Power of municipal council to require returns, reports, or production of documents.

[Content provided in document header: Power of municipal council to require returns, reports, or production of documents.] (1) The municipal council may require the Municipal Commissioner to furnish it with,— (a) any return, statement, estimate, statistics, or other information regarding any matter appertaining to the administration of this Act or to the municipal government of the municipal area; (b) a report on any such matter; and (c) a copy of any document in his charge: Provided that in emergent cases which do not admit a delay till a meeting of the municipal council is called, the president may call for the information, return, statistics, estimate, or other information, referred to above. (2) The Municipal Commissioner shall comply with every such requisition without unreasonable delay.