Uttar Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1916
State Act of Uttar Pradesh · Act 2 of 1916388 provisions5 citing judgments
The enactment
| Long title | THE ‘‘UTTAR PRADESH’’ MUNICIPALITIES ACT, 1916 |
|---|---|
| Type | Act |
| Citation | Act 2 of 1916 |
| Year | 1916 |
| Jurisdiction | State of Uttar Pradesh |
| Status | In force as published by the source |
| Provisions published | 388 |
| Subjects | local |
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- Section 163 Costs
- Section 164 Bar to jurisdiction of civil and criminal courts in matters of taxation
- Section 165 Savings
- Section 166 Presentation of bil
- Section 167 Contents of bill
- Section 168 Notice of demand
- Section 169 Issue of warrant
- Section 170 Forcible entry for purpose of executing warran
- Section 171 Manner of executing warrant
- Section 172 Sale of goods under warrant and application of proceeds
- Section 173 Procedure in case of execution against property outside municipality
- Section 173A Recovery of taxes as arrears of land revenue
- Section 174 Fees and costs
- Section 175 Savings
- Section 176 Alternative power of bringing suit
- Section 177 Liability of immovable property for taxes
- Section 178 Notice of intention to erection building or make well
- Section 179 Plans and specifications required to validate notice
- Section 180 Sanction of work by Municipality
- Section 180A Restriction on the power of a Municipality to sanction construction of a place of entertainment in certain cases
- Section 181 Duration of sanction
- Section 182 Inspection of works requiring sanction
- Section 183 Compensation of damage sustained through order passed under section 180
- Section 184 Effect of sanction under section 180
- Section 185 Illegal erection or alteration of a building
- Section 186 Power of board to stop erection and to demolish building erected
- Section 187 Establishment and maintenance of fire brigade
- Section 188 Power of firebrigade and other persons for suppression of fires
- Section 189 Construction of public drains
- Section 190 Alteration of public drains
- Section 191 Use of public drains by private owners
- Section 192 Power of Municipality to enforce drainage connection with public drains
- Section 193 Power of private persons to carry a drain through the land of another person
- Section 194 Right of owner to divert drain on his land
- Section 195 Definition of housescavenging
- Section 196 Adoption and relinquishiment by Municipality of housescavenging, etc
- Section 197 197
- Section 198 Continuance of house scavenging once adopted by Municipality
- Section 199 Powers of municipal servants for housescavenging
- Section 200 Savings in favour of customary sweepers and of agricultureists
- Section 201 Punishment of customary sweepers for negligence
- Section 202 Procedure in case of default by agriculturist
- Section 203 Provision of laying out and making a street before the construction of a building on a site which does not abut a public or private street
- Section 204 Permission to layout and make a street
- Section 205 Sanction of the Municipality to be presumed for laying out the street in certain cases
- Section 206 Duration of sanction
- Section 207 Illegal making of a street
- Section 208 Power of Municipality to alter unsanctioned street and demolish the same
- Section 209 Sanction of Municipality to projections over streets and drains
- Section 210 Penalty for construction of projections over streets or drains without permission
- Section 211 Power to remove encroachments and projections over streets and drains
- Section 212 Powers to require leveling, paving, etc, of a street.
- Section 212A Power of the Municipality to control and regulate the construction of any building or street and drains beyond Municipal area
- Section 213 Power to require the protection of streets during erection of buildings, etc.
- Section 214 Power to require trimming of hedges and trees
- Section 215 Power to remove accidental obstructions
- Section 216 Regulation of troughs and drain water pipes affecting a street
- Section 217 Naming of streets and numbering of buildings
- Section 218 Power to attach brackets to buildings, etc
- Section 219 Power to construct, improve and provide sites on public streets
- Section 220 Use of public streets by vendors and other persons
- Section 221 Adoptation of a street as a public street
- Section 222 Power to regulate line of buildings on public streets
- Section 223 Duties of Municipality when constructing public streets, etc
- Section 224 Power of Municipality to construct and alter water-works.
- Section 224A Powers and liabilities of licences
- Section 224C Provisions where licence as a licensee is revoked
- Section 225 Power to require private water-course, etc, to be changed or closed
- Section 226 Emergent powers on outbreak of epidemic
- Section 227 Removal of latrines, etc. near any source of water supply
- Section 228 Obligations of Municipality imposing water tax
- Section 229 Supply of water by agreement
- Section 230 Charges for water supply
- Section 231 Exemption of Municipality from liability owing to accident, etc
- Section 232 Subordination to supply for domestic purposes of supply or other purposes
- Section 233 Subordination of rights of supply to restrictive rules
- Section 234 Provisions as to meters and connection pipes
- Section 235 Water supply rules
- Section 235A Rules relating to the supply of water by a person or company
- Section 236 Unauthorized construction or tree over drain or water-work
- Section 239 Power of District Magistrate in respect of animals not slaughtered for sale
- Section 240 Disposal of flesh imported in contravenetion of a bylaw regulating importation
- Section 241 Licensing of markets and shops for sale of certain articles
- Section 242 Improper feeding of animals kept for dairy purposes or used for food
- Section 243 Inspection of places for sale of food, drink and drugs
- Section 244 Seizure of un-whole some article and removal of deleterious and spent drugs
- Section 245 Regulation of offensive trades
- Section 246 Loitering and soliciting for immoral purpose
- Section 247 Brothels etc
- Section 248 Begging, etc.
- Section 249 Disposal of mad dogs, etc.
- Section 250 Muzzling order
- Section 251 Bar to compensation for dogs lawfully destroyed
- Section 252 Neglect of the rule of the road
- Section 253 Driving vehicles without proper lights
- Section 254 Failure to remove elephant etc. to safe distance
- Section 255 Prohibition of tethering of cattle, etc,. on street
- Section 256 Halting vehicles or animals on public grounds
- Section 257 Power as to inflammable structures
- Section 258 Power to search for inflammable materials in excess of authorized quantity
- Section 259 Stacking, etc. of inflammable materials
- Section 260 Dangerous quarrying
- Section 261 Displacing pavements, etc
- Section 262 Discharging firearms, etc.
- Section 263 Power for the prevention of danger from ruinous buildings, unprotected wells, etc.
- Section 264 Power to prevent unoccupied buildings or land becoming a nuisance
- Section 265 Obstruction of street
- Section 266 Digging up of public land
- Section 267 Private drains, cesspools, dustbins, latrine, etc.
- Section 268 Latrines for factories, schools or places of public resort
- Section 269 Power to require removal of nuisance arising from tanks etc.
- Section 270 Inspection of drains, privies, etc
- Section 271 Cleansing of filthy buildings or land
- Section 272 Failure to remove offensive matter
- Section 273 Regulation of the disposal of rubbish, night-soil, etc
- Section 274 Penalty for improper disposal of rubbish, night-soil, etc.
- Section 275 Disposal of dead bodies of animals
- Section 276 Penalty for discharging sewage on public street, etc.
- Section 277 Power to enter and disinfect buildings
- Section 278 Building unfit for human habitation
- Section 279 Penalty for failure to give information of cholera, smallpox
- Section 279A Power to examine persons suspected to be suffering from infectious diseases
- Section 280 Removal to hospital of patients
- Section 281 Penalty for acts done by persons suffering from certain disorders
- Section 282 Prohibition of cultivation, use of manure, or irrigation injurious to health
- Section 283 Power to require owners to clear away noxious vegetation
- Section 284 Power to require excavations to be filled up or drained
- Section 285 Power in respect of burial and burning grounds
- Section 286 Bathing and washing places
- Section 287 Ordinary inspection
- Section 288 Preventive inspection
- Section 289 Powers for effecting entry
- Section 290 Power of Municipality to require certain works to be executed by its own agency
- Section 291 Recovery of rent on land
- Section 292 Recovery of rent of other immovable property
- Section 293 Fees for use otherwise than under a lease of municipal property
- Section 293A Power to impose fees
- Section 293B Power to levy user charges
- Section 294 Licence fees etc.
- Section 295 Penalty for obstructing persons employed by Municipality
- Section 296 Obligation and power of State Government to make rules
- Section 297 Power to make regulations as to procedure, etc.
- Section 298 Power of Municipality to make byelaws
- Section 299 Infringement of rules and bye-laws.
- Section 300 Previous publication of rules, etc. made by the State Government
- Section 301 Regulations and bye-laws to be published
- Section 301A State Government may modify or repeal byelaws
- Section 302 Fixation of reasonable time for compliance
- Section 303 Service of notice
- Section 304 Method of giving public notice
- Section 306 Disobedience to public notice for provision of Act applicable to the public
- Section 307 Obedience to notice issued to individual
- Section 308 Liability of occupier to pay in default of owner
- Section 309 Right of occupier to execute works in default of owner
- Section 310 Procedure upon opposition to execution by occupier
- Section 311 Recovery of cost of work by the occupier
- Section 312 Recovery of expenses of removal by Municipality under sections 211, 263, 264, 265, and 278
- Section 313 Relief to agents and trustees
- Section 314 Authority for prosecution
- Section 315 Power to compound offences
- Section 316 Compensation for damage to municipal property
- Section 317 Powers and duties of police in respect of offences and assistance to municipal authorities
- Section 318 Appeals from order of Municipality
- Section 319 Reference to High Court
- Section 320 Costs
- Section 321 Finality of order of appellate authority
- Section 322 Suspension of orders passing under section 318 pending decision of appeal or civil suit regarding the subject of appeal or civil Suit
- Section 323 Appeals from certain orders of a court
- Section 324 Disputes as to compensation payable by Municipality
- Section 325 Decision of disputes between local authorities
- Section 326 Suits against Municipality or its officers
- Section 326A Civil Court not to grant temporary inunctions in certain cases
- Section 327 Delegation of powers by the State Government
- Section 328 Facility for Inspection of minute books and assessment lists
- Section 329 Provision for publicity of rules, regulations and bye-law
- Section 330 Mode of proof of municipal records
- Section 331 Restrictions on the summoning of municipal servants to produce documents.
- Section 332 Inspection of municipal works and registers by members
- Section 332A Public disclosure of information
- Section 333 Exercise by District Magistrate of Municipality power pending establishment of Municipality1 citing judgment
- Section 333A Consequences of declaration of a smaller urban area in place of a transitional area.
- Section 333B Consequences of constitution of a municipality by excluding an area from existing municipal area
- Section 334 Repeals and savings
- Section 335 Savings as to Indian Railways Act, 1890 Act No. 9 of 1890
- Section 336 Validation of acts done before commencement of Act
- Section 340 Power to remove difficulties
- Section 341 Construction of references
- Section 342 Provision until the constitution of municipalities
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