section 18
Conduct of business of the Samiti
The Orissa Panchayat Samiti Act, 1959Infrastructure195986 sections1 chapters
Statutory text
- (1) The meetings of the Samiti and the Standing Committees thereof shall be held in the prescribed manner.
- (2) A member of the State Legislature, shall be entitled to notice of and shall have a right to take part in the proceedings at every meeting of the Samiti of the Block any portion of which forms part of the constituency which such member represents, but shall not have a right to vote at any such meeting: Provided that when the member of the State Legislature becomes a Minister, Minister of State, Deputy Minister, Speaker, Deputy Speaker, Government Chief Whip, Deputy Government Chief Whip or Leader of Opposition, such member may nominate any person to represent him in the aforesaid proceedings.
- (3) The official members of a Samiti and the non-official members thereof specified in clauses (f) and (g) of sub-section (1) of section 16 shall not have a right to vote at a meeting of the Samiti, but shall have a right to take part in the proceedings at such meeting.
- (4) The Revenue Divisional Commissioner, Collector And Subdivisional Officer having jurisdiction and such other officer as the Government may direct shall have the right to speak and otherwise take part in the proceedings at a meeting of any Panchayat Samiti or any Standing Committee thereof functioning within the local limits of his jurisdiction but shall not be entitled to vote at any such meeting.
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