Local Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act No. 32 of 2000)Chapter 8 : Municipal ServicesPart 4 : Internal municipal service districts86. Policy framework for internal municipal service district |
| (1) | A municipality must develop and adopt a policy framework for the establishment, regulation and management of an internal municipal service district. |
| (2) | Such a policy framework must reflect at least the following: |
| (a) | The development needs and priorities of designated parts of the municipality that must be balanced against that of the municipality as a whole; |
| (b) | the extent to which the establishment of one or more internal municipal service districts— |
| (i) | will promote the local economic development of the municipality as a whole; |
| (ii) | will contribute to enhancing the social, economic and spatial integration of the municipality; and |
| (iii) | may not entrench or contribute to further disparities in service provision. |