Lawgist111Power to make roads
(1) A Nagar Panchayat or as the case may be, a Council may--
(a) layout or make new public road; or
(b) widen, open, enlarge or otherwise improve any public road and construct tunnels and other works subsidiary to such road; or
(c) divert, discontinue or close permanently any public road; or
(d) sell or lease the land forming such road or any part thereof, acquired for the purpose of such road or for any other purpose of this Act:
Provided that no such public road shall be discontinued, permanently closed or used for any other purposes without the previous sanction of the Government.
(2) In laying out, making, turning, diverting, widening, opening; enlarging or otherwise improving any public road, the Nagar Panchayat or the Council may, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, acquire land required for the carriage-way, footways and drains thereof.
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- 111 Power to make roads
- 112 Power to repair, etc., of private road, drains, etc
- 113 Prohibition of use of public roads by a class of animals, carts or vehicles
- 114 Penalty for encroachment on public roads, etc
- 115 Use of public road or place by vendors and other person and penalty thereof
- 116 Power to remove obstructions, encroachments and projections in or on public road, etc
- 117 Procedure when person who erected obstruction cannot be found
- 118 Projections from buildings to be removed
- 119 Power of the District Magistrate and Sub-Divisional Magistrate to remove encroachment summarily on requisition by the Government
- 120 Effect of order made under section 116, 117, 118 or 119
- 121 Nagar Panchayat or Council may require land holders to trim hedges, etc
- 122 Penalty for disobeying requisition under section 116, 117, 118 or 119
- 123 Names of public roads and number of buildings
