Schedules
The First Schedule
The First Schedule
[***]
The Second Schedule
The Second Schedule
( See Section 306)
Business And Procedure At First Meetings
Business And Procedure At First Meetings
(1) The first meetings of a Municipal Board after a general election shall be held on such date as the Deputy Commissioner or Sub-divisional Officer, as the case may be, may fix.
(a)whenever he considers necessary, he may vary the original or any subsequent date so fixed; and
(b) the date fixed for the meeting shall be notified in the Gazette as least 15 clear days before the meeting.
(2) The Deputy Commissioner or Sub-divisional Officer, as the case may be, shall cause copies of the notification fixing the date of the first meeting as required by rule (1) to be sent to the members at least seven days before the meeting is held.
(3) The Magistrate may appoint a member of the Board to preside at the meeting and may whenever he considers necessary vary the original or any subsequent order of appointment, provided always that the person appointed is not a candidate for the office of the Chairman.
(4) The President shall first make the oath (or affirmation) prescribed by Section 25 himself and then administer the oath (or affirmation) to the other members present whether there is a quorum or not.
(5) (i) The meeting shall thereupon proceed to elect, or request the Chief Commissioner to appoint a Chairman:
(ii) If the quorum required by Section 46 (v) is not present or if the first meeting for any reason proves infructuous, the meeting shall stand adjourned to some future date to be appointed by the Magistrate, who shall cause at least three days' notice of the adjourned meeting to be given to the members; the members present at the adjourned meeting shall form a quorum whatever their number may be and shall be competent to proceed to elect a Chairman.
(6) At any time before noon of the day preceding the date fixed for the meeting under rule (1) any member may nominate any other member, not being and officer of Government appointed under sub-section (2) of Section 11 of the Act, for election as Chairman, by delivering to the Magistrate any other Officer appointed by the Magistrate in this behalf a nomination paper signed by himself as proposer and by the third member as second and stating-
(a) the name of the member nominated, and
(b) that the proposer has ascertained that such person is willing to serve as Chairman if elected.
(7) If and when the meeting proceeds to select a Chairman the President shall read out to the Board the name of the members who have been duly nominated together with those of their proposers and seconders and if only one member has been so nominated, shall declare that member to be elected; if more than one member has been so nominated, the meeting shall proceed to elect a Chairman by ballot.
(8) Where more two candidates have been nominated and at the first ballot no candidate obtains more votes than the aggregate vote obtained by the other candidate the candidate who has obtained the smallest number of votes shall be excluded from the election and balloting shall proceed, the candidate obtaining the smallest number of votes at each ballot being excluded from the election until one candidate obtains more votes than the remaining candidate or than the aggregate votes of the remaining candidates as the case may be.
(9) Where at any ballot any of three or more candidates obtain an equal number of votes and one of them has to be excluded from the election under rule (8) the determination as between the candidates whose votes are equal of the candidate who is to be excluded shall be the drawing of lots.
(10) In these rules "Magistrate" means-
(a) in the case of a municipality in a subdivision, the Sub-divisional Magistrate; and
(b)in other cases, the District Magistrate.
Section 337 • Assam Municipal Act, 1956
337. Applications of funds of areas ceasing to be notified.
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Section 337
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