Preservation of amenities of or to protected monuments

(1) If the State Government is of opinion that for the purpose of preserving amenities to or of any protected monument it is necessary so to do, the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, in respect of any area comprising or adjacent to the site of such monument and specified in such notification (hereinafter referred to as the controlled area). (a) prohibit or restrict the construction, erection or execution of buildings, structures and other works above ground within the controlled area, or the alteration or extension of any such buildings, structures or works in such manner as materially to affect their external appearance ; (b) prescribe the position, height, size, design, materials, colour and screening, and otherwise regulate the external appearance, of buildings, structures and other works above ground within the controlled area ; (c) require any local authority – (i) to construct any approach road to any protected monument, or (ii) to demolish any place of public convenience vesting in it, that is to say a latrine, urinal, dustbin and the like, located close to in the vicinity of any protected monument ; (d) prohibits or restrict the falling of trees with in the controlled area; (e) otherwise restrict the user of land within the controlled area to such extent as may appear to the State Government to be expedient for the purpose of preserving the amenities to or of the protected monument; (f) provide for such matters as appear to the State Government to be incidental to or consequential on the foregain provisions of this section or to be necessary for giving effect to those provisions. (2) Not less than forty-five days before issuing a notification under sub-section (1) the State Government shall cause to be published in the Official Gazette, in the controlled area and in the village and as the headquarters of the tehsil in which the controlled area is situated a notification stating that it proposes to issue a notification in terms of sub-section (1), together