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(1) No person shall erect, set up, add to, or place against or in from of, any premises any strucLure or fixture which will— (a) overhang, jut or project into, or in any way encroach upon, and obstruct in any way the safe or convenient passage of the public along, any street, or (b) jut or projeel into, or encroach upon, any drain or open channel in any si reel so as to interfere with in any way the use or proper working of such drain or channel or Lo impede the inspection or cleansing thereof. 'Proviso was added by s, 15 or Ihe Calcutta Municipal Corporation (Amcnclmcnl) Acl, 1988 (Weil Ben. Acl XXI of I DBS). The Kolkaia Municipal Corporation Aci, I9S0. 759 Ground Jlonr duore, etc., JlOl 10 open uiwards on sirceis, Prohibition of si rue m res or fixtures which cause obstruction in street. Pow er to remove anything c reeled, deposilcd of hawked in con inivcn Lion of ihis Acl. LIX or 1980.] (Part VI.—Town Planning, Land and Land Use Controls— Chapter XXL—Streets and public places,— D. Encroachments an si reels.—Sections 370-372.) (2) The Municipal Commissioner may, by a wrilien notice, require lhe owner or the occupier of any premises ID remove, or to take such other action us he may direct in relation to, any structure or fixture which lias been erected, set up, added lo, or plaecd againsL or in front of, such premises, in contravention of this section. (3) If the occupier of such premises removes or alters any struclure or fixture in accordance with such noticc, he shall be entitled, unless the structure or fixture was erected, set up or placed by himself, to credit to his account wilh ihe owner of such premises all reasonable expenses incurred by him in complying with the notice.