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Coimbatore Corporation Commissioner Katta Ravi Teja has directed officials to enforce a ₹10,000 good connected a institution for pasting advertisement posters adjacent the Podanur Railway Station flyover connected Friday, and warned that unauthorised advertisement boards, flex banners and posters crossed the metropolis volition beryllium removed and violators penalised.
In a statement, the Commissioner said advertisement boards, flex banners and posters placed without support successful nationalist spaces, connected roadworthy median barriers and connected electrical poles origin distraction to the nationalist and motorists. Such unauthorised advertisements volition beryllium removed by the Corporation and enactment volition beryllium initiated against those responsible.
The Commissioner said that nether the Tamil Nadu Urban Local Bodies Act, 1998, and Rules, 2023, individuals and organisations intending to show advertisements done hoardings, physics show screens and advertizing boards indispensable use to the Corporation astatine slightest 15 days successful advance, wage the prescribed interest and get approval.
Advertisements displayed without support would pull penalties against some the advertisers and the printing agencies involved. Under Section 117-U of the Act, persons erecting unauthorised advertisement hoardings tin look imprisonment of up to 3 years, a good of ₹20,000, oregon both. Those placing unauthorised flex banners and advertisement boards tin look imprisonment of up to 1 year, a good of up to ₹5,000, oregon both.
During an inspection adjacent the Podanur Railway Station flyover, a ₹10,000 good was imposed connected a institution for pasting advertisement posters that distracted motorists.
