Municipal functions

Municipal functions

within the Mela Area

1. (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of Chattisgarh Municipal Corporation Act, 1956 (No. 23 of 1956), Chhattisgarh Municipalities Act, 1961 (No. 37 of 1961) or Chhattisgarh Panchayat Raj Act, 1993 (No. 1 of 1994), Government may by notification in the official gazette empower the Mela Officer or any other officer to exercise all or any of the powers and to perform all or any of the functions of any local self government institution in the whole or any part of the Mela Area for the duration of the Mela Season or any part thereof.
2. (2) So long as and to the extent to which these powers are so vested in an officer empowered under this section, the local self government institution will cease to exercise those powers and to perform those functions in the area so notified and the area shall be deemed to be temporarily excluded from area of such local self government institution.