Permission to lay out and make a street

§176

Summary

176. (1) Every person before beginning to lay out or make a new private street in a controlled rural area shall submit an application in writing to the 1[Kshettra Panchayat] seeking permission to lay out or make such street and shall along with such application submit the following particulars ; (a) the proposed level, direction and width of the street, (b) the street alignment and the building line, and shall also state in the application the arrangement to be made for leveling, paving, metalling, flagging, channeling and draining of the street. (2) The provisions of this Act and of any rules or bye-laws made thereunder as to the level and width of a public street and the height or abuilding abutting thereon shall also apply to the case of a street referred to in sub-section (1) ; and all other particulars referred to in that sub-section shall be subject to the approval of the 1[Kshettra Panchayat]. (3) Within sixty days after the receipt of an application under sub-section (1) the 1[Kshettra Panchayat] shall either sanction the laying out or the making of the street on such conditions as it may think fit to impose or disallow it or ask for further information with respect to it within a specified reasonable period. (4) Such sanction may be refused if - (i) the proposed street would conflict with any arrangemne4ts which have been made or which are, in the opinion of the 1[Kshettra Panchayat], likely to be made for carrying out any general scheme of a street improvement, or (ii) the proposed street does not conform to the provisions of the Act, rules and bye-laws referred to in sub-section (2), or (iii) the proposed street is not designed so as to connect at least one end with a public street. (5) No persons shall lay out or make any new private street or road without, or otherwise than in conformity with, the orders of the 1[Kshettra Panchayat]. If further information is asked of under subsection (3) the laying out or making of the street shall not be commenced until orders have been passed on the application after receipt of such information ; Provided that the passing of such orders shall not in any case be delayed by more than thirty days after the 1[Kshettra Panchayat] has received all the information which it considers necessary for the final disposal of the application.

176. (1) Every person before beginning to lay out or make a new private street in a controlled rural area shall submit an application in writing to the 1[Kshettra Panchayat] seeking permission to lay out or make such street and shall along with such application submit the following particulars ; (a) the proposed level, direction and width of the street, (b) the street alignment and the building line, and shall also state in the application the arrangement to be made for leveling, paving, metalling, flagging, channeling and draining of the street. (2) The provisions of this Act and of any rules or bye-laws made thereunder as to the level and width of a public street and the height or abuilding abutting thereon shall also apply to the case of a street referred to in sub-section (1) ; and all other particulars referred to in that sub-section shall be subject to the approval of the 1[Kshettra Panchayat]. (3) Within sixty days after the receipt of an application under sub-section (1) the 1[Kshettra Panchayat] shall either sanction the laying out or the making of the street on such conditions as it may think fit to impose or disallow it or ask for further information with respect to it within a specified reasonable period. (4) Such sanction may be refused if - (i) the proposed street would conflict with any arrangemne4ts which have been made or which are, in the opinion of the 1[Kshettra Panchayat], likely to be made for carrying out any general scheme of a street improvement, or (ii) the proposed street does not conform to the provisions of the Act, rules and bye-laws referred to in sub-section (2), or (iii) the proposed street is not designed so as to connect at least one end with a public street. (5) No persons shall lay out or make any new private street or road without, or otherwise than in conformity with, the orders of the 1[Kshettra Panchayat]. If further information is asked of under subsection (3) the laying out or making of the street shall not be commenced until orders have been passed on the application after receipt of such information ; Provided that the passing of such orders shall not in any case be delayed by more than thirty days after the 1[Kshettra Panchayat] has received all the information which it considers necessary for the final disposal of the application.

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