Section 48 of the Himachal Pradesh Municipal Act,1994 empowers the State Government to issue Notification to determine various functions of the Municipalities. In the repealed Municipal Act, 1968 the following normal functions were performed by the Municipalities:-
MUNICIPAL COMMITTEE'S FUNCTIONS UNDER SECTION 51(2) OF THE HIMACHAL PRADESH MUNICIPAL ACT, 1968.
(a) construction, maintenance, improvement, cleaning and repair of all public streets, bridges, town-halls, town gates, embankments, drains, privies, latrines, urinals, tanks and water courses and setting up of solid waste management projects, productions and production and marketing of compost;
(b) watering and lighting of such streets or any of them;
(c) construction, establishment and maintenance of schools, hospitals and dispensaries, and other institutions for the promotion of education for the benefit of the public health, and for Rest Houses, Sarais, poor- houses, markets, stalls encamping grounds, ponds and other works of public utility, and the control and administration of public institutions of any of these descriptions;
(d) grants-in Aid to schools, hospitals, dispensaries, poor-houses, lepers asylum's and other educational or charitable institutions;
(e) training of teachers and the establishment of scholarships;
(f) giving of relief and the establishment and maintenance of relief works in time of famine or scarcity;
(g) supply, storage and preservation from pollution of water for the use of human beings and animals;