Repealed or not in force · As amended up to 2026-08
(2) I n places where there is no such treasury, subtreasury or bank, the municipal fund nzay be deposited with any banker, or person acting as a banker, wlm has given such security for the safe custody and renavment on demand of'tlie fund so deposited as the
- (Chcigter 6E.-Zzcnicipal 3gnd and Property.Section 72.)
- have been constructed or are maintained out of the munioipal fund.
- ( b ) All public streams, springs and for the supply, storage and distribution of water for public purposes, and all bridges, buildings, engines, material s and things connected therewith or appertaining thereto, and also ally adjacent land (not being private property) appertaining to any public tank or well.
- (c) All public sewers and drains, and all sewers, drains, culverts and watercourses in, alongside or under any street, and all works, materials and things appertaining there.to.
- ( d ) All dust, clirt, dung, ashes, sefuse, animal2 matter or filth or rubbish of any kind collected by the committee from the streets, houses, privies, sewers, cesspools ox elsewhere .
- {e) All public lamps, lamp-posts and apparatus connected thel.ewith or appertaining there-
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(Chapter K - MmicipaE Police.-Xections
CHAPTER IV.
MUNICJPAL
FUND
AND PROPERTY.
67, There shall be formed for each municipality a municipal fund, and there shall be placed to the credit thereof-
- ( a ) all sums received by or on behalf of the committee under this Act or otherwise ;
- ( b ) all fines realized in cases in which prosecutions are instituted under this Act or the rules
|(Chapter17.-Xic;nicipal<br>_Fzcnd_andPrbpeFZy:--.|(Chapter17.-Xic;nicipal<br>_Fzcnd_andPrbpeFZy:--.||
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||rflection68.)||
||rules made hereunder or under sectiJon34|34|
||of ActVof1861for oaences comn5itted||
||within the municipality;and||
||(c)when thepe has been included within the|'|
||municipality any municipality constituted||
||under the Panjhb Municipal Act,1873,the|the|
||balance (if any) standing at the credit of||
||the municipal fund of that municipality at|the municipal fund of that municipality at|
||the time when the committee comes into||
||existence.||
|68._(1)_The committee shall set apartandapply<br>annually out of the nrunicipal fund-||Application<br>off uud.|
||_(a)$rst,_such sum as may be required for 8he pay-||
|.|.<br>ment of any amounts falling due on any|i|
||loan legally contracted by it;||
||(b)secondly,such sum as may be required to||
||nieet the charges of its own establishment,||
||including such subscrip'tions and contribu-|including such subscrip'tions and contribu-|
||tioils as are referred to in sections31and|and|
||32,and such sum as may be required for||
||the maintenance ofapolice-establishment||
||under ChapterV;||
||(c)thil-dty, such suil~ as may be required to pay||
||the expensesofpauper lunatics senttopublic||
||asylums from the municipality, the expenses||
||incurred in auditing the accounts of the|incurred in auditing the accounts of the|
||comnzittee, and such portion of the cost||
||of the Provincial Departments for Educa-|of the Provincial Departments for Educa-|
||tion, Sanitation, Vaccination, Medical Relief||
||and Public Works as may be held by the|and Public Works as may be held by the|
||Local Government to be equitably debitable|Local Government to be equitably debitable|
||tothe committee in return for sewices ren-|the committee in return for sewices ren-|
||deredt oit by these Departments.||
||(2)Subject to the charges specified in sub-section|Subject to the charges specified in sub-section|
|(1)|(1)and t.o such rules as the Local Government may|and t.o such rules as the Local Government may|
|make with respect to the prioritytobe given to the||be given to the|
|several duties of the committee, the municipal fund||several duties of the committee, the municipal fund'|
||s11 all|s11 all|
(2) When any public institution is placed under the direction, management and control of the committee, all l~operty, endowments and funds belonging thereto shall be held by the committee in trust for the purposes to which. such property, endowments and funds were lawfully a.pplicable at the time when'the institution was so placed.
73. Thc committee may, with the sanction of the Transfer to Local Government, transfer to Her Majesty any pro- ,";:;t;f perty vesting in the committee under sectioil 7 1 or vesting in section 72, but not so as to affect any trusts or public committee. rights subject to which the property is held.
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( Chapter `I` T.-MumicipnZ Fund and Properly.Section 68.)
shall be applicable to the payment, in whole or in part, of the charges ant1 expeusos inoiileutal to the following matters within the municipality, and with the sanction of the Commissioner outside tho municipality, when such application of the fund is for the benefit of the inhabitants, namely :-
(Chapter 17.-~unicipaZ Pwnd and Property.Sections 69-71.)
( j ) the holding of fairs and. industrial exhibitions ; and
(Jc) all acts and things likely to promote the safety, health, welfare or convenience of t.he inhabitants.
69. (1) I n places where there is a Government custody `of`
treasury or sub-treasury or a bank to which the Gov- g:;l"'pal ernrnent treasury business has been made over, the municipal fund shall be kept in the treasury, sub-treasury or bank.
Source: India Code