{"act":{"id":"assam-municipal-corporation-act-2022","short_title":"The Assam Municipal Corporation Act, 2022","long_title":null,"act_number":"8","act_year":2022,"enact_date":null,"enforcement_date":null,"ministry":null,"department":null,"jurisdiction":"Assam","unit":"section","section_count":368,"in_force":true,"spent":false,"spent_note":null,"duplicate_of":null,"text_source":"ocr","scan_url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/scan/4bdb8f2a-0dcc-4f76-9c7c-8d6da8ab50d9.pdf","url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/assam-municipal-corporation-act-2022/"},"unit":"section","section":{"number":"223","heading":"General Provisions diaCode Prohibition of nuisances","text":"(1) No person shall - (a) commit any nuisance in any public street or public place, or (b) unauthorizely affix upon any building, monument, post, wall, fence, tree or other thing, any bill, notice or other document, or (c) unauthorizely deface, or write upon, or otherwise mark, any building, monument, post, wall, fence, tree or other thing, or (d) carry rubbish, filth or other polluted and obnoxious matter along any route in contravention of any prohibition made in this behalf by the Commissioner by notice, or (e) bury or cremate or otherwise dispose of any corpse at a place not licensed for the purpose, or (f) disturb public peace or order in violation of sound pollution control order, if any, or (g) cause pollution of air in violation of air pollution control order, if any, or (h) cause obstruction to the movement of vehicular or pedestrian traffic without permission from the competent authority. (2) Where the Commissioner is of the opinion that there is a nuisance on any land or building, he may, by notice, in writing, require the person by whose act, default or sufferance the nuisance arises or continues or all of the owners, lessees or occupiers of such land or building to remove or abate the nuisance by taking such measures, in such manner, and within such period, as may be specified in the notice. (3) Where the Commissioner is of the opinion that immediate removal of any nuisance continuing on any land or building in contravention of the provisions of this Act is necessary, he may, for reasons to be recorded in writing, cause such nuisance to be removed forthwith. le Control of pollution.","html":"<p>(1) No person shall - (a) commit any nuisance in any public street or public place, or (b) unauthorizely affix upon any building, monument, post, wall, fence, tree or other thing, any bill, notice or other document, or (c) unauthorizely deface, or write upon, or otherwise mark, any building, monument, post, wall, fence, tree or other thing, or (d) carry rubbish, filth or other polluted and obnoxious matter along any route in contravention of any prohibition made in this behalf by the Commissioner by notice, or (e) bury or cremate or otherwise dispose of any corpse at a place not licensed for the purpose, or (f) disturb public peace or order in violation of sound pollution control order, if any, or (g) cause pollution of air in violation of air pollution control order, if any, or (h) cause obstruction to the movement of vehicular or pedestrian traffic without permission from the competent authority. (2) Where the Commissioner is of the opinion that there is a nuisance on any land or building, he may, by notice, in writing, require the person by whose act, default or sufferance the nuisance arises or continues or all of the owners, lessees or occupiers of such land or building to remove or abate the nuisance by taking such measures, in such manner, and within such period, as may be specified in the notice. (3) Where the Commissioner is of the opinion that immediate removal of any nuisance continuing on any land or building in contravention of the provisions of this Act is necessary, he may, for reasons to be recorded in writing, cause such nuisance to be removed forthwith. le Control of pollution.</p>","words":278,"text_source":"ocr"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/assam-municipal-corporation-act-2022/section/223/","note":null,"source_note":"Read from the Government's own scanned gazette with Azure Document Intelligence, then split into sections by their numbering. India Code publishes no text for this Act. The scan itself is mirrored into our own storage and served at /scan/4bdb8f2a-0dcc-4f76-9c7c-8d6da8ab50d9.pdf, so the reading here can be checked against the page it came from without depending on India Code's own copy staying where it is (it was at https://indiacode.gov.in/server/api/core/bitstreams/610a677f-104b-48d6-a380-d50e09198f79/content).","judgments_note":"Judgment holdings are the ratio decidendi as extracted from the order by eCourts India, reproduced unaltered. Reported judgments only.","licence":"Published with commentary and other original matter under s.52(1)(q)(ii), Copyright Act 1957."}