section 36
Power of Gram Panchayat to prevent growth of water hyacinth or other weed which may pollute water
The Arunachal Pradesh Panchayat Raj Act, 1997Infrastructure1997130 of 132 sections available
Statutory text
- (1) A Gram Panchayat may, by written notice, require the owner or occupier of any land or premises, containing a. tank or similar deposit of water, after taking into consideration his financial position, not to allow water hyacinth or any other weed which may pollute water to grow thereon and to eradicate the same there from within such reasonable period as may be specified in the notice: Provided that a person on whom a notice as aforesaid has been served may within thirty days from the date of receipt of the notice, appeal to the prescribed authority and it may stay the operation of the order contained in the notice till the disposal of the appeal and it may. after giving such notice ® of the appeal to the Gram Panchayat concerned as may be prescribed, modify, set aside or confirm the order: Provided further that the prescribed authority shall when it confirms or modifies the order contained in the notice after the expiry of the period mentioned therein, fix a fresh period within which the order contained the notice, as confirmed or modified by it, shall be carried out.
- (2) If the order contained in a notice served as aforesaid has not been set aside by the prescribed authority and if the owner or occupier upon whom the notice has been served fails, without sufficient reason, to comply with the order in its original form or the order as modified by the prescribed authority, within the time as specified in the notice or within the time fixed by the prescribed authority as the case may be, he shall be liable, on conviction by a Magistrate, to a fine which may extend to two hundred rupees.
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