The Jammu and Kashmir Municipal Act, 2000

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The Jammu and Kashmir Municipal Act, 2000, regulates the establishment, boundary alterations, and governing structures of local governments in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. It applies to all residents, property owners, and administrative bodies within its urban areas, classifying towns and cities into municipal committees, councils, or corporations based on population. The law matters because it decentralizes power, enabling local citizens to elect democratic representatives who manage essential urban services, public infrastructure, and building regulations. By structuring local governance, the Act directly impacts community development, daily public property standards, and overall civic administration across the region's diverse municipalities.

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1. Short title, extent and commencement.
2. Definitions.
2A. Substitution of expression.
3. Classification of municipalities.
4. Procedure for declaring muni-cipal area.
5. Notification of intention to include a local area in a municipal area.
6. Notification of intention to exclude local area from a municipal area.
7. Exclusion of local area from a municipal area.
8. Effect of exclusion of local area from municipal area.
9. Power to abolish municipal area.
10. Composition of municipalities.
11. Reservation of seats.
11-A. Reservation of seats for certain categories.
12. Reservation of offices of Chairperson.
13. Term of office of members.
14. Duration of municipality
15. Resignation of a member of municipality.
15A. Qualification.
16. Disqualification.
17. Bar to hold more than one office.
18. Power of Government as to removal of members.
18-A. Disqualification on ground of defection.
18-B. Disqualification on ground of defection not to apply in case of merger
18-BB. Disqualification on the ground of defection not to apply in case of split.
18-C. Decision on question as to disqualification on ground of defection.
18-D. Appeals.
18-E. Bar of Jurisdiction.
19. Filling of casual vacancies.
20. Incorporation of municipality.
21. Members and employees to be public servants.
22. Election of President and Vice-President.
23. Term of office of and honorarium to President and Vice-President.
24. Resignation of President or Vice-President.
25. Motion of no confidence against President or Vice-President.
26. Removal of President or Vice-President.
27. Notification of elections and nominations.
28. Time for holding meetings.
29. Ordinary and special meetings.
30. Quorum.
31. Chairman of meeting.
32. Vote of majority decisive.
33. Records and publication of proceedings.
33A. Constitution of Ward Committees.
33B. Constitution of Area Sabha.
34. Bye-laws.
35. Appointment of Director.
36. Delegation of powers and functions.
37. Power of President or Vice-President in emergency
38. Joint Committees.
39. Vacancies and irregularities not to invalidate acts and proceedings.
40. Authority to contract.
41. Mode of executing contracts and transfer of property.
42. Penalty on member or employees being interested in any contract with a municipality.
43. Suits against municipality and its employees.
44. Bar of jurisdiction of civil courts.
45. Protection of action taken in good faith.
46. Liability of loss.
47. General Powers of the Muni-cipalities.
48. Powers and authorities of municipalities.
49. Standing Committees.
50. Functions of the Standing Committee.
51. Conduct of business by the Standing Committees.
52. Constitution of municipal fund.
52-A. Constitution of Basic Services Fund.
53. Application of fund.
54. Payment of allowances to the members out of the municipal fund.
55. Custody of municipal fund.
56. Power to deposit and invest surplus funds.
57. Property vested in a municipality.
58. Inventory and map of municipal property.
59. Erection and maintenance of boundary marks of municipal area.
60. Management of public institutions.
61. Acquisition of land.
62. Transfer to Government property vesting in municipality.
62-A. Reservation of Land for Housing to Economically Weaker Sections and Low Income Groups
62-B. Identification of Eligible Persons and Determination of Cost of Land or Houses.
62-C. Incentives to Developers.
62-D. Non-residential Development.
62-E. Utilization of Shelter Fee
63. Power to take over management of water works, sewerage works and roads, etc.
64. Finance Commission.
65. Taxes which municipality shall impose
66. Taxes that may be imposed.
67. Limitation of taxing powers
68. Procedure regarding taxes under section 65.
69. Collection and payment of tax on consumption of electricity.
70. Procedure to impose taxes under section 66.
71. Power of Government in respect of taxation
71-A. Powers of Government to make interim arrangements with regard to assessment and collection of taxes and fees.
72. Description and class of property tax.
73. Description of taxable annual value.
74. Incidence of tax
75. Duty to furnish information.
76. Evidentiary value of assessment list and unit area value.
77. Tax not invalid for defect of form.
78. Notice on transfer of title.
79. Notice on erection of building etc.
80. Notice of Demolition or removal of building.
81. Omitted.
82. Power of Government to exempt payment of taxes.
83. Taxation of Union Properties.
84. Omitted.
85. Omitted.
86. Recovery of property taxes.
87. Recovery of taxes.
88. Omitted.
89. Taxes on lands and buildings as first charge.
90. Appeal.
91. Limitation for appeal
92. Revision.
93. Omitted.
94. Police force.
95. Powers and duties of police.
96. Special police assistance at fairs etc
97. Establishment and maintenance of fire brigade.
98. Power of fire brigade and other persons to extinguish.
99. Observance of rules and regulations
100. Provision for water supply.
101. Supply of water for domestic purposes.
102. Supply of water for other than domestic purposes.
103. Procedure for water connections.
104. Obligation of owner or occupier to give notice of waste of water.
105. Cutting off water supply to premises
106. Power of municipality in respect of communications etc.
107. Power to require owners of buildings to provide the storage reservoirs for rain water on their premises.
108. Supervision and inspection of works.
109. Repairs of reservoirs.
110. Bathing and washing places.
111. Powers in respect of burial and cremation grounds.
112. Disposal of mad and stray dogs and other animals.
113. Dogs not to be at large.
114. Control of elephants, bears or camels.
115. Taking elephants along public roads
116. Power to require buildings, wells, tanks etc. to be secured.
117. Building etc. in dangerous state.
118. Cleaning of filthy building or land.
119. Paving or draining of cattle-stands.
120. Power to prohibit use of unfit buildings.
121. Power to require owner to clear away noxious vegetation.
122. Power to require hedges and trees to be trimmed.
123. Power to require untenanted buildings becoming a nuisance to be secured or enclosed.
124. Prohibition of cultivation of crop or use of manure or irrigation injurious to health.
125. Regulation of offensive and dangerous trade.
126. Consent of municipality to establish new factories or workshops.
127. Prohibition of cinematograph and dramatic performances except in licensed premises.
128. Power to prohibit trades.
129. Use of steam whistles etc.
130. Provisions of drains, privies, etc.
131. Repairs and closing of drains, privies etc.
132. Unauthorised building over drains etc.
133. Removal of latrines etc. near any source of water supply.
134. Discharging sewerage.
135. Making or altering drains without authority
136. Power to require removal of nuisance arising from tanks and the lake
137. Power of municipality to lay or carry wires, pipes, drains or sewers through private lands.
138. Provision as to wire, pipe, drains or sewers laid or carried above surface of ground.
139. Previous notice.
140. Connection with main not to be made without permission of municipality
141. Sewerage connection.
142. Troughs and pipes for rain water.
143. Information in relation to cholera, small-pox, etc.
144. Removal to hospital of patients suffering from infectious diseases.
145. Disinfection of buildings and diseases.
146. Penalty for letting infected houses.
147. Provision of places and appliances for disinfection.
148. Acts done by persons suffering from certain disorders
149. Keeping of animals injurious to health.
150. Feeding animals on deleterious substances.
151. Prohibition by municipality of use of unwholesome water
152. Penalty for, selling sub-standard food or drinks.
153. Soliciting alms.
154. Removal and deposit of offensive matter.
155. Preparation of compost manure.
156. Power to acquire etc
157. Right of appeal and revision.
158. Bar of jurisdiction.
159. Failure to remove noxious matter.
160. Depositing or throwing of earth or material of any description on roads or into drains.
161. Spitting in places other than drains or receptacles provided.
162. Nuisance by children, and others.
163. Definition of house scavenging.
164. Undertaking by municipality of house scavenging.
165. Abolition of customary rights.
166. Scavenging etc.
167. Continuance of house scavenging once undertaken by municipality
168. Obligation of municipality to perform house scavenging properly.
169. Power of municipal employees for house scavenging purposes.
170. Vesting in, municipality of collection from house scavenging.
171. Establishment of creches for the children of Safai Mazdoors
172. Places for slaughter of animals for sale.
173. Disposal of dead animal.
174. Powers in connection with streets
175. Protection of streets during cutting down of trees, erection or demolition of buildings
176. Notice to lay out street.
177. Order of notice under section 176.
178. Sanction of new street.
179. Operation of sanction.
180. Penalty for laying out street in contravention of the provisions.
181. Notice to owner of land under street.
182. Power to require repairs of streets and to declare such street public
183. Punishment for encroachment or overhanging structure over street.
184. Permission of occupation of public street and removal of obstruction.
185. Power of Deputy Commissioner to remove encroachment.
186. Power to regulate line of a street regulate line of a street
187. Government street.
188. Removal of overhanging structures.
189. Power to attach brackets for lamps.
190. Construction of Stalls.
191. Destroying direction posts lamp posts, etc
192. Bill sticking without permission.
193. Names or numbers of streets, buildings etc.
194. Inflammable materials.
195. Roofs and external walls not to be made of inflammable materials.
196. Picketing animals and collecting carts.
197. Driving vehicles without proper lights
198. Beating drums etc
199. Discharging firearm etc.
200. Building operations, quashing, blasting or cutting timber.
201. Powers to levy fee at fair.
202. General bye-laws.
203. Prohibition to erect buildings without sanction
204. Power of municipality to make bye-laws as to erection or re-erection of buildings
205. Building scheme
206. Regularisation of certain buildings.
207. Punishment for erection or re-erection of a building on sanction of a building scheme under section 205.
208. Powers of municipality to sanction or refuse erection or re-erection of buildings
209. Power of municipality to direct modification of a sanctioned plan of a building before its completion.
210. Completion Certificate and lapse of sanction.
211. Penalty for disobedience.
212. Order of demolition of building and works in certain cases and appeal.
213. Compensations.
214. Power of municipality to regulate the manufacture, preparation and sale of food and drink.
215. Prohibition of possession or sale of wild animals.
216. Penalty for infringement of bye-laws.
217. Confirmation of bye-laws.
218. Power of Government to make bye-laws.
219. Procedure for making bye-laws.
220. Bye-laws to be available for purchase and inspection.
221. Regulation of felling of trees within municipal limits
222. Inspection of drains, privies and cesspools.
223. Inspection of building etc.
224. Other powers of entry on buildings or land
225. Power to inspect places for sale of food or drink etc. and to seize unwholesome articles exposed for sale.
226. Inspections of place for illicit slaughter of animals.
227. Refusal to allow inspection.
228. Search for inflammable or explosive material in excess of authorised quantity.
229. Power of entry into building or land
230. Authorization of powers.
231. Precautions to be observed in entering dwelling.
232. Reasonable time for compliance to be fixed.
233. Authentication, service and validity of notices
234. Service when owner and occupier are different persons.
235. Mode of giving notice to owner or occupier of property.
236. Publication of public notices.
237. Penalty for disobedience of orders of municipalities
238. Compensation for damage.
239. Power of municipality in the event of non-compliance.
240. Penalty of obstruction.
241. Recovery of costs of execution
242. Relief to agents and trustees
243. Payment of compensation
244. Appeals from orders of municipalities.
245. Prosecution to be suspended in certain cases.
246. Appeals from certain orders.
247. Authority for prosecution.
248. Power to compound offences
248-A. Eviction of unauthorised occupant
249. Constitution of Finance Commission to review financial position
250. Presentation of accounts and budget of a municipality.
251. Revision of Budget.
252. Supplementary Budget
253. Maintenance of accounts and restriction of expenditure.
254. Transmission of accounts
255. Power to write off irrecoverable sums
256. Audit of accounts
257. Action by municipality on audit report.
258. Recovery of amounts disallowed.
259. Procedure for recovery of dues of municipality.
260. Conditions of distraint and sale.
261. Preparation of development plan.
262. District Planning Committee.
263. Control by Deputy Commissioner.
264. Power, to suspend execution of orders etc
265. Power of Deputy Commissioner in emergency.
266. Powers to provide for performance of duties in case of default of municipality.
267. Action of Deputy Commissioner to be immediately reported.
268. Power of Government to give directions.
269. Exercise of committee’s power pending establishment of municipality.
270. Power of Government and its officer over municipality.
271. General powers of Government.
272. Power of Government to dissolve municipality for default, abuse of powers, etc
273. Suspension of Office bearers of Municipality.
274. Removal of office bearers of municipality.
275. Power to call for record.
276. Power of inspection and supervision
277. Technical supervision and inspections.
278. Taking over of certain branches or departments of the municipality.
279. Disputes
280. Power of the Government to frame forms and make rules.
281. Definition.
282. Chief Electoral Officer.
283. Officers authorised to bear election petitions.
284. Election petitions.
285. Presentation of petition.
286. Contents of petition
287. Procedure on receiving election petition
288. Withdrawal and transfer of petitions.
289. Procedure before the authorised officers.
290. Appearance before the authorised officer.
291. Powers of the authorised officer.
292. Documentary evidence.
293. Secrecy of voting.
294. Answering incriminating question and certificate of indemnity
295. Expenses of witness.
296. Decision of the authorised officer
297. Grounds for setting aside election.
298. Abatement of election petition.
299. Costs and payment. thereof out of the security deposits and return of such deposits.
300. Execution of orders as to costs.
301. Corrupt practice entailing disqualifications.
302. Corrupt practices.
303. Appeals.
304. Bar to interference by Courts in electoral matters.
305. Power to make rules for conduct of elections
306. Appointment of Executive Officers/Secretaries in municipalities.
307. Posts in Municipality and appointments thereto.
307-A. Power of Government to appoint officers and servants
308. Officers and other employees not to be interested in any contract etc., with municipality.
309. Power to enquire and report about misconduct of certain officers or officials.
310. Power to remove difficulties.
311. Repeal and saving.

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