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  LIST OF SETTLEMENTS IN THE AREA OF AUTHORITY OF THE KRACHI DISTRICT ASSEMBLY 1990 (LI 1501).

 

 

FIRST SCHEDULE

 

LIST OF SETTLEMENTS IN THE AREA OF AUTHORITY OF

THE KRACHI DISTRICT ASSEMBLY

 

 

Town/Area

Council           Description of Zone  Description of Electoral Area

           

KETE  1. Kantankofre                           1. Kantankofre

           

            Kantankofre, Kadentwen, Adankpa, Krachikrom, Roman Hill.    Unit 1 — Dantankofre

                Kanaankofre, Foreman Area

 

Unit 2 — Kadentwen

                Kadentwen, Bator

 

Unit 3 — Adamkpa

 

2. Krachikrom

 

Unit 4 — Krachikrom

                Krachikrom, Bontuku,

                PWD Quarters.

 

Unit 5 — Roman Hill

           

            2. Brekuku                      3. Brekuku

           

            Soldier Camp, Bunda, Nsuta (Kete) Onyameama, Brekuku, Sofoline, Old Nanasewe.           Unit 1 — Soldier Camp (Kete)

 

Unit 2 — Bunda

 

                4. Nsuta

 

Unit 3 — Nsuta

 

Unit 4 — Onyameama

                Onyameama, Figa

 

                5. Sofoline

 

Unit 5 — Brekuku

                Brekuku, Prison and

                Hospital Quarters.

 

Unit 6 — Sofoline

               Sofoline, Residential Area

               And Police Quarters.

 

Unit 7 — Old Nanaswes

 

           

            3. Denta                           6. Denta

           

            Gyanekrom, Gyengyen, Amewoyikofe (Kete) Nkyenekyene, Nkeyenekyene, Cement.           Unit 1 — Gyanekrom

                Gyanekrom, Borai, Tantu,

                Kotokoli Zongo.

 

Unit 2 — Gyengyen

                Gyengyen Nos. 1&2, Airport,

                Gyengyen-Konkoba.

 

                7. Amewoyikofe

 

Unit 3 — Amewoyikofe (Kete)

 

Unit 4 — Nkyenekyene

                Nkyenekyene Bator-

                Nkyenekyene

 

Unit 5 — Nkeyenekyene Cement

           

KRACHI         1. Osramani                   8. Osramani

           

            Chantai, Konkronja, Adjana, Kofiase         Unit 1 — Chantai

                Chantai, Dobiso

 

Unit 2 — Konkronja

                Konkronja, Wrotor

 

Unit 3 — Ofoanse

                Ofoanse, Dadiase

 

Unit 4 — Adjana

                Adjana, Motodua,

                Kenyiremoase.

 

Unit 5 — Kofiase

                Kofiase, Yaben, Dentemans,

                Battor line Krenkoase.

           

            2. Monkra                       9. Monkra

           

            Monkra, Kwaaku, Twereso,

Kpatchu, Sablakorfe.            Unit 1 — Monkra

                Monkra, Adomain

 

Unit 2 — Kwaaku

 

Unit 3 — Twereso

                 Twereso, Alexkorfe, Tunga

                 Bakepu.

 

                 10. Kpatchu/Abujuro

 

Unit 4 — Kpatchu

                Kpatchu, Kpatchu-Battor

 

Unit 5 — Gyaesayor

 

Unit 6 — Sablakorfe

                Kwame-Tawiah Akuraa,

                Sablakorfe (Lake side)

           

            3. Abujuro                      11. Abujuro

           

            Abujuro, Dabekro, Old

Worotor, Yaborae.    Unit 1 — Abujuro

                Abujuro, Breweniase

 

Unit 2 — Dadikro

 

Unit 3 — Old Wrotor

                Worotor-Battor, Old Worotor

 

Unit 4 — Yaborai

                Yaborai, Yaborai-Battor

           

            4. Ntwewusae                            12. Ntwewusae

           

            Adiembra, Odomankoma,

Kabre, Bleyikorfe,

Tatakorfe, Ankaase. Unit 1 — Adiambra

                Adiambra, Konton-Korae

 

Unit 2 — Odomankoma

                Odomankoma Mpusamu

 

Unit 3 — Kabre

                Kabre, Konkombas

 

               13. Bleyekorfe

 

Unit 4 — Bleyekorfe

                Bleyekorfe, Dodowa,

                Odomiabra, Sosookorfe.

 

Unit 5 — Tatakorfe

                Tatakorfe, Solomonkorfe,

                Bonimoden-Battor.

 

Unit 6 — Ankaase

                Ankaase, Serekyi Akura,

                Bebiani Akura.

           

            5. Ehiamankyene                      14. Ehiamankyene/Kpoto

           

            Nkatekwan, Mamata, Tarieso, Kpolo, Bommoden, Mamata-Battor.      Unit 1 — Nkatekwan

 

Unit 2 — Mamata

 

Unit 3 — Tarieso

 

Unit 4 — Kpolo

                Kpolo, Kanja Akuraa

 

Unit 5 — Bommoden

                Bommoden Agriculture Station

 

Unit 6 — Mamata-Battor

                Mamata-Battor, Tarieso-Battor

                       

            6. Djinakorfe                 15. Djinakorfe

           

            Kpogede, Azizakpe,

Kpofli, Djinakorfe,

Old Yaben, Otisopodzi         Unit 1 — Kpogede

                Kpogede Island

 

Unit 2 — Azizakpe

                Azizakpe Island

 

Unit 3 — Kponfri

                Kponfri Island

 

                16. Yaben

 

Unit 4 — Djinakorfe

                Djinakorfe Island

 

Unit 5 — Old Yaben

                Old Yaben, krenkuase

 

Unit 6 — Otisokpodzi

                Otisokpodzi Island

           

            7. Old Chantai                           17. Chantai

           

            Mantsekorfe, Okuma,

Yayokorfe, Old Chantai,

Old Dobeso, Mateheko.       Unit 1 — Mansekorfe

 

Unit 2 — Okuma

 

Unit 3 — Yayokorfe

 

               18. Dobeso

 

Unit 4 — Old Chantai

                Old Chantai, Old Konkronja

 

Unit 5 — Old Dobeso

 

Unit 6 — Mataheko

                Mataheko, Ahiaboye, Banka

                Gold-Smithkorfe.

           

MUHUMURU 1. Zongo Macheri                     19. Zongo Macheri/Ahenfie

           

            Zongo Macheri, Borai

Nkwanta, Borai Ahenfie,

Dindor.           Unit 1 — Zongo Macheri

                Manderaka.

 

Unit 2 — Zongo Macheri

                Zongo Area, Agriculture

                Station Area.

 

Unit 3 — Borai Nkwanta

                Borai Nkwanta, Kajo

 

Unit 4 — Boira Ahenfie

 

Unit 5 — Dindor

           

            2. Chinderi                     20. Bitimai

           

            Bitimai, Mange,

Chinderi, Mchumuru line,

Namourkrom, Nwadjofour.   Unit 1 — Bitimai

                Bitimai Najuri, Dakpadakpa

 

Unit 2 — Mange

                From Cemetery to Mange,

                Kakraka.

 

                21. Nohumuru

 

Unit 3 — Chinderi Town

                Police Station, Market

                Area, and Dagomba Line.

 

Unit 4 — Chinderi

                Kotokoli Line, Opanin Kwasi

                Kumah to Cemetery

 

Unit 5 — Mchumuru Line

 

               22. Namourkrom

 

Unit 1 — Namourkrom

 

Unit 2 — Kwadjofour

           

            3. Kradente                    23. Kradente

           

            Kradente, Abrewankor,

Korkose, Odomi,

Abrewankor (Lake Side).     Unit 1 — Kradente

                Mempeasem, Bichore Kradente

 

Unit 2 — Abrewankor

 

Unit 3 — Korkose

 

Unit 4 — Odomi

 

Unit 5 — Abrewankor (Lake Side).

           

            4. Grubi                         24. Grubi

           

            Grubi, Papatia, Dentemanso, Old Dentemanso, Akaniem.         Unit 1 — Grubi

                Grubi, Banda

 

Unit 2 — Papatia

                Papatia, Krukuba

 

Unit 3 — Dentemanso

                Dentemanso, Tenkrenku

 

                25. Dentemanso

 

Unit 1 — Old Dentemanso

                Old Dentemanso, Old

                Tenkrenku.

 

Unit 2 — Akaniem

           

            5. Bejamse                    26. Bejamse

           

            Bejamse Chamba, Bejamse-Lantai, Fante-Akura, Afuamenyi.  Unit 1 — Bejamese Chamba

                Bejamese Chamba, Asuoso

 

Unit 2 — Bejamse-Lantai

                Bejamse-Lantai, Godoline

 

Unit 3 — Fante-Akura

                Fante-Akura, Chakai, Ganyo

                Korfe, Todjikorfe.

 

Unit 4 — Afuamenyi

                Afuamenyi, Kasabrenji

           

            6. Wurenja                      27. Wurenja

           

            Wurenja, Dwadwae, Ndesarla, Ntoso, Kaleako    Unit 1 — Wurenja

 

Unit 2 — Dwadwae

 

Unit 3 — Ndesarla

                Ndesarla, Gyako, Yajabori

 

Unit 4 — Ntoso

                Ntoso, Ayo-Akura

 

Unit 5 — Kaleako

                Kaleako, Beposo

           

            7. Boafri                        28. Boafri/Lonkotor

           

            Boafri, Anyinamae,

Lonkotor, Macheri.

            Unit 1 — Boafri

 

Unit 2 — Anyinamae

 

Unit 3 — Lonkotor

 

Unit 4 — Macheri

                Macheri, Kwakyeai

           

            8. Bonweiso                  29. Bonweisoo/Banda-Buja

           

            Banda-Nawuri, Banda-Konkomba, BandaChamba Basare Line Banda, Gruma Line Banda, Banda-Buya,

Nandikrom, Bendadim.        Unit 1 — Banda-Nawuri

                Banda-Nawuri, Nawuris,

                Krachis, Gonjas, Ncheumurus,

                Akans and Ewes.

 

Unit 2 — Banda-Kokomba

                Konkomba Line, Banda

 

Unit 3 — Banda-Chamba

                Chamba, Kotokoli Lines

 

Unit 4 — Basare Line, Banda

                Basare and Kabre Lines

 

Unit 5 — Gruma Line Banda

                Hausa, Chokosi and

                Dagomba Lines.

 

               30. Banda Buya

 

Unit 6 — Banda Buya

 

Unit 7 — Nandikrom

                Nandikrom, Magyimagyi

                Beposo.

 

Unit 8 — Benadim.

           

            9. Borai No. 2                           31. Borai No. 2

           

            Borai No. 2, Borai No. 2

Zongo, Mala Akura, Anyigbe Akura, Bomoden/Carpenter, Mgbanyi, Kalewator, Lumbuiso.  Unit 1 — Borai No. 2

 

Unit 2 — Borai No. 2 Zongo

 

Unit 3 — Mala Akura

 

Unit 4 — Anyigbe Akura

 

               32. Mgbanyi/Gyato-Chapo

 

Unit 1 — Bommoden/Carpenter

 

Unit 2 — Mgbanyi

                Mgbanyi, Gyaako, Tibowire

 

Unit 3 — Kalewator

 

Unit 4 — Lumbuiso

           

            10. Gyato-Chayo                       33. Gyato-Chayo

           

            Ngawa, Gyato-Chayo,

Timpuja, Papaye, Banda

Junction, Motokao, Ike.         Unit 1— Ngawe

 

Unit 2 — Gyato-Chayo

 

Unit 3 — Timpuja

 

Unit 4 — Papaye

                Papaye, Nandi Akura

 

Unit 5 — Banda Junction

                Banda Junction Villages

 

Unit 6 — Motoka

 

Unit 7 — Ike

           

DAMBAI         1. Dambai                      34. Dambai

           

            Banka, Wanka Yaw,

Dambasi Junction,

Dambai Old Town,

Dambai Zongo, Dambai

Lakeside.       Unit 1 — Banka

 

Unit 2 — Wanka Yaw

                Wanka Yaw, Anyabor No. 1

 

Unit 3 — Dambai Junction

 

Unit 4 — Dambai Old Town

 

Unit 5 — Dambai Zongo

 

Unit 6 — Dambai Lakeside.

           

            2. Kwame-Akura                        35. Kwame-Akura

           

            Kwame-Akura, Yarego

No. 1&2, Pumpi, Anyabor-Akura No. 2      Unit 1 — Kwame-Akura

 

Unit 2 — Yarega No. 1&2

 

Unit 3 — Pumpi

 

Unit 4 — Anyabor-Akura No. 2

                Anyabor-Akura No. 2,

                Chamba-Akura, Yabram.

           

            3. Ankra-Akura                          36. Ankra-Akura

           

            Ankra-Akura, Monkurate,

Monkurate-Bator, Kabre-

Akura, Tsiafu-Akura. Unit 1 — Ankra-Akura

 

Unit 2 — Monkurate

 

Unit 3 — Monkurate-Bator

 

Unit 4 — Kabre-Akura

 

Unit 5 — Tsiafu-Akura.

           

            4. Mefekofe

                       

            Mefekofe Kudo-Kofe            Unit 1 — Mefekofe

 

Unit 2 — Kude-Kofe

           

            5. Wurubon

                       

            Wurubon, Alarm-Blow,

Njare.  Unit 1 — Wurubon

 

Unit 2 — Alarm-Blow

 

Unit 3 — Njare

           

NKABOM       1. Tokroano                  37. Tokroano

           

            Tokroano East, Takroano

West, Atafie-Battor, Ayirafie-Battor, Lotti, Fatherkofe.     Unit 1 — Tokroano East

 

Unit 2 — Takroano West

                Takroano West, Tabe-Akura

 

Unit 3 — Atafie-Battor

 

Unit 4 — Ayhafie-Battor

 

Unit 5 — Lotri

                Lotri, Police Station,

                Nkobeta, Zongo.

 

Unit 6 — Fatherkofe.

           

            2. Dormabin                  38. Dormabin

           

            Dormabin-East, Dormabin

West, Adukpantro, Kadzsekofe, Kpalema,

Budi-Akura.    Unit 1 — Dormabin East

 

Unit 2 — Dormabin West

 

Unit 3 — Adukpantro

                Adukpantro, Betenase,

                Akpasakofe, Bosomfuo,

                Napoa, Adakofe.

 

Unit 4 — Kadzasekofe

                Kadzasekofe, Chikata,

                Achigoli, Alogoso,

                Teflekorzi.

 

Unit 5 — Kpalema

                Kpalema, Nantwi-Akura,

                Wani, Nano, Ayibge Akura.

 

Unit 6 — Budi-Akura

                Budi-Akura, Sekeli-Akura,

                Ghana-korfe, and Kabli.

           

             3. Adumadum                           39. Adumadum/Kunda

           

            Adumadum, Adumadum-

Asukawkaw   Unit 1 — Adumadum,

               Adumadu, Akpafu-Akura,

               Anyinasin-Akura, Asuben-

               Akura, Yaro Akura.

 

Unit 2 — Bumbuso

                Bumbuso, Ekpamu

                       

            4. Kunda

                       

            Kunda, Bumbuso      Unit  1 — Kunda

                 Kunda, Katafua, Newante,

                 Katafua-Junction

 

Unit 2 — Bumbuso

                Bumbuson, Ekpamu

           

            5. Kparekpare                          40. Kparekpare

           

            Kparekpare, Kparekpare

-Battor, Ayentokro,

Awreme-Akura, Adiembra,

Kotokugyane No. 2   Unit 1 — Kparekpare

                Kparekpare, Jato-Akura,

                Obongo Akura, Okumah-

                Akura, Abujuro-Akura.

 

Unit 2 — Kparekpare-Battor

                Kparekpare-Battor, kpatsu

 

Unit 3 — Kyentokro

                Kyentokro, Sofia-Line, Kloka

 

Unit 4 — Awreme-Akura

 

Unit 5 — Adiembra

                Adiembra, Ablodeku-Akura,

                Kotokugyane No. 1, Chantai,

                Kalentin.

           

ASUKAWKAW/

KANTANGA  1. Okanise                     41. Okaniase        

            Okaniase, Dzogbekofe,

Akrokrowa.    Unit 1 — Okaniase

                Okaniase, Anum-Akura,

                Owarebo and Tumfuo-Akura,

                Gbansaba, Goldsmith-Akura,

                Avatime-Akura, Amankwa-

                Akura.

 

Unit 2 — Dzogbekofe

 

Unit 3 — Akrokroma.

           

            2. Asukawkaw                           42. Asukawkaw/Old Akroso

           

            Old-Asukawkaw,

Amanfrom.     Unit 1 — Old-Asukawkaw

               Old-Asukawkaw, Akroso,

               Asempaneye Area and

               Amoshie-Akura.

 

Unit 2 — Amanfrom

                Amanfrom, Chokose Area,

                Battor Area.

           

            3. Old Akroso (Island)

Alavanyo        Unit 1 — Alavanyo

                Alavanyo, Bomiso,

                Asempaneye Mempeasem.

           

            4. Kantanga                  43. Katanga

           

            Katanga-East, Katanga-West, Konkonba-Line, Kotobregya.     Unit 1 — Katanga-East

 

Unit 2 — Katanga-West

 

Unit 3 — Konkonba-Line

                Konkonba, Chokose including

                The Clinic.

 

Unit 4 — Kotobregya

           

            5. Napoa (Island)                       44. Napoa/Adonkwanta

           

            Napoa, Basarekrom Unit 1 — Napoa

                Napoa, Agbolekofe,

                Gbaritorkofe Dedekofe.

 

Unit 2 — Baserekrom

                Vakpokordzi, Kofi-Mango

           

            6. Adonkwanta

                       

            Adonkwanta-East, Adonkwanta West.       Unit 1 — Adonkwanta-East

 

Unit 2 — Adonkwanta-West

                Tomfo, Supom-Ahenkro and

                Sam-Akura.

           

            7. Zikpo-Nsuano (Island)                     45. Zikpo-Nsuano

           

            Zikpo-Nsuano            Unit 1 — Zikpo-Nsuano

                Zikpo-Nsuano, Beposo,

                Nsuano Agbelitime-Kofe,

                Aba-Nsuano, Doh-Nsuano

                Kesie-Kofe.

           

            8. Laklekofe (Island)

                       

            Lakle-Kofe     Unit 1 — Lakle-Kofe

                Lakle-Kofe, Agbokofe,

                Avikofe.

           

            9. Kplesu/Matemano

                       

            Kplesu, Matemano-Battor,

Matemano.     Unit 1 — Kplesu

                Kplesu, Kpando-Kofe, Blema-

                Akufa, Butamekofe, Bawa-

                Akura, Danyikofe.

 

Unit 2 — Matemano-Battor

 

Unit 3 — Matemano

                Matemano, Matemano-

                Junction.    

 

 

SECOND SCHEDULE

 

FUNCTIONS   OF   THE   ASSEMBLY

 

It shall be the duty of the Assembly—

1. To promote and safeguard public health and for this purpose the Ministry of Health shall assign Medical Officers of Health, health inspectors and other staff as appropriate except semi-skilled labourers to the District Assembly for the proper discharge of this duty.

2. To cause the District to be inspected regularly for the detection of nuisances or any conditions likely to be offensive or injurious to health.

3. If satisfied that any nuisance or any condition likely to be offensive or injurious to health exists, to cause all proper steps to be taken to secure the abatement of the nuisance or the removal of the condition.

4. To ensure the provision of adequate and wholesome supply of water throughout the entire District in consultation with the Ghana Water and Sewerage Corporation.

5. To establish, install, build, maintain and control public latrines, lavatories urinals and wash places.

6. To establish, maintain and carry out services for the removal of night-soil from any building and for the destruction and treatment of such night-soil.

7. To establish, maintain and carry out services for the removal and destruction of all refuse, filth and carcasses of dead animals from any public or private place.

8. To regulate any trade or business which may be noxious or injurious to public health or a source of danger to the public or which otherwise it is in the public interest to regulate.

9. To provide for the inspection of all meat, vegetables and all other foodstuffs and liquids of whatever kind or nature intended for human consumption whether exposed for sale or not; and to seize, destroy and otherwise deal with all such foodstuffs or liquids as are unfit for human consumption and to supervise and control the manufacture of foodstuffs and liquids of whatever kind or nature intended for human consumption.

10. To provide, maintain, supervise and control slaughter-houses and pounds and all such matters and things as may be necessary for the convenient use of such slaughter-houses.

11. To prevent and deal with the outbreak or the prevalence of any disease.

12. To prevent the spread of and exterminate tsetse-fly, mosquitoes, rats bugs and other vermin.

13. To prohibit or regulate the making of burrow-pits or other excavations.

14. To establish and maintain cemeteries.

15. To provide crematoria where in the opinion of the Assembly it is expedient so to do.

16. To regulate or prohibit the sinking of wells and provide for the closing of wells.

17. To establish, maintain and control pounds, seize and impound any stray animal and provide for the payment of compensation for damage done by such animal.

18.       To provide that the owner or occupier of any land or tenements maintain, clear and keep free from vegetation, the roads, streets, or paths adjoining his land or tenements .

19.       To provide for the control, destruction and licensing of dogs.

20.       To provide for the control, regulation, inspection, supervision and licensing of—

(i) social halls, dance halls and places of entertainment;

(ii) lodging and eating houses;

(iii) any premises or land in or upon which any profession, occupation, trade or business is carried on;

(iv) such occupations as the Secretary may specify in an Instrument from time to time.

21. To establish and operate clinics and dressing stations in consultation with the Ministry of Health

22. To consult, repair and maintain and keep clean all streets.

23. To divert or alter where necessary the course of any street.

24. To provide or arrange for electric lighting in streets and other public places and where necessary to provide and maintain electricity supply in consultation with the Electricity Corporation of Ghana.

25. To construct, repair and maintain all public roads other than trunk roads but including feeder roads and to undertake road rehabilitation programmes within the district.

26. To prescribe the conditions subject to which the erection and construction, demolition, re-erection, and re-construction, conversion and re-conversion, alteration, repair, sanitation and ventilation of public and private buildings and structures may be undertaken and carried out.

27. To provide for building lines and the layout of buildings, to prepare and undertake and otherwise control schemes for improved housing layout and settlement.

28. To provide the conditions to be satisfied on a site for any building or for any class of buildings.

29. To prohibit the construction of any new building unless and until the plans thereof have been submitted in connection therewith.

30. To provide for the demolition of dangerous building and for the recovery of any expenses incurred in connection therewith.

31. To maintain, as agent of Central Government, all public buildings, including prestige buildings put up by the Central Government and previously maintained by the Public Works Department.

32. To maintain as agents of the Ghana Highway Authority, trunk roads lying within the Assembly.

33. To take steps to ensure the effective maintenance of all Government properties within its area of authority.

34. To prohibit or regulate the use in any defined area of any inflammable material in the construction or repair of any building.

35. To control and regulate the sitting of advertisement and hoardings or other structures designed for the display of advertisement.

36.  To build, equip, open close and maintain markets, prohibit the erection of stalls in places other than markets and prevent the sale and purchase of goods or stock near established markets or elsewhere.

37. To fix days and hours during each day on which a market may be held and prevent the sale and purchase of goods in markets on any day or at any hour except those fixed.

38. To regulate and control markets including the fixing of and collection of stallages rents and tolls.

39. (1) To require the owner of any premises to do any of the following acts:

(i) to remove, lower or trim to the satisfaction of the Assembly any tree, shrub or hedge overhanging or interfering in any way with the traffic in any street or with any wires or works thereof;

(ii) to remove any dilapidated fense or structure abutting on any public place;

(iii) to paint, distemper, white-wash, or colour-wash the outside walls or roof of any building forming part of the premises;

(iv) to tidy the premises; or

(v)  to remove any derelict car or other vehicles.

(2) In the even of the owner failing to comply with a notice from the Assembly requiring him to perform any of the acts specified in sub-paragraph (i-v) of paragraph(l) the Assembly shall be at liberty to undertake the work and charge the owner with the cost thereof.

40. To build, equip and maintain all public primary, middle and special schools as are in the opinion of the Secretary for Education, after consultation with the Secretary responsible for Local Government, required in its area.

41. To advise the Secretary for Education on all matters relating to primary and middle schools and such other matters as may be referred to it by the Secretary for Education.

42. To be responsible for—

(i) postings and transfers within its area of authority, of teachers including pupil teachers;

(ii) keeping records of teachers;

(iii) discipline of teachers in accordance with the disciplinary code laid down by the Ghana Education Service

(iv) appointment of school welfare officers;

(v) recommending teachers for study leave;

(vi) appointment of headteachers in accordance with rules laid down by the Ghana Education Service;

(vii) supervision of primary and middle schools;

(viii) formation of education committees;

(ix) collecting of statistical data and other information;

(x) in-service training for pupils teachers;

(xi) nursery school education;

(xii) approval for the opening of private primary and middle schools;

(xiii) payment of teachers' salaries from funds made available by Government;

(xiv) indenting for the supply and distribution of textbooks;

(xv) disbursement of Education Grants.

43.  To provide for the control and regulation of—

(i) concerts, musical or theatrical performance, cinemas, fairs circuses and other entertainment to which admission is to be obtained on payment of moneys or of any reward, except where the whole proceeds are being devoted to charity;

(ii) horse-racing meetings.

44. To grant and maintain scholarships or bursars to suitable persons to attend any school or other educational institution in Ghana or elsewhere.

45. To provide for the establishment and maintenance of facilities for arts and crafts, for recreation and sports.

46. To establish, maintain, control and contribute to bands for musical performances in public places and at functions arranged by the Assembly, and generally to provide musical entertainment in such places and at such functions.

47. To arrange for the provision of public libraries in consultation with the Ghana Library Board.

48. With the prior approval of the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board, to control the disposal of any African antique work of art.

49. To organise community development programmes to improve and enrich rural life through running literacy and adult education classes, organising voluntary contributions and communal labour for the provision of such facilities and services as water supplies, roads, school buildings, community centres and public places of convenience; and teaching village women the management of home and care of children.

50. To take such measures as would promote the well-being of underprivileged children and the stability of the distressed family.

51. To organise and maintain child-care centres and ensure the proper running and management of such centres.

52. To establish, run and manage children's homes and offer parental care for the deprived, namely, orphans and those that are neglected or abandoned.

53. To render relief services during natural disasters, e.g. floods, fire, earthquakes, accidents, in the form of supply of material.

54. To be responsible for the improvement of agriculture including extension services and allotments for agricultural purposes.

55. To control methods of husbandry.

56. To allocate land in the ownership of the Assembly for farming purposes and to regulate the system of farming of such land.

57. To provide services for the improvement of livestock.

58. To prevent and control animal diseases.

59. To prohibit, restrict or regulate the hunting, capture, killing or sale of animals or birds or any specified kind of animal or bird.

60. To provide for measures for soil and water conservation.

61. To provide for the fencing of land and for the maintenance and repair of such fences.

62. To take every step to encourage persons to plant specified crops for the maintenance of themselves and their families.

63. To plant trees in any street and to erect tree-guards to protect the same; provided that the streets shall not be unduly obstructed thereby.

64. To regulate or prohibit the planting, cutting, tapping, or destruction of any tree or vegetation growing along any street, road or path or in any public place.

65. To establish and manage, on commercial basis, rural and smallscale industries and farms.

66. To promote tourism in the District in co-operation with the Regional Development Corporation and the Tourist Development Board.

67. Subject to the control and direction of the Registrar of Births and Deaths to register all births occurring within the District.

68. To appoint in consultation with the Registrar of Births and Deaths such registration staff as may be necessary for the proper discharge of births and deaths registration duties.

69. To make such financial contributions as the Assembly deems necessary for the maintenance of any traditional authority which possesses any functions which relate to any part of its area.

70. To establish and maintain tree nurseries and forest plantation and sell the produce thereof.

71. To compile and maintain a record of all tenant farmers and the tents and tribute which should be paid by them.

72. To prohibit or restrict the driving or use of vehicles generally or any specified class on any specified road or specified direction on any specified road.

73. To regulate the use and conduct of public vehicles, to regulate routes and parking place to be used by such vehicles to appropriate particular routes, roads, streets, and parking places to specified classes of traffic and when necessary to provide the identification of licensed vehicles as defined in the Motor Traffic Ordinance.

74. To license any vehicle used for taxi, motor bicycle and to prescribe the fees to be paid in respect of any such bicycle or vehicle.

75. To establish, acquire and maintain transport services by land or water, including ferries.

76. To establish, maintain and control parks for motor and other vehicles.

77. To establish, and maintain in consultation with the Post and Telecommunications corporation, Postal Agencies where necessary.

78. To lay down rules and regulations in respect of private and public property to ensure adequate fire protection.

79. To prevent and control fire outbreaks including bush fires.

80. To promote the development of all sports within the area of authority of the Assembly.

81. To organise sports activities within its area of authority and to provide such facilities as may be recommended by the national body responsible for sports.

82. To perform as agents, of the national body responsible for sports in maintaining such sports facilities as may be assigned to it by the national body.

83. To advise to the exclusion of all others on all matters of sports relating to its area of authority.

84. To prohibit, restrict regulate and license the manufacture, distillation, sale, transportation, distribution supply, possession and consumption of akpeteshie, palm-wine, and all kinds of description of fermented liquor usually made by citizens of Ghana or adjacent countries.

85. To license petrol service and filling stations within the township.

86. To provide information centres, where necessary in consultation with the Ministry of Information.

 

KWAMENA AHOWI

P.N.D.C. SECRETARY FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT

 

Date of Gazette Notification: 14th September, 1990.

 

 

 

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