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The Sikkim Municipalities Act, 2007 Complete Act

State: Sikkim

Year: 2007

THE SIKKIM MUNICIPALITIES ACT, 2007 THE SIKKIM MUNICIPALITIES ACT, 2007 (Act No. 5 of 2007) AN ACT To provide for the municipal governance in the State of Sikkim in conformity with the provisions of the Constitution of India as amended by the Constitution (Seventy-fourth Amendment) Act, 1992, based on the principles of participation in, and decentralization, autonomy, and accountability of, urban self-government at various levels, to improve the quality of life of the urban dwellers of Sikkim, to introduce reforms in financial management and accounting systems, to enhance internal resource generation capacity, to improve the organizational design of Municipalities, to ensure professionalization of the municipal personnel, and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. Be it enacted by the Legislature of Sikkim in the Fifty-eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows:- PART I PRELIMINARY Chapter I Short title, extend and commencement. 1 (1) This Act may be called the Sikkim Municipalities Act, 2007. (2) It extends to the whole of Sikkim except the cantonments. (3) It shall come into force on such date as the State.....