Section 16B. Power to levy, assess, recover user charges

[1] When it appears to the Chief Executive Officer or the officer authorized by him that any particular development scheme is sufficiently advanced to enable the amount of the user charge to be determined, the Chief Executive Officer or the officer authorized by him may be an order made in that behalf, declare that for the purpose of determining the User Charges the execution of the scheme shall be deemed to have been completed and shall thereupon give notice in writing to the owner of the property or person having an interest therein that it is proposed to assess the amount of the User charge in respect of the property mentioned in the notice. [2] The Chief Executive Officer or the officer authorized by him shall assess the amount of User Charges payable by the person concerned after giving such person an opportunity of being heard. [3] Any person aggrieved by the order of assessment passed under sub-section [2], am, within ninety days from the date of the notice in writing of such assessment inform the Chief Executive Officer or the officer authorized by him in that behalf by a declaration in writing that he accepts the assessment or objects to it. [4] Where the order of assessment passed under sub-section [2] is accepted by the person concerned within the period specified in such assessment shall become final and the person concerned shall make payment of the User Charges within the time specified in the assessment order. [5] If the person concerned objects to the Assessment order passed under sub-section [2], then the person concerned may file an appeal before the Appellate Authority within a period of ninety days from the date of receipt of the assessment order passed under sub-section [2] and the Appellate Authority may dispose of the appeal within a period of six months from the date of receipt of the appeal. The order passed by the Appellate Authority in appeal shall be final. [6] The State Government may nominate an officer not below the rank of the Principal Secretary to the State Government as the Appellate Authority. [7] The User Charges levied under this Act shall be payable in such number of installments, as may be fixed by regulations made in that behalf. [8] The arrears of User Charges shall be recoverable as the arrears of land revenue, and shall constitute a charge over such property. ]1