{"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":"251","heading":null,"text":"If any land, whether open or enclosed, not vested in the Corporation and not occupied by any building, is within the regular line of a public street or if any platform, verandah, step, compound wall, hedge or fence or some other structure, authorized or not, external to a building abutting on a public street, or a portion of such platform, verandah, step, compound wall, hedge, fence or other structure is within the regular line of such street, the Commissioner may, with the prior approval of the Corporation and after giving the owner of such land or building not less than seven clear days' notice of his intention so to do, take possession, on behalf of the Corporation, of such land with its enclosing wall, hedge or fence, if any, or of such platform, verandah, step, compound wall, hedge, fence or other structure or of any portion thereof within the regular line of the public street, and, if necessary, clear the same, and the land so acquired shall thereupon be deemed to be a part of the public street and shall vest in the Corporation: Provided that where the land or the building is vested in the State Government or the Central Government or any agency thereof, the Commissioner shall not take possession thereof without the previous sanction of the State Government or the Central Government, as the case may be. Acquisition of remaining part of building and land after theirportions within regular line of street have been acquired.","html":"<p>If any land, whether open or enclosed, not vested in the Corporation and not occupied by any building, is within the regular line of a public street or if any platform, verandah, step, compound wall, hedge or fence or some other structure, authorized or not, external to a building abutting on a public street, or a portion of such platform, verandah, step, compound wall, hedge, fence or other structure is within the regular line of such street, the Commissioner may, with the prior approval of the Corporation and after giving the owner of such land or building not less than seven clear days' notice of his intention so to do, take possession, on behalf of the Corporation, of such land with its enclosing wall, hedge or fence, if any, or of such platform, verandah, step, compound wall, hedge, fence or other structure or of any portion thereof within the regular line of the public street, and, if necessary, clear the same, and the land so acquired shall thereupon be deemed to be a part of the public street and shall vest in the Corporation: Provided that where the land or the building is vested in the State Government or the Central Government or any agency thereof, the Commissioner shall not take possession thereof without the previous sanction of the State Government or the Central Government, as the case may be. Acquisition of remaining part of building and land after theirportions within regular line of street have been acquired.</p>","words":248,"text_source":"ocr"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/assam-municipal-corporation-act-2022/section/251/","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."}