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THE PUNJAB MUNICIPAL CORPORATION ACT, 1976 (Punjab Act
42 of 1976)
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Streets
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224. Vesting of public streets in Corporation.
All streets within the City which are or at any time become
public streets and the pavements, stones and other materials thereof
shall vest in the Corporation.
{2) All public streets vesting in the Corporation shall be under the
control of the Commissioner and shall be maintained, controlled and
regulated by him in accordance with the bye-laws made in this behalf.
225. Functions of Commissioner in respect
of public streets. - ( l ) The Commissioner shall, from
time to time, cause all public streets vested in the Corporation to
be levelled, metalled or paved, channelled, altered or repaired, and
may widen, extend or otherwise improve any such street or cause the
soil thereof to be raised, lowered or altered or may place and keep
in repair fences and posts for the safety of foot-passengers:
Provided that no widening, extension or other improvement of a public
street, the aggregate cost of which will exceed five thousand rupees,
shall be undertaken by the Commissioner except with the previous
sanction of the Corporation.
(2) With the previous sanction of the Corporation the Commissioner
may permanently close the whole or any part of a public street:
Provided that before according such sanction the Corporation shall
by notice published in the manner specified by bye-laws give reasonable
opportunity to the residents likely to be affected by such closure
to make suggestions or objections with respect to such closure and
shall consider all such suggestions or objections which may be made
within one month from the date of the publication of the said notice.
226. Disposal of land forming site of public
streets permanently closed. - Whenever any public street
or a part thereof is permanently closed under sub- section (2) of
section 225 the site of such street or of the portion thereof may
be disposed of as land vesting in the Corporation.
227. Power to make new public streets.
- The Commissioner may, at any time with the previous sanction
of the Corporation,-
(a) lay out and make new public streets:
(b) construct bridges and sub-ways;
(c) turn or divert any existing public street: and
(d) lay down and determine the position and direction of a street
or streets in any part of the City notwithstanding the erection of
any building in the vicinity has been received.
228. Minimum width of new public streets.
- The Commissioner shall, from time to time. with the sanction
of the Corporation, specify the minimum width of different classes
of new public streets according to the nature of the 'traffic likely
to be carried thereon and the streets with which they join at one
or both ends, the localities in which they are situated, the heights
up to which buildings abutting thereon may be erected and other similar
considerations.
229. Power to prohibit use of public streets
for certain kinds of traffic.
(1) The Commissioner may-
(a)Prohibit vehicular traffic in any public street or
any portion thereof so as to prevent danger, obstruction or inconvenience
to the public or to ensure quietness in any locality;
(b)prohibit in respect of all public streets or any particular public
streets, the transit of any vehicle of such form, construction,
weight or size or laden with such heavy or unwieldy objects as may
be likely to cause injury to the roadways or any construction thereon,
except under such conditions as to time, mode of traction or locomotion
use of appliances for the protection of roadways number of lights
and assistants and other general precautions and upon the payment
of such charges as may be specified by the Commissioner
generally or specially in each case;
(c) prohibit access to premises from any particular public street
carrying high speed vehicular traffic:
Provided that the Commissioner shall not take action without the
sanction of the Corporation in cases under Clauses (a) and (c).
(2) Notices of such prohibition as are imposed under sub-section (1)
shall be posted in conspicuous places at or near both ends of public
streets or portions thereof to which they relate, unless such prohibition
applies generally to all public streets.
230. Power to acquire land and buildings
for public streets and for public parking places. - Subject
to the provisions contained in Chapter X, the Commissioner may-
(a) acquire any land required for the purpose of opening, widening
extending or otherwise improving any public street or of making any
new public street and any building standing upon such land;
(b) acquire in relation to any such land or building, all such land
with buildings, if any, thereon as the Corporation may think expedient
to acquire outside the regular line, or the intended regular line,
of such
street; or
(c) acquire any land for the purpose of laying out or making a public
parking place.
231. Defining the regular line of streets.
- The Commissioner may define a line on one or both sides of any
public street in accordance with the bye-laws made in this behalf
and may, with the previous sanction of the Corporation re-define at
any time any such regular line:
Provided that, before according sanction the Corporation Shall by
public notice afford reasonable opportunity to the residents of premises
abutting on such public street to make suggestions or objections with
respect to the proposed re-defined line of the street and shall consider
all suggestions or objections which may be made within one month from
the date of the publication of the said notice:
Provided further that the regular line of any public street operative
under any law in force In any part of the City immediately before
the commencement of this Act, shall be deemed to be a line defined
by the Commissioner under this sub-section.
(2) The line for the time being defined or re-defined shall be called
the regular line of street.
(3) No person shall construct or reconstruct any building or a portion
thereof or any boundary wall or other structure whatsoever within
the regular line of a street except with the written permission of
the Commissioner:
Provided that if within sixty days after the receipt of application
from any person for permission to construct or reconstruct a boundary
wall or a portion thereof the Commissioner fails to take steps to
acquire the land within the regular line of the street in accordance
with Section 234, then that person may, subject to any other provisions
of this Act and the bye-laws made thereunder, proceed with the work
of construction or reconstruction of such boundary wall or portion
thereof.
{4) When the Commissioner grants permission for the construction or
reconstruction of any building or any boundary wall or other structure
within the regular line of a street, he may require the owner of the
building to execute an agreement binding himself and his sucessors
-in-interest not to claim compensation in the event of the Commissioner
at any time thereafter calling upon him or any of his successors by
written notice to remove any work carried out in pursuance of
such permission and to pay the expenses of such removal if, in default,
such removal is carried out by the Commissioner and may for that purpose
require such owner to deposit in the Corporation Fund such sum as
may be determined by him.
{5) The Commissioner shall maintain
(a) a register containing such particulars as may be specified
by him in this behalf with plans attached thereto showing all public
streets in respect of which the regular line of the streets
has been defined or
re-defined and containing any other particulars which the Commissioner
may deem necessary;
(b) a register of all agreements executed under sub-section (4)
and of all deposits made. thereunder.
(6) All such registers shall be open to inspection by any person
on payment of such fee as may be specified by the Commissioner with
the sanction of the Corporation.
(7) Any agreement entered into in pursuance of sub-section (4) shall
be in writing, shall be registered under the Registration Act, 1908,
and shall be deemed to be an agreement in respect of the land to which
it relates and any condition contained in such agreement shall be
deemed to be an obligation annexed to the ownership of the said land
and enforceable against the successors-in-interest of the owner of
such land.
232. Setting back building to regular line
of street. - { 1 ) If any part of a building abutting on
a public street is within the regular line of that street, the Commissioner
may, whenever it is proposed
(a) to repair, rebuild or construct such building or to
take down such building to an extent exceeding one-half thereof
above the ground level such half to be measured in cubic meters;
or
(b) to repair, remove, construct or reconstruct or make any additions
to, or structural alterations of, any portion of such building which
is within the regular line of the street; by any order which he
issues concerning the additions to, rebuilding, construction, repair
or alterations of, such building require such building to be set
back to the regular line of the street.
(2) When any building or any part thereof within the regular line
of a public street falls down or is burnt down or is, whether by the
order of the Commissioner or otherwise, taken down., the Commissioner
may .forthwith, take possession on behalf of the Corporation of the
portion of the land within the regular line of the street therefore
occupied by the said building and, if necessary, clear the same.
{3) Land acquired under this section shall be deemed to be a part
of the public street and shall vest in the Corporation.
233. Compulsory setting back of building
to regular line of street. - (1) Where any building or
any part thereof is within the regular line of a public street and
in the opinion of the Commissioner it is necessary to set back the
building or part thereof to the regular line of the street he may,
by notice served on the owner in accordance with the provisions of
this Act, require him to show cause within such period as may be specified
in the notice as to why such building or part thereof which is within
the regular line of the street should not be-pulled down and the land
within the regular line acquired by the Commissioner Oh behalf of
the Corporation.
(2) If such owner fails to show cause as required by the sub-section
{ 1 ), the Commissioner may with the approval of the Corporation,
require the owner by another notice to be served on him in accordance
with the provisions of this Act, to pull down the building or part
thereof which is within the regular line of the street within such
period as is specified in the notice.
(3) If within such period the owner of the building fails to pull
down the building or part thereof as required by the Commissioner,
the Commissioner. may pull down the same and all the expenses incurred
in so doing shall be paid by the owner and be recoverable from him
as an arrear of tax under this Act.
(4) The Commissioner shall at once take possession on behalf of the
Corporation of the portion of the land within the regular line of
the street occupied by the said building or part thereof and such
land shall thereupon be deemed to be a part of the public street
and shall vest in the Corporation.
234. Acquisition of open land and land occupied
by platforms, etc., within the regular line of street. - If
any land, whether open or enclosed. not vesting in the Corporation
and not occupied by any building is within the regular line of a public
street or if platform, verandah, step, compound wall, hedge, or fence
or some other structural external to a building abutting on a public
street or a portion of such platform, verandah, step, compound wall.
hedge, fence or other structure is within the regular line of such
street the Commissioner may, after giving to the owner of the land
or building not less than seven clear days, notice of his intention
so to do. take possession on behalf of the Corporation of the said
land with its enclosing wall, hedge or fence, if any, or of the said
platform, verandah, step, compound wall. hedge, fence or other structure
or of any portion thereof which is within the regular line of the
public street, and, if necessary, clear the same and the land so acquired
shall thereupon shall be deemed to be a part of public street shall
vest in the Corporation.
Provided that where the land or building is vested in the Government
or the Central Government, the Commissioner shall not take possession
thereof without the previous sanction of the Government or the Central
Government, as the case may be.
235. Acquisition of remaining part of building
and land after their portions within regular line of street have been
acquired. - ( 1 ) Where a land or building is partly within
the regular line of a public street and the Commissioner is satisfied
that the land remaining after the excision of the portion within the
said line will not be suitable or fit for any beneficial use, he may.
at the request of the owner, acquire such land in addition to the
land within the said line and such surplus land shall be deemed to
be a part of the public street and shall ï vest in the Corporation
.(2) Such surplus land may thereafter be utilised for the purpose
of setting forward a building under Section 236.
236. tting forward of buildings to regular
line of street. - The Commissioner may, upon such terms
as he thinks fit, allow any building to be set forward for the purpose
of improving the regular line of a public street and may, with the
sanction of the Corporation, by notice require any building to be
so set forward in the case of reconstruction thereof or of a new construction.
Explanation - For the purpose of this section a wall separating any
premises from a public street shall be deemed to be a building, and
it shall be deemed a sufficient compliance with permission or requisition
to set forward a building to the regular line of a street if a wall
of such material and dimensions as are approved by the Commissioner
is erected along the said line.
237. Compensation to be paid in certain cases
of setting back or setting forward of buildings, etc. - (1)
Compensation shall be paid by the Commissioner to the over of any
building or ]and acquired for a publicstreet under the provisions
of Sections 232, 233 and 234 for any loss which such owner may sustain
in consequence of his building or land being so acquired and for any
expense incurred by such owner in consequence of any order made by
the Commissioner:
Provided that
(a) any increase or decrease in the value of the remainder
of the property of which the building or .land so acquired formed
part likely to accrue from the setting back to the regular line
of the street shall be
taken into consideration and allowed for in determining the amount
of such compensation;
(b) if any such increase in the value exceeds the amount of loss
sustained or expenses incurred by the owner, the Commissioner may
recover from him half the amount of such excess as a betterment
charge.
{2) If in consequence of any order to set forward a building made
by the Commissioner, the owner of such building sustains any loss
or damage, compensation shall be paid to him by the Commissioner for
such loss or damage after taking into account any increase in value
likely to accrue from the setting forward.
(3) If the additional land which will be included in the premises
of any person required or permitted under sub-section {2) to set forward
a building belongs to the Corporation, the order or permission of
the Commissioner to set forward the building shall be a sufficient
conveyance to the said owner of the said land and, the price so paid
to the Corporation by the owner for such additional land and the other
terms and conditions of the conveyance shall be set forth in the order
or permission.
{4) If, when the Commissioner requires any building to be set forward,
the owner of the building is dissatisfied with the price fixed to
be paid to the Corporation or with any of the terms or conditions
of conveyance, the Commissioner shall, upon the application of the
owner at any time within fifteen days after the said terms and conditions
are communicated to him, refer the case for the determination of the
court of the District Judge whose decision thereon shall be final.
238. Owners' obligation when dealing with
land as building sites. - If the owner of any land utilises,
sells, leases out or otherwise disposes of such land for the construction
of buildings thereon, he shall lay down and make a street or streets
giving access, to the plots into which the land may be divided and
connecting with an existing public or private street.
239. Layout plans. - ( 1 ) Before
utilising, selling or otherwise dealing with any land under Section
238. the owner thereof shall send to the Commissioner a written application
with a lay-out plan of the land showing the following particulars,
namely :-
(a) the plots into which the land is proposed to be divided
for the erection of buildings thereon and the purpose or purposes
for which such. buildings are to be used;
(b) the reservation or allotment of any site for any street,
open space, park, recreation ground, school, market or any other
public purpose;
c)the intended level direction and width of street or streets;
(d) the regular line of street or streets; and
(e) the arrangements to be made for levelling, paving, metalling,
flagging, channelling, sewering, draining conserving and lighting
street or streets.
{2) The provisions of this Act and the bye-laws made thereunder as
to width of the public streets and the height of buildings abutting
thereon shall apply in the case of streets referred to in sub-section
(1) and all the particulars referred to in that sub-section shall
be subject to the sanction of the Corporation.
(3) Within sixty days after the receipt of any application under sub-section
(1) the Corporation shall either accord sanction to the lay-out plan
on such conditions as it may think fit or disallow it or ask for further
information with respect to it.
(4) Such sanction shall be refused-
(a) if the particulars shown in the lay out plan ,would
conflict with any arrangements which, have been made or which are
in the opinion of the Corporation likely to be made for carrying
out any general
scheme of development of the City whether contained in the master
plan or a zonal development plan prepared for the City or not; or
(b) if the said lay-out plan does not conform to the provisions
of this Act and bye-laws made thereunder; or
(c) if any street proposed in the plan is not designed so as to
connect at one end with a street which is already open.
(5) No person shall utilise, sell or otherwise deal with any land
or lay-out or make any new street without or otherwise than in conformity
with the orders of the Corporation and If further information is asked
for, no step shall be taken to utilise, sell or otherwise deal with
the land or to lay-out or make the street until orders have been passed
upon receipt of such information:
Provided that the passing of such order shall not be in any case delayed
for more than sixty days after the Corporation has received the in-formation
which it considers necessary to enable it to deal with the said application.
(6) The lay-out plan referred to earlier in this section shall, if
so required by the Corporation, be prepared by a licensed town planner.
240. Alteration or demolition of street made
in breach of Section 239.
(1) If any person lays out or makes any street referred to in Section
239 without or otherwise than in conformity with the orders of the
Corporation, the Commissioner may, whether or not the offender be
prosecuted under this Act, by notice-
(a) require the offender to show cause by a written
statement signed by him and sent to the Commissioner on or before
such date as may be specified in the notice, why such street should
not be altered to the
satisfaction of the Commissioner or if such alteration be impracticable
why such street should not be demolished; or
(b) require the offender to appear before the Commissioner either
personally or by a duly authorised agent or on such day and at such
time and place as may be specified in the notice and show cause
as aforesaid.
(2) If any person on whom such notice is served fails to show cause
to the satisfaction of the Commissioner why such street should not
be so altered or demolished, the Commissioner may pass an order directing
the alteration or demolition of such street.
(3) Nothing in Sections 238, 239 and this section shall apply to any
land to which the provisions of the Punjab Regulation of Colonies
Act, 1975, apply.
241. Power of Commissioner to order work
to be carried out or to carry it out himself in default. -
( 1 ) If any private street or part thereof is not levelled, paved,
metalled, flagged, channelled, sewered, drained, conserved or lighted
to the satisfaction of the Commissioner, he may by notice require
the owners of such street or path and the owners of the lands and
buildings fronting or abutting on such street or part to carry out
any work which in his opinion may be necessary and within such time
as may be specified in such notice.
(2) If such work is not carried out within the time specified in the
notice, the Commissioner may, if he thinks fit, execute it and the
expenses incurred shall be paid by the owners referred to in sub-section
( 1 ) in such proportion as may be determined by the Commissioner
and shall be recoverable from them as an arrear of tax under this
Act.
242. Declaration of public streets.
- (1) If any street has been levelled, paved, metalled, flagged,
channelled, .sewered, drained, conserved and lighted under the provisions
of Section 241, the Commissioner may, and on the requisition of the
majority of the owners referred to in sub- section ( 1 ) of that section
shall declare such a street to be a public street and thereupon the
street shall vest in the Corporation.
(2) The Commissioner may at any time, by notice fixed up in any street
or part thereof not maintainable by the Corporation, give intimation
of his intention to declare the same a public street, and unless within
One month next after such notice has been so put up, the owner or
any one of the several owners of such street or such part of a street
lodge objection thereto at the Corporation office, the Commissioner
may, by notice in writing, put up in such street or such part, declare
the same to be a public street vested in the Corporation.
243. Prohibition of projection upon streets,
etc. - (1) Except as provided in Section 244, no person
shall erect, set up, add to, or place against or in front of any premises
any structure or fixture which will-
(a) overhang, jut or project into, or in any way encroach
upon and obstruct in any way the safe or convenient passage of the
public along, any street, or
(b) jut or project into or encroach open any drain or open channel
in any streets so as in any way to interfere with the use or proper
working of such drain or channel or to impede the inspection or
cleanising thereof.
(2) The Commissioner may by notice require the owner or occupier of
any premises to remove or to take such other action as he may direct
in relation to any structure or fixture which has been erected, set
up, added to, or placed against, or in front of the said premises
in contravention of this section.
(3) If the occupier of the said premises removes or alters any structure
or fixture in accordance with such notice, he shall be entitled, unless
the structure or fixture was erected, set up or placed by himself,
to credit into account with the owner of the premises for all
reasonable expenses incurred by him in complying with the notice.
244. Projections over streets may be permitted
in certain cases. - ( 1 ) The Commissioner may give a written
permission, on such terms and on payment of such fee as he in each
case thinks fit, to the owner or occupier of the building on any street-
(a) to erect an arcade over such street or any portion
thereof; or
(b) to put up a verandah, balcony, arch, connecting passage,
sunshade; weather frame, canopy, awning or other such structure
or thing projecting from any storey over or across any street or
portion there- of:
Provided that no permission shall be given by the Commissioner for
the erection of an arcade in any public street in which construction
of an arcade has not been generally sanctioned by the Corporation.
(2) The Commissioner may at any time by notice require the owner of
occupier of any building to remove a verandah, balcony, sunshade,
weather frame or the like put up in accordance with the provisions
of any law and such owner or occupier shall be bound to take' action
accordingly but shall be entitled to compensation for the loss caused
to him by such removal and the cost incurred thereon.
245. Ground floor door, etc., not to open
outwards on streets. - The Commissioner may at any time
by notice require the owner of any premises on the ground floor of
which any door, gate, bar or window opens outwards upon a street or
upon any land required for the, improvement of a street in such manner
as in the opinion of the Commissioner is likely to obstruct the safe
or convenient passage of the public along such street, to have the
said door, gate, bar or window altered so as not to open outwards.
246. Prohibition of structures, fixtures
or deposit of things in streets.
(1) No person shall, except with the permission of the Commissioner
granted in this behalf, erect or set up any wall, fence, rail, post,
step, booth or other structure whether fried or movable or whether
of a permanent or temporary nature, or any fixture in or upon any
street or upon or over any open channel, drain well or tank in any
street so as to form an obstruction to, or an encroachment upon, or
projection over, or to occupy any portion of such street, channel,
drain, well or tank.
(2) No person shall, except with the permission of the Commissioner
and on payment of such fee as he in each case thinks fit, place or
deposit upon any street, or upon any open channel, drain or well in
any street or upon any public place any stall, chair, bench, box,
ladder, bale or other thing whatsoever so as to form an obstruction
thereto or encroachment thereon.
(3) Nothing in sub-section ( 1 ) shall apply to any erection or thing
to which clause (c) of sub-section (1) of Section 251 applies and
nothing in sub- section (2) shall apply to building materials.
247. Special provision regarding streets
belonging to Government. - Notwithstanding anything contained
in Sections 236,243 or 244 or in clause (5) of Part 'C' of Section
399 and subject to any general or special order that the Government
may make in this behalf, if any street is vested in the Government-
(a)The Commissioner shall not, in respect of such street
grant permission to do any act the doing of which without his written
permission would contravene the provisions of Section 243 or Section
244 or allow any building to be set forward under the provision
of Section 236 except with the sanction of the Government which
may be given in respect of a class of cases generally or in respect
of a particular case.
(b)The Commissioner shall, if so required by the Government exercise
the power conferred upon him by Sections 232,243 or 244 or clause
{5) of Part C of Section 399 or any bye-law made in exercise of
the power conferred by the aforesaid clause (5) in respect of any
encroachment or overhanging structure on or over such street or
any materials, goods or articles of merchandise deposited on such
street.
248. Power to remove anything deposited or
exposed for sale in contravention of this Act, - The Commissioner
may, without notice, cause to be removed-
(a) any stall, chair, bench box, ladder, bale or other thing whatsoever
placed, deposited, projected, attached or suspended in, upon, from
or to any place in contravention of this Act;
(b) any article whatsoever hawked or exposed for sale on any public
street or in any other public place in contravention of this Act any
vehicle, package, box or any other thing in or on which such article
is placed.
249. Prohibition of tethering of animals
and milking of cattle. - person shall tether any animal
or cause or permit the same to be tethered any public street.
{2) No person shall milk or cause or permit to be milked any cow or
in any street.
(3) Any animal tethered or any cow or buffalo found being milked
as aforesaid in any street may be removed by the Commissioner or any
Corporation Officer or employee and be impounded and dealt with under
the provisions of the Cattle- trespass Act, 1871.
250. Precautions during repair of streets.
- ( 1 ) The Commissioner shall, so far as, is praticable during
the construction or repair of any public street, or any municipal
drain or any premises vested in the Corporation
(a) cause-the same to be fenced and guarded;
(b) take proper precautions against accident by shorting up and
protecting the adjoining buildings;
(c) cause such bars, chains or posts to be fixed across or in any
street in which any such work of construction or repair is under
execution as are necessary in order to prevent the passage of vehicles
or animals and avert danger.
(2) The Commissioner shall cause such street, drain or premises to
be sufficiently lighted or guarded during night which under construction
or repair.
(3) The Commissioner shall, with all reasonable speed, cause the said
work to be completed, the ground to be filled in the said street,
drain or premises to be repaired and the rubbish occasioned
thereby to be removed.
(4) No person shall, without the permission of the Commissioner or
other lawful authority, remove any bar, chain, post or shoring, timber,
or remove or extinguish any light set up under this section.
251. Streets not to be opened or broken up
and building materials not to be deposited thereon without permission.
- (1) No person other than the Commissioner or a Corporation Officer
or other Corporation employee shall, without the written permission
of the Commissioner -
(a) open. break up. displace, take up or make any alteration
in. or cause any injury to the soil or pavement or any wall, fence,
post. chain or other material or thing forming part of any street;
or
(b) deposit any building material in any street; or
(c) set up in any street any scaffold or any temporary erection
for the purpose of any work whatever, or any posts, bars, rolls,
boards or other things by way of an enclosure, for the purpose of
making mortar or depositing bricks, lime, rubbish or other materials.
(2) Any permission granted under clause (b) or clause (c) of sub-section
( 1 ) shall be terminable at the discretion of the Commissioner
on his giving not less than twenty-four hours notice of such termination
to the person to whom such permission was granted.
(3) The Commissioner may, without notice, cause to be removed any
of the things. referred to in clause (b) or clause (c) of sub-section
( 1 ) which has been deposited or set up in any street without the
permission specified in that sub-section or which having been deposited
or set up with such permission has not been removed within the period
specified in the notice issued under sub-section (2):
Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall apply to cases under
clause (b) or clause (c) of sub-section ( 1 ) in which an application
for permission has been made with such fee as may be prescribed by
the Commissioner in this behalf but no reply has been sent to the
applicant within seven days from the date of the application.
252. Disposal of things removed Under this
chapter. - { 1 ) Any of the things caused to be removed
by the Commissioner under this chapter shall unless the owner thereof
turns up to take back such things and pays to the Commissioner the
charges for the removal and storage of such things, be disposed of
by the Commissioner by public auction or in such other manner and
within such time as the Commissioner thinks fit.
(2) The charges for removal and storage of the things sold under sub-section
(1) shall be paid out of the proceeds of the sale thereof and the
balance, if any shall be paid to the owner of the things sold on a
claim being made therefor within a period of one year from the date
of sale, and if no such claim is made within the said period, shall
be credited to the Corporation.
253. Naming and numbering of streets.
- { 1 ) The Commissioner may -
(a) with the sanction of the Corporation, determine the
name or number by which any street or public place vested in the
Corporation shall be known;
(b) cause to be put up or painted at a conspicuous part of any building,
wall or Place, at or near each end, corner or entrance of such street
or on some convenient part of such street, the name or number by
which it is to be known;
(b) cause to be put up or painted on boards of suitable size the
name of any public place vested in the Corporation;
(d) determine the number or sub-number by which any premises or
part of such premises shall be known and cause such number or sub
number to be fixed to the side or outer door of such premises or
to some placeat the entrance of the enclosure thereof.
(2) No person shall destroy, remove deface or in any way injure or
alter such name or number or sub-number or put up or paint any name
or number or sub-number different from that put up or painted by order
of the Commissioner.
254. Commissioner to take steps for repairing
or enclosing dangerous places. -(1) If any place is, in
the opinion of the Commissioner, for want of sufficient repair or
protection or enclosure, or owing to some work being carried on thereupon,
dangerous or causing inconvenience to passengers along a street or
to other persons including the owner or occupier of the said place,
who have legal access thereto or to the neighbourhood thereof, the
Commissioner may by notice in writing require the owner or occupier
of such place to repair, protect or enclose the same or take such
other steps as shall appear to the Commissioner necessary in order
to prevent the danger or inconvenience arising thereform.
(2) The Commissioner may before giving any such notice or before
the period of any such notice has expired, take such temporary measures
as he thinks fit to prevent the danger or inconvenience arising therefrom;
and any expense incurred by the Commissioner in taking such temporary
measures shall be recoverable from the owner or occupier of the place
as an arrear of tax under this Act.
215. Measures for lighting..
The Commissioner shall -
(a)take measures for lighting in a suitable manner all such public
streets and public places as may be specified by the Corporation:
(b) procure, erect and maintain such number of lamps, lamp posts and
other appurtenances as may be necessary for the said purpose:
{c) cause such lamps to be lighted by means of oil. electricity or
such other light ,as the Corporation may determine.
256. Prohibition of removal, etc. of lamps.
{1 ) No person shall, without lawful authority, take away wilfully,
negligently break or throw down or damage -
(a) any lamp or any appurtenance of any lamp or lamp post
or lamp iron set up in any public street or any public place:
{b) any electric wire for lighting such lamp:
(c) any post, pole. standard, stay, strut, bracket or other contrivance
for carrying, suspending or supporting any electric wire or lamp.
{2) No person shall wilfully or negligently extinguish the light of
any lamp set up in any public street or any public place.
(3) If any person wilfully or through negligence or accident breaks
or causes any damage to, any of the things described in sub-section
( 1 ), he shall in addition to any penalty to which he may be subjected
under this Act, pay the expenses Of repairing the damage so done by
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