Section 300: Property deemed to be public property

1) The following property, which is for public purposes, shall be deemed to be public property:

(a) Houses, lands, sewerage, or roads have been used since ancient times,

(b) Wells, water conduits, shores, ponds, and banks thereof,

(c) Exits for chattels, pasture lands, Kharka, graveyards, Chihan, Samadhisthal, Kabristan, and lands where these are located,

(d) Inns, Pauwas, Dewals, religious meditation sites, memorials, temples, shrines, Chaitya, monasteries, Stupas, churches, Chowk, Dawali, Chautari, or lands where these are located,

(e) Lands where fairs, markets, and public entertainment or sports sites are located,

(f) Private property provided by any person for public purposes,

(g) Such other property as prescribed to be the public property by the Government of Nepal, by a notification in the Nepal Gazette.

2) The ownership of the public property shall vest in the public body or the Government of Nepal.