Section 112: Power of Gram Panchayats to frame by-laws

(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder and the by-laws, if any, made by the prescribed authority, a Gram Panchayat may frame by-laws—

(a) to prohibit the removal or use of water for drinking purposes from any source which is likely to cause danger to health and to prohibit the doing of anything likely to contminate any source of drinking water ;

(b) to prohibit or regulate the discharge of water from any drain or premises on a public street or into a river, pond, tank, well or any other place;

(c) to prevent damage to public streets and Gram Panchayat property ;

(d) to regulate sanitation conservancy and drainage in the area of Gram Panchayat ;

(e) to prohibit or regulate the use of public streets or other public places by shop-keepers or other individuals or collection to market tolls on public streets;

(f) to regulate the manner in which tanks, ponds and cesspools, pasture land, playground, manure pits, land for disposal of dead bodies and bathing places shall be maintained and used ;

¹[(g) to regulate any other duties or functions of the Gram Sabha as may be directed by the prescribed authority.]

(2) The draft of by-laws framed by Gram Panchayats shall be published in the prescribed manner. Any objections received thereto shall be considered at a meeting of the Gram Panchayat and the by-laws shall then be submitted together with the objections, if any, received and the decisions taken thereon to the prescribed authority. The by-laws as sanctioned by the prescribed authority shall come into force after they have been published in the prescribed manner :

¹[Provided that the State Government at any time rescind or modify any by-laws so approved].