Section 208 in Chennai City Municipal Corporation Act, 1919
208. Power to prescribe building line and street alignment.
- The [standing committee] [Substituted for 'central committee' Tamil Nadu Act 22 of 1971.] may-(a)prescribe for any public street, a building line or a street alignment or both a building line and a street alignment;(b)from time to time, but subject in each case to its receiving the authority of the council in that behalf, define a fresh line in substitution for any line so defined or for any part thereof, provided that such authority shall not be accorded-(i)unless, at least one month before the meeting of the council at which the matter is decided, public notice of the proposal has been given by the commissioner by advertisement in the local newspapers and in the [Official Gazette] [Substituted for the words 'Fort St. George Gazette' by the Adaptation Order of 1937.], and special notice thereof, signed by the commissioner, has also been put up in the street or part of the street for which such fresh line is proposed to be defined; and(ii)until the council has considered all objections to the said proposal made in writing and delivered at the municipal office not less than three clear days before the day of such meeting.
