{ "id": 16253, "slug": "the-city-of-panaji-corporation-act-2002", "title": "The City of Panaji Corporation Act, 2002", "short_title": "The City of Panaji Corporation Act, 2002", "act_number": "(Goa Act 1 of 2003)", "act_year": 2002, "act_type": "STATE", "location": "Goa", "law_status": "unknown", "enactment_date": null, "description": "The City of Panaji Corporation Act, 2002", "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": "", "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 an Administrator appointed by the State Government under Section 380 of this Act, to exercise the powers and to perform the duties of the Corporation and its authorities;\n(2) \"Assembly constituency\" means constituency provided by law for the purpose of elections to the Goa Legislative Assembly, or any part thereof, which is for the time being comprised in the City;\n(3) \"Assembly roll\" means the electoral roll prepared for any Assembly Constituency in accordance with the provisions of the Representation of the People Act, 1950;\n(4) \"assessment list\" means any municipal assessment register prescribed by section 122 of this Act and includes any register subsidiary thereto;\n(5) \"authorized\" means authorized by the Corporation either generally or specially;\n(6) \"bakery\" means any place in which bread or confectionery including biscuits is baked, cooked or prepared in any manner whatsoever for purposes of profit or sale;\n(7) \"budget grant\" means a sum entered on the expenditure side of a budget estimate which has been finally adopted by the Corporation, and includes any sum by which such budget grant may at any time be increased under sections 88, 89 or 90 of this Act;\n(8) \"building\" includes a house, outhouse, stable, hut, shed or other enclosure, whether used as a human dwelling or otherwise and shall include also verandahs, fixed platforms, plinths, door-steps, walls and the like;\n(9) \"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(10) \"The Commissioner\" means the Municipal Commissioner for the City appointed under section 48 and includes an acting Commissioner appointed under the Act 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(11) \"City of Panaji\" or \"the City\" means the large urban area specified in the notification issued in this respect under clause (2) of Article 243Q of the Constitution of India, known by the name of the City of Panaji;\n(12) \"Closet accommodation\" means a receptacle for human excreta, together with the structure comprising such receptacle and the fitting and apparatus connected therewith;\n(13) \"the Corporation\" or \"Corporation Area\" means the Municipal Corporation of the City of Panaji constituted or deemed to be constituted under this Act;\n(14) \"Councillor\" means any person who is duly continued under this Act or elected as a member of the Corporation under this Act; and includes, a nominated Councillor who shall not have the right:-\n(i) To vote at any meeting of the Corporation and committees of the Corporation; and\n(ii) To get elected as a Mayor or a Deputy Mayor of the Corporation or a chairperson of any of the Committees of the Corporation;\n(15) \"dangerous diseases\" means cholera, plague, tuberculosis, diphtheria, malaria, and any disease which the Corporation or the State Government may, by public notice, declare to be a dangerous disease for the purpose of this Act;\n(16) \"District Court\" means the District Court, constituted for the North Goa district;\n(17) \"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, drain water 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(18) \"drug\" means any substance used as medicine or in the composition or preparation of medicines, whether for internal or external use;\n(19) \"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 owing or having an interest in or managing such premises;\n(20) the expression \"erect or re-erect any building\" with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions includes:\n(a) any material alteration or enlargement of any building;\n(b) the conversion by structural alteration into a place for human habitation of any building not originally constructed for human habitation;\n(c) the conversion by structural alteration of one or more places of human habitation into a greater number of such places;\n(d) the conversion by structural alteration of two or more places of human habitation into a lesser number of such places;\n(e) such alteration of the internal arrangement of a building as effects a change in its drainage or sanitary arrangements or affects its stability;\n(f) the addition of any rooms, buildings, out-houses or other structure to a building;\n(g) 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(h) any change over ground or in land;\n(21) the expression \"essential officer or servant\" means every person employed in the municipal corporation in a service declared to be essential by the Commissioner;\n(22) \"factory\" has the meaning assigned to it under the Factories Act, 1948;\n(23) \"Finance Commission\" means the Finance Commission constituted in accordance with the provisions of Article 243-I of the Constitution of India;\n(24) \"food\" includes every article used for food or drink by man other than drugs or water, and any article which ordinarily enter into or is used in the composition or preparation of human food; and also includes confectionery, flavouring and colouring matters and spices and condiments;\n(25) \"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(26) \"land\" includes land which is being built upon or is built upon or covered with water;\n(27) \"licensed plumber\", \"licensed surveyor\" and \"licensed architect\" mean, respectively, a person licensed by the Corporation as a plumber or surveyor or architect under this Act;\n(28) \"lodging - house\" means a building or part of a building which is let for lodgings;\n(29) \"market\" includes any place within the City where persons assemble for the sale of meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, live-stock or any other article of food; or commodity and is declared to be so by the Commissioner;\n(30) \"municipal drain\" means a drain vested in the Corporation;\n(31) \"municipal market\" means a market vested in or managed by the Corporation;\n(32) \"municipal slaughter-house\" means a slaughter-house vested in or managed by the Corporation;\n(33) \"municipal tax\" means any impost levied by the Corporation under the provisions of this Act;\n(34) \"municipal water-works\" means a water-work vested in or managed by the Corporation;\n(35) \"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 which is or may be dangerous to life or injurious to health or property;\n(36) \"occupier\" includes any person for the time being paying, or liable to pay, to the owner the rent, fees or compensation or any portion of the rent, fees or compensation of the land or building in respect of which the word is used or damages on account of the occupation of such land or building, and also an owner living in, or other-wise using, his own land or building and a rent-free tenant or a person declared to be a Mundkar under the Goa, Daman & Diu Mundkars (Protection from Eviction) Act, 1976;\n(37) \"offensive matter\" includes animal carcasses, dung, dirt, putrid or putrefying substances, and filth of any kind which is not included in \"sewage\" as defined in this section;\n(38) \"Other Backward Classes\" means such classes or parts of or groups within such classes as are declared, from time to time, by the State Government to be Other Backward Classes (excluding creamy layer).\n(39) \"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;\n(40) \"population\" means the population as ascertained at the last preceding Census of which the relevant figures have been published;\n(41) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules or bye-laws made under this Act;\n(42) \"public analyst\" means any person to be appointed by the Corporation to perform the duties and to exercise the power of a public analyst prescribed under this Act;\n(43) \"public place\" includes any public park or garden, or any ground to which the public have or are permitted to have access;\n(44) the expression \"public securities\" means Government securities and any securities guaranteed by Government, securities issued by the Corporation and any other securities declare to be public securities for the purposes of this Act;\n(45) \"public street\" means any street-\n(a) heretofore levelled, paved, metalled, channelled sewered or repaired out of municipal or other public funds; or\n(b) which under the provisions of section 294 is declared to be, or under any other provision of this Act becomes, a public street; and includes\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(46) \"registered trade union\" means a trade union registered under the Indian Trade Unions Act, 1926;\n(47) (a) a person shall be deemed to \"reside\" in any dwelling-house or hut which, or some portion of which, he sometimes, although not uninterruptedly, uses as a sleeping apartment; and\n(b) a person shall not be deemed to cease to \"reside\" in any such dwelling-house 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 or the intention of returning to it;\n(48) \"rubbish\" includes dust, ashes, broken bricks, mortar, glass, garden or stable refuse or refuse of any kind which is not \"offensive matter\" or \"sewage\" as defined in this section;\n(49) \"sewage\" means night-soil and other contents of water-closets, latrines, privies, urinals, cesspools, or drains and polluted water from sinks, bath-rooms, stables, cattlesheds and other like places, and includes trade effluents and discharges from manufactories of all kinds;\n(50) \"sewage connection\" includes any drain set up by the Corporation or the State Government connecting any watery closets, latrines, privy, urinals, bath-room, sink, manhole or tap with any drain set apart by the Corporation for sewage and other offensive matter;\n(51) \"State Election Commission\" means the State Election Commission consisting of the State Election Commissioner appointed in accordance with the provisions of clause (I) of Article 243-K of the Constitution of India;\n(52) \"street\" means any road, land, gully, alley, passage, pathway, square or Court whether a thoroughfare or not, which is accessible to the public whether permanently or temporarily; and includes every vacant space, notwithstanding that it may be private property and obstructed wholly or partly by any gate, post, chain or other barrier, if houses, shops, or other buildings abut thereon and if it is used by any persons whether occupiers of such buildings or not, as a means of access to or from any public place or thoroughfare but shall not include any part of such vacant space which the occupier of any such building has a right at all hours to prevent all other persons from using as aforesaid;\n(53) \"street line\" means a line dividing the land comprised in and forming part of a street from the adjoining land;\n(54) \"traffic sign\" includes all signals, warnings signposts, direction posts, signs or other devices, erected by any person or authority authorized by law to do so, for the information, guidance or direction of persons using roads or of wheeled and other traffic;\n(55) \"vehicle\" means a wheeled conveyance capable of being used on the street;\n(56) \"Wards Committees\" means the Wards Committees constituted under section 41;\n(57) \"water-closet\" means closet accommodation used or adapted or intended to be used in connection with Government or municipal water works and comprising provisions for the flushing of the receptacle by means of a water-supply and having connection with a sewer;\n(58) \"water connection\" includes\n(a) any tank, cistern, hydrant, stand-pipe, meter or tap situated on private property and connected with a water-main or pipe belonging to the Corporation or Government;\n(b) the water-pipe connecting such tank, cistern, hydrant, stand pipe, meter or tap with such water-main or pipe;\n(59) \"water for domestic purposes\" shall not include water for cattle, or for washing vehicles where the cattle 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 or commercial purposes;\n(60) \"water-work\" includes a lake, stream, spring, well, pump, reservoir, cistern, tank, duct, whether covered or open, sluice main-pipe, culvert, engine and anything for supplying or used for supplying water;\n(61) \"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 utilized in aid of or incidental to any process, operation or manufacturing for the following purposes:-\n(i) the making of any article or part thereof; or\n(ii) the altering, repairing, ornamenting or finishing of any article; or\n(iii) the adapting for sale of any article.\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 Standing Committee;\n(c) the Commissioner.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 5 }, { "number": "7", "title": "7. Incorporation of 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. Constitution of Corporation and division of City into wards.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) [Thirty] Councillors directly elected at ward elections;\n(b) Five nominated Councillors having special knowledge or experience in municipal administration, engineering, architecture, archaeology, heritage, etc., nominated by the State Government by a notification.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 8 }, { "number": "10", "title": "10. Reservation of seats.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 9 }, { "number": "11", "title": "11. State Election Commission.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 10 }, { "number": "12", "title": "12. Power of State Election Commissioner to issue directions to prevent impersonation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 11 }, { "number": "13", "title": "13. Preparation of municipal election roll.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 12 }, { "number": "14", "title": "14. Qualifications of candidates.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 13 }, { "number": "15", "title": "15. Disqualifications of candidates.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) is not a citizen of India; or\n(b) has been adjudged by a competent Court to be of unsound mind; or\n(c) has, at any time, been convicted of an offence punishable under section 153A, or sub-section (2) or (3) of section 505, of the Indian Penal Code:\n(d) has been convicted by a Court in India of any offence involving moral, turpitude, unless a period of six years has elapsed since the date of such conviction; or\n(e) has been dismissed from the service of the Government for misconduct and has been declared to be disqualified for employment in the public service; or\n(f) has been dismissed for misconduct from the service of any municipal Corporation, municipal committee, notified area of committee, district council or local board and has been declared by the State Government to be disqualified for employment in the public service; or\n(g) has been so disqualified by or under any law,-\n(i) for the time being in force for the purposes of elections to the Legislature of the State:\n(ii) made by the Legislature of the State of \"Goa\".\n(h) holds any salaried office under or place of profit of the Corporation or any other local authority, while holding such office or place; or\n(i) has directly or indirectly any share or interest in any contract with, by or on behalf of the Corporation while owning such share or interest:\nExplanation:-\n(j) interferes or in any way acts prejudicial to the interest of the Corporation or the State Government, including by making attempts to stall or in any way obstruct the performance of duties, functions or powers exercised by any officials of the Corporation or the State Government, including acts of demolition of illegal structures.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 14 }, { "number": "16", "title": "16. Notification of election, of Councillors, Mayor and Dy. Mayor.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 15 }, { "number": "17", "title": "17. Duration of the term of the Corporation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 16 }, { "number": "18", "title": "18. Term of Office of Councillors.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 17 }, { "number": "19", "title": "19. Election to constitute Corporation.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) before the expiry of its duration of five years as specified in section 17;\n(b) in the case of dissolution of the Corporation, before the expiration of a period of six months from the date of its dissolution.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 18 }, { "number": "20", "title": "20. Filling up of casual vacancies.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 19 }, { "number": "21", "title": "21. Effect of subsequent disabilities.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) subsequently becomes subject to any of the disqualifications specified in section 15 and such disqualification is not removable or being removable is not removed, or\n(b) absents himself during three consecutive months from the meetings of the Corporation, except from temporary illness or for any other cause which the Corporation may consider sufficient to justify such absence, or\n(c) is retained or employed in any professional capacity in connection with any matter to which the Corporation is a party, or\n(d) absents himself during six consecutive months from the meetings of the Corporation, or\n(e) fails to pay any arrears of any kind due by him to the Corporation within three months after a special notice in this behalf has been served upon him by the Chief Executive Officer, such person shall cease to be a Councillor and the State Government shall, by notification, declare his seat to be vacant.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 20 }, { "number": "22", "title": "22. Election of Mayor and Deputy Mayor.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 21 }, { "number": "23", "title": "23. Removal of Councillor.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) if he refuses to act, or becomes incapable of acting, or absents himself without sufficient excuse for more than three consecutive meetings of the Corporation, and if the Corporation recommends his removal by a majority of two-thirds of the Councillors; or\n(b) if his continuance in office is undesirable in the interests of the public or of the Corporation, and if the Corporation recommends his removal by a majority of two-thirds of the Councillors.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 22 }, { "number": "24", "title": "24. 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 Deputy Mayor), who have failed 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 thirty days from the date of service of such notice; and\n(c) submit a copy of the list to the State Government.\nChapter III\nConduct of Business\nTransaction of Business by the Corporation", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 23 }, { "number": "25", "title": "25. Meetings.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 24 }, { "number": "26", "title": "26. First meeting after general election.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 25 }, { "number": "27", "title": "27. Convening of meetings.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 26 }, { "number": "28", "title": "28. Power of Mayor and Deputy Mayor to call special meeting.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 27 }, { "number": "29", "title": "29. Adjournments.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 28 }, { "number": "30", "title": "30. Public to be admitted to the meeting of Corporation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 29 }, { "number": "31", "title": "31. Chairman of meeting.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 30 }, { "number": "32", "title": "32. Quorum.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 31 }, { "number": "33", "title": "33. 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 a partner, or member of the joint Hindu 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 no beneficial interest in any shares or stock of that company or other body;\n(iii) no person shall be deemed to have any 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 financial year five thousand rupees, of any article in which he regularly trades.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 32 }, { "number": "34", "title": "34. Preservation of order.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 33 }, { "number": "35", "title": "35. Constitution of Standing Committee.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 34 }, { "number": "36", "title": "36. Election of Standing Committee.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 35 }, { "number": "37", "title": "37. Election of the Chairman of Standing Committee.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 36 }, { "number": "38", "title": "38. Absence from meeting of Standing Committee.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 37 }, { "number": "39", "title": "39. Casual vacancies in the Standing Committee.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 38 }, { "number": "40", "title": "40. Each Standing Committee to continue in office till a new Committee is constituted.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 39 }, { "number": "41", "title": "41. Constitution of Wards Committees.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the Councillors representing the electoral wards within the territorial area of the Wards Committee;\n(b) the officer-in-charge of the territorial area of the Wards Committee, if any;\n(c) such number of other members not exceeding three, nominated by the Councillors referred to in clause (a), from amongst the members of recognised non-Government Organisations and community based Organisations engaged in social welfare activities working within the area of the Wards Committee:\n(a) the speedy redressal of common grievances of citizens connected with local and essential municipal services like water supply, drainage, sanitation and storm water disposal;\n(b) to consider and make recommendations on the proposals regarding estimates of expenditure pertaining to the wards under different heads of accounts of the budget before being forwarded to the Commissioner;\n(c) to grant administrative approval and financial sanction to the plans for municipal works to be carried out within the territorial area of the Wards Committee costing upto rupees five lakhs, provided that a specific provision exists therefore in the budget sanctioned by the Corporation.\nSpecial Consultative Committees", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 40 }, { "number": "42", "title": "42. Special Consultative Committees, their term, election and filling of casual vacancies.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) a Public Works Committee to which may be referred for inquiry and report, or for opinion, any matter connected with roads, buildings, lighting, public parks and gardens;\n(b) a Public Health and Markets Committee to which may be referred for inquiry and report, or for opinion, any matter connected with public health and safety, health of animals in the City, sanitation, markets, slaughter-houses, vaccination, the disposal of rubbish and offensive matter, and the regulation of dangerous and offensive trades;\n(c) a Hospital Committee to which may be referred for enquiry and report, or for opinion, any matter relating to hospitals and dispensaries and medical and public health administration in the City.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 41 }, { "number": "43", "title": "43. Election of Special Committees for consultative purposes.", "chapter": null, "content": "Explanation:-", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 42 }, { "number": "44", "title": "44. Decision of questions by majority of votes.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 43 }, { "number": "45", "title": "45. Vacancies, etc., not to invalidate proceedings.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 44 }, { "number": "46", "title": "46. Proceedings 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 the Standing 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.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 45 }, { "number": "47", "title": "47. Minute books.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter IV\nMunicipal Offices and Servants", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 46 }, { "number": "48", "title": "48. Appointment of Commissioner.", "chapter": null, "content": "(b) The Commissioner shall hold office during the pleasure of the State Government.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 47 }, { "number": "49", "title": "49. Power of Commissioner.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 48 }, { "number": "50", "title": "50. Salary of Commissioner.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 49 }, { "number": "51", "title": "51. Appointment and salary of principal officers, other officers and servants.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 50 }, { "number": "52", "title": "52. Appointment of other officers and servants.", "chapter": null, "content": "(1) the power of appointing a municipal officer, whose minimum monthly salary is not less than seven thousand rupees, shall vest in the Corporation;\n(2) the power of appointing municipal officers and servants, whether temporary or permanent, whose minimum salary is not less than five thousand rupees but is less than seven thousand rupees shall vest in the Standing Committee;\n(3) the power of appointing all other municipal officers and servants shall vest in the Commissioner;\n(4) any appointment made within his power by the Commissioner shall be reported for its information to the Standing Committee;", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 51 }, { "number": "53", "title": "53. Acting appointments.", "chapter": null, "content": "(i) appoint him in a vacant post on which no other municipal officer or servant holds a lien;\n(ii) grant him such leave as may be due to him under the rules or byelaws framed in this behalf; and\n(iii) appoint any person to act in the place of such officer or servant upon the conditions laid down in the said rules or bye-laws:\n(a) when the acting period exceeds four months, the acting officer or servant shall possess the qualifications prescribed in the rules or byelaws, if any, for the particular post;\n(b) any appointment of a person to act as City Engineer, Health Officer or Municipal Secretary may be disallowed by the State Government, and shall be null and void from the date the order disallowing it is communicated to the Corporation.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 52 }, { "number": "54", "title": "54. 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 spouse or partner, any share or interest in any contract or 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": 53 }, { "number": "55", "title": "55. Discharge on infliction of penalties.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) during a period of probation or from temporary service,\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, or\n(d) on 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 increments or promotion, including stoppage at an efficiency bar;\n(iii) reduction to a lower post or time-scale or to a lower stage in a time-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) suspension;\n(vi) removal from the service of the Corporation, which does not disqualify from future employment;\n(vii) dismissal from the service of the Corporation, which ordinarily disqualifies from future employment:\n(viii) fine to be deducted from salary:\nExplanation:-\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": 54 }, { "number": "56", "title": "56. Extraordinary pension in 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": 55 }, { "number": "57", "title": "57. Re-instatement or re-employment of a convicted officer or servant and payment of salary and allowances to such officer or servant.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 56 }, { "number": "58", "title": "58. Essential officers and servants.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) unless he is authorized in that behalf by the terms of his contract, resign his appointment or quit his employment without giving written notice, of 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 willfully perform them in an inefficient manner.\nChapter V\nPowers, Duties and Functions of the Municipal Authorities\nObligatory and Discretionary Duties of the Corporation", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 57 }, { "number": "59", "title": "59. Matters to be provided for by Corporation.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) lighting public streets, places and buildings;\n(b) planning for economic and social development;\n(c) urban forestry, protection of environment and promotion of ecological aspects;\n(d) 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(e) disposing of night-soil and rubbish and, if so required by the State Government, preparation of compost manure, from night-soil and rubbish;\n(f) complying with the provisions of the Coastal Regulation Zone, Management Plan and the laws, rules and regulations concerning or dealing with environment protection and noise pollution;\n(g) regulating or abating dangerous or offensive trades or practices;\n(h) removing obstructions and projections in public streets or 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 in the Government;\n(i) establishing and managing cattle-pounds;\n(j) securing or removing dangerous buildings or places;\n(k) acquiring and maintaining, changing and regulating places for the disposal of the dead and disposing of unclaimed dead bodies of paupers;\n(l) constructing, altering and maintaining public streets, culverts and Corporation boundary marks, latrines, urinals, drains, sewers and providing public facilities for drinking water; watering public streets and places;\n(m) the management and maintenance, of all municipal water-works and the construction and maintenance of new works and means for providing a sufficient supply of suitable water for public and private purposes;\n(n) 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(o) the construction and maintenance of public markets and slaughter-houses and the regulation of all markets and slaughter-houses;\n(p) establishing and maintaining public hospitals and dispensaries and carrying out other means necessary for public medical relief;\n(q) the maintenance of an ambulance service;\n(r) naming streets and numbering houses;\n(t) registering births and deaths;\n(u) public vaccination;\n(v) prevention of vagrancy; establishing and maintaining poor-houses;\n(w) taking measures to prevent the outbreak, spread or recurrence of infectious diseases;\n(x) the maintenance of a municipal office and of all public monuments and other property vested in the Corporation;\n(y) provision of traffic signs;\n(z) printing and publishing such annual reports and returns on the administration of the Corporation as the State Government may, by general or special order, require the Corporation to submit;\n(z-1) the maintenance of public parks, gardens, recreation grounds, public places and open spaces in existence and vested in the Corporation;\n(z-2) fulfilling any obligation imposed by this Act or any other law for the time being in force;\n(z-3) establishing and maintaining a farm or factory for the disposal of sewage;\n(z-4) any directions issued by the State Government or the Collector of the district:", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 58 }, { "number": "60", "title": "60. Matters which may be provided for by Corporation at its discretion.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) reclaiming unhealthy localities, laying out whether in areas previously built upon or not, new public streets, and acquiring land for that purpose, including plots of land for building to abut on such streets;\n(b) slum improvement and upgradation;\n(c) urban poverty alleviation;\n(d) cattle pounds and prevention of cruelty to animals; and\n(e) regulation of tanneries;\n(f) constructing, establishing or maintaining public parks or gardens, libraries, museums, halls, offices, sarais, rest-houses and other public buildings;\n(g) furthering educational objects other than the establishment and maintenance of primary schools;\n(h) planting and maintaining road-side and other trees;\n(i) providing for parking or halting places or lots for vehicles on any part of any public street or public place which vests in the Corporation;\n(j) taking a census, and granting rewards for information tending to secure the correct registration of vital statistics;\n(k) making a survey;\n(l) the destruction, or the detention, of ownerie dogs;\n(m) securing or assisting to secure suitable place for the carrying on of offensive trades;\n(n) supplying, constructing and maintaining pipe and other fittings for the supply of water to private premises from water-works maintained by the Corporation;\n(o) 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(p) fairs and exhibitions;\n(q) constructing and maintaining such roads and buildings and other government works as the State Government may transfer to the Corporation;\n(r) organization and management of chemical or bacteriological laboratories for the examination or analysis of water, food or drugs, for the detection of disease or for researches connected with public health;\n(s) the construction and maintenance in the public streets of drinking fountains for human beings and water-troughs for animals;\n(t) the playing of music in squares, gardens or other places of public resort;\n(u) the construction, purchase, organization, maintenance or management of tramways, trackless trams/sky car, cable car or motor transport facilities for the conveyance of the public or for amusement of the public or tourists;\n(v) preparation and presentation of address to persons of distinction;\n(w) with the previous sanction of the State Government, any public reception ceremony or entertainment in the city;\n(x) any other matter likely to promote the public health, safety or convenience of the public.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 59 }, { "number": "61", "title": "61. Entrustment of certain functions by State Government to Corporation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 60 }, { "number": "62", "title": "62. Performance of functions by agencies.", "chapter": null, "content": "(i) the Corporation may, either discharge such duties or perform such functions or implement such schemes by itself; or\n(ii) subject to such directions as may be issued and the terms and conditions as may be determined by the State Government, cause them to be discharged, performed or implemented by any agency:", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 61 }, { "number": "63", "title": "63. Environment Status Report.", "chapter": null, "content": "64. (1) Functions of the several municipal authorities.\n(2) Municipal Government of the City vests in corporation.\n(3) Special functions of Commissioner.\n(a) perform all the duties and exercise all the powers specifically imposed or conferred upon him by this Act;\n(b) exercise supervision and control over the acts and proceedings of all municipal officers and servants, 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 the Corporation or danger to human or animal life, take such immediate action as the emergency shall appear to him to justify and require, reporting forthwith to the Standing Committee 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 likely to be incurred inconsequence of such action and not covered by a current budget grant.\n(d) perform all functions, duties which the State Government may by special or general order confer upon the Commissioner.\n(4) Municipal officers may be empowered to exercise the powers of Commissioner.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 62 }, { "number": "65", "title": "65. Corporation may call for extracts from proceedings, etc., from the Standing Committee, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 63 }, { "number": "66", "title": "66. 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 a department subordinate to him and furnish, with his own remarks thereon, a report upon any subject concerning or connected with the administration of this Act or the Municipal Government of the City.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 64 }, { "number": "67", "title": "67. 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.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 65 }, { "number": "68", "title": "68. Procedure for making contracts on behalf of Corporation.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) every such contract shall be made on behalf of the Corporation by the Commissioner;\n(b) no such contract, for any purpose which, in accordance with any provision of this Act, the Commissioner may not carry out without the approval or sanction of the Corporation or some other municipal authority, shall be made by him until or unless such approval or sanction has first been duly obtained;\n(c) no contract, which will involve an expenditure exceeding three lakh rupees or such higher amount as the Corporation may, with the approval of the State Government, from time to time fix, shall be made by the Commissioner, unless the same is previously approved by the Standing Committee;\n(d) every contract made by the Commissioner involving expenditure exceeding fifty thousand rupees but not exceeding three lakh rupees or such higher amount as may be fixed under clause (c) shall be reported by him, within fifteen days after the same has been made, to the Standing Committee;\n(e) the foregoing provision of this section shall as far as may be, apply to every contract which the Commissioner shall have occasion to make in the execution of this Act; and the same provisions of this section which apply to an original contract shall be deemed to apply also to any variation or discharge of such contract;\n(f) not withstanding anything in any of the foregoing sub-sections, the State Government may require the Commissioner to execute any contract on behalf of the Corporation and the Commissioner shall be duty bound to execute the same under the directions of the State Government and in accordance thereof, provided however, in case of any financial implications, not covered by a current budget grant of the Corporation, the State Government shall provide grants to the extent the State Government deems fit.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 66 }, { "number": "69", "title": "69. Mode of execution of contract.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter VI\nMunicipal Property and Liabilities", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 67 }, { "number": "70", "title": "70. Transfer to Corporation of Property of Municipality of Panaji.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 68 }, { "number": "71", "title": "71. Property of public institutions managed by municipal authority to be held in trust.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 69 }, { "number": "72", "title": "72. Acquisition of immovable property or easement by agreement.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 70 }, { "number": "73", "title": "73. Procedure when immovable property or easement cannot be acquired by agreement.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 71 }, { "number": "74", "title": "74. Decision of claims to property by or against Corporation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 72 }, { "number": "75", "title": "75. 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, flower and the like, of which the premium or rent, or both, as the case may be, does not exceed ten thousand rupees for any period not exceeding twelve months at a time:\n(b) with the sanction of the Standing Committee the Commissioner may dispose of by sale or otherwise, 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 fifty thousand rupees;\n(c) with 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 off, by sale or otherwise, any movable property belonging to the Corporation not exceeding ten thousand rupees in value;\n(b) with the sanction of the Standing Committee, dispose off by sale or otherwise any movable property belonging to the Corporation;\n(c) with the sanction of the Corporation, sell or otherwise convey any movable property belonging to the Corporation.\n(i) no property vesting in the Corporation in a trust shall be leased, sold or otherwise conveyed in a manner that is likely to affect the trust subject to which such property is held;\n(ii) no land exceeding one lakh rupees in value shall be sold, leased or otherwise conveyed without the previous sanction of the State Government and every sale, lease 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": 73 }, { "number": "76", "title": "76. Property vested in Corporation.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) all public town walls, gates, markets, slaughter-houses and public buildings of every description, which have been constructed or are maintained out of the municipal fund;\n(b) all public streams, springs and works for the supply, storage and distribution of water for public purposes, and all bridges, buildings, engines, materials and things connected therewith, or appertaining thereto, and also any adjacent land (not being private property) appertaining to any public tank or well;\n(c) all public sewers and drains, and all sewers, drains, culverts and watercourses in or under any public street, or constructed by or for the Corporation alongside any public street, and all works, materials and things appertaining thereto;\n(d) all dust, dirt, dung, 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 lamps, lamp-posts and apparatus connected therewith or appertaining thereto;\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 materials thereof and also trees growing on, and erections, materials, implements and things provided for such streets.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 74 }, { "number": "77", "title": "77. Record of immovable property.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 75 }, { "number": "78", "title": "78. Resumption by Government.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 76 }, { "number": "79", "title": "79. Management of public institutions.", "chapter": null, "content": "Part III\nFinance\nChapter VII\nThe Municipal Fund", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 77 }, { "number": "80", "title": "80. Municipal fund to be held in trust.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 78 }, { "number": "81", "title": "81. Credit of money 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 and whatever accrues or deemed to accrue or due or receivable by the Panaji Municipality and Village Panchayats for panchayat areas in Schedule I on the day of commencement of this Act;\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;\n(g) all moneys received by way of compensation or for compounding offences under the provisions of this Act;\n(h) all moneys received by, or on behalf of, the Corporation from the State Government or private individuals by way of grant or gift or deposits; and\n(i) all interest and profits arising from any investment of, or from any transaction in connection with, any money belonging to the Corporation.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 79 }, { "number": "82", "title": "82. Application from municipal fund.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the cost of auditing the municipal accounts;\n(b) the expenses of every election of Councillors held under this Act;\n(c) 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 State Government at the disposal of the Corporation;\n(d) the salaries and allowances of municipal officers and servants, and all pension, gratuities, contributions and compassionate allowances payable under the provisions of this Act;\n(e) 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(f) all expenses and costs incurred by the Corporation or by any municipal officers 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(g) every sum payable-\n(i) by order of the State Government or under an award made under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, or a decree or order of a Civil Court, as the case may be;\n(ii) under a decree or order of a Civil or Criminal Court passed against the Commissioner;\n(iii) under a compromise of any suit or other legal proceeding or claim;\n(h) contributions to public institutions which the State Government may, after consulting the Corporation, declare to be in the interest of the inhabitants of the City.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 80 }, { "number": "83", "title": "83. Receipts and disposal of payments on accounts of the municipal fund.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 81 }, { "number": "84", "title": "84. Drafts on the municipal fund.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter VIII\nBudget Estimate", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 82 }, { "number": "85", "title": "85. 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 Standing Committee;\n(b) refunds or taxes and other moneys which the Commissioner is by this Act authorized 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 required or empowered to pay by way of compensation;\n(e) sums payable in any of the circumstances mentioned in clause (g) in section 82;\n(f) expenses incurred by the Corporation in the exercise of the powers conferred on it by section 254;\n(g) costs incurred by the Commissioner under clause (c) of sub-section (3) of section 64.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 83 }, { "number": "86", "title": "86. Expenditure under certain of these exceptions to be reported by Commissioner to Standing Committee.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 84 }, { "number": "87", "title": "87. Preparation of budget estimates.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) provide for the repayment of all loans with interest due thereon, for the repayment of which the Corporation is liable;\n(b) provide for the discharge of liabilities imposed on the Corporation by sub-section (1) of section 3;\n(c) provide for the payment in convenient installments from the municipal fund of an amount equal to the grant assigned for education;\n(d) allow for a cash balance at the end of the said year of not less than such sum as may be prescribed by the State Government.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 85 }, { "number": "88", "title": "88. Power of Standing Committee 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; and\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": 86 }, { "number": "89", "title": "89. Power of Corporation to alter budget grants.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 87 }, { "number": "90", "title": "90. Power of Corporation to re-adjust income and expenditure during the year.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter IX\nLoans", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 88 }, { "number": "91", "title": "91. 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 repayment of a loan raised under this Act or any other loan or debt for the repayment of which the Corporation is liable:\n(i) No loan shall be raised for the construction of any work other than permanent work, which expression shall include any work of which the cost should in the opinion of the State Government be spread over a term of years;\n(ii) No loan shall be raised without the previous sanction of the State Government;\n(iii) The terms upon, the period within and the method by which the loans is to be raised and repaid, shall be subject to the approval of the State 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 State 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": 89 }, { "number": "92", "title": "92. Limit of borrowing power.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 90 }, { "number": "93", "title": "93. Repayment of loans.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 91 }, { "number": "94", "title": "94. Attachment of municipal fund in default of repayment of loans.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 92 }, { "number": "95", "title": "95. Attachment of municipal fund for securing payment.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 93 }, { "number": "96", "title": "96. Annual Statement to be prepared by the Commissioner.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the amount and date of borrowing of loans raised by the Corporation and the annual loan charges;\n(b) 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;", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 94 }, { "number": "97", "title": "97. Application of the Local Authorities Loans Act, 1914.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter X\nAudits and Accounts", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 95 }, { "number": "98", "title": "98. Accounts to be kept in a form approved by the Standing Committee.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 96 }, { "number": "99", "title": "99. Transmission of Accounts to Government.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 97 }, { "number": "100", "title": "100. Annual Administration Report and Statement of Accounts by Corporation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 98 }, { "number": "101", "title": "101. Monthly abstract of accounts.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 99 }, { "number": "102", "title": "102. Audit of municipal accounts.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 100 }, { "number": "103", "title": "103. Municipal authorities to remedy defects and report to State Government.", "chapter": null, "content": "Part IV\nChapter XI\nTaxation", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 101 }, { "number": "104", "title": "104. Taxes to be imposed under this Act.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) property taxes;\n(b) a cess on animals or goods brought within the City for sale, consumption or use therein.\n(a) a tax payable by the owners on all or any vehicles or animals, used for riding, driving, draught, or burden, or on dogs where such vehicles, animals or dogs are kept within the City;\n(b) a toll on vehicles and animals used as aforesaid entering the City and on boats moored within the City;\n(c) fees on the registration of cattle sold within the City;\n(d) a lighting rate where the lighting of public streets, places and buildings is undertaken by the Corporation;\n(e) market dues on persons exposing goods for sale in any market or in place belonging to or under the control of the Government, or of the Corporation; and\n(f) any other tax not being a tax on professions, trades, calling and employments which the State Legislature has power to impose in the State under the Constitution.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 102 }, { "number": "105", "title": "105. Procedure for Imposing Taxes.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 103 }, { "number": "106", "title": "106. General tax on what properties to be levied.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) buildings or lands or portions thereof exclusively occupied for public worship or for charitable purposes, for public burial or cremation or for the disposal of the dead;\n(b) buildings and lands vested in Government used solely for the public, purposes or in the Corporation, in of which the said tax, if levied, would under the provisions hereinafter contained be primarily leviable from the Government or the Corporation, respectively;\n(i) those in which any trade or business is carried on; and\n(ii) those in respect of which rent is derived whether such rent is or is not applied exclusively towards the objects specified in that clause.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 104 }, { "number": "107", "title": "107. Control of State Government on the rate of taxes.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 105 }, { "number": "108", "title": "108. Exemption from general tax.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 106 }, { "number": "109", "title": "109. Annual value of land or building how to be ascertained.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the annual value of land shall be deemed to be the gross annual rent at which the land might at the time of assessment reasonably be expected to be let from year to year:\n(i) the amount of the land revenue for the time being assessed on the land, whether such assessment is leviable or not; or\n(ii) when the land revenue has been wholly or in part compounded for or redeemed, the amount which would have been leviable but for such composition or redemption; and\n(b) the annual value of any building shall be deemed to be the gross annual rent at which such building, together with its appurtenances and any furniture that may be let for use or enjoyment therewith, might reasonably at the time of assessment be expected to be let from year to year, less an allowance of ten per cent for the cost of repairs and for all other expenses necessary to maintain the building in a State to command such gross annual rent.\nExplanation I:-\nExplanation II:-\n(c) the annual value of any building, the gross annual rent of which cannot be determined under clause (b), shall be deemed to be eight and a quarter per cent on the sum obtained by adding the estimated present cost of erecting the building, less any amount which the Commissioner may deem it reasonable to deduct for depreciation, to the estimated market value of the land valued with building as part of the same premises:\n(ii) when a building is occupied by an owner under such exceptional circumstances to render excessive a valuation of eight and a quarter per cent on the cost of erecting the building, less depreciation, a lower percentage may be taken.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 107 }, { "number": "110", "title": "110. Requisition of name of owner.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 108 }, { "number": "111", "title": "111. Treatment of property which is let to two or more persons in separate occupancies.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 109 }, { "number": "112", "title": "112. Responsibility for payment of property taxes.", "chapter": null, "content": "Explanation:-", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 110 }, { "number": "113", "title": "113. Employment of assessor.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 111 }, { "number": "114", "title": "114. Assessment of annual value and duration of assessment.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 112 }, { "number": "115", "title": "115. 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 of other specified details or the actual cost or estimated market value of such land or building.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 113 }, { "number": "116", "title": "116. Public notice and inspection of valuation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 114 }, { "number": "117", "title": "117. Notice when valuation made for first time is increased.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 115 }, { "number": "118", "title": "118. Notice of objection to valuation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 116 }, { "number": "119", "title": "119. Investigation of objections by Commissioner.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 117 }, { "number": "120", "title": "120. Appeal to District Court.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 118 }, { "number": "121", "title": "121. Valuation when to be final.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 119 }, { "number": "122", "title": "122. 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 evaluation;\n(e) the amount payable on account of the property taxes;\n(f) any exemption granted from payment of the said general taxes; and\n(g) such other particulars as the Commissioner may direct.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 120 }, { "number": "123", "title": "123. Authentication of assessment list when all objections have been disposed of.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 121 }, { "number": "124", "title": "124. Power of Commissioner to amend assessment list.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 122 }, { "number": "125", "title": "125. Notice of increase of rent.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 123 }, { "number": "126", "title": "126. Notice to be given to Commissioner of demolition or removal of a building.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 124 }, { "number": "127", "title": "127. Failure to give notice of increase of rent.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 125 }, { "number": "128", "title": "128. Period for which revised valuation to continue in force.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 126 }, { "number": "129", "title": "129. Payment of property taxes, how effected by objections to valuation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 127 }, { "number": "130", "title": "130. Refund of excess payment.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 128 }, { "number": "131", "title": "131. Duty of the Corporation to recover all other taxes.", "chapter": null, "content": "Supplemental Provisions", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 129 }, { "number": "132", "title": "132. Commissioner to supply copies on payment.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 130 }, { "number": "133", "title": "133. 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(iii) 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": 131 }, { "number": "134", "title": "134. Power of the State Government in regards to taxes.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 132 }, { "number": "135", "title": "135. Refund of tax on unoccupied immovable property.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 133 }, { "number": "136", "title": "136. Duty of furnishing true information regarding liability to Municipal taxation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 134 }, { "number": "137", "title": "137. Duty of occupier to furnish true information regarding owner's name and address.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 135 }, { "number": "138", "title": "138. Notice of transfers of title, when to be given.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 136 }, { "number": "139", "title": "139. Power of entry for the purpose of valuation of taxation.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) to enter, inspect and measure any building for the purpose of valuation;\n(b) 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 license has not been duly taken out.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 137 }, { "number": "140", "title": "140. Power to examine article liable to toll or cess of imports.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) permit the officer 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": 138 }, { "number": "141", "title": "141. Power to search where toll or cess or imports is leviable.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 139 }, { "number": "142", "title": "142. Punishment for evading payment of toll or cess.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 140 }, { "number": "143", "title": "143. Levy of Street tax.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) all buildings and lands vesting in the Central Government;\n(b) all other buildings and lands exempted from the general tax under section 106;\n(c) all buildings and lands of a rateable value below such sum as the Corporation may determine, shall be exempted from the levy of education cess.\nChapter XII\nRecovery of Corporation's Claims", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 141 }, { "number": "144", "title": "144. Presentation of bill for taxes and other demands.", "chapter": null, "content": "(i) the liability incurred in default of payment, and\n(ii) the time within which an appeal may be preferred as hereinafter provided against such claim.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 142 }, { "number": "145", "title": "145. If bill not paid within fifteen days, notice of demand to issue.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 143 }, { "number": "146", "title": "146. 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 154 against the demand, such sum with all costs of recovery may be recovered under a warrant in the prescribed form signed by the Commissioner-\n(i) by distress and sale of the movable property belonging to such person, or\n(ii) by attachment and sale of the immovable property belonging to him:\n(2) To whom warrant should be addressed.\n(3) Levy of fee on every warrant issued.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 144 }, { "number": "147", "title": "147. Power of Corporation to remit certain fees.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 145 }, { "number": "148", "title": "148. Power of officer to break open door or window.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) if he has reasonable ground for believing that such building contains property which is liable to such distress, and\n(b) if after notifying this authority and purpose and duly demanding admittance, he cannot otherwise obtain admittance:", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 146 }, { "number": "149", "title": "149. Warrant how to be executed.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the following property shall not be distrained:-\n(i) the necessary wearing apparel and bedding of the defaulter, his wife and children;\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 forth-with 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, 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 orders shall be proclaimed at some place on or adjacent to the property by beat of drums or other customary mode, and a copy of the order shall be fixed on a conspicuous part of the property and upon a notice board of the Corporation office, and also, when the property is land paying revenue to the State Government, in the office of the Collector (North).\n(e) any transfer of or charge on the property attached or any interest therein made 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": 147 }, { "number": "150", "title": "150. Sale of goods distrained in special cases.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 148 }, { "number": "151", "title": "151. Sale outside the City.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 149 }, { "number": "152", "title": "152. Fees and costs chargeable.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 150 }, { "number": "153", "title": "153. Summary proceedings may be taken against persons about to leave the City.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 151 }, { "number": "154", "title": "154. Appeal to Magistrates.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the amount claimed from the appellant up to the date of filing the appeal has been deposited by him in the Corporation office, and a written objection has been made and determined in accordance with the provisions of this Act;\n(b) the appeal is brought within fifteen days next after the order terminating the written objection;\n(c) in the case of any tax or claim other than property tax an application in writing, stating the grounds on which the amount of the tax or claim is disputed, has been made to the Commissioner within fifteen days next after the presentation of the bill.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 152 }, { "number": "155", "title": "155. Liability of buildings, lands, etc., for taxes.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 153 }, { "number": "156", "title": "156. Receipt to be given for all payments.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 154 }, { "number": "157", "title": "157. Writing off irrecoverable taxes.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 155 }, { "number": "158", "title": "158. Recovery of tolls and cess on imports.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 156 }, { "number": "159", "title": "159. Taxation not to be questioned except under this Act.", "chapter": null, "content": "Part V\nPublic Health, Safety and Convenience\nChapter XIII\nPublic Convenience", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 157 }, { "number": "160", "title": "160. Cleaning drains.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 158 }, { "number": "161", "title": "161. Places for emptying of drains and disposal of sewage.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 159 }, { "number": "162", "title": "162. 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, either within or without the limits of the Corporation; and\n(c) enter into an arrangement 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": 160 }, { "number": "163", "title": "163. Alteration and discontinuance of drains.", "chapter": null, "content": "Drains and Privies", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 161 }, { "number": "164", "title": "164. Latrines and urinals.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 162 }, { "number": "165", "title": "165. Provision of drains, privies, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 163 }, { "number": "166", "title": "166. Repair and closing of drains, privies, latrines, urinals, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 164 }, { "number": "167", "title": "167. Power of Commissioner to demolish drains, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 165 }, { "number": "168", "title": "168. Unauthorized building over drains etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 166 }, { "number": "169", "title": "169. Removal of latrine, etc., near any source of water-supply.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 167 }, { "number": "170", "title": "170. Discharging sewage.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 168 }, { "number": "171", "title": "171. Making or altering drains without authority.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 169 }, { "number": "172", "title": "172. Power to require removal of nuisance arising from tanks and the like.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 170 }, { "number": "173", "title": "173. New buildings 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 drainage from, and conveying the same off, the said building and the said premises, and of effectually flushing the drain of the said building and every fixture connected therewith.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 171 }, { "number": "174", "title": "174. Sewage and rain-water drains to be distinct.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 172 }, { "number": "175", "title": "175. Rights of owners and occupiers of premises to carry drains through land belonging to other persons.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) cause the work to be executed with the least practicable delay;\n(b) fill in, re-instate 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 without prejudice to any compensation which may be conditionally fixed under sub-section (1) hereinabove.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 173 }, { "number": "176", "title": "176. Obligation of owner of drain to allow use of or joint ownership therein to others.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 174 }, { "number": "177", "title": "177. 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": 175 }, { "number": "178", "title": "178. 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;\n(c) discharging any responsibility attaching to the person in whose favour the Commissioner's order is made for maintaining, repairing, flushing or cleansing the joint drains or any part thereof.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 176 }, { "number": "179", "title": "179. 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 expense payable by each owner.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 177 }, { "number": "180", "title": "180. Connecting drains to be constructed at the expenses of the 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 flushed, cleansed and emptied under the orders of the Commissioner at the cost of the municipal fund:", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 178 }, { "number": "181", "title": "181. Affixing of pipes for ventilation of drains.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) be carried at least five metres higher than any sky-light or window situated within a distance of ten metres therefrom;\n(b) if the same be fixed to a wall supporting the eaves of a roof, be carried at least two metres 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": 179 }, { "number": "182", "title": "182. Right of Corporation to drains constructed at charge of Municipal fund.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter XIV\nConservancy", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 180 }, { "number": "183", "title": "183. Deposit of rubbish, offensive matter, sewage and carcasses.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 181 }, { "number": "184", "title": "184. Collection and removal of sewage.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 182 }, { "number": "185", "title": "185. Collection and temporary deposit of rubbish and offensive matter by occupiers of premises.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 183 }, { "number": "186", "title": "186. Prohibition of accumulations of offensive matter.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) shall throw or place 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, any thing so as to be a 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, Regulations of Public Bathing, Washing etc.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 184 }, { "number": "187", "title": "187. 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;\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, for 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": 185 }, { "number": "188", "title": "188. 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) Whilst suffering from any contagious infectious or loathsome disease, bathe in or near any lake, tank, reservoir, fountain, cistern, duct, sand-pipe, stream, well or trough, or any part of a river within the limits of Corporation boundary or within eight kilometres upstream from the Corporation boundary.\n189. (1) Regulation of washing of clothes by washerman.\n(2) Washing places to be provided by Commissioner for washermen.\nChapter XVI\nWater Supply", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 186 }, { "number": "190", "title": "190. General powers for supplying the city with water.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) construct and maintain water-works 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": 187 }, { "number": "191", "title": "191. Supply of water.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 188 }, { "number": "192", "title": "192. Making connection with municipal water-works.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 189 }, { "number": "193", "title": "193. Obligation of owner or occupier to give notice of waste of water.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 190 }, { "number": "194", "title": "194. Responsibility for damage caused by leakage of water.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 191 }, { "number": "195", "title": "195. Cutting off of water-supply to premises.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 192 }, { "number": "196", "title": "196. Presumption as to correctness of meter.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 193 }, { "number": "197", "title": "197. 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 or control of the Corporation;\n(b) draw off, divert or take any water from any Municipal well, reservoir, main or pipe; or\n(c) tamper with any meter under the management or control of the Corporation.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 194 }, { "number": "198", "title": "198. 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": 195 }, { "number": "199", "title": "199. Prohibition of erection of any building which would injure sources of water-supply.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) erect any building for any purpose whatever on any part of the area enclosed by the boundary-fence of any lake or reservoir from which a supply of water is derived for a municipal water-work; or\n(b) remove, alter, injure, damage or in any way interfere with aforesaid boundary-fence.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 196 }, { "number": "200", "title": "200. 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 what-so-ever into or upon the water of such works; or\n(d) wash or cleanse therein any cloth, wool, leather or skin of any animal or any clothes or other things; or\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 or be brought, into any such water-works or do any other act whereby the water in such works may be fouled or polluted or its quantity altered.\nChapter XVII\nGeneral Provisions with Reference to Drainage, Water-Supply and Water and Other Mains", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 197 }, { "number": "201", "title": "201. Occupier of premises to be primarily liable for certain offences against the Act.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 198 }, { "number": "202", "title": "202. Least practicable nuisance to be causes.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 199 }, { "number": "203", "title": "203. Power of carrying wires, pipes, drains etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 200 }, { "number": "204", "title": "204. Provision as to wires, pipes or drains laid or carried above surface or ground.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 201 }, { "number": "205", "title": "205. Previous notice to be given.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 202 }, { "number": "206", "title": "206. Connection with main not to be made without permission of Commissioner.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 203 }, { "number": "207", "title": "207. Power of Commissioner to require the owner to make provision for drainage.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 204 }, { "number": "208", "title": "208. Power to establish meters and the like.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 205 }, { "number": "209", "title": "209. Communications and connection, etc., to be executed subject to inspection by and to the satisfaction of Commissioner.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 206 }, { "number": "210", "title": "210. Power of Commissioner to fix scale of charges.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 207 }, { "number": "211", "title": "211. Troughs and pipes for rain-water.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) require any Courtyard, alley or passage between two or more building to be paved by the owner or part owner of such building 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": 208 }, { "number": "212", "title": "212. Control by Corporation and the Standing Committee.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 209 }, { "number": "213", "title": "213. Buildings not to be erected without permission over drains or water or air mains.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 210 }, { "number": "214", "title": "214. Control by the State Government.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 211 }, { "number": "215", "title": "215. 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) after giving not less than four 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": 212 }, { "number": "216", "title": "216. Compensation for damage.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter XVIII\nPublic Health and Safety Regulation of Factories and Trades", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 213 }, { "number": "217", "title": "217. Factories not to be established, etc., without permission of Commissioner.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) newly establish, or\n(b) remove from one place to another, or\n(c) re-open or renew after discontinuance for a period of not less than three years, or\n(d) enlarge or extend the area or dimensions of any factory, workshop or bakery in any area set apart for the accommodation of industries by any act, for the time being in force or by any local authority, except with the permission of the Commissioner and in accordance with the terms and conditions stated in such permission:", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 214 }, { "number": "218", "title": "218. Sanitary regulating of factories, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 215 }, { "number": "219", "title": "219. Regulation of dangerous and offensive trade.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) store or keep in any 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 allowed to be carried on in any premises any trade, manufacture, industry or operation mentioned in any rules under this Act as dangerous to life, health or property or as likely to create a nuisance, either from its nature or by reasons of the manner in which or the conditions under which the same may be carried on:", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 216 }, { "number": "220", "title": "220. Premises not to be used for certain purpose without a licence.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) carrying on within the City the trade or operations of a ferrier;\n(b) keeping articles in excess of the maximum laid down for such articles by any bye-laws;\n(c) keeping any article which, except for domestic purpose is prohibited by any bye-laws;\n(d) keeping in or upon any building used or intended to be used as a dwelling-house or within five metres of such building, any quantity of cotton in excess of four hundred weights;\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 property 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.\nExplanation I:-\nExplanation II:-", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 217 }, { "number": "221", "title": "221. Prohibition of corruption of water by chemical, 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 manufactured 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": 218 }, { "number": "222", "title": "222. Inspection of premises used for manufactures, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 219 }, { "number": "223", "title": "223. Prohibition of cinematographs and dramatic performances except in licensed premises.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter XIX\nMarket and Slaughter Place", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 220 }, { "number": "224", "title": "224. Power of Corporation to permit opening of new private markets.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 221 }, { "number": "225", "title": "225. Private markets not to be kept open without licence.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 222 }, { "number": "226", "title": "226. Selling animals, meat, etc., outside a market without a licence.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 223 }, { "number": "227", "title": "227. Power of Corporation to regulate the manufacture, preparation and sale of food and drink.", "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 licensed 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 licensed by the Corporation;\n(d) prohibit the import by persons not licensed by the Corporation of milk, 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 therefore under this section:", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 224 }, { "number": "228", "title": "228. Places for slaughter of animals for sale.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 225 }, { "number": "229", "title": "229. Disposal of dead animals.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) convey the carcass to the place fixed by the Corporation for the disposal of dead animals.\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": 226 }, { "number": "230", "title": "230. Prohibition of sale of diseased animals or unwholesome articles intended for human consumption.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 227 }, { "number": "231", "title": "231. Prohibition of adulterants in places where butter, ghee, etc., are manufactured or stored.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 228 }, { "number": "232", "title": "232. Prohibition of sale of certain articles which are not of the prescribed standard of purity.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 229 }, { "number": "233", "title": "233. Substitutes.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 230 }, { "number": "234", "title": "234. Prohibition of sale etc., of 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 or collection or preparation.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 231 }, { "number": "235", "title": "235. 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\n(b) use any place for the sale of milk or milk products.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 232 }, { "number": "236", "title": "236. Provisions relating to prosecutions.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the Court shall, until the contrary is proved, presume that any animal, 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, food, drink, drug or a substitute was diseased, unsound, unwholesome, unfit or prohibited for human consumption or adulterated or did not fulfil the conditions specified, or was a 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": 233 }, { "number": "237", "title": "237. Liability of warrantors.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 234 }, { "number": "238", "title": "238. 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": 235 }, { "number": "248", "title": "239. Destruction of animals and articles seized under section 248.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 236 }, { "number": "238", "title": "240. Taking before magistrate of animals and articles seized under section 238.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 237 }, { "number": "241", "title": "241. 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": 238 }, { "number": "242", "title": "242. Application of provisions of this Chapter to other articles.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter XXI\nOn Restraint of Infection", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 239 }, { "number": "243", "title": "243. Information to be given of existence of dangerous disease.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) being a medical practitioner or a person openly and constantly practising the medical profession and in the course of such practice becoming cognizant of the existence of any infectious disease in any dwelling other than a public hospital, or, in default of such medical practitioner or person practising the medical profession,\n(b) being, the owner, or occupier of such dwelling and becoming cognizant of the existence of any such disease therein, or, in default of such owner or occupier,\n(c) being the person in charge of, or in attendance on, any person suffering from any such disease in such dwelling, and becoming cognizant of the existence of the disease therein, fails forthwith to give information, or knowingly gives false information to the Medical Officer of Health or to any other officer to whom the Corporation may require information to be given respecting the existence of such disease, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees:", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 240 }, { "number": "244", "title": "244. Powers of Medical Officer of Health to inspect places and take measures to prevent spread of dangerous diseases.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 241 }, { "number": "245", "title": "245. 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": 242 }, { "number": "246", "title": "246. Power of Medical Officer of Health to remove patient to hospital in certain cases.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 243 }, { "number": "247", "title": "247. Power of Medical Officer of Health to disinfect building, tank, pool or well.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 244 }, { "number": "248", "title": "248. Power of Medical Officer of Health to destroy huts and sheds.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 245 }, { "number": "249", "title": "249. Infected building not to be let without being first disinfected.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) unless the Medical Officer of Health 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.\nExplanation:-", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 246 }, { "number": "250", "title": "250. Provision of places for disinfection, washing or destruction or 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": 247 }, { "number": "251", "title": "251. Infected articles not to be transmitted, etc., without previous disinfection.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 248 }, { "number": "252", "title": "252. Restrictions on 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 is so suffering, and\n(b) taking proper precautions against the spreading of such disease.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 249 }, { "number": "253", "title": "253. Disinfection of public conveyance after carriage of patient or dead body.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 250 }, { "number": "254", "title": "254. Power of Corporation to take special measures on outbreak of dangerous disease or infections 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 disease or the spread thereof.\nPart VI\nLands, Buildings and Streets\nChapter XXII\nTown Planning", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 251 }, { "number": "255", "title": "255. Town Planning.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter XXIII\nBuilding Control", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 252 }, { "number": "256", "title": "256. 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 reconstruct any projecting portion of a building which the Commissioner is empowered by section 267 to require to be set back or is empowered to give permission to construct or reconstruct,-\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 or 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": 253 }, { "number": "257", "title": "257. 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 authorizing 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": 254 }, { "number": "258", "title": "258. Commissioner to refuse erection or re-erection of buildings.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 255 }, { "number": "259", "title": "259. 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 255 or of any other provisions of this Act or 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 on which it is proposed to erect on such site will, in the opinion of the Commissioner will obstruct or interfere with the construction in the future of suitable streets in such portion or with the drainage, water supply or ventilation thereof:\n(c) that the site has been reclaimed or used as a place for depositing sewage, offensive matter or rubbish or the carcasses of dead animals or is otherwise unsanitary 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 been sanctioned by the State 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 provision of a town planning scheme:", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 256 }, { "number": "260", "title": "260. Grounds on which permission to erect or re-erect buildings 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 schemes sanctioned under section 255, 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(b) If in his opinion the erection or re-erection of such buildings would be a nuisance or injurious to the inhabitants of the neighbourhood or to the public; or\n(c) Unless and until any plans, specifications or particulars called for by him are supplied.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 257 }, { "number": "261", "title": "261. Power of Commissioner to direct modification of a sanctioned plan of a building before its completion.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 258 }, { "number": "262", "title": "262. Lapse of sanction after one year from the date of such sanction.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 259 }, { "number": "263", "title": "263. Completion certificate and permission to occupy or re-use.", "chapter": null, "content": "(i) erects or re-erects any building; or\n(ii) makes any material external alteration in or addition to any building; or\n(iii) constructs or reconstructs any projecting portion of a building which the Commissioner is empowered under section 267 to require to be set back or is empowered to give permission to construct or reconstruct;\n(a) give permission for the occupation of the building erected or for the use of the part of the building erected, or\n(b) refuse such permission in case such erection, re-erection, construction or reconstruction is in contravention of any provision of this Act 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 prescribed manner,\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": 260 }, { "number": "264", "title": "264. Power of Commissioner to stop progress of building work unlawfully commenced or carried on.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 261 }, { "number": "265", "title": "265. Power of Commissioner to direct removal of person from buildings in which works are being unlawfully carried on or which are unlawfully occupied.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 262 }, { "number": "266", "title": "266. Erection and use of temporary buildings to be approved by Commissioner.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 263 }, { "number": "267", "title": "267. 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 street by such setting back or removal shall thenceforth be deemed to be part of the public street and shall vest in the Corporation:", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 264 }, { "number": "268", "title": "268. Compensation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 265 }, { "number": "269", "title": "269. 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 256 (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 the sanction has lapsed under section 262,", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 266 }, { "number": "270", "title": "270. Bar on jurisdiction.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter XXIV\nDangerous and Insanitary Buildings", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 267 }, { "number": "271", "title": "271. Provisions regarding buildings unfit for human habitation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 268 }, { "number": "272", "title": "272. Removal of building in dangerous state.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 269 }, { "number": "273", "title": "273. Abandoned or unoccupied premises.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 270 }, { "number": "274", "title": "274. 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": 271 }, { "number": "275", "title": "275. Power to prohibit re-erection of building on inaccessible sites.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 272 }, { "number": "276", "title": "276. Removal of building materials from any premises in certain cases.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 273 }, { "number": "277", "title": "277. Power of Commissioner to call for statement of accommodation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 274 }, { "number": "278", "title": "278. Cleaning and disinfecting of buildings.", "chapter": null, "content": "279. \"Building\" to include part of a building for purposes of this Chapter.\nChapter XXV\nStreets\nPublic Streets", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 275 }, { "number": "280", "title": "280. Closing of public streets.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 276 }, { "number": "281", "title": "281. Laying railway, skybus or electrical telephone poles.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 277 }, { "number": "282", "title": "282. Prohibition of projections 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 of proper working of such drain or channel or to impede the inspection or cleansing thereof.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 278 }, { "number": "421", "title": "283. Procedure to be followed by Commissioner on conviction of a person under section 421.", "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 expense of such person and recover the cost of the required act from such person as an arrear of tax under Chapter XII of this Act.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 279 }, { "number": "284", "title": "284. Restriction on powers of municipal authorities in relation to street.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 280 }, { "number": "285", "title": "285. Footings of buildings not to establish title to land belonging to Government or vesting in Corporation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 281 }, { "number": "286", "title": "286. Prohibition of obstruction in streets.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 282 }, { "number": "287", "title": "287. 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 materials 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 pavement or any wall, fence, post, chain 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, or 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 (1), 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": 283 }, { "number": "288", "title": "288. Ground floor doors, etc., not to open outwards on streets.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 284 }, { "number": "289", "title": "289. Powers to require removal of old projections.", "chapter": null, "content": "Streets", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 285 }, { "number": "290", "title": "290. Commissioner may call for further particulars.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 286 }, { "number": "291", "title": "291. Level of new street to be determined by Commissioner.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 287 }, { "number": "292", "title": "292. 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": 288 }, { "number": "293", "title": "293. Levelling, metalling, parking, etc., on streets.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the nature of the intended works;\n(b) the estimated expenses thereof including five percent for contingencies; and\n(c) the proportion of the expenses payable by each owner.\nConversion of Streets into Public Streets", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 289 }, { "number": "294", "title": "294. Power to declare streets when metalled, etc., public streets.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 290 }, { "number": "295", "title": "295. Power to construct or maintain public bridges.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) with any person to adopt and maintain any existing or proposed bridge, via duct or arch and approaches as part of a public street, or as property vested in the Corporation; or\n(b) for the construction or alteration of any such bridge, via duct 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 expenses of such person or partly at the expense of the Corporation.\nChapter XXVI\nGeneral Provisions as to Streets and Public Nuisance", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 291 }, { "number": "296", "title": "296. Power to require protection of streets during cutting down of trees, erection demolition of building, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 292 }, { "number": "297", "title": "297. Power to attach brackets for lamps.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 293 }, { "number": "298", "title": "298. Destroying direction-posts, lamp-posts, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 294 }, { "number": "299", "title": "299. Bill-sticking without permission.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 295 }, { "number": "300", "title": "300. Indecent or obscene pictures or printed or written matter.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 296 }, { "number": "301", "title": "301. 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 a conspicuous part of any house at or near each end, corner of 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) by a written notice require the owner of any premises, either to put up or paint a number of such premises in such position and manner as may be specified in such notice or to signify in writing his desire that the work shall be executed under the orders of the Commissioner.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 297 }, { "number": "302", "title": "302. Inflammable materials.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 298 }, { "number": "303", "title": "303. Roofs and external walls not to be made of inflammable materials.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 299 }, { "number": "304", "title": "304. Picketing animals or collecting carts.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 300 }, { "number": "305", "title": "305. Driving vehicles without proper lights.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 301 }, { "number": "306", "title": "306. Beating drums, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 302 }, { "number": "307", "title": "307. Discharging fire-arms.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 303 }, { "number": "308", "title": "308. Quarrying, blasting, cutting timber or building.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 304 }, { "number": "309", "title": "309. Lopping of branches, etc. of tree or plant on a public place.", "chapter": null, "content": "Part VII\nChapter XXVII\nCo-operation of Police", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 305 }, { "number": "310", "title": "310. 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 rule or bye-law made thereunder.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 306 }, { "number": "311", "title": "311. Powers 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": 307 }, { "number": "312", "title": "312. Power of the Superintendent to arrest a person on requisition from Commissioner.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 308 }, { "number": "313", "title": "313. Police protection at fairs, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter XXVIII\nPrevention and Extinction of Fires", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 309 }, { "number": "314", "title": "314. Requisition of fire brigade and arrangements for the prevention and extinction of fire.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 310 }, { "number": "315", "title": "315. Power of fire brigade and other persons 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 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 be 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": 311 }, { "number": "316", "title": "316. Precautionary measures for places of public entertainment.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter XXIX\nDangerous Animals", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 312 }, { "number": "317", "title": "317. Disposal of mad and stray dogs and other animals.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) authorise any person-\n(i) to destroy, or cause to be destroyed or confine or cause to be confined for such period as the Commissioner may direct, any dog or other animal 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 animal 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 take appropriate steps.\n(b) issue a temporary or standing order that any dogs without collars or other marks distinguishing them as private property found straying on the streets or beyond the enclosure of the houses of the owners of such dogs should be confined or dealt with appropriately:", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 313 }, { "number": "318", "title": "318. 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 prescribed manner during the prevalence of rabies directed that dogs shall not be at large without muzzles, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 314 }, { "number": "319", "title": "319. Letting loose horse or other animals.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter XXX\nBeggars", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 315 }, { "number": "320", "title": "320. Soliciting alms.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 316 }, { "number": "321", "title": "321. Importing beggar.", "chapter": null, "content": "Part VIII\nChapter XXXI\nProcedure\nLicences and Written Permissions", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 317 }, { "number": "322", "title": "322. Licences and written permissions.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the date of the grant thereof;\n(b) the purpose and the period (if any) for which it is granted;\n(c) the restrictions and conditions (if any) subject to which it is granted;\n(d) the name of the person to whom it is granted; and\n(e) the tax or fee, if any, paid for the licence or written permission.\nEvidence", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 318 }, { "number": "323", "title": "323. Proof of consent, etc., of municipal authorities or municipal officers.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the Corporation, or the Standing Committee, or the Commissioner, or\n(b) of any municipal officer,", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 319 }, { "number": "324", "title": "324. Signature on notices, etc., may be stamped.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 320 }, { "number": "325", "title": "325. 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 as the owner, or one of the owners, of the property concerned, or\n(b) by causing the said notice, bill, schedule, summons or other document to be affixed on some conspicuous part of the land or building to which the document relates, or\n(c) 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 property concerned) without further name or description of the person concerned, and obtaining a certificate of posting the same from the post office, or\n(d) by any one or more of these methods.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 321 }, { "number": "326", "title": "326. Service of notice, 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": 322 }, { "number": "327", "title": "327. The two preceding sections inapplicable to Magistrate's summonses.", "chapter": null, "content": "Powers of Entry and Inspection", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 323 }, { "number": "328", "title": "328. 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) of the purpose thereof;\n(c) notwithstanding any power to enter any premises conferred upon municipal officers 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 appropriated to women to withdraw to some part of the premises where their privacy need 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 the occupants of the premises entered.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 324 }, { "number": "329", "title": "329. Power of entry on lands adjacent to works.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 325 }, { "number": "330", "title": "330. Right of entry into and inspection of premises licensed for any purpose.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 326 }, { "number": "331", "title": "331. Prohibition of obstructing entry.", "chapter": null, "content": "Enforcement of Orders to execute Works, etc.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 327 }, { "number": "332", "title": "332. 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": 328 }, { "number": "333", "title": "333. Power of Commissioner to accept agreement for payment of expenses in instalments.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 329 }, { "number": "334", "title": "334. Execution of work by occupier in default of owner and deduction of expenses from rent.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 330 }, { "number": "335", "title": "335. Limitation of liability of agent or trustee or owner.", "chapter": null, "content": "Payment of Compensation", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 331 }, { "number": "336", "title": "336. General power of Commissioner to pay compensation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 332 }, { "number": "337", "title": "337. Compensation to owner for value of immovable property deteriorated.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 333 }, { "number": "338", "title": "338. Principle on which and manner in which compensation should be determined.", "chapter": null, "content": "Complaint on Injury", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 334 }, { "number": "339", "title": "339. 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 relating to his complaint, which costs may include compensation for the complainant's loss of time in prosecuting the complaint.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 335 }, { "number": "340", "title": "340. 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": 336 }, { "number": "341", "title": "341. Reference by Commissioner to the District Court, North Goa at Panaji.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 337 }, { "number": "342", "title": "342. Application to District Court.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 338 }, { "number": "337", "title": "343. Recovery of sums ascertained under section 337 to be due.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 339 }, { "number": "344", "title": "344. Saving of right to claim damages for injury.", "chapter": null, "content": "Recovery of Certain Dues", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 340 }, { "number": "345", "title": "345. Recovery of certain dues by distress and sale.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 341 }, { "number": "346", "title": "346. 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 Courts", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 342 }, { "number": "347", "title": "347. Decision of the District Court.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 343 }, { "number": "348", "title": "348. Procedure in inquiries before Civil Courts.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 344 }, { "number": "349", "title": "349. Fees in proceedings before Civil Courts.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) on any application, appeal or reference made under this Act, to the District Court, North Goa at Panaji, and\n(b) for the issue in connection with any inquiry or proceeding, of the Court under this Act, of any summons or other process:", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 345 }, { "number": "350", "title": "350. Limitation of Time.", "chapter": null, "content": "Proceedings before Magistrates", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 346 }, { "number": "351", "title": "351. Procedure in prosecution.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 347 }, { "number": "352", "title": "352. Power of Magistrate to hear the case in absence of accused.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) service of the summons is proved to his satisfaction; and\n(b) no sufficient cause is shown for the non-appearance of such person; hear and determine the case in his absence.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 348 }, { "number": "353", "title": "353. Limitation of time for prosecution.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) within one year 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 one year 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 other officer or servant whose duty is to report such offence to the Commissioner.\nLegal Proceedings", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 349 }, { "number": "354", "title": "354. 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;\n(c) admit, compromise or withdraw any claim made under this Act or under any rule or bye-law made thereunder, 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 duty vesting in or imposed upon the Corporation, the Standing Committee or any municipal officer or servant:", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 350 }, { "number": "355", "title": "355. 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": 351 }, { "number": "356", "title": "356. Bar to grant of injunctions.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 352 }, { "number": "357", "title": "357. Indemnity for acts done in good faith.", "chapter": null, "content": "Appeals", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 353 }, { "number": "358", "title": "358. Order passed under this Act and the rules thereunder.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 354 }, { "number": "359", "title": "359. Appeals and revisions.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter XXXII\nSupplemental Provisions", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 355 }, { "number": "360", "title": "360. Power of State Government to include certain areas within the limits of the City.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 356 }, { "number": "361", "title": "361. Effect of Inclusion.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) The Goa Municipalities Act, or The Goa Panchayat Raj Act as the case may be, if in force in such area shall be deemed to be repealed therein; and\n(b) Except as the State Government may otherwise by notification in the Official Gazette direct, all rules, bye-laws, regulations, orders, directions and powers made, issued or conferred under this Act and in force at the date of inclusion shall apply to the said area, in supersession of all corresponding rules, bye-laws, regulations, orders, directions and powers made, issued or conferred under The Goa Municipalities Act, or The Goa Panchayat Raj Act as the case may be.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 357 }, { "number": "362", "title": "362. Exclusion of specified areas from the operation of certain provisions.", "chapter": null, "content": "General Provisions", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 358 }, { "number": "363", "title": "363. Power of authority to require any one or more of a number of things to be done.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 359 }, { "number": "364", "title": "364. Determination of owner or occupier where there are gradations of owners or occupiers.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 360 }, { "number": "365", "title": "365. Councillors and Municipal Officers, etc., to be deemed public servants.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 361 }, { "number": "366", "title": "366. Prohibition of obstruction to municipal contractors.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 362 }, { "number": "367", "title": "367. Prohibition of removal of mark.", "chapter": null, "content": "Construction of References", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 363 }, { "number": "368", "title": "368. 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 or the Municipality of Panaji shall be construed in respect of the City as references to the Corporation constituted by this Act;\n(c) all references to the President or Vice-President of the Municipality of Panaji shall be construed in respect of the City as references to the Commissioner;\n(d) all references to the members of the said Municipality shall in respect of the City be construed as references to the Councillors referred to in section 9; and\n(e) all references to any chapter or section of the The Goa Municipalities Act, or The Goa Panchayat Raj Act shall as far as possible be construed in respect of the area under this Corporation as references to this Act or to its corresponding chapter or section.\nSupplemental Provisions", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 364 }, { "number": "369", "title": "369. 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": 365 }, { "number": "370", "title": "370. Disputes between Corporation and local authorities.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 366 }, { "number": "371", "title": "371. Disputes between State Government and Corporation.", "chapter": null, "content": "Part IX\nChapter XXXIII\nControl", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 367 }, { "number": "372", "title": "372. Power of State 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;\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": 368 }, { "number": "373", "title": "373. Power of State Government to depute officers to make inspection or examination and report.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) to produce any record, correspondence, plan or other 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, file, confidential reports or service record of any official.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 369 }, { "number": "374", "title": "374. Power of State 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 Standing Committee, the Commissioner or any other officer or servant of the Corporation has failed to take such measures in any matter as appear to the State 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; the State Government may, by written order direct the Corporation, the Standing Committee, the Commissioner, or any other officer or servant of the Corporation within a period specified in the order-\n(i) to make arrangements to the satisfaction of the State Government for the proper performance of the duties referred to in clause (a) or to take such measures as may be specified by the State Government in connection with any matter referred to in clause (b), or to make financial provision to the satisfaction of the State 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 State Government against the making of such arrangements, the taking of such measures or the making of such provisions, as the case may be.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 370 }, { "number": "375", "title": "375. Procedure by the State Government when Municipal authority fails to take action.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) appoint some person to take the action so directed;\n(b) fix 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": 371 }, { "number": "376", "title": "376. Power to demand punishment or dismissal.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 372 }, { "number": "377", "title": "377. Power to prevent extravagant establishment.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 373 }, { "number": "378", "title": "378. Power of State Government to suspend any resolution or order.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 374 }, { "number": "379", "title": "379. Power of Government to supersede Corporation in case of incompetency or default or excess or abuse of powers.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 375 }, { "number": "380", "title": "380. Consequences of dissolution.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) all members of the Corporation shall, from the date of the notification, vacate their office;\n(b) all powers and duties of the Corporation, Standing Committee and the Commissioner may, until the Corporation is reconstituted, be exercised, performed by such Government Officer as the State Government may appoint in that behalf, and the person so appointed shall be called the Administrator of the City;\n(c) all property vested in the Corporation shall, until the Corporation is reconstituted, vest in such Government Officer in trust for the purposes of this Act.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 376 }, { "number": "381", "title": "381. Reconstitution of Corporation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 377 }, { "number": "382", "title": "382. Control of the State Government.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 378 }, { "number": "383", "title": "383. Enforcement of orders.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 379 }, { "number": "384", "title": "384. Certain officials entitled to attend meetings of Corporation or Standing Committee.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 380 }, { "number": "385", "title": "385. Rules for inspection of institution and works of Corporation.", "chapter": null, "content": "Part X\nChapter XXXIV\nBye-laws", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 381 }, { "number": "386", "title": "386. Bye-laws.", "chapter": null, "content": "(1) Conduct of business. - (a) the time and place of committee meetings;\n(1) Conduct of business.\n(b) the manner in which notice of such committee meetings may be given;\n(c) the quorum necessary for the transaction of business at any committee meetings;\n(d) the filling of vacancies on any committee other than the Standing Committee;\n(e) any other matter relating to the proceedings of the Corporation or of the Standing Committee, the holding and regulation of meetings and the Conduct of debate 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 persons on payment of fees or otherwise;\n(2) Delegation of powers. - the exercise by the Commissioner or any 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;\n(2) Delegation of powers.\n(3) Municipal officers and servants. - (a) the qualifications of persons to be appointed Medical Officer of Health, Chief Engineer, or Engineer in charge of a separate department of Corporation works, or of persons to be appointed to posts requiring scientific or technical knowledge, and the qualifications of persons to be appointed Corporation Officers or servants;\n(3) Municipal officers and servants.\n(b) the conditions of service of Corporation officers or servants;\n(c) the procedure to be followed in dismissing or removing from office or otherwise punishing or penalizing any Corporation officer or servant, and the cases in which and the authorities to which an appeal may be allowed;\n(d) the Corporation officers or servants from whom security may be required and the amount and nature of the security;\n(e) the grant of leave to Corporation officers and servants;\n(f) leave salaries to Corporation officers and servants on leave;\n(g) the remuneration of persons appointed to act for any of the said officers or servants during their absence on leave;\n(h) the period of service of Corporation officers and servants;\n(i) the conditions under which Corporation officers and servants may receive pensions, gratuity or compassionate allowances on retirement or discharge and the grant of gratuities to the surviving relatives of any such officers or servants;\n(j) the conveyance allowance payable to Corporation officers;\n(k) the travelling allowance of Corporation officers and servants;\n(l) the determination of what Corporation officers and servants are essential for the purpose of section 58.\n(4) Provident or annuity fund. - (a) a provident or annuity fund;\n(4) Provident or annuity fund.\n(b) compulsory subscription to such fund, whether by deduction from pay or otherwise, by all Corporation officers and servants other than those in the service of the State Government;\n(c) contributions to such funds by the Corporation from the Municipal fund;\n(d) the times, circumstances, and conditions at or under which payments may be made out of any funds established under the Act and the conditions under which such payments shall discharge the fund from further liability;\n(e) the settlement by arbitration or otherwise of disputes relating to such fund or to the payments or subscriptions thereto or to claim thereon arising between the Corporation and other persons or between persons claiming any share or interest therein;\n(5) Manner of service of notice under section 74. - the manner in which notice of any enquiry or order shall be given under sub-section (1) of section 74;\n(5) Manner of service of notice under section 74.\n(6) Transfer of property. - the conditions and limitations under which immovable property vested in the Corporation may be transferred or disposed of;\n(6) Transfer of property.\n(7) Publication of annual administration report and statements of accounts. - (a) the form and contents of the report and statement to be prepared under section 96;\n(7) Publication of annual administration report and statements of accounts.\n(b) the publication of the said report and statement;\n(c) the submission of a copy thereof by the Commissioner to the State Government;\n(8) Contracts. - (a) the manner in which and the persons by whom contracts may be executed;\n(8) Contracts.\n(b) the security to be demanded for the due performance of contracts;\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(9) Signature on cheques etc. - (a) the manner in which and the person by whom payments may be made out of the Municipal fund or cheques drawn upon the said fund may be signed;\n(9) Signature on cheques etc.\n(b) the manner in which and the person by whom coupons attached to debentures issued under this Act may be signed;\n(10) The common seal. - 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(10) The common seal.\n(11) Preparation of budget estimates. - the manner in which the budget estimates shall be prepared;\n(11) Preparation of budget estimates.\n(12) Tolls and cess on imports. - the classes of goods on which, and the rate at which tolls and cess on imports may be imposed- time and mode of collection of taxes, cesses, etc. - the regulation of the time and mode of collection of any tax which may be imposed under sub-section (2) of section 104;\n(12) Tolls and cess on imports.\n(13) Assessment, collection remission, refund and recovery of taxes, cesses etc. - (a) the date before which, and the rates at which municipal taxes to be levied shall be determined;\n(13) Assessment, collection remission, refund and recovery of taxes, cesses etc.\n(b) the assessment, collection, composition, remission, refund and recovery of taxes and cesses and the exemptions from such taxes and cesses, and the prevention of evasion;\n(c) the date, place and manner of paying any tax or installment of tax payable under this Act and the person to whom it shall be paid;\n(d) the fees for notice of demand of any tax and for the execution of warrants of distress and the rates to be charged for maintenance of any livestock distrained; and the persons authorized to receive payment of any sums so payable;\n(e) the manner in which the annual values of buildings and lands shall be determined for the purposes of assessment;\n(14) Drains. - (a) the maintenance and improvement of existing drains;\n(14) Drains.\n(b) the construction of new drains;\n(c) the alteration and discontinuation of drains;\n(d) the flushing and cleaning of drains;\n(e) the drainage of any building or land;\n(f) the drainage of private streets;\n(g) the construction and position of closet accommodation, water closets, privies, urinals and similar conveniences, public or private, and bathing and washing and the places and the prevention of nuisances arising therefrom;\n(h) the construction and maintenance of a sufficient number of some or all of the aforesaid convenience in all buildings;\n(i) similar provisions for the use of the public;\n(j) the payment of the cost of agency under the authority conferred by this Act;\n(15) Public latrines and washing places. - (a) the maintenance and regulation of urinals, closet accommodation, water closet accommodation, water closets, bathing and washing places and premises appurtenant thereto, belonging to the Corporation;\n(15) Public latrines and washing places.\n(b) the regulation of urinals, closet accommodation, water closets and bathing and washing places provided for the common use of the inhabitants of one or more buildings;\n(16) 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(16) Scavenging and disposal of refuse.\n(17) Waterworks. - (a) waterworks;\n(17) 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 private water supplies and the regulations 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, tank, pond, cistern or fountain;\n(k) the prevention of the pollution of water within the city;\n(18) Streets. - (a) the maintenance and improvement of public streets;\n(18) 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 naming and numbering of streets and the temporary occupation of public streets;\n(e) the cleansing of private streets and keeping them free of dusty asphalting, tarring or other means;\n(f) bill-posting and sky signs including prohibition of the same;\n(g) dangerous places;\n(h) the lighting of public streets;\n(i) the watering of public streets;\n(19) Street traffic. - street traffic and the reduction of noise caused by such traffic;\n(19) Street traffic.\n(20) Prohibition or restriction and regulation of use of barbed wire etc. - the use of 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(20) Prohibition or restriction and regulation of use of barbed wire etc.\n(21) Hedges. - the removal, trimming and cutting of trees, shrubs and hedges;\n(21) Hedges.\n(22) Lodging houses. - (a) the periodical regulation of the number of persons who may occupy a lodging house and the licences necessary for keepers of lodging houses;\n(22) 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(23) Over crowding. - the number of persons who may occupy any building;\n(23) Over crowding.\n(24) Rest houses etc. - the inspection and control of stables, camping grounds, pounds and rest-houses;\n(24) Rest houses etc.\n(25) Camping on public ground. - the encamping or picketing of animals or the collection of parking of vehicles in any public place; or the use of such places for the halting of animals or vehicles;\n(25) Camping on public ground.\n(26) Keeping of animals. - (a) the keeping of animals in the City;\n(26) Keeping of animals.\n(b) the importation of animals into the City and the transport of animals within the City.\n(c) measures to be taken with stray animals or animals likely, if at large in any street or public place, to cause annoyance or intimidation;\n(d) the prevention of cruelty to animals;\n(e) the disposal of carcasses of animals dying in the City;\n(f) the destruction of any animals which from old age or other cause 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(g) the prevention of the sale or use as human food of the carcasses of animals which die naturally or from disease;\n(h) the prohibition of importation into, or sale or disposal or use within, the Corporation limits of any animal 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(27) Wash-houses. - public wash houses and the exercise of their calling by washermen at places other than those appointed or approved by the Commissioner;\n(27) Wash-houses.\n(28) Dangerous and offensive trades and factories. - (a) (i) the articles to be included in the description contained in clause (a) of section 219.\n(28) Dangerous and offensive trades and factories.\n(ii) the prohibition or regulation by licence or otherwise of the storage or keeping of such articles;\n(b) (i) the trades, manufacturers, industries, or operations to be included in the description contained in clause (c) of section 219.\n(ii) the prohibition or regulation by licence or otherwise of the exercise of such trades, manufacturers, industries, or operations;\n(c) the supervision and sanitary regulation of factories and workshops;\n(29) Exemption of articles and trade operations. - the articles or quantity thereof and the trade operations connected with trade which may be exempted;\n(29) Exemption of articles and trade operations.\n(30) Standard of water used in aerated waters etc. - the standard of water or other ingredients to be used in the manufacture or preparation of aerated water or of cordials;\n(30) Standard of water used in aerated waters etc.\n(31) Labels and inscription. - 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(31) Labels and inscription.\n(32) Nuisances. - (a) the discharge of smoke, steam, dust, fumes or noxious vapours;\n(32) Nuisances.\n(b) the use of whistles, trumpets and noise-producing instruments operated by any mechanical means;\n(c) the prevention of other nuisances;\n(33) Advertisement. - the exhibition of advertisements, and hoardings and similar structures used for the purpose of advertising;\n(33) Advertisement.\n(34) 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 limits of the flesh of any such animal outside these limits;\n(34) Management of municipal markets, etc. and the supervision of the manufacture, storage and sale of food.\n(b) the sale of meat;\n(c) the sanitary conditions of municipal slaughter houses;\n(d) the 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 and 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 or any articles of food and drink or drugs, by licence for such importation, 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 of 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 stalls or otherwise selling or exposing goods for sale on the streets;\n(o) the regulation of the manner in which food grains whether intended for the sale or for private consumption, may be stored.\n(p) the precautions to be taken for protection 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(35) Private markets. - (a) the construction and structural and architectural features of private markets;\n(35) 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 or, private markets;\n(d) the supervision of private markets;\n(e) the appointment and dismissal of superintendents of private markets;\n(f) the days on which and the hours during which any private market may be held;\n(g) the prevention of undesirable or diseased persons from entering private markets;\n(h) the prohibition of all persons from selling in a private market in respect of which a licence has been refused, cancelled or suspended;\n(36) Pawnbrokers. - licences to pawn brokers, the conditions for such licences and the determination, by public auction or otherwise, of the amount to be paid for such licences;\n(36) Pawnbrokers.\n(37) Registration of births and deaths etc. - the registration of all births, deaths and marriages which take place within the City; the taking of a census and the verification of deaths and causes of deaths;\n(37) Registration of births and deaths etc.\n(38) Licensing of theatres, etc. - (a) 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(38) Licensing of theatres, etc.\n(b) the licensing of such entertainments;\n(39) Construction of buildings. - (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 building;\n(39) Construction of buildings.\n(b) the period within which sanction for erection or re-erection of a building must be granted or refused;\n(c) 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 disqualifications;\n(d) the grant of a completion certificate for newly erected or re-erected buildings and the cases in which, and the persons by whom such certificates shall be granted;\n(e) the height of buildings;\n(f) the level and width of the foundation, the level of the lowest floor or plinth and the stability of the structure;\n(g) the number and height above the ground, or above the next lower storey, of the storeys of which any building may consist;\n(h) 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 provision of chimneys for cooking operations;\n(i) the space to be left about any building to secure the free circulation of air and to facilitate scavenging and to prevent fire and the minimum width of streets in front of the buildings;\n(j) the ventilation and drainage of buildings and the minimum dimensions of doors and windows;\n(k) the means and appliances to be provided and maintained for egress from buildings and protection of life in case of fire;\n(l) 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 damppro of courses for walls;\n(m) the position, materials and methods of construction of fire-places, smoke-escapes, chimneys, staircases, water-closet accommodation and drains in buildings;\n(n) the parts or portions of building sites on which no building shall be erected;\n(o) the paving of any passage between two buildings sites on which no building shall be erected;\n(p) the restriction and the use of inflammable materials in buildings;\n(q) the precautions to be taken for the purpose of preventing danger or injury to the public or to persons employed in erecting a building and of securing the stability of the various parts of the building and of the buildings and other property in the vicinity thereof, during the progress of the building or of any demolition or excavation incidental thereto;\n(r) the line of frontage where a building abuts on a street;\n(s) the materials and methods of construction to be used for godowns intended for the storage of foodgrains in excess of twenty tonnes;\n(t) the minimum requirements, including dimensions of accommodation for human beings and of accommodation for animals;\n(u) the position and dimensions of projections beyond the outer face of any external wall of a building;\n(v) the height of factory chimneys and the consumption of smoke;\n(40) Removal or improvement of insanitary building. - (a) The removal or improvement of insanitary buildings and buildings in a ruinous or dangerous condition.\n(40) Removal or improvement of insanitary building.\n(b) the marking of vacant uninhabitable buildings;\n(c) the cleansing lime-washing, painting or repair of such building;\n(d) the exercise of compulsion upon the owners or occupiers to take such order with abandoned, unoccupied buildings or lands as the Commissioner may be directed;\n(e) the excavation of earth, stone or other materials from any place;\n(41) Assessment of compensation under section 267. - The assessment of compensation by the Corporation under section 267;\n(41) Assessment of compensation under section 267.\n(42) Passenger-lifts. - (a) The construction, maintenance and working of passenger lifts, and all machinery and apparatus pertaining thereto;\n(42) Passenger-lifts.\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 authorize in this behalf;\n(d) the prohibition of the use of any lift where any bye-law made under this subsection has not been complied with:\nExplanation.\n(43) 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(43) Precautions in demolition of buildings.\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 proposed demolition 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 the Commissioner;\n(d) the prohibition of the commencement or continuance of the demolition until all precautions have been and are being taken in accordance with the rules 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 rules;\n(44) 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(44) Improvement of insanitary lands.\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 tender insanitary lands sanitary;\n(45) Holding of fairs, etc. - The holding of fairs and industrial exhibitions in the City;\n(45) Holding of fairs, etc.\n(46) Protection of property of the Corporation from injury;\n(46)\n(47) Protection against fire. - The stacking of inflammable materials and of the lighting of fires in any specific portion of the City;\n(47) Protection against fire.\n(48) Charges for services by municipal authorities. - The charge for services rendered by any municipal authority;\n(48) Charges for services by municipal authorities.\n(49) 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 residents in the City, or persons residing within or near the City to act as their agents for all or any of the purposes of the Act or any rule or bye-law made thereunder;\n(49) Appointment of agents by owners of lands not resident in the City.\n(50) Mode of performance of acts not 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 therefore;\n(50) Mode of performance of acts not otherwise provided for.\n(51) Inspection of municipal records. - The cases in which inspection and copies of municipal records may be granted, and the procedure and the fees for the grant of such inspection of copies;\n(51) Inspection of municipal records.\n(52) Licences and notices. - The form of licences and notices issued under this Act and the authority entitled to sign or issue them;\n(52) Licences and notices.\n(53) Burial and burning grounds. - 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(53) Burial and burning grounds.\n(54) Vehicles or animals plying for hire. - (a) Vehicles or animals kept for 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 to be licenced and the fixing of fees payable for such licences and the conditions on which they may be granted or revoked;\n(54) Vehicles or animals plying for hire.\n(b) the rates which may be demanded for the hire of any carriage, cart, motor vehicles or other conveyance or animals hired to carry loads or persons, and restriction of the loads which may be carried by any animal 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 situated 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, notified area, or cantonment, 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 or rules;\n(55) Poor houses. - (a) The maintenance of poorhouses by the Corporation or by private persons or institutions;\n(55) Poor houses.\n(b) the requirements to be satisfied before a poorhouse 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 inspection of poor-house by authorities to be prescribed in the bye-laws;\n(56) 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(56) Preventing of use of false or incorrect weights, etc.\n(57) Printing and sales of bye-laws and exhibitions thereof in suitable places. - The printing and sale of bye-laws and rules made under this Act and provision for the exhibition thereof in suitable places.\n(57) Printing and sales of bye-laws and exhibitions thereof in suitable places.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 382 }, { "number": "387", "title": "387. Penalties for breach of bye-laws.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) with fine which may extend to ten thousand rupees and in the case of a continuing breach, with fine which may extend to one thousand 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 thousand 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": 383 }, { "number": "388", "title": "388. Conditions precedent to the making of bye-laws.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) a draft of the bye-laws shall be published for such time and in such manner as the State Government may prescribe in this behalf;\n(b) for not less than twenty one days during such period a printed copy of such draft shall be kept at the municipal office for public Inspection, and every person shall be permitted at any reasonable time to peruse the same, free of charge; and\n(c) printed copies of such draft shall be obtainable by any person requiring the same, on payment of such fee not exceeding fifty rupees for each copy, as may be prescribed by the Corporation.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 384 }, { "number": "389", "title": "389. Bye-laws to be subject to sanction of State Government.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 385 }, { "number": "390", "title": "390. Publication of bye-laws and rules in Gazette and effect of such publication.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 386 }, { "number": "391", "title": "391. Power of State Government to make rules.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the manner of delegation of powers conferred on the officers or authorities of the Corporation to any other officer of the Corporation or the State Government;\n(b) the manner in which, the conditions under which, and the authority by which, claims to, or objection against, registration may be made and decided;\n(c) the nomination of candidates and objections to such nomination;\n(d) the date and time of elections, the mode of recording votes, the management, the management of contested elections, and the procedure in case of equality of votes or in the event of one Councillor being elected to represent more than one ward or interest;\n(e) the holding of elections to fill casual vacancies;\n(f) the division of electorate into wards or communities and the allocation of Councillors thereto;\n(g) the preparation publication and sale of copies of the municipal electoral roll;\n(h) any other matter relating to representation and election for which it may be expedient to provide;\n(i) the qualifications requisite in the case of persons appointed by a municipal authority to offices requiring professional skill;\n(j) the procedure to be observed for the employment, punishment, suspension or removal of the officers and servants of the corporation and appeal from orders of punishment or removal;\n(k) the extent of general supervision and control to be exercised by the commissioner over servants of the State placed at the disposal of the corporation under section 61;\n(l) the conditions of the service in regard to the leave, provident fund, and pension admissible to the person transferred in pursuance of section 52 in respect of the period of service rendered by him before such transfer and the extent of the liability of the local authorities concerned with the transfer;\n(m) 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(n) the authority on which money may be paid from the municipal fund, and the management and regulation of provident funds;\n(o) the preparation of plans and estimates for work 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 77 and for the authorities by which and the conditions subject to which such plans, estimates, maps and registers are to be prepared and sanctioned;\n(p) the regulation of contracts with electrical supply companies for the supply of electrical energy;\n(q) 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(r) 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 utilization of unexpended balances of loans etc.;\n(s) the manner in which 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 auditors in respect of disallowance and surcharge;\n(t) the assessment and collection of and the compounding for revision or limiting refunds or taxes imposed under this act, and preventing evasion of the same; and for fixing the fee, payable for notices of demands;\n(u) the conditions on which the corporation may receive animals or articles into a bonded warehouse and the agreement to be signed by the traders and others wishing to deposit animals or articles therein;\n(v) the returns, statements and reports to be submitted by the corporation;\n(w) the division of the Corporation Area into various zones as directed by the State Government.\n(x) the language in which business shall be transacted, proceedings recorded and notices issued;\n(y) the publication of notices;\n(z) generally for the municipal authorities and public officers in carrying out the purposes of this act;\n(z-1) the same purposes as those for which the corporation may make bye-laws under the provision of section 386;\n(z-2) any other matters incidental or ancillary to the matter in respect of which the State Government is empowered to make rules.\n(i) for the authority by whom the electoral roll shall be prepared and the particulars to be contained in the roll;\n(ii) for the form and manner in which and the condition on which nomination may be made, and for the security of nominations;\n(iii) for the appointment of returning officer of each ward and for his powers and duties;\n(iv) for the appointment of polling stations for each ward;\n(v) for the appointment of officers to preside at polling stations, and for the duties of such officers;\n(vi) for the checking of voters by reference to the electoral roll;\n(vii) for the manner in which votes are to be given and in the particular for the case of illiterate voters, or voters under physical or other disability;\n(viii) for the procedure to be followed in respect of tender of votes by persons representing themselves to be electors after other persons have voted as such electors;\n(ix) for the scrutiny of votes;\n(x) for the safe custody of ballot papers and other election papers, for the period for which such paper shall be preserved, and for the inspection and production of such papers;\n(xi) for the definition of the practices at elections held under the provision of this act which are deemed to be corrupt;\n(xii) for the procedure to be followed by the district court in enquiries relating to application presented under section 399, the liability of witnesses to answer questions, the evidence to be recorded, the powers to be exercised including power to indemnify witnesses against civil or criminal proceedings and the enforcement of orders made in such enquiries;\n(xiii) for rendering incapable of municipal office either permanently or for a term of years any person who may have been proved guilty as aforesaid of a corrupt practice or of conniving at or abetting the same;\n(xiv) for provision of other matters incidental or ancillary to the preparation, revision, publication and regular maintenance of the roll and for the conduct of elections.\nPart XI\nChapter XXXV\nPunishment of Offences", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 387 }, { "number": "392", "title": "392. Certain offences punishable with fine.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) contravenes any of the provisions of this Act or of the rules 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, shall be punishable with a fine which may extend to the amount mentioned in the third column of the said table.\nExplanation.\nTable\nTable\nSection sub-section or clause\nSubject\nMaximum Fine Which may be Imposed\nDaily fine which may be imposed when the offence\n\t\t\t\tis a continuing one\n(1)\n(2)\n(3)\n(4)", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 388 }, { "number": "175", "title": "Section 175", "chapter": null, "content": "New buildings not to be erected without drains\nTwenty-five thousand rupees\nFive hundred rupees", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 389 }, { "number": "175", "title": "Section 175, sub-section (1)", "chapter": null, "content": "Owner of land to allow others to carry drains through the land\nFive hundred rupees\ndo", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 390 }, { "number": "176", "title": "Section 176", "chapter": null, "content": "Owner of drain to allow use thereof or joint ownership,\n\t\t\t\ttherein to others\ndo\nFive hundred rupees", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 391 }, { "number": "178", "title": "Section 178", "chapter": null, "content": "Resistance to order of the Commissioner regarding use of joint\n\t\t\t\townership of a drain\ndo\ndo", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 392 }, { "number": "179", "title": "Section 179", "chapter": null, "content": "Resistance to Commissioner draining premises in combination\ndo\ndo", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 393 }, { "number": "180", "title": "Section 180", "chapter": null, "content": "Resistance to the Commissioner constructing drains or failure\n\t\t\t\tto maintain and keep in repair portion of a drain vesting in an\n\t\t\t\towner\ndo\ndo", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 394 }, { "number": "181", "title": "Section 181", "chapter": null, "content": "Resistance to the Commissioner affixing shafts or pipes for\n\t\t\t\tventilation of drains\ndo\ndo", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 395 }, { "number": "217", "title": "Section 217", "chapter": null, "content": "Establishment, etc., of factory, etc., without permission of\n\t\t\t\tthe Commissioner\nTwenty-five thousand rupees\ndo", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 396 }, { "number": "219", "title": "Section 219", "chapter": null, "content": "Storing dangerous or offensive articles or carrying on\n\t\t\t\tdangerous or offensive trades\nTen thousand rupees\ndo", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 397 }, { "number": "225", "title": "Section 225, sub-section (1)", "chapter": null, "content": "open a private market without permission\nFive thousand rupees\nTwo hundred and fifty rupees", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 398 }, { "number": "225", "title": "Section 225, sub-section (2)", "chapter": null, "content": "Establishment, removal, reopening, re-establishment or\n\t\t\t\tenlarging of private market without permission\nTen thousand rupees\nOne thousand rupees", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 399 }, { "number": "226", "title": "Section 226", "chapter": null, "content": "Selling animals, meat, etc., outside market without a licence\nOne thousand rupees\nOne hundred rupees", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 400 }, { "number": "228", "title": "Section 228 sub-section (3)", "chapter": null, "content": "Slaughter of animals without permission outside municipal\n\t\t\t\tslaughter-houses\ndo", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 401 }, { "number": "230", "title": "Section 230", "chapter": null, "content": "Sale of diseased or unwholesome animal or article intended for\n\t\t\t\thuman food\nTen thousand rupees for first offence and twenty\n\t\t\t\tthousand rupees for any subsequent offence\nOne hundred rupees", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 402 }, { "number": "231", "title": "Section 231", "chapter": null, "content": "Keeping adulterants in place where butter, ghee, etc., are\n\t\t\t\tmanufactured\nOne thousand rupees\n-", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 403 }, { "number": "232", "title": "Section 232", "chapter": null, "content": "Sale, etc., of notified article which is not of prescribed\n\t\t\t\tstandard of purity\nTen thousand rupees for first offence and twenty\n\t\t\t\tthousand rupees for any subsequent offence\n-", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 404 }, { "number": "233", "title": "Section 233", "chapter": null, "content": "Sale, etc. of substitutes\nOne thousand rupees for first offence and five\n\t\t\t\tthousand rupees for any subsequent offence\n-", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 405 }, { "number": "238", "title": "Section 238 sub-section (3)", "chapter": null, "content": "Removing, interfering or tampering with animal, food, drink,\n\t\t\t\tdrugs, etc. seized and left in custody.\nTwo thousand rupees\n-", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 406 }, { "number": "243", "title": "Section 243", "chapter": null, "content": "Failure to give information of existence of dangerous disease\nFive hundred rupees\n-", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 407 }, { "number": "255", "title": "Section 255", "chapter": null, "content": "Erection or re-erection of a building in contravention of a\n\t\t\t\ttown-planning scheme\nOne lakh rupees\nOne thousand rupees", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 408 }, { "number": "256", "title": "Section 256", "chapter": null, "content": "Prohibition of erection or re-erection of buildings without\n\t\t\t\tpermission of the commissioner\nTen thousand rupees\nOne thousand rupees", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 409 }, { "number": "263", "title": "Section 263, sub-section (1)", "chapter": null, "content": "Notice to be given to the commissioner of completion of\n\t\t\t\tbuilding\nOne thousand rupees\n-", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 410 }, { "number": "263", "title": "Section 263, sub-section (4)", "chapter": null, "content": "Prohibition of occupation of new or re-erected building\n\t\t\t\twithout permission of the commissioner\nOne thousand rupees\n-", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 411 }, { "number": "271", "title": "Section 271, sub-section (3)", "chapter": null, "content": "Entering into or remaining in a building which has been\n\t\t\t\tdeclared unfit for human habitation\nFive thousand rupees\n-", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 412 }, { "number": "272", "title": "Section 272, sub-section (1)", "chapter": null, "content": "Requisition to remove or repair buildings in ruinous or\n\t\t\t\tdangerous out state\nTen thousand rupees\nFive hundred rupees", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 413 }, { "number": "272", "title": "Section 272, sub-section (3)", "chapter": null, "content": "Entering into or remaining in a ruinous or dangerous building\n\t\t\t\tfrom which occupants have been removed.\nTen thousand rupees\nFive hundred rupees", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 414 }, { "number": "275", "title": "Section 275, sub-section (3)", "chapter": null, "content": "Erection or re-erection of building on inaccessible sites\nTen thousand rupees\nOne thousand rupees", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 415 }, { "number": "281", "title": "Section 281, sub-section (1)", "chapter": null, "content": "Laying a tramway or railway on a public street\nTen thousand rupees\nOne thousand rupees", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 416 }, { "number": "282", "title": "Section 282, sub-section (1)", "chapter": null, "content": "Prohibition of projections upon streets etc.\nTen thousand rupees\nFifty rupees", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 417 }, { "number": "282", "title": "Section 282, sub-section (1)", "chapter": null, "content": "Requisition to remove the same\nTwo thousand rupees\nFifty rupees", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 418 }, { "number": "288", "title": "Section 288", "chapter": null, "content": "Requisition to alter ground floor doors, etc., opening on\n\t\t\t\troads, or streets, etc.\nFive hundred rupees", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 419 }, { "number": "289", "title": "Section 289", "chapter": null, "content": "Requisition to remove projections upon streets, etc.\nTwo thousand rupees\nOne hundred rupees", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 420 }, { "number": "292", "title": "Section 292, sub-section (1)", "chapter": null, "content": "Laying out of private street otherwise than in accordance with\n\t\t\t\tthe permission of the Commissioner\nTen thousand rupees\nOne thousand rupees", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 421 }, { "number": "300", "title": "Section 300", "chapter": null, "content": "Regulation of posters depicting scenes from film etc.\nOne thousand rupees\nOne hundred rupees", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 422 }, { "number": "393", "title": "393. Punishment for certain offences.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 423 }, { "number": "394", "title": "394. Power of Corporation in the event of non-compliance.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 424 }, { "number": "395", "title": "395. Penalty for obstruction.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 425 }, { "number": "396", "title": "396. Punishment for acquiring share of interest in the contract, etc., with corporation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 426 }, { "number": "397", "title": "397. Punishment for essential officer leaving employment.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 427 }, { "number": "398", "title": "398. Penalty for disobedience of order of Corporation authorities.", "chapter": null, "content": "Part XII\nChapter XXXVI\nElection Petitions", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 428 }, { "number": "399", "title": "399. Election petition to be heard and disposed of by District Court.", "chapter": null, "content": "Part XIII\nChapter XXXVII\nTransitory Provisions", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 429 }, { "number": "400", "title": "400. Transitory Provisions.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) All Councillors of the erstwhile Panaji Municipal Council, representing areas, mentioned in Schedule I hereof shall become the first Councillors of the newly constituted Corporation under this Act.\n(b) All members of Village Panchayats, including Sarpanch or deputy Sarpanch relating to Panchayat areas mentioned in Schedule I, shall become the first Councillors of the newly constituted Corporation under this Act.\n(c) Such officials of the State Government representing the departments of health, public works department, police department, town and country planning department and such other department or bodies, or statutory committees or such other officials, in all not exceeding fifteen in number nominated by the State Government to be the first Councillors of the newly constituted Corporation under this Act, ex-officio.\n(d) Such other persons who in the opinion of the State Government, on account of their outstanding contribution to the capital City or their performance in the field of art, literature, science, environment, architecture, engineering, law, education or social work, deserve to be appointed to the Corporation, be appointed by the State Government, but not exceeding seven in number, as first Councillors of the newly constituted Corporation under this Act.\nChapter XXXVIII\nRemoval of Difficulties", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 430 }, { "number": "401", "title": "401. Removal of Difficulties.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 431 }, { "number": "402", "title": "402. Overriding Effect.", "chapter": null, "content": "Schedule\n( See Section 61)", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 432 }, { "number": "1", "title": "1. Relief of the poor, unemployment other than industrial unemployment.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 433 }, { "number": "2", "title": "2. Charities and charitable institutions, charitable and religious endowments.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 434 }, { "number": "3", "title": "3. Prevention of Cruelty to Animal Act, 1890.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 435 }, { "number": "4", "title": "4. Protection of wild birds and animals.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 436 }, { "number": "5", "title": "5. Relief on account of floods, earthquakes, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 437 }, { "number": "6", "title": "6. Jubilee and memorial funds.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 438 }, { "number": "7", "title": "7. Intoxication liquors and narcotic drugs, opium, dangerous drugs.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 439 }, { "number": "8", "title": "8. Poisons.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 440 }, { "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": 441 }, { "number": "10", "title": "10. Marketing of agricultural produce.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 442 }, { "number": "11", "title": "11. Arboriculture.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 443 }, { "number": "12", "title": "12. Sericulture.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 444 }, { "number": "13", "title": "13. Gardens.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 445 }, { "number": "14", "title": "14. Veterinary, including improvement of live-stock and prevention of animal diseases.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 446 }, { "number": "15", "title": "15. Prevention of the extension from one until to another of infectious diseases affecting animals or plants.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 447 }, { "number": "16", "title": "16. Markets established under the Berar Cotton and Grain Markets law, the Central Provinces and Berar Cotton and Grain Markets Law, the Central Act, 1932, and the Central Provinces and Berar Agricultural Produce Market Act, 1935.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 448 }, { "number": "17", "title": "17. Fisheries.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 449 }, { "number": "18", "title": "18. State forests, including afforestment, disforestment, forest rates and grazing.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 450 }, { "number": "19", "title": "19. Land improvement and agricultural loans.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 451 }, { "number": "20", "title": "20. Colonization.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 452 }, { "number": "21", "title": "21. Collection of land revenue and rents.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 453 }, { "number": "22", "title": "22. Collection of local cesses and other sums recoverable as land revenue.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 454 }, { "number": "23", "title": "23. 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Pig-sties and keeping of animals.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 477 }, { "number": "46", "title": "46. Sanitation of fairs and labours camps.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 478 }, { "number": "47", "title": "47. River pollution prevention.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 479 }, { "number": "48", "title": "48. Disposal of the dead.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 480 }, { "number": "49", "title": "49. Water-supply.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 481 }, { "number": "50", "title": "50. Food supply including (a) purity of food, (b) Central Provinces and Berar Prevention of Adulteration Act, 1919 and (c) milk and dairies.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 482 }, { "number": "51", "title": "51. Infectious and contagious diseases, and diseases caused by animal parasites.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 483 }, { "number": "52", "title": "52. Prevention of epidemics.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 484 }, { "number": "53", "title": "53. Epidemic and travelling dispensaries, including those specially appointed for aborigines and rural uplift.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 485 }, { "number": "54", "title": "54. Vaccination.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 486 }, { "number": "55", "title": "55. Registration of births and deaths.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 487 }, { "number": "56", "title": "56. Welfare work.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 488 }, { "number": "57", "title": "57. Social hygiene.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 489 }, { "number": "58", "title": "58. Agricultural statistics and prices.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 490 }, { "number": "59", "title": "59. Elections to the State and Central Legislature.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 491 }, { "number": "60", "title": "60. Education.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 492 }, { "number": "61", "title": "61. Libraries.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 493 }, { "number": "62", "title": "62. Technical and industrial education.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 494 }, { "number": "63", "title": "63. Public works including State buildings, roads, bridges and ferries managed by the Public Works Department.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 495 }, { "number": "64", "title": "64. Tools.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 496 }, { "number": "65", "title": "65. Planning of post-war development, liaison with other Government departments with reference to schemes of post-war development.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 497 }, { "number": "66", "title": "66. Resettlement and re-employment of servicemen, Civil Pioneers and labour employed in war industries including State and District Soldiers Boards.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 498 }, { "number": "67", "title": "67. Welfare of labour.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 499 }, { "number": "68", "title": "68. Unemployment insurance.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 500 }, { "number": "69", "title": "69. Industrial unemployment.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 501 }, { "number": "70", "title": "70. Co-operative societies.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 502 }, { "number": "71", "title": "71. Rural Development;", "chapter": null, "content": "(i) village uplift including welfare activities in backward areas, and\n(ii) cottage and small-scale industries.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 503 }, { "number": "72", "title": "72. Rehabilitation of refugees.", "chapter": null, "content": "Schedule I", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 504 }, { "number": "1", "title": "1. The whole of Panaji Municipal Area as on the date of the enforcement of this Act excluding:", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) Survey Nos. 1 to 7 of Durgawadi Revenue Village.\n(b) Survey Nos. 1 to 295 of Taleigao Revenue Village but including:\n(i) Survey Nos. 122, 123, 124, 125, 126 and 127.\n(ii) Area on the Southern side of the road Durgawadi to Panaji-Taleigao, comprising part of Surveys Nos. 128, 130, 131 and 132 as shown in the map annexed.\n2. (a) Entire area of Village Panchayat of Penha da Franca, part of village Pilerne comprising of Survey Nos. 15 to 23, 31 to 35, 53 to 76, part of Village Salvador do Mundo comprising of Survey Nos. 75, 76, 85 to 112, 135 to 147, 151 and 152, part of Village Soccoro comprising of Survey Nos. 21 to 24, 40 to 43, 354 to 357, 359 to 399, 401 and 402, part of Village Reis Magos comprising of Survey Nos. 38, 39, 43 to 74 and 76 and Sangolda Village Panchayat comprising of Survey Nos. 85 & 86 as shown in the map annexed.\n(b) Entire area of Village Panchayat Santa Cruz, entire area of Bambolim Village but excluding area under the Military occupation, part of village Morombi-O-Pequeno comprising of Survey Nos. 30 to 92, 94, 96 to 137 and 140 to 143, as shown in the map annexed.\nDepartment of Urban Development\nDepartment of Urban Development\nDirectorate of Municipal Administration\nDirectorate of Municipal Administration\nPublic Notice\nPublic Notice\n1/4/UDD/2003/2104.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 505 } ], "metadata": { "Act ID": "goa035", "Act Number": "(Goa Act 1 of 2003)", "Enactment Date": "", "Act Year": "2002", "Short Title": "The City of Panaji Corporation Act, 2002", "Type": "STATE", "Location": "Goa" }, "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19" }