THE KERALA MUNICIPALITY (SECOND

AMENDMENT) ACT, 2005 [1]

(ACT 6 OF 2005)

An Act further to amend the Kerala Municipality Act, 1994.

Preamble.-WHEREAS, it is expedient further to amend the Kerala Municipality Act, 1994 for the purposes hereinafter appearing;

BE it enacted in the fifty-sixth year of the Republic of India as follows:-

      1. Short title and commencement.-(1) This Act may be called the Kerala Municipality (Second Amendment) Act, 2005.

        (2) It shall come into force at once.

       2. Amendment of section 6.- In the Kerala Municipality Act, 1994 (20 of 1994), in section 6, for sub-section (3), the following sub-section shall be substituted, namely:-

         “(3) The number of seats of Councilors notified under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) shall be,-

          (a) in the case of a Town Panchayat or a Municipal Council,-

          (i) twenty-two, where the population in the area of the Town Panchayat or Municipal Council does not exceed twenty thousand; and

         (ii) where the population of the Town Panchayat or Municipal Council exceeds twenty thousand, twenty-two councilors for the population of first twenty thousand, and one each for every two thousand and five hundred of the population exceeding twenty thousand, subject to a maximum of fifty councilors;

       (b) in the case of a Municipal Corporation,-

       (i) fifty-two, where the population in the area of the Municipal Corporation does not exceed four lakhs; and

       (ii) where the population exceeds four lakhs, fifty-two councilors for the population of first four lakhs, and one each for every ten thousand exceeding four lakhs, subject to a maximum of one hundred councilors.”.