The Motor Vehicles Act, 1988
Where any article found in any transport vehicle operated by the State transport undertaking is not claimed by its owner within the prescribed period, the State transport undertaking may sell the article in the prescribed manner and the sale proceeds thereof, after deducting the costs incidental to sale, shall be paid to the owner on demand.
Source & version
Official text: India Code (official) ↗
Official India Code text: The Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (59 of 1988), English PDF (bitstream 123456789/1798/1/aA1988-59.pdf, 3,740,289 bytes, sha256 be5bac90…) fetched directly from indiacode.nic.in (Akamai edge, DNS via dns.google) on 2026-07-30. The same handle also carries a Hindi edition (Hh198859.pdf) — the English 'aA'-prefixed file is the one ingested. Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and @nexlex/ingest inline parser. Automated parse; footnotes/amendment history and the Schedules excluded; spot-verified; full clause-level proofread pending.
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