Functions of municipality

Functions of municipality: The State Government may assign to a municipality of any level all or any of the following functions in progressive manner considering the managerial, technical and financial capacities of the municipality:

Provided that it shall be the duty of the State Government to allocate to a municipality adequate and reasonable functions and powers once the municipality is in position to discharge the functions

1. (1) in the sphere of public works,-
   • (a) providing by itself or by an agency, means for supply of water for public and private purposes;
   • (b) construction, maintenance and cleansing of sewers and drains, sewerage and drainage works;
   • (c) construction, maintenance and cleansing of public latrines, urinals and similar conveniences;
   • (d) construction, maintenance, alteration and improvement of public streets and street furniture, bridges and culverts, flyovers, subways, causeways and the like;
   • (e) naming of streets and numbering of premises;
   • (f) lighting of public streets and other public places;
   • (g) planting and care of trees on roadside and elsewhere;
   • (h) construction and maintenance of municipal markets and slaughter houses and the regulation of all markets and slaughter houses;
     • (i) maintenance of all monuments vested in the Municipality;
   • (j) providing by itself or by an agency, means of supply of water for fire-fighting purposes;
2. (2) in the sphere of public health and sanitation,-
   • (a) collection, removal and disposal of solid wastes including filth, rubbish and other obnoxious or polluted matters;
   • (b) disposal of solid and liquid wastes consistent with efforts to cause recovery and re-use of all that can be salvaged;
   • (c) reclamation of unhealthy localities, removal of noxious vegetation and abatement of all nuisances;
   • (d) regulating and abating offensive and dangerous trades or practices;
   • (e) cleansing of public streets and other public places;
   • (f) ensuring the wholesomeness of water supplied for drinking and domestic purposes;
   • (g) maintenance of all public tanks and regulating the re-excavation, repair and upkeep of all private tanks, wells and other sources of water supply on such terms and conditions as the Municipality may deem proper;
   • (h) provide for places for the disposal of the dead and the regulation and maintenance of such places;
     • (i) measures for preventing and checking the spread of dangerous diseases;
   • (j) immunisation including public vaccination and inoculation;
   • (k) removal and disposal of the unclaimed dead bodies and carcasses of dead animals;
3. (1) abatement of nuisances from birds and animals including dog menace;
   • (m) conversion of all service privies into sanitary latrines and providing adequate facilities for sanitation so that open defecation may be completely done away with;
4. (3) in the sphere of town planning and development,-
   • (a) devising town planning within the limits of the municipal area in accordance with the laws relating to town planning for the time being in force;
   • (b) planned development of the borders of the municipal area in accordance with the laws applicable for the purpose;
   • (c) improvement of slums;
   • (d) control of regular lines of streets;
   • (e) control of all building operations and regulation of building uses;
   • (f) co-ordination of all overground rights enjoyed by service agencies;
   • (g) co-ordination of activities of agencies relating to laying and maintenance of underground pipelines, tubes, cables and the like;
   • (h) laying out and maintenance of public parks, squares, gardens or recreational areas;
     • (i) redevelopment of congested areas for providing better living conditions;
   • (j) planned development of new areas for human settlement;
   • (k) preservation of monuments and places of historical, artistic and other importance;
5. (1) measures for beautification of the township by setting up fountains and statues, providing recreational areas, improving riverbanks, landscaping and the like;
6. (4) in the sphere of administration,-
   • (a) survey of buildings and lands and preparation and maintenance from time to time survey maps and plans of the town and other records relating to survey;
   • (b) removal of unauthorised encroachment on, or obstruction and projection in or upon, streets, bridges and other public places;
   • (c) securing or removal of dangerous buildings and places;
   • (d) registration of births and deaths;
   • (e) providing boundary marks for the municipal area;
   • (f) drawing up an Annual Administration Report on the activities and performances of the Municipality and submission, in the manner prescribed, of such report to the State Government;
   • (g) compilation and maintenance of records and statistics relating to the administrative functions of the Municipality;
   • (h) maintenance and development of all properties vested in or entrusted with the management of the Municipality;
     • (i) checking the construction of unauthorised buildings and pulling down unlawful construction;
   • (j) ensuring the stoppage of wastage of water supply and other civic facilities;
   • (k) protecting public properties in general and civic properties in particular;
7. (1) abatement of pollution of all kinds;
   • (m) measures as may be required for fire prevention and fire safety under any law for the time being in force;
   • (n) providing for adequate training facilities for the municipal employees and equipping and motivating them for public service;
8. (0) observance of occasions of national importance.