Manipur Municipalities Act, 1994
Bare Act · 1994
An Act to provide for constitution and organisation of municipalities in the Urban areas of Manipur and for matters connected therewith and incidental thereto.
- Act number
- 43 of 1994
- Enacted
- 8 July 1994
- Contents
- 231 sections · 16 chapters
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Contents
Chapter I — Preliminary
Chapter II — Constitution Of Municipalities
- Section 3 – Constitution of municipalities
- Section 4 – Effect of exclusion of local area from municipality
- Section 5 – Election and maintenance of boundary marks
Chapter III — Nagar Panchayat
- Section 6 – Incorporation of Nagar Panchayat (preview)
- Section 7 – Composition of Nagar Panchayat (preview)
- Section 8 – Application of certain provisions relating to Council in case of Nagar Panchayat (preview)
- Section 9 – Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson of Nagar Panchayat (preview)
- Section 10 – Election of Chairperson and Vice-Chairpersons (preview)
- Section 11 – Resignation by Chairperson, Vice Chairperson and Councillor (preview)
- Section 12 – Remuneration to Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson (preview)
Chapter IV — Municipal Council
- Section 13 – Incorporation of Municipal Council (preview)
- Section 14 – Municipal administration (preview)
- Section 15 – Composition of Council (preview)
- Section 16 – Constitution and composition of Wards Committees (preview)
- Section 17 – Reservation of seats (preview)
- Section 18 – Allocation of reserved seats and delimitation of wards (preview)
- Section 19 – Disqualifications for membership (preview)
- Section 20 – Oath of office (preview)
- Section 21 – Appointment of administrator (preview)
- Section 22 – Duration of municipalities, etc (preview)
- Section 23 – Every Council to have Chairperson and a Vice-Chairperson (preview)
- Section 24 – Election of Chairperson (preview)
- Section 25 – Election of Vice-Chairperson (preview)
- Section 26 – Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson cease to hold office as such (preview)
- Section 27 – Filling up of vacancies and term of office of persons filling up the vacancy (preview)
- Section 28 – Resignation by Chairperson, Vice-Chairperson and Councillor (preview)
- Section 29 – Removal of Councillors (preview)
- Section 30 – Effect of removal of a Councillor (preview)
- Section 31 – No-confidence motion against Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson (preview)
- Section 32 – Grant of leave of absence to Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson (preview)
- Section 33 – Powers and functions of the Chairperson (preview)
- Section 34 – Function of Vice-Chairperson (preview)
- Section 35 – Remuneration of Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson (preview)
- Section 36 – Powers, authority and responsibilities of municipalities (preview)
- Section 37 – Obligatory functions of the municipality (preview)
- Section 38 – Special duties of municipalities (preview)
- Section 39 – Discretionary functions of municipality (preview)
- Section 40 – Management of public institution by municipality to vest in it (preview)
Chapter V — Establishment
- Section 41 – Appointment of Executive Officers (preview)
- Section 42 – Main functions of the Executive Officer (preview)
- Section 43 – Appointment of Health Officer, Revenue Officer and Engineer (preview)
- Section 44 – Power of Nagar Panchayat and Council to determine strength of its employees (preview)
- Section 45 – Power of Nagar Panchayat and Council to appoint its officers and employees (preview)
- Section 46 – Disciplinary action against employees of Nagar Panchayat and Council and conditions of their services, etc (preview)
- Section 47 – Gratuity and pension (preview)
- Section 48 – Power to make rules (preview)
Chapter VI — Conduct Of Business
- Section 49 – Meeting of a Nagar Panchayat or of a Council (preview)
- Section 50 – Chairperson of meeting (preview)
- Section 51 – Manner of deciding questions (preview)
- Section 52 – Adjournment of meeting in the absence of quorum (preview)
- Section 53 – Minutes of proceedings (preview)
- Section 54 – Modification and cancellation of resolution (preview)
- Section 55 – Right of Government Officers to attend, address and take part in the meeting of the Nagar Panchayat or of the Council (preview)
- Section 56 – Appointment of Committees (preview)
- Section 57 – Chairperson of Committee (preview)
- Section 58 – Liability for loss, waste or misapplication of funds and property (preview)
- Section 59 – Disqualifications of Councillors having share or interest in contract (preview)
- Section 60 – Penalty in case Councillors, executive officer, etc., having interest in a contract, etc., with the Nagar Panchayat or Council (preview)
- Section 61 – Disqualification from voting (preview)
Chapter VII — Municipal Property, Finance And Contracts
- Section 62 – Municipal property and vesting thereof (preview)
- Section 63 – Transfer of municipal property (preview)
- Section 64 – Execution of contracts (preview)
- Section 65 – Transfer of private roads, etc., to Nagar Panchayat or Council (preview)
- Section 66 – Acquisition of land (preview)
- Section 67 – Formation and custody for municipal fund (preview)
- Section 68 – Credit of moneys to the municipal fund (preview)
- Section 69 – Powers of the Nagar Panchayat or of the Council to borrow money (preview)
- Section 70 – Application of municipal property and fund (preview)
- Section 71 – Budget (preview)
- Section 72 – Accounts and audit (preview)
- Section 73 – Finance Commission for municipalities (preview)
Chapter VIII — Municipal Taxation
- Section 74 – Power to impose taxes by and the funds of the municipalities (preview)
- Section 75 – Taxes which may be imposed (preview)
- Section 76 – Tax on Government holdings (preview)
- Section 77 – Restriction regarding tax on holding (preview)
- Section 78 – Collection of taxes are subject to bye-law, etc (preview)
- Section 79 – Nagar Panchayat or Council to determine the valuation of holding (preview)
- Section 80 – Returns required for ascertaining annual value (preview)
- Section 81 – Penalty for default in furnishing return and for obstruction of assessor (preview)
- Section 82 – Determination of annual value of holdings (preview)
- Section 83 – Determination of rate of tax on holding (preview)
- Section 84 – Preparation of assessment register (preview)
- Section 85 – Powers to assess consolidated tax for building and land on which it stands (preview)
- Section 86 – Reduction of valuation, revision of valuation and assessment and revision of valuation list and assessment register (preview)
- Section 87 – Notice to be given to Chairperson of transfers of title of persons liable of payment of tax (preview)
- Section 88 – Revisions of valuation list (preview)
- Section 89 – Appointment of assessor and power of State Government to direct the appointment of assessor (preview)
- Section 90 – Revision of assessment register (preview)
- Section 91 – Effect of revision of assessment register (preview)
- Section 92 – Exemptions and remission (preview)
- Section 93 – Power of assessor (preview)
- Section 94 – Publication of notice of assessment (preview)
- Section 95 – Application for review (preview)
- Section 96 – Procedure for review (preview)
- Section 97 – Limitation of time for application for review (preview)
- Section 98 – Assessment to be questioned only under Act (preview)
- Section 99 – Tax not invalid for want of form (preview)
- Section 100 – Procedure for imposing taxes, recovery of claims, etc (preview)
Chapter IX — Recovery Of Municipal Claims
- Section 101 – Recovery from occupier of tax due from non-resident (preview)
- Section 102 – Recovery from owner of occupier's tax in certain cases (preview)
- Section 103 – Recovery by owner of occupier's tax paid by owner (preview)
- Section 104 – Method of recovery by owner (preview)
- Section 105 – Penalty (preview)
- Section 106 – Municipality may compound with livery stable keepers (preview)
- Section 107 – Rents, tolls and fees in respect of markets (preview)
- Section 108 – Recovery of taxes as arrears of land revenue (preview)
- Section 109 – Power to sell unclaimed holdings for money due (preview)
- Section 110 – Writing off irrecoverable sums due to the Nagar Panchayat or to the Council (preview)
Chapter X — Municipal Power And Offences
- Section 111 – Power to make roads (preview)
- Section 112 – Power to repair, etc., of private road, drains, etc (preview)
- Section 113 – Prohibition of use of public roads by a class of animals, carts or vehicles (preview)
- Section 115 – Use of public road or place by vendors and other person and penalty thereof (preview)
- Section 116 – Power to remove obstructions, encroachments and projections in or on public road, etc (preview)
- Section 117 – Procedure when person who erected obstruction cannot be found (preview)
- Section 118 – Projections from buildings to be removed (preview)
- Section 119 – Power of the District Magistrate and Sub-Divisional Magistrate to remove encroachment summarily on requisition by the Government (preview)
- Section 120 – Effect of order made under section 116, 117, 118 or 119 (preview)
- Section 121 – Nagar Panchayat or Council may require land holders to trim hedges, etc (preview)
- Section 122 – Penalty for disobeying requisition under section 116, 117, 118 or 119 (preview)
- Section 123 – Names of public roads and number of buildings (preview)
- Section 124 – Erection of building without sanction (preview)
- Section 125 – Special provision for cases where bye-laws have not been made (preview)
- Section 126 – Powers of Nagar Panchayat or the Council to sanction or refuse (preview)
- Section 127 – Lapse of sanction (preview)
- Section 128 – Penalty for building without or in contravention of sanction (preview)
- Section 129 – Power of a Nagar Panchayat or a Council in case of disobedience (preview)
- Section 130 – Roofs and external walls not to be made of inflammable materials (preview)
- Section 131 – Power to attach brackets for lamps (preview)
- Section 132 – Building unfit for human habitation (preview)
- Section 133 – Pending of building in dangerous state (preview)
- Section 134 – Nagar Panchayat or Council may require owners to pull down ruins (preview)
- Section 135 – Penalty for disobeying requisition under sections 133 and 134 (preview)
- Section 136 – Compensation for prohibition of erection or re-erection (preview)
- Section 137 – Power to require owners to clear noxious vegetation (preview)
- Section 138 – Power to require owners to improve bad drainage (preview)
- Section 139 – Power to require unwholesome tanks or private premises to be cleansed or drained (preview)
- Section 140 – Wells, tanks, etc., to be secured (preview)
- Section 141 – Penalty for disobeying requisition under sections 137, 138, 139 and 140 (preview)
- Section 142 – Power of Government to prohibit cultivation, use of manure, or irrigation injurious to health (preview)
- Section 143 – Public latrines and urinals (preview)
- Section 144 – Power to demolish unauthorised drains leading into public (preview)
- Section 145 – Penalty for allowing water of any sewer, etc., to run on any public road (preview)
- Section 146 – Power to require owner to drain land (preview)
- Section 147 – Penalty for disobeying requisition under section 146 (preview)
- Section 148 – Establishment for removal of sewage, offensive matter and rubbish (preview)
- Section 149 – Sewerage scheme (preview)
- Section 150 – Removal of sewage, offensive material, rubbish (preview)
- Section 151 – Penalty for placing rubbish on public road (preview)
- Section 152 – Penalty on occupier for not removing filth, etc (preview)
- Section 153 – Penalty for throwing offensive matter on public roads, etc (preview)
- Section 154 – Power of servants of the Nagar Panchayat or of the Council (preview)
- Section 155 – Supply of drinking water (preview)
- Section 156 – Removal of latrines, etc., near any source of water supply (preview)
- Section 157 – Owner or occupier to take steps to prevent spread of infectious disease (preview)
- Section 158 – Unauthorised construction or tree over drain or water-works (preview)
- Section 159 – Powers in respect of burial and burning places (preview)
- Section 160 – Burial of paupers and unclaimed dead bodies (preview)
- Section 161 – Powers to cause corpses to be burnt or buried according to the religious tenets of the deceased (preview)
Sections
- Section 114 – Penalty for encroachment on public roads, etc (preview)
- Section 184 – Person required to execute any work may prefer objection to the municipality (preview)
- Section 221 – Power to remove difficulties (preview)
Chapter XI — Other Powers And Penalties
- Section 162 – Establishment of markets (preview)
- Section 163 – Power to remove persons from municipal market (preview)
- Section 164 – Places for slaughter of animals for sale (preview)
- Section 165 – Inspection before and after slaughter (preview)
- Section 166 – Licencing of butcher (preview)
- Section 167 – Regulation of offensive trades (preview)
- Section 168 – Certain offensive and dangerous trades not to be established within the limits to be fixed by the municipality without licence (preview)
- Section 169 – Cinemas, dramatic performances, circuses, etc (preview)
- Section 170 – Cancellation, revocation, etc., of licences (preview)
- Section 171 – Publication of order of refusal, suspension of licences (preview)
- Section 172 – Power to close market, tea-stall, etc (preview)
- Section 173 – Penalty for failure to give information of cholera (preview)
- Section 174 – Disinfection of building and articles (preview)
- Section 175 – Penalty for letting infected house (preview)
- Section 176 – Power of entry for purpose of preventing spread of disease (preview)
- Section 177 – Removal to hospital of patients suffering from infectious disease (preview)
- Section 178 – Municipality to provide places for recreation (preview)
- Section 179 – Function and powers in regard to pounds (preview)
Chapter XII — Procedure
- Section 180 – Service of notice (preview)
- Section 181 – Reasonable time for act to be fixed (preview)
- Section 182 – Service of notice on owner or occupier of land (preview)
- Section 183 – Procedure when owners or occupiers are required by Nagar Panchayat or the Council to execute works (preview)
- Section 185 – Procedure if person objecting alleges that work will cost more than three thousand rupees (preview)
- Section 186 – Chairperson, Vice-Chairperson to make order after hearing objection (preview)
- Section 187 – Power of municipality on failure of persons to execute works (preview)
- Section 188 – Power to apportion expenses among owners and occupiers (preview)
- Section 189 – Apportionment among owners and occupiers (preview)
- Section 190 – Occupiers may recover cost of works executed at their expenses from owners (preview)
- Section 191 – Power to enter upon, possession of houses so repaired (preview)
- Section 192 – Sale of materials of houses pulled down (preview)
- Section 193 – Cognizance (preview)
- Section 194 – Offences under the Act compoundable (preview)
- Section 195 – Power and duties of police in respect of offences (preview)
- Section 196 – Appeals from order refusing licences (preview)
- Section 197 – Appeals from orders in other cases (preview)
- Section 198 – Appeal not to be dismissed without giving reasonable opportunity (preview)
- Section 199 – Dispute as to compensation payable by municipality (preview)
- Section 200 – Indemnity (preview)
- Section 201 – Bar of suits in absence of notice (preview)
Chapter XIII — Control
- Section 202 – Control by Deputy Commissioner (preview)
- Section 203 – Power to suspend action under the Act (preview)
- Section 204 – Powers of Deputy Commissioner in case of emergency (preview)
- Section 205 – Power to dissolve Nagar Panchayat or Council in certain cases (preview)
- Section 206 – Consequence of dissolution (preview)
- Section 207 – Decision of disputes between local authorities (preview)
Chapter XIV — Rules And Bye-Laws
- Section 208 – Powers of State Government to make rules (preview)
- Section 209 – Power of municipality to frame bye-laws (preview)
- Section 210 – Additional power to frame bye-laws in hill areas (preview)
- Section 211 – Confirmation of bye-laws (preview)
- Section 212 – Publication of bye-laws (preview)
- Section 213 – Model bye-laws (preview)
Chapter XV — Miscellaneous
- Section 214 – Validity of acts and proceedings (preview)
- Section 215 – Petition for challenging election (preview)
- Section 216 – Power to make rules for election and election petition (preview)
- Section 217 – Bar of jurisdiction of Civil Courts in election matters (preview)
- Section 218 – Election to the municipalities (preview)
- Section 219 – Electoral roll for a municipal area (preview)
- Section 220 – Conditions for registration as a voter (preview)
- Section 222 – Overriding effect of the provisions of the Act (preview)
- Section 223 – Mode of proof of municipal record and fee for certified copy (preview)
- Section 224 – Restriction on the summoning of municipal servants to produce documents (preview)
- Section 225 – Penalty for violating the provision of this Act (preview)
- Section 226 – Public servants (preview)
- Section 227 – District Planning Committee (preview)
- Section 228 – Committee for Metropolitan Planning (preview)
- Section 229 – Delegation of powers of State Government (preview)
- Section 230 – Repeal of Manipur Act 26 of 1976 and saving (preview)
- Section 231 – Repeal and saving (preview)