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Section 396: Penalty for breaches of bye-laws.

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

(1) Any bye-laws made under this Act may provide that a contravention thereof shall be punishable—

(a) with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees ; or

(b) with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees and in the case of continuing contravention, with an additional fine which may extend to fifty rupees for every day during which such contravention continues after conviction for the first contravention ; or

(c) with fine which may extend to fifty rupees for every day during which the contravention continues, after the receipt of a notice from the Commissioner or any Corporation officer duly authorised in that behalf by the person contravening the bye-laws requiring such person to discontinue such contravention.

(2) Any such bye-law may also provide that a person contravening the same shall be required to remedy, so far as lies in his powers, the mischief, if any, caused by such contravention.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Jammu and Kashmir Municipal Corporation Act, 2000
Section396
Marginal notePenalty for breaches of bye-laws.
JurisdictionUnion territory of Jammu and Kashmir
StatusIn force as published by the source

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