State Act

THE UNITED PROVINCES PANCHAYAT RAJ ACT, 1947

This Act was repealed on a date we do not have by the Uttarakhand Panchayati Raj Act, 2016 (Uttarakhand Act 11 of 2016), s.194(1); it may still apply to matters that began before then.

112- (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]3 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 contaminate 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]3 property; (d) to regulate sanitation conservancy and drainage in the area of [Gaon-Panchayat]3 ; (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; [(g) to regulate any other duties or functions of the [Gram Panchayat]3 as may be directed by the prescribed authority.]1 (2) The draft of by-laws framed by [Gram Panchayats]3 shall be published in the prescribed manner. Any objections received thereto shall be considered at a meeting of the [Gram Panchayat]3 and the by-laws shall then be submitted together with the objections, if any, received and the decisions taken thereon to the prescried authority. The by-laws as sanctioned by the prescribed authority shall come into force after they have been published in the prescribed manner [:]2 [Provided that the State Government at any lime rescind or modify any by-laws so approved.]2