Section 217 UP Municipalities Act: Naming of streets and numbering of buildings

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

Section 217: Naming of streets and numbering of buildings

How current this text is

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

(1) The Municipality may —

(a) ¹[With the prior approval of the Prescribed Authority” cause a name for a new name to be given to a street, and

(b) cause the name or the new name to be affixed to or marked on any building in such position as it thinks fit, or

(c) require by a written notice the owner or occupier of any building to affix thereto a number plate or new number plate of a pattern approved by the Municipality or itself cause a number or a new number to be affixed to or marked any building.

(2) Any person destroying, pulling down, defacing or altering any name or number or number plate affixed to or marked on a building under sub-section (1) or affixing to or marking on a building a different name or number from that affixed or marked by or under the order of the Municipality shall bailable on conviction to a fine which may extend to ²“two hundred and fifty”.

Footnotes in the official text

1.Ins. by sec. 79 (1) of U. P. Act 27 of 1964.
2.Subs. by sec. 79 (2) of U. P. Act 27 of 1964.