Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Power to acquire premises for improvement of public street.— (1) The Commissioner may, subject to the provisions of section 90, 91 and 92— (a) acquire any land required for the purpose of opening, widening, extending or otherwise improving any public street or of making any new public street, and the buildings, if any standing upon such land; (b) acquire in addition to the said land and the buildings, if any, standing, thereupon, all such land with the buildings, if any, standing thereupon, as it shall seem expedient for the corporation to acquire outside of the regular line, or of the intended regular line, of such street; (c) lease, sell or otherwise dispose of any land or building purchased under clause (b). (2) Any conveyance of land or of a building under clause (c) may comprise such conditions as the Commissioner thinks fit, as to the removal of the existing building, the description of new building to be erected, the period within which such new building shall be completed and other such matters. Preservation of Regular Line in Public Streets 2[297. Prescribing the regular line of a street.— (1) The Commissioner may:— (a) prescribe a line on each side of any public street: 1 Clause (c) was inserted by Bom. 13 of 1933, s. 34. 2 Section 297 was substituted for the original section by Bom. 5 of 1905, s. 42. 248 The Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act [1888 : III 1[Provided that in the case of any public street in the suburbs the regular line of a public street operative under any law in force in any part of the suburbs on the day immediately preceding the date of coming into force of the Bombay Municipal (Extension of Limits) Act, 1950 (Bom. VII of 1950), 2[land in the case of any public street in the extended suburbs the regular line of a public street operative under any law in force in any part of the extended suburbs on 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. LVIII of 1956)] shall be deemed to be a line prescribed by the Commissioner under this clause.] (b) from time to time, but subject in each case to his receiving the authority of the corporation in that behalf, prescribe a fresh line in substitution for any line so prescribed or for any part thereof provided that such authority shall not be accorded— (i) unless, at least one month before the meeting of the corporation at which the matter is decided public notice of the proposal has been given by the Commissioner by advertisement in local newspapers as well as in the 3[Official Gazette], and special notice thereof, signed by the Commissioner, has also been put up in the street or part of the street for which such fresh line is proposed to be prescribed, and (ii) until the corporation have considered all objections to the said proposal made in writing and delivered at the office of the municipal secretary not less than three clear days before the day of such meeting. (2) The line for the time being prescribed shall be called ‘the regular line of the street’. (3) No person shall construct any portion of any building within the regular line of the street except with the written permission of the Commissioner, who shall, in every case in which he gives such permission, at the same time report his reasons in writing to the 4[Standing Committee].