The Gauhati Municipal Corporation Act, 2009
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 No. 256 Dispur, Friday, 28th August, 2009, 6th Bhadra, 1931 (S.E.)

 GOVERNMENT OF ASSAM

 ORDERS BY THE GOVERNOR

 LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT :: LEGISLATIVE BRANCH

 NOTIFICATION

 The 28th August, 2009

 No.LGL.123/2003/Pt./93:-- The following Act of the Assam Legislative Assembly which
 received the assent of the Governor is hereby published for general information.

 ASSAM ACT NO. XVI OF 2009

 (Received the assent of Governor on 26th August, 2009)

 THE GUWAHATI MUNICIPAL CORPORATION
 (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2009


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###### AN _ XT
 ACT

further to amend the Guwahati Municipal Corporation Act, 1969.

**Assam**

**Act I of**

**Preamble** Whereas it is expedient further to amend the Guwahati Municipal Corporation Act,

**1973**

1969, hereinafter referred to as the principal Act, in the manner hereinafter

appearing;

It is hereby enacted in the Sixtieth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-

**Short title, extent** 1. (1) This Act may be called the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (Amendment)
**and** Act, 2009.
**commencement**

(2) It shall have the like extent as the principal Act.
(3) It shall come into force at once.                     - ■

2. In the principal Act, in section 4, in sub-section (2), for clauses (a), (b), (c)

**Amendment of**
**section 4** and (d), the following clauses shall be substituted, namely: -

“(a) Corporation;

(b) Mayor;
(c) Mayor-in-Council;
(d) Ward Committee;
(e) Area Sabha; and
(f) Commissioner.”

**Amendment** 3. In the principal Act, in section 5, in sub-section (1) (a), in clause (i), for the
**of section 5** existing provisions, the following shall be substituted, namely: -

“(1) (a) (i) There shall be one Councillor for every population of at least 20,000
subject to the maximum of 31 members.”

**Substitution of** 4. In the principal Act, in section 15,-
**section 15** (i) for sub-section (1), the following shall be substituted, namely:-

“(1) The Corporation shall at its first meeting elect,-

(a) one of its Councillors to be the Mayor: and ?

(b) one of its Councillors other than‘the Mayor to be the Deputy

Mayor.” ’ ' .

(ii) in sub-section (2), in the first line, for the word “first”, the word “second”
shall be substituted.

5. In the principal Act, in section 15B, after sub-section (2), the following sub­

**Amendment of**
**sections 15 B** sections (3), (4) and (5) shall be inserted, namely:-

“(3) The Mayor or Deputy[7] Mayor or Presiding Officer or Deputy Presiding

Officer or Chairman of any committee, as the case may be, may be
removed from his office by way of a no-confidence motion approved by a
simple majority of the elected Councillors in a meeting of the Corporation
requisitioned for the purpose, by not less than one third of the total
Councillors on the ground of his proved misbehavior or incapacity or
corruption or financial irregularities or activities against the public interest
or against the interest of the corporation or activities contrary to the
provisions of this Act or the rules made there under.


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(4) In the event of removal of the Mayor or Deputy Mayor or Presiding Officer

or Deputy Presiding Officer or Chairman of any committee, as the case
may be, under sub-section (3), the Corporation shall elect one of its
Councillors other than the removed Mayor or Deputy Mayor or Presiding
Officer or Deputy Presiding Officer or Chairman of any committee, as a
Mayor or Deputy Mayor or Presiding Officer or Deputy Presiding Officer
or Chairman of any committee, as the case may be, within 15 days of such
removal, for the remaining term of the Corporation.

(5) In case of a meeting requisitioned for removal of Presiding Officer, the

requisition shall be submitted to the Deputy Presiding Officer of the
Corporation and Deputy Presiding Officer shall preside over the
requisitioned meeting.”

**Substitution of** 6. In the principal Act, for the existing section 20 A with heading thereof, the
**section 20 A**             - following shall be substituted, namely:-

**“Constitution of Area** 20A. The Area Sabhas and Ward Committees of the Corporation shall be **Assam**
**Sabhas and Ward** constituted under the Assam Nagara Raj Act, 2007 and shall discharge **Act No.**
**Committees and their** **XXVI of**
**functions** their duties and functions in accordance with the provisions of the said **2007"**

Act.

**Amendment** 7. In the principal Act, in section 49, in sub-section (1), the words “Mayor and
**of section 49**
Deputy Mayor from Guwahati City” appearing in between the word “ward”
and the punctuation mark shall be deleted.

**Amendment** .8. In the principal Act, in section 50, in sub-section (1), the following sentence
**of section 50** shall be deleted, namely; -

“No person shall simultaneously contest for the post of Councillor, Mayor

and Deputy Mayor from Guwahati City”

**Omission of**
**section 445** 9. In the principal Act, section 445 shall be omitted.

###### MOHD. A. HAQUE,
 Secretary to the Government of Assam,
 Legislative Department, Dispur.

G U W A H A 1 1 Ouwahati-21


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