Section 217: Naming of streets and numbering of buildings

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

217. (1) The Municipality may -

(a) [With the prior approval of the Prescribed Authority" cause a name for a new name to be given to a street, and

(b) cause the name or the new name to be affixed to or marked on any building in such position as it thinks fit, or

(c) require by a written notice the owner or occupier of any building to affix thereto a number plate or new number plate of a pattern approved by the Municipality or itself cause a number or a new number to be affixed to or marked any building.

(2) Any person destroying, pulling down, defacing or altering any name or number or number plate affixed to or marked on a building under sub-section (1) or affixing to or marking on a building a different name or number from that affixed or marked by or under the order of the Municipality shall bailable on conviction to a fine which may extend to "two hundred and fifty".

Where this provision sits

Act	Uttar Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1916
Section	217
Marginal note	Naming of streets and numbering of buildings
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.

inserted, U. P. Act 27 of 1964. Ins. by sec. 79 (1) of U. P. Act 27 of 1964.
substituted, U. P. Act 27 of 1964. Subs. by sec. 79 (2) of U. P. Act 27 of 1964.

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