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Bombay Highways Act, 1955, (Maharashtra) Section 2

Title: Definitions

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1955

....."building line" means a line on either side of any highway or part of a highway fixed in respect of such highway or part by a notification under sub-section (1) of section 7; (d) "cantonment" means a cantonment established under the Cantonments Act, 1924; (e) "control line" means a line on either side of a highway or part of a highway beyond the building line fixed in respect of such highway or part by a notification under sub-section (1) of section 7; (f) "encroachment" means any unauthorised occupation of any highway or part thereof, and includes an unauthorised - (i) erection of a building or any other structure, balconies, porches, projections on or over or overhanging the highway; (ii) occupation of a highway beyond the prescribed period, if any, for stacking building materials or goods of any other description, for exhibiting articles for sale, for erecting poles, awnings, tents, pandals, hoardings and other similar erections or for parking vehicles or stabling animals or for any other purpose; and (iii) excavations or dumps of any sort made or extended on any highway or underneath such highway; (g) "to erect" with its grammatical variations in relation to a.....

Bombay Highways Act, 1955 Complete Act

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1955

.....wheeled conveyance of any description capable of being used on a highway ; (s) the expressions "land", "persons interested" and "persons entitled to act" used in this Act shall have the same meaning as the said expressions have in the Land Requisition Act, 1894. CHAPTER 02: DECLARATION OF HIGHWAYS, HIGHWAY AUTHORITIES AND THEIR POWERS AND FUNCTIONS SECTION 03: DECLARATION OF ROADS, WAYS OR LANDS AS HIGHWAYS The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare any road, way or land to be a highway and classify it as " (i) a State highway (Special), (ii) a State highway, (iii) a major district road, (iv) other district road, or (v) a village road. SECTION 04: APPOINTMENT OF HIGHWAY AUTHORITIES The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint for the purpose of this Act or any of its provisions, any person or any authority to be a Highway Authority for all the highways5[in the State] or, in parts 6[thereof] or for any particular highway or highways7[therein], specified in the notification. SECTION 05: DUTIES OF HIGHWAY AUTHORITIES Subject to such conditions as may be specified in the notification appointing a Highway Authority and.....