State Act

THE UTTAR PRADESH MUNICIPAL CORPORATION ACT, 1959

273- (1) The Mukhya Nagar Adhikari shall from time to time cause all public streets vested in the [Corporation]1 to be levelled, metalled or paved, channelled, altered and repaired as occasion shall require, and may also from time to time widen, extend or otherwise improve any such street or cause the soil to be raised, lowered, or altered and may place and keep in repair fences and posts for the safety of pedestrians: Provided that no widening, extension or other improvement of a public street, the aggregate cost of which will exceed five thousand rupees or such higher amount as the [Corporation]1 may from time to time fix, shall be undertaken by the Mukhya Nagar Adhikari unless or until such undertaking has been authorised by the [Corporation]1. (2) With the sanction of the [Corporation]1 given in accordance with the rules and bye-laws in force in that behalf, the Mukhya Nagar Adhikari may turn, divert, discontinue the public use of, or permanently close the whole or any part of a public street vested in the [Corporation]1 and upon such closure may, subject to the previous sanction of the State Government and the [Corporation]1 dispose of the site of such street, or of the portion thereof which has been closed, as land vesting in the [Corporation]1.