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Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, the movable and immovable properties of the following categories within the limits of a municipal area shall vest in the Municipality, unless the State Government otherwise directs by a notification in the Official Gazette:— (a) all vested public lands not belonging to any Government department or statutory body or corporation; (b) all public tanks, streams, reservoirs and wells; (c) all public markets and slaughter houses; (d) all public sewers and drains, channels, tunnels, culverts and water courses in, alongside, or under, any street; 244 The West Bengal Municipal Act, 1993. XXII of 1993.] (Part 111.—Finance.—Chapter lila—Municipal Property.— Sections 76, 77.) (e) all public streets and pavements, stones and other materials thereof, and also trees on such public streets or pavements not belonging to any private individual; (0 all public parks and gardens, including squares and public open spaces; (g) all public ghats on rivers or streams or tanks; (h) all public lamps, lamp-posts and apparatus connected therewith, or appertaining thereto; (i) all public places for disposal of the dead, excluding those governed by any specific law in this behalf; (j) all solid and liquid wastes collected on a public street or public place, including dead animals and birds; (k) all stray animals not belonging to any private persons.