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CHAPTER – VIII OTHER POWERS AND PENALTIES · Public safety

Section 256: Halting vehicles or animals on public grounds

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.

Where any land vested in the Municipality [or any public place] is, without the permission in writing of the Municipality, used as a halting place for any vehicle or animal or as a place of encampment, the owner or a keeper of the vehicle or animal or the person encamping, as the case may be, shall be liable on conviction to a fine which may extend to 1[one hundred] rupees, and in the case of a continuing breach, to a further fine which may extend to 1[ten rupees] for every day after the date of the first conviction during which the offender is proved to have persisted in the commission of the offence.

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Subs. by sec. 81 of U. P. Act no. 27 of 1964.

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