Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
The Municipality shall have access over any private street for the Access over purpose of extending civic services or providing civic amenities. private street. 1 1 3. (1) If a majority of the owners of a private street or the owners of Municipality lands or buildings on such street express their consent in writing, the may take over Municipality may on such condition as it may determine declare the same to private street. be a public street. (2) If a private street has been in existence for and used by the people of the locality as a thoroughfare, the Municipality may, notwith- standing anything contained in this section declare such street to be a public street. 1 14. ( 1) Every person intending to layout or make a new street within a New private municipal area, shall obtain permission of the Municipality, The manner of street. submitting petition and granting permission shall be such as may be specified by the Municipality by regulation. (2) If any person, lays out or make a new street in contravention of the provisions of this section, the Municipality shall forthwith cause the work to be stopped and may execute its order for such stoppage with the help of the police. (3) Whoever lays out or makes any such street in any manner contrary to the provisions of this Act or of any regulations made thereunder or violates any order for stoppage of work under sub-section (2) shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for six months or with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees or with both, and the Municipality may cause any street so laid out or made to be altered and any building constructed on such street to be altered or removed and the expenses thereby incurred shall be paid to the Municipality by the offender, and shall be recoverable as an arrear of tax under this Act. Layout plants. 1 15. ( 1) Before utilising, selling, leasing out otherwise disposition of any land or building as plots for construction of buildings thereon, the owner thereof shall send to the Municipality a written application for approval with a layout plan of the land showing the street or streets with any existing public or private streets and the manner of disposing of the application shall be such as may be determined by the Municipality by regulations. ( 2 ) No person shall utilise, sell or otherwise deal with any land or pay out or make any new street, nor shall any person make any construction on any plot comprised in such land without or otherwise than in conformity with the orders or approval of the Municipality, and, if further information is asked for no step shall be taken to utilize, sell or otherwise deal with the land or to layout on make the street until an order has been passed by the Municipality upon receipt of such information : Provided that the passing of any such order or approval shall not, in any case, be delayed for more than ninty days after the Municipality has received such information as it considers necessary to enable it to deal with the application. Lighting of 1 16. The Municipality may take measures for lighting, in a suitable manner, streets and such public street and public places as may be considered necessary and for public place. that purpose may enter into agreement with any firm, company or Government agencies. 1 17. (1) The Municipality may, on its own or in collaboration with any Generation of one, erect plants for generation of electric power, subject to such rules as electricity. may be made in this behalf. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in this chapter, all matters relating to generatioin, transmission, supply or use of elecrical energy in a Municipal area shall be regulated by the provisions of the Indian Electricity Act, 1910. 1 1 8. ( 1) The State Government may make rules to provide for- Power to make building rules. (a) the regulation or restriction of the use of sites for building ; and (b) the regulation on restriction of building. ( 2 ) The State Government may by notification exempt a Municipal area or a group of Municipal areas from the operation of all or and of the provisions of this chapter or of the rules make under section. (3) While such exemption, as aforesaid, remains in force in any Municipal area or group of Municipal areas, the State Government may make rules consistent with the provisions of this chapter for application to such municipal area.