State Act

Punjab Town Improvement Act 1922

15. Meetings of committees. - (1) Committees appointed under section 14 may meet and adjourn as they think proper; but the chairman of the trust may, whenever he deems fit, call a special meeting of any such committee, and shall do so upon the written request of not less than two members thereof. (2) The chairman may attend any meeting of a committee appointed under sec-tion 14 whether he is a member of such committee or not, and shall preside at every such meeting at which he is present; if he be absent, any trustee present and being a member of such committee as may be chosen by the meeting, shall preside : provided in this case if only one trustee is present, he shall preside. (3) All questions which come before any meeting of such committee shall be decided by a majority of the votes of the members present, the person presiding in case of an equality of votes having a second or casting vote. (4) No business shall be transacted at any meeting of such committee when less than 2 members or, when the committee consists of more than eight members, when less than one-fourth of such members are present.