State Act
Section 75. Time within which vacancy in office of city engineer or executive health officer or hydraulic engineer must be filled up.
The Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act.
75. Time within which vacancy in office of 9[city engineer] or executive health officer or hydraulic engineer must be filled up.— (1) On the occurance of a vacancy in the office of 10[city engineer] or of executive health officer 11[or of hydraulic engineer] an appointment shall be made thereto by the corporation within four months from the date on which the vacancy occurred, or in the event of any appointment so made by them not being confirmed by 12[the 13[State] Government] within thirty days from the date of the receipt by the corporation of the order of 14[the 15[State] Government]. (2) In default of an appointment being made by the corporation as aforesaid 16[the 17[State] Government] may appoint a person to fill the vacancy, and such appointment shall for all purposes be deemed to have been made by the corporation. (3) Pending the settlement of an appointment under sub-section (1) or (2) the corporation may appoint a person to fill the vacancy temporarily and may direct that the person so appointed shall receive such monthly salary not exceeding 1[the maximum permissible under clause (c) of sub-section (2) of section 74, in respect of the officer in whose place such person is appointed] as it shall think fit. A person so appointed to be temporary executive health officer need not be a legally qualified medical practitioner.