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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA ACT, 1915-19 [REPEALED] Section 72D

Title: Business and procedure in governors' leg'slative councils

State: Central

Year: 1915

.....taken by the council in relation to the Bill, clause or amendment, and effect shall be given to any such direction. (6) Provision may be made by rules under this Act for the purpose of carrying into effect the foregoing provisions of this section and for regulating the course of business in the council, and as to the persons to preside over meetings thereof in the absence of the president and deputy-president, and the preservation of order at meetings; and the rules may provide for the numbej of membefs required to constitute a quorum and for prohibiting or required to constitute a quorum and for prohibiting or regulating the asking of questions on and the discussion of any subject specified in the rules. (7) Standing orders may be made providing for the conduct of business and the procedure to be followed in the council, in so far as these matters are not provided for by rules made under this Act. The first standing orders shall be made under this Act. The first standing orders shall be madeby the governor in council, but may, subject to the assent of the governor, be altered by the local legislatures. Any standing order made as aforesaid, which is repugnant to the.....

Manipur Municipalities Act, 1994 Section 192

Title: Sale of Materials of Houses Pulled Down

State: Central

Year: 1994

(1) The materials of anything which shall have been pulled down or removed under the provisions of section 183 may be sold by the municipality, and the proceeds of such sale shall be adjusted to the payment of the expenses incurred. (2) The surplus sale proceeds, if any, shall be credited to the Municipal fund, and may be paid on demand to any person who establishes his right to the satisfaction of the municipality or in a court of competent jurisdiction.

Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 288

Title: Negligent Conduct with Respect to Pulling Down or Repairing Buildings

State: Central

Year: 1860

Whoever, in pulling down or repairing any building, knowingly or negligently omits to lake such order with that building as is sufficient to guard against any probable danger to human life from the fall of that building, or of any part thereof, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.

The Himachal Pradesh Panchayati Raj Act, 1994 Complete Act

State: Himachal

Year: 1994

.....order passed under sub-section (1) shall be demolished by the owner of the building, wall or platform or that it shall be altered by him to the satisfaction of the Gram Panchayat within such time as may be fixed by him; or (ii) directing that the work done or so much of the same as has been executed in contravention of the order passed under sub-section (1) shall be demolished or altered by the Gram Panchayat at the expense of the owner within such time as may be fixed by him: Provided that the Sub-Divisional Officer shall not make any such order without giving the owner full opportunity of adducing evidence and of being heard. (4) If any person to whom a direction to demolish or alter any building, wall or platform, is given under clause (i) of sub-section (3) fails to obey the same, he shall be liable to fine which may extend to twenty-five rupees and when the failure is a continuing one, to further fine which may extend in the case of a masonry building, wall or platform, to five rupees each day on which the failure continues; provided that the recurring penalty shall not exceed the sum of five hundred rupees. (Section 15 subs. vide Act No.18 of 2000.) [15. Penalty for.....

The Punjab Regional and Town Planning and Development Act, 1995 Complete Act

State: Punjab

Year: 1995

.....ratio" means the ratio derived by dividing, the total covered area of all floors by the area of plot; (rrr) "Heritage site" includes buildings, artefacts, structures, areas, precincts of historical or aesthetical or architectural or educational or scientific or cultural or environmental significance and those natural features of environmental significance or scenic beauty as may be declared as such by the Competent Authority by a notification;] (s) "Land" includes benefits to arise out of land and things attached to the earth or permanently fastened to any thing attached to the earth; (t) "local authority" means a Municipal Corporation, a Municipal Committee, a Municipal Council, a Town Improvement Trust, a Cantonment Board, a Zila Parishad, a Panchayat Samiti or a Gram Panchayat, or, any other authority entrusted with the functions of a local authority under any law for the time being in force ; (u) Substituted by Punjab Act No. 30 of 2006. ["Master Plan" means Master plan prepared under this Act and includes a New Town Development Plan]; (v) "means of access" includes any means of access, whether private or public, for vehicles or for foot passengers, and includes a road; (w).....

Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1988

.....of either of which or a motor car or tractor or road-roller the unladen weight of any of which, does not exceed 2 [7500] kilograms; 3 [(2lA) "manufacturer" means a person who is engaged in the manufacture of motor vehicles;] (22) "maxicab" means any motor vehicle constructed or adapted to carry more than six passengers, but not more than twelve passengers, excluding the driver, for hire or reward; (23) "medium goods vehicle" means any goods carriage other than a light motor vehicle or a heavy goods vehicle: (24) "medium passenger motor vehicle" means any public service vehicle or private service vehicle, or educational institution bus other than a motor cycle, invalid carriage, light motor vehicle or heavy passenger motor vehicle; (25) "motorcab" means any molor vehicle constructed or adapted to carry not more than six passengers excluding the driver for hire or reward; (26) "motor car" means any molor vehicle other than a transport vehicle, omnibus, road-roller, tractor, motor cycle or invalid carriage; (27) "motor cycle" means a two-wheeled motor vehicle, inclusive of any detachable side-car having an extra wheel, attached to the motor vehicle; (28) "motor vehicle" or.....

Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporation Act, 1949 Complete Act

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1949

.....drains and polluted water from sinks, bath -rooms, stables, cattle-sheds and other like places, and includes trade effluent and discharges from manufactures of all kinds ; (61) "special fund" means a fund constituted under section 91 ; (62) "standing order" means an order made under section 466 ; (62A)1[ "State Election Commission" means the State Election Commission consisting of the State Election Commissioner appointed in accordance with the provisions of clause (1) of article 243 -K of the Constitution of India;] (63) "Street" includes any highway, and any causeway, bridge, viaduct, arch, road, lane, footway, sub-way, court, alley or riding path or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not, over which the public have a right of passage or access or have passed and had access uninterruptedly for a period of twenty years, and when there is a footway as well as a carriage way in any street, the said term includes both ; (64) "Sweetmeat shop" means any premises or part of any premises used for the manufacture, treatment or storage for sale or for the sale, wholesale or retail of any ice cream, confections or sweetmeats whatsoever, for whomsoever intended, and by whatsoever name the.....

The Chhattisgarh Municipalities Act, 1961 Complete Act

State: Chattisgarh

Year: 1961

.....or drains and polluted water from sinks, bathrooms, stables, cattlesheds, and other like places and includes trade effluents and discharges from manufactories of all kinds; (34) "sewer" includes a drain, a house drain or a drain of any other description and any other device for carrying off sullage, sewage, offensive matter, polluted water, rain water, or sub-soil water; (35) "Slaughter-house" means any place used for the slaughter of cattle, sheep, goats, kids or pigs; [Inserted by M.P. Act No. 17 of 1994.] [(35-a) "State Election Commission" means the State Election Commission constituted under Article 243-K of the Constitution;] [Inserted by C.G. Act No. 17 of 2012, w.e.f. 9-8-2012.] [(35-b) "social audit" means the review of the impact of policies, programmes, schemes or procedures adopted or implemented by any municipal authority, by a group or groups of persons residing within the municipal area within which such review is conducted;] (36) "street" means any road, foot-way, square, court, alley or passage, accessible, whether permanently or temporarily to the public, whether a thorough-fare or not; and shall include every vacant space, notwithstanding that it.....

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.....

Maharashtra Municipal Councils, Nagar Panchayats and Insustrial Townships Act, 1965 Complete Act

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1965

.....cow-house, milk-store, milk-shop or other place from which milk is supplied for sale or in which milk is kept for purposes of sale or manufactured into butter, ghee, cheese, curds or dried, sterilized or condensed or toned milk, but does not include- (A) a shop or other place in which milk is sold for consumption on the premises only, or (B) a shop or other place from which milk is sold or supplied in hermetically closed and unopened receptacles in the same original condition in which it was first received in such shop or other place; (9) "Director" means the person appointed by the State Government to be the Director of Municipal Administration under this Act; (10) "drain" includes a sewer, tunnel, pipe, ditch, gutter or channel and any cistern flush-tank, septic tank, or other device for carrying off or treating sewage, offensive matter, polluted water, sullage, waste water, rain water or sub-soil water and any culvert, ventilation shaft or pipe or other appliance or fitting connected therewith, and any electors, compressed air main, sealed sewage mains and special machinery or apparatus for raising, collecting, expelling or removing sewage or offensive matter.....