PROVISION OF BURIAL AND BURNING GROUNDS AND CREMATORIA WITHIN OR WITHOUT MUNICIPAL AREA

PROVISION OF BURIAL AND BURNING GROUNDS AND CREMATORIA WITHIN OR WITHOUT MUNICIPAL AREA.—

1. (1) Every Municipality shall, where there is no necessary land or arrangement to be used as burial or burning grounds or crematoria, arrange land to be used as burial or burning grounds or crematoria within or outside the limits of the Municipal area, by meeting the expense from the Municipal fund, in accordance with the provisions of Section 484 and may charge rent and fees for the use thereof: Provided that in providing burial or burning grounds or crematoria outside the limits of the Municipal area, the opinion of the District Medical Officer also shall be sought and the prior permission of the Local Self Government Institution, within the area of which it is intended to be provided, shall be obtained.
2. (2) The Municipality may farm out the collection of such rents and fees for any period not exceeding three years at a time and on such terms and conditions as it may think fit.
3. (3) Where the Municipality provides any such place without the limits of its municipal area, all the provisions of this Act and all bye-laws framed thereunder for the management of such places within the municipal area shall apply to such place.