(l) The State Election Commission shall, in consultation with the State Government designate or nominate a Municipal Electoral Registration Officer, who shall be an officer of the Government.
(2) The electoral roll for each Municipality shall be prepared and revised by a Municipal Electoral Registration Officer from time to time as directed by the State Election Commission.
(3) A Municipal Electoral Registration Officer may,subject to any prescribed restrictions, employ such persons as he thinks fit for the preparation and revision of the electoral roll for the Municipality.
7. Functions of Assistant Municipal Electoral Registration Officer.
The State Election Commissioner may appoint one or more persons as Assistant Municipal Electoral Registration Officer to assist any Municipal Electoral Registration Officer in the performance of his functions.
Every Assistant Municipal Electoral Registration Officer shall, subject to the direction and control of the Municipal Electoral Registration Officer, be competent to perform any of the functions of the Municipal Electoral Registration Officer.
General duty of the Municipal Returning Officer.
8. Subject to the superintendence, direction and control of duties the Commission, the District Municipal Election Officer of District shall supervise the conduct of all elections within his Municipal jurisdiction. The District Municipal Election Officer shall perform such other functions as may be entrusted to him by the Commission.
Municipal Returning Officer
9. (I) The State Election Commission shall, in consultation with the State Government designate or nominate a Returning Municipal Returning Officer and one or more Officer Assistant Municipal Returning Officer, who shall be an officer of the Government. There shall be a Municipal Returning Officer for every constituency for every election to fill a seat or seats in a Municipality :
Provided that nothing in this section shall prevent the Commission from designating or nominating the same person to be the Municipal Returning Officer for more than one constituency.
Assistant Municipal Returning Officer
10. Every Assistant Municipal Returning Officer shall, subject to the control of the Municipal Returning Officer, be competent to perform any of the functions of the Municipal, Returning Officer except scrutiny of nomination paper.
General Duty of the Municipal Returning Officer
11. It shall be the general duty of the Municipal Returning Officer at any election to do all such acts and things as may be necessary for effectually conducting the election in the manner provided by this Act or the rules or the orders made thereunder.
Provisions of polling stations for constituencies.
12. The Municipal Returning Officer shall, subject to such directions as may be issued by the Commission in this polling behalf, provide a sufficient number of polling stations for every constituency and shall publish, in such manner as the Commission may direct, a list showing the polling stations so provided and the polling areas or groups of voters for which they have respectively been provided.
Appointment of Presiding Officers and Polling Officers for Polling stations.