(1)The [Municipality] [Substituted vide Orissa Act No. 11 of 1994 w.e.f. 31.5.1994.] may grant a licence, subject to such conditions and restrictions as it may think fit, to the owner or occupier of any premises to put up verandahs, balconies, sunshades, weather-frames and the like, to project over a road or in roads in which the construction of arcades has been sanctioned by the [Municipality] [Substituted vide Orissa Act No. 11 of 1994 w.e.f. 31.5.1994.], to put up an road; or to construct any step or drain covering necessary for access to the premises.