State Act

The Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act.

306. Power to declare private streets when sewered etc., public streets.— (1) When any private street has been levelled, metalled or paved, sewered, drained, channelled and made good to the satisfaction of the Commissioner, he may and, upon the request of the owner or of any of the owners of such street shall, if lamps, lamp-posts and other apparatus necessary for lighting such street have been provided to his satisfaction 5[and if all land-revenue payable to 6[the 7[State] Government] in respect of the land comprised in such street has been paid] by notice in writing put up in any part of such street, declare the same to be a public street, and thereupon the same become a public street: (2) Provided that no such street shall become a public street if, within one month after such notice, has been put up, the owner of such street or of the greater part thereof shall, by notice in writing to the Commissioner, object thereto. (3) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to affect the provisions of sections 37 and 38 of the Bombay Port Trust Act, 1879 (Bom. VI of 1879).