(1) All property of the nature
hereinafter in this section specified and not being specially
reserved by the State Government shall, subject to any other law
for the time being in force, vest in and belong to the Municipality,
and shall together with all other property of whatsoever nature or
kind not being specially reserved by the State Government, which
may become vested in the Municipality, be under its direction,
management and control, and shall be held and applied by it as
trustee subject to the provisions and for the purpose of this Act,
that is to say &
(a) all vested public lands;
(b) all public city or town walls, gates, markets,
slaughterhouses, manure, night-soil depots,
and public building of every description which
have been constructed or are maintained out
of municipal fund;
(c) all public tanks, streams, reservoirs, cisterns,
springs, aqueducts, conduits, tunnels, pipes
and pumps; and all bridges, buildings,
engines, works, materials and things
connected therewith or appertaining thereto
and also any adjacent land, not being private
property, appertaining to any public tank or
well;
(d) all public sewers and drains, channels, tunnels,
culverts and watercourses in, alongside, or
under, any street;
(e) all public streets and pavements, and stones
and other materials thereon, and also trees,
erections, materials, implements and things
provided for such streets;
(f) all public parks and gardens, including squares
and public open spaces;
(g) all public ghats on rivers or streams or tanks;
(h) such Government lands, whether situate
within or out of the municipal area, as the
State Government may by general or special
order vest in the Municipality;
(i) all public lamps, lamp-posts and apparatus
connected therewith, or appertaining thereto;
(j) all Government buildings and all private lands
and buildings transferred to it by gift or
otherwise;
(k) all public places for disposal of the dead,
excluding those governed by any specific law
in this behalf;
(l) all solid wastes collected on a public street or
public place, including dead animals and
birds; and
(m) all stray animals not belonging to any private
person.
(2) The State Government shall be competent to resume
from time to time, by notification in the Official Gazette, any
Government land vested in a Municipality under clause (h) of subsection (1),&
(i) if such Municipality is found upon inquiry to
have mismanaged such land, or
(ii) if such land is otherwise required by the State
Government in the public interest,
on such terms as the State Government may determine.
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