POWER TO ALLOW CERTAIN WORKS

POWER TO ALLOW CERTAIN WORKS.—

1. (1) The Municipality may grant a licence, subject to such conditions and restrictions as it may think fit, to the owner or occupier of any premises to cover drains necessary for access to the premises.
2. (2) A Municipality, may grant a licence, subject to such conditions and restrictions as it may think fit, for the temporary erection of pandals and other structures in a public street vested in the Municipality or in any other public place the control of which is vested in the Municipality.
3. (3) A Municipality shall have power to lease roadsides and street margins vested in it for occupations on such terms and conditions and for such period as it may fix.
4. (4) No licence under sub-section (1) or a lease under sub-section (3) shall be granted if the construction or occupation is likely to be injurious to health or cause public inconvenience or otherwise materially interfere with the use of the road as such.
5. (5) The Government may, by notification, restrict and impose such control in, as they may think fit, the exercise by Municipalities in general or by any Municipality in particular, of the powers under sub-sections (1) and (3).
6. (6) On the expiry of any period for which a licence has been granted under this section, the Secretary, may, without notice, cause any construction put up under sub-section (1) or sub-section
7. (2) to be removed, and the cost thereof shall be recovered in the manner provided in section 538 from the person to whom the licence was granted.
8. (7) PROHIBITION OF STRUCTURES OR FIXTURES WHICH CAUSE OBSTRUCTION IN PUBLIC STREETS.— No person shall except with the written permission of a Municipality erect or set up within a municipal area any wall, fence, rail, post, step, booth or other structures or fixtures in or upon any public street or upon or over any open channel, well or tank in any street so as to form an obstruction, or an encroachment upon or a projection over, or to occupy any portion of such street, channel, drain, well or tank.
9. (8) Prohibition of deposits etc., of things on public street.— Without permission of the Secretary,-
10. (9) no person shall place or deposit upon any public street or upon any open channel, drain, or well in any street or in any public place within a municipal area, any stall, chair, bench, box, ladder, bale or other things so as to form an obstruction or encroachment thereto;
11. (10) no workshops doing repair work of motor vehicles or motor vehicle parts shall do any repair work or for doing repair work or after doing repair work, park upon public streets near their premises.