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Section 7: Enforcement of agreement

The Odisha Ancient Monuments Preservation Act, 1956State Act of Odisha · Act 12 of 1956

(1) If the Collector apprehends that the owner or occupier of a monument intends to destroy, remove, alter, deface or imperil the monument or to build on or near the site thereof in contravention of the terms of an agreement for its preservation under Section 5, the Collector may make an order prohibiting any such contravention of the agreement.

(2) If any owner or other person who is bound by an agreement for the preservation or maintenance of a monument under Section 5 refuses to do any act which is, in the opinion of the Collector, necessary to such preservation or maintenance or neglects to do any such act within such reasonable time as may be fixed by the Collector, the, Collector may authorise any person to do any such act, and the expense of doing any such act or such portion of the expense as the owner may be liable to pay under the agreement, may be recovered from the owner as if it were an arrear of land revenue.

(3) A person aggrieved by an order made under this section may appeal to the Commissioner, who may cancel or modify it and whose decision shall be final.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Odisha Ancient Monuments Preservation Act, 1956
Section7
Marginal noteEnforcement of agreement
JurisdictionState of Odisha
StatusIn force as published by the source

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