The Mettur Township Act, 1940

This Act may be called the Mettur Township

(1) As soon as may be after the passing of this Act, the [State] Government shall, by notification, and with effect from such date as may be specified therein, constitute a committee, to be called the Mettur Township Committee (hereinafter referred to as the Township Committee), for the purpose of administering the municipal affairs of the Mettur township. (2) The Township Committee shall be a body corporate, having perpetual succession and a common seal, and subject to any restrictions or qualifications imposed by or under this or any other enactment, shall be vested with the capacity of suing and being sued in its corporate name, of acquiring, holding and transferring property, movable or immovable, of entering into contracts.and of doin6 all things necessary, proper or expedient for the purposes for which it is constituted.

[(I) The Township Committee shall consist of the following members, namely :- (a) Members of the House of the People and Members of the Legislative Assembly, chosen to represent a constituency which consists of, or comprises, cr which relates to, the township or any portion thereof, and Members of the Legislative Council who ordinarily reside in the township ; and (b) such o h r s of the State Government, and such other persons, of whom one shall be a representative of in&strial interests in the township and two of labour interest therein, as the State Government may appoint. (I-A) Where a person ceases to be a Member or the House of the People or a Member of the State Legislature, he shall cease to be a member of the Township Committee from the date on which he ceases to be suclt Member.] (2) Thc [State] Government shall appoint one of the 111embers of the Township Committee to be its Chairman and another person (whether a member of the Committee or not) to be its Executive Officer.

(1) The State Government may, by notification, direct that any of the provisions of the Tamil Nadu District Municipalities Act, 1920, or of any other enactment for the time being in force elsewhere in the State of Tamil Nadu but not in the township, shall apply to the township to such extent and subject to such modification's, additions and restrictions as may be specified in the notification. (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoin2 provisions, such notification may authorize- (a) the Township Committee to levy all or any of the taxes and fees which may be lcviecl by virtue of the provisions applied to the township under this section ; and (b) the Executive Officer of the Township Committee to exercise and perfolm in regald to thc township, the powers and duties assigned to thc executive authority of a municipality under the provisions applied as aforesaid, subject to such restrictions, limitations and conditiofls and to such control, if any, an may be specified in the notification.

The State Government may, by notification, define the boundaries of the Mettur township for the purposes of this Act, and may from time to time by a like notification, alter such boundaries.