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| (1) For the purpose of any agreement referred to in section 68 and for the purpose of securing the observance of the respective rights and obligations of the public, the Pradeshiya Sabha and the promoters in connection with any public service or any private enterprise or object to which the agreement relates, the Pradeshiya Sabha (exception so far as provision is made by any special enactment in that behalf) may make by-laws
| | (a) authorizing the promoters and their agents, servants, or workmen, or the agents, servants or workmen of the Pradeshiya Sabha, subject to such conditions as may be prescribed in the by-laws
| | | (i) to break up the soil, metal, and pavement of any thoroughfare vested in the Pradeshiya Sabha ; |
| (ii) to open and break up any sewers, drains, or tunnels within or under such thoroughfare; |
| (iii) to erect, set up, or lay down either permanently or temporarily in, along, under or over such thoroughfare, any post, pillar, lamp, wire, piperails, or other plant, material or works ; |
| (iv) to alter the position of any public line, wire or other apparatus or plant in or about such thoroughfare for the purpose of any other public service; |
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| | (b) requiring the promoters to do as little damage as may be in the execution of the powers granted by the said by-laws, and to make compensation for any damage which may be done in the execution of such powers; | | |
| | (c) requiring the promoters to complete any work which they may be authorized to execute under such by laws with convenient speed, and to reconstruct, repair or restore any thorough fare, sewer, drain, tunnel, or my plant or apparatus which they may be authorized to remove, alter or interfere with, in pursuance of such by-laws; | | |
| | (d) requiring the promoters to remove and carry away all rubbish occasioned by their operations, and to cause proper precautions to be taken for the safety of the public in connection therewith; | | |
| | (e) prohibiting any interference with or obstruction to any operations authorized by any by-law under this section. | | |
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| (2) No by-law under this section shall authorize or empower any entry to do made, any material or plant to be erected or deposited or any work to be executed upon any building or land which is not vested in the Pradeshiya Sabha without the consent of the owners and occupiers thereof first had and obtained. |
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