(1) It shall be the duty of
every Municipality to make reasonable provision and proper arrangement for the following matters within the municipal area,
namely:&
(a) public health, sanitation, conservation, solid waste
management, drainage and sewerage, cleaning
public streets, places and sewers, and all spaces, not
being private property, which are open to the
enjoyment of the public, whether such spaces are
vested in the Municipality or not, removing noxious
vegetation and abating all public nuisances;
(b) removing filth, rubbish, night-soil, odour, or any
other noxious or offensive matter from privies,
latrines, urinals, cesspools or other common
receptacles for such matter in or pertaining to a
building or buildings;
(c) lighting public streets, places and buildings;
(d) extinguishing fires and protecting life and property
when fire occurs;
(e) regulating offensive or dangerous trades or
practices;
(f) removing obstructions and projections in public
streets or places and in spaces, not being private
property which are open to the enjoyment of the
public, whether such spaces are vested in the
Municipality or not;
(g) securing or removing dangerous buildings or places
and reclaiming unhealthy localities;
(h) acquiring, maintaining, changing and regulating
places for the disposal of the dead and of the
carcasses of dead animals;
(i) constructing, altering and maintaining public
streets, culverts, municipal boundary marks,
markets, slaughter-houses, drains, sewers, drainageworks, sewerage-works, baths, washing places,
drinking fountains, tanks, wells, dams and the like;
(j) constructing public latrines, privies and urinals;
(k) naming streets and numbering houses;
(l) registering births and deaths;
(m) arranging for detention and preservations of such
dogs within the Municipality as may be dealt with
under section 249 of this Act;
(n) paying the salary and the contingent expenditure on
account of such police officers as may be required
by the Municipality for the purposes of this Act or
for the protection of any municipal property and
providing such accommodation as may be required
by the State Government under the law in force
relating to police;
(o) raising volunteer force with such functions and
duties in relation to the protection of persons, the
security of property and the public safety as may be
prescribed;
(p) making arrangements for preparation of compost
manure from night soil and rubbish;
(q) establishing and maintaining cattle pounds;
(r) promoting population control, family welfare and
small family norms;
(s) preparing plans for economic development and
social justice;
(t) establishing communication systems including
construction and maintenance of roads, footpaths,
pedestrian pathways, transportation terminals, both
for passengers and goods, bridges, over-bridges,
subways, ferries, and inland water transport system;
(u) preparing transport system accessories including
traffic engineering schemes, street furniture,
parking areas and bus stops;
(v) arranging for planned development of new areas for
human settlement;
(w) taking measures for beautification of the municipal
area by setting up parks and fountains, providing
recreational areas, improving river banks, and
landscaping;
(x) collecting statistics and data significant to the
community;
(y) integrating development plans and schemes of the
municipal area with the district or regional
development plan, if any;
(z) promoting educational, sports and cultural
activities;
(za) disclosing material and vital information regarding
finances of, and development work and other
activities undertaken by the Municipality to the
stakeholders and the public at large;
(zb) taking steps for securing the prevention of cruelty to
animals; and
(zc) performing such other statutory or regulatory
functions as may be provided by or under this Act
or under any other law for the time being in force.
(2) The Municipality may, having regard to its
managerial, technical, financial and organizational capacity, and the actual conditions obtaining in the municipal area, decide not to
take up, or postpone, the performance of, any of the functions as
aforesaid.
(3) The State Government may direct a Municipality to
perform any of the functions as aforesaid, if such function is not
taken up, or is postponed, by the Municipality.
(4) The Municipality may plan, build, operate, maintain or
manage the infrastructure required for the discharge of any of the
functions, as aforesaid, either by itself or by any agency under any
agreement referred to in section 154.
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