(1) The Authority shall, from time to time, with the sanction of ·the State Government, specify the minimum width for different classes 'f public roads according to the nature of the traffic likely to ..,e earned there, the localities i11 which they are situated, the heizhts up to which buildings abutting thereon may be erected and other similar considerations.
('2) The width of a ? public road shall not be less than that prescribed in sub-section (!) or that shown on the plan for the class ro which it belon? areas for which a plan has been prepared.
37. (L) The Authority may, by bye-laws made in this behalf, prescribe a road line on one side or both sides of any public road:
Provided that prior notice of the proposal for prescribing -such a road line shall be issued dv the Authority in such manner as may be prescribed.
· · :2) No person shall construct or re-construct any building or any portion of a building lying on the land within road-line.
38, (1) If any building or any part of a building abutting on a public road is within the road-line, the A uthcrity may require such building to be set hack to the prescibed line, whenever it is proposed-
(a) to rebuild such building or to take down such building; or
(b) to remove, reconstruct or make any addition to or structural alteration in any portion of, such building as is within the regular line of the road.
(2) When any building or any part thereof within the road-line falls down or is burnt down or is taken down under the provisions of this Act or otherwise, the road-line formerly occupied by the said building and, if necessary, clear the same.
(3) The land taken possesion of under sub-sectio? shall henceforward be deemed to be a part rf the public ro?
39. If any land lies within the prescribed line or a public road and is not occupied by a building, is within the line of such road the Authority may, after giving the owner of the land a notice of "the intention to do so, take possession of the said land which is within the prescribed line of the road.
40. If a building or land is partly within the road-line, and if the Authority is satisfied that the building or land remaining after ·the exclusion of the portion within the said line will not be suitable -or fit for human habitation er for construction of an indipendent building, the Authority shall acquire the remaining portion of the land, if so desired by the owner, and such an acquisition shall be done in accordance with the provisions under Chapter VII of .this Act.
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