Section 70:
Application of municipal property and fund.
(1) All property vested in a Nagar Panchayat or
in a Council under this Act, all funds received by it in accordance with the provisions of this Act and all sums accruing to under the provisions of any law for the time being in force shall, subject to the
provisions of this Act, be applied for the purposes of this Act, within the limits of the municipality.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), it shall be lawful for a Nagar Panchayat or
a Council, as the case may be, subject to rules made under this Act:--
(a) to incur expenditure beyond the municipal limits on the acquisition of land, or on the
construction, maintenance or repair of works, for the purpose of obtaining supply of water required
for inhabitants of the municipality or on establishing slaughter houses or places for the disposal of
night-soil or sewage or carcasses of animals or for drainage works, or for the purpose of providing
mechanically propelled transport facilities for the conveyance of the public or for the purpose of
setting up dairies or farms for the supply, distribution and procuring of milk-products for the benefit
of the inhabitants of the municipality or for any other purpose calculated to promote the health, safety
or convenience of the inhabitants of the municipality; or
(b) to take a contribution towards expenditure incurred by any other local authority or out of any
public fund for measures affecting the health, safety or convenience of public calculated to benefit the
residents within the limits of the contributing municipality; or
(c) to create scholarship tenable outside the limits of municipality; or
(d) to utilise the municipal fire brigade and other mechanical appliance beyond the municipal
limits; or
(e) to make with the previous sanction of the State Government any other kind of contribution as
may be deemed necessary by the Nagar Panchayat or the Council:
Provided that nothing in this section or in any other provision of this Act shall be deemed to make it
unlawful for a Nagar Panchayat or a Council, when it has constructed works beyond the limits of the
municipality for the supply of water or electrical energy or for drainage as aforesaid--
(a) to supply or extend to or for the benefit of any person or building or lands in any place
whether such place is not within the limits of the said municipality, any quantity of water or electrical
energy not required for the purpose of this Act within the said municipality or the advantages
afforded by the system of drainage works, on such terms and conditions with regard to payment and
to the continuance or such supply advantages as shall be settled by agreement between the Nagar
Panchayat or the Council, as the case may be, and such persons or the occupier or owner of such
buildings or land; or
(b) to incur any expenditure on such terms with regard to payment as may be settled as aforesaid
for the construction, maintenance, repair or charge of any connection pipe or any electric supply lines
or other works necessary for the purposes of such supply or for the extension of such supply or for the
extension of such advantages.