Chapter X FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO MUNICIPALITIES.

A municipality shall, in respect of the cost of collection of land revenue (including cesses) and recoverable as arrears of land revenue under section 93 be entitled to rebate at such rate as the State Government may be general or special order determine and different rates may be determined for different municipalities.

Power of Government to make grants. (1) The State Government may, after considering the recommendations of the Finance Commission or otherwise determine whether for augmenting the finances of a municipality for any of the purposes of this Act, it is necessary to make any grant to the municipality and if so, the amount thereof.

(2) The grant so determined shall be made to the municipality every year but it may be revised after a period of every five years having regard to the recommendations of the Finance Commission or otherwise in respect of the revision of grants to municipalities.

(3) Every grant under this section shall be made after due appropriation made by the State Legislature by law in this behalf.

The payment of a grant to a municipality shall be subject to the condition that if there be any amount due from the municipality to the State Government, it shall be lawful for the State Government to recover the amount from the municipality by making the deduction from the amount of the grant payable to the municipality under sub-section (2) of section 144.

(1) Powers regarding public streets. (2) Acquisition of adjacent land to form street. (1) It shall be lawful for a municipality to lay out and make new public streets; to construct tunnels and other works subsidiary to public streets: to widen, open, enlarge or otherwise improve, and to turn, divert, extend, discontinue or stop up any public street; and, subject to the provision of sub-section (2) of section 65 to lease or sell any such land, theretofore used or acquired by the municipality for the purposes of such streets, as may not be required for any public street or for any other purposes of this Act:

Provided that no proposal for permanently discontinuing any public street shall be sanctioned by a municipality unless one month at least before the meeting at which the proposal is decided, a notice signed by the chief officer has been put up on the notice board in the office of the municipality and in the street or part of a street which is proposed to be so discontinued informing the residents of the said proposal nor until the objections, if any, to the said proposal made in writing any time before the day of the said meeting have been received and considered by the municipality.

(2) In laying out, making, turning, diverting, extending, widening, opening, enlarging or otherwise improving any public street, in addition to the land required for the carriage-way and foot-ways and drains thereof, the municipality may acquire the land required for the construction of houses and buildings to form the said street; and, subject to the provisions contained in sub-section (2) of section 65, may sell and dispose of such additional land in perpetuity or on lease for a term of years with such stipulations as to the class and description of houses or buildings to be erected thereon as it may think fit.

(1) Power to require repair etc., of private streets. (2) And to declare such street public. (3) Apportionment of expenses in default. (1) Where the executive committee considers that in any street not being a public street, or in any part of such street, within the municipal borough, it is necessary for the public health convenience or safety that any work should, be done for the levelling, paving, metalling, flagging, channeling, draining, lighting or cleaning thereof, the executive committee may by written notice require the respective owners of the lands or buildings, fronting adjoining or abutting upon such street or part thereof, to carry out such work in a manner and within a time to be specified in such notice.

(2) After such work has been carried out by such owners or, as provided in section 239 by the municipality at the expense of such owners, the street or part thereof in which such work has been done may, and on the joint requisition of a majority of the said owners shall, be declared by a public notice, put up therein by the executive committee, to be a public street.

(3) If the notice under sub-section (1) is not complied with and such work is executed by the municipality as provided in section 239, the expenses thereby incurred shall be apportioned by the executive committee between such owners in such manner as it may think fit, regard being had, if it deems it necessary to the amount and value of any work already done by the owners or occupiers of any such lands or buildings.