Property of Halqa Panchayat.

(1) The following shall constitute the property of a Halqa Panchayat :—

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(i) public village road, within the Halqa Panchayat area other than those under the control of any Department of the ¹[Government of the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir] ;

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(ii) property, movable and immovable, which has been transferred to a Halqa Panchayat by the ¹[Government of the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir], any public body or an individual ;

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(iii) buildings, slaughter-houses, manure and night soil dumping sites, structures and water reservoir built by a Halqa Panchayat from its own funds or from contribution by ¹[Government of the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir], any public body or an individual ;

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(iv) rubbish, sewage, filth, bones, village cleanings, dead bodies of animals and other matters collected by the Halqa Panchayat under this Act ;

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(v) trees and grass growing on property belonging to the Halqa Panchayat, fruit and other produce thereof and windfalls thereon ;

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(vi) drains, tanks, ponds, wells, springs, streams, khuls, ghats, nallahs and quarries in the Halqa Panchayat area which do not belong to any person or a group of persons or to the ¹[Government of the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir] and declared to be such property by a resolution of the Halqa Panchayat ;

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(vii) all public lamps or lamp posts and apparatus connected therewith or appertaining thereto ;

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(viii) any property which a Halqa Panchayat may acquire.

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(2) The Halqa Panchayat shall have power to acquire, hold and dispose of the property and enter into any contract in accordance with the laws and rules in force.