Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Matters which may be provided for by Corporation at its discretion.— In addition to the other powers and duties conferred or imposed on it by or under this Act or any other Act for the time being in force, the Corporation subject to any specific, special or ordinary orders of the State Government may in its discretion provide from time to time either wholly or partly for all or any of the following matters, namely:- (a) reclaiming unhealthy localities, laying out whether in areas previously built upon or not, new public streets, and acquiring land for that purpose, including plots of land for building to abut on such streets; (b) slum improvement and upgradation; (c) urban poverty alleviation; (d) cattle pounds and prevention of cruelty to animals; and (e) regulation of tanneries; (f) constructing, establishing or maintaining public parks or gardens, libraries, museums, halls, offices, sarais, rest-houses and other public buildings; (g) furthering educational objects other than the establishment and maintenance of primary schools; (h) planting and maintaining road-side and other trees; (i) providing for parking or halting places or lots for vehicles on any part of any public street or public place which vests in the Corporation; (j) taking a census, and granting rewards for information tending to secure the correct registration of vital statistics; (k) making a survey; (l) the destruction, or the detention, of ownerie dogs; (m) securing or assisting to secure suitable place for the carrying on of offensive trades; (n) supplying, constructing and maintaining pipe and other fittings for the supply of water to private premises from water-works maintained by the Corporation; (o) supplying, constructing and maintaining receptacles, fittings, pipes and other appliances on or for the use of private premises for receiving and conducting the sewage thereof into sewers under the control of the Corporation; (p) fairs and exhibitions; --43-- (q) constructing and maintaining such roads and buildings and other government works as the State Government may transfer to the Corporation; (r) organization and management of chemical or bacteriological laboratories for the examination or analysis of water, food or drugs, for the detection of disease or for researches connected with public health; (s) the construction and maintenance in the public streets of drinking fountains for human beings and water-troughs for animals; (t) the playing of music in squares, gardens or other places of public resort; (u) the construction, purchase, organization, maintenance or management of tramways, trackless trams/sky car, cable car or motor transport facilities for the conveyance of the public or for amusement of the public or tourists; (v) preparation and presentation of address to persons of distinction; (w) with the previous sanction of the State Government, any public reception ceremony or entertainment in the city; (x) any other matter likely to promote the public health, safety or convenience of the public.