Power of State Government to provide for performance of duties on default by municipality

(1) When the State Government is informed, on complaint made or otherwise, that default, has been made in the performance of any duty imposed on a municipality by or under this Act or by or under an enactment for the time being in force, the State Government, if satisfied after due inquiry that the alleged defult has been made, may direct the Director to fix a period for the performance of that duty.

(2) If that duty is not performed within the period so fixed, the Director may appoint some person to perform it, and may direct that the expense of performing it, with a reasonable remuneration to the person appointed to perform it, shall be forthwith paid by the municipality.

(3) If the expense and remuneration are not so paid, the Director may make an order directing the bank in which any moneys of the municipality are deposited or the person in charge of the Government Treasury or of any other place of security in which the moneys of the municipality are deposited to pay such expense and remuneration from such moneys as may be standing to the credit of the municipality in such bank or may be in the hands of such person or as may from time time be received from or on behalf of the municipality by way of deposit by such bank or person; and such bank or person shall be bound to obey such order. Every payment made pursuant to such order shall be a sufficient discharge to such bank or person from all liability to the municipality in respect of any sum or sums so paid by it or him out of the moneys of the municipality so deposited with such bank or person.