List of Legal Powers continued...

Highways
Powers and duties
Power to repair and maintain public footpaths and bridleways.
Power to light roads and public places.
Provision of litter bins.
Power to provide parking places for vehicles, bicycles and motor-cycles.
Power to enter into an agreement as to dedication and widening.
Power to provide roadside seats and shelters, and omnibus shelters.
Consent of parish council required for ending maintenance of highway at public expense, or for stopping up or diversion of highway.
Power to complain to district council as to protection of rights of way and roadside wastes.
Power to provide traffic signs and other notices.
Power to plant trees etc. and to maintain roadside verges.

Statutory provisions
Highways Act 1980, ss.43.50, Parish Councils Act 1058, s.3; Highways Act 1980, s.301,Litter Act 1983, ss.5.6, Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, ss.57, 63, Highways Act 1980, ss.30, 72, Parish Councils Act 1957, s.1, Highways Act 1980, ss.47, 116, Highways Act 1980, s.130, Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, s.72, Highways Act 1980, s.96.

Investments
Powers and duties
Power to participate in schemes of collective investment.

Statutory provisions
Trustee Investments Act 1961, s.11.

Land
Powers and duties
Power to acquire by agreement, to appropriate, to dispose of.
Power to accept gifts of land.

Statutory provisions
Local Government Act 1972, ss.124, 126, 127, Local Government Act 1972, s.139.

Litter
Powers and duties
Provision of receptacles.

Statutory provisions
Litter Act 1983, ss.5, 6.

Lotteries
Powers and duties
Powers to promote.

Statutory provisions
Lotteries and Amusements Act 1976, s.7.

Mortuaries and post-mortem rooms
Powers and duties
Power to provide mortuaries and post mortem rooms.

Statutory provisions
Public Health Act 1936, s.198.

Nuisances
Powers and duties
Power to deal with offensive ditches.
Statutory provisions.
Public Health Act 1936, s.260.

Open spaces
Powers and duties
Power to acquire land and maintain.
Statutory provisions.
Public Health Act 1875, s.164; Open Spaces Act 1906, ss.9 and 10.

Parish property and documents
Powers and duties
Powers to direct as to their custody.

Statutory provisions
Local Government Act 1972, s.226.

Postal and telecommunications
Powers and duties
Power to pay the Post Office, British Telecommunications or any other public telecommunications operator any loss sustained in providing post or telegraph office or telecommunications facilities.

Statutory provisions
Post Office Act 1953, s.51: Telecommunications Act 1984, s.97.

Public buildings and village halls
Powers and duties
Power to provide buildings for offices and for public meetings and assemblies.

Statutory provisions
Local Government Act 1972, s.133.

Public conveniences
Powers and duties
Power to provide.

Statutory provisions
Public Health Act 1936, s.87.

Recreation
Powers and duties
Power to acquire land for or to provide recreation grounds, public walks, pleasure grounds and open spaces and to manage them.
Power to provide gymnasiums, playing fields, holiday camps.
Provision of boating pools.

Statutory provisions
Public Health Act 1875, s.164; Local government Act 1972, Sched. 14, para 27: Public Health Acts Amendment Act 1890, s.44: Open Spaces Act 1906, ss.9 and 10; Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976, s.19, Public Health Act 1961, s.54.

Town and country planning
Powers and duties
Right to be notified of planning applications.

Statutory provisions
Town and Country Planning Act 1990, Sched 1, para 8.

Tourism
Powers and duties
Power to contribute to organisations encouraging.

Statutory provisions
Local Government Act 1972, s.144.