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CHAPTER – VII POWERS AND PENALTIES IN RESPECT OR BUILDINGS, PUBLIC DRAINS, STREETS, EXTINCTION OF FIRES, SCAVENGING AND WATER SUPPLY · Street Regulations

Section 205: Sanction of the Municipality to be presumed for laying out the street in certain cases

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[Should the Municipality neglect or omit for sixty days after the receipt of an application under sub-section (1) of section 204 or if an order has been issued under sub-section (3) asking for further information fail within a period specified in such order to deliver to the person who has submitted the application, particulars of the information required by the Municipality, such person may, by a written communication call the attention of the Municipality to the omission, neglect or failure, and if such omission, neglect or failure continues for a further period of thirty days, the Municipality shall be deemed to have sanctioned the laying out and making of the proposed street absolutely :

Provided that nothing contained herein shall be construed to authorize any person to act in contravention of any provisions of the Act or any by-laws. ]

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Subs. by sec. 75 of U. P. Act VII of 1949.

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