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CHAPTER – VI RECOVERY OF CERTAIN MUNICIPAL CLAIMS

Section 173-A: Recovery of taxes as arrears of land revenue

The Uttar Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1916

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Text as published by India Code for the Government of Uttar Pradesh, with amendments up to U.P. Act 16 of 2026.

1[(1) Where any sum is due on account of a tax, other than 2[any tax] payable upon immediate demand, from a person to a board, the Municipality may, without prejudice to any other mode of recover, apply to the Collector to recover such sum together with costs of the proceedings, as if it were an arrears of land revenue.

(2) The Collector on being satisfied that the sum is due shall proceed to recover it as an arrear of land revenue. ]

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Ins. by sec. 69 of U. P. Act no. 27 of 1964.
  2. 2.Subs. by sec. 6 of U. P. Act no. 09 of 1991.

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