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(1) Before utilizing, selling or otherwise disposing of any land under section 171B, the owner thereof shall send to the Commissioner a written application with a layout plan of the land showing the following particulars:— (a) the plots into which the land is proposed to be divided for the erection of buildings thereon and the purpose or purposes for which such buildings are to be used; (b) the reservation or allotment of any site for any street, open space, park, recreation ground, school, market or any other public purpose; (c) the intended level, direction and width of street or streets, including footpaths; (d) the regular line of street or streets; (e) the arrangements to be made for levelling, paving, metalling, flagging, channelling, sewering, draining, conserving and lighting street or streets. (2) The provisions of this Act and the rules and the regulations made thereunder as to the widths of public streets, including footpaths and the height of buildings abutting thereon shall apply in the case of streets referred to in sub-section (1), and all the particulars of a layout plan, referred to in that sub-section, shall be subject to the approval of the Mayor-in-Council. (3) Within sixty days of receipt of any application under sub-section (1), the Mayor-in-Council shall either accord approval to the layout plan on such conditions as it may think fit or disallow it or ask for further information with respect to it. (4) Such approval shall be refused— (a) if the particulars shown in the layout plan are in conflict with any arrangements which have been made or which are, in the opinion of the Mayor-in-Council, likely to be made for carrying out any general scheme of development of Howrah, whether or not such scheme is contained in the development plan or the development scheme of any authority under any law in force for the time being; Owner's obligation to make provision of street when land as building site. Lay out plan. PART III] THE KOLKATA GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, MARCH 20, 2024 5 The Howrah Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Act, 2024. Insertion of new section after section 173. Amendment of section 174. Insertion of new section after section 174B. (Sections 6— 8.) (b) if the layout plan does not conform to the provisions of this Act and the rules and the regulations made thereunder; or (c) if any street proposed in the layout plan is not so designed as to connect it at one end with a street which is already open. (5) No person shall utilize, sell or otherwise deal with any land or layout or make any new street without or otherwise than in conformity with the orders of the Mayor- in-Council and, if further information is asked for, no step shall be taken to utilize, sell or otherwise deal with the land or to lay out or make the street until an order has been passed by the Mayor-in-Council upon receipt of such information: Provided that the passing of such order shall not, in any case, be delayed for more than sixty days after the Mayor-in-Council has received such information as it considers necessary to enable it to deal with the application.".