Haryana Municipal Business Bye-laws 1981

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    "title": "Haryana Municipal Business Bye-laws 1981",
    "short_title": "Haryana Municipal Business Bye-laws 1981",
    "act_number": "Published vide Haryana Government Notification No.",
    "act_year": 1981,
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            "number": "31",
            "title": "2. Definitions [Section 31].",
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            "content": "(a) \"Act\" means the Haryana Municipal Act, 1973.\n(b) \"Head of the Department\" means -\n(i) in respect of the Sanitation, Public Health and Health Departments of a Committee, the Municipal Medical Officer of Health;\n(ii) in respect of the Engineering and Building Department of a Committee, the Municipal Engineer; and\n(iii) in respect of the remaining municipal administration, the [Executive officer or in his absence, the Secretary.]",
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            "title": "3. Meetings [Section 31(a)].",
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            "number": "31",
            "title": "4. Notice [Section 31(1)]",
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            "number": "31",
            "title": "5. Quorum [Section 31 (c)].",
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            "number": "31",
            "title": "6. Estoppel [Section 31(b)].",
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            "number": "31",
            "title": "7. Proxy [Section 31(1)].",
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            "number": "31",
            "title": "8. Language [Section 31 (1)].",
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            "number": "31",
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            "number": "31",
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            "number": "31",
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            "number": "31",
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            "number": "31",
            "title": "13. Procedure [Section 31 (d)].",
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            "number": "31",
            "title": "14. Adjournment and notice of adjourned meeting [Section 31 (c) and (1)].",
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            "number": "31",
            "title": "15. Outsiders at meetings [Section 31(1)].",
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            "number": "31",
            "title": "16. Maintenance of minutes [Section 31 (1)].",
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        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "17. Sub-committees [Section 31 (f)].",
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            "content": "(a) Finance Sub-committee.\n(b) Public Works and Buildings Sub-committee.\n(c) Sanitation and Water Supply Sub-committee.",
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            "number": "31",
            "title": "18. Election of members of sub-committee [Section 31 (f) and (1)].",
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            "number": "31",
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            "title": "21. Chairman of sub-committee [Section 31 (f)].",
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            "number": "31",
            "title": "22. Meeting of sub-committee [Section 31 (a), (b) and (f)].",
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            "number": "31",
            "title": "23. Quorum and meeting of sub-committee [Section 31 (a), (b), (c) and (f)].",
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            "number": "31",
            "title": "24. Procedure [Section 31 (d)].",
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            "number": "31",
            "title": "25. Special sub-committees [Section 31 (f)].",
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            "number": "31",
            "title": "26. Bar to exercise powers [Section 31 (1)].",
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            "number": "31",
            "title": "27. Finance sub-committee [Section 31 (f)].",
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            "content": "(a) preparation and submission of the budget estimate to the Committee in time;\n(b) monthly and annual accounts statements;\n(c) statement of grants, loans and advances;\n(d) imposition, assessment and settlement of objections, collection and remission of taxes, rents, and fees and settlement of objections thereto;\n(e) acquisition, sale and lease of Municipal properties;\n(f) raising of loans;\n(g) matters relating to schools, reading rooms, libraries, lighting and fire brigade;\n(h) all other matters affecting the finances of the committee.",
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            "number": "31",
            "title": "28. Public Works and Building Sub-Committee, [Section 31(f)].",
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        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "29. Powers of the Public Works and Building Sub-Committee [Section 31 (f)].",
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        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "30. Powers of the Executive Officer/Secretary, [Section 31 (i)].",
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        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "31. Power to grant sanction, [Section 31 (i)].",
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            "number": "31",
            "title": "32. Sanitation and Water Supply Sub-Committee, [Section 31 (f)].",
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            "sort_order": 31
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        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "33. Powers in case of emergent matters [Section 31 (f)].",
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        },
        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "34. Discussions on the proceedings of the Sub-Committee [Section 31 (f)].",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "35. Term of office of Vice-President [Section 31 (f) and Section 19 (2)].",
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        },
        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "36. Powers of Vice-President [Section 31 (f)].",
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        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "37. Custody and use of the common seal [Section 31 (e)].",
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            "content": "",
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        },
        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "38. Grant of receipts for money [Section 31 (g)].",
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        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "39. Security from the employees [Section 31 (i)].",
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            "content": "Rs.\n1.\nExecutive Officer\n...\n2,000\n2.\nSecretary, Municipal Medical Officer of Health and Municipal\n\t\t\tEngineer\n...\n1,000\n3.\nSuperintendent, Accountants, Chief Sanitary Inspector,\n\t\t\tAssistant Municipal Engineer and Veterinary Assistant\n...\n500\n4.\nCashier\n...\n5,000\n5.\nAny other employee entrusted with the receipt, disbursement or\n\t\t\tcustody of money or property of the committee\n...\n200",
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        {
            "number": "40",
            "title": "40. Duties of Medical Officer of Health.",
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        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "41. Duties of Municipal Engineer, [Section 31 (b) and (i)].",
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            "content": "",
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        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "42. Duties of the Executive Officer, section 31(i)",
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            "content": "(i) arrange for the disbursement of the salaries of the sanctioned establishment and all other sanctioned payments due in accordance with the rules and bye-laws in force;\n(ii) have the power to sanction the payment or refund of tax charged in excess of the sanctioned Schedule of rate or in contravention of the provisions of the Act and the rules and bye-laws made thereunder;\n(iii) have the power to sanction the sale of trees, land produce, stores, sand and clay at the rate approved by the committee upto a value of Rs. 500 in each individual case;\n(iv) subject to rules or bye-laws made under the Act, have the power to transfer any of the municipal employees from one post to another carrying similar pay and responsibilities;\n(v) attend every meeting of the committee unless his presence is dispensed with by the committee;\n(vi) receive all communication relating to the Committee excepting those addressed to the President by name and dispose them of in an appropriate manner;\n(vii) sign and sanction the permits issued on behalf of the committee;\n(viii) ensure that municipal dues are received and credited to the municipal fund, all money received for credit to the municipal fund is deposited daily according to law, and all accounts, registers and financial returns are kept up-to-date and promptly submitted as prescribed;\n(ix) ensure that no municipal money is expended without the sanction of the committee and that no payment is made except to a person entitled to receive it and on a bill properly drawn, checked and received and shall sign all cheques;\n(x) be responsible for management of fairs, places of amusements, garden, parks, lands and other immovable properties of the committee;\n(xi) make rounds in that town to inspect sanitation, octroi barriers, encroachments, and municipal works and check and supervise the various collections due the committee;\n(xii) have the powers to appear on behalf of the committee in any court of law and to prosecute on its behalf any offender against the Act and the rules and bye-laws made thereunder unless otherwise provided;\n(xiii) be responsible for the prompt recovery of municipal dues;\n(xiv) be responsible for the prompt disposal of audit objections and inspection notes of the various administrative authorities;\n(xv) be given an imprest of Rs. 500 to meet emergent contingent expenditure;\n(xvi) have the power to sanction contingent expenditure up to Rs. 100 in any case at a time subject to the budget provision;\n(xvii) have the power to compound all cases under section 244 of the Act in regard to offences under the Act and the rules or bye-laws made thereunder :-",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 41
        },
        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "43. Duties of the Secretary, Section 31(i)",
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            "content": "(i) issue all notices as required by the decisions of the committee under section 229 of the Act;\n(ii) receive requisitions for holding meetings of the committee or sub-committees and issue agenda of the meetings;\n(iii) make rounds in the town to check sanitation, municipal works, octroi posts, street lighting arrangements, etc.\n(iv) transfer the municipal staff up to clerical cadre from one department to the other and mark absent, if any member of the municipal staff actually absents from duty or call explanation, if any such member neglects his duty;\n(v) compound offences as required under section 244 of the Act;\n(vi) attend every meeting of the committee and may explain any matter to the committee, if so required;\n(vii) countersign all agreements as required by section 50 of the Act.]",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 42
        },
        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "44. President. [Section 31 (f)].",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 43
        },
        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "45. Appeals from executive orders of President and Heads of Departments. [Section 31 (h)].",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 44
        },
        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "46. Financial procedure. [Section 31 (1)].",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 45
        },
        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "47. Annual report. [Section 31 (1)].",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 46
        },
        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "48. Permanent advance. [Section 31(1)].",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 47
        },
        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "49. Power to sanction expenditure [Section 31 (L)].",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) President\nUpto Rs. 5000 in any case.\n(b) Chief Executive Officer\nUpto Rs. 3000 in any one case.\n(c) Secretary\nUpto Rs. 1000 in any one case.]",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 48
        },
        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "50. Payment in general. [Section 31 (1)].",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 49
        },
        {
            "number": "51",
            "title": "51. Office hours. [S. 31 (1)].",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 50
        },
        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "52. Inspection of files by members, Section 31(L)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 51
        },
        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "53. Medical treatment. [Section 31(1)].",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 52
        },
        {
            "number": "33",
            "title": "54. Powers under section 33.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 53
        },
        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "54A. Supply of copies fees therefor etc. Section 31(h):",
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            "content": "(a) All resolutions of the Committee;\n(b) all final orders passed by the Municipal Officers on any matter which affects the applicants or a copy of such orders and so much of any recommendation made by some other person as is necessary to explain the meaning of such final orders;\n(c) plans of buildings and the survey maps;\n(d) registers showing rights and titles connected with immovable property;\n(e) as regards copies of any other records maintained by the Committee the Secretary or the Executive Officer, as the case may be, shall decide if any person is entitled to receive any copy under these bye-laws and may be special order direct that copies of documents other than those specified above, may be granted to applicant for reasons to be recorded in writing;\n(f) all copies will be certified by the Secretary or the Executive Officers of the Committee, as the case may be.\n(i) Ordinary fees for first 200 words\nRs. 5.00\n(ii) Additional words upto 100\nRs. 2.50\n(iii) Fees for maps and plans for each square foot or tracing paper used or portion thereof, Rs. 5.\n(iv) The Executive Officer or the Secretary, as the case may be, if he considers that in view of the labour involved a special fee shall be charged, he shall fix the special fee not exceeding rupees 10 for each square foot.\n(v) The tracing cloth required will be supplied by the applicant.\n(vi) Urgent fees which shall entitle the applicant to precedence over all other copying work shall be Rs. 5\n(vii) Search fee, for any record concerning which sufficient information has not been supplied to enable the record to be traced easily; shall be rupees 5 per year, for each year's record\n(viii) Other fee, for postal and other expenses, actually incurred shall be the amount actually spent on behalf of the applicant.]",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 54
        },
        {
            "number": "55",
            "title": "55. Repeal and saving.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 55
        },
        {
            "number": "254",
            "title": "56. Powers of the Administrator on dissolution of a committee, Section 254. -",
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            "content": "(a) shall be responsible for the administration of the affairs of the municipality;\n(b) shall exercise the powers conferred upon the Executive officer and the Secretary under bye-laws 30, 31, 42(1), (4), (5), (ii), (iii), (iv), (vi), (vii) and (xvi), 43(iv), (v), 49 and 50 until the committee is reconstituted; and\n(c) may require the Executive Officer, and where this post does not exist, the Secretary to submit all any cases to the Administrator for his orders.]",
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "hl411",
        "Act Number": "Published vide Haryana Government Notification No. GSR 102/..../81, dated 28th September, 1981",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1981",
        "Short Title": "Haryana Municipal Business Bye-laws 1981",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Haryana"
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    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}