Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Purposes to which Municipal Fund is applicable :– (1) Subject to the charges specified in Section 116 and subject to the payment of other sums, charges and 58 THE ORISSA MUNICIPAL MANUAL cost necessary for carrying this Act into effect or duly directed or sanctioned, for payment from the Municipal Fund by or under any of the provisions of this Act, other than the provisions of this section or under any other enactment for the time being in force, the municipality may apply the Municipal Fund to any of the following purposes within the municipality, that is to say– (i) the construction, diversion, maintenance and improvement of roads, tramways, bridges, parks, squares, gardens, tanks, ghats, wells, channels, drains,latrines and urinals; (ii) the watering and cleaning of roads; (iii) the lighting of public roads and provision, purchase, exploitation and maintenance of electric, gas or other undertakings, for lighting public and private roads, places and buildings; (iv) water-supply; (v) conservancy and drainage, including out-fall works and sewage disposal; (vi) disposal of night-soil by the conversion of the same into compost manure; (vii) the acquiring, keeping and equipping of open spaces for purposes of ventilation or for the promotion of physical exercise and public recreation; (viii) the planting and preservation of trees on roads and public places; (ix) the construction, and maintenance and improvement of offices and other buildings under the control of the municipality or required for municipal purposes; (x) the construction and maintenance of model dwelling houses for the working classes and for the poorer classes and encouragement of co-operative building societies by loans; (xi) construction and maintenance of homes for disabled and homeless paupers; (xii) maintenance of public monuments; (xiii) the construction, establishment, maintenance and improvement of schools and hostels to be used in connection with schools either wholly or by means of grants-in-aid; (xiv) the training of teachers and the establishment of scholarships; (xv) the construction, establishment, maintenance and improvement of hospitals, dispensaries, sanatoria, leprosy asuylums, lunatic asylums, orphanages, rescue houses, maternity houses, child welfare centres, sarais, poor houses and dharmasalas either wholly or by means of grants-in-aid; (xvi) the employment of vaccinators and the promotion of vaccination; (xvii) the training and employment of health officers, sanitary inspectors, medical practitioners, compunders, nurses, health visitors, matrons, dhais, and midwives; (xviii) the prevention of the spread of dangerous diseases; (xix) regulating and abating offensive or dangerous trades and removing noxious vegetation; 59 THE ORISSA MUNICIPAL ACT, 1950 (xx) the registration of birth, deaths and marriages; (xxi) the payment of the expenses of indigent inhabitants of the municipality for journeys to and from any hospital, established in any part of India, for the treatment of special diseases, and of their subsistence and proper clothing there at, according to such scale as may be fixed by the municipality; (xxii) payment of contribution for the treatment at recognised sanatorium for the Municipal employees suffering from leprosy and tuberculosis; (xxiii) the improvement of the breed of cattle; (xxiv) the payment of rewards for the destruction of noxious animals or diseased or unclaimed dogs,; (xxv) all acts and things which are necessary for carrying out the purposes of the prevention of cruelty to animals; (xxvi) the construction, establishment, maintenance and improvement of municipal markets or cart-stands or slaughter-houses or the taking of markets or slaughter-houses on lease; (xxvii) the construction, establishment, maintenance and improvement of municipal dairy farms, grazing grounds and milk depots and all acts and things that may be necessary for the increase and improvement of the supply of milk and milk products; (xxviii) the establishment and maintenance of public places for the disposal of the dead; (xxix) the provision and maintenance of and assistance to public libraries, reading rooms, art galleries, gymnasia or other institutions connected with the diffusion of mental any physical culture or technical instruction; (xxx) the establishment and maintenance of a fire brigade; (xxxi) the holding of fairs and industrial sanitary and health exhibitions and cattle shows; (xxxii) the taking of a census for the purposes of the municipality; (xxxiii) the survey of buildings and lands and the preparation and maintenance from time to time of survey maps and plans and of other records relating to survey marks; (xxxiv) the giving of relief and the establishment of relief works, in time of famine, scarcity or any natural calamity. (xxxv) the disposal of unclaimed corpses and the burial or cremation of paupers, and the payment of contributions to charitable institutions for assisting in such disposal, burial or cremation; (xxxvi) provision and regulation of standard weights, scales and measures and public weighing places; (xxxvii)the re-excavation and repair of private tanks, wells and other sources of water-supply on such terms and conditions as the municipality may deem proper; 60 THE ORISSA MUNICIPAL MANUAL (xxxviii) contributions to the Union of Municipalities 1[* * *] 2(xxxix)the payment of expenses of the Chairperson, Vice-Chairperson 3[* * *] Councillor any officer of servant of the municipality in attending any conference or meeting or for any other purpose in the interest of local authorities concerned; and] 4[(xi)] all acts and things which are necessary for carrying out the purposes of this Act or which are likely to promote the safety, health, welfare or convenience of the inhabitants of the municipality, expenditure whereon may be declared by the municipality 5[ * * *] to be an appropriate charge on the Municipal Fund; 6[Provided that where any such act or thing involves an expenditure of more than 7[five thousand rupees] the Municipality shall obtain the sanction of the State Government before making a declaration under the clause.] (2) The municipality may do all things not being inconsistent with this Act, which may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this section. (3) Nothing in this section shall affect anything contained in any obligation of the municipality arising from a trust legally imposed upon or accepted by them. 8[117-A. Restriction against incurring expenditure not provided for in the budget :– Unless provision has been made in that behalf in the municipal budget as approved by the State Government no expenditure shall be incurred by the municipality without prior approval of the Director.]