Meetings of the Board and the committees

(1)

1. (a) The Board shall meet at least once in every three months.
2. (b) The Committee shall meet at such times as may be prescribed.

1. (2) The Chairman of the Board and in his absence, the Managing Director, and in the absence of both, the person chosen by the directors present from among themselves, shall preside at the meetings of the Board.
2. (3) The meetings of the Public Relations Committee and the Tariff Committee shall be presided over by the Chairman of the Board and the meetings of the Tenders Committee, the Employment Committee and the Management Committee shall be presided over by the Managing Director.
3. (4) The meetings of other Committees shall be presided over by such director as may be specified by the Board.
4. (5) In the absence of the director who is to preside at meetings under sub-section
5. (3) or sub-section (4), the remaining members of the Committee concerned shall choose one among themselves to preside at the meeting concerned.
6. (6) The Board and the Committees shall observe such rules of procedure in regard to the transaction of business at meetings as may be prescribed.
7. (7) All issues at any meeting of the Board or any Committee shall be decided by a majority of the votes of the directors or the members of the Committee present and voting and in the case of equality of votes, the person presiding shall have and exercise a second or casting vote.
8. (8) If for any reason a director referred to in clause (b), clause
   • (c) or clause
   • (d) of section 4, is unable to attend any meeting of the Board or of any Committee, the Government may, by order, in writing nominate an officer of the Government or an officer of the Madras Metropolitan Development Authority or an officer of the Municipal Corporation of Madras, as the case may be, to attend such meeting and the officer so nominated shall, for purposes of this Act, be deemed to be a director.