City of Mandalay Development Law (The State Peace and Development Council Law No. 8/2002).

This Law, consisting of IX Chapters, establishes composition, duties and responsibilities of the Committee for managing effectively the lands of the City of Mandalay, in accordance with the existing legislation. This Committee is entitled to: construct, maintain, demolish buildings as well as carry out environmental conservation works. If necessary, Vice-Chairman may be determined. The Head of Office is the Joint Secretary of the Committee. The Committee shall be directly responsible to the Prime Minister. The Committee shall, in respect of the following functions and duties lay down policy, give guidance, supervise and implement within the City territory: drawing up civil project and establishing new towns; administering the lands in accordance with the existing laws; constructing, maintaining and demolishing buildings; demolishing and resettlement of. squatter houses, squatter buildings and squatter wards; constructing roads and bridges and maintaining thereof; stipulating conditions and in respect of traffic and parking of vehicles and slow-moving vehicles; determining road regulations and road use and naming of the road and determining the number of the building; carrying out environmental conservation works; building gardens, parks, playgrounds and recreation centres and maintaining thereof; carrying out works for lighting of roads; carrying out works for water supply; carrying out works for sanitation; carrying out works for public health; constructing, maintaining and administering of markets; prescribing conditions in respect of food businesses, restaurants and roadside stalls; granting permission to open guest houses to accommodate local travellers only and inspecting hotels, motels, inns and guest houses in respect of development matters; granting permission and administering ferry services, braking businesses and private pawn shops businesses; building slaughter houses and granting permission to slaughter cattle for consumptions. holding and managing cattle fair; granting permission for keeping and breeding animals and catching and impounding the stray animals; carrying out tasks to look after the stray insane persons, lepers and baggers; carrying out precautionary measures against fire, flood, storm and natural disaster; determining and demolishing graveyards, cremating building and administering crematories; etc.
This Law is divided as follows: Title and Definition (Chap. I); Formation (Chap. II ); Functions and Duties of the Committee (Chap. III); Powers of the Committee (Chap. IV); Finance (Chap. V); Organizational Set-up (Chap. VI); Maintaining the Fund and Auditing of Accounts (Chap. VII); Offences and Penalties (Chap. VIII); Miscellaneous (Chap. IX).