Act N° 24 of 1969 - Municipal and District Councils Act - Guyana

A council shall have power, subject to the provisions of the Town and Country Planning Act, the Roads Act and the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act to construct, maintain, repair, protect and carry out works for the betterment of council roads in its council area and to regulate and control traffic thereon. 

For the purposes of the construction, maintenance, repair, protection and carrying out of works for the betterment of council roads, any person authorised by a council to act under this section may enter upon any adjoining land within the council area with such persons, vehicles and things as he thinks fit and may do thereon any or all of the following— 

(a) inspect the soil and drainage; 

(b) dig, cut, take and remove from any uncultivated lands adjacent to the road any road materials; 

(c) control or divert the drainage and construct and maintain dams, drains and trenches; 

(d) cause any koker to be opened at any material time to allow through passage of any craft carrying materials required for road purposes; 

(e)deposit and store any materials required for road purposes; 

(f) erect on any portion of uncultivated land and maintain thereon structures for the accommodation of persons employed upon the works and for the storage of vehicles, tools and equipment and occupy such structures and the land necessary for their use and for ingress and egress.

 

The City Council and the Town Council shall each have power to do all or any of the following things: (3) Subject to the provisions of the Poor Relief Act to establish, maintain and control either by themselves or jointly with any other authority, houses for necessitous persons; 

(4) to establish, erect, equip, maintain and carry on hostels for accommodating and caring for young and aged persons;4) to establish, erect, equip, maintain and carry on hostels for accommodating and caring for young and aged persons; 

(5) to establish, equip, maintain and control either by itself or jointly with any other authority or association, social and community development centres for the inhabitants of the City or the Town and to make grants of money towards the establishment, equipment and maintenance of such centres in the City or the Town and to any organisation or association established for the advancement of religion, education and social welfare; 

(6) to establish, erect, maintain and carry on or assist institutions, day nurseries or clinics for the care and welfare of infants, and to make provision for suitable instruction being imparted to expectant mothers and to the mothers of infants; 

(7) (a) to establish, maintain and control recreation and sports grounds (including swimming pools), theatres and promenade gardens, in parks, open spaces and on any other land vested in the council; 

(18) subject to the Town and Country Planning Act, to lay out and adorn any public place by architectural scheme or ornamentation including the erection of statues, fountains and other structures; 

(19) to plant, trim, preserve or remove trees, flowers and shrubs in any public place; 

(21) to safeguard, demolish and remove dangerous buildings and to remove obstructions from public roads and council roads; 

(22) to regulate the number, dimensions and general character and style of buildings to be erected in different portions of the City or the Town, and any other matter connected with the erection of buildings;

(24) to control public places;  

(33) subject to the provisions of any law relating to electricity and electric lighting, to light streets and other public places and maintain lamps for that purpose; The City Council and the Town Council shall each have power to do all or any of the following things.

The City Council and the Town Council shall each have power to do all or any of the following things: (32) subject to the provisions of the Public Health Ordinance, the Town and Country Planning Act and of the Housing Act— 

(a) to lay out building plots or otherwise subdivide any land vested in the council for the purpose of housing schemes for the inhabitants of the City or the Town; 

(b)to erect and maintain dwelling-houses with their appurtenant outbuildings on such plots or sub-divisions of land; 

(c) to convert buildings into dwelling-houses and to alter, enlarge, repair and improve the same; 

(d) to let any dwelling-house erected or provided by it and to charge reasonable rents or fees for the tenancy or occupation thereof; 

(e) to sell any dwelling-house erected or provided by it to a person undertaking to reside therein and to recover the purchase price thereof by instalments; 

(f) to sell, let or otherwise dispose of any plot or sub-division of land to any person for the purpose and under the condition that that person will erect and maintain thereon a dwelling- house for his own occupation; 

(g) to sell, let or otherwise dispose of land to any person for the purpose and under the condition that that person will erect and maintain thereon such number of houses as may be determined by the Central Housing and Planning Authority in accordance with plans approved by that authority.

A town council or a district council shall have power to do such of the things set forth in section 302 as it may be authorised by the constitution order of its town or district to do; and references in section 302 to the City Council and the Town Council shall be construed as references to the town council or district council, as the case may be, references to the City and the Town as references to the town or district, as the case may be, and references to the Town Clerk as references to the chief executive officer.