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Section 287: Ordinary inspection

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

287. (1) the [President] , the executive officer and, if authorized in this behalf by resolution, any other member, officer or servant of the Municipality, may enter into or upon a building or land with or without assistants of workmen, in order to make an inspection or survey or to execute a work which a Municipality is authorized by this Act, or by rules or bye-laws, to make or execute, or which it is necessary for a Municipality, for any of the purposes or in pursuance of any of the provisions of this Act or of rules or by-laws, to make or execute ;

(2) Provided that, -

(a) except when it is in this Act or in rules or bye-laws otherwise expressly provided, no such entry shall be made between sunset and sunrise ; and

(b) except when it is in the Act or in rules or bye-laws otherwise expressly provided, no building which is used as a human dwelling shall be so entered, except with the consent of the occupier thereof, without giving the said occupier not less than four hours previous written notice of the intention to make such entry ; and

(c) sufficient notice shall in every instance be given even when any premises may otherwise be entered without notice, to enable the inmates of an apartment appropriated for females to remove to some part of the premises where their privacy need not be disturbed ; and

(d) due regard shall always be had to the social and religious usages of the occupants of the premises entered.

Where this provision sits

ActUttar Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1916
Section287
Marginal noteOrdinary inspection
JurisdictionState of Uttar Pradesh
StatusIn 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.

  • substituted, U. P. Act XV of 1951. In accordance with section 2 (1) of Uttar Pradesh Municipalities (Supplementary and Validation) Act, 1951 (U. P. Act XV of 1951) (see appendix to this Act) during the period commencing from June 21, 1949 and until a new board is constituted by the first General Elections held under the U. P. Municipalities Act, 1916, next after the commencement of this Act for the word "President" Wherever it occ…
  • substituted, U. P. Act VII of 1949. Subs. for (Chairman) by sec. 61 of U. P. Act VII of 1949.

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