law: 137. Power to require owners to clear noxious vegetation.
  The Nagar Panchayat or the Council may, by notice, require the owner or occupier of any land within such time as the Nagar Panchayat or the Council may fix to cut and remove any tree or bamboos or branches thereof, or eradicate and destroy vegetation and undergrowth which may appear to the Nagar Panchayat or the Council to be insanitary, injurious to health or offensive to the neighbourhood or to be causing or likely to cause damage or destruction to any crop growing or to be grown, or to be obstruction or likely to obstruct the free passage for men or animals along a public road, or of any boat of stream vessel along a public water way.