(1) All meetings of the Zila Parishad shall ordinarily be held at its headquarters and the order of the business to be transacted at every ordinary or special meetings shall be decided by the Chairman of the meeting.
(2) If a meeting ordinary or special, is adjourned for want of quorum a fresh notice of the meeting shall be given. If such an adjourned meeting is not held for want of quorum, no second adjourned meeting shall be convened and the agenda of the such adjourned meeting shall be considered in the next general meeting of the Zila Parishad.
(3) The minutes of the proceedings of a meeting of Zila Parishad shall be recorded in Hindi in Devnagri script in the proceedings book to be maintained by the District Panchayat Officer in his capacity as the Secretary of the Zila Parishad and the proceedings book shall remain in his custody.
(4) A copy of the proceedings of every meeting duly attested by Secretary of Zila Parishad shall be sent to the Director of Panchayati Raj within ten days from the date of meeting held and to the concerned heads of departments as well as concerned District Officer(s) of the concerned departments.
(5) Proceedings of every last meeting shall be read out at every subsequent meeting and the same shall be confirmed and signed by the Chairman of the meeting and the accounts for the past months shall be presented for the consideration and approval of the Zila Parishad. Item-wise income and expenditure statement of the ongoing development work being executed by the Panchayat Samiti shall be placed in the meeting on Form-34 for consideration and approval.
38 1 [(6) Except Deputy Commissioner of the District, the Zila Parishad may require any officer/official of the Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Education, Fisheries, Food and Supplies, Health and Family Welfare, Horticulture, Industries, Irrigation and Public Health, Public Works, Revenue, Rural Development, Social Welfare Departments or any other Department of the State or the Central Government or Semi Government Organization serving at the district level or Non-Government Organization or Public Sector Undertaking or Private Companies serving within the jurisdiction of the district to attend its meeting and tender advice etc. in respect of any matter which concerns the said Department or Non-Government Organization or Public Sector Undertaking or Private Companies to which such officer/official belongs and every such officer/official shall comply with such requisition.]