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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 212-A: Power of the [Municipality] to control and regulate the construction of any building or street and drains beyond [Municipal area]

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[Notwithstanding anything contained elsewhere in this Act, a Municipality may, subject to such conditions and limitations as may be prescribed, control and regulate under this Chapter the construction of any building, street or drain, beyond the limits of the municipality up to a distance of five miles. ]

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Subs. by sec. 77 of U. P. Act no. 27 of 1964.

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