(a) no municipal officer or servant whose monthly salary, exclusive of allowances, [exceeds such amount as may be fixed in this behalf, by a general or special order, by the State Government in the case of each Corporation] shall be dismissed by the Commissioner without the previous approval of the Standing Committee;
(b) any officer appointed by the Corporation excepting the Transport Manager may be suspended by the Standing Committee pending an order of the Corporation, such suspension and the reason therefore being forthwith reported to the Corporation;
(c) the Commissioner may impose any of the penalties specified in clause (a), (b), [c] (d), and (e) of sub-section (2) on any officer appointed by the Corporation other than the Transport Manager or any officer appointed under section 45;
(d) the Municipal Chief Auditor and the Municipal Secretary may impose any of the penalties specified in clauses (a), (b), (c), (d) and (c) of sub-section (2) on any officer or servant immediately subordinate to them and drawing a monthly salary [not exceeding such amount as may be fixed by the State Government, by a general or special order, from time to time in case of each Corporation] subject to a right of appeal to the Standing Committee and the Standing Committee may impose any other penalty on any such officer or servant and may also impose any penalty on any other officer or servant immediately subordinate to the Municipal Chief Auditor or the Municipal Secretary;
(a) censure;
(b) withholding of increments or promotion, including stoppage at an efficiency bar;
(c) reduction to a lower post or time-scale, or to a lower stage in a time-scale;
(d) fine;
(e) recovery from salary of the whole or part of any pecuniary loss caused to the Corporation;
(f) suspension;
(g) removal from municipal service which does not disqualify from future employment;
(h) dismissal from municipal service which ordinarily disqualifies from future employment.
(a) where a person is reduced, removed or dismissed on the ground of conduct which has led to his conviction on a criminal charge; or
(b) where the competent authority is satisfied that, for reasons to be recorded in writing by such authority, it is not reasonably practicable to give that person an opportunity of showing cause.
Leave of Absence, Acting Appointments, Etc.
Section 56 • The Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporations Act, 1949
56. Imposition of penalties on municipal officers and servants.
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