State Act

THE UTTAR PRADESH MUNICIPAL CORPORATION ACT, 1959

464- (1) A person who has directly or indirectly, by himself or his partner, a share or interest in a contract with, by, or on behalf of a [Corporation]1 or in any employment with, under, by or on behalf of, a Mabapalika, other than as a [Corporation]1 servant, shall be disqualified for being a servant of such [Corporation]1. (2) A [Corporation]1 servant who shall acquire or continue to have, directly or indirectly, by himself or his partner, a share or interest in any, such contract or employment as aforesaid shall cease to be a [Corporation]1 servant, and his office shall become vacant. (3) A [Corporation]1 servant who knowingly acquires or continues to have, directly or indirectly, a share or interest in a contract or, except in so far as concerns his employments a [Corporation]1 servant, in any employment with, under, by or on behalf of, a [Corporation]1 of which he is a servant, shall be deemed to have committed an offence under section 168 of the Indian Penal Code. (4) Nothing in this section shall apply to any such share or interest in a contract or employment with, under, by, or on behalf of, the [Corporation]4 as is referred to in clauses (b), (d), and (g) of proviso to section 463, or to any share or interest acquired or retained with the permission of the Prescribed Authority, in any lease, sale or purchase of land or buildings, or in any agreement for the same.