(1) A Gram Panchayat either suo motu or on receiving a report or other informaiton and on taking such evidence, if any, as it thinks fit, may make a conditional order requiring within a time to be fixed in the order --
(a) the owner or the occupier of any building or land -- 1 Substituted by Haryana Act 10 of 1999.
Functions of Panchayat Samiti which may be delegated to Gram Panchayat.
Power to require removal of encroachment and nuisance.
(i) to remove any encroachment on a public street, place or drain ;
(ii) to close, remove, alter, repair, clean, disinfect or put in good order any latrine, urinal, water closet, drain, cesspool or other receptacle for filth, sullage water, rubbish or refuse or to remove or alter any door or trap or construct any drain for any such latrine, urinal or water closet, by a sufficient roof and wall or fence from the view of persons passing by or dwelling in the neighborhood ;
(iii) to cleanse, repair, cover, fill up, drain off, deepen or to remove water from a private well, reservoir, pool, pit , ditch , depression or excavation therein which may appear to the Gram Panchayat to be injurious to health or offensive to the neighborhood ;
(iv) to remove any dirt, dung, night soil manure or any noxious or offensive matter there from and to cleanse the land or building;
(b) the owner of any wall or building which is deemed by the Gram Panchayat to be dangerous in any way to remove or repair any such wall or building ;
(c) the owner or occupier of any building or property to keep his building or property in a sanitary condition ;
(d) the owner of any dog or other animal suffering or reasonably suspected to be suffering from rabbies or which is dangerous to destroy, confined or cause to be confined such dog or animal ;
(e) the owner or occupier of any agricultural land to destroy Pohli or any other such harmful weed from such land ;
(f) the owner or occupier concerned to reclaim an unhealthy place ;
(g) the owner or occupier of any building or land to maintain in proper repair the level and surface of any road or street passing in front of the building or through his land ;
(h) the owner or person incharge of a private ‘Khal’ to keep it in a state of reasonable repair, or if he objects so to do, to appear before it at a time and place to be fixed by the order and to move to have the order set aside or modified in the manner hereinafter provided. If he does not perform such act or appear and show cause, the order shall be made absolute. If he appears and show cause against the order the Gram Panchayat shall take evidence and if it is satisfied that the order is not reasonable and proper no further proceedings shall be taken in the case.
If it is not satisfied the order shall be made absolute.
(2) If any of the act mentioned in sub-section (1) is not performed within the time fixed, the Gram Panchayat may cause it to be performed and may recover the costs of performing it from such person.
1[(3) No person shall dig, alter or damage any street, pavement or drain in a village in any manner, for any purpose without prior permission of such authority and subject to such terms and conditions, as may be prescribed.]
(4) Any person whoever contravenes any provision contained in subsection (3) shall be punishable with a fine which may extend to 2[five thousand rupees] and in addition to this an expenditure incurred by the Gram Panchayat in 1 Added by Haryana Act 10 of 1999 and further substituted by Act 8 of 2017.
2 Substituted by Haryana Act 11 of 2020.
restoring the street or pavement to its original state, shall also be recoverable from him.]
25. A Gram Panchayat may, by general order to be published in the manner prescribed,—
(a) prohibit the use of water of a well, pond or other excavation suspected to be dangerous to the public health ;
(b) regulate or prohibit the use of water by cattle or for bathing or washing at or near wells, ponds or other excavations reserved for drinking purposes ;
(c) regulate or prohibit the dyeing or tanning of skins within four hundred and forty metres of the residential area of a village :
Provided that where the dyeing or tanning of skins was so practiced at the time when the Gram Panchayat under the Punjab Village Panchayat Act, 1939 (Punjab Act XI of 1939 ) or the Punjab Village Panchayat Act, 1922 (Act III of 1922) or any other Act was in force, its working shall not be prohibited unless the Gram Panchayat provide reasonable facilities of practicing it outside the four hundred and forty metres limits ;
(d) regulate or prohibit the excavation of earth or stone or other material within two hundred and twenty metres of residential area of a village :
Provided that nothing shall be done under this clause to prevent excavation meant to be filled in by the foundation of buildings or other structure;
(e) regulate or prohibit the establishment of brick kilns and charcoal kilns within eight hundred and eighty metres and pottery kilns within two hundred and twenty metres of the limits of residential area of a village :
Provided that where a pottery kiln was working at the time when Gram Panchayat under the Punjab Village Panchayat Act, 1939 (Punjab Act XI of 1939 ) and the Punjab Village Panchayat Act, 1922 (Punjab Act III of 1922 ) or any other Act was in force, its working shall not be prohibited unless the Gram Panchayat provides reasonable facilities for its working outside the two hundred and twenty metres limits ;
(f) direct the carrier of the carcasses of all animals dying within the village except the carcasses of animals slaughtered for consumption, shall not be disposed of within a radius of four hundred and forty metres of the limits of the residential area of the village ;
(g) regulate the construction of new building or the extension or alteration of any existing building in the abadi ;
(h) regulate with the previous permission of the Government the parking of public vehicles ;
(i) regulate such matters as may be necessary for the general protection of standing crops and trees on common land and the planting of such trees ;
(j) regulate the conditions of sanitation and taking curative and preventive measures to remove and prevent the spread of epidemics ;
(k) regulate the maintenance of water courses meant for irrigation purposes;
Power to make general orders.
(l) regulate the killing or stray dogs ;
(m) regulate the slaughter of animals ;
(n) prohibit beggary ;
(o) direct the taking of measures for the prevention of water logging ;
(p) regulate the flaying and disposal of dead animals ;
(q) prohibit the sale of harmful eatables within the sabha area ;
(r) regulate the offensive and dangerous trades or practices ;
1[(s) regulate and prohibit burning of residuals of crops;]
2[(u) specify the manner and the measures to regulate water conservation in the village;
(v) regulate the management of stray cattle;
(w) prohibit open defecation in village.]