{ "id": 16140, "slug": "the-chhattisgarh-municipal-corporation-act-1956", "title": "The Chhattisgarh Municipal Corporation Act, 1956", "short_title": "The Chhattisgarh Municipal Corporation Act, 1956", "act_number": "(C.G. Act No. 23 of 1956)", "act_year": 1956, "act_type": "STATE", "location": "Chhattisgarh", "law_status": "unknown", "enactment_date": null, "description": "The Chhattisgarh Municipal Corporation Act, 1956", "preamble": "", "section_label": "Section", "sections": [ { "number": "1", "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 0 }, { "number": "2", "title": "2. Repeal of Enactment.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 1 }, { "number": "3", "title": "3. Transfer of liabilities.", "chapter": null, "content": "(1) All debts and obligations incurred, all contracts entered into with, and all matters and things engaged to be done by, or for, the municipality of such city before this Act is made applicable shall be deemed to have been incurred, entered into with, or engaged to be done by, or for, the Corporation constituted under this Act.\n(2) Every appointment, rule, bye-law, form, notification, notice, tax, scheme, order, licence or permission made, issued, imposed, sanctioned or given under the Municipal Law, shall, so far as it relates to the municipality of such city and so far as it is in force at the time of the application of, and is not inconsistent with, this Act, be deemed to have been made, issued, imposed, sanctioned or given under the provisions of this Act, and shall unless previously altered, modified, cancelled, suspended, surrendered or withdrawn, as the ease may be, under this Act remain in force for the period, if any, for which it was so made, issued, imposed, sanctioned or given.\n(3) All rates, taxes and sums of money due to the Municipalities of such city when this Act is made applicable shall be deemed to be due to the Corporation.\n(4) All suits Or other legal proceedings, civil or criminal, instituted by or against the municipality of such city may be continued by or against the Corporation.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 2 }, { "number": "4", "title": "4. Provisional Appointment of Commissioner.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 3 }, { "number": "5", "title": "5. Definitions.", "chapter": null, "content": "(1) \"Administrator\" means a person or committee of persons appointed by the Government under the Act to exercise the powers and perform the duties of the Corporation.\n(2) \"assessment list\" means any municipal assessment register prescribed by Section 151 and includes any register subsidiary thereto;\n(3) \"auditor\" means an auditor appointed by the Government under Section 129;\n(4) \"bakery\" means any place in which bread or confectionery including biscuits is baked, cooked or prepared in any manner whatsoever for the purposes of profit or sale;\n[(4-a) \"Balance Sheet\" means the balance sheet prepared under sub-section (4) of Section 128;]\n(5) \"Brothel\" means any house, room or place, or any part thereof, occupied or let or intended to be occupied or let as a single tenement which is habitually used by one or more than one woman for the purpose of prostitution;\n(6) \"budget grant\" means the total sum entered on the expenditure side of a budget estimate under a major head as prescribed by bye-laws and adopted by the Corporation and includes any sum by which such budget grant may be increased or reduced by a transfer from or to other heads in accordance with the provisions of this Act and bye-laws;\n(7) \"building\" includes a house, outhouse, stable shed, hut and other enclosure or structure whether of masonary, bricks, wood, mud, metal or any other material whatever, whether used as a human dwelling or otherwise, and also includes verandahs, fixed platforms, plinths, doorsteps, walls including compound walls, and fencing and the like but does not include a tent or a temporary shed erected on ceremonial or festive occasions;\n(8) \"building line\" means a line beyond which the outer face or any part of an external wall of a building should not project in the direction of any street existing or proposed:\n(9) \"cesspool\" includes a settlement tank or other tank for the reception and disposal of foul matter from building;\n(10) \"City\" means a larger urban area as the Governor may by public notification specify in accordance with the provisions laid down in sub-section (2) of Section 7 of this Act.\n[(10-a) \"Collector\" means the District Collector appointed by the State Government under Section 16 of Chhattisgarh Land Revenue Code, 1959.]\n[(10-b) \"Colonization\" means indulging, directly or indirectly, in activities aimed towards the establishment of a colony by developing lands including agricultural land by dividing the land into plots, for transfer of such plots to persons intending to construct thereon residential or non-residential or composite buildings.\n(10-c) \"Colonizer\" means Development Authority, constituted under the Chhattisgarh Nagar Tatha Gram Nivesh Adhiniyam, 1973 (No. 23 of 1973), any Society or Co-operative Society registered by the Registrar, Firms and Societies or the Registrar, Co-operative Societies or any other registered institution which includes any such person or institution who intends to take up the work of establishment of the colony by developing that area for the purpose of dividing any land, including agricultural land, into plots or group housing and intends to transfer such plots to persons desirous of constructing residential or non-residential or joint residence for inhabitation and who is registered as colonizer by the competent authority under the Act.\n(10-d) \"Colony\" means an area so divided from an existing plot, with the provisions of basic services such as road, water, electricity, disposal of sewerage etc., for residents and includes construction under group housing and joint housing:\n(11) \"Commissioner\" means the Municipal Commissioner for the city appointed under Section 54 and includes an acting Commissioner appointed under sub-section (2) of Section 57 and any municipal officer empowered under this Act to exercise, perform or discharge any of the powers, duties or functions of the Commissioner to the extent to which such officer is so empowered;\n(12) \"closet accommodation\" means a receptacle for human excreta, together with the structure comprising such receptacle and the fittings and apparatus connected therewith;\n(13) \"Corporation\" means the Municipality of a larger urban area,\n(14) \"Councillor\" means any person who is legally a member of the Corporation;\n(15) \"dairy\" includes any farm, cattle-shed, milk store, milk shop, or other place from which milk is supplied for sale or in which milk is kept for the purposes of sale or manufactured into butter, ghee, cheese curds or dried or condensed milk for sale, and in the case of a dairy-man who does not occupy any place for the sale of milk, including the place where he keeps the vessels used by him for the sale of milk but does not include a shop or other place in which milk is sold for consumption on the premises only;\n(16) \"dairy man\" includes the keeper of a cow, buffalo, goat, ass or other animal, the milk of which is offered or intended to be offered for sale for human consumption and any purveyor of milk and any occupier of a dairy;\n(17) \"dairy produce\" includes milk, butter, ghee, curd, butter-milk, cheese and every product of milk;\n(18) \"dangerous disease\" means cholera, plague, small-pox, tuberculosis cerebro-spinal meningitis and diphtheria, leprosy, other than leucoderma, and any other disease which the Corporation may, by public notice, declare to be a dangerous disease for the purposes of this Act;\n[(18-a) \"Director\" means the Director of Urban Administration and Development, appointed by the State Government;]\n(18-b) \"District\" means a district as construed in the Chhattisgarh Land Revenue Code, 1959;\n(19) \"District Court\" means the District Court constituted for the district in which the city is included;\n[(19-a) \"Divisional Commissioner\" means the Divisional Commissioner appointed by the State Government under the Chhattisgarh Land Revenue Code, 1959 (No. 20 of 1959).]\n(20) \"drain\" includes a sewer, tunnel, pipe, ditch, gutter or channel, and any cistern flush, tank, septic tank or other device for carrying off or treating sewage, offensive matter, polluted water, sullage, waste water, rainwater or sub-soil water and any culvert, ventilation, shaft or pipe or other appliance or fitting connected therewith, and any ejectors, compressed air mains, sealed sewage mains and special machinery or apparatus for raising, collecting, expelling or removing sewage or offensive matter from any place;\n(21) \"drug\" means any substance used as medicine or in the composition or preparation of medicines whether for internal or external use;\n(22) \"eating house\" means any premises to which the public are admitted and where any kind of food is prepared or supplied for consumption on the premises for the profit or gain of any person owning or having an interest in or managing such premises;\n[(22-a) \"Economically Weaker Section\" means the group of persons so specified by the State Government from time to time.]\n(23) the expression \"to erect or re-erect a building\" means and includes-\n(a) newly to erect a building on any site whether previously built upon or not;\n(b) any material alteration or enlargement of any building;\n(c) the conversion by structural alteration into a place for human habitation of any building not originally constructed for human habitation;\n(d) conversion into more than one dwelling house a building originally constructed as one dwelling house only;\n(e) the conversion by structural alteration of one or more places of human habitation or tenements into a greater or lesser number of such places or tenements;\n(f) any structural alteration in a building so as to affect its drainage or sanitary arrangements or its stability;\n(g) the addition of any rooms, buildings, outhouses, or other structure to a building;\n(h) the reconstruction of the whole or any part of the external walls of a building or the renewal of the posts of wooden buildings;\n(i) conversion by a structural alteration two or more tenements in a building into a greater or lesser number;\n(j) any building of which more than one half of the cubical contents of the building above the level of the plinth have been pulled down, burnt or destroyed;\n(24) the expression \"essential service\" means the service in connection with the municipal fire-brigade, the municipal air compressor, the pumping stations, drainage, conservancy or water-supply of the city and any such other service as may be notified by the Government and the essential officer or servant means even, person employed in the essential service;\n(25) \"factory\" has the meaning assigned to it under the Factories Act, 1948;\n(26) \"fifth\" includes sewage, night-soil and all offensive matter;\n(27) \"food\" means any article used as food or drink for human consumption other than drugs and water and includes-\n(a) any article which ordinarily enters into or is used in the composition or preparation of human food; or\n(b) any flavouring or colouring matter, spices or condiments;\n(28) \"goods\" means any material, commodity or article, and include animals, electricity and electro magnetic waves or signals transmitted through wires or wireless devices;\n(29) \"hut\" means any building which is constructed principally of wood, mud, leaves, grass, cloth or thatch and includes any temporary structure of whatever size or any small building of whatever material made which the corporation may declare to be a hut for the purposes of this Act;\n(29-a) \"Industrial Township\" means an Industrial Township specified under Section 7.\n(30) \"keeper\" means the person in charge of a lodging house, and may include the owner for the purposes of any rules or bye-laws made under this Act;\n(31) \"land\" includes benefits arising out of land, houses and things attached to the earth, or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth and also land which is being built upon or is built upon or covered with water;\n(32) \"licensed plumber\" , \"licensed surveyor\" and \"licensed architect\" mean respectively person licensed by the Corporation as a plumber or surveyor or architect under this Act;\n(33) \"lodging house\" means a building or part of a building where lodging with or without a board or other services is provided for a monetary consideration and includes a collection of buildings or a building or a part of a building used for the accommodation of pilgrims and travellers whether on payment or otherwise;\n[(33-a) \"Lower Income Group\" means the group of persons so specified by the State Government from time to time.]\n(34) \"market\" or \"Bazar\" means :-\n(a) a place where persons assemble for the sale of meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, live-stock or any other article of food of a perishable nature, whether or not there is any collection of shops, or warehouses or stalls for the sale of other articles in such place; or\n(b) any place of trade other than a place referred in sub-clause (a) where there is a collection of shops or warehouses or stalls;\n(34-a) \"Municipal area\" means the territorial area of a Municipal Corporation as is notified by the Governor under sub-section (2) of Section 7 of this Act.\n(35) \"municipal drain\" means a drain vested in the Corporation;\n(35-a) \"municipal law\" means a law for the time being in force for the organisation and administration of municipalities;\n(36) \"municipal market\" means a market vested in or managed by the Corporation;\n(37) \"municipal slaughter-house\" means a slaughter house vested in or managed by the Corporation;\n(38) \"municipal tax\" means any tax levied by the Corporation under the provisions of this Act;\n(39) \"municipal water-works\" means a water-work vested in or managed by the Corporation;\n(39-a) \"nazul land\" means nazul land within the city for the management and disposal of which special rules have been made by the government;\n(40) \"nuisance\" includes any act, omission, place or thing which causes or is likely to cause injury, danger, annoyance or offence to the sense of sight, smell, or hearing or disturbance to rest or sleep of the community or which is or may be dangerous to life or injurious to the health or property or offends against public morality;\n(41) \"occupier\" means any person in actual possession of any land or building and includes an owner in actual possession, and a tenant or licensee, whether such tenant or licensee is liable to pay rent or not;\n(42) \"offensive matter\" includes animal carcasses, dung, dirt, putrid and petrifying substances, and filth of any kind but does not include sewage;\n(43) \"owner\" when used with reference to any land or building includes the person for the time being receiving the rent of the land or building or of any part of the land or building whether on his own account or as agent or trustee for any person or society or for any religious or charitable purpose, or as a receiver, who would receive such rent if the land, building or part thereof were let to a tenant, or manager or mortgagee in possession;\n(43-a) \"Population\" means the population as ascertained at the preceding census of which the relevant figures have been published.\n(44) Omitted;\n(45) \"private street\" means a street which is not a public street;\n(46) \"public, analyst\" means any person appointed by the Corporation to perform the duties and to exercise the powers of a public analyst prescribed by bye-laws under this Act;\n(47) \"public place\" means a space, not being private property, which is open to the use or enjoyment of the public, whether such space is vested in the Corporation or not;\n(48) \"public securities\" means-\n(a) securities of the Central or any .State Government;\n(b) securities, stock, debentures, or shares the interest whereon has been guaranteed by the Central or State Government;\n(c) debentures or other securities for money issued by or on behalf of any local authority in exercise of the powers conferred by any enactment for the time being in force in any part of the Republic of India;\n(d) securities expressly authorised by any order which the State Government makes in this behalf;\n(49) \"public street\" means any street-\n(a) over which the public have a right of way; or\n(b) which have been heretofore levelled, paved, metalled, asphalted, channelled, sewered or repaired out of municipal or other public funds; or\n(c) which under the provisions of this Act becomes a public street;\n(i) the roadway over any public bridge or causeway;\n(ii) the footway attached to any such street;\n(iii) public bridge or causeway, and the drains attached to any such street, public bridge or causeway;\n[(49-a) \"Registered Architect/Structural Engineer/Engineer\" means the same as defined in Chhattisgarh Bhumi Vikas Niyam, 1984, framed under the Chhattisgarh Nagar Tatha Gram Nivesh Adhiniyam, 1973 (No. 23 of 1973);]\n(50) \"registered trade union\" means a trade union registered under the Indian Trade Unions Act, 1926;\n(51) (a) a person shall be deemed to \"reside\" in any dwelling house or hut which, or some portion of which, he sometimes, although not interruptedly, uses as a sleeping apartment; and\n(b) a person shall not be deemed to cease to \"reside\" in any such dwelling house or hut, merely because he is absent from it or has elsewhere another dwelling house or hut in which he resides, if there is the liberty of returning to it at any time and no abandonment of the intention of returning to it;\n(52) \"rubbish\" includes dust, ashes, broken bricks, mortar, broken glass, garden or stable refuse or refuse of any kind which is not Offensive matter\" or \"sewage\" as defined in this section;\n[(52-a) \"Recognised Political Party\" means a political party for the time being recognized by the Election Commission of India as National Party or as a State Party in the State of Chhattisgarh under the Election Symbols (Reservation & Allotment) Order, 1968,]\n(53) \"sewage\" means night-soil, and other contents of water closets, latrines, privies, urinals, cesspools, or drains and polluted water from sinks, bathrooms, stables, cattle sheds, and other like places, and includes trade effluents and discharges from manufactories of all kinds;\n(54) \"sewage connection\" includes any drain connecting any water-closet, latrine, privy, urinal, bathroom, sink, sullage tray, manhole or trap with any drain for sewage and other offensive matter;\n(54-a) \"Social audit\" means the review of the impact of policies, programmes, schemes and procedures adopted or implemented by any municipal authority, by a group or groups of persons residing within the municipal area;\n[(54-b) \"Social Audit\" means the review of the impact of policies, programmes, schemes or procedures adopted or implemented by any municipal authority, by a group or groups of persons residing within the municipal area within which such review is conducted:]\n(55) \"street\" means any road, food-way, square, Court, alley or passage, accessible, whether permanently or temporarily to the public, whether a thoroughfare or not;\n(56) \"street line\" means a line dividing the land comprised in and forming part of a street from the adjoining land;\n(56-a) \"lax\" includes any toll, cess, fee or other impost levied or leviable under this Act;\n(57) \"traffic sign\" includes all signals, warning sign posts, direction posts, signs or other devices, erected by any person or authority authorised by law to do so for the information, guidance or direction of person using roads or of wheeled and other traffic;\n[(57-a) \"User Charges\" means the charges imposed under Section 132-A for services rendered or are proposed to be rendered by the Corporation;]\n(58) \"vehicle\" includes a bicycle, tricycle, motor car and every wheeled conveyance which is used or capable of being used on a public street;\n(59) \"water-closet\" means a closet accommodation used or adopt or intend to be used in connection with the municipal water-works and comprising provisions for flushing of the receptacle by means of a water-supply and having connection with a sewer;\n(60) \"water connection\" includes-\n(a) any tank, cistern, hydrant, stand pipe, meter or lap situated on private property and connected with a water-main or pipe belonging to the corporation;\n(b) the water pipe connecting such tanks, cistern, hydrant, stand pipe, meter or lap with such water-main or pipe;\n(61) \"water for domestic purposes\" shall not include water for cattle, or for horses, or for washing vehicles where the cattle horses or vehicles are kept for sale or hire or by a common carrier and shall not include water for any trade, manufacture or business, or for building purposes, or for watering gardens, or for fountains or for any ornamental purposes;\n(62) \"water work\" includes a lake, steam, spring, well, pump, reservoir, cistern, lank, duct whether covered or open, sluice, main pipe, culvert, engine, water truck, hydrant standpipe, conduit, and machinery, land, building or thing for supplying water or for protecting sources of water-supply;\n(63) \"workshop\" means any building, place or premises or any part thereof, not being a factory, to or over which the employer of the persons working therein has the right of access or control, and in which or within the compound or precincts of which, any manual labour is employed or utilised in aid of or incidental to any process for the following purposes :-\n(i) the making of any article or part thereof;\n(ii) the altering, repairing, ornamenting or finishing of any article: or\n(iii) the adapting for sale of any article.\n[(64) \"Year\" means a financial year beginning on the first day of April of the year.]\nPart-II\nConstitution and Government\nChapter II\nThe Municipal Authorities", "footnote": "", "is_definition": true, "sort_order": 4 }, { "number": "6", "title": "6. Municipal authorities charged with the execution of this Act.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the Corporation;\n(b) the Mayor-in-Council;\n(c) the Mayor;\n(d) the Commissioner.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 5 }, { "number": "7", "title": "7. Constitution of Municipal Corporation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 6 }, { "number": "8", "title": "8. Power of Corporation to acquire and hold movable and immovable property.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 7 }, { "number": "9", "title": "9. Composition of Municipal Corporation.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) a Mayor, that is Chairperson, elected by direct election from the Municipal area;\n(b) Councillors elected by direct election from the wards;\n[(c) person not more than fifteen percent of the number of municipal wards in the town, nominate by the State Government, having special knowledge or experience in the Municipal administration :\n(d) Members of the House of the People and the Members of the Legislative Assembly of the State representing constituencies which comprise wholly or partly the Municipal area;\n(e) Members of the Council of States registered as electors within the municipal area :", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 8 }, { "number": "10", "title": "10. Determination of number and extent of wards and conduct of elections.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 9 }, { "number": "11", "title": "11. Reservation of seats.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 10 }, { "number": "11A", "title": "11A. Reservation of the office of the Mayor.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 11 }, { "number": "12", "title": "12. Qualification of voters and their registration.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) is not less eighteen years of age on the first day of January of the year in which the electoral roll for a ward is prepared or revised;\n(b) is ordinarily resident in the ward within the meaning of Section 20 of the Representation of the People Act, 1950 (No. 43 of 1950), subject to modification that reference to \"constituency\" therein were a reference to \"area comprised in the ward\": and\n(c) is otherwise qualified to be registered in the Assembly roll relatable to the ward, shall he entitled to he registered in the electoral roll of that ward :\n(i) no person shall be entitled to be registered in the electoral roll of more than one ward in the same city;\n(ii) no person shall be entitled to be registered in the electoral roll for any ward more than once.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 12 }, { "number": "13", "title": "13. Disqualification fur voters.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) is not citizen of India; or\n(b) is of unsound mind and stands so declared by a competent Court; or\n(c) is convicted of an offence under the Protection of Civil Rights Act. 1955 (No. 22 of 1955), unless a period of five years or such lesser period as the State Government may allow in any particular case, has elapsed since his conviction; or\n(d) is for the time being disqualified from voting under the provision of any law relating to corrupt practices and other offences in connection with election.\n(a) is erroneous or defective in any particulars;\n(b) should be transposed to another place in the roll; or\n(c) should be deleted on the ground that the person concerned is dead or has ceased to be ordinarily resident in the ward or is otherwise not entitled to be registered in that roll,", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 13 }, { "number": "14", "title": "14. Preparation of electoral rolls and conduct of elections.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 14 }, { "number": "14A", "title": "14A. Account of Election expenses.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 15 }, { "number": "14B", "title": "14B. Lodging of account of Election expenses.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 16 }, { "number": "14C", "title": "14C. Disqualification for failure to lodge account of election expenses.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) has failed to lodge an account of election expenses within the lime and in the manner required by or under this Act; and\n(b) has no good reason or justification for a failure, the State Election Commission shall, by order published in the Official Gazette, declare him to be disqualified and any such person shall be disqualified for being chosen as and for being a Councillor or a Mayor of the Corporation for a period not exceeding five years from that date of the Order.\n[14D. Removal or Reduction of period of disqualification.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 17 }, { "number": "15", "title": "15. Eligibility for voting.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 18 }, { "number": "16", "title": "16. Qualification for election as Mayor or Councillor.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) for the election of Mayor, if he is not less than 25 years of age; and\n(b) for the election of Councillor, if he is not less than 21 years of age.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 19 }, { "number": "17", "title": "17. General disqualification for becoming a Councillor or Mayor.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) (i) has been convicted of any offence, punishable under Section 153-A, or Section 171-E or Section 171-F, or sub-section (2) or sub-section (5) of Section 505 of the Indian Penal Code, I860 (No. 45 of 1860) or under the Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955 (No. 22 of 1955) or under Section 125 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 (No. 43 of 1951) or Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 (No. 28 of 1961) or Section 10 or Section 11 of the Chhattisgarh Local Authorities (Electoral Offences) Act, 1964 (No. 13 of 1964) unless a further period of six years has elapsed since his release after undergoing the sentence;\n(ii) has been convicted by a Court in India :-\n(a) for an offence not falling under sub-clause (i) and sentenced to imprisonment for a period of not less than two years; or\n(b) for contravention of any provisions of the Chhattisgarh Nagariya Kshetron Me Ke Bhoomihin Vyakti (Pattadhruli Adhikaron Ka Pradan Kiya Jana) Adhiniyam. 1984 (No. 15 oF 1984) or of any law providing for the prevention of hoarding or profiteering or of adulteration of food or drugs.\n(a) \"Law providing for the prevention of hoarding or profiteering\" means any law, or any order, rule or notification having the force of law providing for :-\n(i) the regulation of production or manufacture of any essential commodity;\n(ii) the control of price at which any essential commodity may he bought or sold;\n(iii) the regulation of acquisition, possession, storage, transportation, distribution, disposal, use or consumption of any essential commodity;\n(iv) the prohibition of the withholding from sale of any essential commodity ordinarily kept for sale;\n(b) \"drug\" shall have the meaning assigned to it in the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 (No. 23 of 1940);\n(c) \"essential commodity\" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 (No. 10 of 1955);\n(d) \"food\" shall have the meaning assigned to it in the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954 (No. 37 of 1954);\n(a-i) has, in proceedings for questioning the validity or regularity of an election or nomination, been found to have been guilty of any corrupt practice, unless a period of five years has elapsed since the date of the finding of the disqualification has been removed by the State Government under Section 441-G;\n(b) has been removed from office under Section 18, 19-B or sub-section (3) of Section 23 unless he has been relieved by Government from the disqualification arising on account of such removal from office;\n(bb) has been disqualified for further election or nomination as a Councillor or Mayor under Section 17-A unless he has been relieved by the Government from such disqualifications;\n(c) is an undischarged insolvent;\n(d) is of unsound mind and stands so declared by a competent Court;\n(e) is less than twenty live years of age, in case of a Mayor and is less than twenty one years of age, in case of a Councillor;\n(f) is in the service of the Government or any local authority or is a Government pleader;\n(g) has directly or indirectly by himself or his partner, any share or interest in any work being done of the Corporation or in any contract or employment with or under, or by, or on behalf of the Corporation :\n(a) receiving a Government or municipal pension;\n(b) having any share or interest in-\n(i) any lease, sale or transfer of land;\n(ii) any agreement for the loan of money or any security for the payment of money only;\n(iii) any joint stock company except as a director or managing agent or any registered co-operative society;\n(iv) occupying as a tenant any premises belonging to the Corporation;\n(h) has been dismissed from Government or municipal service on account of misconduct involving moral turpitude; x x x\n(i) has any tax or dues, payable to the Corporation, standing against his name for a period exceeding one year; or\n(j) has not paid the amount of charge imposed upon him under Section 11 of the Chhattisgarh Sthaniya Nidhi Sarnpariksha Adhiniyam, 1973 (No. 43 of 1973) within the time specified in Section 15 of the said Adhiniyam; or\n(k) if he is so disqualified by or under any law for the time being in force for the purposes of elections to the Legislative Assembly of the State :\n(l) has been convicted of an offence against women.\n[***]\n[(n) has been disqualified under Section 14-C.]\n(2) Disability from continuing as a Councillor or Mayor.\n(a) becomes disqualified :-\n(i) under sub-section (1) of Section 13 and his name is struck off the electoral roll under sub-section (1-A) of that section: or\n(ii) under sub-section (1) of this section; or\n(b) acts as a Councillor or Mayor in any matter-\n(i) in which he has directly or indirectly by himself or his partner, any share or interest, as is described in clause (g) of sub-section (1); or\n(ii) in which he is professionally interested on behalf of a client, principal or other person; or\n(c) absents himself during six consecutive months from the meetings of the Corporation except with the leave of the Corporation: or\n[***]\n(d) fails to pay any arrears of any kind due by him to the Corporation within three months after a notice in this behalf has been served upon him,\n(e) becomes disqualified for being chosen as and for being a Councillor or Mayor under Section 14-C :\n(3) Power to decide whether vacancy has occurred.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 20 }, { "number": "17A", "title": "17A. Power to disqualify Ex-Mayor, Speaker etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "[17B. Oath or affirmation by the Mayor and the Councillor.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 21 }, { "number": "18", "title": "18. Election of Speaker.", "chapter": null, "content": "[18A. Powers and functions of the Speaker.\n(i) to preside over the meetings of the Corporation and send the copy of proceeding to the Commissioner within seven days from the dale of meeting;\n(ii) to fix the date of the meeting of the Corporation with the consent of the Mayor and arrange to send the notice thereof along with the Agenda as approved by the Mayor; and\n(iii) to have administrative control over the officers and servants of his office including the Corporation Secretary.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 22 }, { "number": "19", "title": "19. Removal of Councillors.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) if his continuance as a councillor is not, in the opinion of the Divisional Commissioner, desirable in the interests of the public or the Corporation; or\n[(a-1) if it is found that he does not belong to the reserved category for which the seat was reserve, or;]\n(b) if the Corporation has, by a resolution supported by at least two-third of the total number of councillors; recommend that a councillor is not fit to continue as a councillor on account of misconduct in the discharge of his duties or disgraceful conduct and should therefore be removed.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 23 }, { "number": "19A", "title": "19A. Automatic vacation of all offices on ceasing to be Councillor.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 24 }, { "number": "19B", "title": "19B. Removal of Mayor or Speaker or Chairman of a Committee.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 25 }, { "number": "19C", "title": "19C. Resignation of Mayor.", "chapter": null, "content": "(i) if satisfied about its genuineness, accept the resignation and notify the fact of such resignation and the occurrence of casual vacancy by reason of such resignation in the Gazette;\n(ii) if not satisfied about its genuineness, not accept the resignation for reasons to be recorded in writing.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 26 }, { "number": "20", "title": "20. Duration of the Municipal Corporation.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) before the expiry of its duration specified in sub-section (1);\n(b) before the expiration of a period of six months from the date of its dissolution :", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 27 }, { "number": "21", "title": "21. Filling of casual vacancies.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 28 }, { "number": "22", "title": "22. Notification of election of Mayor and Councillor", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 29 }, { "number": "23", "title": "23. Resignation of Speaker & Councillors.", "chapter": null, "content": "(i) if satisfied about its genuineness, accept the resignation and notify the fact of such resignation and the occurrence of casual vacancy by reason of such resignation in the Gazette;\n(ii) if not satisfied about its genuineness, not accept the resignation for reasons to be recorded in writing.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 30 }, { "number": "23A", "title": "23A. No confidence motion against Speaker.", "chapter": null, "content": "(i) two years from the date on which the Speaker enters upon his office;\n(ii) one year from the date on which the previous motion, of no-confidence was rejected.\n(i) the meeting, shall be convened forthwith on a requisition, signed by not less than one-third of the total number of elected Councillors constituting the Corporation for the time being;\n(ii) the notice of such a meeting specifying the dale, time and place shall be despatched to the Mayor and every Councillor ten clear days before the meeting;\n(iii) the no-confidence motion moved under this section shall be decided through secret ballot.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 31 }, { "number": "24", "title": "24. Recalling of Mayor.", "chapter": null, "content": "(i) within a period of two years from the date on which such Mayor is elected and enters his office;\n(ii) if half of the period of tenure of the Mayor elected in a by-election has not expired ;", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 32 }, { "number": "25", "title": "25. Powers and functions of the Mayor.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) have administrative control over the officers and servants of his office including the office of the Mayor-in-Council and Appeal Committee;\n(b) exercise such powers and perform such functions as described in the Act or the Rules made thereunder.\n(a) he shall not act under this sub-section in contravention of any order of the State Government or Corporation or Mayor-in-Council prohibiting the execution or stoppage of any particular work or act; and\n(b) he shall report the action taken under this sub-section and the reasons therefor, to the Corporation at its next meeting and if the Corporation does not confirm the action of the Mayor or the such member of the Mayor-in-Council, as may be appointed by the Mayor, as the case may be, the matter shall he referred to the State Government and the decision of the State Government thereon shall be final, but the State Government before passing any order, which may affect any person a reasonable opportunity of being heard shall be given to such person.\n[25A. Duties of the Councillors.\n(i) to be present and take part in the meetings of the Corporation and on requirement give vote in his discretion in favour or against, on the matters included in the agenda;\n(ii) to draw the attention of the Commissioner or the head of the departments concerned, towards and loss to the Corporation property or any short comings in any scheme or service or any work being executed by the Corporation.]", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 33 }, { "number": "25B", "title": "25B. Honorarium and allowances to Mayor, Speaker and Councillors.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 34 }, { "number": "26", "title": "26. Procedure in case of non-payment of Corporation dues by Councillors and Office bearers of Corporation.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) draw up a list of all councillors (which term for the purposes of this section shall include the Mayor and Speaker), who have Tailed to pay any tax due by them to the Corporation within six months from the date on which such tax became due;\n(b) issue to every person on the said list a notice of demand requiring him to pay the arrears within three months from the date of service of such notice; and\n(c) submit a copy of the list of the Government.\nChapter III\nConduct Of Business\nTransaction of business by the Corporation", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 35 }, { "number": "27", "title": "27. Meeting of the Corporation and Committees.", "chapter": null, "content": "28.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 36 }, { "number": "29", "title": "29. Convening of meetings.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 37 }, { "number": "30", "title": "30. Power of Speaker and Mayor to call special meeting.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 38 }, { "number": "31", "title": "31. Adjournments.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 39 }, { "number": "32", "title": "32. Public to be admitted to the meeting of Corporation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 40 }, { "number": "33", "title": "33. Chairman of meeting.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 41 }, { "number": "34", "title": "34. Quorum.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 42 }, { "number": "35", "title": "35. Disability of Councillors for voting etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) he or any nominee of his is a member of a company or other body with which the contract is made or is proposed to be made or which has a direct pecuniary interest in the other matter under consideration;\n(b) he is partner, or member of the joint Hindi family or is in the employment of a person with whom the contract is made or is proposed to be made, or who has a direct pecuniary interest, in the other matter under consideration :\n(i) this sub-section shall not apply to membership of, or employment under, any public body;\n(ii) a member of a company or other body shall not, by reason only of his membership, be treated as being so interested if he has net beneficial interest in any shares or stock of that company or other body;\n(iii) no person shall be deemed to have tiny share or interest in a contract, grant or employment by reason only of his having any share or interest in-\n(a) any lease, sale or purchase of land or any agreement for the same; or\n(b) any agreement for the loan of money or any security for the payment of money only; or\n(c) any newspaper in which any advertisement relating to the affairs of the Corporation is inserted; or\n(d) any joint stock company which may enter into contract with or be employed by the Commissioner on behalf of the Corporation; or\n(e) the occasional sale to the Commissioner on behalf of the Corporation, to a value not exceeding in any one official year five hundred rupees, of any article in which he regularly trades.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 43 }, { "number": "36", "title": "36. Reservation of order.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 44 }, { "number": "37", "title": "37. Constitution of Mayor-in-Council.", "chapter": null, "content": "38.\n39.\n40.\n41.\n42.\n43.\n44.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 45 }, { "number": "45", "title": "45. Power Mayo-in-Council to appoint sub-committees.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 46 }, { "number": "46", "title": "46. Advisory Committees.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 47 }, { "number": "47", "title": "47. Reference by Mayor.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 48 }, { "number": "48", "title": "48. Election of Special Committees for consultative purposes.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 49 }, { "number": "48A", "title": "48A. Constitution and composition of Ward Committees.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 50 }, { "number": "48B", "title": "48B. Constitution and composition of Mohalla Committees.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 51 }, { "number": "49", "title": "49. Quorum of the Mayor-in-Council or any other Committee.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 52 }, { "number": "50", "title": "50. Decision on questions by majority of votes.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 53 }, { "number": "50A", "title": "50A. Removal of Member of the Committee.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 54 }, { "number": "51", "title": "51. Vacancies, etc. not to invalidate proceedings.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 55 }, { "number": "52", "title": "52. Proceeding of meeting to be deemed to be good and valid.", "chapter": null, "content": "(i) every meeting of the Corporation or any committee shall be deemed to have been duly convened and held, and all the members of the meeting shall be deemed to have been duly qualified, when the minutes of the meeting have been signed in accordance with the provisions of this Act; and\n(ii) where the meeting is a meeting of any Committee, such Committee shall be deemed to have been duly constituted and to have had power to deal with the matters referred to in the minutes.\n[53. Minutes of the meeting.\nChapter IV\nMunicipal Officers And Servants\nThe Commissioner", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 56 }, { "number": "54", "title": "54. Appointment and removal of Commissioner.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 57 }, { "number": "55", "title": "55. Power of Commissioner.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 58 }, { "number": "56", "title": "56. Salary of Commissioner.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 59 }, { "number": "57", "title": "57. Grant of leave of absence to Commissioner.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 60 }, { "number": "58", "title": "58. Appointment and conditions of service of Corporation Officers and servants.", "chapter": null, "content": "(i) the power of appointing any person on a municipal post which carries a maximum scale of pay as the State Government may, from time to time, by an order in writing specify, shall vest in the Mayor-in-Council or the Commissioner.\n(ii) any appointment made within his power by the Commissioner shall be reported for information to the Mayor-in-Council;\n(iii) every appointment to be made by the Mayor-in-Council shall be subject to the prior confirmation for the State Government. The decision of the State Government in this behalf shall be final.\n(a) have his lien on the post held in the parent Corporation;\n(b) not be put to disadvantageous position in respect of pay and allowances which he would have been entitled to had he continued in the parent Corporation;\n(c) be entitled to deputation allowance at such rate as the State Government may be general order specify; and\n(d) be governed by such other terms and conditions including disciplinary control as the State Government may, by general or special order, specify.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 61 }, { "number": "59", "title": "59. Municipal Officer or servant not to be interested in any contract with Corporation.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) has directly or indirectly, by himself or his partner, any share or interest in any contract of employment with, by or on behalf of the Corporation, other than an interest in land held on a lease from the Corporation, or is a Director, Secretary, Manager or other salaried officer of an incorporated company which has any such share or interest; or\n(b) has acted or is acting professionally in relation to any matter on behalf of any person having therein any such share or interest as aforesaid.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 62 }, { "number": "60", "title": "60. Discharge and infliction of penalties.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) during a period of probation;\n(b) if appointed otherwise than under contract to hold a temporary appointment, on the expiration of the period of the appointment;\n(c) if engaged on contract, in accordance with the terms of the contract:\n(d) tin account of the abolition of the post held by him or on account of a reduction in the strength of a cadre of Municipal Officers and servants.\n(i) censure;\n(ii) withholding of increment or promotion, including stoppage at an efficiency bar;\n(iii) reduction to a lower time-scale or to a lower stage in a lime-scale;\n(iv) recovery from pay of the whole or part of any pecuniary loss caused to the Corporation by negligence or by breach of orders;\n(v) tine to be deducted from salary;\n(vi) reduction in rank;\n(vii) removal from the service of the Corporation, which does not disqualify from future employment;\n(viii) dismissal from the service of the Corporation which ordinarily disqualify from future employment :\n(a) has been engaged on a written contract, he shall be entitled to notice, or salary in lieu of notice in accordance with the terms of that contract;\n(b) has not been engaged on a written contract, he shall be entitled to one month's notice of the termination of his services or one month's salary in lieu of notice.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 63 }, { "number": "61", "title": "61. Extraordinary pension case of officer or servant injured or killed, in execution of his duty.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) to any Municipal Officer or servant injured in the execution of his duty; or\n(b) to the family or other relatives dependent on any Municipal Officer or servant who is killed in the execution of his duty, or whose death is due to devotion to duty or who dies during service :", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 64 }, { "number": "62", "title": "62. Reinstatement or re-employment of a convicted officer or servant and payment of salary and allowances to such officers or servant.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 65 }, { "number": "63", "title": "63. Liability to vacate Municipal Premises.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) shall occupy the same, subject to such conditions and terms as may be prescribed by the Commissioner; and\n(b) shall notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being inforce, vacate the same on his ceasing to be in the service of the Corporation, or whenever the Commissioner thinks it necessary and expedient to require him to do so.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 66 }, { "number": "64", "title": "64. Essential officers and servants.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) unless he is authorised in that behalf by the terms of his contract, resign his appointment or quit his employment without giving written notice, not less than one month previously, to the authority appointing him, of his intention so to do; or\n(b) absent himself from duty otherwise than on leave duly granted and not subsequently cancelled; or\n(c) neglect or refuse to perform any of the duties or wilfully perform them in an insufficient manner.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 67 }, { "number": "65", "title": "65. Power of Government to declare emergency.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) withdraw or absent himself from his duties otherwise than on leave duly granted; or\n(b) neglect or refuse to perform his duties or wilfully perform them in an insufficient manner.\nChapter V\nPowers, Duties and Functions of the Municipal Authorities\nObligatory and discretionary ditties of the Corporation", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 68 }, { "number": "66", "title": "66. Matters to be provided fur by Corporation.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) lighting public streets, places and buildings;\n(b) cleaning public streets, places and sewers and all spaces not being private property, which are open to the enjoyment of the public, whether such spaces are vested in the Corporation or not; removing noxious vegetation, and abating all public nuisances;\n(c) disposing of nightsoil and rubbish and, if so deemed desirable, preparation of compost manure from nightsoil and rubbish;\n(d) the maintenance of the fire-brigade for extinguishing fire, and protection of life and property when fires occur;\n(e) regulating or abating dangerous or offensive trades or practices;\n(f) removing obstructions and projections in public streets and places, and in spaces not being private property, which are open to the enjoyment of the public whether such spaces are vested in the Corporation or the Government;\n(g) establishing and managing cattle pounds;\n(h) securing or removing dangerous buildings or places;\n(i) acquiring and maintaining, changing and regulating places for the disposal of the dead and disposing of unclaimed dead bodies and dead bodies of paupers;\n(j) constructing, altering and maintaining public streets, culverts and corporation boundary, markets, latrines, urinals, drains, sewers and providing public facilities for drinking water, watering public streets and places;\n(k) the management and maintenance of all municipal water-works and the construction and maintenance of new work and means for providing a sufficient supply of suitable water for public and private purposes;\n(l) the erection in proper and convenient situations on municipal land of water closets, closet accommodation, urinals, and other conveniences for the public and the maintenance and the cleansing of the same;\n(m) the construction and the maintenance of public market and slaughter-houses and the regulation of all markets and slaughter-houses;\n(n) Omitted\n(o) the maintenance of an ambulance service;\n(p) naming streets and numbering houses;\n(q) registering births, marriages and deaths;\n(r) public vaccination;\n(s) establishing and maintaining primary schools;\n(t) taking measures to prevent the outbreak, spread or recurrence of infectious diseases;\n(u) the maintenance of municipal office and of all public monuments and other property vested in the Corporation;\n(v) provision of traffic signs;\n(w) printing and publishing such annual reports and returns on the administration of the Corporation as the Government may by general or special order, require the Corporation to submit;\n(x) the maintenance of public park, gardens recreation grounds, public places and open spaces in existence and vested in the Corporation;\n(y) fulfilling any obligation imposed by this Act or any other law for the time being in force;\n(z) construction and maintenance of veterinary dispensaries.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 69 }, { "number": "67", "title": "67. Matters which may be provided for by Corporation at its discretion.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) reclaiming healthy localities, laying out, whether in areas previously built upon or not, new public street, and acquiring land for that purpose, including plots of land for building to abut on such streets;\n(b) constructing, establishing or maintaining public parks or gardens, library, museums, halls, theatres, stadiums, offices, sarais, rest-houses and other public buildings;\n(c) constructing and maintaining residential quarters for municipal officers and servants;\n(d) construction, maintenance and cleansing of washing and bathing places;\n(e) furthering educational objects other than the establishment and maintenance of primary schools and making grants to educational institutions;\n(f) planting and maintaining roadside and other trees;\n(g) taking a census and granting rewards for information tending to secure the correct registration of vital statistics;\n(h) making a survey;\n(i) the destruction or the detention of ownerless dogs or stray pigs or detention of animals causing nuisance;\n(j) securing or assisting to secure suitable places for the carrying on of the offensive trades or practices;\n(k) supplying, constructing and maintaining pipe and other fittings for the supply of water to private premises from water-works maintained by the Corporation;\n(l) supplying, constructing and maintaining receptacles, fittings, pipes, and other appliances on or for the use of private premises for receiving and conducting the sewage thereof into sewers under the control of the Corporation;\n(m) fairs and exhibitions, or athletics or games, competitions or tournaments;\n(n) constructing and maintaining such roads and buildings and other Government works as the Government may transfer to the Corporation;\n(o) organisation and management of chemical or bacteriological laboratories for the examination on analysis of water, food or drugs, for the detection of disease or for researches connected with public health; and\n(p) the construction and maintenance in the public streets of drinking fountains for human beings and water troughs for animals;\n(q) the prevention of cruelty to animals;\n(r) the playing of music in squares, gardens or other places of public resort;\n(s) the construction, purchase, organization, maintenance or management of tramways or motor transport facilities for the conveyance of the public;\n(t) preparation and presentation of address to person of distinction;\n(u) prevention of vagrancy; establishing and maintaining poor houses;\n(v) establishing and maintaining a farm or factory for the disposal of sewage;\n(w) organization and maintenance of maternity homes and infant welfare centres;\n(x) the organization, maintenance or management of institutions, for the care and training of blind, deal, dumb or otherwise disable persons;\n(y) swimming pools, public wash houses, bathing places and other institution designed for the improvement of public health;\n(z) dairies or farms within or without the city for the supply, distribution and processing of milk or milk products, for the benefit of the residents of the city;\n(aa) establishment and control of gwala colonies and cattle pens within or without the city;\n(bb) the purchase of any undertaking for the supply of electric energy or gas or starting or subsidizing of any such undertaking;\n(cc) the acquisition and maintenance of grazing grounds within or without the city;\n(dd) granting rewards for information regarding the infringement of any provisions of this Act or of any other Acts, the enforcement of which is entrusted to the Corporation by regulation or standing order thereunder;\n(ee) the construction and maintenance of sanitary stables for animals or vehicles, or garages;\n(ff) measures to meet any calamity affecting the public in the city;\n(gg) the regulation of lodging houses and boarding houses in the city;\n(hh) the grant of loans for building purposes or for purchase of conveyance to municipal officers and servants, on such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by bye-laws by the corporation;\n(ii) any other measures for the welfare of municipal servants;\n(jj) contribution towards any public fund raised for the relief of human sufferings within the city or for the public welfare;\n(kk) establishing and maintaining pre-primary schools;\n(ll) establishing and maintaining public hospitals and dispensaries and carrying out other means necessary for public medical relief;\n(mm) any other matter likely to promote the public health, safety or convenience of the public.\n(nn) Urban planning including town planning;\n(oo) Regulations of land-use and construction of buildings;\n(pp) Planning for economic and social development;\n(qq) Urban forestry, protection of the environment and promotion of ecological aspects;\n(rr) Safeguarding the interests of weaker sections of society, including the handicapped and mentally regarded; and\n(ss) Urban poverty alleviation.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 70 }, { "number": "68", "title": "68. Entrustment of certain functions by State Government to Corporation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 71 }, { "number": "69", "title": "69. Functions of several municipal authorities.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) perform all the duties imposed or conferred upon him by this Act;\n(b) prescribe the duties, and exercise supervision and control over the acts and proceedings of all municipal officers and servants other than the officers and servants of Corporation office and subject to the rules or bye-laws for the time being in force, dispose of all questions relating to the services of the said officers and servants and their pay, privileges and allowances;\n(c) on the occurrence of any accident or unforeseen event or on the threatened occurrence of any disaster, involving or likely to involve extensive damage to any property of Corporation or danger to human or animal life, lake such immediate action as the emergency shall appear to him to justify and require reporting forthwith to the Mayor-in-Council or the Corporation, when he has done so, the action he has taken and his reasons for taking the same and the cost if any incurred or like it to be incurred in consequence of such action and not covered by a current budget grant.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 72 }, { "number": "70", "title": "70. Corporation may call for proceedings, etc. from Committee.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 73 }, { "number": "71", "title": "71. Corporation may require Commissioner to produce documents.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) to produce any record, correspondence, plan or other document which is in his possession or under his control as Commissioner, or which is recorded or filed in his office or in the office of any municipal officer or servant subordinate to him;\n(b) to furnish any return, plan, estimate, statement, account or statistics concerning or connected with any matter appertaining to the administration of this Act or the municipal government of the city;\n(c) to furnish a report by himself, or to obtain from the head of the department subordinate to him and furnish, with his own remarks thereon a report upon any subject concerning or connected with administration of this Act or the municipal government of the city.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 74 }, { "number": "72", "title": "72. Exercise of functions to be subject to sanction by Corporation of the necessary expenditure.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) such expenditure, so far as it is to be incurred in the financial year in which such power may be exercised or duty performed, shall have been provided for under a current budget grant; and\n(b) if the exercise of such power or the performance of such duty involves or is likely to involve expenditure for any period or at any time after the close of the said financial year, liability for such expenditure shall not be incurred without the sanction of the Corporation.\n[73. Contracts by or on behalf of the Corporation.\n(a) every such contract shall be made on behalf of the Corporation by the Commissioner.\n(b) no such contract for any purpose which, in accordance with any provision of this Act, the Commissioner may not carryout without the approval or sanction of some other municipal authority, shall be made by him until or unless such approval or sanction has been duly obtained.\n(c) the Mayor-in-Council and the Commissioner may sanction any estimate or contract (including technical and administrative) involving such amount, as may be prescribed.\n(d) all other estimates or contracts shall be sanctioned by the Corporation.\n(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-Operate-Transfer 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;\n74.\n75.\nChapter VI\nMunicipal Property and Liabilities", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 75 }, { "number": "76", "title": "76. Transfer to Corporation of property of municipality.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 76 }, { "number": "77", "title": "77. Property of public institutions managed by municipal authorities to be held in trust.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 77 }, { "number": "78", "title": "78. Acquisition of immovable property or easement by agreement.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 78 }, { "number": "79", "title": "79. Procedure when immovable property or easement cannot be acquired by agreement.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 79 }, { "number": "79A", "title": "79A. Decision of claims to property by or against Corporation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 80 }, { "number": "80", "title": "80. Provisions governing the disposal of municipal property or property vesting in or under the management of Corporation.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the Commissioner may, in his discretion, grant a lease of any immovable property belonging to the Corporation, including any right of fishing or of gathering and taking fruit, flowers and the like, of which the premium or rent, or both, as the case may be, does not exceed five hundred rupees for any period not exceeding twelve months at a time :\n(b) with the sanction of the Mayor-in-Council, the Commissioner may by sale or otherwise grant a lease of immovable property including any such right as aforesaid, for any period not exceeding three years at a time of which the premium or rent or both, as the case may be, for any one year does not exceed three thousand rupees;\n(c) with the sanction of the Corporation the Commissioner may lease, sell or otherwise convey any immovable property belonging to the Corporation.\n(a) in his discretion dispose of by sale, letting out on hire or otherwise, any movable properly belonging to the Corporation not exceeding five hundred rupees in value;\n(b) with the sanction of Mayor-in-Council, dispose of by sale, letting out on hire, or otherwise any movable property belonging to the Corporation not exceeding five thousand rupees in value;\n(c) with the sanction of the Corporation, sell, let out on hire or otherwise convey any movable property belonging to the Corporation.\n(i) no property vesting in the Corporation in trust shall be leased, sold or otherwise conveyed in a manner that is likely to pre-judicially affect the purpose of the trust subject to which such property is held;\n(ii) no land value of which may be prescribed shall be sold or otherwise conveyed without the previous sanction of the Government and every sale, or other conveyance of property vesting in the Corporation shall be deemed to be subject to the conditions and limitations imposed by this Act or by any other enactment for the time being in force.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 81 }, { "number": "81", "title": "81. Power of Corporation to enforce covenant against owner for the time being of land.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 82 }, { "number": "81A", "title": "81A. Management of Nazul lands.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 83 }, { "number": "82", "title": "82. Property vested in Corporation.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) all public gates, markets, slaughter-houses, manure and night-soil deposits and public buildings of every description which have been constructed or maintained out of the municipal fund;\n(b) all public streams, rivers, springs, and works for the supply, storage and distribution of water for public purposes and all bridges, buildings, engines, materials and things connected therewith or appertaining thereto, and also any adjacent land (not being private property) appertaining to any public tank or well;\n(c) all public sewers and drains, and all sewers, drains, culverts and watercourses in or under any public street or constructed by or tor the Corporation along side any public street, and all works, materials and things appertaining thereto;\n(d) all dust, dirt, dugs, ashes, refuse, animal matter, or filth or rubbish of any kind, or dead bodies, of animals, collected by the Corporation from the streets, houses, privies, sewers, cesspools or elsewhere or deposited in places fixed by the Corporation;\n(e) all public lands, lamp-posts and apparatus connected therewith or appertaining thereof;\n(f) all land or other property transferred to the Corporation by the Government or acquired by gift, purchase or otherwise for local public purposes;\n(g) all public streets, not being land owned by the Government and the pavements, stone and other material thereof and also trees growing on, and erections, materials, implements and things provided for such streets;\n(h) all open lands which are neither the property of any person nor of the Government.\n[82A.\n[83. Record of immovable property.\n[83A. Custody and destruction of the record.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 84 }, { "number": "84", "title": "84. Resumption by Government.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 85 }, { "number": "85", "title": "85. Management of public institutions.", "chapter": null, "content": "Part-III\nFinance\nChapter VII\nThe Municipal Fund", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 86 }, { "number": "86", "title": "86. Municipal fund to be sole and to be held in trust.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 87 }, { "number": "87", "title": "87. Credit of moneys to municipal fund.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) all moneys received by or on behalf of the Corporation under the provisions of this Act or of any other law for the time being in force or under any contract;\n(b) the balance standing to the credit of the Municipality of the city for which the Corporation is constituted;\n(c) all proceeds of the disposal of property by, or on behalf of the Corporation;\n(d) all rents accruing from any property of the Corporation;\n(e) all moneys raised by any tax levied for the purposes of this Act;\n(f) all fees payable and levied under this Act, or any rules or bye-laws made thereunder;\n(g) all fines imposed by a Court under this Act or any rules or bye-laws made thereunder or under any other Act, the administration of which is entrusted to the Municipal Corporation;\n(h) all moneys received by way of compensation or for compounding offences under the provisions of this Act;\n(i) all moneys received by, or on behalf of the Corporation from the Government, public bodies, private bodies or private individuals by way of grant or gift or deposits;\n(j) all interests and profits arising from any investment or from any transaction in connection with any money belonging to the Corporation; and\n(k) all loans raised by the Corporation.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 88 }, { "number": "88", "title": "88. Application from Municipal Fund.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the expenses of every election of Councillors held under this Act;\n(b) the salaries, allowances and contributions to pensions and leave salaries of the Commissioner and of any other officer whose services may at the request of the Corporation be placed by the Government at the disposal of the Corporation;\n(c) the salaries and allowances of municipal officers and servants and all pensions, gratuities, contributions and compassionate allowances payable under the provisions of this Act;\n(d) the salaries and fees of experts for service or advice in connection with any matter arising out of the administration or undertaking of the Corporation;\n(e) all expenses and costs incurred by the Corporation or by any Municipal Officer on behalf of the Corporation in the exercise of any power conferred or the discharge of any duty imposed on it or them by this Act, including moneys which the Corporation is required or empowered to pay by way of compensation;\n(f) every sum payable-\n(i) by order of the Government or under an award made under the Arbitration Act, 1940;\n(ii) under a decree or order of a civil or criminal Court passed against the Commissioner;\n(iii) under the compromise of any suit or other legal proceeding or claim;\n(g) contributions to public institutions functioning in the interest of the inhabitants of the City;\n(h) the cost of auditing the municipal accounts.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 89 }, { "number": "89", "title": "89. Constitution of Special Funds.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 90 }, { "number": "90", "title": "90. Receipts and disposal of payments on account of the Municipal Fund.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 91 }, { "number": "91", "title": "91. Drafts on the Municipal Fund.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 92 }, { "number": "92", "title": "92. Deposit of portion of Municipal Fond outside the city.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 93 }, { "number": "93", "title": "93. Investment of surplus money.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter VIII\nBudget Estimate", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 94 }, { "number": "94", "title": "94. Only sums covered by a budget grant to be expended from the Municipal Fund.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) sums of which the expenditure has been sanctioned by the Mayor-in-Council;\n(b) refunds of taxes and other moneys which the Commissioner is by this Act authorised to make;\n(c) repayments of moneys belonging to contractors or other persons held in deposit and of money collected or credited to the municipal fund by mistake;\n(d) sums which the Commissioner is by this Act or any other enactment required or empowered to pay by way of compensation;\n(e) sums payable in any of the circumstances mentioned in clause (f) of Section 88;\n(f) expenses incurred by the Corporation in the exercise of the powers conferred on it by Section 285;\n(g) costs incurred by the Commissioner under clause (c) of subsection (3) of Section 69;", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 95 }, { "number": "95", "title": "95. Municipal Fund where to be expended.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 96 }, { "number": "96", "title": "96. Expenditure under certain of these exceptions to be reported by Commissioner to Mayor-in-Council.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 97 }, { "number": "97", "title": "97. Estimates of income and expenditure to be prepared annually by Commissioner.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) an estimate of the expenditure which must or should, in his opinion, be incurred by the Corporation in next financial year from the municipal fund including-\n(i) the re-payment of all loans or instalments thereof with interest thereon which fall due during the financial year;\n(ii) the discharge of liabilities imposed on the Corporation by sub-section (1) of Section 3;\n(iii) cash balance at the end of the said year of not less than such sum as may be prescribed by the Government;\n(iv) the amounts, if any, which should in his opinion be credited to or expended from special fund;\n(b) an estimate of all balances, if any, which will be available for appropriation or expenditure at the commencement of the next financial year;\n(c) an estimate of the Corporation's receipts and income for the next financial year other than from taxation;\n(d) an estimate of the receipts of existing taxation;\n(e) a statement of proposals as to the taxation which it will, in his opinion be necessary or expedient to impose under the provisions of this Act in the next financial year and an estimate of the receipts from such taxation.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 98 }, { "number": "98", "title": "98. Final adoption of budget estimates.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 99 }, { "number": "99", "title": "99. Power of Mayor-in-Council to reduce or transfer budget grants.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) due regard shall be had when making any such reduction or transfer to all the requirements of this Act;\n(b) every such reduction or transfer shall be brought to the notice of the Corporation at its next meeting.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 100 }, { "number": "100", "title": "100. Power of Corporation to alter budget grants.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 101 }, { "number": "101", "title": "101. Power of Corporation to re-adjust income and expenditure during the year.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter IX\nLoans", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 102 }, { "number": "102", "title": "102. Power of Corporation to borrow money.", "chapter": null, "content": "(i) for the construction of works under this Act; or\n(ii) for the acquisition of land for the purposes of this Act; or\n(iii) for the payment of a loan raised under this Act or any other loan or debt for the re-payment of which the Corporation is liable; or\n(iv) generally for carrying out the purposes of this Act, including the advance of loans authorised thereunder:\n(i) no loan shall be raised for the construction of any work other than a permanent work, which expression shall include any work of which the cost should in the opinion of the Government be spread over a term of years;\n(ii) no loan shall be raised without the previous sanction of the Government;\n(iii) the terms upon, the period within and the method by which the loan is to be raised and repaid, shall he subject to the approval of the Government; and\n(iv) the period within which the loan is to be repaid shall in no case exceed fifty years.\n(i) no portion thereof shall, without the previous sanction of the Government, be applied to any purpose other than that for which it was borrowed; and\n(ii) no portion of any sum of money borrowed under clause (i) of sub-section (1) shall be applied to the payment of salaries or allowances of any municipal officers or servants, other than those who are exclusively employed upon the works for the construction of which the money was borrowed :", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 103 }, { "number": "103", "title": "103. Power of Corporation to open credit or cash accounts with a bank.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 104 }, { "number": "104", "title": "104. Limit of borrowing power.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 105 }, { "number": "105", "title": "105. Form, exchange, transfer and effect of debentures.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 106 }, { "number": "106", "title": "106. Signature of coupons attached to debentures.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 107 }, { "number": "107", "title": "107. Debentures issued to two or more persons jointly.", "chapter": null, "content": "(1) When any debenture or security isSUed under this Act is payable to two or more persons jointly and either or any of them dies, the debenture or security shall be payable to the survivor or survivors of such persons :\n(2) When two or more persons are joint holders of any debenture or security issued under this Act, any one of such person may give an effectual receipt for any interest or dividend payable in respect of such debenture or security unless notice to the contrary has been given to the Corporation by any other of such persons.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 108 }, { "number": "108", "title": "108. Issue of duplicate securities.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) it the debenture alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed is payable more than six years alter the date of publication (if the notification referred to in sub-section (2)-\n(i) for the payment of interest in respect of the debenture pending the issue of a duplicate debenture: and\n(ii) for the issue of a duplicate debenture payable to the applicant; or\n(b) if the debenture alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed is payable not more than six years after the date of publication of the notification referred to in sub-section (2)-\n(i) tor the payment of interest in respect of the debenture without the issue of a duplicate debenture; and\n(ii) for the payment to the application of the principal sum due in respect of the debenture on or after the date on which the payment becomes due.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 109 }, { "number": "109", "title": "109. Renewal of debenture.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) where any party to the dispute has obtained a final decision from a Court of competent jurisdiction declaring him he entitled to such debenture, issue a renewed debenture in favour of such party;\n(b) refuse to renew the debenture until such a decision has been obtained; or\n(c) alter such inquiry as is hereinafter provided am on consideration of the result thereof, declare by order in waiting which of the parties is in his opinion entitled to such debenture and may, after the expiration of three months from the date of such declaration, issue a renewed debenture in favour of such party in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (1), unless, within that period he has received notice that proceedings have been instituted by any person in a Court of competent jurisdiction tor the purpose of establishing a title to such debenture.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 110 }, { "number": "110", "title": "110. Liability in respect of debentures renewed.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 111 }, { "number": "111", "title": "111. Discharge in certain cases.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) in the case of duplicate debenture after the lapse of six years from the date of the publication of the notification referred to in sub-section (3) of Section 108 or from the date of the last payment of interest on the original debenture whichever is later;\n(b) in the case of a renewed debenture alter the lapse of six years from the date of the issue thereof; and\n(c) in the case of payment of the principal sum without the issue of a duplicate debenture, after the lapse of six years from the date of the publication of the notification referred to in sub-section (3) of Section 108.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 112 }, { "number": "112", "title": "112. Indemnity.", "chapter": null, "content": "(1) issue a renewed debenture upon receiving such indemnity in favour of the Corporation and the Commissioner as he shall think fit against the claims of all persons claiming under the original debenture; or\n(2) refuse to issue a renewed debenture unless such indemnity is given.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 113 }, { "number": "113", "title": "113. Repayment of loans.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) by payment from a sinking fund established under Section 114 in respect of the loan; or\n(b) by equal payments of principal and interest; or\n(c) by equal payments or principal; or\n(d) in the case of a loan, borrowed before this Act comes into force by the method which was in operation for the repayment of such loan; or\n(e) from any sum borrowed under Section 102 (1) (iii); or\n(f) partly from the sinking fund established under Section 114 in respect of the loan and partly from money borrowed for the purpose under Section 102 (iii).", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 114 }, { "number": "114", "title": "114. Establishment and maintenance of sinking funds for such loans.", "chapter": null, "content": "Power to discontinue payment into the sinking fund.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 115 }, { "number": "115", "title": "115. Power of Corporation to consolidate loans.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 116 }, { "number": "116", "title": "116. Investment of sinking fund.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) Government securities; or\n(b) securities guaranteed by Government; or\n(c) municipal debentures of the City.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 117 }, { "number": "117", "title": "117. Power of Corporation to invest in its own debentures.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 118 }, { "number": "118", "title": "118. Application of sinking fund.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 119 }, { "number": "119", "title": "119. Provisions of loans raised by the municipality of the city.", "chapter": null, "content": "(i) if, when the loans were raised they were made repayable from sinking funds, the Corporation shall establish sinking funds for the repayment of the loans and shall pay into the funds such sums, on such dates as may have been fixed when the loans were raised;\n(ii) all securities and cash held by the Municipality in sinking fund, if any, established for the repayment of such loans, shall be transferred to the Corporation and shall be held by it as part of the sinking funds established under clause (i):\n(iii) the provisions of Section 114 shall apply to such sinking funds;\n(iv) if, when any such loans were raised, the loans were made repayable by equal payments of principal or by annual drawings, the Corporation shall make such payments or annual drawings on such dates and in such manner as may have been fixed when the loans were raised;\n(v) the provisions of Section 121 shall apply to such loans.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 120 }, { "number": "120", "title": "120. Annual examination of sinking funds.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 121 }, { "number": "121", "title": "121. Attachment of municipal fund in default of repayment of loan.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 122 }, { "number": "122", "title": "122. Attachment of municipal fund for securing payments.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 123 }, { "number": "123", "title": "123. Annual statement to be prepared by Commissioner.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the amount and date of borrowing of loans raised by the Corporation which are outstanding and the annual loan charges;\n(b) in the case of every loan for which a sinking fund has been established under Section 114, the accumulation in the sinking fund at the close of the year, showing separately the amount paid to the credit of the fund in the year;\n(c) the loans repaid during the year and in the case of loans repaid in instalments or by annual drawings, the amounts repaid during the year and the balance due at the close of the year;\n(d) the particulars of securities in which the sinking fund have been invested or which have been reserved for the investment of these funds.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 124 }, { "number": "124", "title": "124. Application of law relating to loans by local authorities.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter X\nAudit and Accounts", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 125 }, { "number": "125", "title": "125. Accounts of receipts and expenditure.", "chapter": null, "content": "[125A. Maintenance of Accounts.\n[125B. Preparation of Municipal Accounting Manual.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 126 }, { "number": "126", "title": "126. Transmission of Accounts to Government.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 127 }, { "number": "127", "title": "127. Annual administration report and statement of accounts by Corporation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 128 }, { "number": "128", "title": "128. Monthly abstract of accounts.", "chapter": null, "content": "[(3) Financial Statement.\n(4) Balance Sheet.\n[128A. Services to the Poor Fund.\n(i) all monies raised by any rent, tax, fine or cess on any person or any property situated in slum area;\n(ii) grant (s) received from the Central/State Government or any other agency for development of slum area;\n(iii) receipts under Section 292-B,\n(iv) monies received from any individual or association of individuals by way of grants or gifts or deposits for service to the poor;\n(v) all monies received by or on behalf of committee or any source specifically meant for this fund;\n(vi) any fund that may be transferred by the Commissioner from the Municipal Corporation fund under the specific major head of account to ensure adequate funds for meeting the purpose of this fund.]\n[128B.\n[128C. Utilization of Services to Poor Fund.\n(i) 20% of the total revenue income;\n(ii) 20% of the revenue expenditure; or\n(iii) 25% of the total capital expenditure, whichever is most is incurred on delivery of the services to the poor and the inhabitants of slum areas per annum.\n[128D.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 129 }, { "number": "129", "title": "129. Audit of municipal accounts.", "chapter": null, "content": "[129A. Submission of Financial Statement and Balance Sheet to Auditor.\n[129B. Power of Auditor.\n(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 documents 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 and fixed assets and infrastructure assets in course of examination of accounts.]", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 130 }, { "number": "130", "title": "130. Audit report.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) report to the Mayor-in-Council any material impropriety or irregularity which he may at any time observe in the expenditure or in the recovery of money due to the Corporation or in the municipal accounts;\n(b) Omitted\n[130A. Special Audit.\n[130B. Internal Audit.\n[130C. Social Audit.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 131 }, { "number": "131", "title": "131. Municipal authorities to remedy defects and report to Government.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 132 }, { "number": "131A", "title": "131A. Municipal Accounts Committee.", "chapter": null, "content": "[131B. Submission of audited accounts of State Government.\n[131C. Public Disclosure of Information.\nPart-IV\nChapter XI\nTaxation", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 133 }, { "number": "132", "title": "132. Taxes to be imposed under this Act.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) a tax payable by the owners of buildings or lands situated within the city with reference to the gross annual letting value of the buildings or lands, called the property tax, subject to the provisions of Sections 135, 136 and 138;\n(b) a water tax, in respect of lands and buildings to which a water supply is furnished from or which are connected by means of pipe with municipal water works;\n(c) a general sanitary cess, for the construction and maintenance of public latrines and for removal and disposal of refuse and general cleanliness of the city.\n(d) a general lighting tax, where the lighting of public streets and places is undertaken by the corporation;\n(e) a general fire tax, for the conduct and management of the fire service and for the protection of life and property in the case of fire;\n(f) a local body tax on the entry of such goods as may be declared by the State Government by notification in the Official Gazette into the municipal area for consumption, use or sale therein at a rate not exceeding four percent of the value of goods ;\n(i) brought by a person into the municipal area for his personal use or consumption; or\n(ii) brought by a registered dealer within the municipal area and transmitted within 15 days thereof-\n(a) to a registered dealer in any other local body; or\n(b) in the course of export out of the territory of India; or\n(c) in the course of inter-state trade outside the state.\n(iii) specified in the Schedule to the Chhattisgarh Sthaniya Kshctron Me Mal Ke Pravesh Par Kar Adhiniyam, 1976 (No. 52 of 1976).\n(a) on buildings and lands which are exempted from property tax, at a rate as shall be determined by the Corporation, x x x.\n(b) on buildings and lands which are not exempted from property tax, at a [x x x] rate as determined in clause (a) plus such percentage of the properly tax, as shall be determined by the Corporation :\n(a) on buildings and lands which are exempted from property tax at a rate as determined by the corporation [x x x]\n(b) (in buildings and lands which are not exempted from property tax at a rate prescribed under clause (a) plus such percentage of the property tax as may be determined by the Corporation.\n(a) a latrine or conservancy tax payable by the occupier or owner upon private latrines, privies or cesspools or open premises or compounds cleansed by Corporation agency:\n(b) a drainage tax, where a system of drainage has been introduced:\n(c) a tan on persons exercising any profession or art or carrying on any trade or calling within the city;\n(d-e) [x x x]\n(f) lees on the registration of cattle sold within the city;\n(g) market dues on persons exposing goods for sale in any market or in any place belonging to or under the control of the Government or of the Corporation;\n(h) a betterment tax on properties whose value may have improved as a result of town planning scheme undertaken by the Corporation;\n(i) a tax on pilgrims resorting periodically to a shrine within the limits of the Corporation;\n(j) a tax on persons occupying houses, buildings or lands within the limits of the Corporation according to their circumstances and property;\n(k) a toll on new bridge constructed by the Corporation;\n(l) a lax on advertisements other than advertisements published in newspapers;\n(m) a tax on theatres, theatrical performances and other shows for public amusement;\n(n) a terminal lax on goods or animals exported from the limits of the Corporation; and\n(o) any other tax which the State Government has power to impose under the Constitution of India, with the prior approval of the State Government.\n[132A. Imposition of User Charges.\n(a) when it introduces a new system or project for improved service delivery;\n(b) when a service is improved in terms of service levels.\n(a) water supply ;\n(b) drainage or sewerage disposal and/or treatment.\n(c) door-to-door collection of solid waste, and/or scientific system for disposal of municipal waste;\n(d) any other new service rendered by the Corporation.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 134 }, { "number": "133", "title": "133. Imposition of taxes and fees.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) impose any of the taxes or fees specified in this Act; or\n(b) increase the rales of taxes or fees already imposed.\n(a) in case of imposition of any tax or fees, the provisions under which such tax or fee is being imposed, class of persons or description of property to be taxed, the amount or rate of lax or fee being imposed, system of assessment and collection to be adopted and the date from which imposition of such tax or fee shall take effect;\n(b) in case of increase of rate of any tax or fee, the prevailing rate of such tax or fee, the proposed increased rate of such tax or fee and the date from which increase of rate of such tax or fee shall take effect.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 135 }, { "number": "133A", "title": "133A. Power to impose additional stamp duty on transfer of immovable property.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) property situated in the Corporation area;\n(b) property not situated in the Corporation area.\n[133B. Power of State Government to require Corporation to impose taxes.\n(a) the State Government shall take into consideration any objection which the Corporation or any inhabitant of the Municipal area may make against the imposition or enhancement of such tax;\n(b) it shall not be lawful for the Corporation to abandon or modify or to abolish such tax when imposed, without the sanction of the State Government;\n(c) the State Government may, at any time by notification, abolish or reduce the amount or rate of any tax levied or enhanced under this section and the levy of the tax or the enhancement except as to arrears thereto for accrued due, shall there upon cease or be modified accordingly.]", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 136 }, { "number": "134", "title": "134. Recovery of Taxes.", "chapter": null, "content": "(1) by presenting a bill;\n(2) by serving a written notice of demand;\n(3) by distraint and sale of movable property of the person concerned;\n(4) by attachment and sale of his immovable property;\n(5) in the case of octroi and toll, by the attachment and sale of goods and vehicles;\n(6) in the case of property tax, by the attachment of rent due in respect of the property [and/or attachment and sale of his movable and/or immovable property;]\n(7) by a suit.\nThe Property Tax\nImposition of Property Tax", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 137 }, { "number": "135", "title": "135. Imposition of property tax.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 138 }, { "number": "136", "title": "136. Exemptions.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) buildings and lands owned by or vesting in-\n(i) the Union Government;\n(ii) the State Government;\n(iii) the Corporation;\n[(b) all kutcha dwelling units having country title (Kawelu) roof and measuring not more than 500 square feet and all buildings and lands belonging to or occupied by the urban poor as may be exempted by the State Government through notification.]\n[(c) educational institutions of Government of India, State Government, Municipal Corporations, registered Charitable Trusts, educational institutions registered under Section 12A of the Income Tax Act, 1961, shall be wholly exempted and other educational institutions may be given a rebate of upto fifty percent of the property tax as assessed by the Corporation in accordance with norms that may be prescribed by the State Government.]\n(d) public parks and playgrounds which are open to the public and building and land attached thereto if the rent derived therefrom is exclusively spent for the administration of parks and playgrounds to which they are attached;\n(e) buildings and lands or portions thereof used exclusively for public worship or public charity such as mosques, temples, churches, dharmashalas, gurudwaras, hospitals, dispensaries, orphanages, alms houses, drinking water fountains, infirmaries for the treatment and care of animals and public burial grounds, or other places for the disposal of the deal:\n(i) buildings in, or lands on, which any trade or business is carried on unless the rent derived from such buildings or lands is applied exclusively to religious purposes or to public charitable institutions aforesaid;\n(ii) buildings or lands in respect of which rent is derived and such rent is not applied exclusively to religious purposes or public charitable institutions aforesaid;\n[(f) buildings and lands owned by widows or minors or persons with disability as defined under the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 (1 of 1996), to the extent as may be prescribed.]\n(g) buildings and lands owned by freedom lighters, retired members of Defence Services and their widows during their life time if they are exempted from income tax;\n[(h) buildings and lands owned by blind persons and abandoned women, to the extent as may be prescribed.]\n(i) buildings and lands in occupation of owner for his residence shall be exempted from property tax to the extent of fifty percent.\n[***] .\n(k) property owned by such political party in the State which has been recognised by the Election Commission of India.\n[137. Discount on property tax.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 139 }, { "number": "138", "title": "138. Annual letting value of land or building.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 140 }, { "number": "139", "title": "139. Requisition of name of owner.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 141 }, { "number": "140", "title": "140. Treatment of property which is let to two or more persons in separate occupancies.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 142 }, { "number": "141", "title": "141. Responsibility for payment of property tax.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 143 }, { "number": "142", "title": "142. Employment for the purposes of assessment.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 144 }, { "number": "143", "title": "143. Assessment of annual value and duration of assessment.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 145 }, { "number": "144", "title": "144. Returns for purposes of valuation.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) as to the name and place of abode of the owner or occupier, or of both the owner and occupier of such land or building; and\n(b) as to the measurement or the gross annual rent or revenue or the description or other specified details or the actual cost or estimated market value of such land or building.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 146 }, { "number": "145", "title": "145. Public notice and inspection of valuation.", "chapter": null, "content": "(2) Time for filing complaints against valuation.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 147 }, { "number": "146", "title": "146. Notice when valuation made for the first time is increased.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 148 }, { "number": "147", "title": "147. Notice of objection of valuation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 149 }, { "number": "148", "title": "148. Investigation of objections by Commissioner.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 150 }, { "number": "149", "title": "149. Appeals to District Courts.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 151 }, { "number": "150", "title": "150. Valuation when to be final.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 152 }, { "number": "151", "title": "151. Keeping of municipal Assessment list.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the serial number of each set of premises;\n(b) the description of each set of premises;\n(c) the name and place of abode of the owner and the name of the occupier;\n(d) the amount of the valuation;\n(e) the amount payable on account of the property tax;\n(f) any exemption granted from payment of the said tax: and\n(g) such other particulars as the Commissioner may direct.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 153 }, { "number": "152", "title": "152. Authentication of assessment list when all objections have been disposed of.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 154 }, { "number": "153", "title": "153. Power of Commissioner to amend assessment list.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 155 }, { "number": "154", "title": "154. Notice of increase of rent.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 156 }, { "number": "155", "title": "155. Notice to be given to Commissioner of demolition or removal of a building.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 157 }, { "number": "156", "title": "156. Failure to give notice of increase of rent.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 158 }, { "number": "157", "title": "157. Period for which revised valuation to continue in force.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 159 }, { "number": "158", "title": "158. Payment of property tax how affected by objection to valuations.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 160 }, { "number": "159", "title": "159. Refund of excess payment.", "chapter": null, "content": "Supplemental Provisions", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 161 }, { "number": "160", "title": "160. Commissioner to supply copies on payment.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 162 }, { "number": "161", "title": "161. Tax not invalid for defect of form.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) any mistake-\n(i) in the name, residence, place of business or occupation of any person liable to pay the tax; or\n(ii) in the description of any property or thing liable to the tax; or\n(iv) in the amount of tax assessed; or\n(b) any clerical error; or\n(c) any other defect of form.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 163 }, { "number": "162", "title": "162. Power of the Corporation in regard to taxes.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) abolish, suspend or reduce the rate of any tax; or\n(b) exempt from the payment of any such tax in whole or in part any person or any class of persons or any property or class of property.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 164 }, { "number": "163", "title": "163. Power of the Government in regard to taxes.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 165 }, { "number": "163A", "title": "163A. Creation of Infrastructure Development Fund.", "chapter": null, "content": "164.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 166 }, { "number": "165", "title": "165. Duty of furnishing true information regarding liability to municipal taxation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 167 }, { "number": "166", "title": "166. Duty of occupier to furnish true information regarding owner's name and address.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 168 }, { "number": "167", "title": "167. Notice of transfer of title, when to be given.", "chapter": null, "content": "(ii) The said period of fifteen days shall be counted from the date of the completion or of the occupation, whichever first occurs, of the building which has been newly erected or re-built, or of the enlargement, as the case may be, and in the case of a building which has been vacant, from the dale of the re-occupation thereof.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 169 }, { "number": "168", "title": "168. Power of entry for the purpose of valuation of taxation.", "chapter": null, "content": "(1) to enter, inspect and measure any building for the purpose of valuation;\n(2) to enter and inspect any stable, coach house or other place where there is reason to believe that there is any vehicle or animal liable to taxation under this Act or for which a licence has not been duly taken out.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 170 }, { "number": "169", "title": "169. Power to examine article liable to toll or cess on imports.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) permit the officer or servant to inspect, examine, weigh and otherwise deal with the article; and\n(b) communicate to the officer any information and exhibit to him any bill, invoice or document of a like nature which such person may possess relating to the article.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 171 }, { "number": "170", "title": "170. Power to search where toll or cess on imports is leviable.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 172 }, { "number": "171", "title": "171. Punishment for evading payment of toll or cess.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 173 }, { "number": "172", "title": "172. Extension of taxation limits by agreement.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter XII\nRecovery of Corporation's Claims", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 174 }, { "number": "173", "title": "173. Presentation of bill for taxes and other demands.", "chapter": null, "content": "(2) Contents of hill.\n(a) the period for which; and\n(b) the property, occupation or thing in respect of which the sum is claimed,\n(i) the liability incurred in default of payment; and\n(ii) the time within which an objection may be preferred as against such claim.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 175 }, { "number": "174", "title": "174. If bill not paid within 15 days notice of demand to issue.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 176 }, { "number": "175", "title": "175. In what case warrant may issue.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) pay the sum demanded in the notice; or\n(b) show-cause to the satisfaction of the Commissioner why he should not pay the same; or\n(c) prefer an appeal in accordance with the provisions of Section 184 against the demand,\n(i) by distress and sale of the movable property belonging to such person;\n(ii) by attachment and sale of the immovable property belonging to him :", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 177 }, { "number": "176", "title": "176. Power of Corporation to remit certain fees.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 178 }, { "number": "177", "title": "177. Power of officer to break open door or window.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) if he has a reasonable ground for believing that such building contains property which is liable to such distress; and\n(b) if after notifying his authority and purpose and duly demanding admittance, he cannot otherwise obtain admittance :", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 179 }, { "number": "178", "title": "178. Warrant how to be executed.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the following property shall not be distrained-\n(i) the necessary wearing apparel, cooking utensils and bedding of the defaulter and members of his family;\n(ii) the tools of artisans;\n(iii) when the defaulter is an agriculturist, his implements of husbandry, seed, grain, and such cattle as may be necessary to enable him to earn his livelihood;\n(b) the distress shall not be excessive, that is to say, the property distrained shall be as nearly as possible equal in value to the amount recoverable under the warrant, and if any property has been distrained which, in the opinion of the Commissioner or of the person to whom the warrant was addressed, should not have been so distrained, it shall forthwith be returned to the person from whom it was distrained;\n(c) the officer shall on distraining the property forthwith make in the presence of two witnesses an inventory of the property which he distrains under such warrant, and shall at the same time give a written notice in the prescribed form or in a form to the like effect along with a copy of such inventory to the person in possession thereof at the time of distraint that such property will be sold as therein mentioned;\n(d) when the property is immovable-\n(i) the attachment shall be made by an order prohibiting the defaulter from transferring or charging the property in any way and all persons from taking any benefit from such transfer or charge;\n(ii) the order shall be proclaimed at some place on or adjacent to the property by beat of drum or other customary mode, and a copy of the order shall be affixed on a conspicuous part of the property and upon a conspicuous part of the Corporation office, and also when the property is land paying revenue to the Government, in the office of the Collector;\n(e) any transfer of or charge on the property attached or any interest therein made subsequent to such attachment, and without the written permission of the Commissioner shall be void as against all claims of the Corporation enforceable under the attachment.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 180 }, { "number": "179", "title": "179. Sale of goods distrained in special cases.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 181 }, { "number": "180", "title": "180. Attachment of rent due.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 182 }, { "number": "181", "title": "181. Sale outside the city.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 183 }, { "number": "182", "title": "182. Fees and costs chargeable.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 184 }, { "number": "183", "title": "183. Summary proceedings may be taken against persons about to leave the city.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 185 }, { "number": "184", "title": "184. Appeals.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) a written objection has been made and determined in accordance with the provisions of this Act; and\n(b) the amount claimed from the appellant has been deposited by him in the Corporation office, and a receipt thereof has been filed with a memo of appeal.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 186 }, { "number": "185", "title": "185. Liability of buildings, lands, etc. for taxes.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 187 }, { "number": "186", "title": "186. Receipt to be taken fur all payments.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 188 }, { "number": "187", "title": "187. Writing off irrecoverable taxes.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 189 }, { "number": "188", "title": "188. Recovery of toll and cess on imports.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 190 }, { "number": "189", "title": "189. Taxation not to be questioned except under this Act.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 191 }, { "number": "189A", "title": "189A. Recovery of taxes by public auction or private contract.", "chapter": null, "content": "Part-V\nPublic Health, Safety and Convenience\nChapter XIII\nPublic Convenience\nMunicipal Drains", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 192 }, { "number": "190", "title": "190. Cleansing drains.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 193 }, { "number": "191", "title": "191. Places for emptying of drains and disposal of sewage.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 194 }, { "number": "192", "title": "192. Provision of means for disposal of sewage.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) construct any work within or without, the limits of the Corporation;\n(b) purchase or take on lease any land, building, engine, material or apparatus, cither within or without the limits of the Corporation; and\n(c) enter into an arrangements with any person, for a period not exceeding three years, for the removal or disposal of sewage within or without the limits of the Corporation.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 195 }, { "number": "193", "title": "193. Alteration and discontinuance of drains.", "chapter": null, "content": "Drains and Privies", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 196 }, { "number": "194", "title": "194. Latrines and urinals.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 197 }, { "number": "195", "title": "195. Provision of drains, privies etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) any drain, privy, latrine, urinal, absorption pit, disposal work, cess pools or other receptacle for filth or refuse may be moved or removed;\n(b) any privy or cess pool or additional privies or cess pools should be provided in or on any building or land or that in any Municipal Corporation in which a water closet system has been introduced such water closets should be substituted for the existing privies in or on any building of land, or that additional water closet should be provided theirin or thereon; or\n(c) Pour-water Hush latrines or any other type of latrines should he substituted for the existing service latrines in any building or on land within the limits of Corporation,\n(i) in cases falling under clause (a) to move or remove such drain, privy, latrine, urinal, absorption pit, disposal work, cess pools or other receptacle for filth or refuse;\n(ii) in cases falling under clause (b) to provide such privies, cess pools, or water closets;\n(iii) in cases falling under clause (c), to close service latrines and provide in their place, pour water Hush latrines or such other types of latrines, as may be specified in the notices, at such sites and within such period as may he specified in the notice or within such period as may be extended by the Commissioner by order in writing.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 198 }, { "number": "196", "title": "196. Repair and closing of drains, privies, latrines, urinals, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 199 }, { "number": "197", "title": "197. Power of Commissioner to demolish drains, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 200 }, { "number": "198", "title": "198. Unauthorised building over drains, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 201 }, { "number": "199", "title": "199. Removal of latrine, etc., near any source of water supply.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 202 }, { "number": "200", "title": "200. Discharging sewage.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 203 }, { "number": "201", "title": "201. Making or altering drains without authority.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 204 }, { "number": "202", "title": "202. Power to require removal of nuisance arising from tanks and the like.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 205 }, { "number": "203", "title": "203. New building not to be erected without drains.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) a drain has been constructed which, in the opinion of the Commissioner, shall be sufficient for the effectual drainage of such building to such municipal drain or place; and\n(b) there have been provided for and set up in such building and in the premises appurtenant thereto, all such appliances and fittings as may appear to the Commissioner to be necessary for the purpose of gathering and receiving the drainage from, and conveying the same off, the said building and effectually Hushing the drain of the said building and every fixture connected therewith.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 206 }, { "number": "204", "title": "204. Sewage and rain water drains to be distinct.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 207 }, { "number": "205", "title": "205. Rights of owners and occupiers of premises to carry drains through lands belonging to other persons.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) cause the work to be executed with the least practicable delay;\n(b) fill in, reinstate and make good at his own cost and with the least practicable delay, the ground or portion of any building or other construction opened, broken up or removed for the purpose of executing the said work; and\n(c) pay compensation to any person who sustains damage by the execution of the said work.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 208 }, { "number": "206", "title": "206. Obligation of owner of drain to allow use of or joint ownership therein to others.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 209 }, { "number": "207", "title": "207. How right of use or joint ownership of a drain may be obtained by a person other than the owner.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 210 }, { "number": "208", "title": "208. Commissioner may authorise person other than the owner of a drain to use the same or declare him to be a joint owner thereof.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) connecting the two drains; or\n(b) renewing, repairing or altering the connection; or\n(c) discharging any responsibility attaching to the person in whose favour the Commissioner's order is made for maintaining, repairing, Hushing or cleaning the joint drains or any part thereof.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 211 }, { "number": "209", "title": "209. Power of Commissioner to drain premises in combination.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the nature of the intended work;\n(b) the estimated expenses thereof; and\n(c) the proportion of such expenses payable by each owner.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 212 }, { "number": "210", "title": "210. Connecting drains to be constructed at the expenses of owners of premises.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) vest in the owner of such premises;\n(b) be maintained and kept in repair by the owner or occupier of such premises; and\n(c) be from time to time Hushed, cleansed and emptied under the orders of the Commissioner at the cost of the municipal fund :", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 213 }, { "number": "211", "title": "211. Affixing of pipes for ventilation of drains.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) be carried at least fifteen feet higher than any skylight or window situated within a distance of forty feet therefrom;\n(b) if the same be fixed to a wall supporting the eaves of a roof, be carried at least five feet higher than such eaves; and\n(c) be removed by the Commissioner to some other place, if at any time the owner of the aforesaid premises, building Or tree is desirous of effecting any change in his property which cannot without unreasonable inconvenience be carried out unless the shaft or pipe is removed.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 214 }, { "number": "212", "title": "212. Right of Corporation to drains constructed at charge of municipal fund.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter XIV\nConservancy", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 215 }, { "number": "213", "title": "213. Deposit of rubbish, offensive matter, sewage and carcasses.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 216 }, { "number": "214", "title": "214. Collection and removal of sewage.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 217 }, { "number": "215", "title": "215. Collection and temporary deposit of rubbish and offensive matter by occupiers of premises.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 218 }, { "number": "216", "title": "216. Prohibition of accumulations of offensive matter.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) shall throw or place or cause to be thrown or placed any rubbish, offensive matter or sewage, on any street, or in any place not provided or appointed for the purpose under the provisions of this Act;\n(b) who is the owner or occupier of any land or building shall allow any sewage or offensive matter to flow, soak or be thrown therefrom, or keep or suffer to be kept therein or thereupon, anything so as to be nuisance to any person, or negligently suffer any receptacle or place for deposit of offensive matter or rubbish on his premises to be in such a state as to be offensive or injurious to health.\nChapter XV\nSanitary Provisions\nRegulations of Public Bathing, Washing, etc.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 219 }, { "number": "217", "title": "217. Construction of places for public bathing, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) set apart suitable places for use by the public for bathing or for washing animals, or for washing or drying clothes or other material;\n(b) specify the times at which and the sex of persons by whom such places may be used;\n(c) prohibit, by public notice, the use by the public, tor any of the said purposes, of any place not so set apart; and\n(d) charge fees for the use of such place by any specified class or classes of persons or by the public generally.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 220 }, { "number": "218", "title": "218. Prohibition of corruption of water by steeping therein animal or other matter.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) steep in any bank, reservoir, stream, well, trough or ditch any animal, vegetable or mineral matter likely to render the water thereof, offensive or dangerous to health;\n(b) while suffering from any contagious, infectious or loathsome disease, bath in or near any lake, tank, reservoir, fountain, cistern, duct, standpipe, stream, well or trough, or any part of a river within the limits of the Corporation or within five miles upstream from the Corporation boundary.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 221 }, { "number": "219", "title": "219. Regulation of washing of clothes by washermen.", "chapter": null, "content": "(2) Washing places to be provided by Commissioner for washermen.\nChapter XVI\nWater Supply", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 222 }, { "number": "220", "title": "220. General powers for supplying the city with water.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) construct and maintain waterworks and do all acts which may be necessary or expedient in connection with such construction or maintenance;\n(b) purchase or take on lease any water work or any water or right to store water or to take and convey water; or\n(c) enter into any arrangement with any person for the supply of water :", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 223 }, { "number": "221", "title": "221. Supply of water.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 224 }, { "number": "222", "title": "222. Making connections with municipal water works.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 225 }, { "number": "223", "title": "223. Obligation of owner or occupier to give notice of waste of water.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 226 }, { "number": "224", "title": "224. Responsibility for damage caused by leakage of water.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 227 }, { "number": "225", "title": "225. Cutting off water supply to premises.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 228 }, { "number": "226", "title": "226. Presumption as to correctness of meter.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 229 }, { "number": "227", "title": "227. Injuring water works misappropriating water and tampering with meters.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) wilfully or negligently injure or suffer to be injured wells, reservoirs, mains, pipes or other appliances for the supply of water under the management of control of the Corporation;\n(b) draw off, divert or take any water from any municipal well, reservoir, main, or pipe, except in accordance with direction made in this behalf; or\n(c) tamper with any meter under the management or control of the Corporation.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 230 }, { "number": "228", "title": "228. Misuse of and leaving open valves and tampering with valves and hydrants.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) open or keep open the valves of any water-works used for the supply of water to the public by any means other than the use of pressure by the hand; or\n(b) having opened such valve, fail to close the same or leave the same open or tamper with any valve or hydrant not intended for the supply of water to the public.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 231 }, { "number": "229", "title": "229. Prohibition of erection of any building which would injure sources of water supply.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) erect any building of any purpose whatever on any part of the area enclosed by the boundary-fence of any lake or reservoir from which supply of water is derived for a municipal water-work; or\n(b) remove, alter-injure, damage or in any way interfere with the aforesaid boundary-fence.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 232 }, { "number": "230", "title": "230. Prohibition of bathing in or polluting water.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) bathe in or near any water-works belonging to the corporation; or\n(b) wash, throw, or cause any animal to enter into the water of such works; or\n(c) throw any rubbish, dirt, filth or any other thing whatsoever into the water of such works;\n(d) wash or cleanse therein any cloth, wool, leather or skin of any animal or any clothes or other things;\n(e) cause the water of any sink, drain, steam engine, boiler or other filthy water belonging to him or under his control, to run, percolate or be brought, into any such waterworks or do any other act whereby the water in such works may be fouled or polluted or its quality altered.\nChapter XVII\nGeneral Provisions with Reference to Drainage, Water Supply and Water and other Mains", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 233 }, { "number": "231", "title": "231. Occupier of premises to be primarily liable for certain offences against the Act.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 234 }, { "number": "232", "title": "232. Least practicable nuisance to be caused.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 235 }, { "number": "233", "title": "233. Power of carrying wires, pipes, drains, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 236 }, { "number": "234", "title": "234. Provision as to wires, pipes or drains laid or carried about surface or ground.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 237 }, { "number": "235", "title": "235. Previous notice to be given.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 238 }, { "number": "236", "title": "236. Connection with main not to be made without permission of Commissioner.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 239 }, { "number": "237", "title": "237. Power of Commissioner to require the owner to make provision for drainage.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 240 }, { "number": "238", "title": "238. Power to establish meters and the like.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 241 }, { "number": "239", "title": "239. Communications and connections, etc., to be executed subject to inspection by and to the satisfaction of the Commissioner.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 242 }, { "number": "240", "title": "240. Power of Commissioner to fix scale of charges.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 243 }, { "number": "241", "title": "241. Troughs and pipes for water and soilage.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) require any Court-yard, alley or passage between two or more buildings to be paved by the owner or part-owner or owners or part-owners of such buildings with such materials and in such manner as may be approved by the Commissioner; and\n(b) require such paving to be kept in proper repair.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 244 }, { "number": "242", "title": "242. Control by Corporation and the Mayor-in-Council.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 245 }, { "number": "243", "title": "243. Buildings not to be erected without permission over drains or water or airmains.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 246 }, { "number": "243A", "title": "243A. Control by Government.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 247 }, { "number": "244", "title": "244. Power of access to municipal water-works.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) enter upon and pass through any land whether within or without the city adjacent to or in the vicinity of such a drainage or sewage scheme or such water-works in whomsoever such land may vest;\n(b) alter giving not less than two days' written notice to the occupiers, cause to be conveyed into and through any such land, all necessary men, materials, tools and implements.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 248 }, { "number": "245", "title": "245. Compensation of damage.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter XVIII\nPublic Health and Safety\nRegulation of Factories and Trades", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 249 }, { "number": "246", "title": "246. Factories not to be established, etc. without permission of Commissioner.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) newly established; or\n(b) remove from one place to another; or\n(c) re-open or renew after discontinuance for a period not less than three years; or\n(d) enlarge or extend the area, or dimensions of any factory, workshop or bakery in any area, other than an area set apart for the accommodation of industries by an Ad, for the time being in force or by any local authority,", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 250 }, { "number": "247", "title": "247. Sanitary regulation of factories, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 251 }, { "number": "248", "title": "248. Regulations of dangerous and offensive trades.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) store or keep in premises any articles mentioned in any bye-laws made under this Act as dangerous or offensive, or as being, or likely to be a nuisance to the public, or dangerous to life, health or property;\n(b) store or keep in any premises the hide or any part of the carcass of any animal afflicted at the time of its death with infectious or contagious disease; or\n(c) carry on or allow to be carried on any premises any trade, manufacture, industry or operation mentioned in any bye-laws under this Act as dangerous to life, health or property or as likely to create a nuisance, either from its nature or by reason of the manner in which the conditions under which the same may be carried on :", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 252 }, { "number": "249", "title": "249. Premises not to be used for certain purposes without a licence.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) carrying on within the city the trade or operations of a farrier;\n(b) keeping articles in excess of the maximum laid down for such articles by the bye-laws;\n(c) keeping any article which, except for domestic purposes, is prohibited by any bye-laws;\n(d) keeping m or upon any building used or intended to be used as a dwelling house or within fifteen feet of such building any quantity of cotton in excess of such quantity as may be prescribed by bye-laws in this behalf;\n(e) keeping horses, cattle or other four-footed animals for sale or hire or for the sake of the produce thereof, or for any purpose for which any charge or remuneration is made or received;\n(f) carrying on any of the prescribed trades or operations connected therewith, or any trade or operation which in the opinion of the Commissioner is dangerous to life, health or properly, or likely to create a nuisance either from its nature or by reason of the manner in which, or the conditions under which, it is carried on.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 253 }, { "number": "250", "title": "250. Prohibition of corruption of water by chemicals, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) wilfully cause or suffer to be brought or to flow into any lake, tank, reservoir,- cistern, well, duct or other place for storing water belonging to the Corporation, or into any drain or pipe communicating therewith, any washing or other substance produced in the course of any such trade or manufacture as aforesaid; or\n(b) wilfully do any act connected with such trade or manufacture whereby the water in any such lake, tank, reservoir, cistern, well duct or other place for storing water is fouled or corrupted.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 254 }, { "number": "251", "title": "251. Inspection of premises used for manufactures, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 255 }, { "number": "252", "title": "252. Prohibition of cinematographs and dramatic performance except in licensed premises.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter XIX\nMarkets and Slaughter Places", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 256 }, { "number": "253", "title": "253. Power of Corporation to permit opening of new private markets.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 257 }, { "number": "254", "title": "254. Private markets not to be kept open without a licence.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 258 }, { "number": "255", "title": "255. Selling animals, meat, etc. outside a market without a licence.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 259 }, { "number": "256", "title": "256. Power of Corporation to regulate the manufacture, preparation and sale of food and drinks.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) prohibit the manufacture, sale or preparation or exposure for sale, of any specified article of food or drink, in any place or premises not licenced by the Corporation;\n(b) regulate the hours and manner of transport of any specified articles of food or drink within the City and prescribe the route by which such articles shall be carried;\n(c) prohibit the sale of milk, butter, ghee, curd, meat, game, fish, and poultry by persons not licensed by the Corporation;\n(d) prohibit the import by persons not licensed by the Corporation of milk, cream, butter, ghee, curd, meat, game, fish and poultry within the City for sale;\n(e) provide for the grant and withdrawal of licences and the levying of fees thereof under this section :", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 260 }, { "number": "257", "title": "257. Places for slaughter of animals for sale.", "chapter": null, "content": "(b) Any police officer may arrest without warrant any person bringing into the city any flesh in contravention of sub-clause (a).", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 261 }, { "number": "258", "title": "258. Disposal of dead animals.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) convey the carcass to the place fixed by the Corporation for the disposal of dead animals or to any place at least one mile beyond the limits of the city; or\n(b) give notice of the death to the Commissioner who shall cause the carcass to be disposed of.\nChapter XX\nFood, Drink, Drug and Dangerous Articles", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 262 }, { "number": "259", "title": "259. Prohibition of sale of diseased animals or unwholesome articles intended for human consumption.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 263 }, { "number": "260", "title": "260. Prohibition of adulterants in places where butter, ghee, etc. are manufactured or stored.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 264 }, { "number": "261", "title": "261. Prohibition of sale of certain articles which are not of the prescribed standard of purety.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 265 }, { "number": "262", "title": "262. Substitutes.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 266 }, { "number": "263", "title": "263. Prohibition of sale, etc., food or drink not of the nature, substance or quality of the article as represented.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) where any matter or ingredient not injurious to health has been added to any article of food or drink in order to facilitate the production or preparation of the same as an article of commerce in a state fit for carriage or consumption, and not fraudulently to increase the bulk, weight or measure of the article or to conceal the inferior quality thereof; or\n(b) where any article of food or drink is unavoidably mixed with some extraneous matter in the process of collection or preparation.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 267 }, { "number": "264", "title": "264. Licence required for dealing in milk, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) carry on within the limits of the city the trade or business of a dealer in milk or milk products or of an importer, vendor or hawker of the same, or a dairyman; or\n(b) use any place as a dairy or cattle pen or for the sale of milk or milk products.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 268 }, { "number": "265", "title": "265. Provisions relating to prosecution.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the Court shall, until the contrary is proved, presume that any animals, food, drink, drug or substitute therefor found in the possession of a person who is in the habit of selling that class of animal or of manufacturing, storing or selling such articles, was being kept, manufactured or stored for sale by such person;\n(b) no such person shall plead that he was ignorant that the animal, foods, drink, drug or a substitute was diseased, unsound, unwholesome, unfit for human consumption or adultered or did not fulfill the conditions specified, or was substitute, as the case may be;\n(c) no offence shall be deemed to have been committed where such person proves to the satisfaction of the Court that he obtained the food, drink, drug or substitute under a warranty from the person manufacturing it within the city or importing it within the same that the food, drink, drug or substitute had not been adulterated, or that it fulfilled the conditions specified or that it was not a substitute and that he had no reason to believe otherwise or had no reasonable ground for believing that by lapse of time or otherwise the warranty no longer held good.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 269 }, { "number": "266", "title": "266. Liability of warrantors.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 270 }, { "number": "267", "title": "267. Inspection of place for sale of food or drink and seizure of unwholesome articles or utensils found therein.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 271 }, { "number": "267", "title": "268. Destruction of animals and articles seized under Section 267.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 272 }, { "number": "267", "title": "269. Taking before Magistrate of animals and articles seized under Section 267.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 273 }, { "number": "270", "title": "270. Food, drink, or drugs directed to be destroyed deemed to be the property of the Corporation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 274 }, { "number": "271", "title": "271. Application of provisions of this Chapter to other articles.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter XXI\nOn Restraint of Infection", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 275 }, { "number": "272", "title": "272. Information to be given of existence of dangerous disease.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) being a medical practitioner or a person openly and constantly becoming cognisant of the existence of any dangerous disease in any dwelling other than a public hospital; or\n(b) being the owner or occupier of such dwelling and becoming cognisant of the existence of any such disease therein; or\n(c) being the person in charge of, or in attendance on, any person suffering from any disease in such dwelling, and becoming cognisant of the existence of the disease therein :", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 276 }, { "number": "273", "title": "273. Power of Health Officer to inspect places and take measures to prevent spread of dangerous disease.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 277 }, { "number": "274", "title": "274. Prohibition of use for drinking or for other domestic purposes of water likely to cause dangerous disease.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 278 }, { "number": "275", "title": "275. Power of Health Officer to remove patient to hospital in certain cases.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the removal shall be effected in such a way as to preserve her privacy;\n(b) special accommodation suited to such custom shall be provided for her in such hospital or place;\n(c) she shall, if she so desires, be treated therein by woman only; and\n(d) her female relatives shall be allowed to remain with her.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 279 }, { "number": "276", "title": "276. Power of Health Officer to disinfect building, tank, pool or well.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 280 }, { "number": "277", "title": "277. Power of Health Officer to destroy huts and sheds.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 281 }, { "number": "278", "title": "278. Infected building nut to be let without being first disinfected.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) unless the Health Officer has disinfected the same and has granted a certificate to that effect; and\n(b) until a date specified in such certificate as that on which the building or part may be occupied without causing risk of infection.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 282 }, { "number": "279", "title": "279. Provision of places for disinfection, washing or destruction of infected articles and power of Commissioner to disinfect or destroy such articles.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) free of charge; or\n(b) in its discretion, on payment of such fees as it may from time to time fix in this behalf.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 283 }, { "number": "280", "title": "280. Infected articles not to be transmitted, etc., without previous disinfection.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 284 }, { "number": "281", "title": "281. Restriction of carriage of patient or dead body in public conveyance.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) previously notifying to the owner, driver, or person in charge of such conveyance that he or it is so infected; and\n(b) taking proper precautions against the spreading of such disease.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 285 }, { "number": "282", "title": "282. Disinfection of public conveyance after carriage of patient or dead body.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 286 }, { "number": "283", "title": "283. Power of Corporation to provide special conveyance for patient or dead body.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 287 }, { "number": "284", "title": "284. Destruction of huts or sheds when necessary.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 288 }, { "number": "285", "title": "285. Power of Corporation to take special measures on outbreak of dangerous disease or infectious epizootic disease.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) take such special measures; and\n(b) by public notice, prescribe such temporary rules to be observed by the public or by any person or class of persons as it may deem necessary to prevent the outbreak of such diseases or the spread thereof.\nChapter XXII\nDisposal of the Dead", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 289 }, { "number": "286", "title": "286. Provision of new places for disposal of the dead.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) if it has never previously been lawfully used for the purpose; or\n(b) if having been formerly so used it is no longer so used.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 290 }, { "number": "287", "title": "287. Power of Government to direct the closing of any place for the disposal of the dead.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 291 }, { "number": "287", "title": "288. Power of Government to direct re-opening of place closed under Section 287 or other enactment.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 292 }, { "number": "289", "title": "289. Prohibition of certain acts without the permission of Commissioner.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) make any vault, grave or interment within any wall, or underneath any passage, porch, portico, plinth or verandah, or any place of worship;\n(b) make any interment or otherwise dispose of any corpse in tiny place which is closed for the disposal of the dead under Section 287; or\n(c) 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, tiny corpse, at any place other than a place for the disposal of the dead; or\n(d) exhume any body from any place for the disposal of the dead, except under the provisions of Section 176 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, or of any other enactment for the time being in force.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 293 }, { "number": "290", "title": "290. Routes for removal of corpses.", "chapter": null, "content": "Part-VI\nLands, Buildings and Streets\nChapter XXIII\nTown Planning", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 294 }, { "number": "291", "title": "291. Town planning scheme.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) a direction that in any street, portion of a street or locality specified in the Scheme the elevation and construction of the frontage of all buildings thereafter erected or re-erected shall, in respect of their architectural features, be such as may be fixed for the locality; .\n(b) a direction that in any street, portion of a street or locality specified in the scheme, there shall be allowed the construction only detached or semi-detached buildings or both, and that the land appurtenant to each building shall be of an area not less than that specified in the scheme;\n(c) a direction that in any street, portion of a street or locality specified in the scheme, the construction of more than a specified number of houses on each acre of land shall not be allowed;\n(d) a direction that in any street, portion of a street or locality specified in the scheme, the construction of shops, warehouses, factories, huts or buildings of a specified architectural character or buildings designed for particular purpose shall not be allowed;\n(e) a street line and a building line on either side or on both sides of any street existing or proposed;\n(f) a standard plan, either for the division of land into building sites, or for the location of buildings with a building site;\n(g) the amount of land which shall be transferred to the Corporation for public purposes and public streets by owners of land on payment of compensation;\n(h) the prohibition of building operations permanently or temporarily when the reason of the situation or nature of the land, the erection of buildings thereon would be likely to involve danger or injury to health, or excessive expenditure of public money in the provision of roads, sewers, water-supply or other public services;\n(i) regulating, in the interest of safety, the height and portion of proposed walls, fences or hedges near the corner or bends of streets;\n(j) limiting the number of prescribing the sites of new roads entering a highway maintained by the government;\n(k) regulating, in respect of the erectain of any building intended to be used for purposes of business or industry, the provision of accommodation for loading, unloading or fuelling vehicles with a view to prevention of obstruction of traffic on any highway; and\n(l) a direction that in any street, portion of a street or locality specified in the scheme, the use of land for any purpose even though not involving the erection of building shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this section with respect of buildings.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 295 }, { "number": "292", "title": "292. Restriction on Corporation's power to undertake town planning scheme.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter XXIII-A\nColonization\n[292A. Registration of Coloniser or builder.\n(a) as a colonizer intends to undertake the establishment of a colony or colonies in the area of Municipal Corporation for the purpose of dividing the land into plots, with or without developing the area, transfers or agrees to transfer gradually or at a time, to person desirous of settling down on those plots by constructing residential or non-residential or composite accommodation; or\n(b) as a builder constructs or causes to be constructed on any land in a municipal area, whether held by him or any other person, independent buildings or a single building with apartments; or converts or causes to be converted an existing building or any part of such building into apartments, for the purpose of transfer by sale or otherwise all or some of them to persons other than members of his family and includes his assignees shall apply to the Commissioner for the grant of a Registration Certificate.\n[292B. Development of Colonies.\n(a) In every residential colony in the municipal area, out of the total area fifteen percent of the land shall have to be transferred by the colonizer to the Commissioner for economically weaker sections on such terms and in such manner as may be prescribed.\n(b) In respect of land on which the Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Act, 1976 was applicable, the colonizer shall have to transfer land to the Commissioner as required under clause (a).\n(c) Where the colony is proposed on a small piece of land area of which is less than one acre, the colonizer shall have the option of depositing into the \"Service to Poor Fund\" of the Municipal Corporation constituted in terms of Section 128-C, fee at such rate as may be prescribed.\n[292C. Punishment for Illegal Colonization.\n[292D. Punishment for abetment of the offence of illegal diversion of land or illegal colonization.\n(a) Being an officer having power to sanction layout or sanction a map for the construction of a building grants sanction or approves such layout or the map; or\n(b) Being an officer or the authority competent to sanction electrical or water supply connection grants such sanction with respect to the building in such area; or\n(c) Being an officer under a primary duty to do so knowingly omits to report illegal diversion of land; or\n(d) Being an officer or an employee responsible to take action against the illegal diversion of land, fails to take action; or\n(e) Illegally influences the officers aforesaid in granting such sanction or in omitting to make a report of such illegal diversion of land;\n[292E.\n[292F. Commissioner to take over the management of the land of Illegal Colonization.\n[\n292G. Forfeiture of the land involved in illegal colonization.\n[292H. Punishment for not taking action against illegal colonization.\n[292I. Colonizer's Responsibility towards Consumers.\nChapter XXIV\nBuilding Control", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 296 }, { "number": "293", "title": "293. Prohibition of erection or re-erection of buildings without permission.", "chapter": null, "content": "(i) erect or re-erect any building; or\n(ii) commence to erect or re-erect any building; or\n(iii) make any material external alteration to any building; or\n(iv) construct or re-construct any projecting portion of a building which the Commissioner is empowered by Section 305 to require to be set back or is empowered to give permission to construct or re-construct;-\n(a) unless the Commissioner has either by an order in writing granted permission or has failed to intimate within the prescribed period his refusal of permission for the erection or re-erection of the building or for the construction or re-construction of the projecting part of the building; or\n(b) after the expiry of one year from the date of the said permission or such longer period as the Commissioner may allow or from the end of the prescribed period, as the case may be :", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 297 }, { "number": "294", "title": "294. Notice of buildings.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) an application in writing for approval of the site together with a site plan of the land; and in the case of land which is the property of the Government or of the Corporation, a certified copy of the documents authorising him to occupy the land, and if so required by the Commissioner the original document or documents; and\n(b) an application in writing for permission to build together with a ground plan, elevation and section of the building and a specification of the work to be done.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 298 }, { "number": "295", "title": "295. Commissioner to refuse erection or re-erection of buildings.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 299 }, { "number": "296", "title": "296. Grounds on which site of proposed building may be disapproved.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) that the erection or re-erection of the proposed building on such site would be in contravention of a town-planning scheme under Section 291 or of any other provisions of this Act or of any other enactment for the time being in force; or\n(b) that the site is in a portion within the limits of the City in which the position and direction of the streets have not been determined, and that the building which it is proposed to erect on such site will, in the opinion of the Commissioner, obstruct or interfere with the construction in future of suitable streets in such portion or with the drainage, water-supply or ventilation thereof:\n(c) that the site has been re-claimed or used as a place for depositing sewage, offensive matter or rubbish or the carcasses of dead animals or is otherwise insanitary or dangerous to health; or\n(d) that the site is in a portion within the limits of the city for which a town-planning scheme has not been sanctioned by the Government and that the building which it is proposed to erect or re-erect on such site will, in the opinion of the Commissioner, be likely to conflict in a manner, to be communicated in writing to the applicant, with the provisions of a town-planning scheme :", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 300 }, { "number": "297", "title": "297. Grounds on which permission to erect or re-erect building may be refused.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) if the plans and specifications submitted with the application show that such building is not in accordance with the town-planning scheme sanctioned under Section 291, or with any provision of this Act, or any rule or bye-law made thereunder, or any provision of any law for the time being in force; or\n(a-1) if in his opinion the erection or re-erection of such building would be a nuisance or injurious to the inhabitants of the neighbourhood to the public; or\n(b) unless and until any plans, specifications or particulars called for by him are supplied.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 301 }, { "number": "298", "title": "298. Supervision of building and works.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 302 }, { "number": "299", "title": "299. Power of Commissioner [or, as the case may be, a Registered Architect/Structural Engineer/Engineer to the extent he has been authorized,] to direct modification of a sanctioned plan of a building before its completion.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 303 }, { "number": "299A", "title": "299A. Power of State Government to cancel or revise permission for construction of a building.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 304 }, { "number": "300", "title": "300. Lapse of sanction after one year from the date of such sanction.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 305 }, { "number": "301", "title": "301. Completion certificate and permission to occupy or use.", "chapter": null, "content": "(i) erects or re-erects any buildings; or\n(ii) makes any material external alteration in or addition to any existing building; or\n(iii) constructs or re-constructs any projecting portion of a building which the Commissioner is empowered under Section 305 require to be set back or is empowered to give permission to construct or re-construct;\n(a) give permission for the occupation of the building erected or for the use of the part of the building re-erected: or\n(b) refuse such permission in case such erection, construction or re-construction is in contravention of any provision of this Act or any rule or bye-law made thereunder or any other enactment for the time being in force.\n(a) until the permission referred to in clause (a) of sub-section (3) has been granted in the manner prescribed by bye-laws;\n(b) unless the Commissioner has failed for fifteen days after the receipt of notice of completion to intimate his refusal to grant the said permission.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 306 }, { "number": "302", "title": "302. Power of Commissioner to stop progress of building work unlawfully commenced or carried on.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 307 }, { "number": "303", "title": "303. Power of Commissioner to direct removal of person from building in which works are unlawfully carried on or which are unlawfully occupied.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 308 }, { "number": "304", "title": "304. Erection and use of temporary building to be approved by Commissioner.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 309 }, { "number": "305", "title": "305. Power to regulate line of buildings.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) if the projecting part is a verandah, step or some other structure external to the main building, then at any time; or\n(b) if the projecting part is not such external structure as aforesaid, then whenever the greater portion of such building or whenever any material portion of such projecting part has been taken down or burned down or has fallen down, require by notice either that the part or some portion of the part projecting beyond the regular line or beyond the front of the immediate adjoining building, shall be removed, or that such building when being rebuilt shall be set back to or towards the said line or front; and the portion of land added to the street by such selling back or removal shall henceforth be deemed to be part of the public street and shall vest in the Corporation :", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 310 }, { "number": "306", "title": "306. Compensation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 311 }, { "number": "307", "title": "307. Power to require, removal or alteration of work not in conformity with bye-laws or any scheme or any other requirement.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) without any sanction as required by Section 293 (1); or\n(b) when sanction has been refused; or\n(c) in contravention of the terms of any sanction granted; or\n(d) when sanction has lapsed under Section 300,\n(a) by written notice, require the person who is erecting such building or executing such work or has erected such building or executed such work on or before such day as shall be specified in such notice, by a statement in writing subscribed by him or by an agent duly authorised by him in that behalf and addressed to the Commissioner, to show sufficient cause why such building or work shall not be removed, altered or pulled down; or\n(b) shall require the said person on such day and at such time and place as shall be specified in such notice to attend personally or by an agent duly authorised by him in that behalf, and show sufficient cause why such building or work shall not be removed, altered or pulled down.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 312 }, { "number": "308", "title": "308. Buildings or works commenced contrary to Act may be cut into and laid open for purpose of inspection.", "chapter": null, "content": "[308A. Compounding of offences of construction of buildings without permission.\n(a) such construction does not affect the regular building line;\n(b) the unauthorized construction made in the marginal open spaces or in excess of the prescribed floor area ratio does not exceed ten percent of the prescribed floor area ratio ;\n(c) such construction does not come within the area notified by the State Government as a hill station or as a place of tourist importance or as sensitive from the point of ecology;\n(d) such construction does not come within the area specified for parking of vehicles ;\n(e) such construction does not come within the boundary of roads or within the area affecting alignment of public roads;\n(f) such construction does not come within the area specified for Tank (talab);\n(g) such construction does not come within thirty metres or such further distance from the river bank as may be specified in the master plan area;\n(h) such construction does not come within the area of any mullah and water stream :]\nPlot area having unauthorized Construction\nPlot area having unauthorized Construction\nCompounding Fess Payable\nCompounding Fess Payable\n(1)\n(1)\n(2)\n(2)\nUpto 100 sq. meters.\n15 times of permission fees\nAbove 100 sq. meters but less than 200 sq.\n\t\t\t\t\tmeters\n20 times of permission fees\nAbove 200 sq. meters but less than 300 sq.\n\t\t\t\t\tmeters\n25 times of permission fee\nAbove 300 sq. meters but less than 400 sq.\n\t\t\t\t\tmeters\n30 times of permission fee\nAbove 400 sq. meters but less than 500 sq.\n\t\t\t\t\tmeters\n35 times of permission fee\nAbove 500 sq. meters but less than 600 sq.\n\t\t\t\t\tmeters\n40 times of permission fee\nAbove 600 sq. meters but less than 700 sq.\n\t\t\t\t\tmeters\n45 times of permission fee\nAbove 700 sq. meters\n50 times of permission fee]", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 313 }, { "number": "308B", "title": "308B. Relaxation in compounding the unauthorised construction.", "chapter": null, "content": "(i) area notified by the State Government as a hill station or a place of Tourist importance or as sensitive/fragile from the point of ecology;\n(ii) area specified for parking of vehicles;\n(iii) area coming within the Road or area affecting alignment of Public Roads;\n(iv) area specified for tanks (Talab) :\n(v) area of construction affecting regular building line.\n(vi) area of construction coming within thirty metres or such further distance form the river bank as may be specified in the master plan of the concerned town;\n(vii) area of any nallah and water stream.\nChapter XXV\nDangerous and Insanitary Buildings", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 314 }, { "number": "309", "title": "309. Provisions regarding buildings unfit for human habitation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 315 }, { "number": "310", "title": "310. Removal of buildings in dangerous state.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 316 }, { "number": "311", "title": "311. Abandoned or unoccupied premises.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 317 }, { "number": "312", "title": "312. Reclamation of low lying sites.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) to reclaim and raise the site within the specified period; or\n(b) within thirty days after the receipt of the said notice to pay to the Commissioner the estimated cost of reclaiming and raising the site by municipal agency.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 318 }, { "number": "312A", "title": "312A. Power to prohibit re-erection of building on inaccessible sites.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 319 }, { "number": "313", "title": "313. Removal of building materials from any premises in certain cases.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 320 }, { "number": "314", "title": "314. Power of Commissioner to call for statement of accommodation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 321 }, { "number": "315", "title": "315. Cleaning and disinfecting of buildings.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 322 }, { "number": "316", "title": "316. Buildings to include part of a building for purposes of this Chapter.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter XXVI\nStreets\nPublic Streets", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 323 }, { "number": "317", "title": "317. Closing of public streets.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 324 }, { "number": "317A", "title": "317A. Laying railways, tramways or electrical, telephone poles.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 325 }, { "number": "318", "title": "318. Prohibition of projection upon streets.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) overhang or, project into or encroach upon or in any way obstruct the passage of the public along any street; or\n(b) project into or encroach upon or cover any drain or open channel in any street so as to interfere in any way with the use or proper working of such drain or channel or to impede the inspection or cleansing thereof.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 326 }, { "number": "434", "title": "319. Procedure to be followed by Commissioner on conviction of a person under Section 434.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) by a notice, require such person to remove the overhanging structure, encroachment or obstruction and where necessary, to restore the street, drain or channel to the condition it was in before the encroachment; and\n(b) if the requirement is not complied with within the time fixed in the notice, have the required act done by his subordinate officers at the expenses of such person and recover the cost of required act from such person as an arrear of tax under Chapter XII of this Act.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 327 }, { "number": "320", "title": "320. Restriction on powers of municipal authorities in relation to streets.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 328 }, { "number": "321", "title": "321. Footings of buildings not to establish title to land belonging to Government or vesting in Corporation.", "chapter": null, "content": "Obstruction in Streets", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 329 }, { "number": "322", "title": "322. Prohibition of obstruction in streets.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) erect or set up any wall, fence, rail, post, step, booth or other structure whether fixed or movable or whether of a permanent or temporary nature, or any fixture in or upon any street so as to form an obstruction to, or an encroachment upon, or a projection over, or to occupy any portion of such street, channel, drain, well or tank.\n(b) deposit upon any street or upon any open channel, drain or well in any street or upon any public place, any stall, chair, bench box, ladder, bale or other thing whatsoever, so as to form an obstruction thereto or encroachment thereon.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 330 }, { "number": "322A", "title": "322A. Maintenance of record and submission of report of encroachment.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 331 }, { "number": "323", "title": "323. Streets not to be opened or broken up and building materials not to be deposited therein without permission.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) open, break up, displace, take up or make any alteration in or cause any injury to, the soil or pavement, or any wall, fence, post, chain or other material or thing forming part of any street or in any open space vested in the Corporation; or\n(b) deposit any building material in any street or in any open space vested in the Corporation; or\n(c) set up in any street or in any open space vested in the Corporation any scaffold or any temporary erection for the purpose of any work whatever, or any posts, bars, rails, boards or other things by way of enclosure, for the purpose of making mortar or depositing bricks, lime, rubbish or other materials.\n(a) cause the soil or pavement or any wall, fence, post, channel or other material forming part of the street to be restored to the condition it was in before any opening or breaking up or displacement, or alteration or damage made or done without the permission of the authority specified in sub-section (1);\n(b) cause to be removed any building materials, any scaffold or any temporary erection, or any posts, bars, rails, boards or other things by way of enclosure, which have been deposited or set up in any street or in any open space vested in the Corporation without any permission of the authority specified in sub-section (I) or which, having been deposited or set up with such permission, have not been removed within the period specified in the notice issued under sub-section (2) and recover the costs of such restoration or removal from the offender.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 332 }, { "number": "324", "title": "324. Ground floor doors, etc. not to open outwards on streets.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 333 }, { "number": "325", "title": "325. Power to require removal of old projections.", "chapter": null, "content": "Private Streets", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 334 }, { "number": "326", "title": "326. Notice to be given to Commissioner of intention to lay out lands for, building and for private streets.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) to sell or let on lease any land subject to a covenant or agreement on the part of a purchaser or lessee to erect buildings thereon;\n(b) to divide land whether unbuilt or partly build into building plots;\n(c) to use any land or a portion thereof or permit the same to be used for building purposes; or\n(d) to make or lay out a private street, whether it is intended to allow the public a right of passage or access over such street or not :\n(a) to furnish the required information together with all or any of the documents specified in the bye-laws; or\n(b) to revise any or all the schemes submitted under the said clause (a), (b) or (c) so as to provide for the making or laying out of a private street or streets of such width or widths as he may specify in addition to or in substitution of any means of excess proposed to be provided in such scheme or schemes and to furnish such further information and documents relating to the revised scheme or schemes as he may specify.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 335 }, { "number": "327", "title": "327. Level of the street to be determined by Commissioner.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 336 }, { "number": "328", "title": "328. New streets not to be made and buildings on either side thereof not to be erected except in accordance with the direction of Commissioner.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 337 }, { "number": "329", "title": "329. Levelling, metalling, etc. of streets.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the nature of the intended works;\n(b) the estimated expenses thereof including 5 percent for contingencies;\n(c) the proportion of the expenses payable by each owner.\n(a) pay the sum demanded in the notice; or\n(b) show-cause to the satisfaction of the Commissioner why he should not pay the same; or\n(c) prefer an appeal in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (3),\n(i) by distress and sale of the movable property belonging to such person;\n(iii) by attachment and sale of the immovable property belonging to him :\nConversion of streets into public streets", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 338 }, { "number": "330", "title": "330. Power to declare streets, when metalled, etc. public streets.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 339 }, { "number": "331", "title": "331. Power to construct or maintain public bridges.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) with any person to adopt and maintain any existing or proposed bridge, viaduct or arch and approaches as part of a public street, or as properly vested in the Corporation; or\n(b) for the construction or alteration of any such bridge, viaduct or arch or for the purchase or acquisition of any adjoining land required for the foundation and support thereof, or for the approaches thereto, either entirely at the expense of such person or partly at the expense of the Corporation.\nChapter XXVII\nGeneral Provisions as to Street and Public Nuisance", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 340 }, { "number": "332", "title": "332. Power to require protection of streets during cutting down of trees, erection, demolition of buildings, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 341 }, { "number": "333", "title": "333. Powers to attach brackets for lamps.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 342 }, { "number": "334", "title": "334. Destroying direction posts, lamp posts, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 343 }, { "number": "335", "title": "335. Hill sticking without permission.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 344 }, { "number": "336", "title": "336. Indecent or obscene pictures or printed or written matter.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 345 }, { "number": "337", "title": "337. Naming of streets and numbering of houses.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) with the sanction of the Corporation determine the name by which any street shall be known;\n(b) cause to be put up or painted on conspicuous part of any house at or near each end, corner or entrance to every street, the name of such street as so determined;\n(c) determine the number by which any premises shall be known;\n(d) put up or paint a number of premises in such position and manner as he may deem necessary.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 346 }, { "number": "338", "title": "338. Inflammable materials.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 347 }, { "number": "339", "title": "339. Roofs and external walls not to be made of inflammable materials.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 348 }, { "number": "340", "title": "340. Picketing animals or collecting carts.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 349 }, { "number": "341", "title": "341. Driving vehicles without proper lights.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 350 }, { "number": "342", "title": "342. Heating of drums etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 351 }, { "number": "343", "title": "343. Use of steam, whistle, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 352 }, { "number": "344", "title": "344. Discharging fire arms.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 353 }, { "number": "345", "title": "345. Quarrying, blasting, cutting timber or building.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 354 }, { "number": "346", "title": "346. Lopping of branches, etc. of tree or plant on a public place.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 355 }, { "number": "346A", "title": "346A. Spitting on any place other than drain or receptacle.", "chapter": null, "content": "Part-VII\nChapter XXVIII\nCo-Operation of Police", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 356 }, { "number": "347", "title": "347. Co-operation of Police.", "chapter": null, "content": "(i) to communicate without delay to the Commissioner any information which he receives of a design to commit or of the Commission of any offence against this Act or any rule or bye-law made thereunder; and\n(ii) to assist any Corporation officer or servant reasonably demanding his aid for the lawful exercise of any power vested in the Corporation or in any Corporation officer or servant under this Act or any rules or bye-laws made thereunder.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 357 }, { "number": "348", "title": "348. Power of Police to arrest offenders.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) if the name and address of the person are unknown to him; and\n(b) if the person declines to give his name and address or there is reason to doubt the accuracy of the name and address given.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 358 }, { "number": "349", "title": "349. Power of District Superintendent to arrest a person on requisition from Commissioner.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 359 }, { "number": "350", "title": "350. Police protection at fairs, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter XXIX\nPrevention or Extinction of Fires", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 360 }, { "number": "351", "title": "351. Maintenance of fire brigade and arrangements for the prevention and extinction of fire.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 361 }, { "number": "352", "title": "352. Power of fire brigade and other person for suppression of fire.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) remove or order the removal of any person who by his presence interferes with or impedes the operation for extinguishing the fire or for saving life or property;\n(b) close any street or passage in or near which any fire is burning;\n(c) for the purpose of extinguishing the fire, break into or through or pull down, or cause to be broken into or through or pulled down, or use for the passage of houses or other appliances, any premises;\n(d) cause mains and pipes to be shut off so as to give greater pressure of water in or near the place where the fire has occurred;\n(e) call on the persons in charge of any fire engine to render such assistance as may he possible; and\n(f) generally, take such measures as may appear necessary for the preservation of life or property.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 362 }, { "number": "353", "title": "353. Power to make regulation for fire brigades.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the training, discipline and good conduct of the men belonging to the fire brigade;\n(b) their speedy attendance with engines, fire-escapes and all necessary implements or the occasion of any alarm of fire;\n(c) the maintenance of the said brigade generally in a state of efficiency; and\n(d) the submission of reports of fires.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 363 }, { "number": "354", "title": "354. Precautionary measures for places of public entertainment.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter XXX\nDangerous Animals", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 364 }, { "number": "355", "title": "355. Disposal of mad and stray dogs and other animals.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) authorise any person-\n(i) to destroy, or cause to he destroyed or confine or cause to be confined for such period as the Commissioner may direct, any dog or other animals suffering or reasonably suspected to be suffering from rabies, or bitten by any dog or other animal suffering or suspected as aforesaid, or any dog or other animals dangerous to human safety, or any bird, animal or other vermin causing a nuisance;\n(ii) to confine, or cause to be confined any dogs found wandering about streets or public places without collars or other marks distinguishing them as private property and to charge, a fee for such detention and to destroy or otherwise dispose of any such dog if it is not claimed within one week and the fee paid;\n(b) issue a temporary or standing order that any dogs without collars or with other marks distinguishing them as private property found straying on the streets or beyond the enclosure of the houses of the owners of such dog should be destroyed and destroy or cause them to be destroyed accordingly :", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 365 }, { "number": "356", "title": "356. Allowing dogs to be at large.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) if such dog is likely to annoy or intimidate passers-by; or\n(b) if the Commissioner has by notice in the manner prescribed by bye-laws during the prevalence of rabies directed that dogs shall not be at large without muzzles.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 366 }, { "number": "357", "title": "357. Control of elephants, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 367 }, { "number": "358", "title": "358. Letting loose horse or other animal.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter XXXI\nBeggars", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 368 }, { "number": "359", "title": "359. Commencement of the Chapter.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 369 }, { "number": "360", "title": "360. Soliciting alms.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 370 }, { "number": "361", "title": "361. Importing beggar.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter XXXII\nDisorderly Houses", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 371 }, { "number": "362", "title": "362. Power over disorderly houses and prostitutes.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the keeping of a brothel;\n(b) the residence of any person who practices prostitution.\n(a) keeps or manages or acts or assists in the management of a brothel within the prohibited area;\n(b) being the tenant, lessee or occupier of any premises or any part thereof to be used as a brothel or for the purposes of habitual prostitution within the prohibited area; or\n(c) being the lessor or landlord, of any premises or the agent to such lessor or landlord, lets the same or any part thereof, within the prohibited area with the knowledge that such premises or some part thereof, are, or for the purpose of habitual prostitution, or is wilfully a party to the continued use of such premises as a brothel or for the purposes of habitual prostitution; or\n(d) being a practising prostitute resides within the prohibited area, shall be punishable with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to six months or with the fine which may extend to five thousand rupees, or with both, and in the case of a continuing offence with an additional fine not exceeding five hundred rupees for every day after the first during which the offence continues.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 372 }, { "number": "363", "title": "363. Brothels.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 373 }, { "number": "364", "title": "364. Control of prostitution.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 374 }, { "number": "364A", "title": "364A. Provisions of this Chapter to he supplemental to Central Act, 104 of 1956 and action under this Act to be subject to the Central Act.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter XXXIII\nWeights and Measures", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 375 }, { "number": "365", "title": "365. Power to inspect weights and measures and seize false weights, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "Part-VIII\nChapter XXXIV\nGeneral Provisions for the Carrying on of Municipal Administration\nProcedure\nLicences and Permissions\nLicences and Permissions", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 376 }, { "number": "366", "title": "366. Licences and permissions.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the date of the grant thereof;\n(b) the purpose and the period, if any, for which it is granted;\n(c) the restrictions and conditions, if any, subject to which it is granted;\n(d) the name of the person to whom it is granted;\n(e) the tax or fee, if any, paid for the licence or written permission;\n(f) the date by which an application for the renewal of the same may be made.\nEvidence", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 377 }, { "number": "367", "title": "367. Proof of consent, etc. of municipal authorities or municipal officers.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the Corporation, or the Mayor-in-Council, or the Commissioner; or\n(b) of any municipal officer,", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 378 }, { "number": "368", "title": "368. Signature on notices, etc., may be stamped.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 379 }, { "number": "369", "title": "369. Service of notice, etc., how to be effected on owner or occupier of premises.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) by giving or tendering to any person whose name has been entered in the assessment list of the owners, or one of the owners of the property concerned, or to the occupier thereof; or\n(b) if the owner or occupier or no one of the owners or occupier is found, by giving or tendering the said notice, bill, schedule, summons or other document to some adult member or servant of the family of the owners or occupier, or of any of the owners or occupiers; or\n(c) by causing the said notice, bill, schedule, summons or other document to be affixed on some conspicuous part of the hind building to which the document relates; or\n(d) by delivering at some post office, the said notice, bill, schedule, summons or other document under cover addressed by the description of the owner or occupier of.......(here describing the properly concerned) without further name or description of the person concerned, and obtaining a certificate of posting the same from the post office; or\n(e) by any one or more of these methods.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 380 }, { "number": "370", "title": "370. Service of notices, etc., how to be effected on any person otherwise than as owner or occupier of premises.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) by delivering at some post office the said notice, bill, schedule, summons, or other such documents under cover bearing the address of the person concerned and obtaining therefor a certificate of posting, or\n(b) by giving or tendering to such person the said notice, bill schedule, summons or other such documents, or\n(c) by both methods.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 381 }, { "number": "370A", "title": "370A. The two preceding sections inapplicable to Court's summons.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 382 }, { "number": "371", "title": "371. Public notices how to be made known.", "chapter": null, "content": "Powers of entry and inspection", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 383 }, { "number": "372", "title": "372. Power of entry on premises for purposes of inspection, survey or execution of necessary work.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) except when it is in this Act or in any rule or bye-law made thereunder otherwise expressly provided, no such entry shall be made between sunset and sunrise;\n(b) except when it is in this Act or in any rule or bye-law made thereunder otherwise expressly provided, no building used as a dwelling house shall be so entered, unless with the consent of the occupier thereof, without giving the said occupier at least six hours' previous notice in writing of the intention to make such entry, and, except where it is inexpedient, to mention the purpose thereof;\n(c) notwithstanding any power to enter any premises conferred upon municipal officers or councillors by this Act or any rule or bye-law made thereunder sufficient notice of such entry shall in every instance be given to enable the inmates of any apartment appropriate to women to withdraw to some part of the premises where their privacy may not be disturbed;\n(d) due regard shall always be had, so far as may be compatible with the exigencies of the purpose for which the entry is made, to the social and religious usages of occupants of the premises entered.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 384 }, { "number": "373", "title": "373. Power of entry on lands adjacent to works.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 385 }, { "number": "374", "title": "374. Right of entry into and inspection of premises licensed for any purpose.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 386 }, { "number": "375", "title": "375. Prohibition of obstructing entry.", "chapter": null, "content": "Enforcement of orders to execute, works, etc.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 387 }, { "number": "376", "title": "376. Execution of works which any person is required to execute by Commissioner at such person's cost.", "chapter": null, "content": "Recovery of expenses", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 388 }, { "number": "377", "title": "377. Power of Commissioner to accept agreement for payment of expenses in instalments.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 389 }, { "number": "378", "title": "378. Power to declare certain expenses to be improvement expenses.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 390 }, { "number": "379", "title": "379. Improvement expenses how recoverable and by whom payable.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 391 }, { "number": "380", "title": "380. Right of owner or occupier to redeem charge for improvement expenses.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 392 }, { "number": "381", "title": "381. Execution of work by occupier in default of owner and deduction of expenses from rent.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 393 }, { "number": "382", "title": "382. Limitation of liability of agent or trustee.", "chapter": null, "content": "Payment of compensation", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 394 }, { "number": "383", "title": "383. General power of Commissioner to pay compensation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 395 }, { "number": "384", "title": "384. Compensation to owner for value of immovable property deteriorated.", "chapter": null, "content": "Complaint of injury", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 396 }, { "number": "385", "title": "385. Procedure on complaint of injury.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) to take such measures as it may deem practicable and reasonable for preventing, abating, removing or diminishing the nuisance or damage;\n(b) to pay to the complainant all reasonable costs of and relating to his complaint, which costs may include compensation for the complaint's loss of time in prosecuting the complaint.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 397 }, { "number": "386", "title": "386. Compensation to be paid by offenders against this Act for any damage caused by them.", "chapter": null, "content": "Recovery of expenses or compensation in case of disputes", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 398 }, { "number": "387", "title": "387. Arbitration in cases of compensation, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) no application to the Collector for a reference shall be necessary; and\n(b) the Court shall have full power to give and apportion the costs of all proceedings in manner it thinks fit.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 399 }, { "number": "387", "title": "388. Recovery of sums ascertained under Section 387 to be due.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 400 }, { "number": "389", "title": "389. Saving of right to claim damages for injury.", "chapter": null, "content": "Recovery of certain dues", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 401 }, { "number": "390", "title": "390. Recovery of certain dues by distress and sale.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 402 }, { "number": "390A", "title": "390A. Recovery of dues under any lease, contract or agreement.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 403 }, { "number": "391", "title": "391. If the defaulter is the owner of premises in respect of which expenses are payable the occupier may also be liable for payment thereof.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) if the occupier makes a true disclosure of the name and address of the person to whom the rent is due and proves to the satisfaction of the Commissioner that the amount of rent payable by him to that person on the date of the demand for the payment of the said expenses was less than the amount of the said demand, then the occupier shall not be liable to pay on account of the said demand, any sum greater than the amount payable as rent on the date aforesaid;\n(b) the occupier shall be entitled to credit in account with the owner for any sum recovered from him on account of the said expenses;\n(c) nothing in this section shall affect any agreement made between the occupier and the owner respecting the payment of expenses as aforesaid.\nProceedings before Court", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 404 }, { "number": "392", "title": "392. Decision of the District Court.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 405 }, { "number": "393", "title": "393. Procedure in inquiries before Civil Courts.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 406 }, { "number": "394", "title": "394. Fees in proceedings before Civil Courts.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) on any application, appeal or reference made under this Act to the District Court; and\n(b) for the issue in connection with any enquiry or proceeding of the Court under this Act, of any summons or other process :", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 407 }, { "number": "395", "title": "395. Limitation.", "chapter": null, "content": "Proceedings before Magistrates", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 408 }, { "number": "396", "title": "396. Procedure in prosecution.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 409 }, { "number": "397", "title": "397. Power of Magistrate to hear case in absence of accused.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) service of summons is proved to his satisfaction; and\n(b) no sufficient cause is shown for the non-appearance of such person,", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 410 }, { "number": "398", "title": "398. Limitation of time for prosecution.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) within six months next after the date of the commission of such offence; or\n(b) if such date is not known or the offence is a continuing one, within six months next after the date on which the commission or existence of such offence was first brought to the notice of the Commissioner or of any officer or servant whose duty it is to report such offence to the Commissioner.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 411 }, { "number": "399", "title": "399. Proceedings if any occupier opposes the execution of the Act.", "chapter": null, "content": "Legal proceedings", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 412 }, { "number": "400", "title": "400. Power of Commissioner to institute legal proceedings and obtain legal advice.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) institute, defend or withdraw from legal proceedings under this Act, or under any rule or bye-law made thereunder or any other enactment for the time being in force;\n(b) compound any offence under this Act or under any rule or bye-law made thereunder and charge such fees for compounding of offence as may be prescribed by bye-laws by the Corporation;\n(c) admit, compromise or withdraw any claim made under this Act or under any other enactment for the time being in force; and\n(d) obtain such legal advice and assistance as he may from time to time think it necessary or expedient to obtain, for any of the purposes referred to in the foregoing clauses of this section, or for securing the lawful exercise or discharge of any power or duly vesting in or imposed upon the Corporation, the Mayor-in-Council or any municipal officer or servant ;", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 413 }, { "number": "401", "title": "401. Notice, limitation and tender of amends in suit against Corporation etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the cause of action;\n(b) the name and residence of the intending plaintiff and of his advocate, pleader or agent, if any, for the purpose of the suit; and\n(c) the relief which he claims.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 414 }, { "number": "402", "title": "402. Indemnity for Act done in good faith.", "chapter": null, "content": "Appeals", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 415 }, { "number": "403", "title": "403. Appeal against the order of the Commissioner and subordinate officers.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) any notice or order issued or other action taken by the Commissioner under Sections 174, 193, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 202, 204, 205, 207, 208, 209, 210, 237, 241, 243, 246, 247, 248, 249, [292-A] 295, 296, 299, 301, 302, 310, 311, 312, 313, 315, 322, 323, or 393 of this Act or any rule or bye-law made thereunder;\n(b) any order of the Commissioner regarding granting or refusing a licence or permission; or\n(c) any order of the Commissioner that may be made applicable by x x x bye-laws under Section 427, may appeal to the Corporation within 30 days from the date of such order.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 416 }, { "number": "404", "title": "404. Suspension of orders pending appeal.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter XXXV\nSupplemental Provisions", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 417 }, { "number": "405", "title": "405. Power of Governor to include or exclude certain area.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 418 }, { "number": "406", "title": "406. Effect of inclusion.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the Municipal Law [x x x] or any other Act dealing with local self-government, as the case may be, if in force in such area shall be deemed to be repealed therein; and\n(b) except as the Government may otherwise by notification in the Gazette direct, all rules, bye-laws, regulations, notifications, orders, directions and powers made, issued or conferred under this Act and in force at the dale of inclusion shall apply to the said area, in supersession of all corresponding rules, bye-laws, regulations, notifications, orders, directions and powers made, issued or conferred under the Act deemed to be so repealed.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 419 }, { "number": "407", "title": "407. Exclusion of specified areas from the operation of certain provisions.", "chapter": null, "content": "General provisions", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 420 }, { "number": "408", "title": "408. Powers of authority to require anyone or more or a number of things to be done.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 421 }, { "number": "409", "title": "409. Determination of owner or occupier where there are gradations of owners or occupiers.", "chapter": null, "content": "410. [Mayor and] Councillors and Municipal officers, etc. to be deemed public servant.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 422 }, { "number": "411", "title": "411. Prohibition of obstruction to municipal contractors.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 423 }, { "number": "412", "title": "412. Prohibition of removal of marks.", "chapter": null, "content": "Construction of references", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 424 }, { "number": "413", "title": "413. Construction of references.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) all references to the municipal area shall be construed in respect of the city as references to the area within the limits of the city;\n(b) all references to the Municipal Committee, Municipal Council, Municipal Board or the Municipality of the city shall be construed, in respect of the city, as reference to the Corporation for the city constituted under this Act;\n(c) ail references to the President or Vice-President of the Municipality shall be construed in respect of the city as references to the Mayor or the Deputy Mayor, as the may be;\n(d) all reference to the member of a Municipality shall be construed as references to the Councillors referred to in section; and\n(e) all references to any chapter or section of the Municipal Law shall as far as possible be construed in respect of the city as references to this Act or to its corresponding chapter or section.\nSupplemental Provisions", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 425 }, { "number": "414", "title": "414. Informalities and errors in assessments, notices, bills, etc. not to be deemed to invalidate such assessment, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 426 }, { "number": "415", "title": "415. Disputes between Corporation and local authorities.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 427 }, { "number": "416", "title": "416. Disputes between Government and Corporation.", "chapter": null, "content": "Part IX\nChapter XXXVI\nControl", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 428 }, { "number": "417", "title": "417. Power of Government to require returns, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) any return, statement, estimates, statistics or other information regarding any matter under the control of any municipal authority of the city;\n(b) a report on any such matter; or\n(c) a copy of any document in his charge or under his control.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 429 }, { "number": "417A", "title": "417A. Power of the Government to depute officers to make enquiry, inspection or examination and report.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) to produce any record, correspondence, plan or document which is in his possession or under his control or which is recorded or filed in his office or in the office of any officer or servant of the Corporation; or\n(b) to furnish any report, return, plan, estimate, statement, account or statistics, and may examine such witnesses as he thinks fit.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 430 }, { "number": "418", "title": "418. Power of Government to require municipal authority to take action.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) any of the duties imposed by or under this Act or by any other law for the time being in force has not been performed or has been performed in an imperfect, inefficient or unsuitable manner: or\n(b) the Corporation, the Mayor-in-Council, the Commissioner or any other officer or servant of the Corporation has failed to take such measures in any matter as appear to the Government to be required by the circumstances of the case; or\n(c) adequate financial provision has not yet been made for the performance of any such duty or the taking of any such measure,\n(i) to make arrangements to the satisfaction of the Government for the proper performance of the duties referred to in clause (a) or to take such measures as may be specified by the Government in connection with any matter referred to in clause (b), or to make financial provision to the satisfaction of the Government for the performance of any such duty or for the taking of any such measure, as the case may be: or\n(ii) to show cause to the satisfaction of the Government against the making of such arrangements, the taking of such measures or the making of such provision, as the case may be.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 431 }, { "number": "418A", "title": "418A. Power of State Government to issue directions for implementation of welfare measures.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 432 }, { "number": "418B", "title": "418B. Public opinion to be obtained.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 433 }, { "number": "419", "title": "419. Procedure by Government when municipal authority fails to take action.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) appoint some person to take the action so directed;\n(b) fix reasonable remuneration to be paid to him; and\n(c) direct that such remuneration and the cost of taking such action shall be defrayed out of the municipal fund and, if necessary, that any one or more of the taxes authorised by Chapter XI shall be levied or increased.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 434 }, { "number": "420", "title": "420. Power to demand punishment or dismissal.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 435 }, { "number": "421", "title": "421. Power of Government to suspend any resolution or order.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 436 }, { "number": "422", "title": "422. Dissolution of the Corporation.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) at any time upon representation made or otherwise the State Government is satisfied that the Corporation is not competent to perform or persistently makes default in the performance of the duties imposed on it by or under this Act or any other law for the time being in force or exceeds or abuses its powers, or\n(b) the Corporation fails to elect a Speaker within one month from the date of the publication of the election of the Councillors in the gazette by the State Election Commission after every general election of the Councillors under sub-section (1) of Section 23 or on the expiry of the term of the Speaker within one month thereof, or\n(c) [x x x] :\n422A.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 437 }, { "number": "423", "title": "423. Consequences of [x x x] dissolution.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) All Councillors and Mayor shall vacate their office from the date the order of dissolution of the Corporation comes into effect.\n(b) All powers and duties of the Corporation, the Mayor-in-Council and the Appeal Committee under this Act, may until the Corporation is reconstituted be exercised and performed by such person, or a committee of persons as the State Government may appoint in that behalf.\n(c) All property vested in the Corporation shall, until the Corporation is reconstituted, vest in such person or committee in trust for the purposes of this Act.\n424.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 438 }, { "number": "425", "title": "425. Enforcement of orders.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 439 }, { "number": "425A", "title": "425A. Certain officials entitled to attend meetings of Corporation or Mayor-in-Council.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 440 }, { "number": "426", "title": "426. Rules for inspection of institution and works of Corporation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 441 }, { "number": "426A", "title": "426A. Removal of difficulties.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 442 }, { "number": "426B", "title": "426B. Delegation of powers.", "chapter": null, "content": "Part-X\nChapter XXXVII\nBye-Laws", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 443 }, { "number": "427", "title": "427. Bye-laws.", "chapter": null, "content": "(1) (a) the extent of general supervision and control to be exercised by the Commissioner over servants of the State placed at the disposal of Corporation under Section 68;\n(b) the conditions on which property may be acquired by the Corporation or on which property vested in the Corporation may be transferred by sale, mortgage, lease, exchange or otherwise;\n(c) the authority on which money may be paid from the Municipal fund and the management and regulation of provident funds;\n(d) the preparation of plans and estimates for works partly or wholly to be constructed at the expense of the Corporation, and for the preparation, and periodical revision of maps and registers made under Section 83, and for the authorities by which and the conditions subject to which plans, estimates, maps and registers are to be prepared and sanctioned;\n(e) the preparation of estimates of income and expenditure of the Corporation and as to the persons by whom and the conditions subject to which such estimates may be sanctioned;\n(f) the manner in which the accounts are to be kept by the Corporation, the conditions on which such accounts are to be open to inspection by inhabitants paying any tax under this Act, the manner in which such accounts are to be audited and published and the power of the auditors in respect of disallowance and surcharge;\n(g) the conditions on which the Corporation may receive animals or articles into a bonded warehouse, and the agreement to be signed by traders and other wishing to deposit animals or articles therein;\n(h) the m.inner in which public notices may be given;\n(1-A) (a) the time and place of committees;\n(b) the manner in which notice of such committees may be given;\n(c) the quorum necessary for the transaction of business at any committee;\n(d) the filing of vacancies on committee other than the Mayor-in-Council;\n(e) any other matter relating to the proceedings of the Corporation or of the Mayor-in-Council, the holdings and regulation of meetings and the conduct of debates and the mode of asking and answering of questions connected with the administration of this Act and the inspection of minute books and the supply of copies of minutes to Councillors or other person on payment of fees or otherwise;\n(f) the language in which the business shall be transacted, proceeding recorded and notice issued;\n(1-B) the exercise by the Commissioner or tiny other officer or any of the servants of the Corporation of the powers conferred upon the Corporation by this or any other Act for the time being in force, and the conditions and limitations subject to which such powers may be exercised;\n1-C & 1-D Omitted\n(1-E) the manner in which notice of any enquiry or order shall be given under sub-section (1) of Section 79-A;\n(1-F) the conditions and limitations under which immovable property vested in the Corporation may be transferred or disposed of;\n(1-G) (a) the form and contents of the report and statement to be prepared under Section 123;\n(b) the publication of the said report and statement;\n(c) the submission of a copy thereof by the Commissioner;\n(1-H) (a) the manner in which and the persons by whom contracts may be executed;\n(b) the security to be demanded for the due performance of contract;\n(c) the submission of estimates of works before contracts are entertained;\n(d) the examination and acceptance of tenders;\n(e) the kind of works which may be executed otherwise than by contract;\n(1-I) the manner in which and the person by whom payment may be made out of the Municipal fund or cheques drawn upon the said fund may be signed;\n(1-J) the manner in which and the person by whom coupons attached to debentures issued under this Act may be issued;\n(1-K) the custody of the common seal of the Corporation and the manner in which and the person by whom the common seal may be affixed;\n(1-L) the manner in which the budget estimates shall be prepared;\n(1-M) Toll and cess on imports. - The classes of goods on which, and the rate at which tolls and cess on imports may be imposed; and the manner of collection of such cess or toll;\n(2) Time and mode of collection of taxes, etc. - The regulation of the time and mode of collection of any tax which may be imposed under Section 132 or which is charged and levied under Section 135.\n(3) Assessment, collection, remission, refund and recovery of taxes, cesses, etc. -\n(a) The date before which, and rates at which municipal taxes to be levied shall be determined;\n(b) the assessment, collection, composition, remission, refund and recovery of taxes and cesses and the exemption from such taxes and cesses, and the prevention of evasion;\n(c) the date, place and manner of paying any tax or instalment of tax payable under this Act and the person to whom it shall be paid;\n(d) the fees for notices of demand of any tax and the execution of warrants of distress and the rates to be charged for maintenance of any livestock distrained; and the persons authorised to receive payment of any sums so payable;\n(e) the manner in which the annual values of buildings and land shall be determined for the purposes of assessment;\n(4) Drains. - (a) the maintenance and improvement of existing drains;\n(b) the construction of new drains;\n(c) the alteration and discontinuance of drains;\n(d) the Hushing and cleaning of drains;\n(e) the drainage of any building of land;\n(f) the drainage of private streets;\n(g) the construction and position of close accommodation, water-closets, privies, urinals and similar conveniences, public or private, and bathing and washing places and the prevention of nuisance arising therefrom;\n(h) the construction and maintenance of a sufficient number of some or all of the aforesaid conveniences in all buildings;\n(i) the payment of the cost of agency under the authority conferred by this Act;\n(5) Latrines and washing places. - (a) The maintenance and regulation of urinal, closet accommodation, water-closet, bathing and washing place and premises appurtenant thereto, belonging to the Corporation;\n(b) the regulation of urinals, closet accommodation, water closet, bathing and washing places provided for the common use of the inhabitants of one or more buildings;\n(6) Scavenging and disposal of refuse. - The scavenging of streets and the removal or disposal of sewage and rubbish and offensive matter from all buildings and lands within the City;\n(7) (a) Waterworks;\n(b) the inspection of waterworks;\n(c) the power to enter waterworks;\n(d) the protection of waterworks from waste, injury or contamination;\n(e) fire-hydrants;\n(f) boating, fishing or bathing in any waterworks;\n(g) the terms and conditions of the supply of water to lands and buildings and the provision of meters;\n(h) the cutting-off of private water-supplies and the regulation of water-supply;\n(i) the prevention of fraud in connection with water-supply or the use of meters;\n(j) the digging or construction of any new well, lank, pond, cistern, or fountain;\n(k) the prevention of the pollution of water within the city;\n(8) Streets. -(a) The maintenance and improvement of public streets,\n(b) projections, obstructions, or encroachments in public streets and the issue of licences and the conditions under which they may be issued, including the payment of rent or fees;\n(c) the execution of works in or near public streets and the temporary occupation of public streets;\n(d) the cleansing of private streets and keeping them free of dust by asphalting, tarring or other means;\n(e) bill-posting and sky signs including prohibition of the same; (t) dangerous places;\n(g) the lighting of public streets\n(h) the watering of public streets;\n(9) street traffic and the reduction of noise caused by such traffic;\n(10) Prohibition or restriction and regulation of use of barbed wires, etc. - the use of the barbed wire or any material likely to cause injury to persons or animals on any land or premises abutting on any street, pathway, or place which the public are entitled to use or frequent;\n(11) Hedges. - the removal, trimming and cutting of trees, shrubs and hedges;\n(12) Lodging houses. - (a) the number of persons who may occupy a lodging-house and the licences necessary for keepers of lodging-houses;\n(b) the inspection of lodging-houses;\n(c) the cleanliness and ventilation of lodging-houses;\n(d) the lighting of common spaces and staircases in lodging-houses;\n(e) the precautions to be taken in the case of any dangerous or infectious disease breaking out in a lodging-house;\n(f) the general control of lodging houses;\n(13) Overcrowding. -the number of persons who may occupy any building;\n(14) Rest-houses etc. -the inspection and control of stables, camping grounds, pounds and rest-houses;\n(15) Camping on public ground. -the encamping or picketing of animals, or the collection or parking of vehicles in any public place, or the use of such places for the halting of animals or vehicles;\n(16) Keeping of animals. - (a) the keeping of animals in the city;\n(b) establishment and construction of Gwala colonies, dairies and cattle pens within r without the city;\n(c) the importation of animals into the city and the transport of animals within the city;\n(d) measure to be taken with stray animals or animals likely, if at large in any street or public place, or cause annoyance or intimidation;\n(e) the prevention of cruelty to animals;\n(f) the disposal of carcasses of animals dying in the city;\n(g) the destruction of any animals which from old age or other causes are in a moribund or infirm state or have received such injuries or are suffering from such dangerous disease that their recovery therefrom is unlikely;\n(h) the prevention of the sale or use as human food .of the carcasses of animals which die naturally or from disease;\n(i) the prohibition of importation into, or sale or disposal or use within the Corporation limits of any animals or of the hide or any portion of the carcass of any animal dying or slaughtered on account of, or suffering from any contagious or infectious disease;\n(17) Wash-houses. - public wash-houses and the exercise of their calling by washerman at places other than those appointed or approved by the Commissioner;\n(18) Dangerous and offensive trades and factories. - (a) (i) the articles to be included in the description contained in clause (a) of Section 248;\n(ii) the prohibition or regulation by licence or otherwise of the storage or keeping of such articles;\n(b) (i) the trades, manufactures, industries or operations to be included in the description contained in clause (c) of Section 248;\n(ii) the prohibition or regulation by licence or otherwise of the exercise of such trades, manufactures, industries, or operations;\n(iii) the supervision and sanitary regulation of factories and workshop;\n(19) Exemption of articles anti trade operations. - the articles or quantity thereof and the trade operations connected with trade which may be exempted;\n(20) Standard of water used in aerated waters, etc. - the control of the manufacture preparation or sale of aerated water or of cordials;\n(21) Lables and inscriptions. - the form or kind of label to be attached to packages containing articles of food or drink or drugs or any mixture thereof and the inscription on the label of such particulars, directions, statement, information or words as may be specified;\n(22) Nuisances. - (a) the discharge of smoke, steam, dust, fumes or noxious vapours;\n(b) the use of whistles, trumpets and noise-producing instruments operated by any mechanical or other means;\n(c) the prevention of other nuisances;\n(23) Advertisement. - the exhibition or advertisements and hoardings and similar structures used for the purpose of advertising;\n(24) Management of Municipal markets, etc., and the supervision of the manufacture, storage and sale of food. - (a) The sale of the flesh of any four-footed animal not slaughtered in a Corporation slaughter-house and the importation within the Corporation limits of the flesh of any such animal from outside these limits;\n(b) the sale of meat;\n(c) the regulation and sanitary conditions of municipal slaughter-houses;\n(d) the regulation and sanitary conditions of municipal markets;\n(e) the destruction of diseased animals;\n(f) the manufacture for sale and the sale of articles of food, drink or drugs either by licence or otherwise;\n(g) the qualifications of persons who may compound, mix, prepare, dispense or sell any drugs and the certificates or permissions necessary;\n(h) the hours and manner of importation into, or of transport within the city of any articles of food and drink or drugs, by licence for such importation or transport or otherwise;\n(i) the places at which articles of food and drink or drugs shall be produced for inspection prior to importation, transport or exposure for sale;\n(j) the places in which articles of food and drink or drugs may or may not be manufactured, kept, sold or exposed for sale;\n(k) the notice boards to be exhibited by the vendors and labels to be affixed by them to adulterated articles of food and drink or drugs exposed for sale and the particulars which such notice boards and labels shall contain;\n(l) the importation or transport within the city of any articles of food or drink produced under such conditions as will make them or are likely to make them injurious to the health of persons consuming them;\n(m) the supervision and sanitary condition of bakeries, places where sweets are manufactured, public eating-houses, stalls aerated water and ice factories and dairies, stables and buildings or enclosures where animals are kept, whether or not the animals therein are kept for profit;\n(n) the exposure of goods for sale on streets and the levying of fees from persons setting up stall or otherwise selling or exposing goods for sale on the streets;\n(o) the regulation of the manner in which foodgrains intended for sale may be stored;\n(p) the precautions to be taken for protecting milch-cattle, milk and milk products against infection or contamination;\n(q) the giving of notice of the outbreak of any contagious disease among animals and prescribing precautions to be taken for preventing the spread of any such disease;\n(r) the hawking of articles of food and drink;\n(s) the prevention of undesirable or diseased persons from entering municipal markets;\n(25) Private Markets. - (a) the construction and structural and architectural features of private markets;\n(b) the drainage, water-supply, ventilation, lighting, sanitary conditions and regulation of private markets;\n(c) the prevention of cruelty, nuisance, obstruction and overcrowding in, or in the approaches to, or in the passage of, private markets;\n(d) the supervision of private markets;\n(e) the days on which and the hours during which any private market may be held or closed:\n(f) the prevention of all undesirable or diseased persons from entering private markets;\n(g) the prohibition of all persons from selling in a private market in respect of which a licence has been refused, cancelled, or suspended:\n(25-A) licence to pawn brokers, the conditions for such licences and the determination of the amount to be paid for such licences;\n(26) Registration of birth and deaths, etc. - the registration of all births, deaths and marriages which lake place within the city, the taking of a census and the verification of death and the causes of deaths;\n(27) Licensing of theatres, etc. - (a) the safety, sanitation and internal arrangement of theatres or other places of public entertainment or resort and the control and inspection thereof, in order to ensure the safety, health and convenience of persons employed in, or visiting, attending or resorting to the same;\n(b) the licensing of such entertainments;\n(28) Construction of building. - (a) the information and plans to be submitted with applications for the approval of sites for buildings and for permission to erect or re-erect any buildings;\n(b) the period within which sanction for erection or re-erection of a building must be granted or refused;\n(bb) the appointment of a person to supervise the work of erection or re-erection of building or of any specified class or classes of buildings and his qualifications;\n(c) the grant of a completion certificate for newly erected or re-erected buildings and the persons by whom such certificates shall be granted;\n(d) the heights of buildings;\n(e) the level and width of the foundations, the level of the lowest floor or plinth and the stability of the structure;\n(f) the number and height above the ground, or above the next lower storey, of the storeys of which any buildings may consist;\n(g) the height and slope of the roof above the uppermost floor upon which human beings are to live or cooking operations are to be carried on and the provisions of chimneys for cooking operations;\n(h) the space to be left about any buildings to secure the free circulation of air and to facilitate scavenging and to prevent fire and the minimum width of streets in front of building;\n(i) the ventilation and drainage of buildings and the minimum dimensions of doors and windows;\n(j) the means and appliances to be provided and maintained for egress from buildings and protection of life in case of fire;\n(k) the material to be used and the method of construction to be adopted for any building or class of buildings and the provision of impervious floors and damp-proof courses for walls;\n(l) the position, materials and method of construction of fireplaces, smoke-escapes, chimneys, staircases, water-closets, water-closet accommodation and drains in building;\n(m) the parts or portions of building sites on which no building shall be erected;\n(n) the paying of any passage between two buildings or appurtenant to any building;\n(o) the restriction on the use of inflammable materials in buildings;\n(p) the precautions to be taken for the purposes of preventing danger or injury to the public or to the persons employed in erecting a building and of securing the stability of the various parts of the building and buildings and other property in the vicinity thereof, during the progress of the building or of any demolition or excavation incidental thereto;\n(q) the line of frontage where a building abuts on a street;\n(r) the materials and methods of construction to be used tor godowns intended for the storage of foodgrains in excess of fifty mounds;\n(s) the minimum requirements, including dimensions of accommodation for human beings and of accommodation for animals;\n(t) the position and dimensions of projections beyond the outer lace of any external wall of a building;\n(u) the height of factory chimneys and the consumption of smoke;\n(29) Removal or improvement of insanitary building. - (a) the removal or improvement of insanitary buildings and building in a ruinous of dangerous condition;\n(b) the marking of vacant uninhabitable buildings;\n(c) the cleansing, lime-washing, painting, or repair of such buildings;\n(d) the exercise of compulsion upon the owners or occupiers to take such order with abandoned, unoccupied or neglected buildings or lands as the Commissioner may direct;\n(e) the excavation of earth, stone or other materials from any place;\n(29-A) the assessment of compensation by the Corporation under Section 306;\n(30) Passenger-lifts. - (a) the construction, maintenance and working of passenger-lifts, and all machinery and apparatus pertaining thereto;\n(b) the construction, maintenance, fencing and lighting of shafts, landings, hatches and gates connected with passenger-lifts;\n(c) the entry upon, and inspection of any premises containing a passenger-lift by such persons as the Commissioner may authorise in this behalf;\n(d) the prohibition of the use of any lift where any bye-law made under this sub-section has not been complied with :\n(31) Precautions in demolition of buildings. - (a) the precautions to be taken for the prevention of danger or injury to the public during, and to persons engaged in, the demolition of buildings or parts of a building and for the protection of other parts of the same building and of other buildings in the vicinity thereof;\n(b) the notice to be given by any person intending to demolish a building or part of a building to the Commissioner together with particulars of the purposed demolitions and of the precautions to be taken during the progress of the work;\n(c) the prohibition of the commencement of demolition within a prescribed period except with the permission of Commissioner;\n(d) the prohibition of the commencement or continuation of the demolition until all precautions have been and are being taken in accordance with the bye-laws and, with any directions and requisitions in writing which the Commissioner may issue to the person in charge of the work or to the person who submitted the notice, if any, required under the bye-laws;\n(32) Improvement of insanitary lands. - (a) the prohibition of accumulation of water in any pool, ditch, tank, well, pond, quarry hole, drain, water-course, cistern or other receptacle;\n(b) the prohibition of cultivation, use of manure or irrigation, injurious to health;\n(c) the paving and draining of cattle stands;\n(d) the adoption of measures generally to render insanitary lands sanitary;\n(33) Holding of fairs, etc. - the holding of fairs and industrial exhibitions within or without the city;\n(34) Protecting of property of the Corporation. - the protection of the property of the Corporation from injury;\n(35) Protection against fire. - the slacking of inflammable materials and of the lighting of fires in the city;\n(36) Charges for services by municipal authorities. - the charges for services rendered by any municipal authority;\n(37) Register of improvement charges. - the maintenance of a register showing charges on building or lands for improvement expenses under Section 357;\n(38) Appointment of agents by owners of lands not resident in the city. - the appointment by owners of buildings or lands in the city, who are not resident in the city of persons residing within or near the city to act as their agents for all or any of the purposes of this Act or any rule or bye-law made thereunder;\n(39) Inspection and control of brothels, etc. - Licensing and medical\n(40) Mode of performance of acts otherwise provided for - the person by whom and the time, place and manner at or in which anything prescribed under this Act, shall be done, where no express provision has been made therefor;\n(41) Licences and notices. - the form of licences and notices issued under this Act and the authority entitled to sign or issue them;\n(42) Burial and burning grounds. - the manner of carrying and the disposal of the dead; the control, use and management of burial and burning grounds; the maintenance of all such places in good order and in a safe and sanitary condition, and the prevention of encroachments thereon;\n(43) Vehicles or animals plying for hire. - (a) vehicles or animals plying for hire within the limits of the Corporation, the issue of licences to proprietors or drivers of such vehicles or animals; the prescription of types and specification of vehicles or animals to be licensed and the fixing of fees payable for such licences and the conditions on which they may be granted, suspended or revoked;\n(b) the rates which may be demanded for the hire of any carriage, cart, motor vehicle or other conveyance or animals hired to carry loads on persons, and restriction on the loads or persons which may be carried by any animals or carriage, cart or other conveyance plying for hire, within the limits of the Corporation :\n(i) any railway station;\n(ii) the whole or any part of any street so far as such street is situate within ten miles of the limits of the Corporation;\n(iii) the whole or any part of any street leading from the limits of the Corporation to the limits of any municipality, cantonment or Panchayat, if the distance between the limits of the Corporation and the boundaries of these authorities does not exceed fifty miles, and the Corporation and the authorities concerned each consent to the extension of such bye-laws;\n(44) Poor-houses. - (a) the maintenance of poor-houses by the Corporation or by private persons or institutions;\n(b) the maintenance of poor-houses before a poor-house managed by a private person or institution is approved by the Corporation;\n(c) the compulsion of able-bodied beggars to work;\n(d) the nature of the work which may be required of beggars and the kind of food to be supplied to them;\n(e) the authority by which exemption from the obligation to work may be granted in a poor-house on the ground of ill-health or debility;\n(f) the authorities for the inspection of poor-houses;\n(45) Preventing of use of false or incorrect weights, etc. - the preventing of use in any market of false or incorrect weights, scales or measures;\n(45-A) the printing and sale of bye-laws made under this Act and provision for the exhibition thereof in suitable places;\n(45B) the formation and working of the municipal fire-brigade;\n(45C) generally for the guidance of the municipal authorities and public officers in carrying out the purposes of this Act;\n(45D) conditions, fees and limitations for compounding of offences;\n(45E) the naming and numbering of streets and the numbering of houses;\n(45F) the case in which inspection and copies of municipal records may be granted, and the procedure and the fees for the grant of such inspection or copies;\n(46) Generally for carrying out the purposes of this Act.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 444 }, { "number": "428", "title": "428. Penalties for breach of bye-laws.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees and in the case of a continuing breach with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees for each day during which the breach continues after conviction for the first breach; or\n(b) with fine which may extend to [one hundred rupees] for every day during which the breach continues after receipt of written notice from the Commissioner to discontinue the breach.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 445 }, { "number": "429", "title": "429. Hearing by Corporation of objections to proposed bye-laws.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) a notice of the intention of the Corporation to take such bye-law into consideration shall be given continuously for two days in such two daily newspapers which are in the approved list of Government for advertisement purpose having circulation in the area to which it relates and a copy thereof shall be affixed in a conspicuous place in the office of the Collector, in the office of the Municipal Corporation, and in the area to be affected by such bye-law and announcement of such bye-law shall also be made on loud speaker in such area, at least six weeks before the date on which l he Corporation finally considers such bye-law.\n(b) a printed copy of such bye-law shall have been kept at the chief municipal office and made available for public inspection free of charge by any person desiring to pursue the same at any reasonable time for at least one month from the date of the notice given under clause (a);\n(c) printed copies of such bye-law shall have been delivered to any person requiring the same on payment of such fee for each copy as shall be fixed by the Commissioner;\n(d) all objections and suggestions which may be made in writing by any person with respect thereto within one month of the date of the notice given under clause (a) shall have been considered by the Corporation.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 446 }, { "number": "430", "title": "430. Bye-laws to be subject to sanction of Government.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 447 }, { "number": "431", "title": "431. Publication of bye-laws and rules in Gazette and effect of such publication.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 448 }, { "number": "432", "title": "432. Government may modify or repeal bye-laws.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 449 }, { "number": "432A", "title": "432A. Model bye-laws.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 450 }, { "number": "433", "title": "433. Power of State Government to make rules.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the manner of making applications for permission to borrow money; the enquiries to be made in relation to loans and the manner of conducting such enquiries; the inspection of any works carried out by means of loans and the utilisation of unexpanded balances of loans, etc;\n(b) the returns, statements and reports to be submitted by the Corporation;\n(c) any other matter which is to be or may be prescribed.\nPart XI\nChapter XXXVIII\nPunishment of Offences", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 451 }, { "number": "434", "title": "434. Certain offences punishable with fine.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) contravenes any of the provisions of this Act or of the rules or bye-laws made thereunder mentioned in the first column of the following table; or\n(b) fails to comply with any direction lawfully given to him or any requisition lawfully made upon him under any of the said provisions or rules or bye-laws,\nAs applicable to the State of Chhattisgarh\nAs applicable to the State of Chhattisgarh\n[Table]\n[Table]\nSection, subsection or clause\nSection, subsection or clause\nBrief reference to subject matter\nBrief reference to subject matter\nMaximum fine which may be imposed\nMaximum fine which may be imposed\nDaily fine which may be imposed when the\n\t\t\t\toffence is a continuing one\nDaily fine which may be imposed when the\n\t\t\t\toffence is a continuing one\n(1)\n(1)\n(2)\n(2)\n(3)\n(3)\n(4)\n(4)", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 452 }, { "number": "203", "title": "Section 203", "chapter": null, "content": "New building not be erected without drains.\nFive thousand rupees\nTwo hundred rupees", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 453 }, { "number": "205", "title": "Section 205 sub-section (1)", "chapter": null, "content": "Owner of land to allow other to carry drains\n\t\t\t\tthrough the land.\nFive hundred rupees\nFifty rupees", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 454 }, { "number": "206", "title": "Section 206", "chapter": null, "content": "Owner of drain to allow use thereof or joint\n\t\t\t\townership therein to others.\nFive hundred rupees\nFifty rupees", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 455 }, { "number": "208", "title": "Section 208", "chapter": null, "content": "Resistance to order of the Commissioner\n\t\t\t\tregarding use of joint ownership of a drain.\nFive hundred rupees\nOne hundred rupees", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 456 }, { "number": "209", "title": "Section 209", "chapter": null, "content": "Resistance to Commissioner draining premises in\n\t\t\t\tcombination.\nFive hundred rupees\nOne hundred rupees", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 457 }, { "number": "210", "title": "Section 210", "chapter": null, "content": "Resistance to the Commissioner constructing\n\t\t\t\tdrains of failure to maintain and keep in repair portion of a\n\t\t\t\tdrain vesting in an owner.\nFive hundred rupees\nFifty rupees", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 458 }, { "number": "211", "title": "Section 211", "chapter": null, "content": "Resistance to the Commissioner affixing shafts\n\t\t\t\tor pipes for ventilation of drains.\nFive hundred rupees\nOne hundred rupees", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 459 }, { "number": "246", "title": "Section 246", "chapter": null, "content": "Establishment of factory etc. without permission\n\t\t\t\tof the Commissioner\nFive hundred rupees\nFive hundred rupees", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 460 }, { "number": "248", "title": "Section 248", "chapter": null, "content": "Storing dangerous or offensive articles or\n\t\t\t\tcarrying on dangerous or offensive trades.\nFive thousand rupees\nFive hundred rupees", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 461 }, { "number": "254", "title": "Section 254 sub-section (1)", "chapter": null, "content": "Keeping open a private market without permission\nTwo thousand five hundred rupees.\nTwo hundred fifty rupees.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 462 }, { "number": "254", "title": "Section 254 sub-section (2)", "chapter": null, "content": "Establishment, removal, opening re-establishment\n\t\t\t\tor enlarging of private market without permission.\nFive thousand rupees\nFive hundred rupees.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 463 }, { "number": "255", "title": "Section 255", "chapter": null, "content": "Selling animals, meat etc. outside market\n\t\t\t\twithout a licence.\nOne thousand rupees\nFive hundred rupees.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 464 }, { "number": "257", "title": "Section 257 sub-section (3)", "chapter": null, "content": "Slaughter of animals without permission outside\n\t\t\t\tmunicipal slaughter house.\nFive thousand rupees\n-", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 465 }, { "number": "259", "title": "Section 259", "chapter": null, "content": "Sale of diseased or unwholesome animals or\n\t\t\t\tarticles intended for human food.\nOne thousand rupees for a first offence and five\n\t\t\t\tthousand rupees for any subsequent offence.\n-", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 466 }, { "number": "260", "title": "Section 260", "chapter": null, "content": "Keeping adulterants in place where butter, ghee,\n\t\t\t\tetc. are manufactured.\nOne thousand rupees\n-", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 467 }, { "number": "261", "title": "Section 261", "chapter": null, "content": "Sale, etc. of notified article which is not of\n\t\t\t\tprescribed standard of purity.\nOne thousand rupees for a first offence and five\n\t\t\t\tthousand rupees for any subsequent offence.\n-", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 468 }, { "number": "262", "title": "Section 262", "chapter": null, "content": "Sale, etc. of substitutes\nOne thousand rupees for a first offence and five\n\t\t\t\tthousand rupees for any subsequent offence.\n-", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 469 }, { "number": "267", "title": "Section 267 sub-section (3)", "chapter": null, "content": "Removing, interfering or tampering with animal,\n\t\t\t\tfood, drink, drug etc. seized and left in custody.\nOne thousand rupees\n-", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 470 }, { "number": "272", "title": "Section 272", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to give information of existence\nFive thousand rupees\n-", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 471 }, { "number": "289", "title": "Section 289 sub-section (1), clauses (a), (b)\n\t\t\t\tand (d)", "chapter": null, "content": "Prohibition of burials etc. without permission.\nFive thousand rupees\n-", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 472 }, { "number": "289", "title": "Section 289 sub-section (1) clause (c)", "chapter": null, "content": "Burial or burning of any corpse at any other\n\t\t\t\tplace which is not a burial or burning ground.\nFive thousand rupees\n-", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 473 }, { "number": "291", "title": "Section 291", "chapter": null, "content": "Erection or re-erection of building in\n\t\t\t\tcontravention of a town planning scheme.\nFive thousand rupees\nFive hundred rupees", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 474 }, { "number": "293", "title": "Section 293", "chapter": null, "content": "Prohibition of erection or reerection of\n\t\t\t\tbuildings without permission of the Commissioner.\nFive thousand rupees\nFive hundred rupees", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 475 }, { "number": "301", "title": "Section 301 sub-section (1)", "chapter": null, "content": "Notice to be given to the Commissioner on\n\t\t\t\tcompletion of building.\nFive hundred rupees\n-", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 476 }, { "number": "301", "title": "Section 301 sub-section (4)", "chapter": null, "content": "Prohibition of occupation of new or re-erected\n\t\t\t\tbuilding without permission of the Commissioner.\nFive thousand rupees\nOne hundred rupees", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 477 }, { "number": "309", "title": "Section 309 sub-section (3)", "chapter": null, "content": "Entering into or remaining in a building which\n\t\t\t\thas been declared unfit for human habitation.\nFive thousand rupees\nOne hundred rupees", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 478 }, { "number": "310", "title": "Section 310 sub-section (1)", "chapter": null, "content": "Requisition to remove or repair building in\n\t\t\t\truinous or dangerous state.\nFive hundred rupees\nFifty rupees", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 479 }, { "number": "310", "title": "Section 310 sub-section (3)", "chapter": null, "content": "Entering into or remaining in ruinous or\n\t\t\t\tdangerous building from which occupants have been removed.\nTwo thousand rupees\nOne hundred rupees", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 480 }, { "number": "318", "title": "Section 318 sub-section (1)", "chapter": null, "content": "Prohibition of projections upon streets etc.\nTwo thousand rupees\nOne hundred rupees", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 481 }, { "number": "318", "title": "Section 318 sub-section (2)", "chapter": null, "content": "Requisition to remove the same.\nTwo thousand rupees\nOne hundred rupees", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 482 }, { "number": "324", "title": "Section 324", "chapter": null, "content": "Requisition to alter ground floor doors, etc.\n\t\t\t\topening on roads, or streets etc.\nOne thousand rupees\nOne hundred rupees", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 483 }, { "number": "325", "title": "Section 325", "chapter": null, "content": "Requisition to remove projections upon streets\n\t\t\t\tetc.\nTwo thousand rupees\nFive hundred rupees", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 484 }, { "number": "328", "title": "Section 328 sub-section (1)", "chapter": null, "content": "Laying out of private streets otherwise than in\n\t\t\t\taccordance with the permission of the Commissioner.\nFive thousand rupees\nFive hundred rupees.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 485 }, { "number": "435", "title": "435. Punishment for certain offences.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 486 }, { "number": "436", "title": "436. Powers of Commissioner in the event of non-compliance.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 487 }, { "number": "437", "title": "437. Penalty for obstruction.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 488 }, { "number": "438", "title": "438. Punishment for acquiring share or interest in contract, etc. with Corporation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 489 }, { "number": "439", "title": "439. Punishment for essential officer or servant leaving employment.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 490 }, { "number": "440", "title": "440. General penalty.", "chapter": null, "content": "Part-XII\nChapter XXXIX\nElection Petitions", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 491 }, { "number": "441", "title": "441. Election petitions.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) by any candidate at such election or nomination; or\n(b) (i) in the case of an election of a Councillor, by any voter of the ward concerned;\n(ii) in the case of nomination of a Councillor, by any Councillor;\n(iii) in the case of election of Mayor, by any voter of the Municipal area,\n(i) it is presented within thirty days from the date on which the result of such election or nomination was notified in the Gazette; and\n(ii) it is accompanied by a Government Treasury receipt showing a deposit of two hundred and fifty rupees.\n(a) where the petitioner, in addition to claiming a declaration that the election or nomination, as the case may be, of all or any of the returned candidates is void, claims a further declaration that he himself or any other candidate has been duly elected or nomination, the contesting candidates other than the petitioner, and where no such further declaration is claimed, all the returned candidates;\n(b) any other candidates against whom allegations of any corrupt practices are made in the petition.\n(a) contain a concise statement of the material facts on which the petitioner relies;\n(b) with sufficient particulars, set forth the ground or grounds on which the election or nomination is called in question;\n(c) be signed by the petitioner and verified in the manner prescribed in the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (V of 1908), for the verification of pleadings.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 492 }, { "number": "441A", "title": "441A. Relief that may be claimed by the petitioner.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) a declaration that the election or nomination of all or any of the returned candidates is void; and\n(b) in addition thereto, a further declaration that he himself or any other candidate has been duly elected or nomination,", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 493 }, { "number": "441B", "title": "441B. Grounds for declaring elections or nominations to be void.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) that on the dale of his election or nominations a returned candidate was not qualified or was disqualified, to be chosen as a Mayor or a Councillor; 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 or nominations, in so far as it concerns a returned candidate has been materially affected-\n(i) by the improper acceptance of any nominations; or\n(ii) by a corrupt practice having been committed in the interest of the returned candidate by a person other than that candidate or his agent or a person acting with the consent of such candidate or agent; or\n(iii) by the improper acceptance or refusal of any vote or reception of any vote which is void; or\n(iv) by the non-compliance with the provisions of this Act or of any rules or orders made thereunder save the rules framed under Section 14 in so far as they relate to preparation and revision of list of voters.\n(a) that no such corrupt practice was committed at the election or nominations by the candidate, and every such corrupt practice was committed contrary to the instructions, and without the consent of the candidate;\n(b) that the candidate took all reasonable means for preventing the commission of corrupt practices at the election or nominations: and\n(c) that in all other respects the election or nominations was free from any corrupt practice on the part of the candidate or any of his agents.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 494 }, { "number": "441C", "title": "441C. Procedure to be followed in disposal of election petition.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 495 }, { "number": "441D", "title": "441D. Decision of election petition.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) dismissing the election petition; or\n(b) declaring the election or nominations of all or any of the returned candidates to be void; or\n(c) declaring the election or nominations of all or any of the returned candidates to be void and the petitioner and any other candidate to have been duly elected or nominations.\n(a) that in fact the petition or such other candidate received a majority of the valid votes; or\n(b) that but for the votes obtained by the returned candidate the petitioner or such other candidate would have obtained a majority of the valid votes,\n(a) where any charge is made in the petition of any corrupt practice having been committed at the election or nominations, recording-\n(i) a finding whether any corrupt practice has or has not been proved to have been committed at the election or nominations, and the nature of that corrupt practice; and\n(ii) the name of all persons, if any, who have been proved at the trial to have been guilty of any corrupt practice and the nature of that practice; and\n(b) fixing the total amount of costs payable, and specifying the person by and to whom costs shall be paid :\n(a) he has been given notice to appear before the Court and show-cause why he should not be so named; and\n(b) if he appears in pursuance of the notice, he has been given an opportunity of cross-examining any witness who has already been examined by the Court and has given evidence against him, of calling evidence in his defence and of being heard.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 496 }, { "number": "441E", "title": "441E. Procedure in case of equality of votes.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 497 }, { "number": "441F", "title": "441F. Finality of decisions.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) that the decision is contrary to law;\n(b) that the Court has exercised jurisdiction not vested in it by law or has failed to exercise jurisdiction vested in it by, law, but subject to such orders as the High Court may pass thereon, such decision shall be final.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 498 }, { "number": "441G", "title": "441G. Disqualification arising out of corrupt practices.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 499 }, { "number": "441H", "title": "441H. Corrupt practices.", "chapter": null, "content": "(i) Bribery as defined in clause (1) of Section 123 of the Representation of the People Act. 1951 (43 of 1951).\n(ii) Undue influence as defined in clause (2) of the said section.\n(iii) The systematic appeal by a candidate or his agent or by any other person with the consent of a candidate or his election agent, to vote or refrain from voting on grounds of caste, race, community or religion or the use of, or appeal to, religious symbols or, the use of, or appeal to, national symbols such as the national Hag or the national emblem, for the furtherance of the prospects of that candidate's election.\n(iv) The publication by a candidate or his agent or by any other person with the consent of a candidate or his election 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 candidate, being a statement reasonably calculated to prejudice the prospects of that candidate's election.\n(v) The hiring or procuring whether payment or otherwise of any vehicle or vessel by a candidate or his agent or by any other person with the consent of a candidate or his election agent for the conveyance of any elector (other than the candidate himself, the members of his family or his agent) to or from any polling station provided in accordance with the rules made v under this Act :\n(vi) The holding of any meeting in which intoxicating liquors are served.\n(vii) The issuing of any circular, placard or poster having a reference to the election which does not bear the name and address of the printer and publisher thereof.\n(vii-a) the incurring or authorising of election expenditure in excess of the amount prescribed under Section 14-A.\n(viii) Any other practice which the State Government may prescribe by rules to be corrupt practice.\nPart-XIII\nChapter XL\nTransitory Provisions", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 500 }, { "number": "442", "title": "442. Transitory provisions.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the Municipal Council of the City existing immediately before the date aforesaid shall cease to exist and all the councillors thereof shall vacate their offices;\n(b) the administration of the Corporation shall vest in the Administrator who shall be appointed by the Government;\n(c) the Administration shall be deemed to be the Corporation and shall exercise the power and perform the duties conferred or imposed by or under this Act on the Corporation, the Mayor-in-Council, the Appeal Committee and the Commissioner:\n(d) all municipal officers and servants in the employment of the said Municipal Council shall be officers and servants employed by the Corporation under this Act, as if they had been appointed under Section 58.\nChapter XLI\nIndustrial Township", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 501 }, { "number": "443", "title": "443. Industrial Township.", "chapter": null, "content": "(i) if a seat of an elected member becomes vacant, the Executive Officer of the Committee shall inform the State Election Committee forthwith for filling of the vacancy;\n(ii) if a seat of nominated member becomes vacant the Executive Officer shall inform the State Government or the Industrial Establishment, as the case may be :\n(a) Contributions made by the Industrial Establishments;\n(b) Taxes and Ices imposed by the Township Committee.\n(c) All other sums received by or on behalf of the Township Committee.\n444.\n445.\n446.\nTransitory provisions.\nTransitory provisions.\nGeneral Amendment.\nTransitory Provisions.\n[Schedule - I]\n[ See Section 68]", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 502 }, { "number": "1", "title": "1. Relief of the poor, unemployment other than industrial unemployment.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 503 }, { "number": "2", "title": "2. Charities and charitable institutions, a charitable and religious endowments.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 504 }, { "number": "3", "title": "3. Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act. 1890.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 505 }, { "number": "4", "title": "4. Protection of wild birds and animals.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 506 }, { "number": "5", "title": "5. Relief on account of Hoods, earthquakes, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 507 }, { "number": "6", "title": "6. Jubilee and memorial funds.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 508 }, { "number": "7", "title": "7. Intoxicating liquors and narcotic drugs, opium, dangerous drugs.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 509 }, { "number": "8", "title": "8. Poisons.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 510 }, { "number": "9", "title": "9. Agriculture, including agricultural education and research, protection against pests and prevention of plant diseases.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 511 }, { "number": "10", "title": "10. Marketing of agricultural produce.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 512 }, { "number": "11", "title": "11. Arboriculture;", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 513 }, { "number": "12", "title": "12. Sericulture.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 514 }, { "number": "13", "title": "13. Gardens.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 515 }, { "number": "14", "title": "14. Veterinary including improvement of live-stock and prevention of animal diseases.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 516 }, { "number": "15", "title": "15. Prevention of the extension from one unit to another of infectious diseases affecting animals or plants.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 517 }, { "number": "16", "title": "16. Markets established under the law, relating to the establishment of Agriculture Produce Markets for the time being in force in any region of the State.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 518 }, { "number": "17", "title": "17. Fisheries.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 519 }, { "number": "18", "title": "18. State forests, including afforestment, disafforeslmenl, forest rales and grazing.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 520 }, { "number": "19", "title": "19. Land improvement and agricultural loans.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 521 }, { "number": "20", "title": "20. Colonization.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 522 }, { "number": "21", "title": "21. Collection of land revenue and rents.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 523 }, { "number": "22", "title": "22. Collection of local cesses and other sums recoverable as land revenue.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 524 }, { "number": "23", "title": "23. Forests not under the management of Forest Department.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 525 }, { "number": "24", "title": "24. Scarcity and famine relief and relief of agricultural indebtedness.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 526 }, { "number": "25", "title": "25. Fuel and fodder reserves.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 527 }, { "number": "26", "title": "26. Floods.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 528 }, { "number": "27", "title": "27. Money-lending and money-lenders.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 529 }, { "number": "28", "title": "28. Pounds and prevention of cattle trespass.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 530 }, { "number": "29", "title": "29. Burials and burial grounds.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 531 }, { "number": "30", "title": "30. The Chhattisgarh Agricultural Cattle Preservation Act, 1959.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 532 }, { "number": "31", "title": "31. Hospitals and dispensaries excluding epidemic and travelling dispensaries.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 533 }, { "number": "32", "title": "32. 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