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

Section 106. A committee may, from time to time, at a special meeting, make rules

Repealed or not in force · As amended up to 2026-08

106. A committee may, from time to time, at a special meeting, make rules— (a) for rendering licenses necessary for the proprietors or drivers of vehicles, boats or animals plying for hire within the limits of the municipality, and fixing the fees payable for such licenses and the conditions on which they are to be granted and may be revoked; (b) for limiting the rates which may be demanded for the hire of any carriage, cart, boat or other conveyance, or of animals hired to carry loads, or for the services of persons hired to carry loads, and the loads to be carried by such conveyances, animals or persons, where they are hired within the municipality for a period not exceeding twenty-four hours, or for a service which would ordinarily be performed within twenty-four hours; (c) for securing a proper registration of births, marriages and deaths, and for the taking of a census; (d) for fixing, and from time to time varying, the number of persons who may occupy a building or part of a building which is let in lodgings or occupied by members of more than one family; for the registration and inspection of such buildings; for P 226 Burma Municipalities. [ACT XVII (Chapter VI.—Powers for Sanitary and other Purposes.—Sections 107 & 108.) for promoting cleanliness and ventilation in such buildings; for the notices to be given and the precautions to be taken in the case of any infectious disease breaking out in such buildings; and generally for the proper regulation of such buildings; (e) for the inspection and proper regulation of encamping grounds, pounds, zayáts, wharves not within the limits of any port, markets and slaughter-houses; (f) for the holding of fairs and industrial exhibitions within the municipality and under its control; (g) for controlling and regulating the use and management of burial and burning grounds; (h) for the supervision and regulation of public wells, tanks, springs or other sources from which water is or may be made available for public use; and (i) for carrying out the purposes of this Act: Provided that the committee of a municipality in which the Hackney-Carriage Act, 1879, is in force xiv shall not make rules under clauses (a) and (b) in respect of any vehicles to which that Act applies. Penalty for infringement of rules.

Source: India Code