Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Civic Administration of Tirumala Hills area - (1) The Government may, from time to time, notify in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette the limits of the Tirumala Hills area for the purposes of civic administration. (2) (a) The Government may, by notification in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette declare that any of the provisions of the Andhra Pradesh Gram Panchayats Act, 1964 (Act 2 of 1964) or of the Andhra Pradesh (Andhra Area) Public Health Act, 1939 (Act III of 1939) and the rules made thereunder shall be extended to, and be in force in the Tirumala Hills area as notified under sub-section (1) with such modifications not affecting the substance as may be necessary or proper for the purpose of adopting them to the Tirumala Hills area; and any such notification may likewise be cancelled or modified by a subsequent notification. (b) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions, - (i) the Tirumala Hills area as notified under sub-section (1) shall be deemed to be a village for the purposes of the Andhra Pradesh Gram Panchayats Act, 1964 (Act 2 of 1964) and a local area for the purposes of the Andhra Pradesh (Andhra Area) Public Health Act, 1939 (Act III of 1939); (ii) all references to a Gram Panchayat, the Sarpanch, Executive Officer or Executive authority thereof in the Andhra Pradesh Gram Panchayats Act, 1964 (Act 2 of 1964); and all references to a local authority, executive authority or Executive Officer in the Andhra Pradesh (Andhra Area) Public Health Act, 1939 (Act III of 1939), shall subject, to the provisions of sub-clauses (iii) and (iv) be construed as references to the Executive Officer in the said Tirumala Hills area; (iii) any appeal provided for by or under the Andhra Pradesh Gram Panchayats Act, 1964 (Act 2 of 1964), from an order or decision of the Sarpanch, executive authority or Executive Officer of a Gram Panchayat to the Gram Panchayat, shall lie instead to the Commissioner of Panchayati Raj; (iv) any appeal provided for by or under the Andhra Pradesh (Andhra Area) Public Health Act, 1939 (Act III of 1939) from an order or decision of the executive authority or Executive Officer of a local authority to the local authority, shall lie instead to the Director of Medial and Health Services. (3) (a) Subject to such rules as may be prescribed, it shall be lawful for the Executive Officer by order to prohibit within the Tirumala Hills area notified under sub-section (1) or within the premises of the Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanams, specified in the First Schedule as the case may be,- (i) begging by any person; (ii) straying of any cattle, pigs or dogs; (iii) possession, use or consumption of any intoxicating liquor or drug or cigarettes including beedies and chuttas; (iv) possession, preparation or consumption of meat or other food-stuffs containing meat; (v) slaughter, killing or maiming any animal or bird for any reason; (vi) gaming with cards, dice, counters, money or other instruments of gaming; (vii) tonsuring or hair-cutting or opening and running of a hair-dressing saloon by any person other than a person authorised or employed by the Executive Officer. 1[(viii) tonsuring or hair-cutting in places other than those earmarked for the said purpose by the Executive Officer. (ix) unlicensed Hawkers and Vendors. (x) dealing in any manner with Seva Ticket, Prasadam and accommodation belonging to the Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanam except as such places and by persons specially authorized in this behalf by him.] (b) Any person contravening an order made by the Executive Officer under clause (a) shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to three months or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees or with both. (c) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Central Act 2 of 1974), an offence punishable under clause (b) shall be tried in a summary way by a Magistrate of the First Class specially empowered in this behalf by the Government. (d) The Executive Officer may accept from any person who has committed or is reasonably suspected of having committed an offence under clause (b) a sum not exceeding five hundred rupees by way of compounding the offence which may have been committed. (e) On receipt of the sum of money referred to in clause (d) by the Executive Officer:- (i) the accused person, if in custody, shall be discharged; (ii) no further proceedings shall be taken against such person. (4) (a) The Government may, by notification published in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette, authorise the Executive Officer to levy tolls in the prescribed manner in respect of any road (including the ghat road leading to Tirumala from Tirupathi) which has been or shall hereafter, be constructed wholly or partly from the funds of the Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanams and situated within the Tirumala Hills area as notified under sub-section (1), at such rates and for such period as may be specified in the notification. (b) The Executive Officer may - (i) place the collection of such tolls under the management of such persons as may appear to him proper; or (ii) farm out such collections on such terms and conditions as he may think fit. (c) The provisions of sections 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 of the Indian Tolls Act, 1851 (Central Act 8 of 1851) in force for the time being in the State shall apply to the collection of such tolls and the persons under whose management the collection of such tolls may be placed, as well as the persons to whom such collections may be farmed out and their agents and servants shall be deemed to be persons appointed to collect tolls within the meaning of that Act. 1 . Added by the Act No.33 of 2007 S.32 (w.e.f. 14-12-2007)