Section 16. Power of Metropolitan Authority to require local authority to assume responsibilities in certain cases.

Where any amenities are provided by the Metropolitan Authority, the Authority may assume responsibility for the maintenance of the amenities which have been provided by it or may require the local authority, within whose local limits the area so developed is situated, to assume such responsibility for the maintenance of the amenities, and for the provision of such other amenities which have not been provided by the Metropolitan Authority, but which in its opinion should be provided in the area, on such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon between the Metropolitan Authority and that local authority; and where such terms and conditions cannot be agreed upon, on such terms and conditions as may be specified by the State Government, in consultation with both the local authority and the Metropolitan Authority.