the Municipality showing the appropriation of sums granted by the Municipality for its expenditure and the annual financial accounts of the Municipality,\n(b) to examine and scrutinize the report on the accounts of the Municipality by the Auditor appointed under Section 90 and to satisfy itself that the money shown in the accounts as having been disbursed was available for, and applicable to, the services or purposes to which they were applied or charged and that the expenditure was incurred in accordance with the authority governing such expenditure,\n(c) to submit report to the Municipality every year and from time to time on such examination and scrutiny,\n[(cc) To review and approve the Action Taken Report (ATR) following each report by the Auditor under Section 90 and the Internal Audit under section-97.]\n(d) to consider the report of the Auditor appointed under Section 94 in cases where the State Government or the Municipality requires him to conduct a special audit of any receipt or expenditure of the Municipality or to examine the accounts of stores and stocks of the Municipality or to check the inventory of the properties of the Municipality including its land holdings and buildings, and\n(e) to discharge such other functions as may be prescribed.\nChapter XIII\nMunicipal Property",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 95
        },
        {
            "number": "99",
            "title": "99. Power to acquire and hold property.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 96
        },
        {
            "number": "100",
            "title": "100. Vesting of property.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) all public lands not belonging to any Government department or statutory body or corporation,\n(b) all public tanks, streams, reservoirs, and wells,\n(c) all public markets and slaughterhouses,\n(d) all public sewers and drains, channels, tunnels, culverts and watercourses in, alongside, or under, any street,\n(e) all public street and pavements, and stones and other materials thereon, and also trees on such public streets or pavements not belonging to any private individual,\n(f) all public parks and gardens, including squares and public open spaces,\n(g) all public ghats on rivers or streams or tanks,\n(h) all public lamps, lamp-posts and apparatus connected therewith, or appertaining thereto,\n(i) all public places for disposal of the dead, excluding those governed by any specific law in this behalf,\n(j) all solid wastes collected on a public street or public place, including dead animals and birds, and\n(k) all stray animals not belonging to any private person.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 97
        },
        {
            "number": "101",
            "title": "101. Acquisition of property by Municipality by agreement, exchange, lease, grant etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) any immovable property, and\n(b) any easement affecting immovable property.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 98
        },
        {
            "number": "102",
            "title": "102. Compulsory acquisition of land.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 99
        },
        {
            "number": "103",
            "title": "103. Special provisions for acquisition of lands adjoining streets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 100
        },
        {
            "number": "104",
            "title": "104. Disposal of property.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the Empowered Standing Committee may sell, or grant lease of, or otherwise dispose of, by public auction, any movable property, and may grant lease of, or let out on hire, any immovable property, belonging to the Municipality,\n(b) the Municipality may, with the prior approval of the State Government, for valuable consideration, sell or otherwise transfer, any immovable property belonging to the Municipality which is not required for carrying out the purposes of this Act, and\n(c) the Municipality shall not transfer any immovable property vested in it by virtue of this Act, but shall cause the same to be maintained, controlled and regulated in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the Rules and the Regulations made thereunder:\nExplanation.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 101
        },
        {
            "number": "105",
            "title": "105. Inventory of properties of Municipality.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter XIV\nBorrowings",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 102
        },
        {
            "number": "106",
            "title": "106. Comprehensive Debt Limitation Policy.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 103
        },
        {
            "number": "107",
            "title": "107. Power of Municipality to raise loan.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) construction of works under this Act, or\n(b) acquisition of lands and buildings for the purposes of this Act, or\n(c) paying off any debt due to the State Government, or\n(d) repayment of a loan raised under this Act, or\n(e) acquisition of a public utility concern which renders such services as the Municipality is authorized to render under this Act, or\n(f) purchase of vehicles, locomotive engines, boilers and machinery necessary for carrying out the purposes of this Act, or\n(g) any other purpose for which the Municipality is, by or under this Act or any other law for the time being in force, authorized to borrow:\n(a) no portion thereof shall, without the previous sanction of the State Government, be applied to any purpose other than that for which it has been raised, and\n(b) no portion of any loan raised for any of the purposes referred to in that sub-section shall be applied to the payment of salaries or allowances to any officer or other employee of the Municipality, other than those who are exclusively employed for the purpose for which the loan has been raised.\nExplanation.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 104
        },
        {
            "number": "108",
            "title": "108. Power of Municipality to open credit account with bank.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 105
        },
        {
            "number": "109",
            "title": "109. Power of Municipality to raise short term loan.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 106
        },
        {
            "number": "110",
            "title": "110. Establishment of Sinking Fund.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 107
        },
        {
            "number": "111",
            "title": "111. Application of Sinking Fund.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 108
        },
        {
            "number": "112",
            "title": "112. Power to discontinue payment towards Sinking Fund.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 109
        },
        {
            "number": "113",
            "title": "113. Investment of amount at the credit of Sinking Fund.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) Government securities, or\n(b) Securities guaranteed by the Central Government or any State Government, or\n(c) Debentures issued by the Municipality, or\n(d) Such other public securities as may be approved by the State Government, and shall be held by the Municipality for the purpose of repaying, from time to time, the loans raised by it by the issue of debentures or otherwise.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 110
        },
        {
            "number": "114",
            "title": "114. Power of Municipalities to reserve a portion of debentures, issued for raising loan, for investment.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 111
        },
        {
            "number": "115",
            "title": "115. Manner of repayment of loans.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 112
        },
        {
            "number": "116",
            "title": "116. Form and effect of debenture.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 113
        },
        {
            "number": "117",
            "title": "117. Annual statement.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the amount which has been paid into the Sinking Fund or Sinking Funds during the year under Section 110,\n(b) the date of the last investment made during the year,\n(c) the aggregate amount of the securities in the hand of the Municipality at the end of the year, and\n(d) the aggregate amount which has been applied for the purpose of repayment of the loan under Section 113.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 114
        },
        {
            "number": "118",
            "title": "118. Annual examination of Sinking Funds.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 115
        },
        {
            "number": "119",
            "title": "119. Power of Municipality to borrow money from State Government and attachment of Municipal Fund for recovery of such money.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 116
        },
        {
            "number": "120",
            "title": "120. Issue of Municipal Bonds for development of urban infrastructure.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 117
        },
        {
            "number": "121",
            "title": "121. Credit rating of Municipal Bonds.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 118
        },
        {
            "number": "122",
            "title": "122. Pledging of Municipal assets as security for Municipal Bonds.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 119
        },
        {
            "number": "123",
            "title": "123. Debt Service Reserve Fund.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 120
        },
        {
            "number": "124",
            "title": "124. Limit to encumbrances through future debt.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 121
        },
        {
            "number": "125",
            "title": "125. Use of proceeds from Municipal Bonds.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Part IV\nMunicipal Revenue\nChapter XV\nSources of Internal Revenues",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 122
        },
        {
            "number": "126",
            "title": "126. Internal revenues of Municipality.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) taxes levied by the Municipality,\n(b) user charges levied for provision of civic services, and\n(c) fees and fines levied for performance of regulatory and other statutory functions.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 123
        },
        {
            "number": "127",
            "title": "127. Power to levy taxes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) property tax on lands and buildings [including vacant Land.]\n(b) surcharge on transfer of lands and buildings,\n(c) tax on deficit in parking spaces in any non-residential building,\n(d) water tax,\n(e) fire tax,\n(f) tax on advertisements, other than advertisements published in newspapers,\n(g) surcharge on entertainment tax\n(h) surcharge on electricity consumption within the municipal area,\n(i) tax on congregations,\n(j) tax on pilgrims and tourists, and\n(k) toll-\n(i) on roads, bridges, ferries and navigable channel and\n(ii) on heavy trucks which shall be heavy goods vehicles, and buses, which shall be heavy passenger motor vehicles, within the meaning of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, plying on a public street.\n[(l) Communication towers and related structures/ Disc antennas.]\n(a) Situation of the holding-\n(i) Holdings on the Principal Main Road,\n(ii) Holdings on the Main Road,\n(iii) Holdings other than sub-clauses (i) and (ii)\n(b) Use of the Holding-\n(i) Purely residential,\n(ii) Purely commercial or industrial (whether self owned or otherwise),\n(iii) Partly residential and partly commercial/industrial,\n(iv) All Holdings other than sub-clauses (i), (ii) and (iii)\n(c) Type of Construction-\n(i) Pucca building with R.C.C. Roof,\n(ii) Pucca building with asbestos/corrugated [/stone or any other permanent material] sheet roof,\n(iii) All other buildings not covered in sub-clauses (i) and (ii).\n[(d) Type of Occupancy:-\n[(d) Type of Occupancy:-\n(i) Self-occupied;\n(ii) Tenant Occupied;\n(e) Type of non-residential use of Holdings\n(i) Hotels, restaurants, clubs, cinema houses, Guest Houses, Marriage Halls and all places of entertainment;\n(ii) Shops, show rooms;\n(iii) Commercial offices, banks, hospitals and nursing homes, dispensaries, laboratories,\n(iv) Government Offices and institutions\n(v) Industries, workshops;\n(vi) Schools, colleges and other educational institutions, research institutions;\n(vii) Educational and social institutions run by charitable trust on no-profit no loss basis for the benefit of poor, physically challenged, social security of women and children;\n(viii) Religious places, and\n(ix) Any other holdings not covered under (i) to (viii).\n(ii) For the purpose of determining whether a holding is situated on Principal Main Road, on the Main Road or on any other Road, road facing the main entrance of each holding shall be the deciding factor. In case where the properties are located on more than one road, Principal Main Road shall prevail over the Main Road and the Main Road shall prevail over other Road.]\n(i) Rooms-Full measurement of Internal Dimension,\n(ii) Covered Verandah-Full measurement of Internal Dimension,\n(iii) Balcony/Corridor, Kitchen and Store-50 per cent measurement of Internal dimension,\n(iv) Garage-One-fourth measurement of internal dimension,\n(v) Area covered by bath room, latrines, portico and Staircase shall not form part of the Carpet area.\n(ii) The Annual Rental Value shall be commuted as a multiple of the Carpet area and the rental value fixed under sub-Rule (1).\n(iii) The rental value per sq. ft. of carpet area for different classes of holdings shall be published from time to time by the Municipality with the prior approval of the State Government.\n(i) Holding Tax-at the rate of 2.5% per cent of Annual Rental Value,\n(ii) Water Tax-at the rate of 2 per cent of Annual Rental Value,\n(iii) Latrine Tax- at the rate of 2 per cent of Annual Rental Value.\n(iv) Tax on any other item included in 12th Schedule of the Constitution of India on such rate as prescribed.\n[(v) Property Tax on vacant land shall be levied annually within minimum and maximum of Re. one and Rs. 5 respectively per square meter of vacant land depending on the situation of land falling in the criteria given in Section-127(4)(1)(a). The rates to be levied shall be determined from time to time under the under Rules to be framed by the State Government.]",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 124
        },
        {
            "number": "128",
            "title": "128. Power to levy user charges.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) provision of water-supply, drainage and sewerage,\n(ii) solid waste management,\n(iii) parking of different types of vehicles in different areas and for different periods,\n(iv) stacking of materials or rubbish on public streets for construction, alteration, repair or demolition work of any type, and\n(v) other specific services rendered in pursuance of the provisions of this Act, at such rates as may be determined from time to time by Regulations:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 125
        },
        {
            "number": "129",
            "title": "129. Power to levy fees and fines.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) sanction of building plans and issue of completion certificates,\n(b) issue of municipal licenses for various non-residential uses of lands and buildings,\n(c) licensing of-\n(i) various categories of professionals such as plumbers and surveyors,\n(ii) various activities such as sinking of tube-wells, sale of meat, fish or poultry, or hawking of articles,\n(iii) sites used for advertisements or premises used for private markets, slaughterhouses, hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, factories, warehouses, godowns, goods transport depots, eating-houses, lodging-houses, hotels, theatres, cinema-houses and places of public amusement and for other non residential uses,\n(iv) animals,\n(v) carts or carriages, and\n(vi) such other activities as require a licence or permission under the provisions of this Act, and\n(d) issue of birth and death certificates.\n[130. Levy of surcharge on tax or fee.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 126
        },
        {
            "number": "131",
            "title": "131. Power to levy development charge.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 127
        },
        {
            "number": "132",
            "title": "132. Realisation of tax fees cess etc. under any other law.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 128
        },
        {
            "number": "133",
            "title": "133. Power to impose consolidated tax.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 129
        },
        {
            "number": "134",
            "title": "134. Holding occupied by more than one person.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 130
        },
        {
            "number": "135",
            "title": "135. Taxes by whom payable.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 131
        },
        {
            "number": "136",
            "title": "136. Duty on certain transfers of property.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) Section 27 of the said Indian Stamp Act, 1899 (II of 1899) as from time to time so modified, shall be read as if it specifically required the particulars referred to therein to be set forth separately in respect of property situated within the limits of municipality and outside such limits respectively; and\n(ii) Section 64 of the Act, as from time to time so modified, shall be read as if it referred to the Municipality as well as the Government.\nChapter XVI\nAssessment",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 132
        },
        {
            "number": "137",
            "title": "137. Assessment in case of holdings sub-divided into separate shares.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) If the ownership be subdivided into two or more shares without separate allotment, or if as the result of such subdivision there is a separate allotment, of such holding or portion into two or more separate portions, which are not entirely independent and capable of separate enjoyment, the Chief Municipal Officer may, if he thinks fit, apportion the assessment among the share-holders according to the value of their respective shares without assigning any separate number;\n(ii) If, as the result of such subdivision, there are separate allotments of such holding or portion and if such allotments are made entirely independent and capable of separate enjoyment but not in conformity with the provision of this Act or of any Rules or bye-laws made thereunder, relating to buildings, the Chief Municipal Officer may, if he thinks fit, assess such portions separately after assigning to them separate number under this Chapter;\n(iii) If, such separated portions of such holding or portion, are made, entirely independent and capable of separate enjoyment in conformity with the provisions of this Act. or of any rules or bye-laws made thereunder, relating to building, the Chief Municipal Officer shall assess such portion separately by assigning a separate number thereto.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 133
        },
        {
            "number": "138",
            "title": "138. Assessment in case of holdings having been amalgamated.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[138A. State Property Tax Board.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 134
        },
        {
            "number": "138B",
            "title": "138B. Chairman and Members of the State Property Tax Board.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 135
        },
        {
            "number": "139",
            "title": "139. Power of Empowered Standing Committee in case of excessive hardship.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 136
        },
        {
            "number": "140",
            "title": "140. Remission or adjustment on account of vacant holdings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 137
        },
        {
            "number": "141",
            "title": "141. Application for Review.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 138
        },
        {
            "number": "142",
            "title": "142. Investigation of objections by Chief Municipal Officer.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 139
        },
        {
            "number": "143",
            "title": "143. Appeal to District Judge.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 140
        },
        {
            "number": "144",
            "title": "144. Valuations when to final.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter XVII\nTax on Advertisements other than Advertisements in Newspapers and Licence Fees for Advertisement Spaces",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 141
        },
        {
            "number": "145",
            "title": "145. Prohibition of advertisements without written permission of Chief Municipal Officer.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) a licence for the use of the particular site for the purpose of advertisement has not been taken,or\n(b) the advertisement contravenes any provisions of this Act or the Rules or the Regulations made thereunder, or\n(c) the tax, if any, due in respect of the advertisement has not been paid.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 142
        },
        {
            "number": "146",
            "title": "146. Licence for use of site for purpose of advertisement.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) using any site before the commencement of this Act, within ninety days from the date of such commencement, or\n(b) intending to use any site, or\n(c) whose licence for use of any site is about to expire.\n(a) on telephone, telegraph, tram, electric or other posts or poles erected on or along public or private streets or public places,\n(b) in lands or buildings, and\n(c) in cinema-halls, theatres or other places of public resort,",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 143
        },
        {
            "number": "147",
            "title": "147. Tax on advertisement.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) relates to a public meeting or to an election to Parliament or the State Legislature or the Municipality or any other local authority or to candidature in respect of such election, or\n(b) is exhibited within the window of any building, if the advertisement relates to any trade, profession or business carried on in the building, or\n(c) relates to any trade, profession or business carried on within the land or the 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, upon or in such land or building, or\n(d) relates to the name of the land or the building upon or over which the advertisement is exhibited or the name of the owner or the occupier of such land or building, or\n(e) relates to the business of any airport or port or railway administration, and is exhibited within such airport or port or railway station or upon any wall or other property of an port, or railway station, or\n(f) relates to any activity of the Central Government or the State Government or any local authority.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 144
        },
        {
            "number": "148",
            "title": "148. Permission of Chief Municipal Officer to be void in certain cases.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) if the advertisement contravenes the provisions of any Regulations made under this Act, or\n(b) if any material change is made in the advertisement or any part thereof without the previous permission of the Chief Municipal Officer, or\n(c) if the advertisement or any part thereof falls otherwise than by accident, or\n(d) if, due to any work by the Central Government, the State Government, or the Municipality, or by any statutory authority, the advertisement is required to be displaced.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 145
        },
        {
            "number": "149",
            "title": "149. Licence for use of site for purpose of advertisement to be void in certain cases.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) if the licensee contravenes any of the terms and conditions of licence or,\n(b) if any addition or alteration is made to, or in, the land, building, wall, hoarding, frame, post, kiosk, structure, vehicle, neon-sign or sky-sign, upon or over which the advertisement is erected, exhibited, fixed or retained, or\n(c) if the land, building, wall, hoarding, frame, post, kiosk, structure, vehicle, neon-sign or sky-sign over which the advertisement is erected, exhibited, fixed or retained is demolished or destroyed.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 146
        },
        {
            "number": "150",
            "title": "150. Presumption in case of contravention.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 147
        },
        {
            "number": "151",
            "title": "151. Power of Chief Municipal Officer in case of contravention.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Explanation I.\nExplanation II.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 148
        },
        {
            "number": "152",
            "title": "152. Removal of poster, hoarding, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter XVIII\nOther Taxes and Tolls",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 149
        },
        {
            "number": "153",
            "title": "153. Toll on bridges.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 150
        },
        {
            "number": "154",
            "title": "154. Declaration of ferries as Municipal ferries.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter XIX\nPayment and Recovery of Taxes\nA. Recovery of Taxes by Municipality",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 151
        },
        {
            "number": "155",
            "title": "155. Manner of recovery of taxes under the Act.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) by presenting a bill, or\n(b) by serving a notice of demand, or\n(c) by distrait and sale of a defaulter's movable property, or\n(d) by attachment and sale of a defaulter's immovable property, or\n(e) in the case of property tax on any land or building, by attachment of rent due in respect of such land or building, or\n(f) by a certificate, distress warrant or body warrant under any law for the time being in force regulating the recovery of any dues as public demand.\n(g) by attachment and realisation from the bank accounts and other financial instruments held, individually or jointly, in the name of the defaulter.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 152
        },
        {
            "number": "156",
            "title": "156. Time and manner of payment of taxes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 153
        },
        {
            "number": "157",
            "title": "157. Presentation of bill.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) a tax on advertisements,\n(b) a tax on tourists and congregations, and\n(c) atoll:\nExplanation I.\nExplanation II.\nExplanation III.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 154
        },
        {
            "number": "158",
            "title": "158. Regulations regarding payment and recovery of tax.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) issue of notice of demand, charging of notice fee, levy of interest for delayed payment at a rate as may be specified, and the amount of penalty therefore,\n(b) issue of warrant for attachment, distress,and sale of movable property for recovery of tax dues,\n(c) attachment and sale of immovable property for recovery of tax dues, and\n(d) recovery of dues from a person about to leave the municipal area.\n(e) issue of warrant for attachment and realisation from the bank accounts and other financial instruments held, individually or jointly, in the name of the defaulter,\n(f) issue of body warrant for recovery of tax dues.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 155
        },
        {
            "number": "159",
            "title": "159. Requirement of payment of rent by occupier towards tax due on land or building.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 156
        },
        {
            "number": "160",
            "title": "160. Recovery of property tax on lands and buildings or any other tax or charge when owner of land or building is unknown or ownership is dispute.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 157
        },
        {
            "number": "161",
            "title": "161. Power of Chief Municipal Officer to prosecute or serve notice of demand.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) tax on advertisements other than the advertisements published in newspapers, or\n(b) any other tax, fee or charge leviable under this Act, the Chief Municipal Officer may either prosecute such person, if prosecution lies under the provisions of this Act, or cause to be served on such person a notice of demand in such Form as may be specified by Regulations or in such other Form as the Chief Municipal Officer may deem fit.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 158
        },
        {
            "number": "162",
            "title": "162. Cancellation of irrecoverable dues.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "B. Recovery of Tax on Lands or Buildings by Person Primarily Liable to Pay to the Municipality",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 159
        },
        {
            "number": "163",
            "title": "163. Apportionment of property tax on lands and buildings by person primarily liable to pay.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) If there be but one occupier of the land or the building, from such occupier half of the tax so paid, and, if there be more than one occupier, from each occupier half of such sum as bears to the entire amount of tax so paid by the owner the same proportion as the value of the portion of the land or the building in the occupation of such occupier bears to the entire value of such land or building:\n(b) the entire amount of the surcharge on the property tax on any land or building from the occupier of such land or building who uses it for commercial or non-residential purposes:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 160
        },
        {
            "number": "164",
            "title": "164. Mode of recovery.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter XX\nCommercial Projects",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 161
        },
        {
            "number": "165",
            "title": "165. Commercial Projects and receipts therefrom.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Part V\nUrban Environmental Infrastructure and Services\nChapter XXI\nPrivate Sector Participation Agreement and Assignment to other Agencies",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 162
        },
        {
            "number": "166",
            "title": "166. Undertaking of project by Municipality or by other agency.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) promote the undertaking of any project for supply of urban environmental infrastructure or services by participation of a company, firm, society, trust or any body corporate or any institution, or government agency or any agency under any other law for the time being in force, in financing, construction, maintenance and operation of such project of a Municipality irrespective of its cost,\n(b) consider and approve the undertaking of any project relating to urban environmental infrastructure or services by a company, or firm, or society, or body corporate in terms of a private sector participation agreement or jointly with any such agency, and\n(c) consider and approve the undertaking of any project relating to urban environmental infrastructure or services by any institution, or government agency or any agency under any other law for the time being in force, or jointly with any such agency,",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 163
        },
        {
            "number": "167",
            "title": "167. Types of Private Sector Participation Agreements.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) Build-Own-Operate-Transfer Agreement,\n(b) Build-Own-Operate-Maintain Agreement,\n(c) Build and Transfer Agreement,\n(d) Build-Lease-Transfer Agreement,\n(e) Build-Transfer-Operate Agreement,\n(f) Lease and Management Agreement,\n(g) Management Agreement,\n(h) Rehabilitate-Operate-Transfer Agreement,\n(i) Rehabilitate-Own-Operate-Maintain Agreement,\n(j) Service Contract Agreement, and\n(k) Supply Operate-Transfer Agreement.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 164
        },
        {
            "number": "168",
            "title": "168. Functions assigned to Municipality or other agencies.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) discharge any of its obligations on its own, or\n(b) enter into any private sector participation agreement.\nChapter XXII\nWater-supply\nA. General",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 165
        },
        {
            "number": "169",
            "title": "169. Definitions.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) here 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 such stopcock, and\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 includes,-\n(i) where the communication pipe ends at a stopcock, such stopcock, and\n(ii) any stopcock fitted on the communication pipe between the end thereof and the main;\nB. Functions in Relation to Water-supply",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 166
        },
        {
            "number": "170",
            "title": "170. Duty of Municipality to supply water.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to ascertain the sufficiency and wholesomeness of water supplied within the municipal area,\n(b) to provide, or to arrange to provide, a supply of wholesome water in pipes to every part of the municipal area in which there are houses, for 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, that the Municipality shall not be required to do anything which is not practicable at a reasonable cost or to provide such supply to any part of the municipal area where such supply is already available at such point or points, and\n(c) to provide, as far as possible, a supply of wholesome water otherwise than in pipes to every part of the municipal area in which there are houses, for domestic purposes of the occupants thereof, and to which it is not practicable to provide supply in pipes at a reasonable cost, and in which danger to health may arise from the insufficiency or unwholesomeness of the existing supply and a public supply is required and may be provided at a reasonable cost, and to secure that such supply is available within a reasonable distance of every house in that part.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 167
        },
        {
            "number": "171",
            "title": "171. Supply of water to connected premises.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to any institutional building, assembly building, business building, mercantile building, industrial building, storage building, or hazardous building, referred to in clause (2) of Section 312 or any part of such building other than that used as a residential building, or educational building, within the meaning of sub-clause (a), or sub-clause (b), of clause (2) of that Section,\n(b) for building purposes,\n(c) for watering roads and paths,\n(d) for purposes of irrigation,\n(e) for gardens, fountains, swimming pools, or for any ornamental or mechanical purpose, or\n(f) for animals or for washing vehicles where such animals or vehicles are kept for sale or hire.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 168
        },
        {
            "number": "172",
            "title": "172. Supply of water for non-domestic purposes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 169
        },
        {
            "number": "173",
            "title": "173. Provision of communication pipes and fittings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 170
        },
        {
            "number": "174",
            "title": "174. Water-supply through hydrants, stand-posts and other conveniences.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 171
        },
        {
            "number": "175",
            "title": "175. Provision for fire hydrants.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 172
        },
        {
            "number": "176",
            "title": "176. Supply of water to areas outside municipal area.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "C. Planning, Construction Operation, Maintenance and Management of Waterworks",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 173
        },
        {
            "number": "177",
            "title": "177. Public tanks, sub-soil water, etc. to vest in Municipality.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 174
        },
        {
            "number": "178",
            "title": "178. Vesting of sub-soil rights.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 175
        },
        {
            "number": "179",
            "title": "179. Works to be undertaken for supply of water.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) shall cause to be constructed or maintained such tanks, reservoirs, engines, pipes, taps, and other waterworks as may be necessary, within or outside the municipal area,\n(b) may purchase, or take on lease, any waterworks, or right to store or to take and convey water, within or outside the municipal area, and\n(c) may enter into any agreement with any person or authority for the supply of water:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 176
        },
        {
            "number": "180",
            "title": "180. Management of waterworks.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 177
        },
        {
            "number": "181",
            "title": "181. Purity of water for domestic purpose.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 178
        },
        {
            "number": "182",
            "title": "182. Water not to be wasted.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "D. Tube-wells and Wells",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 179
        },
        {
            "number": "183",
            "title": "183. Prohibition regarding sinking of tube-wells or digging of wells etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) by notice, in writing, require the owner or the other person, who has done such work to fill up or demolish such work, within such time as may be specified in the notice, and if the work of filling up or demolition is not done within the time so specified, cause the work to be done and realize the expenses therefore from the owner or the person to whom such notice was given, or\n(b) grant permission to retain such work on such terms and conditions as the Empowered Standing Committee may consider fit to impose.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 180
        },
        {
            "number": "184",
            "title": "184. Power to require filling up of wells.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 181
        },
        {
            "number": "185",
            "title": "185. Power to set apart wells tanks, etc. for drinking, culinary, bathing and washing purposes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) supply of water exclusively for drinking or for culinary purposes or for both, or\n(b) bathing, or\n(c) washing animals or clothes, or\n(d) any other purpose connected with health, cleanliness or comfort of the inhabitants, and may, by like order, prohibit bathing, or washing of animals or clothes or other things at any public place, not set apart for such purposes, or prohibit any other act by which water in any public place maybe rendered foul or unfit for use, or provide for alternative facilities and conveniences to regulate the use of any tank, well, spring or watercourse to promote public safety, health and welfare.\nE. Water-supply Mains and Pipes",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 182
        },
        {
            "number": "186",
            "title": "186. Power to lay mains, service pipes, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) in any street, and.\n(b) with the consent of every owner or occupier of any land, not forming part of a street, in, over or on that land, and may, either on his own or through any other agency, from time to time, inspect, repair, alter, or renew or may, at any time, remove any such main, or service pipes, so laid, whether under this Section or under any other provision of this Act:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 183
        },
        {
            "number": "187",
            "title": "187. Prohibition for laying water pipes and construction of latrines and cesspools.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) a laying of water-pipes in any place where water is likely to be polluted,\n(b) construction of latrine or cesspool within six metres of any well, tank, water-pipe, or cistern, or\n(c) the use of water from any polluted source of supply.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 184
        },
        {
            "number": "188",
            "title": "188. Power in relation to water supply.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the provision of separate supply-pipes for each land or building or each storey of a building,\n(b) the owner of a land or building, or the person primarily liable for payment of tax in respect of a land or building, having no supply, or inadequate supply, or wholesome water for domestic purposes, to take supply of water from the mains of the Municipality and to set up electric pumps for the purpose, and\n(c) the-occupier of any land or building to which water is supplied by the municipality, to keep the supply-pipes in efficient repair.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 185
        },
        {
            "number": "189",
            "title": "189. Power to turn off supply of water to premises.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) If the person, whose premises are supplied with water, neglects to pay any sum payable under sub-section (2) of Section 171 or sub-section (2) of Section 173, when due,\n(b) if, after receipt of a notice, in writing, from the Chief Municipal Officer requiring him to refrain from so doing, the owner or the occupier of the premises continues to use the water or to permit the same to be used in contravention of the provisions of this Act or the Regulations made thereunder,\n(c) if the occupier of the premises contravenes the provisions of subsection (3) of Section 171,\n(d) if the occupier refuses to admit any officer or other employee of the Municipality, duly authorized in that behalf, into the premises for the purpose of making any inspection under this Act or the Regulations made thereunder,\n(e) if the owner or the occupier of the premises wilfully or negligently damages his meter or any pipe or tap conveying water from any waterworks of the Municipality,\n(f) if any pipes, taps, works or fittings, connected with the supply of water to the premises, be found, on examination, by the Chief Municipal Officer, to be out of repair to such an extent as to cause so serious a waste of water that, in his opinion, immediate prevention is necessary,\n(g) if the use of the premises for human habitation has been prohibited under this Act,\n(h) if there is any water-pipe situated within the premises to which no tap or other efficient means of turning off the water-supply is attached, and\n(i) if, by reason of a leak in the service pipe or fitting, damage is caused to any public street and immediate prevention is necessary:\n(i) water-supply shall not be cut off or turned off in any case referred to in clause (g) or clause (i), unless a notice, in writing, of not less than seventy-two hours has been given to the occupier of the premises, and\n(ii) in the case referred to in clause (f) or clause (i), the Chief Municipal Officer may carryout necessary repair to pipes, taps, works, or fittings and recover the expenses thereof from the owner or the occupier of the premises.\nF. Water Meters and Recovery of Charges",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 186
        },
        {
            "number": "190",
            "title": "190. Power to provide water meters and recover charges.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) by Regulations, specify the terms and conditions for-\n(i) provision of water meters, either by itself or through an agent or by the owner or the occupier of any land or building, and\n(ii) recovery of charges for supply of such water as recorded by water meters, and\n(b) take necessary steps for detection and elimination of any fraud in respect of such water meters.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 187
        },
        {
            "number": "191",
            "title": "191. Entrustment of operation and maintenance of waterworks and billing and collection of charges.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "G. Offence in Relation to Water-supply",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 188
        },
        {
            "number": "192",
            "title": "192. Liability for offence in relation to water-supply.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter XXIII\nDrainage and Sewerage\nA. Functions in Relation to Drainage and Sewerage",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 189
        },
        {
            "number": "193",
            "title": "193. Municipality to provide drainage, sewerage and outfall.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) in conformity with the provisions of any State law relating to land use planning or any other law relating thereto for the time being in force, or\n(ii) with the approval of the State Government, in the absence of any such law:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 190
        },
        {
            "number": "194",
            "title": "194. Provision of means for disposal of sewage.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "B. Proprietary Rights of Municipality in Respect of Drains and Sewage Disposal Works",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 191
        },
        {
            "number": "195",
            "title": "195. Vesting of public drains and sewage disposal works.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) all public drains, all drains in alongside or under any public street, and all sewage disposal works, constructed or acquired out of the Municipal Fund or otherwise, and all works, materials and things appertaining thereto, which are situated within or outside the municipal area, shall be vested in the Municipality,\n(b) for the purposes of laying, constructing, enlarging, deepening or otherwise repairing or maintaining any such drain or sewage disposal system, so much of the sub-soil appertaining thereto, as may be necessary for such purposes, shall be deemed also to be vested in the Municipality, and\n(c) all drains and ventilation shafts, pipes and all appliances and fittings connected with the drainage works constructed, erected or set up out of the Municipal Fund in or upon premises, not belonging to the Municipality, whether\n(i) before or after the commencement of this Act, and\n(ii) for the use of the owner or the occupier of such premises or not, shall, unless the Municipality has otherwise determined, or does at any time otherwise determine, vest, and shall be deemed always to have vested, in the Municipality.\nExplanation.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 192
        },
        {
            "number": "196",
            "title": "196. Power to make over to, or to take over from, Statutory Authority drainage and sewerage works.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "C. Municipal Drains",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 193
        },
        {
            "number": "197",
            "title": "197. Power of making drain.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 194
        },
        {
            "number": "198",
            "title": "198. Sewage and rain water to be separate.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 195
        },
        {
            "number": "199",
            "title": "199. Alteration, discontinuance, cleansing, etc, of drain.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) enlarge, alter the course of, lessen, or arch over, or otherwise improve,, any municipal drain within the municipal area,\n(b) discontinue, close up, or destroy any such drain,\n(c) properly flush, clean, and empty such drain, and\n(d) restrict throwing, emptying, or turning into any municipal drain, or into any drain communicating into the municipal drain, any matter likely to damage the drain or interfere with the free flow of its contents or affect prejudicially the treatment and disposal of its contents, or any chemicals, refuse or waste streem, or any liquid which is dangerous or is the cause of a nuisance or is prejudicial to health, or any petroleum Class, 'A', petroleum Class 'B' or petroleum Class 'C'.\nExplanation.\nD. Drains of Private Streets and Drainage of Premises",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 196
        },
        {
            "number": "200",
            "title": "200. Powers in relation to drainage.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) permit the owner or the occupier of any premises having a drain, or the owner of a private drain, to have his drain made to communicate with the municipal drain for discharge of foul water,\n(b) limit the use of the municipal drain by the owner or the occupier of any premises having a private drain or the owner of a private drain,\n(c) require the owner of any land or building, which is without sufficient means of effectual drainage, to construct a drain and to provide all such appliances and fittings as may be necessary for drainage of such undrained land or building,\n(d) require the group of owners of block of premises, which may be drained more economically or advantageously in combination than separately, to undertake at their own expense any work necessary for drainage of such block of premises to be drained by a combined operation,\n(e) require the owner of any land or building to carry out such construction, repair or other work as may be necessary for effectual drainage of such land or building, or\n(f) authorize any person, who desires to drain his land or building into a municipal drain through a drain of which he is not an owner, to use the drain or declare such person to be the joint owner thereof.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 197
        },
        {
            "number": "201",
            "title": "201. Premises not to be erected without drains.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) a drain is constructed of such size, materials and description, at such level, and with such fall, as may appear to the Chief Municipal Officer 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 Chief Municipal Officer to be necessary for the purposes of gathering or receiving the filth and other polluted and obnoxious matters, and conveying the same, from such premises and of effectually flushing the drain of such premises and every fixture connected therewith.\nE. Trade Effluent",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 198
        },
        {
            "number": "202",
            "title": "202. Special provisions relating to trade effluent.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 199
        },
        {
            "number": "203",
            "title": "203. Special provisions regarding drainage of trade effluent.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to discharge the trade effluent in such manner, at such times, through such drains, and subject to such conditions, as may be specified in the notice, and to cease to discharge the trade effluent otherwise than in accordance with the notice,\n(b) to purify the trade effluent before its discharge into a municipal drain and to set up for purifying the trade effluent such appliances, apparatus, fittings and plants, as may be specified in the notice,\n(c) to construct a drain of such material, size and description, and laid at such level, and according to such alignment, and with such fall and outlet, as may be specified in the notice,\n(d) to alter, amend, repair or renovate any purification plant, existing drain, apparatus, plant-fitting or article used in connection with any municipal or house-drain.\nChapter XXIV\nOther Provisions Relating to Water-supply, Drainage and Sewerage .",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 200
        },
        {
            "number": "204",
            "title": "204. Connection with water works mains and drains not to be made without permission.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 201
        },
        {
            "number": "205",
            "title": "205. Buildings, railway and private streets not to be erected or constructed over water mains or on municipal drains without permission.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 202
        },
        {
            "number": "206",
            "title": "206. Railway administration to be informed in certain cases.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 203
        },
        {
            "number": "207",
            "title": "207. Chief Municipal Officer not to sanctioned building plan unless plan relating to water supply etc. is in conformity with Rules and Regulations.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 204
        },
        {
            "number": "208",
            "title": "208. Maps of underground water mains, supply pipes, drains, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 205
        },
        {
            "number": "209",
            "title": "209. Rights of user of property for aqueducts, line, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 206
        },
        {
            "number": "210",
            "title": "210. 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 possible delay,\n(b) fill in, reinstate, and make good, at his own cost and with the least possible 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 such 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": 207
        },
        {
            "number": "211",
            "title": "211. Power of Chief Municipal Officer to affix shafts etc. for ventilation of drain or cesspool and testing of drain.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) erect upon any land or building or affix to the out side of any building, or to any tree, any shaft or pipe as may appear to him to be necessary for the purpose of ventilating any drain or cesspool, whether vested in the Municipality or not, and\n(b) examine the condition of a private drain or cesspool within the municipal area in respect of which there is reasonable ground for believing that such private drain or cesspool is in such condition as is prejudicial to health, or is a nuisance, by applying any test other than a test by water under pressure, and if he deems it necessary, by opening the ground.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 208
        },
        {
            "number": "212",
            "title": "212. Power of Chief Municipal Officer to execute work after giving notice to person liable.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 209
        },
        {
            "number": "213",
            "title": "213. Work to be done by licensed plumber.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the terms and conditions of engagement of such licensed plumbers,\n(b) their duties and responsibilities, and guidelines for their functions,\n(c) the charges to be paid to them for different types of works\n(c) the hearing and disposal of complaints made by the owners or occupiers of any premises with regard to the work, and\n(e) In case of contravention of any such regulations by any such plumber, the suspension or cancellation of such licence, whether he is prosecuted under this Act or not.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 210
        },
        {
            "number": "214",
            "title": "214. Power of access to waterworks and drainage sewerage installation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) enter upon, and pass through, any land within or outside the municipal area, adjacent to, or in the vicinity of, such waterworks, in whomsoever such land may vest, and\n(b) convey into and through any such land all necessary materials, tools and implements.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 211
        },
        {
            "number": "215",
            "title": "215. Prohibition of certain acts.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) willfully obstruct any person acting under the authority of the Chief Municipal Officer in setting out the lines of any works or pull up or remove any pillar, post or shaft fixed in the ground for the purpose of setting out lines of such works, or deface or destroy any works made for such purpose, or\n(b) wilfully or negligently break, damage, turn on, open, close, shut off, or otherwise interfere with, any lock, cock, valve, pipe, meter or other work or apparatus belonging to the Municipality, or\n(c) unlawfully obstruct the flow of, or flush, draw off, or divert, to take water from, any waterworks belonging to the Municipality or any watercourse by which any such waterworks is supplied, or\n(d) unlawfully obstruct the flow of, or flush, draw off, or divert, or take, sewage work belonging to the Municipality or break or damage any electrical transmission line maintained by the Municipality, or\n(e) throw any material including plastic bags and containers or waste of dairies, piggeries and poultry farms into any municipal drain or sewer, or\n(f) obstruct any officer or other employee of the Municipality in the discharge of his duties under chapter XXII, chapter XXIII and 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(g) bathe in, at, or upon, any waterworks, or wash or throw or cause to enter therein any animal, or throw any rubbish, dirt or filth into any waterworks 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 to be brought, into any waterworks, or do any other act, whereby the water in any waterworks is fouled or is likely to be fouled.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 212
        },
        {
            "number": "216",
            "title": "216. Sewerage charge and sewerage cess.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 213
        },
        {
            "number": "217",
            "title": "217. Entrustment of operation and maintenance of sewerage works and billing and collection of sewerage charges.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 214
        },
        {
            "number": "218",
            "title": "218. Power of State Government to exercise control over imperfect, inefficient or unsuitable waterworks, drainage works or sewerage works.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 215
        },
        {
            "number": "219",
            "title": "219. Municipal Water-supply, drainage and Sewerage Code.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter XXV\nSolid Wastes\nA. Functions in Relation to Solid Wastes Management",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 216
        },
        {
            "number": "220",
            "title": "220. Duty of Municipality in respect of solid wastes management and handling.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 217
        },
        {
            "number": "221",
            "title": "221. Entrustment of management and handling of solid wastes and billing and collection of charge.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 218
        },
        {
            "number": "222",
            "title": "222. Functions of Municipality.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) organize collection of municipal solid wastes through any of the methods, like community bin collection (central bin), house-to-house collection, and collection on regular pre-informed times and schedules,\n(b) devise collection of wastes from slums and squatter areas or other localities including hotels, restaurants, office complexes and commercial areas,\n(c) remove at regular intervals all solid wastes so collected under clause (a) and clause (b) for disposal on daily basis, and\n(d) arrange for making use of biodegradable wastes from slaughterhouses, meat and fish markets, and fruits and vegetable markets in an environmentally acceptable manner.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 219
        },
        {
            "number": "223",
            "title": "223. Solid wastes to be property of Municipality.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 220
        },
        {
            "number": "224",
            "title": "224. Appointment of places for disposal and final disposal of solid waste.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) in conformity with the provisions of any State law relating to development planning and land use control or any other law relating thereto for the time being in force, or\n(ii) in the absence of any such law, with the approval of the State Government:\nB. Collection and Removal of Solid Wastes",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 221
        },
        {
            "number": "225",
            "title": "225. Duty of owners and occupiers of premises to store solid wastes at the source of generation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to have the premises swept and cleaned on a regular basis,\n(b) to provide for separate receptacles or disposal bags for the storage of\n(i) organic and bio-degradable wastes,\n(ii) recyclable or non-bio-gradable wastes, and\n(iii) domestic hazardous wastes, so as to ensure that these different types of wastes do not get mixed,\n(c) to keep such receptacles in good condition and order, and\n(d) to cause all such wastes, including rubbish, offensive matter, filth, trade refuse, carcasses of dead animals, excrementitiously matters, bio-medical wastes and other polluted and obnoxious matters to be collected from their respective premises and to be deposited in community bins or receptacles at such times and in such places as the Chief Municipal Officer may, by notice, specify.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 222
        },
        {
            "number": "226",
            "title": "226. Duty of Cooperative Housing Society, Apartment Owners' Association, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 223
        },
        {
            "number": "227",
            "title": "227. Prohibitions.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) litter or deposit at any public place any solid waste,\n(b) deposit building rubbish in or along any public street, public place or open land,\n(c) allow any filthy matter to flow on public places, or\n(d) deposit or otherwise dispose of the carcass or any part of any dead animal at a place not provided or appointed for such purpose.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 224
        },
        {
            "number": "228",
            "title": "228. Punishment for littering on streets and depositing or throwing any solid waste.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 225
        },
        {
            "number": "229",
            "title": "229. Bio-medical wastes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 226
        },
        {
            "number": "230",
            "title": "230. Hazardous wastes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter XXVI\nCommunication Systems A. Public Streets",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 227
        },
        {
            "number": "231",
            "title": "231. Surface transport system and accessories.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the surface transport system shall include streets, roads, footpaths, pedestrian pathways, parking areas, transportation terminals, both for passengers and goods, bridges, sub-ways, over-bridges, ferries and inland water transport systems, and\n(b) the transport system accessories shall include traffic engineering schemes, street furniture, street lighting, parking lots and bus stops,",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 228
        },
        {
            "number": "232",
            "title": "232. Vesting of public streets in Municipality.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) transfer to any Municipality any public street or parking area belonging to it, or\n(b) take over from any Municipality any public street or parking area, or\n(c) transfer such public street or parking area, so taken over, to any authority under any law for the time being in force, or any other agency, for a limited period for the purpose of proper maintenance and development of such public street or parking area by such Municipality or the State Government or such authority or agency, as the case may be.\nGovernment land. Khagaria Municipality v. State of Bihar, 2008(1) BLJ 148 (PHC) : 2008(2) PLJR 375",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 229
        },
        {
            "number": "233",
            "title": "233. Functions of Municipality in respect of public streets etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 230
        },
        {
            "number": "234",
            "title": "234. Power to make new public street etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) layout and make new public streets, or\n(b) construct bridges or sub-ways, or\n(c) turn or divert any existing public street, or\n(d) lay down and determine the position and direction of a street or streets in any part of the municipal area notwithstanding that no proposal for the erection of any building in its vicinity has been received, or\n(e) declare any street, made and duly constructed under any scheme or any development or improvement scheme in pursuance of the provisions of any law for the time being in force or by any authority under any other law for the time being in force, to be a public street, or\n(f) declare any private street to be a public street.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 231
        },
        {
            "number": "235",
            "title": "235. Minimum width of new public street.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 232
        },
        {
            "number": "236",
            "title": "236. Acquisition of lands and buildings for public streets, public parking places and transportation terminals.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) any land together with structure including building, if any, standing thereon for the purpose of opening, widening, extending or otherwise improving any public street, parking or transportation terminal, square, park or garden or of making a new one or for enforcing the regular line of street,\n(b) in relation to any land or any structure including building as aforesaid, such land or structure including building as the Municipality may think expedient, outside the regular line or projected regular line of the public street as aforesaid, and\n(c) any land for the purpose of laying out, or making, a public parking place.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 233
        },
        {
            "number": "237",
            "title": "237. Permanent closure of public street.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 234
        },
        {
            "number": "238",
            "title": "238. Temporary closure of public street.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 235
        },
        {
            "number": "239",
            "title": "239. Closure of Public Street for parking purposes and levy of parking fee.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 236
        },
        {
            "number": "240",
            "title": "240. Right of owners to require streets to be declared public.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "B. Traffic Engineering Schemes, Street Furniture, Parking Lots and Bus Stops",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 237
        },
        {
            "number": "241",
            "title": "241. Traffic engineering schemes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 238
        },
        {
            "number": "242",
            "title": "242. Street furniture and bus stops.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "C. Street Lighting",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 239
        },
        {
            "number": "243",
            "title": "243. Measures for lighting.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) take measures for lighting, in a suitable manner, 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 purpose of lighting, and\n(c) cause such lamps to be lighted by appropriate means.\nChapter XXVII\nMarkets, Commercial Infrastructure and Slaughter Houses",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 240
        },
        {
            "number": "244",
            "title": "244. Commercial Infrastructure.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 241
        },
        {
            "number": "245",
            "title": "245. Provision of municipal markets and slaughter houses.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 242
        },
        {
            "number": "246",
            "title": "246. Use of municipal markets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 243
        },
        {
            "number": "247",
            "title": "247. Levy of stallage, rent and fee.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Part VI\nUrban Environmental Management, Community Health and Public Safety\nChapter XXVIII\nLocal Agenda for Urban Environmental Management",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 244
        },
        {
            "number": "248",
            "title": "248. Duties of the Municipality.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) management of urban environment,\n(b) measuring quality of living and working environment,\n(c) monitoring of pollution levels, and\n(d) undertaking health risk assessment.\n(a) carry out studies on vulnerability and risk assessment,\n(b) enhance the capability of concerned, municipal or other agencies through research and training activities for better management of environment,\n(c) prepare environmental management strategy and action plan, and establish adequate institutional framework for its implementation, and\n(d) provide and manage environmental infrastructure services.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 245
        },
        {
            "number": "249",
            "title": "249. Functions in relation to urban environmental management and submission of report on environmental status of municipal area.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) supply of safe water,\n(b) low cost sanitation,\n(c) environmentally sound solid waste management,\n(d) toxic waste collection and disposal,\n(e) waste recycling and recovery,\n(f) preservation of wetlands,\n(g) control of air pollution,\n(h) control of sound pollution,\n(i) control of cattle and other animal in the municipal area,\n(j) area improvement and resettlement,\n(k) promotion of urban agriculture and urban forestry,\n(l) development of parks, gardens and open spaces,\n(m) promotion of community awareness on environmental education, and (n) such other matters as the Municipality may consider necessary.\nChapter XXIX\nEnvironmental sanitation and Community Health A. Duties and General Powers",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 246
        },
        {
            "number": "250",
            "title": "250. Duties of the Municipality for environmental sanitation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) inspection, supervision, regulation, and control of premises to ensure proper environmental sanitation,\n(b) regulation of public bathing and washing,\n(c) provision and maintenance of public conveniences,\n(d) licensing of animals and control of stray animals,\n(e) licensing of butchers and slaughterhouses, and\n(f) control of nuisances.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 247
        },
        {
            "number": "251",
            "title": "251. Powers of Chief Municipal Officer.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) cause any building or other premises to be inspected for the purpose of ascertaining the sanitary condition thereof,\n(b) require the owner or the occupier of any land or building or any part thereof to cleanse it, if it appears necessary so to do for reasons of sanitation,\n(c) issue such order as he deems necessary for the improvement of any insanitary huts and sheds and untenanted premises which are likely to cause risk of disease to the inmates thereof or to the inhabitants of the neighbourhood or are, for any reason, likely to endanger community health or safety,\n(d) by notice, prohibit the owner or the occupier from the use of any building, or any room in a building, which appears to him to be unfit for human habitation, as dwelling, or\n(e) direct the filling up of any well, pool, ditch, tank, pond, pit or undrained ground, cistern, or reservoir of any waste or stagnant water, which appears to him to be, or likely to become, injurious to health or offensive to the neighbourhood.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 248
        },
        {
            "number": "252",
            "title": "252. Power to regulate excavations.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the making of excavation for the purpose of taking earth therefrom or strong rubbish or offensive matter therein, or\n(b) the digging of cesspool, tanks, ponds, wells or pits, without his special permission.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 249
        },
        {
            "number": "253",
            "title": "253. Power to require trees, hedges, etc., to be trimmed.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "B. Regulation of Public Bathing, Washing, etc.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 250
        },
        {
            "number": "254",
            "title": "254. Regulation of public bathing, washing etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) regulate the use by the public of any river or other public place, whether vested in the Municipality or not, for bathing or washing,\n(b) prohibit the use by the public of any lake, tank, reservoir, fountain, cistern, duct, stand-pipe, stream or well or any part of any river, whether vested in the Municipality or not, for bathing or washing,\n(c) prohibit steeping in any tank, reservoir, stream, well or ditch of any animal, vegetable or mineral matter likely to render the water thereof offensive or dangerous to health,\n(d) prohibit bathing in any lake, tank, reservoir, fountain, cistern, duct, stand-pipe, stream or well by a person suffering from any contagious or infectious disease,\n(e) prohibit any person engaged in any trade or manufacture from causing to flow into any lake, tank, reservoir, cistern, well duct or other places for storage of water, whether vested in the Municipality or not, or drain or pipe communicating therewith, any washing or other substance produced in the course of any such trade or manufacture, or wilfully do any act connected with any such trade or manufacture whereby such water is likely to be fouled or corrupted, or\n(f) prohibit, by notice, the washing of clothes by washermen in pursuance of their calling, except at such places as may be licensed for this purpose.\nC. Public Conveniences",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 251
        },
        {
            "number": "255",
            "title": "255. Public latrines and urinals.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "D. General Provisions",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 252
        },
        {
            "number": "256",
            "title": "256. Prohibition of nuisances.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) commit any nuisance in any public street or public place, or\n(b) unauthorized affix upon any building, monument, post, wall, fence, tree or other thing, any bill, notice or other document, or\n(c) unauthorized deface, or write upon, or otherwise mark, any building, monument, post, wall, fence, tree or other thing, or\n(d) carry rubbish, filth or other polluted and obnoxious matter along any route in contravention of any prohibition made in this behalf by the Chief Municipal Officer by notice, or\n(e) bury or cremate or otherwise dispose of any corpse at a place not licensed for the purpose, or\n(f) disturb public peace or order in violation of sound pollution control order, if any, or\n(g) cause pollution of air in violation of air pollution control order, if any, or\n(h) cause obstruction to the movement of vehicular or pedestrian traffic without permission from the Competent Authority.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 253
        },
        {
            "number": "257",
            "title": "257. Control of pollution.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 254
        },
        {
            "number": "258",
            "title": "258. Power to require wells, tanks, etc., to be rendered safe.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 255
        },
        {
            "number": "259",
            "title": "259. Quarrying, blasting, cutting timber or building operation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 256
        },
        {
            "number": "260",
            "title": "260. Power to stop improper use of land or building.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) is in filthy or unwholesome state, or\n(b) has become a resort of-\n(i) idle and disorderly persons, or\n(ii) persons who have no ostensible means of subsistence or cannot give a satisfactory account of themselves, or\n(c) is used for gambling or immoral purposes, or\n(d) is likely to occasion a nuisance, the Chief Municipal Officer may, after due enquiry, by notice, in writing, require the owner or the part owner or any person claiming to be the owner or the part owner of such land or building, or the lessee, or any person claiming to be the lessee, thereof to-\n(i) secure, enclose, cleanse or clear such land or building, or\n(ii) stop use of such land or building for gambling or immoral purposes, or\n(iii) abate the nuisance, within such time as may be specified in the notice, and shall affix a copy of such notice on the door of the building or on some conspicuous part of the land, as the case may be.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 257
        },
        {
            "number": "261",
            "title": "261. Polluters to pay.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter XXX\nRestraint of Infection",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 258
        },
        {
            "number": "262",
            "title": "262. Municipality to prevent and check dangerous diseases.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 259
        },
        {
            "number": "263",
            "title": "263. Power of Chief Municipal Officer to inspect any place and take measures to prevent spread of dangerous disease.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(b) living in a room or house which he neither owns nor pays rent for, nor occupies as a guest or relative of the person who owns, or pays rent for such room or house, or\n(c) living in a sarai, hotel, boarding-house, or hostel, or\n(d) lodged in premises occupied by members of two or more families, the Chief Municipal Officer or any person authorized by him in this behalf may, on the advice of any Medical Officer, remove the patient to any hospital or place at which persons suffering from such disease are received for medical treatment and may do anything necessary for such removal.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 260
        },
        {
            "number": "264",
            "title": "264. Power of Chief Municipal Officer to cleanse, disinfect, destroy or control places of infection.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 261
        },
        {
            "number": "265",
            "title": "265. Special measures in case of outbreak of dangerous or epidemic diseases.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) take such special measures, and\n(b) by 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 of such disease:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 262
        },
        {
            "number": "266",
            "title": "266. Means for disinfection.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) provide proper places within the municipal area with necessary attendants and apparatus for disinfection of conveyances, clothings, beddings, or other articles which have been exposed to infection, and\n(b) cause conveyances, clothings, beddings, or other articles brought for disinfection, to be disinfected, either free of charge or on payment of such charges as it may fix.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 263
        },
        {
            "number": "267",
            "title": "267. Special conveyance for carrying infected persons.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 264
        },
        {
            "number": "268",
            "title": "268. Prohibitions.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the letting out of any infected building without being first disinfected,\n(b) the disposal of infected articles without disinfection,\n(c) the washing of any infected clothes by any washerman or laundry, and\n(d) the making and selling of food, or washing of clothes, by infected persons.\nChapter XXXI\nDisposal of the Dead",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 265
        },
        {
            "number": "269",
            "title": "269. Acts prohibited in connection with disposal of dead.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) retain a corpse on any premises without burning, burying or otherwise lawfully disposing it of, for so long a time after death as to create a nuisance,\n(b) carry a corpse, or a part of a corpse, along any street without having or keeping such corpse or part of a corpse decently covered or without taking such precautions to prevent risk of infection or injury to the community health as the Chief Municipal Officer may, by notice, from time to time, think fit to require,\n(c) carry, except when no other route is available, a corpse or part of a corpse along any street on which the carrying of copse is prohibited by notice issued by the Chief Municipal Officer in this behalf,\n(d) remove a corpse or part of a corpse, which has been kept or used for purpose of dissection, otherwise than in a closed receptacle or vehicle,\n(e) place or leave, during its conveyance, a corpse or part of a corpse, on or near any street without urgent necessity,\n(f) bury, or cause to be buried, any corpse or part of a corpse in the grave or vault or otherwise in such manner as may cause the surface of the coffin or, when no coffin is used, of the corpse or part of the corpse, to be at a depth of less than two meters from the surface of the ground,\n(g) build, big, or cause to be built or dug, any grave or vault in any burial ground at a distance of less than one-half of a metre from the margin of any other grave or vault,\n(h) build or dig, or cause to be built or dug, grave or vault in any burial ground in any line, not marked out for such purpose by or under the order of the Chief Municipal Officer,\n(i) reopen for the interment of a corpse or of any part of a corpse a grave or vault already occupied, without the written permission of the Chief Municipal Officer,\n(j) make, without the permission of the Chief Municipal Officer, any vault or grave or interment within any wall, or underneath any passage, porch, portico, plinth or verandah, of any place of worship,\n(k) make, without the permission of the Chief Municipal Officer, any interment or otherwise dispose of any corpse in any place which is closed under Section 356,\n(l) build, dig, or cause to be built or dug, any grave or vault, or, in any way, dispose of, or suffer or permit to be disposed of, any corpse at any place, which is not permitted under this chapter, without the permission of the Chief Municipal Officer, and (m) exhume without the permission of the Chief Municipal Officer, any body from any place for the disposal of the dead except under the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, or any other law for the time being in force.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 266
        },
        {
            "number": "270",
            "title": "270. Registration of places for disposal of the dead.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 267
        },
        {
            "number": "271",
            "title": "271. Power to require closing of burning and burial grounds etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 268
        },
        {
            "number": "272",
            "title": "272. Disposal of dead animals.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) convey the carcass to a place provided or appointed under this Act for the final disposal of carcasses of dead animals, or\n(b) give notice of the death to the Chief Municipal Officer whereupon he shall cause the carcass to be disposed of.\nChapter XXXII\nUrban Forestry, Parks, Gardens, Trees and Playgrounds",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 269
        },
        {
            "number": "273",
            "title": "273. Municipality to implement schemes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) promotion of urban forestry,\n(b) creation of public parks and gardens, and planting of trees,\n(c) provision of parks and playgrounds for children and youth,\n(d) provision of street-side gardens,\n(e) encouragement of nurseries, and\n(f) organization of flower shows.\nPart VII\nRegulatory Jurisdiction\nChapter XXXIII\nDevelopment Plans",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 270
        },
        {
            "number": "274",
            "title": "274. Representation in District Planning Committee or Metropolitan Planning Committee.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 271
        },
        {
            "number": "275",
            "title": "275. Municipality to implement development plans.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) preparation of plans for improvement under Chapter XXXV, and\n(b) plans for infrastructure development including water-supply, drainage and sewerage, solid waste management, roads, and transport system accessories.\nChapter XXXIV\nImprovement",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 272
        },
        {
            "number": "276",
            "title": "276. Removal of congested buildings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 273
        },
        {
            "number": "277",
            "title": "277. Power to require improvement of building unfit for human habitation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 274
        },
        {
            "number": "278",
            "title": "278. Power to order demolition of building 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, and\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 for human habitation only if it is so defective in one or more of the matters as aforesaid 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 matters, and\n(i) any other work including the demolition of any building or any part thereof which, in the opinion of the Chief Municipal Officer, is necessary for executing any of the works as aforesaid.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 275
        },
        {
            "number": "279",
            "title": "279. Area improvement scheme.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) 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 narrowness or bad arrangement of the streets or want of light, air, ventilation or proper conveniences, dangerous or injurious to the health of the inhabitants of that area, or\n(b) because of bad layout or obsolete or undesirable dwellings, renewal of such area is necessary, or\n(c) there is need to create new or improved means of communication and facilities for traffic, and that the most satisfactory method of remedying these defects is to prepare an area improvement scheme in respect of such area, the Municipality may pass a resolution so to do.\nExplanation.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 276
        },
        {
            "number": "280",
            "title": "280. Matters to be provided in area improvement scheme.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) laying out, or relaying out, land, either vacant or already built upon,\n(b) filling up, or reclamation, of low lying swampy or unhealthy areas or levelling up of land,\n(c) redistribution of sites belonging to owners of property comprised in the scheme,\n(d) reconstitution of plots,\n(e) construction or reconstruction of buildings,\n(f) restriction on the erection or re-erection of any building or any class of buildings,\n(g) imposition of conditions and restrictions in regard to the open spaces to be maintained around any building, percentage of built-up area for a plot, number, height and character of buildings allowed in specified areas, sub-division of plots, discontinuance of objectionable uses of land or building in any area for specified periods, parking spaces and loading and unloading spaces for any building and advertisement signs,\n(h) closure or demolition of buildings or portions of buildings unfit for human habitation,\n(i) demolition of obstructive buildings or portions thereof,\n(j) laying out of new streets or roads and construction, diversion, extension, alteration, improvement and closing up of streets or roads and other means of communication,\n(k) regular lines of streets and prohibition of buildings within the regular lines of streets,\n(l) construction alteration and removal of bridges and other structures,\n(m) provision for traffic engineering schemes, street lighting, street furniture and other conveniences,\n(n) provision for water-supply, sewerage, surface or sub-soil drainage and sewage disposal,\n(o) provision for open spaces,\n(p) preservation and protection of objects of historical importance or of national interest or of natural beauty and of buildings actually used for religious purposes, and\n(q) any other matter not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act and for which, in the opinion of the Municipality, it is expedient to make provisions with a view to improving the area to which the scheme relates,",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 277
        },
        {
            "number": "281",
            "title": "281. Submission of area improvement scheme to Municipality and State Government.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 278
        },
        {
            "number": "282",
            "title": "282. Re-housing scheme.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 279
        },
        {
            "number": "283",
            "title": "283. Area improvement scheme and re-housing scheme to comply with structure plan.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Explanation.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 280
        },
        {
            "number": "284",
            "title": "284. Execution of area improvement scheme.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 281
        },
        {
            "number": "285",
            "title": "285. Power to acquire land and building for area improvement scheme.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) opening out any congested or unhealthy area or otherwise improving any portion of municipal area, or\n(ii) erecting sanitary dwellings for working and poor people, or\n(iii) executing any development plan or scheme for the benefit of persons residing in the municipal area.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 282
        },
        {
            "number": "286",
            "title": "286. Power of Municipality to define and to alter limits of slum.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 283
        },
        {
            "number": "287",
            "title": "287. Slum improvement scheme.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) water-supply including sinking of tube-wells, laying of water pipelines, installation of overhead reservoirs, and flushing arrangements for privies and urinals,\n(b) drainage and sewerage including connections with any existing channel or sewer main or laying or diverting of drains,\n(c) conversion of service privies into septic tank privies or water-borne privies connected with sewer mains,\n(d) sewage and garbage removal,\n(e) raising, lowering or levelling of land and improvement of pathways and passages,\n(f) lighting including laying of cables or overhead lines,\n(g) improvement of huts or other structures, and\n(h) such other matters as may be considered necessary for carrying out the purposes of this chapter.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 284
        },
        {
            "number": "288",
            "title": "288. Acquisition of right of user.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 285
        },
        {
            "number": "289",
            "title": "289. Work to be executed in slum.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) sinking of tube-wells inside a slum including laying of water-pipe lines, installation of overhead reservoirs and other appurtenances necessary to maintain flushing arrangements of privies and sewers,\n(b) laying of drains or diversion of existing drains,\n(c) conversion of service privies into connected privies or septic tanks,\n(d) removal of silt from sewers and sludge from septic tanks inside a slum,\n(e) removal of solid or liquid wastes from slums including cleansing of the deck or squatting platform of the connected privies, or septic tanks,\n(f) laying of internal roads,\n(g) provision of street lighting, and\n(h) repair work relating to any of the works referred to in clauses (a) to (e).",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 286
        },
        {
            "number": "290",
            "title": "290. Power of Government to require Municipality to prepare a Development/Master Plan.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) If within the period specified or within such period which the Government has extended, no Development/Master Plan has been prepared; or.\n(b) If at any time the Government is satisfied that the Municipality is not taking steps necessary to prepare such Development/Master Plan within that period, the Government may direct the Chief Town Planner or other consultants to prepare the Development/Master Plan.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 287
        },
        {
            "number": "291",
            "title": "291. Committee for Metropolitan Planning.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) composition of the Metropolitan Planning Committee.\n(b) the manner in which the seats in such Committee shall be filled:\n(c) the representation in such Committee of the Government of India and the State Government and of such organisations and institutions as may be deemed necessary for carrying out the functions assigned to such Committees;\n(d) the functions relating to planning and Co-ordination for the Metropolitan area which may be assigned to such Committees;\n(e) the manner in which Chairperson of such committee shall be chosen.\n(a) have regard to-\n(i) the plans prepared by the Municipalities and the Panchayats in the Metropolitan area;\n(ii) matters of common interests between the Corporation, Municipal Council or Nagar Panchayat and Panchayts including co-ordinated spatial planning of the area, sharing of water and other physical and natural resources, the integrated development of infrastructures and environmental conservation;\n(iii) the overall objectives and priorities set by the Government of India and the State Government;\n(iv) the extent and nature of investments likely to be made in the metropolitan area by agencies of the Government of India and of the State Government and other available resources, whether financial or otherwise.\n(b) Consult such institutions and organisations as the State Government may by order specify.\nChapter XXXV\nPublic Streets\nA. General Powers",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 288
        },
        {
            "number": "292",
            "title": "292. Municipal Streets Technical Committee.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) in the case of a Municipal Corporation, seven Councillors to be elected by the Municipal Corporation,\n(b) in the case of a Class 'A' Municipal Council, five Councillors to be elected by the Municipal Council, and\n(c) in the case of a Class 'B' or Class 'C' Municipal Council or a Nagar Panchayat, three Councillors to be elected by the Class 'B' or Class 'C' Municipal Council or the Nagar Panchayat, as the case may be.\n(a) the Chief Municipal Officer who shall be the Convenor of the Committee,\n(b) the Municipal Engineer,\n(c) a police officer, not below the rank of an Inspector of Police, to be nominated by the Superintendent of Police of the District concerned, and\n(d) two officers having responsibility for fire services and preparation of development plans for the municipal area, to be nominated by the State Government either from amongst the officers of the Municipality or from the officers of the concerned State Government Departments or any authority under any law for the time being in force.\n(a) the desirability of securing and maintaining reasonable access to premises,\n(b) the effect on the amenities of any locality affected, and\n(c) any other relevant matter referred to it by the Municipality, aid, advise and assist the Municipality in the following matters, namely:-\n(i) classification of public streets and specification of width thereof,\n(ii) prescription of regular line of street,\n(iii) regulation of abutting land uses,\n(iv) regulation of traffic,\n(v) designation of on-street parking areas,\n(vi) allocation of rights of way for underground utilities,\n(vii) placement of street furniture,\n(viii) placement of authorized fixtures on streets, such as electric and telegraph poles, post-boxes, telephone junction boxes, sheds for buses, and milk booths,\n(ix) opening of new public streets,\n(x) permanent or temporary closure of existing public streets,\n(xi) declaring private streets as public streets, and\n(xii) any other matter that may be referred to it by the Municipality.\nExplanation.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 289
        },
        {
            "number": "293",
            "title": "293. Classification of public streets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) category I-arterial roads,\n(b) category II-sub-arterial roads,\n(c) category III-connected, roads,\n(d) category IV-local roads, and\n(e) category V-pedestrian pathways.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 290
        },
        {
            "number": "294",
            "title": "294. Compulsory provision of footpaths.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 291
        },
        {
            "number": "295",
            "title": "295. Naming and numbering of streets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) determine the name or number by which any street or public place vested in it 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 some convenient part of such street, the name or number by which it shall be known, and\n(c) cause to be put up or painted on boards of suitable size the name of any public place vested in the Municipality.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 292
        },
        {
            "number": "296",
            "title": "296. Unique premises number.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Explanation.\n(a) the first three digits indicating the ward number,\n(b) the next three digits indicating the street number,\n(c) the next four digits indicating the premises number,\n(d) the next three digits indicating the sub-premises number,\n(e) the next one digit indicating the code of the building use, such as residential, commercial, industrial or other use, and\n(f) the last one digit indicating the code of type of construction.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 293
        },
        {
            "number": "297",
            "title": "297. Rights of way for underground utilities.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the sanction by the Municipality of specific rights of way in the sub-soil of public and private streets in any municipal area for different public utilities including electric supply, telephone or other telecommunication facilities, gas pipes, water-supply, drainage and sewerage, and underground rail system, pedestrian sub-ways, shopping plazas, warehousing facilities and apparatus and appurtenances related thereto provided by the State Government, or any statutory body or any licensee under any of the above mentioned Acts or other laws,\n(b) the levy of any fee or charges under any of the Acts or other laws as aforesaid,\n(c) the furnishing to the Municipality of maps, drawings and statements which shall enable it to compile and maintain precise records of the placement of the underground utilities in the municipal area,\n(d) the fixing of time limit for execution of work and imposing of such conditions in this respect as the Municipality may consider appropriate, and\n(e) the imposing of penalty in case of delay in the completion of work.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 294
        },
        {
            "number": "298",
            "title": "298. Maps of underground utilities.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 295
        },
        {
            "number": "299",
            "title": "299. Power to prohibit use of public streets for certain kind of traffic.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) prohibit or regulate, either temporarily or permanently, vehicular traffic in any public street or any portion thereof so as to prevent danger, obstruction or inconvenience to the public or to ensure quietness in any locality,\n(b) prohibit, in respect of a public street or a portion thereof, the transit of any vehicle of such type, form, construction, weight, emission, or size, or of any vehicle laden with such heavy or unwieldy object as is likely to cause injury to the roadways or any construction thereon, or of any vehicle on the ground of public convenience, except under such conditions as to time, mode of transaction or locomotion, use of appliances for the protection of roadways, number of lights and assistants, and other general precautions, and on payment of such charges, as may be specified by the Municipality generally or specifically in each case,\n(c) prohibit, at all times or during any particular hours, entry of any vehicular traffic from, or exit of such vehicular traffic into, any premises from any particular public street carrying such traffic.\nB Regular Line of Street",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 296
        },
        {
            "number": "300",
            "title": "300. Defining regular line of street.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 297
        },
        {
            "number": "301",
            "title": "301. Setting back buildings to regular line of street.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) repair, rebuild or construct such building or pull down such building to an extent, measured in cubic metre, exceeding one-half thereof above the ground level, or\n(b) 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 order, as respects the additions to, or rebuilding, construction, repair or alterations of, such building, require such building to be set back to the regular line of such street.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 298
        },
        {
            "number": "302",
            "title": "302. Compulsory setting back of building to regular line of street.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 299
        },
        {
            "number": "303",
            "title": "303. Setting forward of building to regular line of street.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Explanation.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 300
        },
        {
            "number": "304",
            "title": "304. Acquisition of open land and land occupied by platforms etc. within regular line of street.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 301
        },
        {
            "number": "305",
            "title": "305. Acquisition of remaining part of building and land after their portions within regular line of street have been acquired.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 302
        },
        {
            "number": "306",
            "title": "306. Compensation to be paid in certain cases of setting back or setting forward of building etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "C. Obstruction on Streets",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 303
        },
        {
            "number": "307",
            "title": "307. Special provision regarding streets belonging to Central or State Government.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the Municipality shall not, in respect of such National Highway, State Highway, or street, grant permission to do any act, the doing of which without its permission, in writing, would contravene the provisions of this Act, except with the sanction of the Central Government or the State Government, as the case may be, and\n(b) if so required by the Central Government or the State Government, the Municipality shall exercise the powers conferred upon it by this Act or any Regulations relating to such street.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 304
        },
        {
            "number": "308",
            "title": "308. Temporary erection on streets during festivals.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 305
        },
        {
            "number": "309",
            "title": "309. Precautions during construction or repair of street, drain or premises.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) cause the same to be fenced and guarded,\n(b) take proper precaution against accident affecting public street or adjoining buildings,\n(c) prohibit, without his written permission, the deposit of any building material or the setting up of any scaffolding or any temporary erection on any public street,\n(d) close any street wholly or partly to traffic,\n(e) provide for necessary diversion of traffic, wherever necessary,\n(f) ensure the reinstatement of the public street or restoration of any drain or premises to its original condition, and\n(g) take steps for repairing or enclosing of any place which, in his opinion, is dangerous or causing inconvenience to traffic along a street or to persons who have legal access thereto or to the neighbourhood thereof, and recover the costs of such repair works from the owner or the occupier of any such place or premises.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 306
        },
        {
            "number": "310",
            "title": "310. Power of Municipality in relation to Regulation of street.",
            "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 injury to the roadways,\n(b) prohibit, at all times or during any particular hours, entry of any vehicular traffic from, or exit of such vehicular traffic into, any premises from any particular public street carrying such traffic,\n(c) prohibit tethering of any animal for any purpose in any public street,\n(d) prohibit in any street installation of structures or fixtures which may cause obstruction,\n(e) prohibit the opening of the ground floor door, gate, bar or window outwards on any street,\n(f) prohibit projections upon any street, or drain, or open channel in any street, and\n(g) remove anything encroached, erected, deposited or hawked on any public place or public street in contravention of the provisions of this Act.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 307
        },
        {
            "number": "311",
            "title": "311. Restoration of municipal properties by public utilities.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter XXXVI\nBuildings\nA. Procedure",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 308
        },
        {
            "number": "312",
            "title": "312. Definitions.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to erect a new building on any site, whether previously built upon or not,\n(b) to re-erect-\n(i) any building of which more than one-half of the cubical extent above the level of 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 plinth has been pulled down, or\n(iii) any frame-building of which more than half of the number of posts or beams in the external walls have been pulled down,\n(c) to convert into a dwelling-house any building or any part of a building not originally so constructed for human habitation or, if originally so constructed for human habitation, 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 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 of such tenements,\n(h) to convert into a stall, shop, office, warehouse or godown, workshop, factory or garage any building not originally constructed for use as such, or to convert any building constructed for such use, by subdivision or addition, into greater or lesser number of such stalls, shops, offices, warehouses or godowns, workships, factories or garages,\n(i) to convert a building, which, when originally constructed, was legally exempt from the operation of any building Regulations or any Rules made under this Act or in any other law for the time being in force, 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,\n(k) to make any addition to a building, and\n(l) to remove or reconstruct the principal staircase of a building or to alter its position;\n(a) residential buildings, that is to say, any building in which sleeping accommodation is provided for normal residential purposes with or without cooking facility or dining facility or both, and such building shall include one or two or multi-family dwelling, lodging or rooming houses, hostels, dormitories, apartment houses and flats, and private garages,\n(b) educational buildings, that is to say, any building used for school, college or day-care purposes involving assembly for instruction, education or recreation incidental to educational use,\n(c) institutional buildings, that is to say, any building or part thereof ordinarily providing sleeping accommodation for occupants and used for the purposes of medical or other treatment or care of persons suffering from physical or mental illness, disease or infirmity, care of infants, convalescents or aged persons and for penal or correctional detention in which the liberty of the inmates is restricted, and such buildings shall include hospitals, clinics, dispensaries, sanatoria, custodial institutions, and penal institution like jails, prisons, mental hospitals and reformatories,\n(d) assembly buildings, that is to say, any building or part thereof where groups of people congregate or gather for amusement or recreation or for social, religious, patriotic, civic, travel, sports, and similar other purposes, and such buildings shall include theatres, motion picture houses, drive-in-theatres, city halls, town halls, auditoria, exhibition halls, museums, skating rinks, gymnasia, restaurants, eating-houses, hotels, boarding-houses, places of worship, dance halls, club rooms, gymkhanas, passenger stations and terminals of air, surface and other public transportation services, recreation piers, and stadia,\n(e) business buildings, that is to say, any building or part thereof used for transaction of business or for the keeping of accounts and records or for similar purposes and such buildings shall include offices, banks, professional establishments, court houses, and libraries for the principal function of transaction of public business and keeping of books and records, and shall also include office buildings (premises) solely or principally used as an office or for office purpose,\n(f) mercantile buildings, that is to say, any building or part thereof used as shops, stores or markets for display or sale or merchandise, either wholesale or retail, or for office, storage or service facilities incidental to the sale of merchandise and located in the same building, and such building shall include establishments wholly or partly engaged in wholesale trade, manufacturer's whole-sale outlets (including related storage facilities), warehouses, and establishments engaged in truck transport (including truck transport booking agencies),\n(g) industrial buildings, that is to say, any building or structure or part thereof in which products or materials of all kinds and properties are fabricated, assembled or processed as in assembly plants, and such buildings shall include laboratories, power plants, smoke houses, refineries, gas plants, mills, dairies, factories, workships, automobile repair garages and printing presses,\n(h) storage buildings, that is to say, any building or part thereof used primarily for the storage or sheltering of goods, wares or merchandise as in warehouse, and such buildings shall include cold storages, freight depots, transit sheds, store houses, public garages, hangars, truck terminals, grain elevators, barns and stables,\n(i) hazardous buildings, that is to say, any building or part thereof used for the storage, handling, manufacture or processing of highly combustible or explosive materials or products, which are liable to burn with extreme rapidity or which may produce poisonous fumes or explosions during storage, handling, manufacture or processing or which involve highly corrosive, toxic or noxious alkalis, acids or other liquids or chemicals producing flames, fumes, explosions or mixtures of dust or which result in the division of matter into fine particles subject to spontaneous ignition;\nExplanation.\n(a) an occupancy shall be deemed to include subsidiary occupancies, which are contingent upon such occupancy, and\n(b) building with mixed occupancies shall mean those buildings in which more than one occupancy are present in different portions thereof.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 309
        },
        {
            "number": "313",
            "title": "313. Prohibition of construction without sanction.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 310
        },
        {
            "number": "314",
            "title": "314. Sanction of building plan.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 311
        },
        {
            "number": "315",
            "title": "315. Construction of building in contravention of building by-law.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 312
        },
        {
            "number": "316",
            "title": "316. Building plan approved by registered Architect to be submitted to Chief Municipal Officer.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 313
        },
        {
            "number": "317",
            "title": "317. Deviation in construction of building within permitted level.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 314
        },
        {
            "number": "318",
            "title": "318. Periodical Inspection of construction activity.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 315
        },
        {
            "number": "319",
            "title": "319. No. action to be taken without affording opportunity.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 316
        },
        {
            "number": "320",
            "title": "320. Pending sanction of building construction plan.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 317
        },
        {
            "number": "321",
            "title": "321. Framing of Building Bye-law.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 318
        },
        {
            "number": "322",
            "title": "322. Municipalities to maintain Register of Registered Architects.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 319
        },
        {
            "number": "323",
            "title": "323. Order of demolition and stoppage of buildings or works in certain cases and appeal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Explanation.\n(3) Any person aggrieved by an order of the Chief Municipal Officer under sub-section (1) may, within thirty days from the date of the order, prefer an appeal against the order to the Municipal Building Tribunal appointed under Section 329.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 320
        },
        {
            "number": "324",
            "title": "324. Order of stoppage of building or work in certain cases.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(b) Where the construction of a building is carried on in contravention of the provisions of clause (a), the Chief Municipal Officer may, in addition to any other action that may be taken under this Act, by order, in writing, require the person at whose instance such storage or stagnation of water in the site for the construction of the building is made, to stop forthwith any further construction of the building, and such order shall remain in force till the person as aforesaid complies with the requirements of the order as aforesaid, to the satisfaction of the Chief Municipal Officer.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 321
        },
        {
            "number": "325",
            "title": "325. Construction of building in contravention of the provisions of the Act or the Rules made thereunder.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Explanation.\nExplanation.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 322
        },
        {
            "number": "326",
            "title": "326. Power of Chief Municipal Officer to require alteration of work.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to make such alterations as may be specified by the Chief Municipal Officer in the notice with the object of bringing the building or the work in conformity with such sanction or such condition of such sanction or the provisions of this Act or the Rules or the Regulations made thereunder, or\n(b) to show cause, within such period as may be stated in the notice, why such alterations should not be made.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 323
        },
        {
            "number": "327",
            "title": "327. Completion certificate.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "B. Municipal Building Code",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 324
        },
        {
            "number": "328",
            "title": "328. Power of the State Government to make Building Rules and to classify municipal areas for the purpose of application of building rules.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the regulation or restriction of the use of sites for buildings,\n(b) the regulation or restriction of buildings, and\n(c) compliance with the provisions of any law relating to urban land ceiling or urban land use planning.\n(a) information and plans to be submitted together with application under any of the provisions of this chapter,\n(b) requirements of sites,\n(c) means of access,\n(d) development of land into land sub-division and layout,\n(e) land use classification and uses,\n(f) open space, area and height limitations,\n(g) parking spaces,\n(h) requirements of parts of building plinth, habitable room, kitchen, pantry, bathroom, water closet, loft, ledge, mezzanine floor, store-room, garage, roof, basement, chimney, lighting and ventilation of room, parapet, wells, septic tanks, and boundary wall,\n(i) provision of lifts,\n(j) exit requirements including doorways, corridors, passageways, staircase, ramps and lobbies,\n(k) fire protection requirements including materials and designs for interior decoration,\n(l) special requirements of occupancies for residential building, educational building, institutional building, assembly building, business building, mercantile building, industrial building, storage building and hazardous building (including those for assembly, movement, parking, loading, unloading, public conveniences, water- supply and vendors' plazas), (m) structural design,\n(n) quality of materials and workmanship,\n(o) alternative materials, methods of design, construction and tests,\n(p) building services including electric supply and such supply from non-conventional sources of energy, air-conditioning or heating, and telecommunication systems,\n(q) water-supply, water harvesting, and plumbing services,\n(r) signs and outdoor display structures,\n(s) special requirements for building in the hill areas,\n(t) special requirements of access for handicapped persons in respect of matters referred to in chapter XXII, chapter XXIII, chapter XXIV, and chapter XXV,\n(u) protection against natural disasters including earthquakes and cyclones and technological disasters, and\n(v) any other matter considered necessary in relation to building activities.\nC. Municipal Building Tribunal",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 325
        },
        {
            "number": "329",
            "title": "329. Municipal Building Tribunal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "D. General Powers",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 326
        },
        {
            "number": "330",
            "title": "330. Building at corners of streets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) refuse sanction for such reasons as may be recorded in writing, or\n(b) impose restrictions on its use, or\n(c) place special conditions concerning exit to, or entry from, any street, or\n(d) require it to be rounded off or splayed or cut off to such height and to such extent as he may determine, or\n(e) acquire such portion of the site at the corner as he may consider necessary for public convenience or amenity.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 327
        },
        {
            "number": "331",
            "title": "331. Provision as to building and work on either side of new street or near fly-over or transportation terminal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 328
        },
        {
            "number": "332",
            "title": "332. Provision against use of inflammable material for building etc. without permission.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 329
        },
        {
            "number": "333",
            "title": "333. Power to regulate future construction of buildings in particular streets or localities.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) that in any street or portion thereof specified in such notice, the elevation and construction of the frontage of all buildings or any classes of building erected or erected after such notice shall, in respect of their architectural features, be such as the Empowered Standing Committee may consider suitable to the locality, or\n(b) that in any locality specified in such notice, there shall be allowed the erection of only detached or semi-detached building or both and that the land appurtenant to each such building shall be of an area, being not less than that specified in such notice, or\n(c) that the division or sub-division of building plots in a particular locality shall be of a minimum specified area, or\n(d) that in any locality specified in the notice, the construction of more than a specified number of buildings on each acre of land shall not be allowed, or\n(e) that in any street, portion of a street, or locality, specified in such notice, the construction of any one or more of the different classes of buildings (such as residential, educational, institutional, assembly, business, mercantile, industrial, storage, and hazardous buildings) shall not be allowed without the special permission of the Empowered Standing Committee.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 330
        },
        {
            "number": "334",
            "title": "334. Power to stop excavation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 331
        },
        {
            "number": "335",
            "title": "335. Power to require alteration of existing buildings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 332
        },
        {
            "number": "336",
            "title": "336. Power to order removal of dangerous buildings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(b) In any such case, the Chief Municipal Officer may cause the inmates of the building to be summarily removed from such building or from such portion thereof as he may consider necessary.\n(c) All expenses incurred by the Chief Municipal Officer for carrying out the purposes of this sub-section shall be paid by the owner of such wail, building or thing.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 333
        },
        {
            "number": "337",
            "title": "337. Inspection of building.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 334
        },
        {
            "number": "338",
            "title": "338. Permission in case of non-residential uses of premises.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) would be objectionable by reason of the density of population in the neighbourhood, or\n(b) would add to the traffic constraints in the vicinity including parking spaces for vehicles, or -\n(c) would not conform to other predominant uses in the neighbourhood, or\n(d) would constitute a fire hazard, or\n(e) would be a nuisance to the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, or\n(f) in the case of a hospital or a clinic, would be harmful to the patients due to noise or an environment which poses a health hazard, or\n(g) in the case of an educational building, would deprive the students of playground facilities.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 335
        },
        {
            "number": "339",
            "title": "339. Conditions for grant of permission.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "E. Regulation of Building Uses",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 336
        },
        {
            "number": "340",
            "title": "340. Power to prohibit change of authorized use of building.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) use, or permit to be used, for the purpose of human habitation any building or part thereof not originally erected or authorized to be used for such purpose,\n(b) change, or allow the change of, the use of a building for any. purpose other than that specified in the sanctioned plan,\n(c) change, or allow the change of, the use of any building erected before the commencement of this Act contrary to the use for which such erection was originally sanctioned or to the use to which such building was actually put,\n(d) convert, or allow the conversion of, a tenement within a building to an occupational use, other than the use intended in the original sanctioned plan, or materially alter, enlarge, or extend such use.\nExplanation.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 337
        },
        {
            "number": "341",
            "title": "341. Power to prevent use of premises for specified purpose in particular area for environmental reasons.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter XXXVII\nMunicipal Licences",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 338
        },
        {
            "number": "342",
            "title": "342. Premises not to be used for non-residential purpose without Municipal Licence.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) as to when the initial licence is to be taken out and the procedure of annual renewal thereof, is to begin, and\n(b) the matter connected with the display of licence, inspection of premises, power of inspectors, and such other matters as may be deemed necessary.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 339
        },
        {
            "number": "343",
            "title": "343. Registers to be maintained.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) one shall contain premises wise information of non-residential uses, indicating the unique premises number, if any, assigned under this Act, and\n(b) the other shall contain such information, on the basis of different non-residential user groups for factories, warehouses, medical institutions, educational institutions, and such other uses, as may be provided by Regulations.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 340
        },
        {
            "number": "344",
            "title": "344. Municipal licence for private markets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 341
        },
        {
            "number": "345",
            "title": "345. Municipal licence for sale of flesh, fish or poultry.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 342
        },
        {
            "number": "346",
            "title": "346. Prohibition of unlicensed activities.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) for keeping horses, cattle or other quadruped animals or birds for transportation, sale or hire or for sale of the produce, or\n(b) as a market in respect of which a licence is required under this Act, or\n(c) for carrying out work as an artisan, or\n(d) for trade of a butcher, fish-monger, poulterer or importer of flesh intended for human food or for sale thereof.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 343
        },
        {
            "number": "347",
            "title": "347. Power to stop use of premises used in contravention of licences.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 344
        },
        {
            "number": "348",
            "title": "348. Power to seize food or drug etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter XXXVIII\nVital Statistics",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 345
        },
        {
            "number": "349",
            "title": "349. Appointment of Chief Registrar and Registrars.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 346
        },
        {
            "number": "350",
            "title": "350. Duties of Registrars.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 347
        },
        {
            "number": "351",
            "title": "351. Register books to be maintained.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 348
        },
        {
            "number": "352",
            "title": "352. Registration of births and deaths.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 349
        },
        {
            "number": "353",
            "title": "353. Registration of name of child or of alteration of name.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 350
        },
        {
            "number": "354",
            "title": "354. Correction of errors in registers of births or deaths.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 351
        },
        {
            "number": "355",
            "title": "355. Information of births.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) in the case of an illegitimate child, no person shall as father of such child, be required to give information under this Act concerning the birth of such child, and the Registrar shall not enter in the register the name of any person as father of such child, except at the joint request of the mother and the person acknowledging himself to be the father of such child, and such person shall, in such case, sign the register together with the mother,\n(b) a person required to give information only in default of some other person shall not be bound to give such information if he believed, and had reasonable grounds for believing, that such information had been given, and\n(c) when a child is born in a hospital or a nursing home or a maternity home, none but the officer-in-charge thereof shall be bound to forward forthwith to the Registrar a report of such birth in such time, and in such Form, as the Chief Registrar may, from time to time, specify.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 352
        },
        {
            "number": "356",
            "title": "356. Information regarding finding of newborn child.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 353
        },
        {
            "number": "357",
            "title": "357. Information regarding deaths.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) if the cause of death is known to be a dangerous disease, the information as aforesaid shall be given within twelve hours of its occurrence, and\n(b) if the death of any person occurs in a hospital or a nursing home or a maternity home, it shall be the duty of none but the medical officer or other officer-in-charge thereof to forward forthwith a report of such death in such Form as the Chief Registrar may, from time to time, specify.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 354
        },
        {
            "number": "358",
            "title": "358. Medical Practitioner to certify cause of death.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 355
        },
        {
            "number": "359",
            "title": "359. Duties of police in regard to unclaimed corpses.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 356
        },
        {
            "number": "360",
            "title": "360. Sextons etc., not to bury etc. corpse.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter XXXIX\nDisaster Management",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 357
        },
        {
            "number": "361",
            "title": "361. Management of natural or technological disasters.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter XL\nIndustrial Townships",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 358
        },
        {
            "number": "362",
            "title": "362. Exclusion of industrial townships from municipal areas.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Part VIII\nPowers, Procedures, Offences and Penalties\nChapter XLI\nProcedure\nA. Licences and Permissions",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 359
        },
        {
            "number": "363",
            "title": "363. Signature, conditions, duration, suspension, revocation, etc., of licences and permission.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the date of the grant of licence or permission,\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 the permission.\n(a) before making any order of suspension or revocation, an opportunity shall be given to the grantee of the licence or the permission to show cause why it should not be suspended or revoked; and\n(b) every such order shall contain a brief statement of the reasons for the suspension or the revocation of the licence or the permission, as the case may be.\nB. Entry and Inspection",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 360
        },
        {
            "number": "364",
            "title": "364. Power of entry.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) ascertaining whether in connection with the land or the building there is or has been any contravention of the provisions of this Act or the Rules or the Regulations made thereunder, or\n(b) ascertaining whether or not circumstances exist which render it necessary for the Chief Municipal Officer or any other officer or employee of the Municipality authorized by him in this behalf, or empowered by or under any provision of this Act, to take any action or execute any work under this Act or the Rules or the Regulations made thereunder, or\n(c) taking any action or executing any work authorized or required by or under this Act or the Rules or the Regulations made thereunder, or\n(d) making such inquiry, inspection, examination, measurement, valuation or survey as may be authorized or required by or under this Act or as may be necessary for the proper administration of this Act, or\n(e) generally ensuring efficient discharge of the functions by any of the municipal authorities under this Act or the Rules or the Regulations made thereunder.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 361
        },
        {
            "number": "365",
            "title": "365. Power to enter land or adjoining land in relation to any work.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 362
        },
        {
            "number": "366",
            "title": "366. 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 the occupier is absent or, being present refuses to open such door, gate or other barrier.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 363
        },
        {
            "number": "367",
            "title": "367. Time of making entry.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 364
        },
        {
            "number": "368",
            "title": "368. Consent ordinarily to be obtained.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 365
        },
        {
            "number": "369",
            "title": "369. Regard to be had to social or religious usages.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 366
        },
        {
            "number": "370",
            "title": "370. Prohibition of obstruction or molestation in execution of work.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "C. Public Notices and Advertisements",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 367
        },
        {
            "number": "371",
            "title": "371. Public notices how to be made known.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 368
        },
        {
            "number": "372",
            "title": "372. Newspapers in which advertisements or notices to be published.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "D. Evidence",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 369
        },
        {
            "number": "373",
            "title": "373. Proof of consent etc. of Municipality, Empowered Standing Committee, Chief Councillor, Chief Municipal Officer, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the Municipality, or\n(b) the Empowered Standing Committee, or\n(c) the Chief Councillor, or\n(d) the Chief Municipal Officer or any other officer of the Municipality, as the case may be, a document, in writing, signed,-\n(i) in the cases referred to in clause (a) and clause (b), by the Municipal Secretary where there is a Municipal Secretary, or where there is no Municipal Secretary, by the Chief Municipal Officer, and\n(ii) in the cases referred to in clause (c) and clause (d), by the Chief Municipal Officer, purporting to convey or set forth such approval, sanction, consent, concurrence, declaration, opinion, satisfaction, as the case may be, shall be sufficient evidence thereof.\nE. Notices, etc.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 370
        },
        {
            "number": "374",
            "title": "374. Notices etc. to fix reasonable time.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 371
        },
        {
            "number": "375",
            "title": "375. Signature on notices etc. may be stamped.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 372
        },
        {
            "number": "376",
            "title": "376. Notices etc. by whom to be served or issued.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 373
        },
        {
            "number": "377",
            "title": "377. Service 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 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, or\n(b) where the person to be served is a partnership, if the document is addressed to the partnership at its principal place of business, identifying it by the name or style under which its business is carried on, and is either-\n(i) sent by registered post, or\n(ii) delivered at the said place of business, or\n(c) where the person to be served is a public body or a Municipality, or a society or other body, if the document is addressed to the secretary, treasurer or other officer of such public body, Municipality, society, or other body at its principal office, and is either,-\n(i) sent by registered post, or\n(ii) delivered at that office, and\n(d) in any other case, if the document is addressed to the person to be served, and\n(i) is given or tendered to him, or\n(ii) if such person cannot be found, is affixed on some conspicuous part of his last known place of residence or business, if within the municipal area, or is given or tendered to some adult member of his family, or is affixed on some conspicuous part of the land or building, if any, to which it relates, or\n(iii) is sent by registered post to such 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 or a copy thereof so addressed, is delivered to some person on the land or the building or, where there is no such person to whom it can be delivered, is affixed to some conspicuous part of such land or building.\nExplanation.\nF. Enforcement of Orders to Execute Works etc.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 374
        },
        {
            "number": "378",
            "title": "378. Time for complying with requisition or order, and power of Chief Municipal Officer to enforce requisition or order on default.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) such requisition or order shall be complied with, and\n(b) any objection thereto, in writing, shall be received by such authority or officer, as such authority or officer may consider reasonable.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 375
        },
        {
            "number": "379",
            "title": "379. Submission of objections to comply with notice.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) direct that portion of the expenses, if any, to be incurred in complying with the notice as confirmed or modified shall be borne by the Municipality, and\n(ii) fix a time within which the notice so confirmed shall be complied with.\n(b) If the notice as confirmed or modified is not complied with by such person within the time fixed under sub-clause (ii) of clause (a), the Chief Municipal Officer shall take such measures, or cause such work to be executed, or such thing to be done, as may, in his opinion, be necessary for causing due compliance with such notice, and the expenses, if any, incurred by the Chief Municipal Officer in this behalf shall be payable to the Chief Municipal Officer on demand and, if not paid within ten days of such demand, such be recoverable as an arrear of tax under this Act.\nG. Recovery of Expenses",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 376
        },
        {
            "number": "380",
            "title": "380. Power of the Municipality to enter into agreement for payment of expenses in instalments.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 377
        },
        {
            "number": "381",
            "title": "381. Power of the Municipality to declare certain expenses to be improvement expenses.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) in Section 198 and Section 200, or\n(b) in the Rules or the Regulations made under this Act, the Municipality may, if it thinks fit, declare such expenses to be improvement expenses.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 378
        },
        {
            "number": "382",
            "title": "382. Improvement expenses, how recoverable and by whom payable.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 379
        },
        {
            "number": "383",
            "title": "383. Recovery of improvement expenses paid by occupier.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 380
        },
        {
            "number": "384",
            "title": "384. Right of the owner or occupier to redeem charge for improvement expenses.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 381
        },
        {
            "number": "385",
            "title": "385. Execution of work by occupier on the failure of owner.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 382
        },
        {
            "number": "386",
            "title": "386. Relief to receivers, agents and trustees.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) receiving the rent of any immovable property as receiver or agent or trustee of such property, or\n(b) being such receiver of agent or trustee, would receive the rent if such property were let to a tenant, is bound to discharge any obligation imposed on the owner of such property but has not at his disposal funds, belonging or payable to such owner, sufficient for the purpose of discharging such obligation, he shall, within a period of six weeks from the date of service upon him by any Municipal Authority or officer of the Municipality empowered in this behalf under this Act, or any notice requiring him to discharge such obligation, apply to a court of competent jurisdiction for leave to raise such funds or for such directions as he may consider necessary for such purpose.\nH. Payment of Compensation",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 383
        },
        {
            "number": "387",
            "title": "387. General power of the Municipality to pay compensation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 384
        },
        {
            "number": "388",
            "title": "388. Compensation to be paid for damage to property of Municipality.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "I. Recovery of Expenses or Compensation in Case of Disputes",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 385
        },
        {
            "number": "389",
            "title": "389. Reference by Municipality to Civil Court in certain cases of recovery of expenses.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 386
        },
        {
            "number": "390",
            "title": "390. Application to Civil Court in certain cases of payment of expenses or compensation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 387
        },
        {
            "number": "390",
            "title": "391. Recovery of expenses or compensation determined under Section 390.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 388
        },
        {
            "number": "392",
            "title": "392. Recovery of expenses or compensation by suit in court.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "J. Recovery of Certain Dues",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 389
        },
        {
            "number": "393",
            "title": "393. Recovery of certain dues of Municipality.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "K. Obstruction of Owner by Occupier",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 390
        },
        {
            "number": "394",
            "title": "394. Application to Civil Court by owner when occupier prevents from complying with Act etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "L. Proceedings before the Civil Court",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 391
        },
        {
            "number": "395",
            "title": "395. Procedure in Civil Court.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 392
        },
        {
            "number": "396",
            "title": "396. Fees in proceeding before Civil Court.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) for making under this Act any application, appeal or reference to a Civil Court having jurisdiction, or\n(b) for issue of any summons or other process in any inquiry or proceeding in connection with such application, appeal or reference:\n(i) receive such application, appeal or reference, or\n(ii) issue summons or other process, without payment of such fee.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 393
        },
        {
            "number": "397",
            "title": "397. Repayment of half of fees on settlement before hearing.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "M. Municipal Magistrates and Proceeding before Municipal Magistrates",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 394
        },
        {
            "number": "398",
            "title": "398. Municipal Magistrate.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) this Act, and\n(b) the Rules and the Regulations made thereunder, and may prescribe the time within which, and the place at which, such Judicial Magistrate or Judicial Magistrates shall sit for such trial of offences.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 395
        },
        {
            "number": "399",
            "title": "399. Certain offences to be cognizable.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 396
        },
        {
            "number": "400",
            "title": "400. Power of Municipal Magistrate to hear cases in absence of accused summoned to appear.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) service of the summons is, to his satisfaction, proved to have been effected, and\n(b) no sufficient cause is shown for non-appearance of such person, hear and determine such case in the absence of such person.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 397
        },
        {
            "number": "401",
            "title": "401. Limitation of time for prosecution.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the date of commission of such offence, or\n(b) the date on which the commission or the continuance of such offence is first brought to the notice of the Municipality or the Chief Municipal Officer.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 398
        },
        {
            "number": "402",
            "title": "402. Complaint regarding nuisance and removal thereof.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) direct the person responsible for such nuisance or the owner of the land or the building on which such nuisance exists to take, within such period as may be specified in the order, such measures for abating, preventing, removing or remedying such nuisance as may appear to the Municipal Magistrate to be practicable and reasonable, and may direct the Chief Municipal Officer to enforce any of the provisions of this Act or the Rules or the Regulations made thereunder for prevention of such nuisance, and\n(b) further direct the person held responsible for the nuisance to pay to the complainant such reasonable cost of the complaint (including compensation for loss of time in prosecuting such complaint) as the Municipal Magistrate may determine:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 399
        },
        {
            "number": "403",
            "title": "403. Power of Municipal Magistrate to direct payment of fine and demolition of unlawful works.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to pay any fine, and also\n(b) to demolish such work, the Municipal Magistrate having jurisdiction may, in his discretion, direct such person to pay the fine and also to demolish the work.\nN. Legal Proceedings",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 400
        },
        {
            "number": "404",
            "title": "404. Power to institute etc. legal proceeding and to obtain legal advice.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) take, or withdraw from, proceeding against any person who is charged with-\n(i) any offence under this Act or any rules or regulations made thereunder, or\n(ii) any offence which affects, or is likely to affect, any property or interest of the Municipality or the due administration of this Act, or\n(iii) committing any nuisance whatsoever, or\n(b) contest or compromise any appeal against assessment of any tax or rate, or\n(c) take, or withdraw from, or compromise, any proceeding under this Act for the recovery of expenses or compensation claimed to be due to the Municipality, or\n(d) withdraw or compromise any claim for a sum not exceeding one thousand rupees against any person, or\n(e) defend any suit or other legal proceeding brought against the Municipality or against any municipal authority or any officer or other employee of the Municipality in respect of anything done or omitted to be done by the Municipality or such municipal authority or officer or other employee under this Act or the rules or the regulations made thereunder in the official capacity, or\n(f) compromise, with the approval of the Empowered Standing Committee or, where there is no Empowered Standing Committee, with the approval of the Municipality, any claim, suit or other legal proceeding brought against the Municipality or any municipal authority or any officer or other employee of the Municipality in respect of anything done or omitted to be done under any of the foregoing clauses of this Section, or\n(g) withdraw from, or compromise, any claim against any person in respect of a penalty payable under any contract entered into with such person by the Chief Municipal Officer on behalf of the Municipality, or\n(h) institute or prosecute any suit or other legal proceeding or, with the approval of the Empowered Standing Committee, or where there is no Empowered Standing Committee, with the approval of the Municipality, withdraw from, or compromise, any suit or claim, other than a claim referred to in clause (d), instituted or made, as the case may be, in the name of the Municipality or the Chief Municipal Officer, or\n(i) obtain, for any of the purposes mentioned in the foregoing provisions of this Section or for securing lawful exercise or discharge of any power or duty vested in, or imposed upon, any Municipal Authority or any officer or other employee of the Municipality, such legal advice and assistance as he may, from time to time, consider necessary or expedient, or as he may be required by the Municipality or the Empowered Standing Committee, to obtain.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "405",
            "title": "405. Notice, limitation, and tender of amends in suits against Municipality etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the cause of action,\n(b) the name and residence of the intending plaintiff, and\n(c) the relief which such plaintiff claims.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 402
        },
        {
            "number": "406",
            "title": "406. Indemnity.",
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            "content": "O. Powers and duties of Police Officers",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 403
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            "number": "407",
            "title": "407. Co-operation of Police.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) co-operate with the Municipality for carrying into effect, and enforcing, the provisions of this Act and for maintaining good order in and outside the municipal area, and\n(b) assist the Municipality or the Chief Municipal Officer or any other officer or other employee of the Municipality in carrying out any order made by a Magistrate under this Act.\n(i) to communicate without delay to the Chief Municipal Officer or any other officer of the Municipality any information which he received in respect of any design to commit, or any commission of, any offence under this Act or the Rules or the Regulations made thereunder, and\n(ii) to assist the Chief Municipal Officer or any other officer or other employee of the Municipality requiring his aid for the lawful exercise of any power vested in the Municipality or the Chief Municipal Officer or such other officer or other employee under this Act or the Rules or the Regulations made thereunder.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 404
        },
        {
            "number": "408",
            "title": "408. Power of police to arrest offenders.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "P. General Provisions",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 405
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        {
            "number": "409",
            "title": "409. Validity of notice and other document.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 406
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        {
            "number": "410",
            "title": "410. Admissibility of document or entry as evidence.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 407
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        {
            "number": "411",
            "title": "411. Evidence of officer or employee of the Municipality.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 408
        },
        {
            "number": "412",
            "title": "412. Prohibition against obstruction of Chief Councillor or any Municipal Authority etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) any Municipal Authority, or the Chief Councillor, or the Deputy Chief Councillor, or a Councillor, or the Chief Municipal Officer, or any employee of the Municipality or any person employed by the Municipality, or\n(b) any person, authorized or empowered by or under this Act or with whom the Municipality or any of the Municipal Authorities has lawfully entered into a contract, in the performance of is or its duty, or in the execution of his or its work, or anything which he or it is empowered or required to do by virtue, or in consequence, of any provision of this Act or the Rules or the Regulations made thereunder, or in the fulfilment of the contract, as the case may be.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 409
        },
        {
            "number": "413",
            "title": "413. Prohibition against removal of mark.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 410
        },
        {
            "number": "414",
            "title": "414. Prohibition against removal or obliteration of notice.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 411
        },
        {
            "number": "415",
            "title": "415. Prohibition against unauthorized dealings with public place or materials.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 412
        },
        {
            "number": "416",
            "title": "416. Liability for loss, waste or misapplication of money or property of the Municipality.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 413
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        {
            "number": "417",
            "title": "417. Councillors and officers and other employees of the Municipality to be public servants.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 414
        },
        {
            "number": "418",
            "title": "418. Other laws not to be disregarded.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter XLII\nRules and Regulations",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 415
        },
        {
            "number": "419",
            "title": "419. Power to make Rules.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 416
        },
        {
            "number": "420",
            "title": "420. Power to amend Schedule.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 417
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        {
            "number": "421",
            "title": "421. Power to make Regulations.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 418
        },
        {
            "number": "422",
            "title": "422. Conditions precedent to making of Regulations.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) such draft of regulations shall not be further proceeded with until a period of one month has expired from the date of such publication,\n(b) for not less than one month during such period, a printed copy of such draft shall be kept in the office of the Municipality for public inspection, and any person shall be permitted at any reasonable time to peruse such draft, free of charge, and\n(c) printed copies of such draft shall be obtainable by any person requiring such draft on payment of such fee as may be fixed by the Empowered Standing Committee.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 419
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        {
            "number": "423",
            "title": "423. Regulations to be subject to approval of the State Government.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 420
        },
        {
            "number": "424",
            "title": "424. Power of the State Government to cancel or modify Regulations.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 421
        },
        {
            "number": "425",
            "title": "425. Supplemental provisions respecting Regulations.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 422
        },
        {
            "number": "426",
            "title": "426. Penalty for breach of Regulation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) with fine which may extend to two thousand and five hundred rupees, or\n(b) with fine which may extend to two thousand and five hundred rupees and, in the case of a continuing contravention, with an additional fine which may extend to two hundred and fifty rupees for every day during which such contravention continues after conviction for the first of such contravention, or\n(c) with fine which may extend to two hundred and fifty rupees for every day during which the contravention continues, after the receipt by the person contravening the Regulation of a notice requiring such person to discontinue such contravention from the Chief Municipal Officer or any other officer of the Municipality, duly authorized in that behalf.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 423
        },
        {
            "number": "427",
            "title": "427. Rules and Regulations to be available for inspection and purchase.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 424
        },
        {
            "number": "428",
            "title": "428. Doubts as to powers, duties or functions of Municipal Authorities.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter XLIII\nOffences and Penalties",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 425
        },
        {
            "number": "429",
            "title": "429. Punishment for certain offences.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) contravenes any provision of any of the Sections, sub-sections, clauses, provisos or any other provision of this Act, or\n(b) fails to comply with any order lawfully given to him or any requisition lawfully made upon him under any of the said Sections, sub-sections, clauses, provisos or other provisions, shall be punishable-\n(i) with fine which may extend to rupees five thousand, or with imprisonment which may extend to six months, or both:\n(ii) in the case of continuing contravention or failure, with an additional fine which may extend to rupees one hundred for every day during which such contravention or failure continues after conviction for the first such contravention or failure subject to a maximum of rupees five thousand.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 426
        },
        {
            "number": "430",
            "title": "430. Punishment for acquiring share or interest etc. with Municipality.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 427
        },
        {
            "number": "431",
            "title": "431. Fine for not paying tax under Chapter XVII.",
            "chapter": "Chapter XVII",
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 428
        },
        {
            "number": "432",
            "title": "432. Fine for putting building to any use other than that for which a licence has been granted.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 429
        },
        {
            "number": "433",
            "title": "433. Penalty for obstructing contractor.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 430
        },
        {
            "number": "434",
            "title": "434. Penalty for causing damage to property belonging to Municipality.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 431
        },
        {
            "number": "435",
            "title": "435. Encroachment on streets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 432
        },
        {
            "number": "436",
            "title": "436. Punishment of imprisonment in default of payment of fine.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 433
        },
        {
            "number": "437",
            "title": "437. General penalty.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 434
        },
        {
            "number": "438",
            "title": "438. Offences by companies.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Explanation.\n(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": 435
        },
        {
            "number": "439",
            "title": "439. Prosecution.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 436
        },
        {
            "number": "440",
            "title": "440. Compounding of offences.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter XLIV\nSupplemental Provisions\nA. Elections",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 437
        },
        {
            "number": "441",
            "title": "441. Notification of Municipal Election.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 438
        },
        {
            "number": "442",
            "title": "442. Extension of time for completion of election.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 439
        },
        {
            "number": "443",
            "title": "443. Administrative machinery for the conduct of election.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 440
        },
        {
            "number": "444",
            "title": "444. Staff of certain authorities to be made available for election work.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) every local authority;\n(ii) every University established or incorporated by or under a Central, Provincial or State Act;\n(iii) a Government Company as defined in Section 617 of the Companies Act, 1956(1 of 1956);\n(iv) any other institution, concern or undertaking which is established by or under a Central, Provincial or State Act or which is controlled, or financed wholly or substantially by funds provided, directly or indirectly, by the Central Government or a State Government.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 441
        },
        {
            "number": "445",
            "title": "445. Furnishing of certain information essential for candidates.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) Whether he is convicted/acquitted/discharged of any criminal offence in the past-if any, whether he is punished with imprisonment or fine;\n(ii) Prior to six months of filing of nominations, whether the candidate is accused in any pending case, of any offence punishable with imprisonment for more than six months, and in which a charge has been framed or cognizance has been taken by a competent court of law. If so, the details thereof.\n(iii) The assets (including movable, immovable and bank balances, etc.) of a candidate, and of his/her spouse and that of dependants.\n(iv) Liabilities, if any, particularly whether there are any over dues of any public financial institution or Government dues.\n(v) The educational qualifications of the candidate.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 442
        },
        {
            "number": "446",
            "title": "446. Candidate to furnish information only under the Act and the Rules.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 443
        },
        {
            "number": "447",
            "title": "447. Penalty for filing false affidavit, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) fails to furnish information relating to Section 472, or\n(ii) gives false information which he knows or has reason to believe to be false; or\n(iii) conceals any information, in his nomination paper or in his affidavit which is required to be delivered, as the case may be, shall, notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year or with fine, or with both.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 444
        },
        {
            "number": "448",
            "title": "448. Requisitioning of premises, vehicles, etc., for election purposes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) any premises are needed or are likely to be needed for the purpose of being used as a polling station or for the storage of ballot boxes after a poll has been taken, or\n(b) any vehicle, vessel or animal is needed or is likely to be needed for the purpose of transport of ballot boxes to or from any polling station, or transport of members of the police force for maintaining order during the conduct of such election, or transport of any officer or other person for performance of any duties in connection with such election, the government may by order in writing requisition such premises, or such vehicle, vessel or animal, as the case may be, and may make such further orders as may appear to it to be necessary or expedient in connection with the requisitioning:\n(a) \"Premises\" means any land, building or part of a building and includes a hut, shed or other structure or any part thereof;\n(b) \"Vehicles\" means any vehicle used or capable of being used for the purpose of road transport, whether propelled by mechanical power or otherwise.\n(a) rent payable in respect of the premises or if no rent is so payable, the rent payable for similar premises in the locality;\n(b) if in consequence of the requisition of the premises, the person interested is compelled to change his residence or place of business, the reasonable expenses (if any) incidental to such change:\nExplanation.\n(c) Whenever in pursuance of sub-section (1) the State Government requisitions any vehicle, vessel or animal, there shall be paid to the owner thereof compensation the amount of which shall be determined by the State Government on the basis of the fares or rates prevailing in the locality for the hire of such vehicle, vessel or animal:\n(ii) Any officer so empowered may, after giving to any woman not appearing in public reasonable warning and facility to withdraw, remove or open any lock or bolt or break open any door of any building or do any other act necessary for effecting such eviction.\n(ii) Where the person to whom possession of any premises requisitioned under subsection (2) is to be given under this Section cannot be found or is not readily ascertainable or has no agent or any other person empowered to accept delivery on his behalf, the State Government shall cause a notice declaring that such premises are released from requisition to be affixed on some conspicuous part of such premises and publish the notice in the official gazette.\n(iii) When a notice referred to in clause (ii) is published in the Official Gazette, the premises specified in such notice shall cease to be subject to requisition on and from the date of such publication and be deemed to have been delivered to the person entitled to possession thereof; and the State Government shall not be liable for any compensation or other claim in respect of such premises for any period after the said date.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 445
        },
        {
            "number": "449",
            "title": "449. Right to vote.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 446
        },
        {
            "number": "450",
            "title": "450. Special procedure for preventing personation of electors.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) for the marking with indelible ink of the thumb or any other finger of every elector who applies for a ballot paper or ballot papers for the purpose of voting at a polling station before delivery of such ballot paper or ballot papers to him;\n(b) for the production before the Presiding Officer or a Polling Officer of a polling station by every such elector as aforesaid of his identity card as prescribed by the Commission; and\n(c) for prohibiting the delivery of any ballot paper to any person for voting at a polling station if at the time such person applies for such paper he has already such a mark on his thumb or any other finger or does not produce on demand his identity card before the Presiding Officer or a Polling Officer of the polling station.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 447
        },
        {
            "number": "451",
            "title": "451. Electors of Municipality.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 448
        },
        {
            "number": "452",
            "title": "452. Observers.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Explanation.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 449
        },
        {
            "number": "453",
            "title": "453. District Election Officer (Municipality), Returning Officer, Presiding Officer, etc. deemed to be on deputation to State Election Commission.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "B. Electoral Offences",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 450
        },
        {
            "number": "454",
            "title": "454. Promoting enmity between classes in connection with election.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 451
        },
        {
            "number": "455",
            "title": "455. Prohibition of public meetings during period of forty-eight hours ending with hour fixed for conclusion of poll.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) convene, hold, attend, join or address any public meeting or procession in connection with an election; or\n(b) display to the public any election matter by means of cinematograph, television or other similar apparatus; or\n(c) propagate any election matter to the public by holding, or by arranging the holding of, any musical concert or any theatrical performance or any other entertainment or amusement with a view to attracting the members of the public thereto, in any polling area during the period of forty-eight hours ending with the hour fixed for the conclusion of the poll for any election in that polling area.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 452
        },
        {
            "number": "456",
            "title": "456. Disturbances at election meetings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 453
        },
        {
            "number": "457",
            "title": "457. Restrictions on the printing of pamphlets, posters, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) unless a declaration as to the identity of the publisher thereof, signed by him and attested by two persons to whom he is personally known, is delivered by him to the printer in duplicate; and\n(b) unless, within a reasonable time after the printing of the document, one copy of the declaration is sent by the printer, together with one copy of the document,-\n(i) where it is printed in the capital of the State, to the State Election Commission, and\n(ii) in any other case, to the District Magistrate of the district in which it is printed.\n(a) any process for multiplying copies of a document, other than copying it by hand, shall be deemed to be printing and the expression \"printer\" shall be construed accordingly; and\n(b) \"election pamphlet or poster\" means any printed pamphlet, hand-bill or other document distributed for the purpose of promoting or prejudicing the election of a candidate or group of candidates but does not include any handbill, placard or poster merely announcing the date, time, place and other particulars of an election meeting or routine instructions to election agents or workers.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 454
        },
        {
            "number": "458",
            "title": "458. Maintenance of secrecy of voting.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 455
        },
        {
            "number": "459",
            "title": "459. Officers etc., at elections not to act for candidates or to influence voting.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to persuade any person to give his vote at an election, or\n(b) to dissuade any person from giving his vote at an election, or\n(c) to influence the voting of any person at an election in any manner.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 456
        },
        {
            "number": "460",
            "title": "460. Prohibition of canvassing in or near polling stations.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) canvassing for votes; or\n(b) soliciting the vote of any elector; or\n(c) persuading any elector not to vote for any particular candidate; or\n(d) persuading any elector not to vote at the election; or\n(e) exhibiting any notice or sign (other than an official notice) relating to the election.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 457
        },
        {
            "number": "461",
            "title": "461. Penalty for disorderly conduct in or near polling stations.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) use or operate within or at the entrance of the polling station, or in any public or private place in the neighbourhood thereof, any apparatus for amplifying or reproducing the human voice such as megaphone or a loudspeaker or\n(b) shout, or otherwise act in a disorderly manner, within or at the entrance of the polling station or in any public or private place in the neighbourhood thereof, so as to cause annoyance to any person visiting the polling station for the poll, or so as to interfere with the work of the officers and other persons on duty at the polling station.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 458
        },
        {
            "number": "462",
            "title": "462. Penalty for misconduct at the polling station.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 459
        },
        {
            "number": "463",
            "title": "463. Penalty for failure to observe procedure for voting.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 460
        },
        {
            "number": "464",
            "title": "464. Penalty for illegal hiring or procuring of conveyance at elections.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 461
        },
        {
            "number": "465",
            "title": "465. Breaches of Official Duty in connection with election.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 462
        },
        {
            "number": "466",
            "title": "466. Penalty for Government servants for acting as election agent, polling agent or counting agent.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 463
        },
        {
            "number": "467",
            "title": "467. Prohibition of going armed to or near a polling station.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 464
        },
        {
            "number": "468",
            "title": "468. Removal of ballot papers from polling station to be an offence.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 465
        },
        {
            "number": "469",
            "title": "469. Offence of booth capturing.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Explanation.\n(a) seizure of a polling station or a place fixed for the poll by any person or persons, making polling authorities surrender the ballot papers or voting machines and doing of any other act which affects the orderly conduct of elections;\n(b) taking possession of a polling station or a place fixed for the poll by any person or persons and allowing only his or their own supporters to exercise their right to vote and preventing others from free exercise of their right to vote;\n(c) coercing or intimidating or threatening directly or indirectly any elector and preventing him from going to the polling station or a place fixed for the poll to cast his vote;\n(d) seizure of a place for counting of votes by any person or persons, making the counting authorities surrender the ballot papers or voting machines and the doing of anything which affects the orderly counting of votes;\n(e) doing by any person in the service of Government, of all or any of the aforesaid activities or aiding or conniving at, any such activity in the furtherance of the prospects of the election of candidate.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 466
        },
        {
            "number": "470",
            "title": "470. Other offences and penalties therefor.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) fraudulently defaces or fraudulently destroys any nomination paper; or\n(b) fraudulently defaces, destroys or removes any list, notice or other document affixed by or under the authority of a Returning officer; or\n(c) fraudulently defaces or fraudulently destroys any ballot paper or the official mark on any ballot paper or any declaration of identity or official envelope used in connection with voting by postal ballot; or\n(d) without due authority supplies any ballot papers to any person or receives any ballot paper from any person or is in possession of any ballot paper; or\n(e) fraudulently puts into any ballot box anything other than the ballot paper which he is authorised by law to put in; or\n(f) without due authority destroys, takes, opens or otherwise interferes with any ballot box or ballot papers therein used for the purposes of the ejection; or\n(g) fraudulently or without due authority, as the case may be, attempts to do any of the foregoing acts or willfully aids or abets the doing of any such acts.\n(a) if he is a Returning Officer or an Assistant Returning Officer or a Presiding Officer at a polling station or any other officer or clerk employed on official duty in connection with the election, be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years or with fine or with both;\n(b) if he is any other person, be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or with fine or with both.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 467
        },
        {
            "number": "471",
            "title": "471. Grant of paid holiday to employees on the day of poll.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 468
        },
        {
            "number": "472",
            "title": "472. Liquor not to be sold, given or distributed on polling day.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 469
        },
        {
            "number": "473",
            "title": "473. Account of Election Expenses and maximum thereof.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 470
        },
        {
            "number": "474",
            "title": "474. Disqualification on failure to lodge account of election expenses.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) has failed to lodge an account of election expenses within the time and manner required by or under this Act, and\n(b) has no good reason or justification for the failure, the State Election Commission shall by order declare him to be disqualified and any such person shall be disqualified fora period of three years from the date of the order.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 471
        },
        {
            "number": "475",
            "title": "475. Qualification for Membership.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 472
        },
        {
            "number": "476",
            "title": "476. Election Petition.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) Where the petitioner, in addition to claiming a declaration that the election of all or any of the returned candidates is void, claims a further declaration that he himself or any other candidates had been duly elected, all the contesting candidates other than the petitioner, and where no such further declaration is claimed, all the returned candidates; and\n(b) any other candidate against whom allegations of any corrupt practice are made in the petition.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 473
        },
        {
            "number": "477",
            "title": "477. An election petition.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(b) shall set forth full particulars of any corrupt practice that the petitioner alleges including as full a statement as possible of the names of the parties alleged to have committed such corrupt practice and the date and place of the Commission of each such practice; and\n(c) shall be signed by the petitioner and verified in the manner laid down in the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908) for the verification of pleadings:\n(d) Any schedule or annexure to the petition shall also be signed by the petitioner and verified in the same manner as the petition.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 474
        },
        {
            "number": "478",
            "title": "478. Bar to interference by Courts in electoral matters.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) The validity of any law relating to the delimitation of constituencies or the allotment of seats to such constituencies, made or purporting to be made under Article 243 ZA of the Constitution of India shall not be called in question in any Court;\n(b) no election to any Municipality shall be called in question except by an election petition presented to the Prescribed Authority under this Act.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 475
        },
        {
            "number": "479",
            "title": "479. Grounds for declaring election to be void.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) that on the date of his election, a returned candidate was not qualified or was disqualified, to be chosen as a member under this Act; or\n(b) that any corrupt practice has been committed by a returned candidate or his agent or by any other person with the consent of a returned candidate or his agent; or\n(c) that any nomination paper has been improperly rejected; or\n(d) that the result of the election, in so far as it concerns a returned candidate, has been materially affected-\n(i) by the improper acceptance of any nomination; or\n(ii) by any corrupt practice committed in the interests of the returned candidate by an agent; or\n(iii) by the improper reception, refusal or rejection of any- vote or reception of any vote which is void; or\n(iv) by any non-compliance with the provisions of this Act or of any Rules or orders made thereunder; the Prescribed Authority shall declare the election of the returned candidate to be void.\n(a) that no such corrupt practice was committed at the election by the candidate and every such corrupt practice was committed contrary to the orders and without the consent of the candidate;\n(b) that the candidate took all reasonable measures for preventing the commission of corrupt practices at the election; and\n(c) that in all other respects the election was free from any corrupt practice on the part of the candidate or any of his agent; then the Prescribed Authority may decide that the election of the returned candidate is not void.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 476
        },
        {
            "number": "480",
            "title": "480. Grounds on which a candidate other than the returned candidate may be declared to have been elected.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) that in fact the petitioner or such other candidate received a majority of the valid votes; or\n(b) that but for the votes obtained by the returned candidate by corrupt practices the petitioner or such other candidate would have obtained a majority of the valid votes, the Prescribed Authority shall after declaring the election of the returned candidate to be void declare the petitioner or such other candidate, as the case may be, to have been duly elected.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 477
        },
        {
            "number": "481",
            "title": "481. Corrupt Practices.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) bribery as defined in clause (1) of Section 123 of the Representation of the People's Act, 1951 (Central Act 48 of 1951), for the time being in force;\n(ii) undue influences as defined in clause (2) of the said Section for the time being in force;\n(iii) that appeal by a candidate or his agent or by any other person with the consent of a candidate or his agent to vote or refrain from voting for any person on the ground of his religion, race, caste, community or language or the use of, or appeal to religious symbols or the use of, or appeal to national symbols such as the national flag or the national emblem, for the furtherance of the prospects of the election of that candidate or for prejudicially affecting the election of any candidate;\n(iv) the promotion of or attempt to promote feelings of enmity or hatred between different classes of the citizens of India on grounds of religion, race, caste, community or language by a candidate or his agent or any other person with the consent of a candidate or his election agent for the furtherance of the election of that candidate to or for prejudicially affecting the election of any candidate;\n(v) the publication by a candidate or his agent or by any other person with the consent of candidate or his agent of any statement of fact which is false and which he either believes to be false or does not believe to be true in relation to the personal character or conduct of any candidate or in relation to the candidature or withdrawal of any candidature being statement reasonably calculated to prejudice the prospects of that candidate's election;\n(vi) the hiring or procuring whether on payment or otherwise, any vehicle or vessel by a candidate or his agent or by any other person with the consent of a candidate or his agent, or the use of such vehicle or vessel for the free conveyance of any voter (other than the candidate himself, the member of his family or his agent) to or from any polling station provided in accordance with the Rules made under this Act:\nExplanation.\n(vii) the holding of any meeting at which intoxicating liquors are served;\n(viii) the issuing of any circular, placard or poster having reference to the election which does not bear the name and address of the printer and publisher thereof;\n(ix) any other practice which the Government may by Rule specify to be a corrupt practice.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 478
        },
        {
            "number": "482",
            "title": "482. Order as to corrupt practices.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 479
        },
        {
            "number": "483",
            "title": "483. Communication of orders.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 480
        },
        {
            "number": "484",
            "title": "484. Fresh election, if a seat becomes vacant.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "C. Extension of the Act to Other Areas and Inclusion or Exclusion of Areas within or from the Municipal Area",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 481
        },
        {
            "number": "485",
            "title": "485. Power of State Government to notify intention to extend the Act to other areas.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "D. Miscellaneous and Transitory Provisions",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 482
        },
        {
            "number": "486",
            "title": "486. Provisions of the Chapter to override other provisions.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 483
        },
        {
            "number": "487",
            "title": "487. Removal of difficulties.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 484
        },
        {
            "number": "488",
            "title": "488. Repeal and Savings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Bihar Municipal Act, 1922, Patna Municipal Corporation Act, 1951, Bihar Municipal Corporation Act, 1978, Bihar Regional Development Authority Act, 1981, Bihar Town Planning & Improvement Trust Act, 1951, Bihar Restrictions of Uses of Land Act, 1948, Bihar Municipal Ordinance, 2007\n(a) Subject to the scrutiny of the requirements of the Municipality assessed by an officer or officers appointed by the State Government, every such officer or other employee serving with various authorities, organisations set up under the Acts listed in sub-section (1) and (3) of this Section, immediately before the date of the commencement of this Act and on and from such date shall be deemed to have been transferred to and become an officer or other employee of the Municipality with such designation as the Municipality may determine and may hold office by the same tenure, at the same remuneration and on the same terms and conditions of service as he would have held if the Acts were not repealed, and shall continue to do so unless and until such tenure, remuneration and terms and conditions are duly altered by the Municipality:\n(b) Anything done or any action taken (including any appointment, Rule, bye-laws, Regulation made, granted or issued under various Acts listed in sub-section (1) and (3) of this Section shall, continue to be in force and be deemed to have been done or taken under the provisions of this Act unless it is superceeded modified/altered by any thing done or any action taken under this Act.\n(c) All debts, obligations and liabilities incurred, all contracts entered into and all matters and things engaged to be done by, with or for the various authorities organisations set up under the Acts listed in subsection 3 of this Section shall be deemed to have been incurred, entered into or engaged to be done by, with or for the Municipality.\n(d) All properties movable and immovable and all rights, title, and interest in any property vested in the authorities organisations (set up under the Acts) listed in sub-section (1) and (3) of this Section shall vest in the Municipality and all properties in possession of such organisations shall be deemed to be due to the Municipality.\n(e) All suits, prosecution, and other legal proceedings instituted or which might have been instituted by, for, or against the said authorities organisation listed in sub-section (1) and (3) of this Section may be continued or instituted by, for or against the Municipality.\n(f) All sums charged on any property under various Acts listed in sub-section(1) of this Section or the Rules or Regulations framed thereunder shall continue to be charged on that property and the charge shall be enforceable by the Municipality.\n(g) From the date Act comes into existence, Municipality will have the same right as the said various authorities, organisations had in all lands within the area notified under sub-section (1) and (3) of the Act which were previously held by the said various authorities, organisations on lease from the State Government for a certain period or the possession of which has been delivered to the aforesaid authorities/ organisations.\n(h) The Municipality shall continue to enjoy the powers to realise the various sources of income in terms of levies, fees, cess, etc.; otherwise empowered to be realised by said various authorities organisation under their respective Acts and Rules and Regulations framed thereunder specified under sub-section(3) of this Section of the Act, as if the said authorities were still functioning under their respective Statutes until the same are amended by the Municipality from time to time.\nSchedule\n(See Section 342)\nPurpose for which Premises may not be used without a Licence or Written Permission\nPurpose for which Premises may not be used without a Licence or Written Permission\nEach State Government may amend this Schedule as per its requirements.\nEach State Government may amend this Schedule as per its requirements.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 485
        }
    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "bh464",
        "Act Number": "Bihar Act 11 of 2007",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "2007",
        "Short Title": "The Bihar Municipal Act, 2007",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Bihar"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}