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New Delhi Municipal Council Act 1994 Chapter V

Title: Procedure

State: Central

Year: 1994

.....be recorded the names of the members presents at, and the proceedings of each meeting of the Council, and every other committee constituted under subsection (1) of section 9 shall be drawn up and recorded in a book to be kept for that purpose, and shall be laid before the next ensuing meeting of the Council, or of such committee, as the case may be, and signed at such meeting by the presiding officer thereof. Section 30 - Circulation of minutes and inspection of minutes and reports of proceedings (1) Minutes of the proceedings of each meeting of the Council shall be circulated to all the members and shall at reasonable times be available at the municipal office for inspection by any other person or payment of a fee of two rupees. (2) Full reports, if any, of such proceedings shall similarly be available for inspection, by any member without charge and by any other person on payment of a fee of two rupees. Section 31 - Forwarding minutes and reports of proceedings to the Administrator (1) The Secretary shall forward to the Administrator a copy of the minutes of the proceedings of each meeting of the Council, within ten days from the date on which the minutes of the.....

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New Delhi Municipal Council Act 1994 Section 28

Title: Right to Attend Meetings of Council and Its Committees, Etc., and Right of Members and to Ask Questions in Relation to the Municipal Government of New Delhi

State: Central

Year: 1994

.....specified herein shall by virtue of this sub-section be entitled to vote in any such meeting. (2) A member may, subject to the provisions of sub-section (3), ask the Chairperson questions on any matter relating to the Municipal Government of New Delhi or the administration of this Act in any meeting of the Council. (3) The right to ask a question shall be governed by the following conditions, namely:-- (a) not less than seven clear days' notice in writing specifying the question shall be given to the Secretary; (b) no question shall-- (i) bring in any name or statement not strictly necessary to make the question intelligible, (ii) contain argument, ironical expressions, imputations, epithets or defamatory statements, (iii) ask for an expression of opinion or the solution of a hypothetical proposition, (iv) ask as to the character or conduct of any person except in his official or public capacity, (v) relate to a matter which is not primarily the concern of the Council, (vi) make or imply a charge of a personal character, (vii) raise questions of policy too large to be dealt with within the limits of an answer to a question, (viii) repeat in substance.....

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Karnataka Municipalities Act, 1964 Chapter III

Title: Transaction of Business by the Municipal Council

State: Karnataka

Year: 1964

.....meeting that a resolution has been carried or lost, and an entry to that effect in the minutes of the proceedings shall, for the purposes of this Act, be conclusive evidence of the fact without proof of the number or proportion of the votes recorded in favour of or against such resolution. (4) If voting as aforesaid is demanded, the votes of all the memberspresent who desire to vote shall be taken under the direction of the presiding officer at the meeting and the result of the voting shall be deemed to be the resolution of the municipal council at such meeting. Section 53 - Business to be transacted at meetings and order of business how to be settled (1) Save as provided in the proviso to sub-section (2) of section 59, no business shall be transacted and no proposition shall be discussed at any general meeting unless it has been mentioned in the notice convening such meeting, or in the case of a special general meeting in the written request for such meeting. (2) The order in which any business or proposition shall be broughtforward at such meeting, shall be determined by the presiding authority, who in case it is proposed by any member to give priority to any.....

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Karnataka Municipalities Act, 1964 Section 62

Title: Interpellation

State: Karnataka

Year: 1964

.....on matter which is under adjudication by a court of law. (3) The presiding authority shall disallow any question which is, in hisopinion, in contravention of the provisions of sub-section (2). (4) If any doubt arises whether any question is or is not in contraventionof the provisions of sub-section (2), the presiding authority shall decide the point and his decision shall be final. (5) The Municipal Commissioner or the Chief Officer shall not be boundto answer a question if it asks for information which has been communicated to him in confidence or if in the opinion of the presiding authority it cannot be answered without prejudice to public interest or the interest of the municipal council. (6) Unless otherwise directed by the presiding authority or the presidingofficer of the meeting, every question shall be answered by the Municipal Commissioner or the Chief Officer at a meeting of the municipal council. (7) Written answer to admitted questions shall as far as possible be givento the councillors one hour before the meeting. (8) Questions not answered at any meeting for want of time or otherwiseshall lapse.

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Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957 Complete Act

State: Delhi

Year: 1957

.....performance, amusement, game or sport to which persons are ordinarily admitted on payment; (17) "factory" means a factory as defined in the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948); (18) "filth" includes offensive matter and sewage; (19) 99. Omitted and Inserted by Act No.67 of 1993(w.e.f. 1-10-1993). [* * *] (20) 88. Cl (20), Omitted by Act No. 71 of 1971 and Sch. II (w.e.f. 3-11-1971). [* * *] (21) "goods" includes animals; 1010. C1. 21-A, inserted by Act, 67 of 1993. (w.e.f. 1-10-93). (21-A) "Government" means the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi;] (22) "house-gully" or "service passage" means a passage or strip of land constructed, set apart or utilized for the purpose of serving as or carrying a drain or affording access to a latrine, urinal, cesspool or other receptacle for filth or other polluted matter, by municipal employees or other persons employed in the cleansing thereof or in the removal of such matter therefrom; (23) "hut" means any building which is constructed principally of wood, bamboo, mud, leaves, grass, cloth or thatch and includes any structure of whatever material made which the Corporation may declare to be a hut for.....

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The New Delhi Municipal Council Act, 1994 Complete Act

State: Delhi

Year: 1994

.....performance, amusement, game or sport to which persons are ordinarily admitted on payment; (14) "factory" means a factory as defined in the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948 ); (15) "filth" includes offensive matter and sewage; (16) "goods" includes animals; (17) "Government" means the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi; (18) "house- gully" means a passage or strip of land constructed, set apart or utilised for the purpose of serving as or carrying a drain or affording access to a latrine, urinal, cesspool or other receptacle for filth or other polluted matter, by municipal employee or other person employed in the cleansing thereof or in the removal of such matter therefrom; (19) "hut" means any building which is constructed principally of wood, bamboo, mud, leaves, grass, cloth or thatch and includes any structure of whatever material made which the Council may declare to be a hut for the purposes of this Act; (20) "inhabitant", in relation to the municipal area of New Delhi includes any person ordinarily residing or carrying on business or owning or occupying immovable property therein and in case of a dispute, means any person or persons.....

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The Haryana Municipal Corporation Act, 1994 Complete Act

State: Haryana

Year: 1994

THE HARYANA MUNICIPAL CORPORATION ACT, 1994 THE HARYANA MUNICIPAL CORPORATION ACT, 1994 (Haryana Act No. 16 of 1994) Table of Contents CHAPTER-1 PRELIMINARY Sections 1. Short title, extent and commencement. 2. Definitions. 3. Declaration of Municipal area as Corporation. CHAPTER "II CONSTITUTION OF CORPORATION 4. Incorporation and Constitution of Corporation. 5. Duration of Corporation. 6. Delimitation of Wards. 7. Qualification for members. 8. Disqualification of members. 9. Election to the Corporation. 10. Constitution and Composition of Wards Committees etc. 11. Reservation of seats. 12. Right to Votes. 13. Filling of Casual Vacancies. 14. Publication of results of elections. 15. Election petitions. 16. Relief that may be claimed by petitioner 17. Grounds for declaring election to be void. 18. Procedure to be followed by prescribed authority. 19. decision of prescribed authority. 20. Procedure in case of equality of votes. 21. Finality of decision. Sections: 22. Corrupt practices. 23. Maintenance of secrecy of voting. 24. Officers etc. at elections not to act for candidates or to influence voting. 25......

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The Jharkhand Municipal Act, 2011 Complete Act

State: Jharkhand

Year: 2011

.....or the Nagar Panchayat, the Executive Officer of the Municipal Council or the Nagar Panchayat; (47) "Factory" means a factory as defined in the Factories Act, 1948; (48) "Filth" means (a) night soil or other contents of latrines, cesspools and drains; (b) dirt, dung, refuse, useless or offensive materials thrown out in consequence of any process of manufacture, industry or trade; and (c) putrid or putrifying substance, (49) "Finance Commission" means the State Finance Commission constituted under Article 243-I of the Constitution of India and referred to in section 97 of this Act; (50) "Food" includes every article used for food or drink by man, other than drugs or water, and any article which ordinarily enters into, or is used in the composition or preparation of, human food, and also includes confectionery, flavouring and colouring matters, spices and condiments; (51) "Footpath" means a pavement, for use by pedestrians; (52) "Goods" include animals; (53) "Government" means the State Government of Jharkhand; (54) "Holding" means land held under one title or agreement and surrounded by one set of boundaries: Provided that, where two or more adjoining holdings held by the same.....

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Kolkata Municipal Corporation Act, 1980 Complete Act

State: West Bengal

Year: 1980

..... (7) "building of the warehouse class" means a building, the whole or a substantial part of which is used, or intended to be used, as a warehouse, factory, manufactory, brewery, or distillery, or for any similar purpose, which is neither a "domestic building" nor a "public building" as defined in this section, and includes a hut used or intended to be used for any of the purposes mentioned in this clause; (8) "bustee" means an area containing land not less than seven hundred square metres in area occupied by or for the purposes of any collection of huts or other structures used or intended to be used for human habitation. Explanation.-If any question arises as to whether any particular area is or is not a bustee, the Corporation shall decide the question and its decision shall be final; (9) "Kolkata" means the area described in Schedule I; 3 Clause (10) omitted by s. 2 of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Act, 1996 (West Ben. Act VI of 1996) (with retrospective effect from 4.12.1995), which was earlier as under: '(10) "candidate" in section 75 and in Schedule III means a person who has been nominated as a candidate at any election of a Councillor or who claims.....

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