Appointment of Executive Officer by the State Government

(1) The State Government may, after consulting with the Councillors, if it thinks necessary so to do in the public interest, appoint by notification, an Executive Officer for the Corporation and shall make such appointment if in its opinion the affairs of the Corporation are not properly managed or can not be managed in accordance with law, for such period not exceeding one year at a time as may be specified in the notification. (2) The Executive Officer shall be paid out of the Municipal Fund such salary and allowance as may from time to time be fixed by the State Government. (3) The Executive Officer appointed under this section shall exercise such powers of the Chairman or of the Corporation as may be conferred on him by notification by the State Government and on such notification such powers shall cease to be exerciseable by the Chairman or by the Corporation as the case may be. (4) The Corporation may delegate to the Executive Officer all or any of the powers of the Corporation. (5) The State Government may at any time suspend, remove, dismiss or otherwise punish the Executive Officer appointed under this Section. In the principal Act, in section 75,-

(a) after the words "punished with fine," the words "which may extend to ten thousand rupees" shall be inserted;

(b) for the words "one hundred rupees," the words "five hundred rupees" shall be substituted.