The Punjab Municipal General
Rules, 1979
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Language in which business is to be transacted,
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Publication of proposals to impose taxes or to
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Annuities leave allowance etc. Of municipal
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Scheme for delimitation of wards to be sent to
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Correction
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The Punjab
Municipal General Rules, 1979
1.
Short title, application
and commencement. – (1) These rules may be called the Punjab Municipal (General)
Rules, 1979.
(ii) They
shall apply to all committees and their employees in the State of Punjab:
Provided that Rules 8, 17, 18 and 22 shall
apply to those employees only who are not members of any Service constituted
under Section 38.
(iii)
They shall come into force at
once.
Note: These
rules were published in the Punjab Government Gazette of February 16, 1979,
Part III, Legislative Supplement, Page 93.
2. Definitions
– In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires. -
(i)
“Act” means the Punjab
Municipal Act, 1911;
(ii) "Director" means the Director
of Local Government Department, Punjab;
(iii) "Form",
means a form appended to these rules; and
(iv) "Section"
means a section of the Act.
3. General
Principles. - [Sections 236 and 240(1)]. - Every committee shall observe
such general principles of administration as are followed in the Departments of
the State Government.
4. Channel
of Correspondence with Government- [Section 240(i)(b) and (zz)].- (1) A
committee of the first class shall correspond with the, State Government
through the Director with a copy to the Regional Deputy Director the State
Government through the Regional Deputy Director and the Director.
(2). Notwithstanding anything contained in
sub-rule (1), the committee may, in an important case, send an advance copy of
this communication to the State Government or the Director; as the case may be.
5. Language
in which business is to be transacted, proceedings recorded and notices issued
- [Section (1)(X)] - In every committee all the business shall be
transacted, proceeding recorded and notices issued in Punjabi Language in
Gurmukhi script.
6. Administration
of oath or affirmation of allegiance - [Section 240(1)(zz)] – [1] An oath
or affirmation of allegiance under Section 24 shall be administered by the
Deputy Commissioner or any other Gazetted Officer appointed by him in the case
of a newly appointed or newly elected member of a committee and by the Chairman
of the meeting in other cases.
(2) The administration of the oath or
affirmation under sub-rule (1) shall be recorded as a part of the proceedings
in the minutes of the meeting.
7. Members
not to take part in proceedings in certain cases. [Section 240(1)(zz).] -
No member of the committee shall be present or vote at or take any other part
in any proceeding of a committee or sub-committee relating to or wife of such
member or descendant of such parent last referred to has a dirt indirect
interest.
8. Certain
persons not to be appointed. - [Section 240(1)(a) (zz)] - No person who is
relation of any member of the committee in any of the manner specified in Rule
7 shall be appointed an officer or servants of, or enlisted contractor for
undertaking any contract for such committee, without the previous sanction of
the Regional Deputy Director, Local Government.
9. Consideration
of matter in meeting. [Section 240(1)zz]. No matter shall be included in
the agenda for any meeting of a committee of sub-committee nor be discussed at
any such meeting which is not connected with the functions and duties of the
committee as prescribed by the Act and it shall be the duty of the President or
of the presiding member to disallow the inclusion in the agenda and to refuse
to permit at a meeting the discussion of any such matter:
Provided that the President or the
presiding member may permit inclusion and discussion of any matter which
appears to him to be in the public interest and not in any way likely to impede
the administration or to promote or encourage lawlessness, or to cause communal
discord, or to be for any other reason undesirable.
10. Recording
of minutes. - [Sections 30 and 249(1)(zz)l. - Minutes of proceedings at
each meeting of a committee shall be drawn up and recorded in a book in form 1.
11. Publication
of minutes of meetings. [Sections 30 and 240(1)(zz)] - An abstract of
minutes of each meeting of a committee shall be affixed at some conspicuous
place accessible to the public at a place of meeting of the committee and a
copy of such abstract shall be supplied to the manager of every newspaper which
is published within the limits of the district in which the municipality is
situated.
12. Publication
of notices. - [Section 240(1)(y)]. - (1) In every case in which a notice is
to be given by the committee in exercise of the powers conferred or in
discharge of an obligation imposed by the Act or by any rule or bye-law made
there under such notice shall be published in Form-2, duly filled in, in the
following manner for the purpose of inviting objections and suggestions from
the public, namely:-
(a)
Such notice
shall be published by proclamation.
(b)
A copy of
such notice together with the copy of the matter to be published shall be
affixed at some conspicuous place accessible to the public at the place of
meeting of the committee for a period of not less than thirty days.
(c)
The notice
shall be placed on the notice boards set up for this purpose within the limits
of the municipality.
(d)
A copy of
such notice alone, with a copy of the matter to be published shall be sent to
the editor of the newspaper having vide circulation in the locality, to be
selected by the committee for the purpose.
The editors of the newspapers so selected shall be addressed as in Form
3.
1[Provided that in case of a town planning scheme, the said notice
shall be published weekly for two consecutive weeks in two daily newspapers
with a statement of the period within which objection may be received]. (e) Every notice shall specify a date which
shall not be less than thirty days from the date of its publication by which
objections or suggestion by the persons interested should be submitted to the
Secretary or Executive Officer, as the case may be, of the committee.
2[(2) (a) Simultaneously with the
publication of the notice in respect of a town planning scheme under the
proviso to clause (d) of sub-rule (1) the committee shall serve a notice on-
(i)
every person, whom the committee has reason to believe, after due
enquiry to be an owner of such immovable property as is proposed to be included
in the said town planning scheme;
(ii) the occupier of such immovable
property as is proposed to be included in the said scheme.
(b) The notice referred to in clause (a)
shall-
(i) state the number of town planning
schemes proposed for the area:
(ii) require such person if the objects to
the said scheme to state his reasons in writing within a period of thirty days
from the date of the service of the notice.
(c) The notice referred to in clause; (a)
shall be signed by the President or the Administrator, as the case may be.
(3) When any proposal by a committee the
notice whereof is required to be published in the manner specified under
sub-rule (1) is forwarded for sanction and confirmation to the appropriate
authority it shall be accompanied by a statement that the provisions of
sub-rule (1) have been duly complied with].
13. Publication
of proposals to impose taxes or to make rules or bye-laws. [Sections 61 and
240(1)(V)I. - (1) In every case in which a committee proposes to-
(i) impose
any tax under Section 61, or
(ii) make
any bye-law under the Act it shall give notice of its intention in the manner
prescribed in Rule 12 for the publication of public notices.
(2) When any such proposal is submitted
for sanction or confirmation to the appropriate authority, it shall be
accompanied by a statement that the provisions of the sub-rule (1) have been
complied with.
14. Fees
for notices under sub-section (2) of Section 80. [Sections 240(1)(r) and
80(2)] - The fee leviable for a notice, of demand served under sub-section (2)
of Section 80, whether the notice is served through registered post or through
a process server of the committee, shall be the postage charges, payable for a
registered letter from time to time.
15. Submission
of annual returns, statements and reports - [Sections 240(1)(v) and (zz)],
- (1) Every committee shall as soon as possible after the close of each
financial year, prepare in such form as may, from time to time be specified by
the Government, retuirn relating to the constitutionof the committee, the
account of its income, expenditure, balances and liabilities or any other
matter, together with report on the working of the committee.
(2) One
copy of the return so prepared shall be submitted to the Regional Deputy
Director, Local Government who shall be in the case of committees of the first
Class forward it to the Director, Local Government by the 15th day
of May in each year.
16. Removal
of Members, President or Vice-President. [Section 240(1) The letter
containing reasons for the proposed removal of a member, President or
Vice-President, required to be issued under Section 16 or Section 22 shall be
served on that member, President or Vice-President, as the case may be, through
a registered post direct by the State Government with a copy thereof to the
Regional Deputy Director, Local Government, and the member, President or
Vice-President upon whom the said letter is served shall tender his explanation
through the Regional Deputy Director, Local Government with an advance copy,
thereof, together with attested copies of the document accompanying it, if any,
to the Secretary to Government of Punjab, Department of Local Government,
Housing and Urban Development so as to reach him, within a period of twenty-one
days of the date of dispatch of the said letter by the registered post.
(2) The
Regional Deputy Director, Local Government shall forward the explanation with
his comments, if any, direct to the Secretary to Government Punjab, Local
Government Dep0artment within a period of fourteen days from the date of
receipt of explanation under sub-rule (1).
(3) Where
a member, President or Vice-President, as the case may be does not submit the
explanation within the specified period, a report to that effect shall be made
by the Regional Deputy Director, Local Government to the Government.
17. Character
Verification. [Section 240 (1) (n) and (zz)] – No person shall be appointed
as an officer or servant by any committee unless his character and antecedents
have been verified before hand:
Provided that in the case of appointment
to a temporary vacancy required to be made urgently, a person may be appointed
in anticipation of verification of character and antecedents in accordance with
the instructions applicable to such appointment under the State Government.
18. Reservation
in favour of member of scheduled caste. (Sections 240 (1) (n) and 39 (2)].
– The instructions issued by the State Government from time to time in relation
to reservation of appointments or posts for members of the Scheduled Castes and
the Backward Classes shall apply for the purpose of making appointments to
posts under the committee.
19. Traveling
Allowance of members - [Section 240 (1) (zz)]. – (1) No committee shall pay
to any member traveling allowance on account of a journey undertaken on
municipal business unless-
(a) in
the case of a journey performed within a district in which the municipality is
situated, or of a journey to a place outside such district the traveling
allowance payable in respect whereof does not exceed one hundred any fifty
rupees, the committee has passed a resolution sanctioning the undertaking of
such a journey, and
(b) in
the case of any other journey, the previous sanction of Regional Deputy Director,
Local Government has been obtained.
(2) The
traveling allowance payable shall not exceed the amount that would have been
payable in respect of a journey had such a member been a Government employee in
Grade III, as specified in Rule 2.15 of the Punjab Traveling Allowance Rules.
20. Grant
of advance for purchase of conveyance - [Section 240 (1) (zz)] – (1) A
committee which with the sanction of the State Government has under Section
52(2) (1) [of the] Act declared the grant of advance for purchase of a motor
car, motor cycle to its employees to be an appropriate charge on the municipal
fund, shall, so far as may be, grant such advance in accordance with the rules
regulating and on the conditions laid down for the grant of such advance by the
State Government to its employees.
(2) No
committee shall grant an advance for the purchase of a motor car, motor-cycle
to any of its employees without the previous sanction in each case of the
Regional Deputy Director, Local Government.
21. Annuities
leave allowance etc. Of municipal employees not to exceed government rates
– [Section 240(1) (zz)] – No annuity or gratuity on retirement and no leave
absentee or acting allowance to any employee paid from a municipal fund shall,
without an express sanction of the State Government, exceed that admissible
under the rules applicable to the corresponding employee serving under the
State Government1 in so far as it is inconsistent with the
provisions of any Act or subordinate legislation applicable to municipal employees.
22. Age
of retirement of employees - [Section 240 (1) and (zz)]. – (1) Every
employee of a committee other than a class IV employee, shall retire from
service on the last day of the month in which he attains the age of fifty-eight
years. A class IV employee shall
retire from service on the last day of the month in which he attains the age of
sixty years.
(2)
No employee of the committee may be retained in service after the date
of retirement except in exceptional circumstances and on public ground with the
prior approval of the State Government.
(3)
Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-rule (1), the appointing
authority shall, if it is of opinion that it is in public interest to do so,
have the absolute right by giving an employee prior notice in writing, to
retire that employee on the date on which he completed twenty-five years of
service or attains fifty years of age or on any date thereafter to be specified
in the notice. The period of such
notice shall not be less than three months and where at least three month’s
notice shall not be less than three months and where at least three month’s
notice is not given, or notice for a period less than three months is given the
employees shall be entitled to claim a sum equivalent to the amount of his pay
and allowances at the same rates at which he was drawing immediately before the
date of retirement, for a period of three months, or as the case may be, for
the period by which such notice fall short of three months.
(4) Any
employee may, after giving at least three month’s previous notice in writing to
the appointing authority, retire from service on the date on which he completes
twenty-five years of service or attains fifty years of age or on any date
thereafter to be specified in the notice:
Provided that no employee under suspension
shall retire from service except with the specific approval of the authority.
23. Repeal
and saving. – The rules framed under Section 240 of the Act, Government
matters contained in these rules and in force immediately before the
commencement of these rules are hereby repealed:
Provided that such repeal shall not
affect: -
(a)
the previous
operation of the said rules or anything duly done or suffered thereunder; or
(b)
any right,
privilege, obligation or liability acquired, accrued or incurred under the said
rules; or
(c)
any
investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any such right,
privilege, obligation, liability as aforesaid;
and any such investigation, legal
proceeding or remedy may be instituted continued, or enforced as if the said
rules had not been repealed.
DELIMITATION
OF WARDS OF MUNICIPALITIES RULES, 1972
1. Short
title and commencement - (1) These
orders may be called the Delimitation of Wards of Municipalities Rules, 1972.
2.
They shall come into force at once.
Note:- They rules were framed under sections
240 and 258 vide P.G. Notification No. GSR 82/PA.3/11/Sections 240 and 258/72,
dated 28th September, 1972.
2. Definitions.
– In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires: -
(a)
‘Act’ means
the Punjab Municipal Act, 1911.
(b)
‘associate
member’ means a member associated under sub-rule (2) of Rule 3;
(c)
‘Board’
means the Director, Local Government Department, Punjab;
(d)
‘Director’
means the Director, Local Government Department, Punjab;
(e)
‘Government’
means the Government of the State of Punjab is Local Government Department.
3. Constitution
of board – (1) For the purposes of carrying out the provisions of these
rules, the Government shall constitute a Delimitation Board for each Committee
consisting of the following members namely: -
(i) The Director of any other officer
nominated by him in this behalf;
(ii) The Deputy Commissioner of the
District in which the Committee is situated or any other officer nominated by
him in this behalf;
(iii) The Deputy Director, Local
Government of the Region concerned;
(iv) The President or Administrator of
the Committee concerned and
(v) The Executive Officer of the
Committee concerned or in Municipality to which the Punjab Municipal (Executive
Officer) Act, 1931, has not been extended, the Secretary of such a Committee.
(2) The Board shall associate with itself
for the purpose of assisting it in its day to day duties, not more than five
members of the Committee having due regard to the representation of various
political parties and groups in the composition of the Committee. This provision shall not, however, apply in
the case of Committee, which has been 1[suspended or superseded.]
4. Functions
of the board – It shall be the duty of the Board. (i) to divide the Municipality into such number of wards as may
be necessary, having regard to the number of elected members prescribed by the
State Government, for the Committee, and the number of seats reserved for
members of the Scheduled Cases; and
(ii) to re-adjust the wards as and when the
limits of the Municipality are altered or there is increase in population of
the Municipality or there is abnormal variation in population or voting figures
of some of the wards of the Municipality, which requires, such re-adjustment.
5. Procedure
and powers of the board - (1) None
of the associate members shall have a right to vote or to sign any decision of
the Board.
(2) The meetings of the Board shall be
convened by the Director, after giving notice of at least ten days of the date,
time and place of the meeting to all of its members.
(3) The quorum necessary for the
transaction of business at a meeting of the Board shall be three.
(4) All questions which come before any
meeting of the Board shall be decided by a majority of the votes of the member
present and voting. The Chairman of the meeting, in case of an equality of
votes, shall have a second or casting vote.
(5) The Board shall have power to act
notwithstanding the temporary absence of a m ember, or an associate member, or
of the existence of a vacancy in the Board, and no act or proceeding of the
Board shall be invalid or called in question on the ground merely of temporary
absence of a member or associate m embers, or of the existence of such a
vacancy.
(6) The Director shall be Chairman of the
Board. In his absence, such one of their number as the members present may
elect, shall preside as Chairman.
6. Principles
for delimitation of wards of municipality - The following principles shall
be observed by die Board in the delimitation of wards of a Municipality,
namely: -
(a) All wards shall, u far as practicable,
be geographically compact areas, and in delimiting them due regard shall be had
to physical features, existing boundaries of administrative units, if any,
facilities of communication and public convenience;
(b) wards in which seats are reserved for
the Scheduled Castes shall be located, as far as practicable, in those areas
where the proportion of their population to the total population of the
Municipality is the largest; and
(c) each Municipality shall be divided
into wards in such manner that the population of each ward, m far as
practicable, is the same throughout the Municipality, with a variation upto 10
per cent above or below the average population figures.
Explanation - In this rule, the expression
"population” means the population m ascertained locally through the staff
deputed by the Director, by going from door to door in the Municipality.
7. Scheme
for delimitation of wards to be sent to state government- The Board shall,
as soon m maybe after it has prepared the scheme for the delimitation of wards
of the Municipality, send the same to the State Government for consideration.
8. Publication
of scheme for delimitation of wards. - The State Government shall: -
(a) publish in the official gazette the
scheme for the delimitation of wards received by it under rule 7 for eliciting
objections or suggestions from the affected persons of the Municipality.
(b) specify a date on or after which the
scheme alongwith objections and suggestions, if any, will be considered by it:
(c) consider all objections and suggestions
which may have been received by it before the date so specified; and
(d) thereafter, by order determine the
delimitation of wards of the Municipality.
9. Publication
of final order of state government - The State Government shall cause its
order made in the form of final notification under these rules to be published
in the Official Gazette, and upon such publication every such order shall have
the force of law.
10. Correction of printing mistakes in order made by state government - The State Government may, from time to time, by notification in the Official Gazette, correct any printing mistake in any of the orders made by it, or any error occurring therein due to an inadvertent slip or omission.