Keyword(s):
Corporation, Council, Municipal Council, Municipality
An Act to provide for the establishment of a Municipal Corporation
for the City of Thoothukudi.
BE it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Tamil Nadu In the Fifty-ninth
Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
- (1) This Act may be called the Thoothultudi City Municipal Corporation Act, 2008.
(2) It extends to the city of Thoothukudi.
(3) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by
notification, appoint. - In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
(a) “city of Thoothukudi” or “city” means the local area comprised in the
Short title.
extent and
commence-
ment.
Definitions.
after the date of the
Thoothukudi municipality and includes any local area which,
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commencement of this Act, is included in the city but does not include any local area
which, after such date of the commencement of this Act, is excluded from the city;
(b) “corporation” means the municipal corporation of Thoothukudi constituted
under section 3;
(c) “council” means the council of municipal corporation of Thoothukudi;
(d) “date of the commencement of this Act” means the date specified
under sub-section (3) of section 1;
(e) “Government” means the State Government;
(9 “municipal council” means the municipal council of Thoothukudi Municipality;
(g) “municipality” means the Thoothukudi Municipality;
(h) “Scheduled ;astes” and “Scheduled Tribesn shall have the meaqings
respectively assigned to them in clauses (24) and (25) of Article 366 of th,e
Constitution.
(2) All words and expressions used in this Act and not defined but defined in
:I 25 of the Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation Act, 1981 (hereinafter referred to as the 1981
18 1 Act), shall have the meaningr:, respectively, assigned to them in the 1981 Act. - (1) With effect on and from the date of the commencement of this Act, the local Establishment
area included in the Thoothukudi municipality shall constitute the city of Thoothukudi of municipal
for the purposes of this Act and from such date of the commencement of this Act, a corporation
municipal corporation shall be deemed to have been established for the said city by ‘0’ the city
the name of Thoothukudi City Municipal Corporation: of
Thoothukudi.
Provided that the Government may, from time to time, after consultation with the
corpor:~tion, by notification, alter the limits of the c’ty constituted under this sub-section
so ;ISto includo therein or to excludo therefrom the areas specified In the notification:
Provided further that the power to issue a notification under this sub-section shall
be subject to ~reviouspublication.
(2) The corporation shall, by the said name, be a body corporate, having perpetual
succession and a common seal with power to acquire, hold and dispose of property
and to enter into contracts and may by its corporate name, sue and be sued.
(3) The Thoothukudi municipality, functioning immedi: tely before the date of the
commcnccrncnt of [his Act, shall be deemed to have beon abolished from such late
of the commencement of this Act. dunlcipal 4. The municipal authorities charged with carrying out the provisions of this Act
authorltles, shall be, –
(1) a mayor;
(2) a council;
(3) a standing committee;
(4) a wards committee; and
(5) a comm~ss~one~ .
3nstitutior. of 5. (1) Save as otherwise provided in sut-section (Z), the council shall consist of
:ouncil.
such number of councillors elected in the manner laid down ~nthls Act as may be flxed
by the Government, by notification, from time to time, so, however, that the total number
of councillors of the council shall not exceed seventy-two at any tlme.
(2) The following persons shall also be represented in the council, namely:-
(a) the members of the House of the People representing constituencies
which corrrprise wholl) or partly the area of the corporatlon and the members of the
Council of States reglstered as electors within the area of the corporation;
(b) all the members of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly representing
constituencies which comprise wholly or partly the area of the corporation.
(3) The persons referred to in sub-section (2) shall be entitled to take part in
the proceedings but shall not have the right lo vote in the meetlngs of the council.
(4) Seats shall be reserved for the persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes
and the Scheduled Tribes in the council and the number of seats so resewed shall
bear, as nearly as may be, thr same proportion to the total number of seats to be filled
by direct election in the council as the population of the Scheduled Castes in the city
or of the Scheduled Trlbes in the city bears to the total population of the city.
(5j Seats shall be reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes and
the Scheduled Tribes, from among the seats reserved for the persohs belonyng to the
Scheduled Castes and the Sched~ledTrlbes, which shall not be less than one-third
of the total number of seats reserved for the persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes
and the Schectuled Tribes.
(6) Seats shall be reserved for women in the council and the number of seats
reserved for women shall not be less than one-third including the number of seats
reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Trlbes of the
total number of seats in the council.
(7) The reservation of seats under sub-sections (4) and (5) shall cease to have
effect on the expiry of the period specified in Article 334 of the Constitution.
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tion of 6. (1) The corporation, unless sooner dissolved, shall cov:~nuefor five years from
poration the date appointed for its first meeting after each ordinary electlon and no longer and
the said period of f~veyears shall operate as a dissolution of the corporatlon.
(2) An election to constitute the corporation shall be completed,-
(a) before the expiry of its duration speclfled In sub-sect~on(1); or
(b) before the explrat~onof a period of six months fr~, ‘he date, of its
dissolution:
Provided that where the remainder of the period for wh~chthe d~ssolvedcorporatlon
would have continued, is less than six months, it shall not be necessary to hold any
electlon, under this s I!. ;?ctlon for constituting the corporatlon for such period. - (1) Subject to the prov~sionsof sub-sections (2) and (3),th~Tam11Nadu D~strlct Tam11Nadu *cl
ct Munic~palitiesAct, 1920 (heremafter referred to as the “D~strlctMurl~c~pal~t~es Act.’) shall,
“pallties with effect on and from the date of the commencement of thls Act, cease to apply to
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the local area comprised w~thlnthe c~tyof Thoothuku.
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