section 60
Powers of Committee to lay or carry pipes, drains or sewers through private property subject to payment of compensation for damage sustained
The Jammu and Kashmir Town Area Act, 1954Powers of Committee to lay or carry pipes, drains or sewers through private property subject to payment of compensation for damage sustained.-A Committee may, for the purpose of carrying out, establishing or maintaining any system of drainage, sewerage or water supply, carry any pipe, drain, sewer or channel of any kind into, through, across, under, over or on the side of any land or building wherever situate within the limits of the town area, and may at all times do all acts and things which may be necessary or expedient for repairing or maintaining such pipe, drain, sewer or channel :
Provided that-
- (a) reasonable notice shall be given to the owner or occupier of any such land or building ;
- (b) compensation shall be paid to the owner or occupier for any damage sustained by him and directly occasioned by the carrying out of any such operations or for any substantial interference with the rights of such owner or occupier to the due enjoyment of such land or building ; and
- (c) in the event of any dispute as to the notice to be given or the compensation to be paid, the matter shall be referred by the Committee to the [Government] whose decision shall be final.
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