CBC Duties
- Lighting streets and other public places.
- Watering streets and other public places.
- Cleaning street, public places and drains abating
nuisances and removing noxious vegetation.
- Regulating offensive, dangerous or obnoxious trades
calling and practices.
- Removing on ground of public safety, health and
convenience, undesirable obstructions and projections in street and other
public places.
- Securing or removing dangerous building and places.
- Acquiring, maintaining, changing and regulating
places for the disposal of the dead.
- Constructing, altering and maintaining streets,
culverts, markets, slaughter houses, latrines, privies, urinals, drainage
works and sewerage work.
- Planting and maintaining trees on roadsides and other
public places.
- Providing or arranging for a sufficient supply of
pure and wholesome water, where such supply does not exist, guarding from
polluted water used for human consumption and preventing polluted water from
being so used.
- Registering births and deaths.
- Rendering assistance in extinguishing fires and
protecting life and properties when fire occurs.
- Maintaining and developing the value of property
vested in or entrusted to the management of the board ; and
- Fulfilling any other obligations imposed upon it by or under this act or any other law for the time being enforce.
Discretionary Functions of the
Cantonment Board
- Laying out in areas, whether previously built upon or
not, new street and acquiring land for the purpose and for the construction of
buildings and compounds of buildings, to a butt on such streets.
- Constructing, establishing or maintaining public
parks, garden, offices, drinking fountains, tanks, wells and other works of
public utility.
- Taking a census and granting rewards for information
which may tend to secure the correct registration of vital statistics.
- Making a survey.
- Giving relief on the occurrence of local epidemics by
the establishment and maintenance of relief works or otherwise.
- Securing or assisting to secure suitable places for the carrying on of
any offensive, dangerous or obnoxious trade, calling or occupation.
- Adopting any measures likely to promote the safety,
health or convenience of the inhabitants of the cantonment.
