Bare ActsThe Punjab Town Improvement Act 1922

Section 23

Street schemes and deferred street schemes

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Street schemes and deferred street schemes. - (1) Whenever it appears to the trust that for the purpose of - (i) providing building sites, or (ii) remedying defective ventilation, or The Punjab Town Improvement Act, 1922 Section 22 17 (iii) creating new or improving existing means of communication and facili- ties for traffic, or (iv) affording better facilities for conservancy, within its local area or part thereof, it is expedient to lay out new streets, thoroughfares and open spaces, or alter existing streets, the trust may pass a resolution to that ef- fect, and shall then proceed to frame "a street scheme" which shall pre- scribe improved alignments for streets, thoroughfares and open spaces for such local area or part as the trust may deem fit. (2) Whenever it appears to such trust that for any of the purposes mentioned in sub-section (1) within its local areas or part thereof it is expedient to provide for the ultimate widening of any existing street by altering the existing alignments to improved alignments to be prescribed by the trust, but that it is not expedient im- mediately to acquire all or any of the properties lying within the proposed improved alignments, the trust, if satisfied of the sufficiency of its resources, may pass a resolution to that effect, and forthwith proceed to frame a "deferred street scheme" prescribing an alignment on each side of such street. Section 24

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