Procedure for constitution, abolition, etc., of smaller urban areas

Procedure for constitution, abolition, etc., of smaller urban areas. Not less than thirty days before the publication of any notification declaring any local area to be a smaller urban area, or altering the limits of any such smaller urban area or declaring that any local area shall cease to be smaller urban area, the Governor shall cause to be published in the official Gazette, in English and Kannada, and to be posted up in conspicuous places in the said local area in Kannada, a proclamation announcing that it is proposed to constitute the local area to be smaller urban area, or to alter the limits of the smaller urban area in a certain manner, or to declare that the local area shall cease to be a smaller urban area, as the case may be, and requiring all persons who entertain any objection to the said proposal to submit the same, with the reasons therefor, in writing to the Director of Municipal Administration within thirty days from the date of the said proclamation, and whenever it is proposed to add to or exclude from a smaller urban area any inhabited area, it shall be the duty of the municipal council also to cause a copy of such proclamation to be posted up in conspicuous places in such area. The Commissioner shall, with all reasonable despatch, forward every objection so submitted to the Governor. No such notification as aforesaid shall be issued by the Governor unless the objections, if any, so submitted are in his opinion insufficient or invalid.