Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(I) Subject to the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder a Gram Panchayat or[***] or a Zilla Parishad may frame byelaws; (a) to regulate the appointment, functions, powers duties, and conditions of services of its officers and employees ; (b) to prohibit or regulate the discharge of water from any drain or premises on a public street or into a river, pond, tank well or any other place ; ( c) to regulate sanitation, conservancy and drainage in the area within its jurisdiction; (d) to prohibit or regulate the use of roads, public streets or other public streets or other public places ; ( e) to regulate the terms and conditions subject to which a licence may be granted for the running of markets by private persons, the fees to be charged therefore and other incidental matters ; (f) to regulate the manner in which tanks, ponds, cesspools, pasture lands, playgrounds manure pits, land for disposal of dead bodies and bathing places may be maintained and used ; and (g) to regulate any of its functions under this Act. (2) Any bye-law made under sub-section (1) may provide that a contravention thereof shall be punishable with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees and in case of a continuing contravention, with an additional fine which may Members of Gram Panchayat, [***] and Zilla Parishad to be public servants Power to make bye-law. extend to five rupees for each day during which the contravention continues. (3) The power to make bye-law conferred under sub-section (1) is conferred subject to the condition of the bye-law being made after previous publication and any bye-law so made shall not take effect until it has been approved by the Government and published in the Official Gazette.