Gujarat Provincial Municipal Corporations Act, 1949
The Corporation may, in its discretion, provide from time to time, either wholly or partly, for all or any of the following matters, namely :— (1) the organisation, maintenance or management of institutions within or without the City for the care of persons who are infirm, sick or incurable, or for the care and training of blind, deaf, mute or otherwise disabled persons or of handicapped children; (2) the organisation, maintenance or management of maternity and infant welfare houses or centres; (3) the provision of milk to expectant or nursing mothers of infants or school children; (4) the organisation, maintenance or management of chemical or bacterio logical laboratories for the examination or analysis of water, food or drugs, for the detection of diseases or for researches connected with public health; (5) swimming pools, public wash houses, bathing places and other institutions designed for the improvement of public health; (6) dairies or farms within or without the City for the supply, distribution and processing of milk or milk products for the benefit of the residents of the City; (7) the construction and maintenance in public streets or places of drinking fountains for human beings and water-troughs for animals; '[ (8) urban Forestery, protection of the environment and promotion of ecological aspects; (8A) promotion of cultural, educational and esthetical aspects; (8B) urban planning including town planning and regulation of land use;] (9) the provision of music for the people; (10) the provision of public parks, gardens, play-grounds and recreation grounds; (11) the holding of exhibitions, athletics or games; (12) the regulation of lodging houses, camping grounds and rest houses in the City; (13) the maintenance of an ambulance service; (14) the construction, establishment and maintenance of theatres, rest-houses and other public buildings; (15) the organization or maintenance, in times of scarcity, of shops or stalls for the sale of necessaries of life; (16) the building or purchase and maintenance of dwellings for municipal officers and servants; (17) the grant of loans for building purposes to municipal servants [[**] on such terms and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by the Corporation; (18) any other measures for the welfare of municipal servants or any class of them; (19) the purchase of any undertaking for the supply of electric energy or gas or the starting or subsidising of any such undertaking which may be in the general interests of the public; (20) the construction, purchase, organization, maintenance or manegement of light railways, tramways, trackless trams, or motor transport facilities for the conveyance of the public or goods within or without the City; (21) the furtherance of educational objects other than those mentioned in clause (15) of section 63 and making grants to educational institutions within or without the City; (22) the establishment and maintenance or the aiding of libraries, museums and art galleries, botanical or zoological collections and the purchase of construction of buildings therefor; (23) the construction or maintenance of infirmaries or hospitals for animals; (24) the destruction of birds or animals causing a nuisance, or of vermin, and the confinement or destruction of stray or ownerless dogs; (25) contributions towards any public fund raised for the relief of human suffering within the City or for the public welfare; (26) the preparation or presentation of addresses to persons of distinction; (27) the registration of marriages; (28) the granting of rewards for information which may tend to secure the correct registration of vital statistics; (29) paying the salaries and allowances, rent and other charges incidental to the maintenance of the Court of any stipendiary magistrate or any portion of such charges; (30) the acquisition and maintenance of grazing grounds and the establishment and maintenance of a breeding stud; (31) establishing and maintaining a farm or factory for the disposal of sewage; (32) supplying, constructing and maintaining, in accordance with the general system approved by the Corporation, receptacles, fittings, pipes and other appliances whatsoever on or for the use of premises for receiving and conducting the sewage thereof into drains under the control of the Corporation; (33) granting rewards for information regarding the infringement of any provisions of this Act, or of the rules, by-laws, regulations or standing orders;