Municipal establishments

Municipal establishments:

1. (1) Save as otherwise provided in this Act, a Municipal corporation or a municipal council may have all or any of the following officers:
   • (a) an Executive Officer by whatever designation it is called;
   • (b) a Health Officer;
   • (c) an Engineer;
   • (d) a Finance Officer;
   • (e) a Town Planner;
   • (f) a Secretary;
   • (g) an Office Superintendent;
   • (h) one or more than one Sub-Assistant Engineer;
     • (i) one or more than one Sanitary Inspector;
   • (j) a Head Clerk;
   • (k) a Head Assistant;
   • (l) an Accountant;
   • (m) a Surveyor;
   • (n) a Draftsman;
   • (o) such other officers as may be designated by the State Government in this behalf: Provided that the State Government may reduce the number of posts of the officers as aforesaid for any Municipality: Provided further that the State Government may by order re-designate any of the posts of the officers as aforesaid in respect of any Municipality.
2. (2) A Municipal Board may have anyone or more of the officer mentioned at sub-section (1) as the State Government may, having regard to the function of the Board and the revenue generated by the Board, sanction from time to time.
3. (3) Until the cadre of common municipal service for the State is constituted under sub-section (1) of section 62, and subject to the provisions of sub-section (1) of this section, the Board of Councillors may, at a meeting, determine which of the officers referred to in sub-section (1) of this section are necessary for a Municipality, and, with the prior sanction of the State Government, create posts of such officers and fix the salaries and allowances to be paid and granted to such officers.
4. (4) The Board of Councillors at a meeting may, subject to the norms regulating the size of the municipal establishment for each Municipality and the categories or designations of officers and other employees of each Municipality with their scales of pay as may be fixed by the State Government from time to time, determine what officers and other employees, other than the officers mentioned in sub-section (1), are necessary for a Municipality, create posts of such officers and other employees, and fix the salaries and allowances to be paid and granted to such officers and other employees.
5. (5) Subject to the norms regulating the size of a municipal establishment as may be fixed by the State Government under sub-section (4), no post of an officer or other employee shall be created under sub-section (4) by the Board of Councillors of a Municipality without the prior sanction of the State Government, if the number of posts to be so created in a year for a Municipality is more than one percent of the total number of sanctioned posts of officers and other employees in existence in the year immediately preceding: Provided that the number of posts so admissible for creation in a year without the prior sanction of the State Government after the Commencement of this Act, if not created in that year, may be carried forward to the next year, subject to a minimum of one and a maximum of ten.
6. (6) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), sub-section (3), sub-section (4) or sub-section (5), the Board of Councillors of a Municipality may, with the prior sanction of the State Government, create, if it considers necessary so to do for due discharge of municipal functions, a post of an officer or other employee which is not included in the norms as may be fixed by the State Government under sub-section (4), and fix the salaries and allowances to be paid and granted to such officer or other employee.
7. (7) Until norms are fixed under sub-section (4), no post of officer or other employee shall be created by the Board of Councillors of any Municipality without the prior sanction of the State Government.