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GOVERNMENT OF TAMIL NADU

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2022

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TAMIL NADU

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE

EXTRAORDINARY

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

No. 56]

CHENNAI, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 2022

Thai 8, Pilava, Thiruvalluvar Aandu–2053

Part IV—Section 2

Tamil Nadu Acts and Ordinances

Pages.

ACTS:

No. 1 of 2022—The Cuddalore City Municipal Corporation Act, 2022.

10-16

No. 2 of 2022—The Kancheepuram City Municipal Corporation Act, 2022.

17-22

No. 3 of 2022—The Sivakasi City Municipal Corporation Act, 2022.

23-28

No. 4 of 2022—The Karur City Municipal Corporation Act, 2022.

29-34

No. 5 of 2022—The Tambaram City Municipal Corporation Act, 2022.

35-40

No. 6 of 2022—The Kumbakonam City Municipal Corporation Act, 2022.

41-48

No. 7 of 2022—The Chennai City Police (Extension to the Cities of Avadi and

Tambaram, Act, 2022.

49-56

No. 8 of 2022—TheTamil Nadu Municipal Laws (Amendment) Act, 2022.

57-60

No. 9 of 2022—The Tamil Nadu Agricultural Produce Marketing (Regulation)

Amendment Act, 2022.

CONTENTS

TAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY

The following Act of the Tamil Nadu Legistative Assembly

received the assent of the Governor on the 21st January 2022 and

is hereby published for general information: —

Act No. 1 of 2022

An Act to provide for the Establishment of a Municipal

Corporation for the City of Cuddalore.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of

Tamil Nadu in the Seventy-second Year of the Republic of India as

follows:—

Short title,

extent and

commencement.

1. (1) This Act may be called the Cuddalore City Municipal

Corporation Act, 2022.

(2) It extends to the city of Cuddalore.

(3) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the

21st day of October 2021.

Definitions.

2. (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

(a) “city of Cuddalore” or “city” means the local area

comprised in the Cuddalore municipality and includes any local area

which, after the date of the commencement of this Act, is included in

the city but does not include any local area which, after such date of

the commencement of this Act, is excluded from the city;

(b) “corporation” means the municipal corporation of

Cuddalore established under section 3;

corporation of Cuddalore;

(d) “Government” means the State Government;

(e) “municipal council” means the municipal council of

Cuddalore municipality;

(f) “municipality” means the Cuddalore municipality;

(g) “Scheduled Castes” and “Scheduled Tribes” shall

have the meanings, respectively, assigned to them in clauses (24)

and (25) of Article 366 of the Constitution.

(2) All words and expressions used in this Act and not

defined but defined in the Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation

Act, 1981 (hereinafter referred to as the “1981 Act”), shall have the

meanings, respectively, assigned to them in the 1981 Act.

Tamil Nadu Act 25 of

1981.

Establishment

of municipal

corporation for

city of Cuddalore.

3. (1) With effect on and from the date of the commencement

of this Act, the local area included in the Cuddalore municipality

shall constitute the city of Cuddalore for the purposes of this Act

and from such date of the commencement of this Act, a municipal

corporation shall be deemed to have been established for the said

city by the name of Cuddalore City Municipal Corporation:

Provided that the Government may, from time to time, after

consultation with the corporation, by notification, alter the limits of

the city constituted under this sub-section so as to include therein or

to exclude therefrom the areas specified in the notification:

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Provided further that the power to issue a notification under this

sub-section shall be subject to previous publication.

(2) The corporation shall, by the said name, be a body

corporate, having perpetual succession and a common seal with

power to acquire, hold and dispose of property and to enter into

contracts and may by its corporate name, sue and be sued.

(3) The Cuddalore municipality, functioning immediately

before the date of the commencement of this Act, shall be deemed

to have been abolished from such date of the commencement of

this Act.

Municipal

authorities.

4. The municipal authorities charged with carrying out the

provisions of this Act shall be,—

(a) a Mayor;

(b) a council;

(d) a wards committee; and

(e) a commissioner.

5. (1) Save as otherwise provided in sub-section (2), the

council shall consist of such number of councillors elected in the

manner laid down in this Act as may be fixed by the Government, by

notification, from time to time, so, however, that the total number of

councillors of the council shall not exceed seventy two at any time.

Constitution of

council.

(2) The following persons shall also be represented in the

council, namely:—

(a) the members of the House of the People

representing constituencies which comprise wholly or partly the

area of the corporation and the members of the Council of States

registered as electors within the area of the corporation;

(b) all the members of the Tamil Nadu Legislative

Assembly representing constituencies which comprise wholly or

partly the area of the corporation.

(3) The persons referred to in sub-section (2) shall be

entitled to take part in the proceedings but shall not have the right

to vote in the meetings of the council.

(4) Seats shall be reserved for the persons belonging to

the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in the council and

the number of seats so reserved shall bear, as nearly as may be,

the same proportion to the total number of seats to be filled by direct

election in the council as the population of the Scheduled Castes

in the city or of the Scheduled Tribes in the city bears to the total

population of the city.

(5) Seats shall be reserved for women belonging to the

Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, from among the seats

reserved for the persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes and

the Scheduled Tribes, which shall not be less than fifty per cent of

the total number of seats reserved for the persons belonging to the

Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes.

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(6) Seats shall be reserved for women in the council and

the number of seats reserved for women shall not be less than

fifty per cent including the number of seats reserved for women

belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes of the

total number of seats in the council.

(7) The reservation of seats under sub-sections (4) and (5)

shall cease to have effect on the expiry of the period specified in

Article 334 of the Constitution.

6. (1) The corporation, unless sooner dissolved, shall

continue for five years from the date appointed for its first meeting

after each ordinary election and no longer and the said period of

five years shall operate as a dissolution of the corporation.

Duration of

corporation.

(2) An election to constitute the corporation shall be

completed,—

(a) before the expiry of its duration specified in sub-

section (1); or

(b) before the expiration of a period of six months from

the date of its dissolution:

Provided that where the remainder of the period for which

the dissolved corporation would have continued, is less than six

months, it shall not be necessary to hold any election, under this

sub-section for constituting the corporation for such period.

Tamil Nadu Act V of

1920.

7. (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-sections (2) and (3), the

Tamil Nadu District Municipalities Act, 1920 (hereinafter referred to

as the “District Municipalities Act”) shall, with effect on and from the

date of the commencement of this Act, cease to apply to the local

area comprised within the city of Cuddalore.

Tamil Nadu District

Municipalities Act,

1920 not to apply.

(2) Such cessor shall not affect,—

(a) the previous operation of the District Municipalities

Act in respect of the local area comprised within the city of

Cuddalore;

(b) any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in

respect of any offence committed against the District Municipalities

Act; or

in respect of such penalty, forfeiture or punishment, and any such

penalty, forfeiture or punishment may be imposed as if this Act had

not been passed.

(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1),

all appointments, notifications, notices, rules, bye-laws, regulations,

orders, directions, licences, permissions, schemes, forms and

powers, made or issued or conferred under the District Municipalities

Act and in force on the date of the commencement of this Act shall,

so far as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act,

continue to be in force in the local area comprised within the city of

Cuddalore until they are replaced by the appointments, notifications,

notices, rules, bye-laws, regulations, orders, directions, licences,

permissions, schemes, forms and powers to be made or issued or

conferred under this Act.

TAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY

8. (1) Save as otherwise expressly provided herein, all the

provisions of the 1981 Act, including the provisions relating to the

levy and collection of any tax or fee are hereby extended to and

shall apply, mutatis mutandis to the corporation and the 1981 Act

shall, in relation to the corporation, be read and construed as if the

provisions of this Act had formed part of the 1981 Act.

Application of

provisions of 1981

Act to corporation.

(2) For the purpose of facilitating the application of the

provisions of the 1981 Act to the corporation, the Government may,

by notification, make such adaptations and modifications of the

1981 Act and the rules and bye-laws made thereunder, whether by

way of repealing, amending or suspending any provisions thereof,

as may be necessary or expedient and thereupon, the 1981 Act and

the rules made thereunder, shall apply to the corporation subject to

the adaptations and modifications so made.

(3) Notwithstanding that no provision or insufficient

provision has been made under sub-section (2) for the adaptation

of the provisions of the 1981 Act, or the rules and bye-laws made

thereunder, any court, tribunal or authority required or empowered

to enforce these provisions may, for the purpose of facilitating their

application to the corporation, construe these provisions in such

manner, without affecting the substance, as may be necessary

or proper having regard to the matter before the court, tribunal or

authority.

(4) In the 1981 Act as extended and applied to the city of

Cuddalore,—

(a) any reference to the city of Coimbatore and

Coimbatore municipality, shall by reason of this Act, be construed

as a reference to the city of Cuddalore and Cuddalore municipality,

respectively; and

(b) any reference to the Coimbatore Corporation,

Corporation of Coimbatore and Municipal Corporation of

Coimbatore, shall by reason of this Act, be construed as a reference

to the Cuddalore Corporation, Corporation of Cuddalore and

Municipal Corporation of Cuddalore, respectively.

9. (1) All property, all rights of whatever kind, used, enjoyed or

possessed by and all interests of whatever kind owned by or vested

in, or held in trust by or for the municipal council with all rights of

whatever kind used, enjoyed or possessed by the municipal council

as well as all liabilities legally subsisting against the municipal

council, on and from the date of the commencement of this Act and

subject to such directions as the Government may, by general or

special order, give in this behalf, vest with the corporation.

Transitional

provisions.

(2) All arrears of taxes or other payments by way of

composition for a tax, or due for expenses or compensation,

or otherwise due to the municipal council on the date of such

commencement may be recovered as if they had accrued to the

corporation and may be recovered as if such arrears or payments

had become due, under the provisions of this Act.

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(3) All taxes, fees and duties, which immediately before

the date of the commencement of this Act were being levied by

the municipal council shall be deemed to have been levied by the

corporation under the provisions of this Act and shall continue to be

in force accordingly until such taxes, fees and duties are revised,

cancelled or superseded by anything done or any action taken

under this Act.

(4) All proceedings taken by, or against, the municipal

council or authority or any person under the District Municipalities

Act may be continued by, or against, the corporation, authority or

person as if such proceedings had been commenced under the

provisions of this Act.

(5) Any action taken under the District Municipalities Act,

by any authority before the date of such commencement shall be

deemed to have been taken by the authority competent to take

such action under this Act as if this Act had been in force.

(6) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, every

officer or employee who, immediately before the date of the

commencement of this Act, was in the service of the municipality

shall, on and from the date of such commencement, be deemed to

be an officer or employee of the corporation:

Provided that—

(a) the terms and conditions applicable to such

officers and employees consequent on their absorption in the

service of the corporation shall not be less favourable than those

applicable to such employees immediately before the date of such

commencement, as regards pay and allowances, leave, pension,

gratuity, provident fund and age of superannuation; and

(b) the service rendered by any such officer or

other employee under the municipality upto the date of such

commencement shall be deemed to be service under the corporation

and he shall be entitled to count that service for the purpose of

increment, leave, pension, provident fund and gratuity:

Provided further that any officer or other employee

serving in the municipality shall be given an option to be exercised

within such time and in such manner as may be prescribed either to

be absorbed in the service of the corporation or to be transferred to

the service referred to in section 73-A of the District Municipalities

Act or to be retrenched from the service of the municipality on such

retrenchment benefits as may be prescribed.

(7) Any division of the Cuddalore municipality into wards,

made under the District Municipalities Act, and in force on the date

of the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be a division

of the corporation until altered.

(8) The electoral roll prepared for the Cuddalore

municipality under the District Municipalities Act, and in force on the

date of the commencement of this Act, shall be deemed to be the

electoral roll for the corporation until a new electoral roll is prepared

and published and the part of the electoral roll relating to each ward

of the municipality shall be deemed to be the list of the electoral roll

for the corresponding division of the corporation.

TAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY

10. (1) There shall be appointed by the Government, by

notification, a Special Officer to exercise the powers, perform the

duties and discharge the functions of—

Appointment of

Special Officer.

(a) the council,

(b) the standing committee,

(d) the wards committee.

(2) The Special Officer shall exercise the powers, perform

the duties and discharge the functions,—

(a) of the corporation, until the elected councillors

come into office;

(b) of the standing committee, until a standing

committee is appointed by the corporation; and

is appointed by the Government and such officer may, if the

Government so direct, receive remuneration for his services from

the municipal fund.

(3) Until a new Special Officer is appointed by the

Government under sub-section (1), the Special Officer of

the municipality functioning immediately before the date of

commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be the Special

Officer of the corporation and he shall exercise the powers and

perform the duties and discharge the functions as those exercised,

performed and discharged by the Special Officer appointed under

sub-section (1).

(4) The Special Officer appointed under sub-section (1)

shall hold office for six months from the date of his appointment or

until the day on which the first meeting of the council is held after

ordinary elections to the corporation, whichever is earlier.

11. (1) The Government may make rules for carrying out the

purposes of this Act.

Power to make rules.

(2) (a) All rules made under this Act shall be published

in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette and, unless they are

expressed to come into force on a particular day, shall come into

force on the day on which they are so published.

(b) All notifications issued under this Act shall, unless

they are expressed to come into force on a particular day, come into

force on the day on which they are so published.

TAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY

(3) Every rule made or notification or order issued under

this Act shall, as soon as possible, after it is made or issued, be

placed on the table of the Legislative Assembly, and if, before the

expiry of the session in which it is so placed or the next session, the

Assembly makes any modification in any such rule or notification

or order, or the Assembly decides that the rule or notification or

order should not be made or issued, the rule or notification or order

shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no

effect, as the case may be, so, however, that any such modification

or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything

previously done under that rule or notification or order.

Power to remove

difficulties.

12. If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions

of this Act, the Government may, by an order published in the

Tamil Nadu Government Gazette, make such provisions not

inconsistent with the provisions of this Act as appear to them to be

necessary or expedient for removing the difficulty:

Provided that no such order shall be made after the expiry

of two years from the date of the commencement of this Act.

Repeal and

saving.

13. (1) The Cuddalore City Municipal Corporation Ordinance,

2021 is hereby repealed.

Tamil Nadu

Ordinance 1 of

2021.

(2) Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done, any

action taken or any direction given under the said Ordinance, shall

be deemed to have been done, taken or given under this Act.

(By order of the Governor)

C. GOPI RAVIKUMAR,

Secretary to Government (Legislation),

Law Department.

TAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY

The following Act of the Tamil Nadu Legistative Assembly received

the assent of the Governor on the 21st January 2022 and is hereby

published for general information:—

Act No. 2 of 2022.

An Act to provide for the establishment of a Municipal

Corporation for the City of Kancheepuram.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of

Tamil Nadu in the Seventy-second Year of the Republic of India as

follows:—

1. (1) This Ordinance may be called the Kancheepuram City Municipal

Corporation Act, 2022.

Short title,

extent and

commencement.

(2) It extends to the city of Kancheepuram.

(3) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 21st day of

October 2021.

2. (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

Definitions.

(a) “city of Kancheepuram” or “city” means the local area comprised

in the Kancheepuram municipality and includes any local area which, after

the date of the commencement of this Act, is included in the city but does not

include any local area which, after such date of the commencement of this Act,

is excluded from the city;

(b) “corporation” means the municipal corporation of Kancheepuram

established under section 3;

Kancheepuram;

(d) “Government” means the State Government;

(e)

“municipal

council”

means

the

municipal

council

Kancheepuram municipality;

(f) “municipality” means the Kancheepuram municipality;

(g) “Scheduled Castes” and “Scheduled Tribes” shall have the

meanings, respectively, assigned to them in clauses (24) and (25) of Article

366 of the Constitution.

Tamil Nadu Act

25 of 1981.

(2) All words and expressions used in this Act and not defined but

defined in the Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation Act, 1981 (hereinafter

referred to as the “1981 Act”), shall have the meanings, respectively, assigned

to them in the 1981 Act.

3. (1) With effect on and from the date of the commencement of this

Act, the local area included in the Kancheepuram municipality shall constitute

the city of Kancheepuram for the purposes of this Act and from such date of

the commencement of this Act, a municipal corporation shall be deemed to

have been established for the said city by the name of Kancheepuram City

Municipal Corporation:

Establishment

of municipal

corporation for

city of Kanchee-

puram.

Provided that the Government may, from time to time, after consultation

with the corporation, by notification, alter the limits of the city constituted under

this sub-section so as to include therein or to exclude therefrom the areas

specified in the notification:

TAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY

Provided further that the power to issue a notification under this sub-

section shall be subject to previous publication.

(2) The corporation shall, by the said name, be a body corporate,

having perpetual succession and a common seal with power to acquire, hold

and dispose of property and to enter into contracts and may by its corporate

name, sue and be sued.

(3) The Kancheepuram municipality, functioning immediately before

the date of the commencement of this Act, shall be deemed to have been

abolished from such date of the commencement of this Act.

Municipal

authorities.

4. The municipal authorities charged with carrying out the provisions of

this Act shall be,—

(a) a Mayor;

(b) a council;

(d) a wards committee; and

(e) a commissioner.

Constitution of

council.

5. (1) Save as otherwise provided in sub-section (2), the council shall

consist of such number of councillors elected in the manner laid down in this

Act as may be fixed by the Government, by notification, from time to time, so,

however, that the total number of councillors of the council shall not exceed

seventy-two at any time.

(2) The following persons shall also be represented in the council,

namely:—

(a) the members of the House of the People representing constituencies

which comprise wholly or partly the area of the corporation and the members of

the Council of States registered as electors within the area of the corporation;

(b) all the members of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly representing

constituencies which comprise wholly or partly the area of the corporation.

(3) The persons referred to in sub-section (2) shall be entitled to take

part in the proceedings but shall not have the right to vote in the meetings of

the council.

(4) Seats shall be reserved for the persons belonging to the

Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in the council and the number

of seats so reserved shall bear, as nearly as may be, the same proportion to

the total number of seats to be filled by direct election in the council as the

population of the Scheduled Castes in the city or of the Scheduled Tribes in the

city bears to the total population of the city.

(5) Seats shall be reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled

Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, from among the seats reserved for the

persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, which

shall not be less than fifty per cent of the total number of seats reserved for the

persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes.

(6) Seats shall be reserved for women in the council and the number

of seats reserved for women shall not be less than fifty per cent including the

number of seats reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes and

Scheduled Tribes of the total number of seats in the council.

TAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY

(7) The reservation of seats under sub-sections (4) and (5) shall

cease to have effect on the expiry of the period specified in Article 334 of the

Constitution.

6. (1) The corporation, unless sooner dissolved, shall continue for five

years from the date appointed for its first meeting after each ordinary election

and no longer and the said period of five years shall operate as a dissolution

of the corporation.

Duration of

corporation.

(2) An election to constitute the corporation shall be completed,—

(a) before the expiry of its duration specified in sub-section (1); or

(b) before the expiration of a period of six months from the date

of its dissolution:

Provided that where the remainder of the period for which the

dissolved corporation would have continued, is less than six months, it shall

not be necessary to hold any election, under this sub-section for constituting

the corporation for such period.

Tamil Nadu Act

V of 1920.

7. (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-sections (2) and (3), the

Tamil Nadu District Municipalities Act, 1920 (hereinafter referred to as the

“District Municipalities Act”) shall, with effect on and from the date of the

commencement of this Act, cease to apply to the local area comprised within

the city of Kancheepuram.

Tamil Nadu

District

Municipalities

Act, 1920 not to

apply.

(2) Such cessor shall not affect,—

(a) the previous operation of the District Municipalities Act in respect

of the local area comprised within the city of Kancheepuram;

(b) any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of any

offence committed against the District Municipalities Act; or

such penalty, forfeiture or punishment, and any such penalty, forfeiture or

punishment may be imposed as if this Act had not been passed.

(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), all

appointments, notifications, notices, rules, bye-laws, regulations, orders,

directions, licences, permissions, schemes, forms and powers, made or issued

or conferred under the District Municipalities Act and in force on the date of

the commencement of this Act shall, so far as they are not inconsistent with

the provisions of this Act, continue to be in force in the local area comprised

within the city of Kancheepuram until they are replaced by the appointments,

notifications, notices, rules, bye-laws, regulations, orders, directions, licences,

permissions, schemes, forms and powers to be made or issued or conferred

under this Act.

8. (1) Save as otherwise expressly provided herein, all the provisions

of the 1981 Act, including the provisions relating to the levy and collection of

any tax or fee are hereby extended to and shall apply, mutatis mutandis to the

corporation and the 1981 Act shall, in relation to the corporation, be read and

construed as if the provisions of this Act had formed part of the 1981 Act.

Application of

provisions of

1981 Act to

corporation.

TAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY

(2) For the purpose of facilitating the application of the provisions of

the 1981 Act to the corporation, the Government may, by notification, make

such adaptations and modifications of the 1981 Act and the rules and bye-laws

made thereunder, whether by way of repealing, amending or suspending any

provisions thereof, as may be necessary or expedient and thereupon, the 1981

Act and the rules made thereunder, shall apply to the corporation subject to the

adaptations and modifications so made.

(3) Notwithstanding that no provision or insufficient provision has

been made under sub-section (2) for the adaptation of the provisions of

the 1981 Act, or the rules and bye-laws made thereunder, any court, tribunal

or authority required or empowered to enforce these provisions may, for the

purpose of facilitating their application to the corporation, construe these

provisions in such manner, without affecting the substance, as may be

necessary or proper having regard to the matter before the court, tribunal or

authority.

(4) In the 1981 Act as extended and applied to the city of Kancheepuram,—

(a) any reference to the city of Coimbatore and Coimbatore

Municipality, shall by reason of this Ordinance, be construed as a reference

to the city of Kancheepuram and Kancheepuram municipality, respectively; and

(b) any reference to the Coimbatore Corporation, Corporation

of Coimbatore and Municipal Corporation of Coimbatore, shall by reason

of this Act, be construed as a reference to the Kancheepuram Corporation,

Corporation of Kancheepuram and Municipal Corporation of Kancheepuram,

respectively.

Transitional

provisions.

9. (1) All property, all rights of whatever kind, used, enjoyed or possessed

by and all interests of whatever kind owned by or vested in, or held in trust by

or for the municipal council with all rights of whatever kind used, enjoyed or

possessed by the municipal council as well as all liabilities legally subsisting

against the municipal council, on and from the date of the commencement of

this Act and subject to such directions as the Government may, by general or

special order, give in this behalf, vest with the corporation.

(2) All arrears of taxes or other payments by way of composition for

a tax, or due for expenses or compensation, or otherwise due to the municipal

council on the date of such commencement may be recovered as if they

had accrued to the corporation and may be recovered as if such arrears or

payments had become due, under the provisions of this Act.

(3) All taxes, fees and duties, which immediately before the date of

the commencement of this Act were being levied by the municipal council shall

be deemed to have been levied by the corporation under the provisions of this

Act and shall continue to be in force accordingly until such taxes, fees and

duties are revised, cancelled or superseded by anything done or any action

taken under this Act.

(4) All proceedings taken by, or against, the municipal council or

authority or any person under the District Municipalities Act may be continued

by, or against, the corporation, authority or person as if such proceedings had

been commenced under the provisions of this Act.

(5) Any action taken under the District Municipalities Act, by any

authority before the date of such commencement shall be deemed to have

been taken by the authority competent to take such action under this Act as if

this Act had been in force.

TAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY

(6) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, every officer or

employee who, immediately before the date of the commencement of this

Act, was in the service of the municipality shall, on and from the date of such

commencement, be deemed to be an officer or employee of the corporation:

Provided that—

(a) the terms and conditions applicable to such officers and

employees consequent on their absorption in the service of the corporation shall

not be less favourable than those applicable to such employees immediately

before the date of such commencement, as regards pay and allowances,

leave, pension, gratuity, provident fund and age of superannuation; and

(b) the service rendered by any such officer or other employee

under the municipality upto the date of such commencement shall be deemed

to be service under the corporation and he shall be entitled to count that service

for the purpose of increment, leave, pension, provident fund and gratuity:

Provided further that any officer or other employee serving in the

municipality shall be given an option to be exercised within such time and in

such manner as may be prescribed either to be absorbed in the service of

the corporation or to be transferred to the service referred to in section 73-A

of the District Municipalities Act or to be retrenched from the service of the

municipality on such retrenchment benefits as may be prescribed.

(7) Any division of the Kancheepuram municipality into wards,

made under the District Municipalities Act, and in force on the date of the

commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be a division of the corporation

until altered.

(8) The electoral roll prepared for the Kancheepuram municipality under

the District Municipalities Act, and in force on the date of the commencement of

this Act, shall be deemed to be the electoral roll for the corporation until a new

electoral roll is prepared and published and the part of the electoral roll relating

to each ward of the municipality shall be deemed to be the list of the electoral

roll for the corresponding division of the corporation.

10. (1) There shall be appointed by the Government, by notification, a

Special Officer to exercise the powers, perform the duties and discharge the

functions of—

Appointment of

Special Officer.

(a) the council,

(b) the standing committee,

(d) the wards committee.

(2) The Special Officer shall exercise the powers, perform the duties and

discharge the functions,—

(a) of the corporation, until the elected councillors come into

office;

(b) of the standing committee, until a standing committee is

appointed by the corporation; and

the Government and such officer may, if the Government so direct, receive

remuneration for his services from the municipal fund.

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(3) Until a new Special Officer is appointed by the Government

under

sub-section

(1),

the

Special

Officer

the

municipality

functioning immediately before the date of commencement of this Act

shall be deemed to be the Special Officer of the corporation and he shall

exercise the powers and perform the duties and discharge the functions as

those exercised, performed and discharged by the Special Officer appointed

under sub-section (1).

(4) The Special Officer appointed to in sub-section (1) shall hold office

for six months from the date of his appointment or until the day on which the

first meeting of the council is held after ordinary elections to the corporation,

which ever is earlies

Power to make

rules.

11. (1) The Government may make rules for carrying out the purposes of

this Act.

(2) (a) All rules made under this Act shall be published in the

Tamil Nadu Government Gazette and, unless they are expressed to come into

force on a particular day, shall come into force on the day on which they are

so published.

(b) All notifications issued under this Act shall, unless they are

expressed to come into force on a particular day, come into force on the day

on which they are so published.

(3) Every rule made or notification or order issued under this

Act shall, as soon as possible, after it is made or issued, be placed on the table

of the Legislative Assembly, and if, before the expiry of the session in which

it is so placed or the next session, the Assembly makes any modification in

any such rule or notification or order, or the Assembly decides that the rule or

notification or order should not be made or issued, the rule or notification or

order shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect,

as the case may be, so, however, that any such modification or annulment

shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that

rule or notification or order.

Power to

remove

difficulties.

12. If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this

Act,

the

Government

may,

order

published

the

Tamil Nadu Government Gazette, make such provisions not inconsistent with

the provisions of this Act as appear to them to be necessary or expedient for

removing the difficulty.

Provided that no such order shall be made after the expiry of two years

from the date of the commencement of this Act.

Repeal and

saving.

13. (1) The Kancheepuram City Municipal Corporation Ordinance, 2021

is hereby repealed.

Tamil Nadu

Ordinance 2 of

2021.

(2) Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done, any action taken or

any direction given under the said Ordinance, shall be deemed to have been

done, taken or given under this Act.

(By order of the Governor)

C. GOPI RAVIKUMAR,

Secretary to Government (Legislation),

Law Department.

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The following Act of the Tamil Nadu Legistative Assembly received the

assent of the Governor on the 21st January 2022 and is hereby published

for general information: —

Act No. 3 of 2022.

An Act to provide for the Establishment of a Municipal Corporation

for the City of Sivakasi.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of

Tamil Nadu in the Seventy-second Year of the Republic of India as

follows:—

1. (1) This Act may be called the Sivakasi City Municipal Corporation

Act, 2022.

Short title,

extent and

commence-

ment.

(2) It extends to the city of Sivakasi.

(3) It shall be deemend to have come into force on the

21st day of October 2021.

2. (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

Definitions.

(a) "city of Sivakasi" or "city" means the local area comprised in

the Sivakasi municipality and includes any local area which, after the date of the

commencement of this Act, is included in the city but does not include any local

area which, after such date of the commencement of this Act, is excluded from the

city;

(b) "corporation" means the municipal corporation of Sivakasi

eastabelished under section 3;

Sivakasi;

(d) “Government” means the State Government;

(e) “municipal council” means the municipal council of Sivakasi

municipality;

(f)

“municipality” means the Sivakasi municipality;

(g) "Scheduled Castes" and "Scheduled Tribes" shall have the

meanings, respectively, assigned to them in clauses (24) and (25) of Article 366 of

the Constitution.

Tamil Nadu Act 25

of 1981.

(2) All words and expressions used in this Act and not defined

but defined in the Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation Act, 1981 (hereinafter

referred to as the “1981 Act”), shall have the meanings, respectively, assigned to

them in the 1981 Act.

3. (1) With effect on and from the date of the commencement of this Act, the

local area included in the Sivakasi municipality shall constitute the city of Sivakasi

for the purposes of this Act and from such date of the commencement of this Act,

a municipal corporation shall be deemed to have been established for the said city

by the name of Sivakasi City Municipal Corporation:

Establishment

of municipal

corporation for

city of Sivakasi.

Provided that the Government may, from time to time, after consultation

with the corporation, by notification, alter the limits of the city constituted under this

sub-section so as to include therein or to exclude therefrom the areas specified in

the notification:

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Provided further that the power to issue a notification under this sub-

section shall be subject to previous publication.

(2) The corporation shall, by the said name, be a body corporate,

having perpetual succession and a common seal with power to acquire, hold and

dispose of property and to enter into contracts and may by its corporate name, sue

and be sued.

(3) The Sivakasi municipality, functioning immediately before the

date of the commencement of this Act, shall be deemed to have been abolished

from such date of the commencement of this Act.

Municipal

authorities.

4. The municipal authorities charged with carrying out the provisions of this

Act shall be,—

(a) a Mayor;

(b) a council;

(d) a wards committee; and

(e) a commissioner.

Constitution of

council.

5. (1) Save as otherwise provided in sub-section (2), the council shall consist

of such number of councillors elected in the manner laid down in this Act as may

be fixed by the Government, by notification, from time to time, so, however, that

the total number of councillors of the council shall not exceed seventy-two at any

time.

(2) The following persons shall also be represented in the council, namely:—

(a) the members of the House of the People representing constituencies

which comprise wholly or partly the area of the corporation and the members of

the Council of States registered as electors within the area of the corporation;

(b) all the members of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly representing

constituencies which comprise wholly or partly the area of the corporation.

(3) The persons referred to in sub-section (2) shall be entitled to take part in

the proceedings but shall not have the right to vote in the meetings of the council.

(4) Seats shall be reserved for the persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes

and the Scheduled Tribes in the council and the number of seats so reserved shall

bear, as nearly as may be, the same proportion to the total number of seats to be

filled by direct election in the council as the population of the Scheduled Castes in

the city or of the Scheduled Tribes in the city bears to the total population of the city.

(5) Seats shall be reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes

and the Scheduled Tribes, from among the seats reserved for the persons

belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, which shall not

be less than fifty per cent of the total number of seats reserved for the persons

belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes.

(6) Seats shall be reserved for women in the council and the number of seats

reserved for women shall not be less than fifty per cent including the number of

seats reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled

Tribes of the total number of seats in the council.

(7) The reservation of seats under sub-sections (4) and (5) shall cease to

have effect on the expiry of the period specified in Article 334 of the Constitution.

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6. (1) The corporation, unless sooner dissolved, shall continue for five

years from the date appointed for its first meeting after each ordinary election and

no longer and the said period of five years shall operate as a dissolution of the

corporation.

Duration of

corporation.

(2) An election to constitute the corporation shall be completed,—

(a) before the expiry of its duration specified in sub-section (1); or

(b) before the expiration of a period of six months from the date of

its dissolution:

Provided that where the remainder of the period for which the dissolved

corporation would have continued, is less than six months, it shall not be necessary

to hold any election, under this sub-section for constituting the corporation for such

period.

Tamil Nadu Act

V of 1920.

7. (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-sections (2) and (3), the

Tamil Nadu District Municipalities Act, 1920 (hereinafter referred to as the “District

Municipalities Act”) shall, with effect on and from the date of the commencement

of this Act, cease to apply to the local area comprised within the city of Sivakasi.

Tamil Nadu District

Municipalities

Act, 1920 not to

apply.

(2) Such cessor shall not affect,—

(a) the previous operation of the District Municipalities Act in

respect of the local area comprised within the city of Sivakasi;

(b) any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of

any offence committed against the District Municipalities Act; or

of such penalty, forfeiture or punishment, and any such penalty, forfeiture or

punishment may be imposed as if this Act had not been passed.

(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), all

appointments, notifications, notices, rules, bye-laws, regulations, orders, directions,

licences, permissions, schemes, forms and powers, made or issued or conferred

under the District Municipalities Act and in force on the date of the commencement

of this Act shall, so far as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this

Act, continue to be in force in the local area comprised within the city of Sivakasi

until they are replaced by the appointments, notifications, notices, rules, bye-laws,

regulations, orders, directions, licences, permissions, schemes, forms and powers

to be made or issued or conferred under this Act.

8. (1) Save as otherwise expressly provided herein, all the provisions of

the 1981 Act, including the provisions relating to the levy and collection of any tax

or fee are hereby extended to and shall apply, mutatis mutandis to the corporation

and the 1981 Act shall, in relation to the corporation, be read and construed as if

the provisions of this Act had formed part of the 1981 Act.

Application of

provisions of

1981 Act to

corporation.

(2) For the purpose of facilitating the application of the provisions of

the 1981 Act to the corporation, the Government may, by notification, make such

adaptations and modifications of the 1981 Act and the rules and bye-laws made

thereunder, whether by way of repealing, amending or suspending any provisions

thereof, as may be necessary or expedient and thereupon, the 1981 Act and the

rules made thereunder, shall apply to the corporation subject to the adaptations

and modifications so made.

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(3) Notwithstanding that no provision or insufficient provision has

been made under sub-section (2) for the adaptation of the provisions of the 1981

Act, or the rules and bye-laws made thereunder, any court, tribunal or authority

required or empowered to enforce these provisions may, for the purpose of

facilitating their application to the corporation, construe these provisions in such

manner, without affecting the substance, as may be necessary or proper having

regard to the matter before the court, tribunal or authority.

(4) In the 1981 Act as extended and applied to the city of Sivakasi,—

(a) any reference to the city of Coimbatore and Coimbatore

municipality, shall by reason of this Act, be construed as a reference to the city

of Sivakasi and Sivakasi municipality, respectively; and

(b) any reference to the Coimbatore Corporation, Corporation of

Coimbatore and Municipal Corporation of Coimbatore, shall by reason of this Act,

be construed as a reference to the Sivakasi Corporation, Corporation of Sivakasi

and Municipal Corporation of Sivakasi, respectively.

Transitional

provisions.

9. (1) All property, all rights of whatever kind, used, enjoyed or possessed

by and all interests of whatever kind owned by or vested in, or held in trust by or for

the municipal council with all rights of whatever kind used, enjoyed or possessed

by the municipal council as well as all liabilities legally subsisting against the

municipal council, on and from the date of the commencement of this Act and

subject to such directions as the Government may, by general or special order,

give in this behalf, vest with the corporation.

(2) All arrears of taxes or other payments by way of composition for

a tax, or due for expenses or compensation, or otherwise due to the municipal

council on the date of such commencement may be recovered as if they had

accrued to the corporation and may be recovered as if such arrears or payments

had become due, under the provisions of this Act.

(3) All taxes, fees and duties, which immediately before the date of the

commencement of this Act were being levied by the municipal council shall be

deemed to have been levied by the corporation under the provisions of this Act

and shall continue to be in force accordingly until such taxes, fees and duties are

revised, cancelled or superseded by anything done or any action taken under this

Act.

(4) All proceedings taken by, or against, the municipal council or authority

or any person under the District Municipalities Act may be continued by, or against,

the corporation, authority or person as if such proceedings had been commenced

under the provisions of this Act.

(5) Any action taken under the District Municipalities Act, by any

authority before the date of such commencement shall be deemed to have been

taken by the authority competent to take such action under this Act as if this Act

had been in force.

(6) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, every officer

or employee who, immediately before the date of the commencement of this Act,

was in the service of the municipality shall, on and from the date of such

commencement, be deemed to be an officer or employee of the corporation:

Provided that—

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(a) the terms and conditions applicable to such officers and employees

consequent on their absorption in the service of the corporation shall not be less

favourable than those applicable to such employees immediately before the date

of such commencement, as regards pay and allowances, leave, pension, gratuity,

provident fund and age of superannuation; and

(b) the service rendered by any such officer or other employee under the

municipality upto the date of such commencement shall be deemed to be service

under the corporation and he shall be entitled to count that service for the purpose

of increment, leave, pension, provident fund and gratuity:

Provided further that any officer or other employee serving in the

municipality shall be given an option to be exercised within such time and in

such manner as may be prescribed either to be absorbed in the service of the

corporation or to be transferred to the service referred to in Section 73-A of the

District Municipalities Act or to be retrenched from the service of the municipality

on such retrenchment benefits as may be prescribed.

(7) Any division of the Sivakasi municipality into wards, made under the

District Municipalities Act, and in force on the date of the commencement of this

Act shall be deemed to be a division of the corporation until altered.

(8) The electoral roll prepared for the Sivakasi municipality under the District

Municipalities Act, and in force on the date of the commencement of this Act, shall

be deemed to be the electoral roll for the corporation until a new electoral roll

is prepared and published and the part of the said electoral roll relating to each

ward of the municipality shall be deemed to be the list of the electoral roll for the

corresponding division of the corporation.

10. (1) There shall be appointed by the Government, by notification, a Special

Officer to exercise the powers, perform the duties and discharge the functions of—

Appointment of

Special Officer.

(a) the council,

(b) the standing committee,

(d) the wards committee.

(2) The Special Officer shall exercise the powers, perform the duties and

discharge the functions,—

(a) of the corporation, until the elected councillors come into office;

(b) of the standing committee, until a standing committee is

appointed by the corporation; and

by the Government and such officer may, if the Government so direct, receive

remuneration for his services from the municipal fund.

(3) Until a new Special Officer is appointed by the Government under sub-

section (1), the Special Officer of the municipality functioning immediately before

the date of commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be the Special Officer

of the corporation and he shall exercise the powers and perform the duties and

discharge the functions as those exercised, performed and discharged by the

Special Officer appointed under sub-section (1).

(4) The Special Officer appointed under sub-section (1) shall hold office

for six months from the date of his appointment or until the day on which the first

meeting of the council is held after ordinary elections to the corporation which ever

is earlies.

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Power to make

rules.

11. (1) The Government may make rules for carrying out the purposes of this

Act.

(2) (a) All rules made under this Act shall be published in the Tamil

Nadu Government Gazette and, unless they are expressed to come into force on

a particular day, shall come into force on the day on which they are so published.

(b) All notifications issued under this Act shall, unless they are

expressed to come into force on a particular day, come into force on the day on

which they are so published.

(3) Every rule made or notification or order issued under this Act

shall, as soon as possible, after it is made or issued, be placed on the table of

the Legislative Assembly, and if, before the expiry of the session in which it is so

placed or the next session, the Assembly makes any modification in any such

rule or notification or order, or the Assembly decides that the rule or notification or

order should not be made or issued, the rule or notification or order shall thereafter

have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be, so,

however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the

validity of anything previously done under that rule or notification or order.

Power to remove

difficulties.

12.

any

difficulty

arises

giving

effect

the

provisions

this Act,

the

Government

may,

order

published

the

Tamil Nadu Government Gazette, make such provisions not inconsistent with the

provisions of this Act as appear to them to be necessary or expedient for removing

the difficulty.

Provided that no such order shall be made after the expiry of two years from

the date of the commencement of this Act.

Repeal and

saving.

13. (1) The Sivakasi City Municipal Corporation Act, 2021 is hereby

repealed.

Tamil Nadu Act

2 of 2021.

(2) Not with standing such repeal, anything done, any action taken

or any direction given under the said Act, shall be deemed to have been done,

taken or given under this Act.

(By order of the Governor)

C. GOPI RAVIKUMAR,

Secretary to Government (Legislation),

Law Department.

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The following Act of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly received

the assent of the Governor on the 21st January 2022 and is hereby

published for general information: —

Act No. 4 of 2022.

An Act to provide for the Establishment of a Municipal Corporation

for the City of Karur.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of

Tamil Nadu in the Seventy-second Year of the Republic of India as

follows:—

1. (1) This Act may be called the Karur City Municipal Corporation Act, 2022.

Short title,

extent and

commence-

ment.

(2) It extends to the city of Karur.

(3) It shall be deemend to have come into force on the

21st day of October 2021.

2. (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

Definitions.

(a) “city of Karur” or “city” means the local area comprised in the Karur

municipality and includes any local area which, after the date of the commencement

of this Act, is included in the city but does not include any local area which, after

such date of the commencement of this Act, is excluded from the city;

(b) “corporation” means the municipal corporation of Karur

established under section 3;

(d) “Government” means the State Government;

(e) “municipal council” means the municipal council of Karur

municipality;

(f) “municipality” means the Karur municipality;

(g) “Scheduled Castes” and “Scheduled Tribes” shall have the

meanings, respectively, assigned to them in clauses (24) and (25) of Article 366 of

the Constitution.

Tamil Nadu Act

25 of 1981.

(2) All words and expressions used in this Act and not defined but

defined in the Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation Act, 1981 (hereinafter referred

to as the “1981 Act”), shall have the meanings, respectively, assigned to them in the

1981 Act.

3. (1) With effect on and from the date of the commencement of this Act,

the local area included in the Karur municipality shall constitute the city of Karur for

the purposes of this Act and from such date of the commencement of this Act, a

municipal corporation shall be deemed to have been established for the said city by

the name of Karur City Municipal Corporation:

Establishment

of municipal

corporation

for city of

Karur.

Provided that the Government may, from time to time, after consultation

with the corporation, by notification, alter the limits of the city constituted under this

sub-section so as to include therein or to exclude therefrom the areas specified in

the notification:

Provided further that the power to issue a notification under this

sub-section shall be subject to previous publication.

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(2) The corporation shall, by the said name, be a body corporate,

having perpetual succession and a common seal with power to acquire, hold and

dispose of property and to enter into contracts and may by its corporate name, sue and

be sued.

(3) The Karur municipality, functioning immediately before the

date of the commencement of this Act, shall be deemed to have been abolished

from such date of the commencement of this Act.

4. The municipal authorities charged with carrying out the provisions of

this Act shall be,—

Municipal

authorities.

(a) a Mayor;

(b) a council;

(d) a wards committee; and

(e) a commissioner.

5. (1) Save as otherwise provided in sub-section (2), the council shall

consist of such number of councillors elected in the manner laid down in this Act as

may be fixed by the Government, by notification, from time to time, so, however, that

the total number of councillors of the council shall not exceed seventy two at any

time.

Constitution of

council.

(2) The following persons shall also be represented in the council,

namely:—

(a) the members of the House of the People representing

constituencies which comprise wholly or partly the area of the corporation and

the members of the Council of States registered as electors within the area of the

corporation;

(b) all the members of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly

representing constituencies which comprise wholly or partly the area of the

corporation.

(3) The persons referred to in sub-section (2) shall be entitled to take

part in the proceedings but shall not have the right to vote in the meetings of the

council.

(4) Seats shall be reserved for the persons belonging to the

Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in the council and the number of

seats so reserved shall bear, as nearly as may be, the same proportion to the total

number of seats to be filled by direct election in the council as the population of the

Scheduled Castes in the city or of the Scheduled Tribes in the city bears to the total

population of the city.

(5) Seats shall be reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled

Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, from among the seats reserved for the persons

belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, which shall not

be less than fifty per cent. of the total number of seats reserved for the persons

belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes.

(6) Seats shall be reserved for women in the council and the

number of seats reserved for women shall not be less than fifty per cent. including

the number of seats reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes and

Scheduled Tribes of the total number of seats in the council.

(7) The reservation of seats under sub-sections (4) and (5) shall

cease to have effect on the expiry of the period specified in Article 334 of the

Constitution.

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6. (1) The corporation, unless sooner dissolved, shall continue for five

years from the date appointed for its first meeting after each ordinary election and

no longer and the said period of five years shall operate as a dissolution of the

corporation.

Duration of

corporation.

(2) An election to constitute the corporation shall be completed,—

(a) before the expiry of its duration specified in sub-section (1); or

(b) before the expiration of a period of six months from the date

of its dissolution:

Provided that where the remainder of the period for which the dissolved

corporation would have continued, is less than six months, it shall not be necessary

to hold any election, under this sub-section for constituting the corporation for such

period.

Tamil Nadu Act

V of 1920.

(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-sections (2) and (3), the

Tamil Nadu District Municipalities Act, 1920 (hereinafter referred to as the “District

Municipalities Act”) shall, with effect on and from the date of the commencement of

this Act, cease to apply to the local area comprised within the city of Karur.

Tamil Nadu

District

Municipalities

Act, 1920

not to apply.

(2) Such cessor shall not affect,—

(a) the previous operation of the District Municipalities Act

in respect of the local area comprised within the city of Karur;

(b) any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect

of any offence committed against the District Municipalities Act; or

respect of such penalty, forfeiture or punishment, and any such penalty, forfeiture or

punishment may be imposed as if this Act had not been passed.

(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), all

appointments, notifications, notices, rules, bye-laws, regulations,orders,

directions, licences, permissions, schemes, forms and powers, made or issued

or conferred under the District Municipalities Act and in force on the date of the

commencement of this Act shall, so far as they are not inconsistent with the

provisions of this Act, continue to be in force in the local area comprised within

the city of Karur until they are replaced by the appointments, notifications, notices,

rules, bye-laws, regulations, orders, directions, licences, permissions, schemes,

forms and powers to be made or issued or conferred under this Act.

8. (1) Save as otherwise expressly provided herein, all the provisions of

the 1981 Act, including the provisions relating to the levy and collection of any tax

or fee are hereby extended to and shall apply, mutatis mutandis to the corporation

and the 1981 Act shall, in relation to the corporation, be read and construed as if the

provisions of this Act had formed part of the 1981 Act.

Application of

provisions of

1981 Act to

corporation.

(2) For the purpose of facilitating the application of the provisions of the

1981 Act to the corporation, the Government may, by notification, make such

adaptations and modifications of the 1981 Act and the rules and bye-laws made

thereunder, whether by way of repealing, amending or suspending any provisions

thereof, as may be necessary or expedient and thereupon, the 1981 Act and the

rules made thereunder, shall apply to the corporation subject to the adaptations and

modifications so made.

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(3) Notwithstanding that no provision or insufficient provision has been made under

sub-section (2) for the adaptation of the provisions of the 1981 Act, or the rules and

bye-laws made thereunder, any court, tribunal or authority required or empowered

to enforce these provisions may, for the purpose of facilitating their application to

the corporation, construe these provisions in such manner, without affecting the

substance, as may be necessary or proper having regard to the matter before the

court, tribunal or authority.

(4) In the 1981 Act as extended and applied to the city of Karur,—

(a) any reference to the city of Coimbatore and Coimbatore

municipality, shall by reason of this Act, be construed as a reference to the city

of Karur and Karur municipality, respectively; and

(b) any reference to the Coimbatore Corporation, Corporation of

Coimbatore and Municipal Corporation of Coimbatore, shall by reason of this Act,

be construed as a reference to the Karur Corporation, Corporation of Karur and

Municipal Corporation of Karur, respectively.

Transitional

provisions.

9. (1) All property, all rights of whatever kind, used, enjoyed or possessed by

and all interests of whatever kind owned by or vested in, or held in trust by or for

the municipal council with all rights of whatever kind used, enjoyed or possessed by

the municipal council as well as all liabilities legally subsisting against the municipal

council, on and from the date of the commencement of this Act and subject to such

directions as the Government may, by general or special order, give in this behalf,

vest with the corporation.

(2) All arrears of taxes or other payments by way of composition for a tax,

or due for expenses or compensation, or otherwise due to the municipal council on

the date of such commencement may be recovered as if they had accrued to the

corporation and may be recovered as if the said arrears or payments had become

due, under the provisions of this Act.

(3) All taxes, fees and duties, which immediately before the date of the

commencement of this Act were being levied by the municipal council shall be

deemed to have been levied by the corporation under the provisions of this Act

and shall continue to be in force accordingly until such taxes, fees and duties are

revised, cancelled or superseded by anything done or any action taken under this

Act.

(4) All proceedings taken by, or against, the municipal council or authority

or any person under the District Municipalities Act may be continued by, or against,

the corporation, authority or person as if such proceedings had been commenced

under the provisions of this Act.

(5) Any action taken under the District Municipalities Act, by any authority

before the date of such commencement shall be deemed to have been taken by

the authority competent to take such action under this Act as if this Act had been in

force.

(6) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, every officer or employee

who, immediately before the date of the commencement of this Act, was in the

service of the municipality shall, on and from the date of such commencement,

be deemed to be an officer or employee of the corporation:

Provided that—

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(a) the terms and conditions applicable to such officers and employees

consequent on their absorption in the service of the corporation shall not be less

favourable than those applicable to such employees immediately before the date

of such commencement, as regards pay and allowances, leave, pension, gratuity,

provident fund and age of superannuation; and

(b) the service rendered by any such officer or other employee under the

municipality upto the date of such commencement shall be deemed to be service

under the corporation and he shall be entitled to count that service for the purpose

of increment, leave, pension, provident fund and gratuity:

Provided further that any officer or other employee serving in the municipality

shall be given an option to be exercised within such time and in such manner as

may be prescribed either to be absorbed in the service of the corporation or to be

transferred to the service referred to in section 73-A of the District Municipalities

Act or to be retrenched from the service of the municipality on such retrenchment

benefits as may be prescribed.

(7) Any division of the Karur municipality into wards, made under the District

Municipalities Act, and in force on the date of the commencement of this Act shall

be deemed to be a division of the corporation until altered.

(8) The electoral roll prepared for the Karur municipality under the District

Municipalities Act, and in force on the date of the commencement of this Act, shall

be deemed to be the electoral roll for the corporation until a new electoral roll is

prepared and published and the part of the electoral roll relating to each ward of the

municipality shall be deemed to be the list of the electoral roll for the corresponding

division of the corporation.

10. (1) There shall be appointed by the Government, by notification, a Special

Officer to exercise the powers, perform the duties and discharge the functions of—

Appointment

of Special

Officer.

(a) the council,

(b) the standing committee,

(d) the wards committee.

(2) The Special Officer shall exercise the powers, perform the duties and

discharge the functions,—

(a) of the corporation, until the elected councillors come into office;

(b) of the standing committee, until a standing committee is appointed

by the corporation; and

Government and such officer may, if the Government so direct, receive remuneration

for his services from the municipal fund.

(3) Until a new Special Officer is appointed by the Government under

sub-section (1), the Special Officer of the municipality functioning immediately

before the date of commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be the Special

Officer of the corporation and he shall exercise the powers and perform the duties

and discharge the functions as those exercised, performed and discharged by the

Special Officer appointed under sub-section (1).

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(4) The Special Officer appointed under sub-section (1) shall

hold office for six months from the date of his appointment or until the day on which

the first meeting of the council is held after ordinary elections to the corporation,

which ever is eavlies

Power to make

rules.

11. (1) The Government may make rules for carrying out the purposes of

this Act.

(2) (a) All rules made under this Act shall be published in the

Tamil Nadu Government Gazette and, unless they are expressed to come into force

on a particular day, shall come into force on the day on which they are so published.

(b) All notifications issued under this Act shall, unless they are

expressed to come into force on a particular day, come into force on the day on

which they are so published.

(3) Every rule made or notification or order issued under this Act

shall, as soon as possible, after it is made or issued, be placed on the table of

the Legislative Assembly, and if, before the expiry of the session in which it is so

placed or the next session, the Assembly makes any modification in any such rule

or notification or order, or the Assembly decides that the rule or notification or order

should not be made or issued, the rule or notification or order shall thereafter have

effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be, so, however,

that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of

anything previously done under that rule or notification or order.

Power to

remove

difficulties.

12. If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this Act, the

Government may, by an order published in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette,

make such provisions not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act as appear to

them to be necessary or expedient for removing the difficulty.

Provided that no such order shall be made after the expiry of two years from

the date of the commencement of this Act.

Repeal and

saving.

13. (1) The Karur City Municipal Corporation Ordinance, 2021 is hereby

repealed.

Tamil Nadu

Ordinance

4 of 2021.

(2) Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done, any action taken or

any direction given under the said ordinance, shall be deemed to have been

done, taken or given under this Act.

(By order of the Governor)

C. GOPI RAVIKUMAR,

Secretary to Government (Legislation),

Law Department.

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The following Act of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly received

the assent of the Governor on the 21st January 2022 and is hereby

published for general information: —

Act No. 5 of 2022

An Act to provide for the Establishment of a Municipal

Corporation for the City of Tambaram.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of

Tamil Nadu in the Seventy-second Year of the Republic of India as

follows:—

1. (1) This Act may be called the Tambaram City Municipal Corporation

Act, 2022.

Short title,

extent and

commencement.

(2) It extends to the city of Tambaram.

(3) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 3rd day of

November 2021.

2. (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

Definitions.

(a) “city of Tambaram” or “city” means the local area comprised

in the Tambaram municipality and includes any local area which, after the

date of the commencement of this Act, is included in the city but does not

include any local area which, after such date of the commencement of this

Act, is excluded from the city;

(b) “corporation” means the municipal corporation of Tambaram

established under section 3;

Tambaram;

(d) “Government” means the State Government;

(e) “municipal council” means the municipal council of Tambaram

municipality;

(f) “municipality” means the Tambaram municipality;

(g) “Scheduled Castes” and "Scheduled Tribes" shall have the

meanings, respectively, assigned to them in clauses (24) and (25) of

Article 366 of the Constitution.

Tamil Nadu Act

25 of 1981.

(2) All words and expressions used in this Act and not

defined but defined in the Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation Act,

1981 (hereinafter referred to as the “1981 Act”), shall have the meanings,

respectively, assigned to them in the 1981 Act.

3. (1) With effect on and from the date of the commencement of this

Act, the local area included in the Tambaram municipality shall constitute

the city of Tambaram for the purposes of this Act and from such date of

the commencement of this Act, a municipal corporation shall be deemed

to have been established for the said city by the name of Tambaram City

Municipal Corporation:

Establishment

of municipal

corporation for

city of Tambaram.

Provided that the Government may, from time to time, after

consultation with the corporation, by notification, alter the limits of the city

constituted under this sub-section so as to include therein or to exclude

therefrom the areas specified in the notification:

Provided further that the power to issue a notification under this

sub-section shall be subject to previous publication.

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(2) The corporation shall, by the said name, be a body

corporate, having perpetual succession and a common seal with power to

acquire, hold and dispose of property and to enter into contracts and may

by its corporate name, sue and be sued.

(3) The Tambaram municipality, functioning immediately

before the date of the commencement of this Act, shall be deemed to

have been abolished from such date of the commencement of this Act.

Municipal

authorities.

4. The municipal authorities charged with carrying out the

provisions of this Act shall be,—

(1) a Mayor;

(2) a council;

(3) a standing committee;

(4) a wards committee; and

(5) a commissioner.

Constitution of

council.

5. (1) Save as otherwise provided in sub-section (2), the council

shall consist of such number of councillors elected inthe manner laid down

in this Act as may be fixed by the Government, by notification, from time to

time, so, however, that the total number of councillors of the council shall

not exceed seventy-two at any time.

(2) The following persons shall also be represented in the

council, namely:—

(a) the members of the House of the People representing

constituencies which comprise wholly or partly the area of the corporation

and the members of the Council of States registered as electors within the

area of the corporation;

(b) all the members of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly

representing constituencies which comprise wholly or partly the area of

the corporation.

(3) The persons referred to in sub-section (2) shall be entitled to take

part in the proceedings but shall not have the right to vote in the meetings of

the council.

(4) Seats shall be reserved for the persons belonging to

the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in the council and the

number of seats so reserved shall bear, as nearly as may be, the same

proportion to the total number of seats to be filled by direct election in the

council as the population of the Scheduled Castes in the city or of the

Scheduled Tribes in the city bears to the total population of the city.

(5) Seats shall be reserved for women belonging to the

Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, from among the seats

reserved for the persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the

Scheduled Tribes, which shall not be less than fifty per cent. of the total

number of seats reserved for the persons belonging to the Scheduled

Castes and the Scheduled Tribes.

(6) Seats shall be reserved for women in the council and

the number of seats reserved for women shall not be less than fifty per

cent. including the number of seats reserved for women belonging to the

Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes of the total number of seats in

the council.

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(7) The reservation of seats under sub-sections (4) and (5) shall

cease to have effect on the expiry of the period specified in Article 334 of

the Constitution.

6. (1) The corporation, unless sooner dissolved, shall continue

for five years from the date appointed for its first meeting after each

ordinary election and no longer and the said period of five years shall

operate as a dissolution of the corporation.

Duration of

corporation.

(2) An election to constitute the corporation shall be completed,—

(a) before the expiry of its duration specified in sub-section

(1); or

(b) before the expiration of a period of six months from the

date of its dissolution:

Provided that where the remainder of the period for which the

dissolved corporation would have continued, is less than six months, it

shall not be necessary to hold any election, under this sub-section for

constituting the corporation for such period.

Tamil Nadu Act V

of 1920.

7. (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-sections (2) and (3), the

Tamil Nadu District Municipalities Act, 1920 (hereinafter referred to as the

“District Municipalities Act”) shall, with effect on and from the date of the

commencement of this Act, cease to apply to the local area comprised

within the city of Tambaram.

Tamil Nadu District

Municipalities Act,

1920 not to apply.

(2) Such cessor shall not affect,—

(a) the previous operation of the District Municipalities Act in

respect of the local area comprised within the city of Tambaram;

(b) any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of

any offence committed against the District Municipalities Act; or

such penalty, forfeiture or punishment, and any such penalty, forfeiture or

punishment may be imposed as if this Act had not been passed.

(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), all

appointments, notifications, notices, rules, bye-laws,regulations, orders,

directions, licences, permissions, schemes, forms and powers, made or

issued or conferred under the District Municipalities Act and in force on

the date of the commencement of this Act shall, so far as they are not

inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, continue to be in force in the

local area comprised within the city of Tambaram until they are replaced

by the appointments, notifications, notices, rules, bye-laws, regulations,

orders, directions, licences, permissions, schemes, forms and powers to

be made or issued or conferred under this Act.

8. (1) Save as otherwise expressly provided herein, all the

provisions of the 1981 Act, including the provisions relating to the levy

and collection of any tax or fee are hereby extended to and shall apply,

mutatis mutandis to the corporation and the 1981 Act shall, in relation to

the corporation, be read and construed as if the provisions of this Act had

formed part of the 1981 Act.

Application of

provisions of

1981 Act to

corporation.

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(2) For the purpose of facilitating the application of the provisions

of the 1981 Act to the corporation, the Government may, by notification,

make such adaptations and modifications of the 1981 Act and the rules

and bye-laws made thereunder, whether by way of repealing, amending

or suspending any provisions thereof, as may be necessary or expedient

and thereupon, the 1981 Act and the rules made thereunder, shall apply

to the corporation subject to the adaptations and modifications so made.

(3) Notwithstanding that no provision or insufficient provision has

been made under sub-section (2) for the adaptation of the provisions of

the 1981 Act, or the rules and bye-laws made thereunder, any court,

tribunal or authority required or empowered to enforce these provisions

may, for the purpose of facilitating their application to the corporation,

construe these provisions in such manner, without affecting the substance,

as may be necessary or proper having regard to the matter before the

court, tribunal or authority.

(4) In the 1981 Act as extended and applied to the city of

Tambaram,—

(a) any reference to the city of Coimbatore and Coimbatore

municipality, shall by reason of this Act, be construed as a reference to the

city of Tambaram and Tambaram municipality, respectively; and

(b) any reference to the Coimbatore Corporation, Corporation

of Coimbatore and Municipal Corporation of Coimbatore, shall by reason

of this Act, be construed as a reference to the Tambaram Corporation,

Corporation of Tambaram and Municipal Corporation of Tambaram,

respectively.

Transitional

provisions.

9. (1) All property, all rights of whatever kind, used, enjoyed or

possessed by and all interests of whatever kind owned by or vested in,

or held in trust by or for the municipal council with all rights of whatever

kind used, enjoyed or possessed by the municipal council as well as all

liabilities legally subsisting against the municipal council, on and from the

date of the commencement of this Act and subject to such directions as

the Government may, by general or special order, give in this behalf, vest

with the corporation.

(2) All arrears of taxes or other payments by way of composition

for a tax, or due for expenses or compensation, or otherwise due to the

municipal council on the date of such commencement may be recovered

as if they had accrued to the corporation and may be recovered as if such

arrears or payments had become due, under the provisions of this Act.

(3) All taxes, fees and duties, which immediately before the

date of the commencement of this Act were being levied by the municipal

council shall be deemed to have been levied by the corporation under

the provisions of this Act and shall continue to be in force accordingly

until such taxes, fees and duties are revised, cancelled or superseded by

anything done or any action taken under this Act.

(4) All proceedings taken by, or against, the municipal council

or authority or any person under the District Municipalities Act may be

continued by, or against, the corporation, authority or person as if such

proceedings had been commenced under the provisions of this Act.

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(5) Any action taken under the District Municipalities Act, by

any authority before the date of such commencement shall be deemed to

have been taken by the authority competent to take such action under this

Act as if this Act had been in force.

(6) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, every officer

or employee who, immediately before the date of the commencement of

this Act, was in the service of the municipality shall, on and from the date

of such commencement, be deemed to be an officer or employee of the

corporation:

Provided that—

(a) the terms and conditions applicable to such officers and employees

consequent on their absorption in the service of the corporation shall not be

less favourable than those applicable to such employees immediately before

the date of such commencement, as regards pay and allowances, leave,

pension, gratuity, provident fund and age of superannuation; and

(b) the service rendered by any such officer or other employee

under the municipality upto the date of such commencement shall be

deemed to be service under the corporation and he shall be entitled to

count that service for the purpose of increment, leave, pension, provident

fund and gratuity:

Provided further that any officer or other employee serving in the

municipality shall be given an option to be exercised within such time and

in such manner as may be prescribed either to be absorbed in the service

of the corporation or to be transferred to the service referred to in section

73-A of the District Municipalities Act or to be retrenched from the service

of the municipality on such retrenchment benefits as may be prescribed.

(7) Any division of the Tambaram municipality into wards, made

under the District Municipalities Act, and in force on the date of the

commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be a division of the

corporation until altered.

(8) The electoral roll prepared for the Tambaram municipality under the

District Municipalities Act, and in force on the date of the commencement

of this Act, shall be deemed to be the electoral roll for the corporation until

a new electoral roll is prepared and published and the part of the electoral

roll relating to each ward of the municipality shall be deemed to be the list

of the electoral roll for the corresponding division of the corporation.

10. (1) There shall be appointed by the Government, by notification, a

Special Officer to exercise the powers, perform the duties and discharge

the functions of—

Appointment of

Special Officer.

(a) the council,

(b) the standing committee,

(d) the wards committee.

(2) The Special Officer shall exercise the powers, perform the duties

and discharge the functions,—

(a) of the corporation, until the elected councillors come into

office;

(b) of the standing committee, until a standing committee is

appointed by the corporation; and

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Government and such officer may, if the Government so direct, receive

remuneration for his services from the municipal fund.

(3) Until a new Special Officer is appointed by the Government

under sub-section (1), the Special Officer of the municipality functioning

immediately before the date of commencement of this Act shall be

deemed to be the Special Officer of the corporation and he shall exercise

the powers and perform the duties and discharge the functions as those

exercised, performed and discharged by the Special Officer appointed

under sub-section (1).

(4) The Special Officer appionted under sub-section (1) shall hold

office for six months from the date of his appointment or until the day on

which the first meeting of the Council is held after ordinary election to the

corporation, is whichever is earlier.

Power to make

rules.

11. (1) The Government may make rules for carrying out the

purposes of this Act.

(2) (a) All rules made under this Act shall be published in the

Tamil Nadu Government Gazette and, unless they are expressed to come

into force on a particular day, shall come into force on the day on which

they are so published.

(b) All notifications issued under this Act shall, unless they

are expressed to come into force on a particular day, come into force on

the day on which they are so published.

(3) Every rule made or notification or order issued under

this Act shall, as soon as possible, after it is made or issued, be placed

on the table of the Legislative Assembly, and if, before the expiry of the

session in which it is so placed or the next session, the Assembly makes

any modification in any such rule or notification or order, or the Assembly

decides that the rule or notification or order should not be made or issued,

the rule or notification or order shall thereafter have effect only in such

modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be, so, however, that

any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the

validity of anything previously done under that rule or notification or order.

Power to remove

difficulties.

12. If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions

of this Act, the Government may, by an order published in the

Tamil Nadu Government Gazette, make such provisions not inconsistent

with the provisions of this Act as appear to them to be necessary or

expedient for removing the difficulty.

Provided that no such order shall be made after the expiry of two years

from the date of the commencement of this Act.

Repeal and

saving.

13. (1) The Tambaram City Municipal Corporation Ordinance, 2021 is

hereby repealed.

Tamil Nadu

Ordinance

5 of 2021.

(2) Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done, any action taken or

any direction given under the said Ordinance, shall be deemed to have been

done, taken or given under this Act.

(By order of the Governor)

C. GOPI RAVIKUMAR,

Secretary to Government (Legislation),

Law Department.

TAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY

The following Act of the Tamil Nadu Legistative Assembly

received the assent of the Governor on the 21st January 2022 and

is hereby published for general information: —

Act No. 6 of 2022

An Act to provide for the Establishment of a Municipal

Corporation for the City of Kumbakonam.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of

Tamil Nadu in the Seventy-second Year of the Republic of India as

follows:—

1. (1) This Act may be called the Kumbakonam City Municipal

Corporation Act, 2022.

Short title, extent and

commencement.

(2) It extends to the city of Kumbakonam.

(3) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the

20th day of December 2021.

2. (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

Definitions.

(a) “city of Kumbakonam” or “city” means the local

area comprised in the Kumbakonam municipality and includes any

local area which, after the date of the commencement of this Act, is

included in the city but does not include any local area which, after

such date of the commencement of this Act, is excluded from the

city;

(b) “corporation” means the municipal corporation of

Kumbakonam established under section 3;

of Kumbakonam;

(d) “Government” means the State Government;

(e) “municipal council” means the municipal council of

Kumbakonam municipality;

(f) “municipality” means the Kumbakonam municipality;

(g) “Scheduled Castes” and “Scheduled Tribes” shall

have the meanings, respectively, assigned to them in clauses (24)

and (25) of Article 366 of the Constitution.

(2) All words and expressions used in this Act and not

defined but defined in the Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation

Act, 1981 (hereinafter referred to as the “1981 Act”), shall have the

meanings, respectively, assigned to them in the 1981 Act.

Tamil Nadu Act 25 of

1981.

Establishment

of municipal

corporation for city

of Kumbakonam.

3. (1) With effect on and from the date of the commencement

of this Act, the local area included in the Kumbakonam municipality

shall constitute the city of Kumbakonam for the purposes of this Act

and from such date of the commencement of this Act, a municipal

corporation shall be deemed to have been established for the said

city by the name of Kumbakonam City Municipal Corporation:

Provided that the Government may, from time to time, after

consultation with the corporation, by notification, alter the limits of

the city constituted under this sub-section so as to include therein

or to exclude therefrom the areas specified in the notification:

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Provided further that the power to issue a notification

under this sub-section shall be subject to previous publication.

(2) The corporation shall, by the said name, be a body

corporate, having perpetual succession and a common seal with

power to acquire, hold and dispose of property and to enter into

contracts and may by its corporate name, sue and be sued.

(3) The Kumbakonam municipality, functioning immediately

before the date of the commencement of this Act, shall be deemed

to have been abolished from such date of the commencement of

this Act.

Municipal

authorities.

4. The municipal authorities charged with carrying out the

provisions of this Act shall be,—

(a) a Mayor;

(b) a council;

(d) a wards committee; and

(e) a commissioner.

Constitution of

council.

5. (1) Save as otherwise provided in sub-section (2), the

council shall consist of such number of councillors elected in the

manner laid down in this Act as may be fixed by the Government, by

notification, from time to time, so, however, that the total number of

councillors of the council shall not exceed seventy two at any time.

(2) The following persons shall also be represented in the

council, namely:—

(a) the members of the House of the People

representing constituencies which comprise wholly or partly the

area of the corporation and the members of the Council of States

registered as electors within the area of the corporation;

(b) all the members of the Tamil Nadu Legislative

Assembly representing constituencies which comprise wholly or

partly the area of the corporation.

(3) The persons referred to in sub-section (2) shall be

entitled to take part in the proceedings but shall not have the right

to vote in the meetings of the council.

(4) Seats shall be reserved for the persons belonging to

the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in the council and

the number of seats so reserved shall bear, as nearly as may be,

the same proportion to the total number of seats to be filled by direct

election in the council as the population of the Scheduled Castes

in the city or of the Scheduled Tribes in the city bears to the total

population of the city.

(5) Seats shall be reserved for women belonging to the

Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, from among the seats

reserved for the persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes and

the Scheduled Tribes, which shall not be less than fifty per cent of

the total number of seats reserved for the persons belonging to the

Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes.

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(6) Seats shall be reserved for women in the council and

the number of seats reserved for women shall not be less than

fifty per cent including the number of seats reserved for women

belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes of the

total number of seats in the council.

(7) The reservation of seats under sub-sections (4) and (5)

shall cease to have effect on the expiry of the period specified in

Article 334 of the Constitution.

6. (1) The corporation, unless sooner dissolved, shall

continue for five years from the date appointed for its first meeting

after each ordinary election and no longer and the said period of

five years shall operate as a dissolution of the corporation.

Duration of

corporation.

(2) An election to constitute the corporation shall be

completed,—

(a) before the expiry of its duration specified in

sub-section (1); or

(b) before the expiration of a period of six months from

the date of its dissolution:

Provided that where the remainder of the period for

which the dissolved corporation would have continued, is less than

six months, it shall not be necessary to hold any election, under this

sub-section for constituting the corporation for such period.

Tamil Nadu Act V of

1920.

7. (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-sections (2) and (3),

the Tamil Nadu District Municipalities Act, 1920 (hereinafter referred

to as the “District Municipalities Act”) shall, with effect on and from

the date of the commencement of this Act, cease to apply to the

local area comprised within the city of Kumbakonam.

Tamil Nadu District

Municipalities Act,

1920 not to apply.

(2) Such cessor shall not affect,—

(a) the previous operation of the District Municipalities

Act in respect of the local area comprised within the city of

Kumbakonam;

(b) any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in

respect of any offence committed against the District Municipalities

Act; or

in respect of such penalty, forfeiture or punishment, and any such

penalty, forfeiture or punishment may be imposed as if this Act had

not been passed.

(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1),

all appointments, notifications, notices, rules, bye-laws, regulations,

orders, directions, licences, permissions, schemes, forms and

powers, made or issued or conferred under the District Municipalities

Act and in force on the date of the commencement of this Act shall,

so far as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act,

continue to be in force in the local area comprised within the city

of Kumbakonam until they are replaced by the appointments,

notifications, notices, rules, bye-laws, regulations, orders, directions,

licences, permissions, schemes, forms and powers to be made or

issued or conferred under this Act.

TAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY

Application of

provisions of 1981

Act to corporation.

8. (1) Save as otherwise expressly provided herein, all the

provisions of the 1981 Act, including the provisions relating to the

levy and collection of any tax or fee are hereby extended to and

shall apply, mutatis mutandis to the corporation and the 1981 Act

shall, in relation to the corporation, be read and construed as if the

provisions of this Act had formed part of the 1981 Act.

(2) For the purpose of facilitating the application of the

provisions of the 1981 Act to the corporation, the Government may,

by notification, make such adaptations and modifications of the

1981 Act and the rules and bye-laws made thereunder, whether by

way of repealing, amending or suspending any provisions thereof,

as may be necessary or expedient and thereupon, the 1981 Act and

the rules made thereunder, shall apply to the corporation subject to

the adaptations and modifications so made.

(3) Notwithstanding that no provision or insufficient

provision has been made under sub-section (2) for the adaptation

of the provisions of the 1981 Act, or the rules and bye-laws made

thereunder, any court, tribunal or authority required or empowered

to enforce these provisions may, for the purpose of facilitating their

application to the corporation, construe these provisions in such

manner, without affecting the substance, as may be necessary

or proper having regard to the matter before the court, tribunal or

authority.

(4) In the 1981 Act as extended and applied to the city of

Kumbakonam,—

(a) any reference to the city of Coimbatore and

Coimbatore municipality, shall by reason of this Act, be construed

as a reference to the city of Kumbakonam and Kumbakonam

municipality, respectively; and

(b) any reference to the Coimbatore Corporation,

Corporation of Coimbatore and Municipal Corporation of

Coimbatore, shall by reason of this Act, be construed as a reference

to the Kumbakonam Corporation, Corporation of Kumbakonam and

Municipal Corporation of Kumbakonam, respectively.