section 52
Duties and Function of the Council.
The Daman and Diu Municipalities Regulation 1994Infrastructure1994314 sections
Statutory text
- (1) Except as otherwise provided in this Regulation, the municipal Government of a municipal area shall vest in the Council. (2) In addition to the duties imposed upon it by or under this Regulation or any other law for the time being in force, unless the Government otherwise directs it shall be the duty of every Council to undertake and to make reasonable provision for the following matters within the limits of the municipal area, and when effective measures cannot otherwise be made then even outside the said limits, namely :- (a) lighting public streets, places and building; (b) watering public street and places; (c) cleansing 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 Council or not; removing noxious vegetation; and abating all public nuisances; (d) extinguishing fires, and protecting life and property when fires occur; (e) regulating of abating 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 Council or in Government; (g) securing or moving dangerous buildings or places, and reclaiming unhealthy localities; (h) acquiring and maintaining changing and regulating places for the disposal of the dead; (i) constructing, altering and maintaining public streets, culverts, municipal boundary marks, markets, slaughter-houses, latrines, privies, urinals, drains, sewers, drainage-works, sewerage works, baths, washing places, drinking fountains, tanks, wells, dams and the like; (j) obtaining a supply or an additional supply of water, proper & sufficient for preventing danger to the health of the inhabitants from the insufficiency or unwholesomeness of the existing supply, when such supply or additional supply can be obtained at a reasonable cost; (k) naming streets and numbering of premises; (l) public vaccination; (m) suitable accomodation for any calves, cows or buffaloes required within the municipal area for the supply of animal lymph; (n) printing such annual reports on the municipal administration of the municipal area as the Government by general or special orders requires the Council to submit; (o) erecting substantial boundary marks of such description and in such position as shall be approved by the Collector, defining the limits or any alteration in the limits of the municipal area; (p) disposing of night-soil and rubbish and if so required by the Government, preparation of compost manure from such night-soil and rubbish; (q) providing special medical aid and accommodation for the sick in time of dangerous or communicable disease and taking such measures as may be required to prevent the outbreak or to suppress and prevent the recurrence of such disease; (r) giving relief and establishing and maintaining relief works in time of scarcity or for destitute persons within the limits of the municipal area; (s) imposing compulsory taxes which are specified in section 181; (t) establishing and maintaining public dispensaries and providing public medical relief and organising Family Planning Centres; (u) establishing and maintaining primary schools; (v) Preparation of plans for economic development and social justice and the performance of such functions and the implementation of such schemes as may be entrusted from time to time by the Administrator to a Council including those in relation the matters referred to in sub-sections (2) and (3). (3) A Council may, at its discretion provide, either, wholly or partly, out of the municipal property and funds for- (a) laying out, whether the areas previously built upon or not, new public streets, and acquiring the land for that purpose, and the land required for the construction of buildings or curtilages thereof to abut on such streets; and also planting and maintaining road-side and other trees; (b) establishing and maintaining public hospitals, institutions for primary and secondary education, libraries, museums, lunatic asylums, gymnasiums, akhadas, and home for disabled destitute persons and constructing and maintaining buildings therefor, along with such other public building like town halls municipal shops, dharmashalas; open air theaters and rest houses;
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