Every member. officer or other employees Members of

of a gram Panchayat, an [***] and a Zilla Gram Panchayat, Parishad shall be deemed to be a public servant [***] within the meaning of section 21 of the Indian Penal and Zilla Parishad Code. to be public servants | 150. (1) The Government may, after previous Power to make | publication, make rules to carry out all or any of the bye-law. provisions of this Act. 151. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder a Gram Panchayat or [***] or a Zilla Parishad may frame byelaws;

1. (a) to regulate the appointment, functions, powers duties, and conditions of services of its officers and employees ;
2. (b) to prohibit or regulate the discharge of water from any drain or premises on a public street or into a river, pond, tank well or any other place ;
3. (c) to regulate sanitation, conservancy and drainage in the area within its jurisdiction;
4. (d) to prohibit or regulate the use of roads, public streets or other public streets or other public places ;
5. (e) to regulate the terms and conditions subject to which a licence may be granted for the running of markets by private persons, the fees to be charged therefore and other incidental matters ;
6. (f) to regulate the manner in which tanks, ponds, cesspools, pasture lands, playgrounds manure pits, land for disposal of dead bodies and bathing places may be maintained and used ; and
7. (g) to regulate any of its functions under this Act.

1. (2) Any bye-law made under sub-section
2. (1) may provide that a contravention thereof shall be punishable with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees and in case of a continuing contravention, with an additional fine which may &) extend to five rupees for each day during which the contravention continues.
3. (3) The power to make bye-law conferred under sub-section (1) is conferred subject to the condition of the bye-law being made after previous publication and any bye-law so made shall not take effect until it has been approved by the Government and published in the Official Gazette.