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The Shimla Road Users & Pedestrians (Public Safety & Convenience) Act, 2007 Complete Act

State: Himachal

Year: 2007

.....USERS & PEDESTRIANS (PUBLIC SAFETY & CONVENIENCE) ACT, 2007 THE SHIMLA ROAD USERS & PEDESTRIANS (PUBLIC SAFETY & CONVENIENCE) ACT, 2007 [Act No. 2 of 2008] [13th February, 2008] PREAMBLE An ACT to restore the sanctity of the Shimla Mall Road by preventing its use as a thoroughfare and to provide for regulation of vehicular traffic in the interest of public safety and convenience on the sealed and restricted roads of Shimla town to prevent annoyance and injury to pedestrians and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of Himachal Pradesh in the Fifty- eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-- Section 1 - Short title, extent and commencement (1) This Act may be called the Shimla Road Users and Pedestrians (Public Safety and Convenience) Act, 2007. (2) It extends to the Municipal limits of Shimla Town. (3) It shall come into force at once. Section 2 - Definitions (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-- (a) ˜Assistant Commissioner' means Assistant Commissioner, appointed by the State Government under section 9 of the Himachal Pradesh Land Revenue Act, 1953; (b).....

Estate Duty Act, 1953 [Repealed] Section 43

Title: Controller May Accept and Certify Valuation when Convenient

State: Central

Year: 1953

The Controller on application from a person accountable for the duty on any property forming part of an estate shall, where he considers that if can conveniently be done, certify the amount of the valuation accepted by him for any class or description of property forming part of such estate.

Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Chapter 14

Title: Of Offences Affecting the Public Health, Safety, Convenience, Decency and Morals

State: Central

Year: 1860

.....in good faith anything whatever respecting the conduct of-- (i) a public servant in the discharge of his public functions or respecting his character so far as his character appears in that conduct and no further; or (ii) any person touching any public question, and respecting his character, so far as his character appears in that conduct and no further, Explanation.II-- In deciding whether any person has committed an offence under this section, the court shall have regard inter alia, to the following considerations-- (a) The general character of the person charged, and where relevant the nature of his business; (b) the general character and dominant effect of the matter alleged to be grossly indecent or scurrilous or intended for blackmail; (c) any evidence offered or called by or on behalf of the accused person as to his intention in committing any of the acts specified in this section. ______________________ 1. Substituted by Act 8 of 1925, section 2, for the original section. 2. Inserted by Act 36 of 1969, section 2 (w..e.f. 7-9-1969). 3. Section 292 renumbered as sub-section (2) of that section by Act 36 of 1969, section 2 (w.e.f. 7-9-1969). 4......

The Jharkhand Municipal Act, 2011 Complete Act

State: Jharkhand

Year: 2011

.....or the Nagar Panchayat, the Executive Officer of the Municipal Council or the Nagar Panchayat; (47) "Factory" means a factory as defined in the Factories Act, 1948; (48) "Filth" means (a) night soil or other contents of latrines, cesspools and drains; (b) dirt, dung, refuse, useless or offensive materials thrown out in consequence of any process of manufacture, industry or trade; and (c) putrid or putrifying substance, (49) "Finance Commission" means the State Finance Commission constituted under Article 243-I of the Constitution of India and referred to in section 97 of this Act; (50) "Food" includes every article used for food or drink by man, other than drugs or water, and any article which ordinarily enters into, or is used in the composition or preparation of, human food, and also includes confectionery, flavouring and colouring matters, spices and condiments; (51) "Footpath" means a pavement, for use by pedestrians; (52) "Goods" include animals; (53) "Government" means the State Government of Jharkhand; (54) "Holding" means land held under one title or agreement and surrounded by one set of boundaries: Provided that, where two or more adjoining holdings held by the same.....

Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporation Act, 1949 Complete Act

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1949

.....Corporation is inserted. (iv) any joint stock company or any society, registered or deemed to be registered under the Bombay Co-operative Societies Act, 19251[which shall contract with or be employed by the Commissioner or the Transport Manager on behalf of the Corporation ; (v) the occasional sale to the Commissioner or Transport manager on behalf of the Corporation of any article in which he regularly trades to a value not exceeding in the aggregate in any one official year two thousand rupees; or (vi) the occasional letting out on hire to the Corporation or in the hiring from the Corporation of any article for an amount not exceeding in the aggregate in any one official year five hundred rupees ; (c) occupying as a tenant for the purpose of residence any premises belonging to the Corporation ; or (d) receiving conveyance charges as a member of the Transport Committee. SECTION 11: DISABILITIES FROM CONTINUING AS COUNCILLOR A Councillor shall cease to hold office as such if at any time during his term of office he, (a) becomes disqualified for being a Councillor by reason of the provisions of section 10 ; (b) absents himself during three successive months from the meetings of.....

Kolkata Municipal Corporation Act, 1980 Complete Act

State: West Bengal

Year: 1980

..... (7) "building of the warehouse class" means a building, the whole or a substantial part of which is used, or intended to be used, as a warehouse, factory, manufactory, brewery, or distillery, or for any similar purpose, which is neither a "domestic building" nor a "public building" as defined in this section, and includes a hut used or intended to be used for any of the purposes mentioned in this clause; (8) "bustee" means an area containing land not less than seven hundred square metres in area occupied by or for the purposes of any collection of huts or other structures used or intended to be used for human habitation. Explanation.-If any question arises as to whether any particular area is or is not a bustee, the Corporation shall decide the question and its decision shall be final; (9) "Kolkata" means the area described in Schedule I; 3 Clause (10) omitted by s. 2 of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Act, 1996 (West Ben. Act VI of 1996) (with retrospective effect from 4.12.1995), which was earlier as under: '(10) "candidate" in section 75 and in Schedule III means a person who has been nominated as a candidate at any election of a Councillor or who claims.....

West Bengal Municipal Act, 1993 Complete Act

State: West Bengal

Year: 1993

.....epidemic, endemic, or infectious disease which the State Government may, by notification, declare to be a dangerous disease for the purposes of this Act; 44. Clause (15A) ins, by W.B. Act 45 of 1994. (15A) "District Magistrate" means the District Magistrate referred to in sub-section (1) of S.20 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973; 55. Clauses (15B) and (15C) ins. by W.B. Act 32 of 1997. (15B) "District Planning Committee" means the District Planning Committee constituted under sub-section (1) of S.3 of the West Bengal District Planning Committee Act, 1994, and includes the Siliguri Sub-Division Planning Committee; 55. Clauses (15B) and (15C) ins. by W.B. Act 32 of 1997. (15C) "Draft Development Plan" means the Draft Development Plan prepared under section 297; (16) "drain" includes a sewer, a house-drain, a drain of any other description, a tunnel, a culvert, a ditch, a channel and any other device for carrying of sullage, sewage, offensive matter, polluted water, rain-water or subsoil water; (17) "drug" means any substance used as medicine or in the composition or preparation of medicines, whether for internal or external use, but does not include a drug within the.....

The New Delhi Municipal Council Act, 1994 Complete Act

State: Delhi

Year: 1994

.....performance, amusement, game or sport to which persons are ordinarily admitted on payment; (14) "factory" means a factory as defined in the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948 ); (15) "filth" includes offensive matter and sewage; (16) "goods" includes animals; (17) "Government" means the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi; (18) "house- gully" means a passage or strip of land constructed, set apart or utilised for the purpose of serving as or carrying a drain or affording access to a latrine, urinal, cesspool or other receptacle for filth or other polluted matter, by municipal employee or other person employed in the cleansing thereof or in the removal of such matter therefrom; (19) "hut" means any building which is constructed principally of wood, bamboo, mud, leaves, grass, cloth or thatch and includes any structure of whatever material made which the Council may declare to be a hut for the purposes of this Act; (20) "inhabitant", in relation to the municipal area of New Delhi includes any person ordinarily residing or carrying on business or owning or occupying immovable property therein and in case of a dispute, means any person or persons.....

The Haryana Municipal Corporation Act, 1994 Complete Act

State: Haryana

Year: 1994

THE HARYANA MUNICIPAL CORPORATION ACT, 1994 THE HARYANA MUNICIPAL CORPORATION ACT, 1994 (Haryana Act No. 16 of 1994) Table of Contents CHAPTER-1 PRELIMINARY Sections 1. Short title, extent and commencement. 2. Definitions. 3. Declaration of Municipal area as Corporation. CHAPTER "II CONSTITUTION OF CORPORATION 4. Incorporation and Constitution of Corporation. 5. Duration of Corporation. 6. Delimitation of Wards. 7. Qualification for members. 8. Disqualification of members. 9. Election to the Corporation. 10. Constitution and Composition of Wards Committees etc. 11. Reservation of seats. 12. Right to Votes. 13. Filling of Casual Vacancies. 14. Publication of results of elections. 15. Election petitions. 16. Relief that may be claimed by petitioner 17. Grounds for declaring election to be void. 18. Procedure to be followed by prescribed authority. 19. decision of prescribed authority. 20. Procedure in case of equality of votes. 21. Finality of decision. Sections: 22. Corrupt practices. 23. Maintenance of secrecy of voting. 24. Officers etc. at elections not to act for candidates or to influence voting. 25......

The Travancorecochin Public Health Act, 1955 Complete Act

State: Kerala

Year: 1955

.....does not include an honorary Magistrate; (24) "Medical practitioner" means a practitioner registered under the Travancore-Cochin Medical Practitioners Act, 1953 or who has got any medical qualification recognized by the Government; (25) "Milk" means the milk of a cow, buffalo, goat, ass or other animal and includes cream, skimmed milk, separated milk, and condensed, sterilized or desiccated milk or any other product of milk; (26) "Notification" means a notification in the Gazette; (27) "Nuisance" includes any act, omission, place or thing which causes or is likely to cause injury, danger, annoyance or offence to the sense of sight, smell or hearing or disturbance to rest or sleep or which is or may be dangerous to life or injurious to the health or property of the public or the people in general who dwell or occupy property in the vicinity or persons who may have occasion to use any public right; (28) "Occupier" includes " (a) any person for the time being paying or liable to pay to the owner the rent or any portion of the rent of the land or building or part of the same in respect of which the word is used or damages on account of the occupation of such land,.....