THE KARNATAKA MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2014
(Received the assent of the Governor on the Twenty–eighth day of February, 2014)
KARNATAKA ACT NO. 21 OF 2014
(First Published in the Karnataka Gazette Extra-ordinary on the Twenty–eighth day of February, 2014)
An Act further to amend the Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act, 1976.
Whereas it is expedient further to amend the Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act, 1976 (Karnataka Act 14 of 1977) for the purposes hereinafter appearing;
Be it enacted by the Karnataka State Legislature in the Sixty Fifth year of the Republic of India as follows, namely:-
1. Short title and commencement.– (1) This Act may be called the Karnataka Municipal Corporations (Amendment) Act, 2014.
(2) It shall come into force at once.
2. Amendment of section 503.- In section 503 of the Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act, 1976 (Karnataka Act 14 of 1977) after sub-section (4), the following proviso, shall be inserted, namely:-
"Provided that where the larger urban area so constituted does not have any newly added area and the election to such smaller urban area was held within one year before the date of declaration of Larger urban area, the election to such larger urban area for constitution of a corporation need not to be held till the completion of the term of members of smaller urban area so elected (irrespective of whether City Municipal Council was constituted or not) and the members of smaller urban area shall continue to be members of the larger urban area corporation to be constituted till the completion of their term so elected and a corporation shall be constituted by treating the said elected members as councilors of the corporation under Section 7 ".
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