{"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":"237","heading":null,"text":"(1) Subject to such regulations as may be made in this behalf, every owner or person having the control of any place already used for disposal of the dead, but which is not vested in, or owned by, the Corporation or any Board appointed by the State Government for administration of such place, shall submit to the Commissioner an application for registration of such place, containing such particulars as may be specified by the Corporation, within a period of three months from the date of commencement of this Act. (2) If the Commissioner is satisfied with the application and the particulars under sub-section (1) above, he may register such place on such terms and conditions as may be provided by regulations. (3) The Commissioner may, with the approval of the Empowered Standing Committee, provide Central Act 2 of 1974. suitable and convenient place for the disposal of the dead within the Municipal Corporation area, subject to the provisions of any State law regulating such land use or, in the absence of any provisions of any State law in this behalf in the Municipal Corporation area, with the approval of the State Government. (4) No place which has not previously been lawfully used or registered for the disposal of the dead shall be opened for such disposal except in conformity with the provisions of any state law regulating such land use or, in the absence of any provisions of any State law in this behalf in the Municipal Corporation area, with the approval of State Government. Power to require closing of burning and burial grounds etc.","html":"<p>(1) Subject to such regulations as may be made in this behalf, every owner or person having the control of any place already used for disposal of the dead, but which is not vested in, or owned by, the Corporation or any Board appointed by the State Government for administration of such place, shall submit to the Commissioner an application for registration of such place, containing such particulars as may be specified by the Corporation, within a period of three months from the date of commencement of this Act. (2) If the Commissioner is satisfied with the application and the particulars under sub-section (1) above, he may register such place on such terms and conditions as may be provided by regulations. (3) The Commissioner may, with the approval of the Empowered Standing Committee, provide Central Act 2 of 1974. suitable and convenient place for the disposal of the dead within the Municipal Corporation area, subject to the provisions of any State law regulating such land use or, in the absence of any provisions of any State law in this behalf in the Municipal Corporation area, with the approval of the State Government. (4) No place which has not previously been lawfully used or registered for the disposal of the dead shall be opened for such disposal except in conformity with the provisions of any state law regulating such land use or, in the absence of any provisions of any State law in this behalf in the Municipal Corporation area, with the approval of State Government. Power to require closing of burning and burial grounds etc.</p>","words":265,"text_source":"ocr"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/assam-municipal-corporation-act-2022/section/237/","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."}