LawgistThe New Delhi Municipal Council Act
208Power to acquire lands and buildings for public streets and for public parking places
(1) Subject to the provisions contained in Chapter X, the Chairperson may--
(a) acquire any land required for the purpose of opening, widening, extending or otherwise improving any public street or of making any new public street, and any building standing upon such land;
(b) acquire in relation to any such land or building, all such land with buildings, if any, thereon as the Council may think expedient to acquire outside of the regular line, or of the intended regular line, of such street;
(c) acquire any land for the purpose of laying out or making a public parking place.
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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
