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Power to make rules THE ANDHRA PRADESH PREVENTION OF DISFIGUREMENT OF OPEN PLACES AND PROHIBITION OF OBSCENE AND OBJECTIONABLE POSTERS AND ADVERTISEMENTS ACT,1997 ACT No.28 OF 1997 [17th September,1997] AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR PREVENTION OF DISFIGUREMENT BY OBJECTIONABLE OR UNAUTHORISED ADVERTISEMENT OF PLACES OPEN TO PUBLIC VIEW AND FOR THE PROHIBITION OF PRINTING, PUBLISHING AND DISPLAY OF OBSCENE POSTERS RELATING TO CINEMAS AND FOR MATTERS CONNECTD THEREWITH OR INCIDENTAL THERETO: Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Andhra Pradesh in the Forty-eighth Year of the Republic of India, as follows:- CHAPTER - I PRELIMINARY 1.Short title, extent and commencement - (1) This Act may be called the Andhra Pradesh Prevention of Disfigurement of Open Places and Prohibition of Obscene and Objectionable Posters and Advertisements Act, 1997. (2) It extends to the whole of the State of Andhra Pradesh. (3) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette, appoint.