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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 214: Power to require trimming of hedges and trees

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.

The Municipality may, by notice require the owner or occupier of any land to cut or trim the hedges growing there on and bordering on a street, or any branches of trees growing thereon with overhang a street and obstruct the same or cause danger.

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