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Functions of Commissioner in respect of public streets. - (1) The Com- missioner shall, from time to time, cause all public streets vested in the Corporation to be levelled, matalled or paved, channelled, altered or repaired, and may widen, extend or otherwise improve any such street or cause the soil thereof to be raised, lowered or altered or 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 five thousand rupees, shall be un- dertaken by the Commissioner except with the previous sanction of the Corporation. 92 Punjab Municipal Corporation Act, 1976, Section 224 (2) With the previous sanction of the Corporation the Commissioner may per- manently close the whole or any part of a public street : Provided that before according such sanction the Corporation shall by notice published in the manner specified by bye-laws give reasonable opportu- nity to the residents likely to be affected by such closure to make sugges- tions or objections with respect to such closure and shall consider all such suggestions or objections which may be made within one month from the date of the publication of the said notice. Section 226