Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957 · Chapter VIII: Taxation · Payment and recovery of taxes
Section 156: Recovery of tax
(1) If the person liable for the payment of the tax does not, within thirty days from the service of the notice of demand, pay the amount due, such sum together with all costs and the penalty provided for in section 155, may be recovered under a warrant, issued in the form set forth in the Eighth Schedule, by distress and sale of the movable property or the attachment and sale of the immovable property, of the defaulter:
Provided that the Commissioner shall not recovery any sum the liability for which has been remitted on appeal under the provisions of this Act.
(2) Every warrant issued under this section shall be signed by the Commissioner.
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