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Section 213: Power to prohibit use of public streets for certain kinds of traffic

The Jammu and Kashmir Municipal Corporation Act, 2000Union territory Act of Jammu and Kashmir · Act 21 of 2000

(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 unwidely objects as may be likely to cause injury to the roadways or any construction thereon, except under such conditions as to time, mode of the 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 applied generally to all public streets.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Jammu and Kashmir Municipal Corporation Act, 2000
Section213
Marginal notePower to prohibit use of public streets for certain kinds of traffic
JurisdictionUnion territory of Jammu and Kashmir
StatusIn force as published by the source

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