280. Power to declare an area to be a clearance area.

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    "act_title": "The Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporations Act, 1949",
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    "section_label": "Section",
    "section": {
        "number": "280",
        "title": "280. Power to declare an area to be a clearance area.",
        "chapter": null,
        "content": "(a) that the residential buildings in that area are, by reason of disrepair or sanitary defects unfit for human habitation or are, by reason of their bad arrangement or the narrowness or bad arrangement of the streets dangerous or injurious to the health of the inhabitants of the area and that the other buildings, if any, in the area are for a like reason dangerous or injurious to the health of the said inhabitants: and\n(b) that the conditions in the area can be effectually remedied by the demolition of all the buildings in the area without making an improvement scheme;\n(a) by ordering the demolition of the buildings in the area; or\n(b) by acquiring on behalf of the Corporation land comprised in the area and undertaking or otherwise securing, the demolition of the buildings thereon.",
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