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(l) The highway authority shall have the boundaries of? the highways in its charge dem.1rcated‘ with reference to the authoritative. plans maintained by it, by planting stones or other suitable marks of? a durable nature at intervals all along the highway in such a manner that the imaginary line joining such stones or marks shows the road boundary Correctly. (2) Where there are bends or links in the road boundary, the stones or marks shall be so located as to give the correct configuration of the boundary if they are joined by straight lines. (3) The boundary stones or marks, which may be given consecutive numbers, shall be maintained on the ground as if they constitute part of the highway. ‘ (4) Where standard widths have been prescribed for any highway under section ll, the distance between the highway bdu-ndaries so demarcated shall correspond to that Width. Powe; ‘58 d? 7 cert~ 17$: for, éxwtm“? t X” ffifgfiwfi o 4 V, 1 sehemeb‘. * Maintenam. i ofhigh'w‘ay PINS? " ‘Demarcation , of road boundaries. Annual check of road boun- duties. Standard widths of highways. IO. (1) It shall be the duty of the highway authority to conduct an annual check of the boundaries of the highway in its charge with a view to the locati 011 of unauthorised encroachments, if any. (2) When the highway authority is satisfied that an unauthorised encroachment has been made 011 highway land, it shall take immediate steps as specified in Section 21 for the removal thereof. CHAPTER—IV PREVENTION OF RIBBON DEVELOPMENT ALONG AND CONTROL OF ACCESS TO HIGHWAYS ll. (1) the highway authority may, with the previousapproval of the State Government, prescribe a standard width for any highway in its charge. (2) The standard width may be d1fl‘erent 1n different portions of the same highway according to local needs. (3) When ahighway authority proposes to prescribe astandard width in respect at any highway or aportion thereof, it shall notify the proposai in the oflicial gazette and invite objections, it‘ any, to be submitted to it within sixty daysof the date of publication of the notification. (4) The notification shall also be published in at least two new5papers, one at least of which shall be in the local language, Circulating in the locality where the highway is situated, and, in addition, copies of the notification shall be prominently displayed in a number or places in the locality. (5) All objections received within the prescribed period shall be taken into account by the highway authority before finalising its proposal for submisson to the State Gnvernment. (6) The State Government may reject or sanction the proposal with or without modifications, and shall publish their orders in the ‘ official gazette. ‘ (7) When the State Government’ 3 orders sanctioning the proposal with or without modification has been is5ued the highway authority shall cause further publicity to be given to the standard width, as finally approved, in the same manner as prescribed in sub~section (4), and the rec0rds so published shall thereupon be conclusive proof that the standard width so determined and recorded therein has been correctly determined and recorded. 9 (8) 1n de’ermining the standard width, the highway authority and the State Government shall take into account the requirements of public health and welfare and of safety and convenience for all classes of traffic, including pedestrians and cyclists, likefy to use the highway. (9) The standard width so determined may at any time be altered but the procedure for such alteration shall bethe same as prescribed for the determination of the original standard width. (10) The highway authority shall, as early as eeonomicaliy practicable after the prescription of the standard width, acquire either by direct negotiatton or, failing such negctiaticn. by compulsory acquisition underthe Land Acquisition Act, 1894, all iand lying within the standard width not already form1ng part of the highway land.