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Section 85: Penalty on specified municipal servants for failure to discharge their duties

Uttar Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1916State Act of Uttar Pradesh · Act 2 of 1916

85. (1) A sweeper employed by a Municipality who, -

(a) except in accordance with the terms of a written contract of service, or with the permission of the Municipality, resigns or abandons his employment, or

(b) without a reasonable cause of which notice has, when possible, been given to the Municipality, absents himself from his duties, shall be liable upon conviction to imprisonment which may extend to two months.

(2) The [Prescribed Authority] may direct that on and from specified future date the provisions of sub-section (1) shall apply also to any other specified class of servants employed by a Municipality whose functions intimately concern the public health or safety :

Provided that when a [Prescribed Authority] makes an order under this sub-section he shall forthwith forward a copy thereof, with a statement of his reasons for making it, to the [State Government] which may thereupon rescind the order or direct that it continue in force, with or without modification, permanently or for such period as it thinks fit.

Where this provision sits

ActUttar Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1916
Section85
Marginal notePenalty on specified municipal servants for failure to discharge their duties
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, U. P. Act VII of 1949. Subs. for (Commissioner) by sec. 60 of U. P. Act VII of 1949.
  • substituted. Subs. by A. O. 1950 for (Provl. Govt.), which had been Subs. by the A. O. 1937 for (L.G.).

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