Right to attend meetings of Corporation and its committees, etc. and right of councillors to ask questions in relation to the municipal Government of City.

Right to attend meetings of Corporation and its committees, etc. and right of councillors to ask questions in relation to the municipal Government of City. (1) The Commissioner or any Corporation officer authorised by him in this behalf may attend, speak in, or otherwise take part in the proceedings of any meeting of the Corporation or any of its committees, but he shall not be entitled to vote in any such meeting. (2) A councillor may, subject to the provisions of sub-section (3), ask the Commissioner, during first half of an hour of every meeting, question on any matter relating to the municipal government of the City or the administration of this Act. (3) The right to ask a question shall be governed by the following conditions, namely :- (a) not less than seven clear days’ notice in writing specifying the question shall be given to the Corporation Secretary; (b) no question shall - (i) bring in any name or statement not strictly necessary to make the question intelligible, (ii) contain arguments, ironical expressions, imputations, epithets or defamatory statements, (iii) ask for an expression of opinion or the solution of a hypothetical proposition, (iv) ask as to the character or conduct of any person except in his official or public capacity, (v) relate to a matter which is not primarily the concern of the Corporation or any of the municipal authorities, (vi) make or imply a charge of a personal character, (vii) raise question of policy too large to be dealt with within the limits of an answer to a question. (viii) repeat in substance questions already answered or to which an answer has been refused, (ix) ask for information on trivial matters, (x) ordinarily ask for information on matters of past history, (xi) ask for information set forth in accessible documents or in ordinary works of reference, (xii) raise matters under the control of bodies or persons not primarily responsible to the Corporation, or, (xiii) ask for any information on a matter which is under adjudication by a Court of Law.