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Municipality

Municipality, means the Nagar Panchayat or the Municipal Council, as the case may be, constituted under the provisions of this Act. [Manipur Municipalities Act, 1994 (43 of 1994), s. 2(34)]--means the New Delhi Municipal Committee, the Cantonment Board or any other municipal body, other than the Corporation, established by or under any law for the time being in force in or any part of Delhi. [Delhi Police Act, 1978 (34 of 1978), s. 2(i)]--the word 'Municipality' has been defined in Webster's New Dictionary as, 'a town, city or borough which has local self-government'. A Corporation or a Municipal Council or Nagar Panchayat is constituted on strength of population and the area of place where it is constituted namely rural or urban. But all the three are deemed to be municipality. A Municipal Corporation with a larger area is as much a municipality as a council with smaller area, Cantonment Board v. G. Venkataram Reddy, AIR 1995 SC 1210. [Constitution of India , Art. 243]Municipality, sh...

Municipal corporation

Municipal corporation. A body of persons in a town having the powers of acting as one person, of holding and transmitting property, and of regulating the government of the town. Such corporations existed in the chief towns of England (as of other countries) from very early times, deriving their authority from 'incorporating' charters granted by the Crown.The Municipal Corporations Act,1835 (5 & 6 Wm. 4, c. 76), passed after local inquiries by Royal Commissioners, completely reorganized the constitution of these corporations, and abrogated all charters so far, but so far only, as inconsistent with it. This Act applied to 178 corporations named in the schedules thereto, and to 68 other corporations subsequently receiving a charter, a town to which it applied being styled a 'borough.'The (English) Act of 1835 was amended by a series of statutes passed from time to time, and consolidated by the (English) Municipal Corporations Act,1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 50), which, in turn (except for Lond...

Imported into municipal limits

Imported into municipal limits, The expression 'imported into municipal limits' in s. 113, has to be interpreted as meaning 'imported into the munici-pal limits for purposes of consumption, use or sale' only, Indian Oil Corporation v. Municipal Corporation, Jullunder, AIR 1993 SC 844 (848). [Punjab Municipal Corporation Act, (42 of 1976), s. 113...

municipal

municipal 1 : of or relating to the internal affairs of a major political unit (as a nation) [was sentenced by a court of , not international, jurisdiction] compare domestic 2 a : of, relating to, or characteristic of a municipality [the counsel] b : having local self-government [a district] 3 : restricted to one locality n : a security issued by a state or local government or by an authority set up by such a government usually used in pl. see also municipal bond at bond ...

municipality

municipality pl: -ties : a primarily urban municipal corporation ;also : the governing body of a municipality ...

Corporations, Municipal

Corporations, Municipal. The many statutes affect-ing these bodies are consolidated by the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882. See also (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), which repeals many of the previous Acts, except as to London, and codifies the enactments relating to England and Wales. See MUNICIPAL CORPORA-TIONS....

Election to Municipal Offices

Election to Municipal Offices. See (English) Ballot Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 33), s. 20 (repealed except as to Scotland and Ireland); (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 50); also (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51); and MUNICIPAL CORPORATION....

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