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

Section 65. Subject to any special reservation made by the Local Government, all property in a municipality of t

Repealed or not in force · As amended up to 2026-08

65. Subject to any special reservation made by the Local Government, all property in a municipality of the nature hereinafter specified shall be vested in and belong to the municipal committee, and shall, with all other property which may become vested in the committee, be under its direction, management and control, and shall be held and applied by it for the purposes of this Act, that is to say:— (a) all public town-halls, gates, markets, slaughterhouses, manure and night-soil depôts and public buildings of every description which have been constructed or are maintained out of municipal funds; (b) all public streams, tanks, reservoirs, cisterns, wells, springs, aqueducts, conduits, tunnels, pipes, and other waterworks, and all bridges, buildings, engines, works, materials and things connected therewith or appertaining thereto, and also any adjacent land (not being private property) appertaining to any public tank or well; (c) all public sewers and drains, and all sewers, drains, tunnels, culverts, gutters and water-courses in, alongside or under any street, and Inventoryed at the bottom of page. Property vested in municipality. 210 Burma Municipalities. [ACT XVII (Chapter V.—Funds and Property.—Sections 66 & 67.) and all works, materials and things appertaining thereto; (d) all dust, dirt, dung, ashes, refuse, animal-matter or filth, or rubbish of any kind, collected by the committee from the streets, houses, privies, sewers, cesspools or elsewhere; (e) all public lamps, lamp-posts and apparatus connected therewith or appertaining thereto; (f) all land or other property transferred to the committee by the Government or by gift or otherwise for local public purposes; and (g) all streets, and the pavements, stones and other materials thereof, and also all trees, erections, materials, implements and things, provided for such streets. Management of public institutions.

Source: India Code