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The Burma Municipal Act, 1884, 17 of 1884, (Rep., Act 13 of 1898)

153 sections · As amended up to 2026-08

Sections

  1. 0Section 0
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  3. 1If any question arises whether a person or persons of a specified class is or are an inhabitant or i
  4. 2Section 2
  5. 3Section 3
  6. 5(1) Any inhabitant of a municipality or local area in respect of which a notification has been publi
  7. 6(1) When a local area is excluded from a municipality under section 155
  8. 7When a local area is included in a municipality under section 155, this Act, and, except as the Loca
  9. 8(1) If the circumstances of any municipality are such that, in the opinion of the Local Government,
  10. 9Nothing in this Act shall affect the Local Authorities Loans Act, 1879. XI of 1879
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  12. 10(1) The
  13. 11(1) When the place of an elected member of a municipal committee becomes vacant by the resignation o
  14. 12Every municipal committee shall be a body corporate by the name of the municipal committee of its mu
  15. 13Section 13
  16. 14Consequences of establishment of municipal committee where municipal committee under Act VII of 1874 exists
  17. 15Member of municipal committee to be municipal commissioner
  18. 16A municipal committee shall, from time to time, at a special meeting, elect one of its members to be
  19. 17(1) The term of office of a president or vice-president shall be one year, and on the expiration of that period he may be again elected or appointed
  20. 18Casual vacancies in office of president or vice-president
  21. 19All elections and appointments of presidents and vice-presidents, and all elections, appointments an
  22. 20Section 20
  23. 21(1) A meeting of a municipal committee shall be either ordinary or special
  24. 22(1) The quorum necessary for the transaction of business at a special meeting of a municipal committee shall be one-half of the whole committee:
  25. 23(1) At every meeting of a municipal committee the president, if present, shall preside as chairman
  26. 24(1) Except as otherwise provided by this Act or by any rule made under this Act, all questions comin
  27. 25Every resolution passed by a municipal committee at a meeting shall be recorded in a book kept for t
  28. 27(1) A municipal committee may, from time to time, at a special meeting, make rules consistent with this Act as to
  29. 28Extraordinary powers of president and vice-president in case of emergency
  30. 29Joint committee of two or more committees or cantonment authorities
  31. 30Vacancies and irregularities not to invalidate proceedings
  32. 31(1) A municipal committee shall, from time to time, at a special meeting, appoint one of its members
  33. 32Subject to the other provisions of this Act, and to such rules as the Local Government may make pres
  34. 33If, in the opinion of the Commissioner, the number of persons employed by a municipal committee as o
  35. 34In the case of a Government official, a municipal committee may
  36. 35Pensions of other officers and servants
  37. 36(1) When a contract made by or on behalf of a municipal committee exceeds in value or amount one hun
  38. 37Penalty on member, officer or servant of committee being interested in contract made with committee
  39. 38Acquisition of land under Act X of 1870
  40. 39No suit shall be instituted against a municipal committee or against an officer of any such committe
  41. 40Every person shall be liable for the loss, waste or misapplication of any money or other property be
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  43. 41(1) Subject to any general rules or special orders which the Governor General in Council may make
  44. 42(1) Besides the taxes imposed under section 41, a municipal committee, with the previous sanction of
  45. 43Besides the taxes imposed under the foregoing sections, a municipal committee, with the previous san
  46. 44When a committee has, in exercise of the powers conferred by this Act, provided for the performance,
  47. 45(1) A municipal committee may resolve, at a special meeting, to propose the imposition of any tax under section 41, 42, 43 or 44
  48. 46Section 46
  49. 47(1) If it at any time appears to the Local Government, on complaint made or otherwise, that any tax
  50. 48Section 48
  51. 49No tax imposed under this Act shall be invalid merely for defect of form; and it shall be enough in
  52. 50Taxes leviable under Act VII of 1874 to be deemed to be taxes under this Act
  53. 51(1) The committee shall cause an assessment-list of all buildings and lands on which any tax is imposed to be prepared, containing
  54. 52When the assessment-list has been completed, the committee shall give public notice thereof, and of
  55. 53(1) The committee shall at the same time give public notice of a time, not less than one month from
  56. 54(1) After the objections have been enquired into and the persons making them have been allowed an op
  57. 55(1) The committee may, at any time amend the list by inserting the name of any person whose name oug
  58. 56It shall be in the discretion of the committee to prepare a new assessment-list every year; or to ad
  59. 57When a tax payable under section 41, clause (a), (b) or (c), or under section 42, 43 or 44, is payab
  60. 58Every tax payable under section 41, clause (a), (b) or (c), shall be due jointly and severally from
  61. 59Every tax leviable under section 42, 43 or 44 shall be payable by the occupier of the building or land in respect of which it is payable
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  63. 60There shall be formed for each municipality a municipal fund, and there shall, except as by this Act provided, be credited thereto
  64. 61(1) The committee shall set apart and apply annually out of the municipal fund
  65. 62(1) There
  66. 63(1) The balances standing to the credit of the municipal fund and school fund, shall, if there is a
  67. 64(1) A municipal committee may, from time to time, with the previous sanction of the Local Government
  68. 65Subject to any special reservation made by the Local Government, all property in a municipality of t
  69. 66(1) The management, control and administration of every public institution maintained out of municipal funds shall vest in the committee:
  70. 67The committee may, with the sanction of the Local Government, transfer to Her Majesty any property v
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  72. 68When any land is required for a new street or for the improvement of an existing street, the committ
  73. 69The committee may close temporarily any street vested in it or any part thereof for the purpose of r
  74. 70The committee may grant permission in writing for the temporary occupation of any street or land ves
  75. 71The committee may attach to the outside of any building brackets for lamps in such manner as not to occasion any injury thereto or inconvenience
  76. 72(1) The committee at a meeting may cause a name to be given to any street, and to be affixed on any
  77. 73The committee at a meeting may direct that, within certain limits, to be fixed by it, the external r
  78. 74(1) If any building or part of a building projects beyond the regular line of a public street, eithe
  79. 75(1) Every
  80. 76Removal of projections and obstructions
  81. 77Bathing and washing places
  82. 78The committee may fix places within or, with the approval of the Deputy Commissioner, beyond the lim
  83. 79(1) The committee may, with the approval of the Deputy Commissioner, fix and abolish places either w
  84. 80(1) The committee may, by public notice, order any burial or burning ground which is, in its opinion
  85. 81The committee may, by public notice, prescribe routes for the removal of corpses to burial or burning places
  86. 82Inflammable materials
  87. 83(1) The committee, by any person authorized by it in this behalf, may, after giving six hours' notic
  88. 84The committee, by any person authorized by it in this behalf, may, after giving twenty-four hours' n
  89. 86The committee, by any person authorized by it in this behalf, may, at any time between sunrise and s
  90. 87Power to inspect places for sale of food or drink, &c., and to seize unwholesome articles exposed for sale
  91. 88(I) The
  92. 89Precautions to be observed in entering dwelling
  93. 90The committee may, by notice, require the owner of any building in any street to put up and keep in
  94. 91Provision of privies, &c
  95. 92(1) The committee may, by notice, require the owner or occupier of any building or land to repair or
  96. 93The committee may, by notice, require any person who, without its permission in writing, newly erect
  97. 95Power to require drainage, &c., of unwholesome tanks, &c
  98. 96If any building or any well, tank or other excavation, is for want of sufficient repair, protection
  99. 97Buildings, &c., in ruinous or dangerous state
  100. 101Power to prohibit use for human habitation of buildings unfit for such use
  101. 102Power to require untenanted buildings becoming a nuisance to be secured or enclosed
  102. 103Cultivation, use of manure or irrigation injurious to health, after prohibition
  103. 104(1) The owner or occupier of every place within the municipality used for any of the following purposes, namely:
  104. 105(1) If it is shown to the satisfaction of the committee, at a meeting, that any place registered or
  105. 106A committee may, from time to time, at a special meeting, make rules
  106. 107In making any rule under section 106 the committee may direct that a breach of it shall be punishabl
  107. 108No rule made under section 106 shall come into force until it has been confirmed by the Local Government
  108. 109Section 109
  109. 110(1) Where, under this Act, the owner or occupier of property is required by the committee to execute
  110. 111(1) The committee may make compensation out of the municipal fund to any person sustaining any damag
  111. 112(1) Any person aggrieved by any order made by a committee under the powers vested in it by section 8
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  113. 113Depositing or throwing earth or materials or refuse, rubbish or offensive matter on roads or into drains
  114. 114Whoever throws or causes to be thrown any corpse or carcass or any part thereof into any river, stre
  115. 115Whoever, without the permission of the committee, causes or allows the water of any sink, sewer or c
  116. 116Whoever, being the owner or occupier of any building or land, keeps or allows to be kept for more th
  117. 117Whoever, without the permission of the committee, makes or causes to be made, or alters or causes to
  118. 118Penalty for making or keeping latrines, &c., near any source of water-supply
  119. 119Whoever keeps any swine, buffaloes, cows, oxen, sheep or goats in disregard of any orders which the
  120. 120Whoever feeds or allows to be fed any animal, which is kept for dairy purposes or may be used for food
  121. 121Whoever drives any vehicle after dark in any public street or thoroughfare unless the vehicle is pro
  122. 122Whoever discharges fire-arms or lets off fireworks or fire-balloons, or engages in any game, in such
  123. 123Whoever, being the owner or person in charge of any dog which is likely to annoy or intimidate passe
  124. 124Whoever, without the permission of the committee, alters, obstructs or encroaches upon any public st
  125. 125Whoever quarries, blasts, cuts timber or carries on building-operations in such a manner as to cause
  126. 126Any
  127. 127Every owner or driver of a public conveyance shall immediately provide for the disinfection of the c
  128. 128Whoever
  129. 129Keeping corpses or carrying corpses by prohibited routes or so as to cause annoyance
  130. 130Whoever, in any public place, without being authorized by the committee, defaces or disturbs any dir
  131. 131Whoever disobeys any lawful directions given by the committee by public notice under the powers conf
  132. 132Any
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  134. 133The Commissioner or the Deputy Commissioner may
  135. 134(1) The Commissioner or the Deputy Commissioner may, by order in writing, suspend within the limits
  136. 135(1) In cases of emergency, the Deputy Commissioner may provide for the execution of any work, or the
  137. 136(1) If at any time it appears to the Local Government that a municipal committee has made default in
  138. 137Power of Local Government to supersede committee in case of incompetency, persistent default or excess or abuse of powers
  139. 138(1) If any dispute, for the decision of which this Act does not otherwise provide, arises between tw
  140. 139(1) A municipal committee shall, at the close of each year or of such other period as may, from time
  141. 140(1) A municipal committee shall submit, before such date in each year as may be directed by the Loca
  142. 141(1) No new work, the estimated cost of which exceeds five hundred rupees, shall be begun by a munici
  143. 142In all matters connected with the administration of this Act, a Commissioner shall have and exercise
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  145. 144Powers and duties of police in respect of offences against Act and rules, and assistance to municipal authorities
  146. 145Section 145
  147. 146A Judge or Magistrate shall not be deemed to be a party to, or personally interested in, any such pr
  148. 147Nothing in this Act shall prevent any person from being prosecuted under any other law for any act o
  149. 148(1) The authority empowered to make rules under section 7, 48, 106 or 143 shall, before making them,
  150. 149(1) The Local Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, direct that any rules made un
  151. 150All fees and all rents and other sums due on account of property for the time being vested in or man
  152. 151(1) Every notice issued by a committee under this Act or under any rule made thereunder shall be in
  153. 152Section 152
  154. 153Section 153
  155. 155(1) Any inhabitant of a municipality or local area in respect of which a notification has been publi
  156. 156(1) When a local area is excluded from a municipality under section 155
  157. 157Effect of including local area in municipality
  158. 158Power to except municipality from provisions of
  159. 159Nothing in this Act shall affect the Local Authorities Loans Act, 1879. XI of 1879
  160. 160Powers of Governor General in Council and of Local Government
  161. 161Decision of questions as to whether persons are