Section 246

Section 246 of the Assam Municipal Corporation Act, 2022. The Corporation may, by notice, in writing, - (a) prohibit or regulate, either temporarily or permanently, vehicular traffic in any public street or any portion thereof so as to prevent danger, obstruction or inconvenience to the public or to ensure quietness in any locality, (b) prohibit, in respec

(1) The Corporation may, by notice, in writing, - (a) prohibit or regulate, either temporarily or permanently, vehicular traffic in any public street or any portion thereof so as to prevent danger, obstruction or inconvenience to the public or to ensure quietness in any locality, (b) prohibit, in respect of a public street or a portion thereof, the transit of any vehicle of such type, form, construction, weight, emission, or size, or of any vehicle laden with such heavy or unwieldy object as is likely to cause injury to the roadways or any construction thereon, or of any vehicle on the ground of public convenience, except under such conditions as to time, mode of traction or locomotion, use of appliances for the protection of roadways, number of lights and assistants, and other general precautions, and on payment of such charges, as may be specified by the Corporation generally or specifically in each case, (c) prohibit, at all times or during any particular hours, entry of any vehicular traffic from, or exit of such vehicular traffic into, any premises from any particular public street carrying such traffic.

(2) Any notice under sub-section (1) above shall, if such notice applies to any particular public street, be pasted in conspicuous places at or near both ends of such public street or any portion thereof to which such notice applies or, if such notice applies generally to all public streets, be advertised.

(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1) above, the Corporation may declare, by notice, in writing, that any pedestrian pathway, or a portion thereof, shall be used as bicycle and pedestrian track.

(4) The notice referred to in sub-section (3) above shall be pasted in conspicuous places at or near both ends of such public street or any portion thereof to which the provisions of sub-section (3) apply. B. Regular Line of Street Defining regular line of street.

Section 246, The Assam Municipal Corporation Act, 2022 (Act 8 of 2022).