Conduct of ordinary meetings

Conduct of ordinary meetings. (2) Every councillor shall have the right to interpellate and to move resolutions on matters connected with the municipal administration, subject to such rules as may be prescribed. (2A) Every councillor shall be furnished with copies of the proceedings of the meetings by the Director of Municipal Administration or the Chief Officer along with the notice of the next meeting. (3) Every councillor shall have access to the records of the municipal council after giving due notice to the chief officer or the municipal commissioner, as the case may be, provided that the chief officer or the municipal commissioner may for reasons given in writing forbid such access. The councillor may appeal from the order of the chief officer or the municipal commissioner to the president whose decision shall be final. (4) The president shall have full access to all the records of the municipal council and the chief officer or the municipal commissioner shall comply without unreasonable delay with any requisition of the president for any information appertaining to the municipal administration. The President may also call for any record of the Municipal Council from the Director of Municipal Administration, the Chief Officer or any other officer, but any record so made available shall be returned within one month. (1) At an ordinary meeting business shall be conducted in the following order:— (a) the minutes of the previous ordinary meeting and of any special meeting held since shall be read and confirmed; (b) business postponed at the previous meeting shall be considered; (c) subjects noted on the agenda shall then be considered. (2) A councillor may propose any resolution connected with or incidental to the subjects included in the list of business: Provided that the president may propose any urgent subject of a routine nature not included in the list of business if no councillor objects to it. (3) All points of order shall be decided by the presiding authority with or without discussion as he may deem fit, and his decision shall be final. (4) Any question of procedure not herein provided for in this Act or the rules made thereunder shall be decided by a majority of the councillors present and voting. (1) At an ordinary meeting business shall be conducted in the following order:— (a) the minutes of the previous ordinary meeting and of any special meeting held since shall be read and confirmed; (b) business postponed at the previous meeting shall be considered; (c) subjects noted on the agenda shall then be considered. (2) A councillor may propose any resolution connected with or incidental to the subjects included in the list of business: Provided that the president may propose any urgent subject of a routine nature not included in the list of business if no councillor objects to it. (3) All points of order shall be decided by the presiding authority with or without discussion as he may deem fit, and his decision shall be final. (4) Any question of procedure not herein provided for in this Act or the rules made thereunder shall be decided by a majority of the councillors present and voting.