{"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":"227","heading":null,"text":"If, within any Municipal Corporation area, any land or building, by reason of its being abandoned or unoccupied, - (a) is in a filthy or unwholesome state, or (b) has become a resort of - (i) idle and disorderly persons, or (ii) persons who have no ostensible means of subsistence cannot give a satisfactory account of themselves, or (c) is used for gambling or immoral purposes, or (d) is likely to occasion a nuisance, the Commissioner may, after due enquiry, by notice, in writing, require the owner or the part owner or any person claiming to be the owner or the part owner of such land or building, or the lessee, or any person claiming to be the lessee, thereof to - (i) secure, enclose, cleanse or clear such land or building, or (ii) stop use of such land or building for gambling or immoral purposes, within such time as may be specified in the notice, and shall affix a copy of such notice on the door of the building or on some conspicuous part of the land, as the case may be.","html":"<p>If, within any Municipal Corporation area, any land or building, by reason of its being abandoned or unoccupied, - (a) is in a filthy or unwholesome state, or (b) has become a resort of - (i) idle and disorderly persons, or (ii) persons who have no ostensible means of subsistence cannot give a satisfactory account of themselves, or (c) is used for gambling or immoral purposes, or (d) is likely to occasion a nuisance, the Commissioner may, after due enquiry, by notice, in writing, require the owner or the part owner or any person claiming to be the owner or the part owner of such land or building, or the lessee, or any person claiming to be the lessee, thereof to - (i) secure, enclose, cleanse or clear such land or building, or (ii) stop use of such land or building for gambling or immoral purposes, within such time as may be specified in the notice, and shall affix a copy of such notice on the door of the building or on some conspicuous part of the land, as the case may be.</p>","words":183,"text_source":"ocr"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/assam-municipal-corporation-act-2022/section/227/","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."}