Maharashtra Police Act

Act number: 22 of 1951
Enacted: 11 June 1951
Contents: 214 sections

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Section 1 – Short title, extent and commencement
Section 2 – Definitions
Section 3 – One Police force for the whole of the State of Maharashtra
Section 4 – Superintendence of Police Force to vest in the State Government
Section 5 – Constitution of Police Force
Section 6 – Director-General and Inspector-General, Additional and Deputy Inspector General (preview)
Section 7 – Commissioner (preview)
Section 8 – Appointment of Superintendent and Additional, Assistant and Deputy Superintendent (preview)
Section 8A – Appointment of Director of Police Wireless and of Superintendent, Assistant and Deputy Superintendents for Wireless System, Motor Transport System of any specific duty (preview)
Section 9 – Appointment of Principals of Police Training Institutions (preview)
Section 10 – Deputies to Commissioner (preview)
Section 11 – Assistant Commissioners within jurisdiction of Commissioners (preview)
Section 12 – Constitution of divisions and sections (preview)
Section 12A – Officers in charge of divisions and sections Inspectors (preview)
Section 13 – Deleted (preview)
Section 14 – Certificate of appointment (preview)
Section 15 – Effect of suspension of Police Officer (preview)
Section 16 – General powers of Commissioner and Superintendent (preview)
Section 17 – Control of District Magistrate over Police Force in district (preview)
Section 18 – Power of District Magistrate to require reports from Superintendent (preview)
Section 19 – Power of supervision by District Magistrate (preview)
Section 20 – Power of Director-General and Inspector-General and Commissioner to investigate and regulate matters of Police accounts (preview)
Section 21 – Special Police Officers (preview)
Section 22 – Appointment of Additional Police (preview)
Section 22A – Appointment of Railway Police (preview)
Section 22B – State Security Commission (preview)
Section 22C – Police Establishment Board No. 1 (preview)
Section 22D – Functions of Police Establishment Board No. 1 (preview)
Section 22E – Police Establishment Board No. 2 (preview)
Section 22F – Functions of Police Establishment Board No. 2 (preview)
Section 22G – Police Establishment Boards at Range Level (preview)
Section 22H – Functions of Police Establishment Board at Range Level (preview)
Section 22I – Police Establishment Board at Commissionerate Level (preview)
Section 22J – Functions of Police Establishment Board at Commissionerate Level (preview)
Section 22J-1 – Police Establishment Board at District Level (preview)
Section 22J-2 – Functions of Police Establishment Board at District Level (preview)
Section 22J-3 – Police Establishment Board at Levels of Specialized Agencies (preview)
Section 22J-4 – Functions of Police Establishment Board at Levels of Specialized Agencies (preview)
Section 22K – Police Establishment Boards to comply rules and regulation (preview)
Section 22L – Erstwhile Police Establishment Boards cease to exist (preview)
Section 22M – Power of State Government not to be affected (preview)
Section 22N – Normal tenure of Police Personnel, and Competent Authority (preview)
Section 22N-1 – Maximum percentage of transfer in a year (preview)
Section 22O – Separation of Investigation Police from law and Order Police (preview)
Section 22P – State Police Complaints Authority (preview)
Section 22Q – Powers and functions of State Police Complaints Authority (preview)
Section 22R – Report to be submitted to State Government (preview)
Section 22S – Division Level Police Complaints Authority (preview)
Section 22T – Prosecution for false complaint against Police Officer (preview)
Section 23 – Framing of rules for administration of the Police (preview)
Section 24 – Director-General and Inspector-General or Commissioner, may call for returns (preview)
Section 25 – Punishment of the members of the subordinate ranks of the Police Force departmentally for neglect of duty, etc., Punitive powers of Director-General and Inspector-General, Commissioner, Deputy Inspector-General (including Director of Police Wireless) and Superintendent and Principal of Training Institution (preview)
Section 26 – Procedure to be observed in awarding punishment (preview)
Section 27 – Appeals from orders of punishment (preview)
Section 27A – Power of State Government or Director General and Inspector General to call for record of any Inquiry or proceeding (preview)
Section 27B – Power of State Government or Director General and Inspector General to review order passed under sections 25, 27 or 27A (preview)
Section 27C – Power to make rules (preview)
Section 28 – Police officers to be deemed to be always on duty and to be liable to employment in any part of the State (preview)
Section 29 – Under what conditions Police officer may resign (preview)
Section 30 – Certificate, arms, etc., to be delivered up by person ceasing to be a Police officer and if not delivered up may be seized under a search warrant (preview)
Section 31 – Occupation of and liability to vacate premises provided Police officers (preview)
Section 32 – State Government may make order under section 144 of Act V of 1898 (preview)
Section 33 – Power to make rules for regulation of traffic and for preservation of order in public place, etc (preview)
Section 33A – Prohibition of performance of dance in eating house, permit room or beer bar and other consequential provisions (preview)
Section 33B – Deleted (preview)
Section 34 – Competent authority may authorise erection of barriers on streets (preview)
Section 35 – Power to make rules prohibiting disposal of the dead except at places set apart (preview)
Section 36 – Power of Commissioner or the Superintendent and of other officers to give direction to the public (preview)
Section 37 – Power to prohibit certain acts for prevention of disorder (preview)
Section 38 – Power to prohibit, etc., continuance of music, sound of noise (preview)
Section 39 – Issue of orders for prevention of riot, etc (preview)
Section 40 – Issue of orders for maintenance of order at religious ceremonials, etc (preview)
Section 41 – Police to provide against disorder, etc., at places of amusement and public meetings (preview)
Section 42 – Deleted (preview)
Section 43 – District Magistrate may take special measures to prevent outbreak of epidemic disease at fair, etc (preview)
Section 44 – Destruction of stray dogs (preview)
Section 45 – Destruction of suffering or unfit animals (preview)
Section 46 – Power under this Chapter to be exercised by Superintendent subject to the control of District Magistrate and Commissioner and by District Magistrate subject to the control of State Government (preview)
Section 47 – Employment of additional Police on application of a person (preview)
Section 48 – Employment of additional Police at large works and when apprehension regarding behaviour of employees exists (preview)
Section 49 – Recovery of cost of additional Police employed under sections 47 and 48 (preview)
Section 50 – Employment of additional Police in cases of special danger to public peace (preview)
Section 51 – Compensation for injury caused by unlawful assembly, how recoverable, date to be fixed for liability (preview)
Section 52 – District Magistrate to award or apportion compensation (preview)
Section 53 – District Magistrate to discharge function under orders of State Government (preview)
Section 54 – Proportionate recovery of the cost of additional Police and compensation for loss caused by unlawful assembly (preview)
Section 55 – Dispersal of gangs and bodies of persons (preview)
Section 56 – Removal of persons about to commit offence (preview)
Section 57 – Removal of persons convicted of certain offences (preview)
Section 57A – Removal of certain persons declared to be beggars (preview)
Section 58 – Period of operation of orders under sections 55, 56, 57 and 57 A (preview)
Section 59 – Hearing to be given before order under sections 55, 56, 57 or 57A is passed (preview)
Section 60 – Appeal (preview)
Section 61 – Finality of orders passed by State Government in certain cases (preview)
Section 62 – Procedure of failure of person to leave the area and his entry therein after removal (preview)
Section 63 – Temporary permission to enter or return to the area from which a person was directed to remove himself (preview)
Section 63A – Control of camps, parades, etc., and banning use of uniforms, etc (preview)
Section 63AA – Powers of externment of State Government and officers specially empowered (preview)
Section 63B – Constitution of village defence parties (preview)
Section 64 – Duties of a Police officer (preview)
Section 65 – Power to enter places of public resort (preview)
Section 66 – Duties of Police officers towards the public (preview)
Section 67 – Police to regulate traffic, etc., in streets (preview)
Section 68 – Persons bound to conform to reasonable orders of Police (preview)
Section 69 – Power of Police officer to restrain, remove, etc (preview)
Section 70 – Enforcement of orders issued under section 37, 38, or 39 (preview)
Section 71 – Duty of Police to see orders issued under section 43, 55, 56, 57, 57A or 63AA are carried out (preview)
Section 72 – When Police officer may arrest without warrant (preview)
Section 73 – When police may arrest without a warrant (preview)
Section 73A – Deleted (preview)
Section 74 – Powers with regard to offences under Act LIX of 1960 (preview)
Section 75 – Power of Magistrate to return animal to person from whose possession it was taken (preview)
Section 76 – Veterinary officer to examine the animal (preview)
Section 77 – Animal to be dealt with under Act LIX of 1960 (preview)
Section 78 – Power of Police officer to unsaddle the animal or unload (preview)
Section 79 – Power of Police to arrest without warrant when certain offences committed in his presence (preview)
Section 80 – Other powers of arrest (preview)
Section 81 – Refusal to obey warning or to accompany Police (preview)
Section 82 – Police to take charge of unclaimed property (preview)
Section 83 – Intestate property over four hundred rupees in value (preview)
Section 84 – Intestate property over four hundred rupees in value (preview)
Section 85 – Procedure in other cases (preview)
Section 86 – Delivery of property to person entitled (preview)
Section 87 – In default of claim, property to be at disposal of State Government (preview)
Section 88 – Procedure not affected by Indian Succession Act or Administrator-General’s Act or Regulation VIII of 1827 or corresponding law (preview)
Section 89 – Police officer may take charge of stray cattle (preview)
Section 90 – Power to establish cattle-pounds and appoint pound-keepers (preview)
Section 90A – Penalty for allowing cattle to stray in street or to trespass upon private or public property (preview)
Section 91 – Impounding of cattle (preview)
Section 92 – Delivery of cattle claimed (preview)
Section 93 – Sale of cattle not claimed (preview)
Section 94 – Rate to be fixed by notification (preview)
Section 95 – Powers as to inspection, search and seizure of false weights and measures (preview)
Section 96 – Procedure to be followed by officers and Magistrates in certain cases (preview)
Section 97 – A Superior Police officer may himself perform duties imposed on his inferior, etc (preview)
Section 98 – Emergency duties of Police (preview)
Section 99 – Disregarding the rule of the road (preview)
Section 100 – Causing obstruction or mischief by animal (preview)
Section 101 – Exposing animal for hire or sale, etc (preview)
Section 102 – Causing any obstruction in a street (preview)
Section 103 – Obstructing a footway (preview)
Section 104 – Exhibiting mimetic, musical or other performances, etc (preview)
Section 105 – Doing offensive acts on or near street or public place (preview)
Section 106 – Letting loose horse, etc., and suffering ferocious dogs to be at large (preview)
Section 107 – Bathing or washing in places not set apart for those purposes (preview)
Section 108 – Defiling water in public wells, etc (preview)
Section 109 – Obstructing bathers (preview)
Section 110 – Behaving indecently in public (preview)
Section 111 – Obstructing or annoying passengers in the street (preview)
Section 112 – Misbehaviour with intent to provoke a breach of the peace (preview)
Section 113 – Prohibition against flying kite (preview)
Section 114 – Repealed (preview)
Section 115 – Committing nuisance in or near street, etc (preview)
Section 116 – Disregard of notice in public building (preview)
Section 117 – Penalties for offenders under sections 99 to 116 (preview)
Section 118 – Penalty for failure to keep in confinement cattle, etc (preview)
Section 119 – Punishment for cruelty to animals (preview)
Section 120 – Wilful trespass (preview)
Section 121 – False alarm of fire for damage to fire-alarm (preview)
Section 122 – Being found under suspicious circumstances between sunset and sunrise (preview)
Section 123 – Carry weapon without authority (preview)
Section 124 – Possession of property of which no satisfactory account can be given (preview)
Section 125 – Taking spirits into public hospitals, or into barracks or on boards of vessels of war (preview)
Section 126 – Omission by pawn-brokers, etc., to report to Police possession or tender of property suspected to be stolen (preview)
Section 127 – Melting, etc., of such property (preview)
Section 128 – Taking pledge from child (preview)
Section 129 – Permission of disorderly conduct at places of public amusement, etc (preview)
Section 130 – Cheating at games (preview)
Section 130A – Gambling in street (preview)
Section 131 – Penalty for contravening rules, etc., under section 33 (preview)
Section 131-A – Penalty for not obtaining licence in respect of place of public entertainment, or certificate or registration in respect of eating house or for not renewing such licence or certificate within prescribed period (preview)
Section 131-AA – Liability of licensee of place of public entertainment for acts of servants (preview)
Section 132 – Penalty for disobedience to order under section 31 (preview)
Section 133 – Penalty for contravening rules, etc., under section 35 (preview)
Section 134 – Penalty for contravention of rules, etc., under section 36 (preview)
Section 135 – Penalty for contravention of rules, or directions under section 37, 39 or 40 (preview)
Section 136 – Penalty for contravening rules, etc., made under section 38 (preview)
Section 137 – Penalty for contravening rules, etc., made under section 41 (preview)
Section 138 – Deleted (preview)
Section 139 – Penalty for contravention of a regulation made under section 43 (preview)
Section 140 – Penalty for contravening directions under section 68 (preview)
Section 141 – Penalty for contravention of directions under section 55, 56, 57, 57A or 63AA (preview)
Section 142 – Penalty for entering without permission area from which a person is directed to remove himself or outstaying when permitted to return temporarily, or for failure to report place or residence or departure or arrival (preview)
Section 143 – Penalty for failure to surrender in accordance with sub-section (3) of section 63 (preview)
Section 143A – Penalty for contravention of order under section 63A (preview)
Section 143B – Dangerous performances (preview)
Section 144 – Neglect or refusal to serve as Special Police Officer (preview)
Section 145 – Penalty for making false statement, etc., and for misconduct of Police Officers (preview)
Section 146 – Penalty for failure to deliver up certificate of appointment or of office or other article (preview)
Section 147 – Vexatious entry, search, arrest, etc., by Police Officer (preview)
Section 148 – Penalty for vexatious delay in forwarding a person arrested (preview)
Section 149 – Penalty for opposing or not complying with direction given under section 70 (preview)
Section 149A – Penalty for unauthorised use of Police uniform (preview)
Section 150 – Jurisdiction when offender is a Police Officer above the rank of constable (preview)
Section 151 – Prosecution for certain offences against the Act to be in the discretion of the Police (preview)
Section 151A – Summary disposal of certain cases (preview)
Section 152 – Prosecution for offences under other enactments not affected (preview)
Section 153 – Disposal of fees, rewards, etc (preview)
Section 154 – No Municipal or other rates to be payable by State Government on Police building (preview)
Section 155 – Method of proving orders and notifications (preview)
Section 156 – Rules and orders not invalidated by defect of form or irregularity in procedure (preview)
Section 157 – Presumption in prosecutions for contravention of directions issued under section 55, 56, 57, 57A or 63AA (preview)
Section 157A – Officers holding charge of, or succeeding to vacancies competent to exercise power (preview)
Section 158 – Forfeiture of bond entered into by person permitted to enter or return to the area from which he was directed to remove himself (preview)
Section 159 – No Magistrate or Police officers to be liable to penalty or damage for act done in good faith in pursuance of duty (preview)
Section 160 – No public servant liable as aforesaid for giving effect in good faith to any rule, order or direction issued with apparent authority (preview)
Section 161 – Suits or prosecutions in respect of acts done under colour of duty as aforesaid not to be entertained, or to be dismissed, if not instituted within the prescribed period (preview)
Section 162 – Licences and written permission to specify conditions, etc., and to be signed (preview)
Section 163 – Public notices how to be given (preview)
Section 164 – Consent, etc., of a competent authority may be proved by writing under his signature (preview)
Section 165 – Signature on notices, etc., may be stamped (preview)
Section 166 – Persons interested may apply to State Government to annual, reverse or alter any rule or order (preview)
Section 167 – Repeal and saving (preview)
Section 168 – Saving of laws relating to Village Police and Reserve Police (preview)

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