Gujarat Provincial Municipal Corporations Act, 1949
[1(1)] It shall be incumbent on the Corporation to make reasonable and adequate provision, by any means or measures which it is lawfully competent to it to use or to take, for each of the following matters, namely :— (1) erection of substantial boundary marks of such description and in such position as shall be approved by the 2[State] Government defining the limits of the City or any alteration in the limits of the City; (2) the watering, scavenging and cleansing of all public streets and places in the city and the removal of all sweeping thereof; (3) the collection, removal, treatment and disposal of sewage, offensive matter and rubbish and, if so required by the 2[State] Government, the preparation of compost manure from such sewage, offensive matter and rubbish 3[and solid waste management]; (4) the construction, maintenance and cleansing of drains and drainage works, and of public latrines, water-closets, urinals and similar conveniences; (5) the entertainment of a fire-brigade equipped with suitable appliances for the extinction of fires and the protection of life and property against fire; (6) the construction or acquisition and maintenance of public hospitals and dispensaries including hospitals for the isolation and treatment of persons suffering or suspected to be infected with a contagious or infectious disease and carrying out other measures necessary for public medical relief; (7) the lighting of public streets, municipal markets and public buildings vested in the Corporation; (8) the maintenance of a municipal office and of all public monuments and open spaces and other property vesting in the Corporation; (9) the naming or numbering of streets and of public places vesting in the Corporation and the numbering of premises; (10) the regulation and abatement of offensive and dangerous trades or practices; (11) the maintenance, change and regulation of places for the disposal of the dead and the provision of new places for the said purpose and disposing of unclaimed dead bodies; (12) the construction or acquisition and maintenance of public markets and slaughter houses 4[and tanneries] and the regulation of all markets and slaughter houses 5[and tanneries]; (13) the construction or acquisition and maintenance of cattle-pounds 3[and prevention of cruelty to animal]; (14) public vaccination in accordance with the provisions of the Bombay District Vaccination Act, 1892;