Election of Mayor

The Andhra Pradesh Municipal Laws (Amendment) Act, 1986

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(a) A Mayor of the Corporation shall be elected by the persons whose names appear in the electoral roll for the Corporation, from among themselves, in the manner prescribed.
(b) If at any election held under this sub-section, no Mayor is elected a fresh election shall be held: Provided that if a Member of the Legislative Assembly of the State or of either House of Parliament is elected as Mayor, he shall cease to hold the said office of Mayor unless, within fifteen days from the date of election to the said office, he ceases to be a Member of the Legislative Assembly of the State or as the case may be, of either House of Parliament, and if a Mayor subsequently becomes a Member of the Legislative Assembly of the State or as the case may be of either House of Parliament, he shall cease to hold the said office of Mayor unless, within fifteen days from the date on which he so becomes such Member, he ceases to be a Member of Legislative Assembly of the State, or as the case may be of either House of Parliament.

(2) Where ordinary elections are held to the office of councillors, the election of the Mayor may also be held at the same time and in the same place as the ordinary election of the Councillors of the Corporation.
(3) Save as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, the term of office of the Mayor who is elected at an ordinary election shall be five years from the date of the first meeting held under clause
- (b) of section 88 and shall expire on a day before the date of next such meeting, which day is in this Act referred to as the day for retirement; but he shall continue in office beyond the said period until a new Mayor is elected and enters upon his office.
(4) Subject to the provisions of sub-section
(5) any casual vacancy in the office of the Mayor shall be filled at a casual election and a person elected as Mayor in any such vacancy shall enter upon office forthwith and hold office only so long as the person in whose place he is elected would have been entitled to hold office, if the vacancy had not occurred.
(5) No casual vacancy in the office of the Mayor shall be filled within three months before the date on which the ordinary election of the Mayor under sub-section
(1) is due.
(6) The provisions of sections 21, 22 and 23 shall, as far as may be, apply in relation to the office of the Mayor, as they apply in relation to the office of an elected Councillor.
(7) The Mayor shall, by virtue of his office, be a Councillor of the Corporation and shall have all the rights and privileges of an elected Councillor of the Corporation and he shall be entitled to vote at all meetings of the Corporation.
(8) The provisions of the Act relating to the conduct of election to the office of Councillors shall, as far as may be, apply in relation to the election of Mayor under this section.
(9) Notwithstanding anything contained in this section, in the case of the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad, the provisions of this Act relating to the conduct of election and the term of office of the Mayor as in force immediately before the commencement of the Andhra Pradesh Municipal Laws (Amendment) Act, 1986 shall apply for the conduct of election and the term of office of the Mayor until the next ordinary elections to the Councillors of the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation are held.

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