State Act

THE ORISSA TOWN PLANNING & IMPROVEMENT TRUST ACT, 1956

55 - Prevention or restriction of traffic in street vested in the Planning authority during progress of work :- (1) When any work referred to in Section 54 is being executed by the Planning authority in any public street vested in it, or when any other work which lawfully be done, is being executed by the said authority in any street vested in it, the said authority may direct that such street shall, during the progress of such work, be either wholly or partially closed to traffic generally, or to traffic of any specified description. (2) When any such direction has been given, the Planning authority shall, after notifying in local newspapers its intention to do so, set up, in conspicuous possession in or near the street, an order prohibiting traffic to the extent so directed, and fix such bars, chains or posts across or in the street as it may think proper for preventing or restricting traffic therein.