City of Yangon Development Law (The State Law and Order Restoration Council Law No. 11/90).

This Law, consisting of VIII Chapters, establishes composition, duties and responsibilities of the Committee for managing effectively the lands of the City of Yangon, 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 or implement within the City territory: (a) preparation of civil projects and establishment of new towns within the limits of the City of Yangon Municipality; (b) administration of lands within the limits of the City of Yangon Municipality; (c) determining only the population which should be allowed to settle properly in the City of Yangon; (d) construction, repairing and demolition of buildings; (e) demolition and re-settlement of squatter huts, squatter buildings and squatter wards; (f) construction of roads, bridges and maintenance thereof; (g) stipulation of conditions for traffic and parking of vehicles and slow-moving vehicles; (h) construction of gardens, parks, playgrounds and recreation centres and maintenance thereof; (i) carrying out works for lighting of roads; (j) carrying out works for water supply; (k) construction of reservoirs and pipelines and maintenance thereof; (1) carrying out works for sanitation; (in) carrying out works for public health; (n) construction, maintenance and administration of markets; (o) stipulation of conditions in respect of roadside stalls; (p) carrying out precautionary measures against fire.
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); Maintenance of Fund and Auditing of Accounts (Chap. VII); Miscellaneous (Chap. VIII).