LawgistThe Manipur Municipalities Act
137Power to require owners to clear noxious vegetation
The Nagar Panchayat or the Council may, by notice, require the owner or occupier of any land within such time as the Nagar Panchayat or the Council may fix to cut and remove any tree or bamboos or branches thereof, or eradicate and destroy vegetation and undergrowth which may appear to the Nagar Panchayat or the Council to be insanitary, injurious to health or offensive to the neighbourhood or to be causing or likely to cause damage or destruction to any crop growing or to be grown, or to be obstruction or likely to obstruct the free passage for men or animals along a public road, or of any boat of stream vessel along a public water way.
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Powers connected with drains
- 137 Power to require owners to clear noxious vegetation
- 138 Power to require owners to improve bad drainage
- 139 Power to require unwholesome tanks or private premises to be cleansed or drained
- 140 Wells, tanks, etc., to be secured
- 141 Penalty for disobeying requisition under sections 137, 138, 139 and 140
- 142 Power of Government to prohibit cultivation, use of manure, or irrigation injurious to health
- 143 Public latrines and urinals
- 144 Power to demolish unauthorised drains leading into public
- 145 Penalty for allowing water of any sewer, etc., to run on any public road
- 146 Power to require owner to drain land
- 147 Penalty for disobeying requisition under section 146
