(1) The Municipality may declare a public street or portion of it as power to a fee parking area. declare public street as free
(2) Parking fee may be levied for each hour at such rate, and for parking area.
such types of vehicles parked in different areas or for parking on different categories of streets at different hours of the day, as the Municipality may determine.
Sanction for 106. (1) No person shall put up any platform, verandah, balcony, projection Over sunshade, weather frame or the project over any public street without the street and drain. written permission of the Municipality.
( 2 ) Subject to any rules made by the State Government in this behalf, the Municipality may, in its discretion, give to the owners or occupiers of buildings abutting on public streets written permission to erect or re-erect platform, verandah, balcony, sunshade or weather-frame projecting on a public street or drain on such condition as it may think fit and on payment of such fees or rent as i t may, from time to time, fix.
P0w"foremove 107. A Municipalityencroachment.
(a) may, without notice remove, alter or otherwise deal with any un-authorised construction in, over, above or upon any public street, sewer, drain, water-course or ghat ;
(b) may, remove without notice any materials or goods or any movable property which has, without its permission, been deposited in a public street, a drain, aquaduct or water-course.
Penalty for 108. Whoever removes, not being duly authorised in that behalf. any earth, encroachment sand on other material from or makes any encroachment in or upon, any of street or open space. street or open space which is not a private property, shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees and, in the case of continuing offence, with further fine which may extend to fifty rupees for everyday after the first during which such offence continues.
Prohibition 109. ( 1 ) Whoever without the permission of the Municipality displace, of damage dig up or make any alteration in, or otherwise damage, the pavement, gutter, Munic ipal tlage or other materials of any public street, or any street furniture like property.
posts, fences and walls, including lamp-posts, lamps brakets, water posts, hydrants and accessories thereto, or any other municipal property, shall be convicted and sentenced to imprisonment which may extend to six months or fine which may extend to two thousand rupees or both.
Municipalfty 110. Whenever any public street or drain or any other Municipal property may requlre to is damaged washed away or eroded by any activity in the adjacent land or damage to tank or building the Municipality may, by wtitten notice, require the owner public street etc.
618 or occupier of such land or building to repair the damage and to restore the street, drain or property to its original condition, as far as possible, within a specified time, and i t shall be incumbent upon such owner or occupier to comply with it failing which the Municipality itself may carry out the work of repair or restroration and the expenses thereof shall be recoverable from the owner or the occupier as an arrear or tax under this Act.
11 1. (1) A Municipality may- Naming and numbering
(a) give a name 01- a number to every public street ; of street and premises.
(b) determine the number or sub-number by which any premises or part thereof shall be known ; and
(c) require the owner of any premises or part thereof, by a written notice, to put up a plate showing the number or sub-number or such premises or part in such position and manner as may be specified in such notice.
(2) Any person, who destroys, pulls down or defaces any such name or number of a public street or puts up a number or sub-number different from that determined by the Municipality shall, on conviction, be punished with a fine which may extend to one thousand rupees.
112. The Municipality shall have access over any private street for the Access over purpose of extending civic services or providing civic amenities. private street.
1 1 3. (1) If a majority of the owners of a private street or the owners of Municipality lands or buildings on such street express their consent in writing, the may take over Municipality may on such condition as it may determine declare the same to private street.
be a public street.
(2) If a private street has been in existence for and used by the people of the locality as a thoroughfare, the Municipality may, notwithstanding anything contained in this section declare such street to be a public street.
1 14. ( 1) Every person intending to layout or make a new street within a New private municipal area, shall obtain permission of the Municipality, The manner of street.
submitting petition and granting permission shall be such as may be specified by the Municipality by regulation.
( 2 ) If any person, lays out or make a new street in contravention of the provisions of this section, the Municipality shall forthwith cause the work to be stopped and may execute its order for such stoppage with the help of the police.
(3) Whoever lays out or makes any such street in any manner contrary to the provisions of this Act or of any regulations made thereunder or violates any order for stoppage of work under sub-section (2) shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for six months or with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees or with both, and the Municipality may cause any street so laid out or made to be altered and any building constructed on such street to be altered or removed and the expenses thereby incurred shall be paid to the Municipality by the offender, and shall be recoverable as an arrear of tax under this Act.
Layout plants. 1 15. ( 1) Before utilising, selling, leasing out otherwise disposition of any land or building as plots for construction of buildings thereon, the owner thereof shall send to the Municipality a written application for approval with a layout plan of the land showing the street or streets with any existing public or private streets and the manner of disposing of the application shall be such as may be determined by the Municipality by regulations.
( 2 ) No person shall utilise, sell or otherwise deal with any land or pay out or make any new street, nor shall any person make any construction on any plot comprised in such land without or otherwise than in conformity with the orders or approval of the Municipality, and, if further information is asked for no step shall be taken to utilize, sell or otherwise deal with the land or to layout on make the street until an order has been passed by the Municipality upon receipt of such information :
Provided that the passing of any such order or approval shall not, in any case, be delayed for more than ninty days after the Municipality has received such information as it considers necessary to enable it to deal with the application.
Lighting of 1 16. The Municipality may take measures for lighting, in a suitable manner, streets and such public street and public places as may be considered necessary and for public place. that purpose may enter into agreement with any firm, company or Government agencies.
1 17. (1 ) The Municipality may, on its own or in collaboration with any Generation of one, erect plants for generation of electric power, subject to such rules as electricity.
may be made in this behalf.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in this chapter, all matters relating to generatioin, transmission, supply or use of elecrical energy in a Municipal area shall be regulated by the provisions of the Indian Electricity Act, 1910.
1 1 8. ( 1) The State Government may make rules to provide for- Power to make building rules.
(a) the regulation or restriction of the use of sites for building ; and
(b) the regulation on restriction of building.
( 2 ) The State Government may by notification exempt a Municipal area or a group of Municipal areas from the operation of all or and of the provisions of this chapter or of the rules make under section.
(3) While such exemption, as aforesaid, remains in force in any Municipal area or group of Municipal areas, the State Government may make rules consistent with the provisions of this chapter for application to such municipal area.