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CHAPTER – VIII OTHER POWERS AND PENALTIES · Public safety

Section 261: Displacing pavements, etc

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) Whoever displaces, takes up or makes an alteration in, or otherwise interferes with, the payment, gutter, flags, or other materials of a public street, or the fences, walls or posts thereof, or a municipal lamp, lamp-post, bracket, direction-post, stand-post, hydrant or other such or other lawful authority, and whoever extinguishes a municipal light shall be liable on conviction to a fine which may extend to one 1[thousand] rupees.

(2) Any expense incurred by the board by reason of the doing of any such thing as is mentioned in sub-section (1) may be recovered from the offender in the manner provided by Chapter VI.

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Subs. by sec. 82(1) of U. P. Act no. 27 of 1964.

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