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Section 51: Constitution and term of Executive Committee

The Uttar Pradesh Municipal Corporation Act, 1959State Act of Uttar Pradesh · Act 2 of 1959

51. (1) The Executive Committee shall consist of-

(a) the [Mayor] who shall be ex-officio Chairman of the Executive Committee ; and

(b) twelve persons to be elected by the [Corporation] out of [Corporators] [***].

(2) The Executive Committee shall at its first meeting and at often thereafter as may be necessary on account of a vacancy in the office of Vice-Chairman, elect one of its members to be its Vice-Chairman.

(3) A Vice-Chairman shall cease to hold office as soon as he ceases to be a member of the Executive Committee.

(4) The persons referred to in clause (b) of sub-section (1) shall be elected by the 1 Corporation at its first meeting after general elections.

(5) One-half of the members of the Executive Committee shall retire every succeeding year at noon on the first day of the month in which the first meeting of the [Corporation] mentioned in sub-section (4) was held :

Provided that all the members of the Executive Committee in office when general elections are held shall retire from office on the election of a new Committee under sub-section (4).

(6) The members who shall retired under sub-section (5) one year after their election under sub-section (4) shall be selected by to at such time previous to the date for retirement specified in sub-section (5) and in such manner as the Chairman if the Executive Committee may determine, and in succeeding years the members who shall retire under this section shall be those who have been longest in office :Provided that, in the case of a member who has been reappointed, the term of his office for the purposes of this sub-section shall be computed from the date of his reappointment.

(7) The 1Corporation shall at its meeting held in the month preceding the date of retirement specified in sub-section (5) appoint fresh members of the Executive Committee to fill the offices of those who are due to retire on the said date.

(8) A casual vacancy in the seat of a member of the Committee shall be filled by electing a member for the remainder of the term of the member outgone ;

Provided that where the remainder of the term of the committee is less than two months, the vacancy shall not be filled unless the 1Corporation resolves otherwise.

(9) A retiring member shall be eligible for re-election.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Uttar Pradesh Municipal Corporation Act, 1959
Section51
Marginal noteConstitution and term of Executive Committee
JurisdictionState of Uttar Pradesh
StatusIn 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.

  • substituted. Subs. by sec. 2 U. P. Act no. 16 of 2004
  • substituted. Subs. by sec. 3 U. P. Act no. 12 of 1994
  • omitted. Omit. by sec. 17 of U. P. Act no. 12 of 1977.

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