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Section 410: Rights of way for underground utilities

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

Subject to the provisions of the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885, the Indian Electricity Act, 1910, and such other laws as may be notified by the State Government for the purposes of this section, the State Government may, by rules, provide for the following, namely: -

(a) the sanction by the municipality of specific rights of way in the sub-soil of public and private streets in any municipal area for different public utilities including electric supply, telephone or other telecommunication facilities, gas pipes, water-supply, drainage and sewerage, and underground rail system, pedestrian sub-ways, shopping plazas, warehousing facilities and apparatus and appurtenances related thereto

(b) the levy of any fee or charges under any of the Acts or other laws as aforesaid,

(c) the furnishing to the municipality of maps, drawings and statements which shall enable it to compile and maintain precise records of the placement of the underground utilities in the municipal area,

(d) the fixing of time limit for execution of work and imposing of such conditions in this respect as the municipality may consider appropriate, and

(e) the imposing of penalty in case of delay in the completion of work.

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411. Maps of underground utilities. The Municipal Commissioner or the Executive Officer shall cause to be maintained complete survey maps, drawings and descriptions of all underground utilities in the municipal area, and maps of fire hydrants and sewerage man-holes in such form, and in such manner, as may be provided by regulations, and shall ensure the secrecy of the same in conformity with the provisions of any law relating to Right to Information.

412. Power to prohibit use of public streets for certain kinds of traffic.

(1) The municipality may, by notice, in writing, -

(a) prohibit or regulate, either temporarily or permanently, 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 a public street or a portion thereof, the transit of any vehicle of such type, form, construction, weight, emission, or size, or of any vehicle laden with such heavy or unwieldy object as is likely to cause injury to the roadways or any construction thereon, or of any vehicle on the ground of public convenience, except under such conditions as to time, mode of traction or locomotion, use of appliances for the protection of roadways, number of lights and appliances, and other general precautions, and on payment of such charges, as may be specified by the municipality generally or specifically in each case,

(c) prohibit, at all times or during any particular hours, entry of any vehicular traffic from, or exit of such vehicular traffic into, any premises from any particular public street carrying such traffic.

(2) Any notice under sub-section (1) shall, if such notice applies to any particular public street, be pasted in conspicuous places at or near both ends of such public street or any portion thereof to which such notice applies or, if such notice applies generally to all public streets, be advertised.

(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), the municipality may declare, by notice, in writing, that any pedestrian pathway, or a portion thereof, shall be used as bicycle and pedestrian track.

(4) The notice referred to in sub-section (3) shall be pasted in conspicuous places at or near both ends of such public street or any portion thereof to which the provisions of sub-section (3) apply.

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Where this provision sits

ActJharkhand Municipal Act 2011
Section410
Marginal noteRights of way for underground utilities
JurisdictionState of Jharkhand
StatusIn force as published by the source

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