{"act":{"id":"goa-highways-act-1974","short_title":"The Goa Highways Act, 1974","long_title":null,"act_number":"10","act_year":1974,"enact_date":null,"enforcement_date":null,"ministry":null,"department":null,"jurisdiction":"Goa","unit":"section","section_count":75,"in_force":true,"spent":false,"spent_note":null,"duplicate_of":null,"text_source":"ocr","scan_url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/scan/180f88b5-26ca-47fb-a5a7-e0b1b9f70822.pdf","url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/goa-highways-act-1974/"},"unit":"section","section":{"number":"3","heading":"Declaration of roads, ways or lands as highways","text":"The Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare any road, way or land to be a highway and classify it as- (i) a State Highway, (ii) a major district road, (iii) other district road, or (iv) a village road 2[ or a Urban Road]. 3[Provided that no road within the limits of the City of Panaji Corporation or a Municipal Council upto the distance terminating to National Highway shall be declared as State Highway.]","html":"<p>The Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare any road, way or land to be a highway and classify it as- (i) a State Highway, (ii) a major district road, (iii) other district road, or (iv) a village road 2[ or a Urban Road]. 3[Provided that no road within the limits of the City of Panaji Corporation or a Municipal Council upto the distance terminating to National Highway shall be declared as State Highway.]</p>","words":76,"text_source":"ocr"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/goa-highways-act-1974/section/3/","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/180f88b5-26ca-47fb-a5a7-e0b1b9f70822.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/a99850b7-9411-4ba1-9bfc-8ed11419fceb/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."}