Establishment and Composition of Council

Establishment and Composition of Council.-

1. (1) The State Government shall by notification establish a Council to be known as the “Karnataka Council of Professional Civil Engineers” for the purpose of carrying out the aims and objects of this Act.
2. (2) the Council shall be a body corporate by the name aforesaid having perpetual succession and a common seal, with power to acquire, hold or dispose of property, both movable and immovable and to contract and shall, by the said name sue or be sued.
3. (3) The Head Quarters of the Council shall be at Bengaluru.
4. (4) The Governing Council shall consist of the following eighteen members namely:-
   • (a) Ten members to be elected amongst Professional Civil Engineers. Out of them, four members to be elected from Bengaluru Division, two members to be elected each from Belagavi, Gulbarga and Mangalore Division.
   • (b) The following shall be the ex-officio members of the Governing Council nominated by the State namely: -
     • (i) an officer of the rank of Chief engineer or equivalent grade or rank amongst the civil engineers either from the Urban Development Department or Urban Housing Department in the Municipal Corporations in the State;
     • (ii) one member who is the Chief Engineer in the Department of PWD in-charge of roads and buildings;
     • (iii) one member who is the Chief Engineer in the Department of Water Resources or Neeravari Nigams;
     • (iv) one member who is Chief Town Planner, if he is a Civil Engineer, or senior most Civil Engineer in the Town Planning Department of the Government of Karnataka.
   • (c) One member to be nominated by the Vice-Chancellor of Visvesvaraya Technological University
   • (VTU) from amongst its civil engineering faculty with not less than 10 years of teaching experience
   • (d) One member to be nominated by the Commissioner, Department of Technical Education, Karnataka State, from amongst the professors in the faculties of the civil engineering with not less than 10 years of teaching experience in any Universities other than VTU established by law in the State and/or the professors of colleges affiliated to such Universities, imparting education in civil engineering,
   • (e) Two members to be co-opted by the Council from amongst the Professional Civil Engineers.
5. (5) Notwithstanding anything contained in clause
   • (a) of sub-section (iv), the State Government may, pending preparation of the register, nominate to the first Council, Civil Engineers who are eligible for registration under section 19 and having minimum experience of 5 years and such first Council shall consist of such number of members possessing such qualification as mentioned in sub-section
6. (4) of section 3. Such nominated members including the President shall hold office for a period of two years as the State Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify.