Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsRecovery of expenses on account of improvement to private property
| 207. Where a Pradeshiya Sabha incurs any expenses in executing any of the works or performing any of the acts which under this Act or any other enactment, or any by-law or rule, made thereunder, the owner of any house, building or land is required to execute or perform, the Sabha may either recover the amount of such expenses in the manner provided by section 205, or, if it thinks fit. may accent an undertaking given by the owner for the payment by installments of such sums as will be sufficient to defray the whole amount of the expenses, with interest thereon at the rate of nine per centum per annum, within a period not exceeding five years and such sums when due may be recovered by the same process by which rates payable under this Act may be recovered. |