State Act

The Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act.

61. Matters to be provided for by the corporation.— It shall be incumbent on the corporation to make adequate provision, by any means or measures which it is lawfully competent to them to use or to take, for each of the following matters, namely:— (a) the construction, maintenance and cleansing of drains and drainage works, and of public latrines, urinals and similar conveniences; 11[(aa) planning for economic and social development; (ab) urban forestry, protection of environment and promotion of ecological aspects;] (b) the construction and maintenance of work and means for providing a supply of water for public and private purposes; (c) scavenging and the removal and disposal of excrementitious and other filthy matters, and of all ashes, refuse and rubbish; (d) the reclamation of unhealth localities, the removal of noxious vegetation and generally the abatement of all nuisances; (e) the regulation of places for the disposal of the dead and the provision of new places for the said purposes; (f) the registration of births and deaths; 1[(ff) public vaccination in accordance with the provisions of the Bombay Vaccination Act, 1877 (l of 1877);] (g) measures for preventing and checking the spread of dangerous diseases; 2[(gg) establishing and maintaining public hospitals and dispensaries and carrying out other measures necessary for public medical relief;] (h) the construction and maintenance of public markets and slaughter-houses and the regulation of all markets and slaughter-houses; (j) the regulation of offensive and dangerous trades; (k) the entertainment of a fire-brigade and the protection of life and property in the case of fire; (l) the securing or removal of dangerous buildings and places; (m) the construction, maintenance, alteration and improvement of public streets, bridges, culverts, causeways and the like 3[and also other measures for ensuing the safe and orderly passage of vehicular and pedestries traffic on streets]; (n) the lighting, watering and cleansing of public streets; (o) the removal of obstructions and projections in or upon streets, bridges and other public places; (p) the naming of streets and the numbering of premises; (q) maintaining, aiding and suitably accommodating schools for primary education 4[subject always to the grant of building grants by 5[the 6[State] Government] in accordance with the Government Grant-in-aid Code for the time being in force]; (r) the maintenance of a municipal office and of all public monuments and other property vesting in the corporation; 7[(s) the obligations imposed by the City of Bombay Municipal (Amendment) Act, 1933 (Bom. XIII of 1933), upon the corporation arising out of the transfer to the corporation of the powers, duties, assets and liabilities of the Board of Trustees for the Improvement of the City of Bombay constituted under the City of Bombay Improvement Trust Transfer Act, 1925 (Bom. XVI of 1925); (t) the improvement of 8[Brihan Mumbai]].