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Section 83: Removal of members

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

83. (1) The State Government may remove a member of the [Corporation] or of any Committee thereof on any of the following grounds ;

(a) that he has acted as a [***] [Corporator] or member of any Committee, as the case may be, by voting or taking part in the discussion of any matter other than a mater referred to in clause (e) of section 25 in which he has directly or indirectly a personal interest or in which he has professionally interested on behalf of a client, principal or other person ;

(b) that he has become physically or mentally incapacitated for performing his duties as such member ;

(c) that he has been guilty of gross misconduct in the discharge of his duty as such member :

Provided that no order of removal shall be made by the State Government under this section unless a [***] [Corporator] or member of Committee to whom it relates has been given a reasonable opportunity of showing cause why such order should not be made.

(2) The removal shall be made by notification in the official Gazette and shall become effective from the date of publication of such notification.

(3) The State Government may direct a member who is suffering from any of the serious infectious diseases to be specified by the State Government, by order not to attend any meeting of the [Corporation] or any Committee, Joint Committee or sub-committee thereof and any member who has been so directed shall not be qualified to attend any meeting of the [Corporation] or any Committee, Joint Committee or sub-committee thereof until upon his furnishing proof to the satisfaction of the State Government of his having been cured of the disease the State Government withdraw the direction.

(4) A person who has been removed from membership of the [Corporation] under sub-section (1) shall be disqualified for being elected and for being a member of the 1Corporation for a period of four years from the date of his removal, and a person who has been removed from the membership of any committee of the [Corporation] shall be disqualified for being elected or for being a member of such committee for a period of four years from the date of his removal.

Provided that the State Government may at any time by order remove the disqualification.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Uttar Pradesh Municipal Corporation Act, 1959
Section83
Marginal noteRemoval of members
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. 3 of U. P. Act no. 12 of 1994.
  • omitted. Omit. by sec. 22 of U. P. Act no. 12 of 1977.
  • substituted. Subs. by sec. 2 of U. P. Act no. 16 of 2004.

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