(1) A Gram Panchayat may, by written notice, require the owner or occupier of any land or premises, containing a. tank or similar deposit of water, after taking into consideration his financial position. not to allow water hyacinth or any other weed which may pollute water to grow thereon and to eradicate the same there from within such reasonable period as may be specified in the notice:
Provided that a person on whom a notice as aforesaid has been served may within thirty days from the date of receipt of the notice, appeal to the prescribed authority and it may stay the operation of the order contained in the notice till the disposal of the appeal and it may, after giving such notice of the appeal to the Gram Panchayat concerned as may be prescribed, modify, set aside or confirm the order:
Provided further that the prescribed authority shall when it confirms or modifies the order contained in the notice after the expiry of the period mentioned therein, fix a fresh period within which the order contained the notice, as confirmed or modified by it, shall be carried out.
(2) If the order contained in a notice served as aforesaid has not been set aside by the prescribed authority and if the owner or occupier upon whom the notice has been served fails, without sufficient reason, to comply with the order in its original form or the order as modified by the prescribed authority, within the time as specified in the notice or within the time fixed by the prescribed authority as the case may be, he shall be liable, on conviction by a Magistrate, to a fine which may extend to two hundred rupees.
Emergent power on outbreak of_rujdemic.
3 7. (1) In the event of an outbreak of cholera or any other water borne infectious disease in any locality situated within the local limits of the jurisdiction ofa Gram Panchayat, the Chairperson, or any other person authorised by the. Chairperson may, during the continuance of the outbreak, without notice and at any time, inspect and disinfect any well tank or other place from which water is, or is likely to be, taken for the purpose of drinking and may further take such steps as he may deem fit to prevent the drawing of water therefrom.
Power to recovery of cost for work of cost for work Gram Panchayat on failure of any person.
38. If any work required to be done by an order contained in a notice served under sections 33, 34, 35, 36 and 37 is not executed within the carried out by period specified in the notice or where an appeal is made to the prescribed authority within the fresh period as fixed as the prescribed authority in. The appeal the Gram Panchayat may, in the absence of satisfactory grounds for non compliance cause such work to be carried out and the cost of carrying out such work shall be recoverable as an arrear of land revenue from the person on whom the notice was served.
PROPERTY AND FUND OF GRAM PANCHAYAT Power to acquire, Power to acquire, dis12ose of progertv.
39. A Gram Panchayat may have power to acquire, hold and dispose of property and to enter hold and into contracts :
Provided that in all cases of acquisition or disposal of immovable property, the gram Panchayat shall obtain the prior approval of the State Government.
Properties vested in the Gram Panch~ats.
40. Subject to such restrictions or conditions as the State Government may think fit and proper, all or any properties of the nature specified below and situated within the local limits of a Gram Panchayat shall vest in and belong to the Gram Panchayat concerned and shall be under its direction, management and control and shall be held and applied for the purpose of this Act.- ( 1) ( a) all public buildings constructed and maintained out of the funds of the Gram Panchayat;
(b) all public roads which have been constructed and maintained out of the funds of the Gram Panchayat and the stones and other materials thereof and also trees, erection materials, implements and things provided for such roads ; and ( c) all lands and other properties movable or immovable transferred to the Gram Panchayat by the State Government.
(2) The State Government may, by notification, exclude any street, bridge or drain from the operation of this Act or of any specified section of this Act:
Provided that, if the cost of the construction of the work shall have been paid from the Gram Panchayat Fund, such work shall not be excluded from the operation of this Act or any specified section of this Act except after consideration of the views of the Gram Panchayat at a meeting.
Allocation of property to Gram Panchayat
41. The State Government may allocate to a Gram Panchayat any public property situated within its local jurisdiction, arid thereupon such property Panchayats. shall vest in and come under the control of the Gram Panchayat.
Acquisition of land for Gram Panchayat