(1) This Act may be called the 2Telangana Road Development Corporation Act, 1998.
(2) It extends to the whole of the State of 2Telangana.
(3) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 27th September, 1997.
2. In this Act unless the context otherwise requires,-
(a) “Corporation” means the 2Telangana Road Development Corporation established under section 3;
(b) “Government” means the State Government of
2Telangana.
(c) “Local Authority” means,-
(i) A Gram Panchayat, a 3[Mandal Praja Parishad] or a 3[Zilla Praja Parishad] constituted under the Telangana Panchayat Raj Act, 1994;
1. The Andhra Pradesh Road Development Corporation Act, 1998 received the assent of the Governor on the 31st December, 1997. The said Act in force in the combined State, as on 02.06.2014, has been adapted to the State of Telangana, under section 101 of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014 (Central Act 6 of 2014) vide. the Telangana Adaptation of Laws Order, 2016, issued in G.O.Ms.No.45, Law (F) Department, dated 01.06.2016.
2. Substituted by G.O.Ms.No.45, Law (F) Department, dated 01.06.2016.
3. Substituted by Act No.41 of 2006 and now see the Telangana Panchayat Raj Act, 2018 (Act No.5 of 2018).
Short title, extent and commencement.
Definitions.
Act 13 of 1994.
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(ii) a Municipality or a Notified Area Committee constituted under the 4Telangana Municipalities Act, 1965;
(iii) A Municipal Corporation constituted under any law for the time being inforce relating to Municipal Corporations;
(d) “National Highway” means any highway for the time being declared as a National Highway under section 2 of the National Highways Act, 1956;
(e) “Notification” means a notification published in the 5Telangana Gazette and the word „notified‟ shall be construed accordingly;
(f) “Prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(g) “Road” means the ground appropriated for public travel or forming a communication between one place and another and includes a highway, openway, passage street, square, court alley, bridge, foot track, path, sidewalk or lane, whether surfaced or unsurfaced and whether a thoroughfare or not, over which the public have a right of way and also includes;
(i) any land acquired or demarcated with a view to construct a road along it;
(ii) any slope, berm, borrowpits, foot paths, pavements and side catch and boundary drains attached to such road;
4. Adapted by G.O.Ms.No.142, Municipal Administration & Urban Development (A2) Department, dated 29.10.2015.
5. Substituted by G.O.Ms.No.45, Law (F) Department, dated 01.06.2016.
Act VI of 1965.
Central Act 48 of 1956.
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(iii) all bridges, culverts, tunnels, causeways, carriage ways and other structures constructed on or across such road; and
(iv) all trees, fences, posts, boundary and land marks and other road accessories and materials and material stocks on the road;
(h) “Regulation” means regulations made under this Act.
CHAPTER – II ESTABLISHMENT, CONDUCT OF BUSINESS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE CORPORATION