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BALUCHISTAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT ORDINANCE, 1980 BALUCHISTAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT ORDINANCE, 1980 CHAPTER XII‑LOCAL FUND AND PROPERTY 65. Property of Local Councils.‑(1) Subject to any reservation made, or any conditions imposed by the Government, all property specified hereunder shall vest in the Local Council that is to say‑ (a) all property which vested in any Local Council, Local body or Authority of which a Local Council is the successor ; (b) all property acquired by a Local Council by gift, purchase or otherwise ; (c) all public buildings including town halls, town walls and gates, which have been constructed or are maintained out of the Local Fund ; (d) all loans, open space, playgrounds, gardens, parks and other places of public resort transferred to a Local Council by the Government or acquired by a Local Council by gift, purchase or otherwise for a public purpose ; (e) all public streets, bridges and other means of public communication and parking meters as are maintained out of the Local Fund ; (f) all drains, sewer, culverts and other channels or sullage as are maintained out of the Local Fund ; (g) all refuse collected by a Local Council, or deposited at places fixed by a Local Council and any sullage flowing in any drain, sewer or channel ; (h) all works for the disposal of refuse and night soil, including septic tanks, night soil depots, trenching grounds and incinerators, maintained out of the local fund ; (i) all waterworks, water mains and pipes, stand posts, hydrants, water troughs and hand pumps maintained out of the Local Fund ; (j) all public lamps, lamp posts and other appliances for street lighting maintained out of the Local Fund ; (k) all trees, plants and flowers on roadside and other places maintained out of the Local Fund ; (l) all other property which may vest in a Local Council under any law or order passed by the Government. (2) A Local Council may‑‑ (a) manage, maintain, inspect, develop or improve any property which is owned by or vests in it or which is placed under its charge ; (b) apply such property for the purposes of the Ordinance ; and (c) acquire or transfer by grants, gift, sale, mortgages, lease, exchange or otherwise any property in the prescribed manner. (3) The Government may by rules‑‑ (a) provide for the management, maintenance. improvement and develop?ment of the property belonging to or vesting in Local Council ; (b) regulate the alienation of such property; (c) provide for the compulsory acquisition of such immovable property as may be acquired by a Local Council for the purposes of this Ordinance.