Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Penalty for acquisition by an officer or servant of interest in contract work :– If any officer or servant of a municipality knowingly acquires, directly or indirectly by himself or by a partner or employer or servant, any personal share or interest in any contract or employment with, by or on behalf of the municipality, he shall be deemed to have committed an offence under Section 168 of the Indian Penal Code (XLV of 1860): Provided that no person shall, by reason of being a share holder in or member of any registered Joint Stock Company or Co-operative Society constituted under the laws for the time being in force be held to be interested in any contract entered into between such company and the municipality unless he is a Director of such company; Provided further that nothing in this section shall apply to a teacher, employed by a municipality who with the sanction of the State Government enters into a contract with the municipality with regard to the utilisation, for the purpose of a school of any land or building owned by him or in which he has a share or interest. 1[385-A. Penalty for unlawful building :– If the construction or reconstruction of any building or well – (a) is commenced without the permission of the Executive Officer; or (b) is carried on or completed otherwise than in accordance with the particulars on which such permission was based; or (c) is carried on or completed in contravention of any lawful order or in breach of any provision contained in this Act or in any rule or bye-law made hereunder or of any direction or requisition lawfully given or made; or If any alterations or additions required by any notice issued under Section 271 or Section 273 are not duly made; or If any person to whom a direction is given by the Executive Officer to alter or demolish a building or well under Section 273-A fails to obey such direction; the owner of the building or well or the said person, as the case may be, shall be liable on conviction to a fine which may extend in the case of a building to five hundred rupees and in the case of a well or hut to fifty rupees and to a further fine which may extend in the case of a building to one hundred rupees and in the case of a well or hut to ten rupees, for each day during which the offence is proved to have continued after the first day.]