Section 180A: Restriction on the power of a Municipality to sanction construction of a place of entertainment in certain cases

Uttar Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1916State Act of Uttar Pradesh · Act 2 of 1916

180-A. [Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, or any bye-law made thereunder, the construction of, or any addition to, any building, of public entertainment or any addition thereto, shall not except with the previous approval of the State Government, be sanctioned by a Municipality, if the site of, or proposed for such building is -

(a) within a radius of one furlong from -

(i) any residential institution attached to a recognized educational institution such as a college, a high school or girls school ; or

(ii) a public hospital with a large indoor patient ward ; or

(iii) an orphanage containing one hundred or more in mates ; or

(b) in any thickly populated residential area which is either exclusively residential or reserved or used generally for residential as distinguished from business purposes ; or

[Provided that no permission to construct any building intended to be used for cinematograph exhibition shall be given unless the board is satisfied that section to the plans and specifications have been obtained in accordance with the rules framed under the Cinematograph Act, 1918.

Explanation - For the purposes of this section "place of public entertainment" means any building where music, singing or dancing is provided and to which the public are admitted on payment of money or otherwise and includes a race course, circus, theatre, cinema, music hall, carnival and bagatelle room ].

Where this provision sits

Act	Uttar Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1916
Section	180A
Marginal note	Restriction on the power of a Municipality to sanction construction of a place of entertainment in certain cases
Jurisdiction	State of Uttar Pradesh
Status	In force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

other. Add. by sec. 35 of U. P. Act no. VII of 1953.
inserted. Ins. by sec. 72 of U. P. Act no. VII of 1949.

Find the provision, not just read it

The full text above is free, and it stays free. What a free CourtMesh account adds is everything you cannot do by reading one page at a time:

Search 49,000+ Central and State enactments by what a provision says, not by its number
Jump from any section to every judgment that has applied it
Search 300 million+ Indian court records alongside the statute
Ask a research agent to find and read the case law on a provision for you

Free account. No card. About a minute to create.

Create a free account

Need this as data, not as a page? Uttar Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1916 is one of 49,000+ enactments on CourtMesh. The Indian court cases API serves the case law that cites these provisions over JSON, with API documentation and plans and pricing. See also the judgment library.