Incorporation of Panchayats and its property

Incorporation of Panchayats and its property

Incorporation of Panchayats and its property.--(1) Every Panchayat shall be a body corporate by the name "the Panchayat of " and shall have perpetual succession and a common seal and may sue and be sued in its corporate name and shall be competent to acquire and hold property, both movable and immovable, whether within or without the limits of the area over which it has authority, to lease, sell or otherwise transfer movable or immovable property which may become vested in or be acquired by it and to contract and do all other things necessary for the purposes of this Act.

1. (2) The following shall constitute the property of a Panchayat :--
   • (a) public village roads within the Panchayat area other than those under the control of any Department of the Government ;
   • (b) property movable and immovable which has been transferred to a Panchayat by the Government, any public body or an individual ;
   • (c) buildings, slaughter-houses, manure and night soil depots, structures, machinery and water reservoirs built by a Panchayat from its own funds or from contribution by the Government, any public body or an individual ;
   • (d) all sewage, filth, bones, village cleanings, dead bodies of animals and other matter collected by the Panchayat under this Act ;
   • (e) trees (excluding royal trees) and grass growing on property belonging to the Panchayat, fruit and product thereof and windfalls thereon ;
   • (f) drains, springs, streams, Nallahs and other water courses in the Panchayat area not being the property of any person or of any public body or Government and not vesting in any person as the property of the Panchayat ;
   • (g) all public lamps or lamp posts and all apparatus connected therewith or appertaining thereto ;
   • (h) all other property which may be declared by the Government to be the property of the Panchayat.
2. (3) All property vested in the Panchayat shall vest in the Panchayat or joint committee.