Section 273. Power of 2Municipal Commissioner in respect of public streets

(1) The 2Municipal Commissioner shall form time to time cause all public streets vested in the 1Corporation to be leveled, metaled or paved, channeled, altered and repaid, as occasion shall require, and may also from time to time widen, extend or otherwise improved any such street or causes the soil thereof to be raised, lowered or altered and may place and keep in repair fences and posts for the safety of pedestrians :\br@s Provided that no widening, extension or other improvement of a public street, the aggregate cost of which will exceed five thousand rupees or such higher amount as the 1Corporation may from time to time fix, shall be undertaken by the 2Municipal Commissioner unless or until such undertaking has been authorized by the 1Corporation.\br@s (2) With the sanction of the 1Corporation given in accordance with the rules and bye-laws in force in that behalf, the 2Municipal Commissioner may turn, divert, discontinue the public use of, or permanently close the whole or any part of a public street vested in the 1Corporation and upon such closure may, subject to the previous sanction of the State Government and the 1Corporation dispose of the site of such street, or of the portion thereof which has been closed, as land vesting in the 1Corporation.\br@s