Section 4

(deleted by S 44/2015);

the laying out and maintenance of reserves for recreation and other purposes; the enclosure and care of unoccupied premises; the planting and preservation of trees and shrubs; the laying out, cleaning, watering, lighting and control of streets, canals and bridges; the removal of undue projections; the numbering of houses and the naming of streets subject to the approval of the Minister;

the control and supervision of —

sewers, drains, sewage treatment works, sanitary fitments, latrines and dustbins;

the construction and maintenance of works for the treatment and/or conveyance of sewage; the laying of sewers and drains across public or private property; the maintenance and modification of sewers vested in the Municipal Board; the maintenance of lawful use of sewers; the keeping of up to date maps showing the legal status, sizes and levels of all sewers;

the establishment and regulation of markets and slaughter-houses and the fixing of the fees to be charged for the use of the same, including, if the Municipal Board shall think necessary, the grant to particular persons of the exclusive right to use any slaughter-houses, or of the exclusive right to provide or slaughter any particular description of beast for human food, and the prohibition of the sale within a certain radius from a market of articles of any kind sold in such market;

the regulation by registration, licensing or otherwise of bakeries, dairies, laundries and street stalls; the seizure and disposal of unwholesome fish, flesh or other provisions;

the regulation, inspection and licensing of common lodging houses, eating houses, theatres, inns and other places of public resort, with the view of enforcing the observance of ordinary sanitary regulations in respect of lighting, ventilation, whitewashing, drainage and overcrowding therein;

the establishment and regulation of public bathing places, including power to charge fees for the use of or to lease the same;

the removal and disposal of refuse and night soil, including, if the Municipal Board shall think necessary, the publication of rules making it compulsory on all persons who may require night soil buckets to buy such buckets from the Municipal Board at such price as the Municipal Board may fix;

the prevention and abatement of nuisances and the regulation of dangerous, unhealthy or offensive trades or occupations;

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the prevention and removal of obstructions in the streets and in verandahs or footways;

(deleted by S 44/2015);

the examination of the bodies of dead persons and the certification of the cause of death in cases where the cause of death has not been certified by a duly qualified medical practitioner;

the prevention and abatement of malaria, including treatment of persons, removal of persons, and action in respect of buildings, land and other property;

(deleted by S 31/2016);

the regulation and control of traffic in the streets, whether of vehicles, animals, pedesterians or otherwise;

all other matters, whether similar or not to those abovementioned, connected with the conservancy and the improvement of the area subject to its control.