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Regulation of huts.- No person shall erect any hut, shed or range or block of huts or sheds or add to any hut or shed already existing in panchayat area without obtaining previous permission. The Grama Panchayat may require such huts or sheds to be built so that they may stand in regular lines with a free passage or way in front of and between every two lines of such width as the Grama Panchayat may think proper for ventilation and to facilitate scavenging and at such a level as will admit of sufficient drainage. If any hut or 87 shed is built without obtaining previous permission of the Grama Panchayat, the Grama Panchayat may give written notice to the owner or builder thereof or to the owner or the occupier of the land on which the same is erected or is being erected requiring him within such reasonable time as may be specified in the notice to remove the same or to make such alterations therein or additions thereto as having regard to the sanitary consideration, the Grama Panchayat may think fit.