Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Vesting of public streets in the Corporation.— (1) All streets within 4[Brihan Mumbai] being or which at any time become public streets, and the payments, stones and other materials thereof shall vest in the 5[Corporation] and be under the control of the Commissioner: 6[Provided that no public street which on the day immediately preceding the date of the coming into force of the Bombay Municipal (Extension of Limits) Act, 1950 (Bom. VII of 1950), 7[or the day immediately preceding the date of the coming into force of the Bombay Municipal [Further Extension of Limits and Schedule BBA (Amendment)] Act, 1956 (Bom. VIII of 1956)], vested in Government shall, unless the State Government so directs, vest in the 8[Corporation] by virtue of this sub-section.] (2) Powers of Commissioner in respect of public streets.— The Commissioner shall from time to time, cause all such streets to be levelled, metalled or paved, channelled, altered and repaired, as occasion shall require, he may also from time to time widen, extend or otherwise improve any such street or cause the soil thereof to be raised, lowered or altered and may place and keep in repair fences and posts for the safety of foot-passengers: Provided that no widening, extension or other improvement of a public street the aggregate cost of which will exceed 9[ten lakhs rupees,] shall be undertaken by the Commissioner unless or until such undertaking has been authorised by the 10[Corporation]. (3) With the sanction of the 11[Corporation] the Commissioner may permanently close the whole or any part of a public street: Provided that such sanction of the 12[Corporation] shall not be given unless, one month at least before the meeting at which the matter is decided, a notice signed by the Commissioner has been put in the street or part of a street which it is proposed to close, informing the residents of the said proposal, nor until the objections to the said proposal, if any, made in writing at any time before the day of the said meeting, have been received and considered by the 13[Corporation].