Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Subject to the provisions of any bye-law the [Municipality]1 may either refuse to sanction any work of which notice has been given under section 178 or may sanction it absolutely or subject to— (a) any written directions that the [Municipality]1 deems fit to issue in respect of all or any of the matters mentioned in sub-head (h) of heading A of section 298; or (b) a written direction requiring the set-back of the building or part of a building to the regular line of the street prescribed under section 222 or in default of any regular line prescribed under that section, to the line of frontage of any neighboring buildings. (2) In the case of a refusal to sanction under sub-section (1), the [Municipality] shall communicate in writing the reasons for such refusal to the person giving notice under section 178. (3) Should the [Municipality]1 neglect or omit for one month after the receipt of a valid notice under section 178 to make and deliver to the person who has given such notice and order of the nature specified in sub-section (1) in respect thereof such person may by a written communication call the attention of the [Municipality]1 to the omission or neglect and if such omission or neglect continues for a further period of fifteen days, the [Municipality]1 shall be deemed to have sanctioned the proposed work absolutely. (4) Provided that nothing in sub-section (3) shall be construed to authorize any person to act in contravention of this Act or of any bye-law. (5) No person shall commence any work of which notice has been given under section 178 until sanction has been given or deemed to have been given under this section. (6) The [Municipality]1 may within six months cancel or modify a sanction granted by it under sub-section (1) if it is found that the sanction was secured through fraud or misrepresentation and any work done thereunder shall be 269 deemed to have been done without such sanction : Provided that before canceling or modifying any sanction, the [Municipality]1 shall give a reasonable opportunity to the party concerned of being heard. [Restriction on the power of a [Municipality]1 to sanction construction of a place of entertainment in certain cases 180-A Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act or any bye-law made thereunder, the construction of, or any addition to any building of public entertainment or any addition thereto shall not except with the previous approval of the State Government, be sanctioned by a [Municipality]1, if the site of, or proposed for such building is— (a) within a radius of one furlong from— (i) any residential institution attached to a recognized educational institution such a college, a high school or girls school; or (ii) a public hospital with a large indoor patient ward; or