Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 116

It shall be duty of every¹ [Board], so far as thefunds at its disposal permit, to make reasonable provision within the cantonmentfor-

(a) lighting streets and other publicplaces;

(b) watering streets and other publicplaces;

(c) cleansing streets, public places anddrains, abating nuisances and removing noxious vegetation;

(d) regulating offensive, dangerous orobnoxious trades, callings and practices;

(e) removing, on the ground of publicsafety, health or convenience, undesirable obstructions and projections instreets and

other public places;

(f) securing or removing dangerousbuildings and places;

(g) acquiring, maintaining, changing andregulating places for the disposal of the dead;

(h) constructing, altering andmaintaining streets, culverts, markets, slaughter-houses, latrines, privies,urinals, drains, drainage works and sewerage works ² [and regulatingtheir use];

(i) planting and maintaining trees onroadsides and other public places;

(j) providing or arranging for asufficient supply of pure and wholesome water, where such supply does not exist,guarding from pollution water used for human consumption, and preventingpolluted water from being so used;

(k) Registering births and deaths;

(l) establishing and maintaining asystem of public ³ [vaccination and inoculation];

(m) establishing and maintaining orsupporting public hospitals and dispensaries, and providing public medicalrelief;

(n) establishing and maintaining⁴ [orassisting] primary schools;

(o) rendering assistance inextinguishing fires, and protecting life and property when fires occur;

(p) maintaining and developing the valueof property vested in, or entrusted to the management of, the ⁵ [Board];⁶ [* * *]

⁷ [(pa)establishing and maintaining civil defence services;

(pb) preparing and implementing townplanning schemes;]

(q) fulfilling any other obligationimposed upon it by or under this Act or any other law for the time being inforce.

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1.Substituted by Act 24 of 1936, section 69, for "Cantonment Authority".

2.Inserted by Act 15 of 1983, section 74 w.e.f. 1-10-1983.

3.Substituted byAct 15 of 1983, section 74, for "vaccination" w.e.f. 1-10-1983.

4.Inserted by Act24 of 1936, section 37.

5.Substituted byAct 24 of 1936, section 69, for "Cantonment Authority".

6.The word"and" omitted by Act 15 of 1983, section 74 w.e.f. 1-10-1983.

7.Inserted by Act15 of 1983, section 74 w.e.f. 1-10-1983.