Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957 · Chapter XV: Streets · Encroachments on streets
Section 319: Ground floor doors, etc., not to open outwards on streets
The Commissioner may at any time by notice require the owner of any premises on the ground floor of which any door, gate, bar, or window opens outwards upon a street or upon any land required for the improvement of a street in such manner, as in the opinion of the Commissioner, to obstruct the safe or convenient passage of the public along such street, to have the said door, gate, bar or window altered so as not to open outwards.
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