Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Added ―proviso‖ by Act No.23 of 1985. [Act No. II of 1956] 123 (11) the regulation of lodging houses, camping grounds and rest-houses in the city; (12) the maintenance of an ambulance service; (13) the construction, establishment and maintenance of theatres, places of entertainment, rest-houses and other public buildings; (14) the organisation or maintenance in times of scarcity of shops or stalls for the sale of necessaries of life; (15) the building or purchase and maintenance of dwellings for municipal officers and servants; 180[(16) the grant of loans to the municipal officers and servants for purposes of constructing houses and for purchasing of house sites and vehicles on such terms and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed;] 181[(17) [XXX]] (18) the furtherance of educational objects, and the making of grants to educational institutions; (19) the establishment and maintenance or the aiding of libraries, museums and art galleries, botanical or zoological collections and the purchase or construction of buildings therefor; (20) the destruction of vermins, birds or animals causing a danger or nuisance, and the confinement or destruction of stray dogs;