# The Cantonments Act, 2006, Section 62: Duties of Board

- Act: The Cantonments Act, 2006 (Act 41 of 2006)
- In force from: 2006-12-18
- Ministry: Ministry of Defence
- Source URL: https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/cantonments-act-2006/section/62/

## Text

It shall be the duty of every Board, so far as the funds at its disposal permit, to make reasonable provision within the cantonment for-- (i) lighting streets and other public places; (ii) watering streets and other public places; (iii) cleansing streets, public places and drains, abating nuisances and removing noxious vegetation; (iv) regulating offensive, dangerous or obnoxious trades, callings and practices; (v) removing, on the ground of public safety, health or convenience, undesirable obstructions and projections in streets and other public places; (vi) securing or removing dangerous buildings and places; (vii) acquiring, maintaining, changing and regulating places for the disposal of the dead; (viii) constructing, altering and maintaining streets, culverts, bridges, causeways, markets, slaughter-houses, latrines, privies, urinals, drains, drainage works and sewerage works and regulating their use; (ix) planting and maintaining trees on roadsides and other public places; (x) providing or arranging for a sufficient supply of potable water, where such supply does not exist, guarding from pollution water used for human consumption, and preventing polluted water from being so used; (xi) registering births and deaths; (xii) preventing and checking spread of dangerous diseases; establishing and maintaining a system of public vaccination and inoculation for the said objective; (xiii) establishing and maintaining or supporting public hospitals, maternity and child welfare centres and dispensaries, and providing public medical relief; (xiv) establishing and maintaining or assisting primary schools; (xv) rendering assistance in extinguishing fires, and protecting light and property when fire occurs; (xvi) maintaining and developing the value of property vested in, or entrusted to, the management of the Board; (xvii) establishing and maintaining civil defence services; (xviii) preparing and implementing town planning schemes; (xix) preparing and implementing plans for economic development and social justice; (xx) naming and numbering of streets and premises; (xxi) according or refusing permission to erect or re-erect building; (xxii) organising, promoting or supporting cultural and sports activities; (xxiii) celebrating Independence Day and Republic Day and incurring expenditure thereon; (xxiv) fulfilling any other obligation imposed upon it by or under this Act or any other law for the time being in force.

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