State Act

The Telangana Public Libraries Act, 1960.

28[11-A. (1) A person shall be disqualified 29[XXX] for being, a member of the Zilla Grandhalaya Samstha, if he- (a) is or has been sentenced by a criminal court to imprisonment for a period of more than six months for any offence involving moral delinquency, such sentence not having been reversed or the offence pardoned, and a period of five years has not elapsed from the date of the expiration of such sentence: Provided that the Government may direct that such sentence shall not operate as a disqualification; (b) is of unsound mind and stands so declared by a competent court; (c) is a deaf-mute or is suffering from leprosy; (d) applies to be adjudicated as an insolvent or is an undischarged insolvent; (e) absents himself from three consecutive meetings without excuse sufficient in the opinion of the Zilla Grandhalaya Samstha to exonerate the absence. (2) Where a person ceases to be a member under clause (e) of sub-section (1), the Secretary shall at once intimate the fact in writing to such person and report the same to the Zilla Grandhalaya Samstha at its next meeting. Where such person applies for restoration of membership to the Zilla Grandhalaya Samstha on or before the date of its next meeting or within fifteen days of the receipt by him of such intimation, the Zilla Grandhalaya Samstha may, at the meeting next after the receipt of the application, or suo-motu, restore him as member thereof: Provided that a member shall not be so restored more than twice 30[during the period he holds office.]