LawgistThe New Delhi Municipal Council Act
205Power to make new public streets
The Chairperson may at any time with the previous sanction of the Council,--
(a) lay out and make new public streets;
(b) construct bridges and sub-ways;
(c) turn or divert any existing public street; and
(d) lay down and determine the position and direction of a street or streets in any part of New Delhi notwithstanding that no proposal for the erection of any building in the vicinity has been received.
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Construction, maintenance and improvement of streets
- 202 Vesting of public streets in the Council
- 203 Functions of Chairperson in respect of public streets
- 204 Disposal of land forming site of public streets permanently closed
- 205 Power to make new public streets
- 206 Minimum width of new public streets
- 207 Power to prohibit or regulate use of public streets for certain kind of traffic
- 208 Power to acquire lands and buildings for public streets and for public parking places
- 209 Defining the regular line of streets
- 210 Setting back building to regular line of street
- 211 Compulsory setting back of building to regular line of street
- 212 Acquisition of open land and land occupied by platform, etc., within the regular line of street
- 213 Acquisition of the remaining part of a building and land after their portions within a regular line of street have been acquired
- 214 Setting forward of buildings to the regular line of street
- 215 Compensation to be paid in certain cases of setting back or setting forward of buildings, etc
