Lawgist116Power to remove obstructions, encroachments and projections in or on public road, etc
The Nagar Panchayat or as the case may be, the Council may, notwithstanding any proceedings which may have been started against him under this Act, issue a notice requiring any person to remove any building which he may have built or any fence, rail, post or other obstruction or encroachment which he may have erected or stacked, on any part of a public road, house-gully, public drain, sewer, aqueduct, watercourse, ghat or any land vested in the Nagar Panchayat or in the Council and, if such person fails to comply with such requisition within forty-eight hours of the receipt of the same, the Sub-Divisional Magistrate may, on the application of the Nagar Panchayat or of the Council, order that such obstruction or encroachment be removed and thereupon the Nagar Panchayat or the Council may remove any such obstruction of encroachment and the expenses thereby incurred shall be paid by the person who erected or stacked the same.
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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
