The Kerala Industrial Single Window Clearance Boards and Industrial Township Area Development Act, 1999
Chapter III Establishment of Industrial Township
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Chapter III Establishment of Industrial Township
14. Establishment of Industrial Township.
Statutory text
- (1) The Governor may, having regard to the size of an Industrial Area and the municipal services being provided or proposed to be provided by an agency in that area and such other factors as he may deem fit, by public notification under the proviso to clause (1) of article 243 Q of the Constitution of India, specify that area to be an Industrial Township Area. Explanation.—In this section the expression an industrial area means an area benefited by an industrial area.
- (2) Upon any area being specified an industrial township in the manner stated in sub-section (l), such area, if included in a Panchayat constituted under the Kerala Panchayat Raj Act, 1994 (13 of 1994) or, as the case may be, in a municipality constituted under the Kerala Municipality Act, 1994 (20 of 1994), shall, with effect from the date of such notification be deemed to be excluded from such Panchayat or Municipality, as the case may be.
- (3) The authority shall have all the powers of a Municipality in an industrial township area.
- (4) The Industrial Township Authority shall have the power to collect the taxes and fees and to realise the fine that can be collected or realised under the Kerala Municipality Act, 1994 (20 of 1994) from the area within the jurisdiction of the Industrial Township Area.
Chapter III Establishment of Industrial Township
15. Constitution of the Industrial Township Authority.
Statutory text
- (1) The Government may for the purposes of administering the affairs of an Industrial Township Area and for carrying out the provisions of this Act by notification constitute an Industrial Township Authority for each Industrial Township Area.
- (2) The Industrial Township Authority shall consist of such number of Directors as may be appointed by the Government and they shall be chosen in such manner as may be provided for in the Scheme.
- (3) The functions of the Industrial Township Authority shall be to administer the affairs and secure the planned development and maintenance of the Industrial Township Area.
- (4) The Industrial Township Authority shall administer the Industrial Township Area in such manner as may be specified in this Act and the Scheme.
- (5) Subject to the provisions of this Act the Scheme may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:—
- (a) the manner in which the Directors of the Industrial Township Authority shall be chosen and appointed;
- (b) the manner in which the meeting of the Industrial Township Authority may be conducted;
- (c) the constitution of any committee for assisting the Industrial Township Authority;
- (d) the manner in which the preparation of the budget maintenance of accounts and the audit of accounts of the Industrial Township Authority may be made;
- (e) the registers and records to be maintained by the Industrial Township Authority;
- (f) any other matter which is to be provided for in the Scheme or which may be necessary or proper for the purpose of implementing the Scheme.
- (6) Every Scheme framed under this section shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is issued before the Legislative Assembly while it is in session for a total period of fourteen days which may be comprised in one session or in two successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session in which it is so laid or the session immediately following, the Legislative Assembly makes any modification in the Scheme or decides that the Scheme should not be issued, the Scheme shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so however that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under the Scheme.
Chapter III Establishment of Industrial Township
16. Extension of provisions of the Municipal Act or the rules made thereunder.
Statutory text
- (1) The Government may, by notification, in the Gazette declare that any of the provisions of the law relating to the Municipalities in force for the time being or of any rules made thereunder, shall be extended to, and be in force in, an industrial township area.
- (2) The provisions so notified shall be construed with such alterations not affecting the substance as may be necessary or proper for the purpose of adopting them to an industrial township area.
- (3) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provision, all reference to a Municipal Council or the Chairman or the Secretary thereof shall be construed as references to the Industrial Township Authority or the Chairman or the Chief Officer of the Industrial Township Authority thereof, all references to any officer or employee of a municipal council as references to the corresponding Officer or employee of the authority and all reference to the local limits of the municipality as reference to the limits of the industrial township area, as the case may be.
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