(1) The Municipality may, with a view to promoting safety, Power to convenience, privacy or sanitation or to securing comformity with the require provisions of this Act and the rules and the regulations made thereunder, by of exisiting order stating reasons in writing, require the owner of any exisiting building building.
to make such alterations therein within such period as may be specified in the orders :
Provided that before making any such order, the Municipality shall give a reasonable opportunity to the owner to show cause why such order should not be made.
(2) An appeal against an order made by the Municipality under this section shall lie with the Municipal Appellate Tribunal constituted under this Act.
Maintenance 137. ( 1 ) The Municipality may, for sufficient reasons, by an order of building. require the owner or the occupier of any building abutting on public or private street to keep the external parts of the building, including the roof thereof, in proper repair with time plaster or other materials or properly painted to the satisfaction of Municipality.
(2) If such owner or occupier makes default in carrying out an order made in this behalf, the Municipality may itself carry out the works and recover the cost thereof from the owner or the occupier of the building as the case may be,
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, the Municipality may apportion the costs incurred under sub-section (1) or Sub-section (2) between the owner and the occupier in such manner as i t consider just and reasonable.
(4) The Municipality may create and administer a special fund for maintenance as well as improvement of buildings in any area on corporate basis in accordance with such procedure as may be prescribed.
Power to order 138. (1) Where the Municipality upon any information is satisfied that demolition of any building is unfit for human habitation and is not capable, at a reasonable a g expense, of being rendered fit, it shall serve upon the owner of the building building.
and upon any other person having an interest in the building, whether as lessee mortgagee or otherwise, a notice to show cause within such time as may be specified in the notice as to why an order of demolition of the building should not be made.
(2) If any of the persons upon whom a notice has been served under seb-section ( 1) appears, in pursuance thereof, before the Municipality and gives an undertaking that such person shall, within a period specified by the Municipality execute such work of improvement in relation to the building as well in the opinion of the Municipality render the building fit for human habitation or that the building shall not be used for human habitation until the Municipality on being satisfied that it has been rendered fit for human habitation, cancels the undertaking, the Municipality shall not make an order of demolition of the building.
(3) If no such undertaking as referred to in sub-section (2) is given or, if, in a case where such undertaking has been given any work of improvement to which the undertaking relates is not carried out within the specified period or the building is used in contravention of the terms of the undertaking, the Municipality shall make an order of demolition which be carried out by the owner or, if the owner fails, by the Municipality at the cost of the owner in such manner as may be provided in the regulation.
139. The Municipality may make building regulations, consistent with the Power to Make provisions of this Act and the rules made by the State Government thereunder. regulation.
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