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FUNCTIONS AND FINANCES OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT

2. Cont…
The functions of the local governments as spelt out in the constitution are as follows.
1-Exclusive functions of local government include the following.
(a) The consideration and the making of recommendations to a state commission on economic planning or any other similar body .

3. Cont…
b) Collection of taxes, radio and television licenses. c) Establishment and maintenance of cemeteries. d) Licensing of bicycles, trucks , canoes, and carts.

4. Cont…
e) Establishment, maintenance and regulation of slaughterhouses, markets, and public convenience; f) maintenance of roads, streets, street lighting, and other public highways, parks, gardens, or such public facilities as may be prescribed from time to time by the House of Assembly of a state.

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g) Naming of roads and streets and numbering of houses. h) maintenance of public conveniences, sewage and refuse disposal. i) Registration of all births, deaths and marriages. j) Assessment of privately owned houses .

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k) Control and regulation of i) Outdoor advertising and hoarding, ii) Movement and keeping of pets . iii) Shops . iv) Restaurants, bakeries and other places for sale of food to the public, v) Laundries, vi) Licensing, regulation and control of the sale of liquor.

7. Concurrent functions of local governments:
In addition to the above, the law also states the roles of a local government in a participatory function thus:
2. Participation in the government of a state in respects of the following matters:

8. Cont…
a) The provision and maintenance of primary, adult and vocational education; b) The development of agriculture and natural resources, other than the exploitation of minerals; c) The provision and maintenance of health services; and d) Such other functions as may be conferred on a local government council by the House of Assembly of the state.

9. Cont…
Concurrent functions may be performed by the state government and local government while those in paragraph 1 above are exclusive
and main functions of the local government councils and allow no interference by the state or federal governments.

10. Finances of the Local Governments
A) the local government have direct share of the federally collected revenue.
It is the duty of the federal government to fix the amount and terms of apportioning it among all the local governments in the various states.

11. Cont…
b) The constitution imposes a duty on each state government to make grants, which is to be a proportion to its total revenue, to local
government councils within its area of jurisdiction as may be prescribed by the federal legislation.

12. Cont…
c) The third source of revenue of local government is derived from their functions as specified under the constitution.
They collect rates on radios, televisions etc., and also impose fees for the use of public cemeteries, markets etc.

13. Cont…
this third source of revenue is independent of either the federal or state statutory allocations.

14. CONCLUSION
Local government councils throughout the country have functions, which they perform exclusively and those they perform concurrently
with the state government.
To discharge their functions effectively, they derive their funds from the state government, federal government and through the internally generated fund made possible by the functions
they perform.