Section 641 in Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Act, 1955
641. Expenses recoverable under this Act to be payable on demand; and if not paid on demand may be recovered as an arrear of property tax.
(1)(a)Whenever under this Act, or any rules or bye-law made thereunder, the expenses of any work executed or of any measure taken or thing done by or under the order of the Commissioner or of any municipal officer empowered under section 119 in this behalf are payable by any person, the same shall be payable on demand.(b)If not paid on demand the said expenses shall be recoverable by the Commissioner subject to the provisions of sub-section (2) of section 650 by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the defaulter, as if the amount thereof were a property tax due by the said defaulter.(2)If the said expenses are due in respect of some work executed or thing done to, upon or in connection with some building or land or of some measure taken with respect to some building or land or in respect of some work executed or thing done or measure taken for giving effect to any requisition or order made under sub-section (2) of section 496 and the defaulter is the owner of such building or land or of the premises referred to in sub-section (2) of section 496, as the case may be, the amount thereof may be demanded from any person who at any time, before the said expenses have been paid, occupies the said building, land or premises under the said owner; and in the event of the said person failing to pay the same, they may be recovered, by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the said person, as if the amount thereof were a property-tax due by him:Provided as follows, namely-(i)unless the said person neglects or refuses, at the request of the Commissioner truly to disclose the amount of the rent payable by him in respect of the said building, land or premises and the name and address of the person to whom the same is payable, the said person shall not be liable to pay on account of the said expenses any large sum than, up to the time of demand, is payable by him to the owner on account of rent of the said building, land or premises; but it shall rest upon the said person to prove that the amount of the expenses demanded of him is in excess of the sum payable by him to the owner;(ii)the said person shall be entitled to credit in account with the owner for any sum paid by or recovered from him on account of the said expenses;(iii)nothing in this section shall affect any agreement made between the said person and the owner of the building, land or premises in his occupation respecting the payment of the expenses of any such work, thing or measure as aforesaid.(3)Instead of recovering any such expenses as aforesaid in any manner hereinafter provided, the Commissioner may, if he thinks fit and with the approval of the Standing Committee, take an agreement from the person liable for the payment thereof, to pay the same in installments of such amounts and at such intervals as will secure the payment of the whole amount due with interest thereon, at such rate not exceeding nine per centum per annum as the Standing Committee may fix from time to time, within a period of not more than five years.
