Orissa Urban Police Act, 2003

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S.1 Short title, extent and commencement

S.2 Cesser of operation of certain enactments and saving

S.3 Definitions

S.4 Creation of Police Commissionerate

S.5 Constitution of Commissionerate

S.6 Commissioner and Additional Commissioner of Police

S.7 Duties of Additional Commissioner of Police

S.8 Deputy, Additional Deputy and Assistant Commissioners of Police

S.9 Constitution of police district, subdivisions and police stations

S.10 Officer-in-charge of police districts, police subdivisions and police-stations

S.11 General powers of Commissioner

S.12 Power of Commissioner to investigate and regulate matters of police accounts

S.13 Special Police Officers

S.14 Additional Police Officers

S.15 Return of certificate of appointment etc.

S.16 Duties of a police officer

S.17 Duties of police officer towards weaker sections and the poor

S.18 Duties of police officers while regulating traffic

S.19 Duties of police officers to enforce provisions of this Act

S.20 Power to search suspected persons in streets etc.

S.21 Emergency duties of police

S.22 Superior police officer may perform duties of a subordinate police officer

S.23 Persons bound to comply with direction of police officer

S.24 Framing of regulations for administration of police

S.25 Discipline and penalties

S.26 Police officers when deemed always on duty

S.27 Police officer not to resign without leave or notice

S.28 Power to make regulations for regulating traffic and for preservation of order in public place, etc.

S.29 Power to give directions to the public

S.30 Power to prohibit certain acts for prevention of disorder

S.31 Police to provide against disorder, etc. at places of public amusement or public assembly or meeting

S.32 Power to prohibit, etc., continuance of music, sound or noise

S.33 Issue of order for prevention of riot, etc.

S.34 Maintenance of order at religious or ceremonial display, etc.

S.35 Commissioner may take special measures to prevent outbreak of epidemic disease at fairs, etc.

S.36 Power to reserve street or other public place for public purpose and power to authorise erecting of barriers in streets

S.37 Employment of additional police to keep peace

S.38 Employment of additional police in cases of special danger to public peace

S.39 Employment of additional police at large work and when apprehension regarding behaviour of employees exists

S.40 Compensation for injury caused by unlawful assembly how recoverable

S.41 Dispute in regard to cost of deputing additional police and compensation

S.42 Recovery of amount payable under Sections 37 to 40

S.43 Government or any nominated authority to award compensation

S.44 Recovery of amounts payable under Sections 38 and 40

S.45 Dispersal of gangs and bodies of persons

S.46 Removal of persons about to commit offences

S.47 Removal of persons convicted of certain offences

S.48 Period of operation of orders under Sections 45 to 47

S.49 Hearing to be given before order under Sections 45 to 47 are passed

S.50 Appeal against orders under Sections 45 to 47

S.51 Finality of order in certain cases

S.52 Procedure on failure of person to leave the area and his entry therein after removal

S.53 Temporary permission to enter and consequences of nonobservance of conditions of such permission

S.54 Measurements and photographs of persons against whom order passed under Sections 45 to 47

S.55 Resistance to the taking of measurements, etc.

S.56 Banning of use of dress, etc. resembling uniform of armed forces

S.57 Constitution of Defence Societies

S.58 Power of Government to authorise Commissioner and certain other officers to exercise powers of District Magistrates and Executive Magistrates under the Code of Criminal Procedure

S.59 Powers of Commissioner under other Acts

S.60 Laying of notifications under Sections 58 and 59

S.61 Police to take charge of unclaimed property

S.62 Procedure for disposal of property taken charge of under Section 61

S.63 Delivery of property to person entitled

S.64 In default of claim, property to be at disposal of Government

S.65 Disregarding the rules of the road

S.66 Causing obstruction or mischief by animal

S.67 Exposing animal for hire, sale, etc.

S.68 Causing any obstruction in a street

S.69 Obstructing a footway

S.70 Causing obstruction and annoyance by performances, etc.

S.71 Doing offensive acts in or near a street or public place

S.72 Letting loose horse and suffering ferocious dogs, etc.

S.73 Bathing or washing in places not set apart for those purposes

S.74 Defiling water in public wells, etc.

S.75 Obstructing bathers

S.76 Behaving indecently in public

S.77 Obstructing or annoying passengers in the street

S.78 Misbehaviour with intent to provoke a breach of the peace

S.79 Prohibition against flying kites, playing on the street etc.

S.80 Committing nuisance in or near street, etc.