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Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act, 1976 Section 10

Title: Mayor and Deputy Mayor

State: Karnataka

Year: 1976

.....and at its first meeting in the same month in each year thereafter, elect,- (a) one of its concillors 2 [referred to in clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 7] to be the Mayor, and (b) one other councillor 2 [referred to in clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 7] to be the Deputy Mayor. 2 [(1A) There shall be reserved by the Government in the prescribed manner,- (a) such number of officers of Mayor and Deputy Mayor in the State, for the persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and the number of such offices shall bear as nearly as may be, the same proportion to the total number of offices in the State as the population of Scheduled Castes in the State or of the Scheduled Tribes in the State bears to the total population of the State; (b) such number of offices of Mayor and Deputy Mayor in the State which shall as nearly as may be, one third of the total number of offices of the Mayor and Deputy Mayor in the State for the persons belonging to the Backward Classes; 3 [Provided that out of the offices reserved under this clause eighty percent of the total number of such offices shall be reserved for the persons falling under.....

Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act, 1976 Section 432

Title: Penalties for Voting as Councillor, Acting as Mayor, Deputy Mayor when Not Entitled and for Failure to Hand over Documents

State: Karnataka

Year: 1976

(1) If a councillor votes in contravention of section 80 or if any person actsas a councillor knowing that under this Act or the rules made thereunder he is not entitled or has ceased to be entitled to hold such office, he shall, on conviction, be punished with fine not exceeding two hundred rupees for every such offence. (2) If any person acts as or exercise the functions of the Mayor or deputy Mayor knowing that under this Act or the rules made thereunder he is not entitled or has ceased to be entitled to hold such office or to exercise such functions he shall, on conviction be punished with fine not exceeding one thousand rupees for every such offence. (3) If the Mayor or Deputy Mayor fails to hand over any documents of, or any money or other properties vested in or belonging to the corporation, which are in or have come into, his possession or control, to his successor in office or other prescribed authority, in every case as soon as his term of office as Mayor or Deputy Mayor expires and in the case of the Deputy Mayor also on demand by the Mayor, such Mayor or Deputy Mayor shall, on conviction, be punished with fine not exceeding one thousand rupees for every such.....

Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act, 1976 Section 61

Title: Functions of the Deputy Mayor

State: Karnataka

Year: 1976

(1) When the office of the Mayor is vacant, his functions shall devolve on the Deputy Mayor until a new mayor is elected. (2) If the Mayor is continuously absent from the city for more than eight days, or is incapacitated for more than eight days his functions shall devolve on the Deputy Mayor until the mayor returns to the city or recovers from his incapacity, as the case may be. (3) The Deputy Mayor shall have the power to direct the Commissioner to get the Administration and Audit Reports prepared in time. (4) The Deputy Mayor shall discharge such functions of the Mayor as may be delegated to him by the Mayor.

Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act, 1976 Section 60

Title: Powers and Functions of the Mayor

State: Karnataka

Year: 1976

(1) The Mayor shall preside over every meeting of the corporation. (2) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Mayor shall have general powers of inspection and may give direction to the Commissioner with regard to the implementation of any resolution of the corporation or a standing committee in the discharge of any obligatory and discretionary functions of the corporation, and the commissioner shall comply with such directions. The Mayor may call any record of the corporation from the Commissioner and the records made available to him shall be returned by him within fifteen days from the date they are made available. (3) The Mayor may, by an order in writing delegate any of his functions to the Deputy Mayor. (4) The Mayor shall not be eligible to be elected as chairman of any standing committee. (5) If the Mayor is, at the time of his election as Mayor, the chairman or an elected member of a standing committee, he shall cease to hold office as such chairman or member of such committee. (6) If any vacancy occurs in the office of the chairman of any standing committee, the Mayor shall convene a meeting of such committee for the election of another chairman.

Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act, 1976 Section 20

Title: Power to Make Rules Regarding Election of Mayor, Deputy Mayor and Members and Chairman of Standing Committees

State: Karnataka

Year: 1976

(1) The election of the Mayor or the Deputy Mayor and members and chairman of standing committees and the determination of disputes relating to such election and the filling up of vacancies in the said offices shall be in accordance with such rules as may be prescribed. (2) Any dispute relating to the validity of the election of Mayor or Deputy Mayor or member or chairman of a standing committee shall be decided by the District Court having jurisdiction. An appeal shall lie to the High Court from an order of the District Court within a period of thirty days from the date of such order excluding the time required for obtaining a copy of the order: Provided that the High Court may entertain an appeal after the expiry of the said period of thirty days if it is satisfied that the appellant had sufficient cause for not preferring the appeal within such period.

Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act, 1976 Section 487

Title: Sanction for Prosecution of Mayor, Deputy Mayor, Etc.

State: Karnataka

Year: 1976

When the Mayor or Deputy Mayor, or any councillor or the Commissioner or any officer of Government working in the corporation on deputation is accused of any offence alleged to have been committed by him while acting or purporting to act in the discharging of his official duty, no magistrate shall take congnizance of such offence except with the previous sanction of the Government.

Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act, 1976 Section 494

Title: Prohibition Against Obstruction of Proceedings of Corporation, Standing Committee, Mayor, Etc

State: Karnataka

Year: 1976

No person shall obstruct any proceedings of the corporation or any standing committee, the Mayor or Deputy Mayor, and Councillor, the Commissioner or any person employed by the corporation or any person with whom the Commissioner has entered into a contract on behalf of the corporation in the performance of their duty or of anything which they are empowered or required to do by virtue of or in consequence of this Act or of any rule, bye-law, regulation or order made under it.

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.....

Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957 Complete Act

State: Delhi

Year: 1957

..... (16) "entertainment"" includes any exhibition, 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.....

Asansol Municipal Corporation Act, 1990 Complete Act

State: West Bengal

Year: 1990

.....milk shop or other place (a) from which milk is supplied on or for sale, or (b) in which milk is kept for purposes of sale or used for manufacture or preparation for sale of (i) butter, or (ii) ghee, or (iii) cheese, or (iv) curds, or (v) dried, sterilized, condensed or toned milk, but does not include (a) a shop or other place in which milk is sold for consumption on the premises only, or (b) a shop or other place from which milk is sold or supplied in hermetically closed and unopened receptacles in the same original condition in which it was first received in such shop or other place; (11) "dairyman" includes any occupier of a dairy, any cow-keeper who trades in milk, or any wholesale or retail seller of milk; (12) "dangerous disease" means (a) cholera, plague, chicken-pox, tuberculosis, leprosy, enteric fever, cerebrospinal meningitis and diphtheria; and (b) any other epidemic, endemic or infectious disease which the Chief Executive Officer may, by notification, declare to be a dangerous disease for the purposes of this Act; (13) "Depot" means a place where articles are stored, whether for sale or for any other purpose but not for domestic consumption or use, in.....