Section 36: Annual election of Mayor, Deputy Mayor and their term of office.

The Jammu and Kashmir Municipal Corporation Act, 2000Union territory Act of Jammu and Kashmir · Act 21 of 2000

(1) The Corporation shall at its first meeting [x x x x x] [elect through open ballot one of its Councillors] to be the Chairperson to be known as the Mayor and another Councillor to be known as the Deputy Mayor of the Corporation.

(2) The term of office of the Mayor and the Deputy Mayor of the Corporation shall be [co-terminus with the term of the Corporation], unless in the meantime he resigns his office as Mayor or Deputy Mayor or unless in the case of Deputy Mayor is elected as the Mayor and he shall cease to hold his office on the expiry of his term of office :

Provided that if the office of the Mayor or Deputy Mayor is vacated or falls vacant during the tenure on account of death, resignation or no-confidence motion, a fresh election within a period of one month of the vacancy shall be held from the same category, for the remainder period :

[Provided further that the term of the Mayor and the Deputy Mayor who have been elected as such before the commencement of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Adaptation of State Laws) Fifth Order, 2020 shall also be coterminus with the term of the Corporation.]

[x x x x].

(3) The Mayor and Deputy Mayor shall be entitled to the payment of such honorarium and may be given such facilities in respect of residential accommodation, telephone, conveyance and the like as may be prescribed by bye-laws.

(4) The Mayor of the Corporation shall have access to the record of the Corporation and issue directions to the Commissioner or other functionaries of the Corporation or call for reports from them with a view to ensuring proper implementation of the decision of the Corporation.

(5) The Mayor shall have such powers as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act and to implement the decisions of the Corporation.

Where this provision sits

Act	The Jammu and Kashmir Municipal Corporation Act, 2000
Section	36
Marginal note	Annual election of Mayor, Deputy Mayor and their term of office.
Jurisdiction	Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir
Status	In force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

omitted. . Words “and thereafter at the expiration of two years and six months,” omitted by S.O. 3466 (E) of 2020 dated 05.10.2020.
substituted, Act VIII of 2010. . Substituted by S.O. 3808 (E) dated 26.10.2020 for “elect one of its Councillors”. (For earlier amendments see Act VIII of 2010 and S.O. 3466(E) dated 05.10.2020.)
substituted, Act No. VIII of 2010. . Substituted ibid for “five years from the date of his election as such”. (For earlier amendment see Act No. VIII of 2010, and S.O. 3466(E) dated 05.10.2020.)
inserted. . Proviso inserted by S.O. 3808(E) dated 26.10.2020.
omitted. . Proviso omitted by S.O. 3466(E) dated 05.10.2020.

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