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Section 154: Power to levy user charges

Jharkhand Municipal Act 2011State Act of Jharkhand · Act 7 of 2012

The municipality shall levy user charges for –

(i) provision of water-supply, drainage and sewerage,

(ii) solid waste management,

(iii) parking of different types of vehicles in different areas and for different periods,

(iv) stacking of materials or rubbish on public streets for construction, alteration, repair or demolition work of any type, and

(v) other services rendered by the municipality at such rates as may be determined from time to time by regulations:

Provided that a municipality may, having regard to the conditions obtaining in the municipal area, decide not to levy or postpone any of the user charges as aforesaid:

Provided further that the State Government may direct the municipality to levy any of the user charges as aforesaid not levied, or postponed by the municipality.

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155. Power to levy fees and fines. (1) The municipality shall have the power to levy fees in exercise of the regulatory powers vested in it by or under this Act or the rules or the regulations made thereunder for-

(a) sanction of building plans and issue of completion certificates,

(b) issue of municipal licenses for various non-residential uses of lands and buildings,

(c) licensing of -

(i) various categories of professionals such as plumbers and surveyors,

(ii) various activities such as sinking of tube-wells, sale of meat, fish or poultry, or hawking of articles,

(iii) sites used for advertisements or premises used for private markets, slaughterhouses, hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, factories, warehouses, godowns, goods transport depots, eating-houses, lodging- houses, hotels, theatres, cinema-houses and places of public amusement and for other non residential uses,

(iv) animals,

(v) carts or carriages or vehicles, and

(vi) such other activities which require a license or permission under the provisions of this Act, and

(d) issue of birth and death certificates.

(2) The municipality shall have power to levy fine for committing nuisance or for violating any provisions of the Act.

Where this provision sits

ActJharkhand Municipal Act 2011
Section154
Marginal notePower to levy user charges
JurisdictionState of Jharkhand
StatusIn force as published by the source

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