Power to execute contracts on behalf of municipal council.

[Content provided in document header: Power to execute contracts on behalf of municipal council.] In any municipal area for which a Municipal Commissioner has been appointed, notwithstanding anything contained in section 72, the following provisions, with respect to the making of contracts under or for any purposes of this Act shall have effect, namely:— (a) every such contract shall be made on behalf of the municipal council by the Municipal Commissioner; (b) no such contract for any purpose which the Municipal Commissioner is not empowered by this Act to carry out without the approval or sanction of some other municipal authority, shall be made by him until or unless such approval or sanction has first of all been duly given; (c) no contract for the purchase, sale, lease, mortgage or other transfer of immovable property, shall be entered into by the Municipal Commissioner except with the approval or sanction of the municipal council; (d) no contract which will involve an expenditure exceeding two thousand rupees shall be made by the Municipal Commissioner except with the approval or sanction of the municipal council; (e) every contract made by the Municipal Commissioner involving an expenditure exceeding two hundred and fifty rupees shall be reported by him, within fifteen days after the same has been made, to the municipal council; (f) the foregoing provisions of this section shall apply to every variation or discharge of a contract as to an original contract.