Section 62 · Duties of Board

It shall be the duty of every Board, so far as the funds at its disposal permit, to make reasonable provision within the cantonment for--

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(i) lighting streets and other public places;

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(ii) watering streets and other public places;

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(iii) cleansing streets, public places and drains, abating nuisances and removing noxious vegetation;

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(iv) regulating offensive, dangerous or obnoxious trades, callings and practices;

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(v) removing, on the ground of public safety, health or convenience, undesirable obstructions and projections in streets and other public places;

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(vi) securing or removing dangerous buildings and places;

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(vii) acquiring, maintaining, changing and regulating places for the disposal of the dead;

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(viii) constructing, altering and maintaining streets, culverts, bridges, causeways, markets, slaughter-houses, latrines, privies, urinals, drains, drainage works and sewerage works and regulating their use;

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(ix) planting and maintaining trees on roadsides and other public places;

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(x) providing or arranging for a sufficient supply of potable water, where such supply does not exist, guarding from pollution water used for human consumption, and preventing polluted water from being so used;

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(xi) registering births and deaths;

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(xii) preventing and checking spread of dangerous diseases; establishing and maintaining a system of public vaccination and inoculation for the said objective;

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(xiii) establishing and maintaining or supporting public hospitals, maternity and child welfare centres and dispensaries, and providing public medical relief;

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(xiv) establishing and maintaining or assisting primary schools;

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(xv) rendering assistance in extinguishing fires, and protecting light and property when fire occurs;

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(xvi) maintaining and developing the value of property vested in, or entrusted to, the management of the Board;

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(xvii) establishing and maintaining civil defence services;

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(xviii) preparing and implementing town planning schemes;

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(xix) preparing and implementing plans for economic development and social justice;

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(xx) naming and numbering of streets and premises;

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(xxi) according or refusing permission to erect or re-erect building;

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(xxii) organising, promoting or supporting cultural and sports activities;

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(xxiii) celebrating Independence Day and Republic Day and incurring expenditure thereon;

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(xxiv) fulfilling any other obligation imposed upon it by or under this Act or any other law for the time being in force.

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