Bare ActsTrivandrum City Improvement Trust Act, 1960

Section 167

Penalty for building within street alignment or building line.--

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(1) If any person, without the permission of the Board, erects, re-erects, adds to or alters any wall or building so as to make the same project into the street alignment or beyond the building line prescribed by any deferred street scheme, development scheme or town expansion scheme, he shall be punishable -- (a) with fine which may extend in the case of a wall or masonry building to five hundred rupees and in any other case to fifty rupees; and (b) with further fine which may extend in the case of a wall or masonry building to one hundred rupees and in any other case to ten rupees, for each day after the first during which the projection continues. (2) (a) The owner for the time being of the wall or building so erected, re-erected, added to or altered, may be required by a written notice issued by the Chairman to stop further work on such wall or building and to alter or -demolish the same in such manner and within such time as may be specified in the notice. (b) Where the alteration or demolition directed by any such notice is not carried out as directed therein the Chairman may cause the wall or building or portion thereof to be altered or demolished, as the case may be, and he may recover the expenses incurred in so doing from the owner for the time being in such manner as may be prescribed by the Government.

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