Act N° 21 of 1990 - Municipal Corporations Act - Trinidad and Tobago
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Municipal Corporations Act Chapter 25:04.
The following functions are exercisable by a Corporation in the Municipality in addition to those already vested in it under this Act: (d) subject to any other written law, the maintenance and control of childcare centres established by the Corporation; (e) the construction and mainte...
(2) The President may, by Order, subject to affirmative resolution of Parliament, apply the provisions of this Act to any town, district or place for the purpose of incorporating the electors thereof. ...
(1) An Order made under section 5(2) may apply the provisions of this Act generally to the town, district or place mentioned therein or it may provide that the Act shall apply subject to such exceptions or modifications as are specified in the Order. (2) An Order made under section 5...
1) With effect from 1st October, 1991— (a) all land and other property (b) all the rights, privileges and advantages and all the liabilities and obligations that, immediately before that date, a former County Council was entitled or subject to, are transferred and conferred or imposed ...
(1) The Council may collect from every person occupying or using any stall, stand, table, shed or place in a public market, or bringing into any such market any marketable commodities or any other article or thing which the Council permits to be sold therein, or using any weighing instr...
(1) Every Council shall, on or before the day prescribed by the Minister with responsibility for Finance, prepare and submit to the Minister for his approval and for the approval of the Minister with responsibility for Finance true estimates of— (a) capital expenditure and the financin...
(2) The Corporation may collect on behalf of the Government such fees, rates and taxes as the President may by Order prescribe, and may retain for its own use such portion of those fees, rates and taxes as the Minister to whom responsibility for Finance is assigned may determine by Orde...
(1) All matters of a financial nature relating to the affairs of a Corporation and all vouchers for the payment of any moneys to be disbursed by the Corporation except petty disbursements not exceeding a sum to be fixed by resolution of the Council shall be submitted for approval to the...
The Council may, by resolution, alter or amend any of the forms or tables of articles or fees set out in any of the Schedules to this Act; but no such resolution shall come into force until it has been approved by the President, and published in the Gazette. ...
(1) A Council may by resolution, with the approval of the Minister, establish a fund to be known as the “Mayor’s Fund” for the purposes specified in the resolution establishing the fund. (2) The revenue of the Mayor’s Fund shall be derived from— (a) such donations and other contrib...
(1) A Corporation may apply to the Minister for approval to borrow such sums of money as it considers necessary for the execution of any permanent works or of any works which it is authorised to execute under this Act or any other written law or for the repayment of any loan or part the...
(3) Where works carried out by a Corporation are being wholly or partly financed by loans, they shall be executed according to such plans and estimates and be subject to such provisions for the obtaining of the necessary funds as the Minister may approve. (4) The Minister may alter ...
(2) The Corporation may collect on behalf of the Government such fees, rates and taxes as the President may by Order prescribe, and may retain for its own use such portion of those fees, rates and taxes as the Minister to whom responsibility for Finance is assigned may determine by Orde...
1) The corporations fund should be applied towards the payment of – (a) the salaries and other remuneration of the Chief Officers and other officers and employees of the Corporation; (b) the pensions and gratuities under any written law applicable to the Corporation; (c) the expenses ...