{"act":{"id":"dadra-nagar-haveli-daman-diu-highways-act-1974","short_title":"The Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu Highways Act, 1974","long_title":null,"act_number":"10","act_year":1974,"enact_date":null,"enforcement_date":null,"ministry":null,"department":null,"jurisdiction":"Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu","unit":"section","section_count":77,"in_force":true,"spent":false,"spent_note":null,"duplicate_of":null,"text_source":"ocr","scan_url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/scan/4ffaed16-478f-4509-890d-f966c4f645a6.pdf","url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/dadra-nagar-haveli-daman-diu-highways-act-1974/"},"unit":"section","section":{"number":"63","heading":"Duties of village officials","text":"Every village headman, village accountant, village watchmen or other village official by whatever name called, shall forthwith inform the nearest police station or the nearest Highway Authority, whenever he becomes aware that any survey mark or any boundary mark of any highway or any mark showing the building or control line determined in respect of a highway has been destroyed, damaged, removed, displaced or otherwise tampered with, or that any damage to any highway or encroachment on any highway has been made.","html":"<p>Every village headman, village accountant, village watchmen or other village official by whatever name called, shall forthwith inform the nearest police station or the nearest Highway Authority, whenever he becomes aware that any survey mark or any boundary mark of any highway or any mark showing the building or control line determined in respect of a highway has been destroyed, damaged, removed, displaced or otherwise tampered with, or that any damage to any highway or encroachment on any highway has been made.</p>","words":82,"text_source":"ocr"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/dadra-nagar-haveli-daman-diu-highways-act-1974/section/63/","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/4ffaed16-478f-4509-890d-f966c4f645a6.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/deeaff17-b117-4743-992c-9050266f1248/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."}