Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) In the case of parks and play-fields not vested of c : in the local authority but included in the list published pal ks, play. under section 4 or 5, the executive authority may, by feJda etc. notice, require the owner or the person or authority in occupation of such park or play-field- (i) to maintain such park or play-field in a clem and proper condition, or 398 Parks, Play-f;eIds and Openspaces. [1959: T. N. Act 26 (Preservation dnd Regulation.) I (ii) to remove or alter any projection, encroach- ment or obstruction in or over any such park or play-field or to execute such repairs to any building in such park or play-field as the executive authority may consider I I I necessary, within a date specified in the notice. (2) If the owner or the person or authority in occu- pation fails to comply with the notice under sub-section (I), the executive authority shall himself arrange to-- (i) maintain such park or play-field in a clean and ;vODeS condition, or (ii) remove or alter the projection, encroachmei~.t or obstruction, or (iii) executs such repairs as he may consider necessary and the cost of such maintenance, removal, alteration or repairs shall be recoverable from the o wiler or the person or authority in occupatioil in such manlier as may be prescribed. . , , (3) Any dispute as to the amounr of the cost shall be - - decided by the Government and their decision shall be : final. ... . . . a (4') The executive authority may, instead of or in addition to taking action as indicated in sub-section (2) . , proceed to acquire the land under the Land Acquisition 3 s .. - Act, 1894 (Central +Act I of 1894), for the purpose of - effective management of the land as a park or play-field. , ' I , (5) .Any owner or any person or authority in occupa- tion of a play-field desiring to convert the play-field to ,. . '. , : 3 any use other than as a play-field rnay give notice $0 the . . . person or. authority fiianaging the affairs of ,any :educa- . . ! tional insfirution 0r:other duly constituted public. body ,>:.. . . a 9 . which u'&es the:'play&ld or to the local authority-within wliose jurisdiction. the, play-field is situated to purchase his or its rights in the play-field. If such person, aithority, public body or local authority does not agree to purchase his or its rights, he or it may after the expiry of a reasonable period which shall ije not less than six months' put it to such use as he or it desires. *fl0 Parks, Play-f2elds and Open [I959 : T.N. Act Spaces (Preservation and Regulation) I (2) For the purposes of this section, . the Govern- -,$ d ment shall have .the same powers of calling for records, * - of cawing inspection to be made, and of enforcing their orders of appointing persons to enforce them as they I ? have under sections 40 to 43 (both inclusive) of the *Madras City Municjpal Act, 1919 c[Tamil NaduIAct IV of * 1919) or sections 34 and 39 of the l[Tarnil Nadu] District Municipalities Act, 1920 (A[Tamil Nadu] Act V of 1920.) P m r to