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CHAPTER XV STREETS · Naming and numbering of streets and numbering of buildings

Section 327: Naming and numbering of streets

The Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957

How current this text is

Text as published by India Code (Legislative Department, Ministry of Law and Justice), as on 15 May 2026, with amendments up to the Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Act, 2026 (8 of 2026).

(1) The Commissioner may—

(a) with the sanction of 1[2[the Corporation]], determine the name or number by which any street or public place vested in 1[2[the Corporation]] shall be known;

(b) cause to be put up or painted at a conspicuous part of any building, wall or place at or near each end, corner or entrance of such street or on some convenient part of such street the name or number by which it is to be known;

(c) cause to be put up or painted on boards of suitable size the name of any public place vested in the Corporation;

(d) determine the number or sub-number by which any premises or part of such premises shall be known and cause such number or sub-number to be fixed to the side or outer door of such premises or to some place at the entrance of the enclosure thereof.

(2) No person shall destroy, remove, deface or in any way injure or alter any such name or number or sub-number or put up or paint any name or number or sub-number different from that put up or painted by order of the Commissioner.

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Subs. by Delhi Act 12 of 2011, s. 2 “the Corporation” (w.e.f. 13-1-2012).
  2. 2.Subs. by Act 10 of 2022, s. 2, for “a Corporation” (w.e.f. 22-5-2022).