The Municipality may, by notice, require the owner of a building or land which, by reason of abandonment or disputed ownership or other cause, is unoccupied and has become a resort of idle and disorderly persons or otherwise occasions, or is likely to occasion, a public nuisance, to secure and enclose the same within a reasonable time fixed in the notice.
CHAPTER – VIII OTHER POWERS AND PENALTIES · Public safety
Section 264: Power to prevent unoccupied buildings or land becoming a nuisance
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.