Chapter VIII CITY CORPORATION OFFICERS AND SERVANTS AND THEIR APPOINTMENTS AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE

APPOINTMENTS AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE be made from Karnataka Municipal Administrative Service.- (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act or in any other law for the time being in force such of the posts under the City Corporation as are included in the Karnataka Municipal Administrative Service shall be filled by the Government by appointment of officers belonging to the Karnataka Municipal Administrative Service.

1. (2) Subject to the provisions relating to recruitment and conditions of service applicable to them, the officers of the Karnataka Municipal Administrative Service referred to in sub-section (1) shall, for the period of their service under the City Corporation, be governed by the provisions of this Act, the rules, the regulations or the bye-laws framed there under.
2. (3) The City Corporation shall contribute such percentage of its revenues in such manner and at such times as the Government may by order determine, to meet the expenditure in respect of salaries, allowances, pension, provident fund, gratuities and other necessary expenses, payable to the officers of the Karnataka Municipal Administrative Service and shall be made by the Commissioner under City Corporation.
3. (4) If the City Corporation fails to pay the amount required to be paid under sub-section (3), the Government or the Greater Bengaluru Authority may direct the officer having custody of the City Corporation fund to pay such amount or so much there of as is possible from the balance of the City

Appointment of Engineer, Town Planner, Health Officer, Accounts Officer etc.- (1) The Government shall depute to the City Corporation such officers from the respective departments of the State Civil Services as it considers suitable to be the Engineer, Town Planner, Health Officer, Revenue Officer, Chief Accounts Officer and Council Secretary for the efficient functioning of the City Corporation and such officers shall be heads of their respective departments in the City Corporation and they shall be subordinate to the Commissioner. The Government may also depute such number of Deputy Commissioners and Assistant Commissioners, as may be required, who shall exercise such powers and discharge such functions as may be prescribed in the rules. They shall be subordinate to the Commissioner.

1. (2) The Government shall depute Additional Chief Town Planner of the rank of the Additional Director of Town and Country Planning, who shall be subordinate to the Commissioner and such other officers from the Department of Town and Country Planning with qualification of master’s degree in Town and Country Planning who shall be subordinate to the Commissioner, to assist the City Corporation in the matter relating to Town Planning.
2. (3) The City Corporation may appoint, special health officers for the purpose of making investigations and proposing preventive or remedial measures with special reference to the occurrence of any unusual mortality or the prevalence or apprehended outbreak of any dangerous disease within the City Corporation; engineers, architects or experts in town improve mentor town planning for the purpose of preparing, executing or supervising any scheme of work under taken by the City Corporation.

(1) There shall be a legal cell in the City Corporation consisting of such number of officers possessing such qualifications as may be prescribed.

1. (2) The City Corporation shall consult the legal cell on all matters pertaining to the interpretation of the provisions of this Act and the Rules, Regulations and bye-laws made there under and also in matters pertaining to the institution, defense or conduct of suits and other legal proceedings to which the City Corporation is a party.
2. (3) The expenditure on the legal cell shall be paid out of the City

Contribution in respect of Government servants.- (1) If an officer or servant serving or having served under the City Corporation is or has been transferred from or to the service of the Government or is employed partly under the Government and partly by the City Corporation, the City Corporation shall make such contribution towards his leave allowances, pension and provident fund as may be required to be made by him or on his behalf under the rules and regulations of the branch of Government service to which he belongs.

1. (2) Every Government servant employed by the City Corporation shall been entitled to salary, leave and other privileges in accordance with the rules and regulations of the branch of Government service to which he belongs.