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L. A. BILL No. IX OF 2024.

A BILL

further to amend the Maharashtra Municipal Corporations Act.

WHEREAS it is expedient further to amend the Maharashtra Municipal

Corporations Act, for the purposes hereinafter appearing; it is hereby enacted

in the Seventy-fifth Year of the Republic of India, as follows :—

1.

This Act may be called the Maharashtra Municipal Corporations

(Amendment) Act, 2024.

LIX of

1949.

Short title.

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In pursuance of clause (3) of article 348 of the Constitution of India, the following translation

in English of the Maharashtra Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2024 (L. A. Bill No. IX of

2024), introduced in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly on the 1st March 2024, is hereby

published under the authority of the Governor.

By order and in the name of the Governor of Maharashtra,

SATISH WAGHOLE,

Secretary (Legislation) to Government,

Law and Judiciary Department.

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2.

In section 5 of the Maharashtra Municipal Corporations Act, in

sub-section (3), for the first proviso, the following proviso shall be substituted,

namely :—

“Provided that, after the commencement of the Maharashtra

Municipal Corporations (Amendment) Act, 2024, in respect of general

elections to the Corporations, each of the wards shall elect as far as

possible four Councillors, but not less than three and not more than five

Councillors, and each voter shall, notwithstanding anything contained

in this Act, be entitled to cast the same number of votes, as the number

of Councillors to be elected in his ward :” .

Amendment

of section 5 of

LIX of 1949.

LIX of

1949.

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of 2024.

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STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS

First proviso to sub-section (3) of section 5 of the Maharashtra Municipal

Corporations Act (LIX of 1949) provides that, in respect of the general

elections to the Corporations, each of the wards shall elect as far as possible

three Councillors, but not less than two and not more than four Councillors,

and each voter shall, notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, be

entitled to cast the same number of votes, as the number of Councillors to be

elected in his ward.

2. After taking the review of the present situation and with a view to

ensure effective implementation of services and development schemes in

the wards, it is necessary to provide that, each of the wards of the Municipal

Corporations shall elect as far as possible four Councillors, but not less than

three Councillors and not more than five Councillors. For that purpose, it is

proposed to substitute first proviso to sub-section (3) of section 5 of the said

Act.

3. This Bill seeks to achieve the above objectives.

Mumbai,

EKNATH SHINDE,

Dated the 29th February 2024.

Chief Minister.

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