State Act

The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Act, 1955.

97. 166[(1)] The Standing Committee shall meet for the despatch of business in the Chief Office of the Municipal Corporation and may, from time to time, make such regulations with respect to such meetings and with respect to the scrutiny of the municipal accounts as they think fit, subject to the following conditions:— (a) there shall be a meeting of the Standing Committee once a week, and at such other times as shall be found necessary; (b) the first meeting of each Standing Committee shall be held on a day and at a time to be fixed by the Commissioner, and if not held on that day shall be held on some subsequent day to be fixed by the Commissioner; and every subsequent meeting of the Standing Committee shall be held on such day and at such time as the said Committee may from time to time determine; (c) the Chairman of the Standing Committee shall, upon a written requisition signed by the Commissioner, call a special meeting of the said committee within twenty-four hours for the transaction of any business which, in the opinion of the Commissioner, cannot be delayed until the next ordinary meeting of the said Committee; (d) no business shall be transacted at a meeting of the Standing Committee unless at least half of the total number of members are present from the beginning to the end of such meeting; (e) every meeting of the Standing Committee shall be presided over by the chairman, if the chairman is present at the time appointed for holding the meeting, and, if the chairman is absent, by such one of the members present as may be chosen by the meeting to be the Chairman for the occasion; (f) every question shall be decided by a majority of votes of the members of the Standing Committee present and voting on that question, the presiding authority having a second or casting vote when there is an equality of votes; (g) subject to any bye-laws made in this behalf the Standing Committee may from time to time, by a specific resolution in this behalf, delegate any of its powers or duties to sub-committees, consisting of such members of the said committee not less in number than three on each sub-committee, as they think fit; and any sub-committee so formed shall conform to any instructions that may from time to time be given to them by the Standing Committee and the said committee may at any time discontinue or alter the constitution of any sub-committee so formed; (h) a sub-committee may elect a Chairman of its meeting, and if no such Chairman is elected or if he is not present at the time appointed for holding any meeting, the members of the sub-committee present, shall choose one of their #[members] to be Chairman of such meeting; (i) a sub-committee may meet and adjourn as it thinks proper, but the Chairman of the Standing Committee may, whenever he thinks fit, and shall, upon the written request of not less than two members of a sub-committee, call a special meeting of such sub-committee; (j) questions at any meeting of a sub-committee shall be decided by a majority of votes of the members present and, in case of an equality of votes, the Chairman of the meeting shall have a second or casting vote, but no business shall be transacted at any such meeting unless at least two-thirds of the members of the sub-committee are present from the beginning to the end thereof; (k) a minute shall be kept by the Municipal Secretary of the names of the members present and of the proceedings at each meeting of the Standing Committee and at each sub-committee’s meeting in a book to be provided for this purpose, which shall be signed at, and by the presiding authority 167[after the completion of the meeting]; (l) a member of the Standing Committee shall not vote or take part in the discussion before the said committee or before any sub-committee on any matter in which he is directly or indirectly, by himself or by his partner, professionally interested on behalf of a client, principal or other person; (m) the Commissioner shall have the same right of being present at a meeting of the Standing Committee and of taking part in the discussions thereat as a member of the said committee, but he shall not vote upon, or make any proposition at such meeting; (n) the Standing Committee may require any officer of the Corporation to attend any meeting or meetings of the Standing Committee at which any matter dealt with by such officer in the course of his duties is being discussed; when any officer is thus required to attend any such meeting he may be called upon to make a statement or explanation of facts or supply such information as may be in his possession relating to any matter dealt with by him. 168[(2) Where a subject is placed before the Standing Committee, the Standing Committee shall take a decision thereon within a period of fifteen days from the date of placing the matter before it, and if a subject is not considered by the Standing Committee within the aforesaid period, the proposal contained in the subject shall be deemed to have been approved by the Standing Committee. Where a proposal is rejected by the Standing Committee, the Commissioner shall place the matter before the Corporation within a period of fifteen days from the date of such rejection for its decision and a meeting for this purpose shall be held in accordance with clause (c) of section 88.]