Chapter III FUNCTIONS OF THE CORPORATION

(1)(b) fraudulently defaces, destroys or removes any list, notice or other document affixed by or under the authority of the returning officer; or (c) fraudulently defaces or destroys any ballot paper or the official mark on any ballot paper; or (d) without due authority supplies any ballot paper to any person or receives any ballot paper from any person or is in possession of any ballot paper; or (e) fraudulently puts into any ballot box anything other than the ballot paper which he is authorised by law to put in; or (f) without due authority destroys, takes, opens or otherwise interferes with any ballot box or ballot paper then in use for the purposes of the election; or (g) fraudulently or without due authority, as the case may be, attempts to do any of the foregoing acts or wilfully aids or abets the doing of any such acts. (2) Any person guilty of an offence under this section shall— (a) if he is a returning officer or an assistant returning officer or a presiding officer or a polling officer or any other officer or clerk employed on official duty in connection with the election, be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both; (b) if he is any other person, be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine, or with both. (3) For the purposes of this section, a person shall be deemed to be on official duty if his duty is to take part in the conduct of any election or part of an election including the counting of votes or to be responsible after an election for the used ballot papers and other documents in connection with such election. (4) An offence punishable under clause (b) of sub-section (2) shall be cognizable. (5) No court shall take cognizance of any offence under section 24, or under section 28, or under clause (a) of sub-section (2) of this section unless there is a complaint made by order of, or under authority from, the Election Commission.

Subject to the provisions of this Act and any other law for the time being in force, it shall be incumbent on the Corporation to make adequate provision by any means or measures which it may lawfully use or take, for each of the following matters, namely:— (a) the construction, maintenance and cleansing of drains and drainage works and of public latrines, urinals and similar conveniences; (c) the scavenging, removal and disposal of filth, rubbish and other obnoxious or polluted matters; (e) the reclamation of unhealthy localities, the removal of noxious vegetation and generally the abatement of all nuisances; (f) the regulation of places for the disposal of the dead and the provision and maintenance of places for the said purpose; (g) the registration of births and deaths; (h) public vaccination and inoculation; (i) measures for preventing and checking the spread of dangerous diseases; (j) the establishment and maintenance of dispensaries and maternity and child welfare centres and the carrying out of other measures necessary for public medical relief; (jj) the maintenance including the expansion and upgradation of facilities of the hospitals existing on the date of the commencement of the Delhi Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Act, 1993 (67 of 1993); (k) the construction and maintenance of municipal markets and slaughter houses and the regulation of all markets and slaughter houses; (l) the regulation and abatement of offensive or dangerous trades or practices; (m) the securing or removal of dangerous buildings and places; (n) the construction, maintenance, alteration and improvements of public streets, bridges, culverts, causeways and the like; (o) the lighting, watering and cleansing of public streets and other public places; (p) the removal of obstructions and projections in or upon streets, bridges and other public places; (q) the naming and numbering of streets and premises; (r) the establishment, maintenance of, and aid to, schools for primary education subject to such grants as may be determined by the Central Government from time to time; (s) the maintenance of municipal offices; (t) the laying out or the maintenance of public parks, gardens or recreation grounds; (v) the maintenance of monuments and memorials vested in any local authority in Delhi immediately before the commencement of this Act or which may be vested in the Corporation after such commencement; (w) the maintenance and development of the value of all properties vested in or entrusted to the management of the Corporation; (wa) the preparation of plans for economic development and social justice. (wb) securing and establishment of e-governance system for citizens’ services on an anytime-anywhere basis for better, speedy, accountable and transparent administration; (x) the fulfilment of any other obligation imposed by or under this Act or any other law for the time being in force.

Subject to any general or special order of the Government, from time to time, the Corporation may provide either wholly or in part for all or any of the following matters, namely:— (a) the furtherance of education including cultural and physical education, by measures other than the establishment and maintenance of and aid to, schools for primary education; (b) the establishment and maintenance of, and aid to, libraries, museums, art galleries, botanical or zoological collections; (c) the establishment and maintenance of, and aid to, stadia, gymnasia, akharas and places for sports and games; (d) the planting and care of trees on roadsides and elsewhere; (e) the surveys of buildings and lands; (f) the registration of marriages; (g) the taking of a census of population; (h) the civic reception to persons of distinction; (i) the providing of music or other entertainments in public places or places of public resort and the establishment of theatres and cinemas; (j) the organisation and management of fairs and exhibitions; (k) the acquisition of movable or immovable property for any of the purposes before mentioned, including payment of the cost of investigations, surveys or examinations in relation thereto for the construction or adaptation of buildings necessary for such purposes; (l) the construction and maintenance of— (i) rest-houses; (ii) poor houses; (iii) infirmaries; (iv) children's homes; (v) houses for the deaf and dumb and for disabled and handicapped children; (vi) shelters for destitute and disabled persons; (vii) asylums for persons of unsound mind; (m) the construction and maintenance of cattle pounds; (n) the building or purchase and maintenance of dwelling houses for municipal officers and other municipal employees; (o) any measures for the welfare of the municipal officers and other municipal employees or any class of them including the sanctioning of loans to such officers and employees or any class of them for construction of houses and purchase of vehicles; (p) the organisation or management of chemical or bacteriological laboratories for the examination or analysis of water, food and drugs for the detection of diseases or research connected with public health or medical relief; (q) the provision for relief to destitute and disabled persons; (r) the establishment and maintenance of veterinary hospitals; (s) the organisation, construction, maintenance and management of swimming pool, public wash houses, bathing places and other institutions designed for the improvement of public health;