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Prohibition against obstructions in or over public roads, etc.- (1) No person shall, except as permitted by Rules made under this Act and except in accordance with the conditions imposed by any licence made requisite by such Rules- (a) build any wall or erect any fence or other obstruction or projection or make any encroachment whatsoever, whether permanent or temporary, 1[in or over any public road or any property vested in or belonging to or regulated or owned by, a Village Panchayat or Panchayat Union Council]; (b) make any hole or deposit any matter 1[in or over any public road or any property vested in or belonging to or regulated or owned by, a Village Panchayat or Panchayat Union Council]; (c) work a quarry in or remove stone, earth or other material from any place within twenty metres of a public road or of other immovable property vesting in or belonging to a Village Panchayat or Panchayat Union Council, provided that nothing in this clause shall be deemed to apply to any work which, in the opinion of the Inspector, is done in connection with a bonafide agricultural operation; (d) erect any building over any drain or any part thereof; (e) plant any tree on any public road or other property vesting in or belonging to a Village Panchayat or a Panchayat Union Council: or (f) fell, remove, destroy, lop or strip bark, leaves, or fruits from, or otherwise damage, any tree which is growing on any such public road or other property or on any poramboke land, the use of which is regulated by a Village Panchayat under Section 134 or Section 135 and the right to which has not been established by such person as vesting in or belonging to him. (2) It shall be the duty of the Village Administrative Officer of every revenue village to report on encroachments on properties vested in Village Panchayats or Panchayat Union Councils to the Executive Authority or the Commissioner concerned and to the officer of the Revenue Department, and 2[it shall be the duty of the Executive Authority or the Commissioner concerned either suo motto or on obtaining a report from the Village 69 Administrative Officer in this regard to institute proceedings under this Act] and secure the removal of the encroachments within such time as may be specified by the Government by general or special order. If the removal of the encroachments has not been secured within the period specified in such order, the officers of the Revenue Department shall institute proceedings under the Tamil Nadu Land Encroachment Act, 1905 (Tamil Nadu Act III of 1905) and secure such removal. 3[131-A. Prohibition of erection certain hoardings.- Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act or in any other law for the time being in force,- (a) (i) on or after the date of the commencement of the Tamil Nadu Panchayats (Third Amendment) Act, 2000 (hereinafter in this Section referred to as the amendment Act), no person shall erect any hoarding (other than traffic sign and road sign) visible to the traffic on the road and which is hazardous and disturbance to safe traffic movement so as to adversely affect free and safe flow of traffic; (ii) where any hoarding is erected in contravention of sub-clause (i), it shall be confiscated and removed by the Executive Authority without any notice; (b) (i) where any hoarding (other than traffic sign and road sign) visible to the traffic on the road is hazardous and disturbance to safe traffic movement so as to adversely affect free and safe flow of traffic and which is in existence immediately before the date of commencement of the Amendment Act, the Executive Authority shall by notice in writing, require the owner or any person in possession of such hoarding, to remove such hoarding within such time as may be specified in the notice: Provided that such time shall not exceed fifteen days from the date of issue of such notice; (ii) where the hoarding referred to in sub-clause (i) is not removed within the time specified in the notice, the Executive Authority shall, without further notice, remove such hoarding and recover the expenditure for such removal as an arrear of land revenue. Explanation.- For the purpose of this section, “hoarding” means any screen of boards at any place whether public or private used or intended to be used for exhibiting advertisement including the framework or other support, erected, wholly or in part upon or over any land, building, wall or structure visible to public wholly or partly.]