Erode City Municipal Corporation Act, 2008
No: 8 Dated: Feb, 19 2008
THE ERODE CITY MUNICIPAL CORPORATION ACT, 2008
Tamil Nadu Act 8 of 2008
An Act to provide for the establishment of a Municipal Corporation for the city of Erode.
BE it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Tamil Nadu in the Fifty-ninth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
1. Short title, extent and commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the Erode City Municipal Corporation Act, 2008.
(2) It extends to the city of Erode.
(3) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of January 2008.
2. Definitions. - (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
(a) "city of Erode" or "city" means the local area comprised in the Erode Municipality and includes any local area which, after the date of the commencement of this Act, is included in the city, but does not include any local area which, after such date of the commencement of this Act, is excluded from the city;
(b) "corporation" means the municipal corporation of Erode constituted under section 3;
(c) "council" means the council of municipal corporation of Erode;
(d) "date of the commencement of this Act" means the date specified under sub-section (3) of section 1;
(e) "Government" means the State Government;
(f) "municipal council" means the municipal council of Erode Municipality;
(g) "municipality" means the Erode Municipality;
(h) "Scheduled Castes" and "Scheduled Tribes" shall have the meanings, respectively, assigned to them in clauses (24) and (25) of Article 388 of the Constitution.
(2) All words and expressions used in this Act and not defined, but defined in the Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation Act, 1981 (Tamil Nadu Act 25 of 1981) (hereinafter referred to as the 1981 Act), shall have the meanings, respectively, assigned to them in the 1981 Act.
3. Establishment of municipal corporation for the city of Erode. - (1) With effect on and from the date of the commencement of this Act, the local area included in the Erode municipality shall constitute the city of Erode for the purposes of this Act and from such date of the commencement of this Act, a municipal corporation shall be deemed to have been established, for the said city by the name of Erode City Municipal Corporation:
Provided that the Government may, from time to time, after consultation with the corporation, by notification, alter the limits of the city constituted under this sub-section so as to include therein or to exclude therefrom the areas specified in the notification:
Provided further that the power to issue a notification under this sub-section shall be subject to previous publication.
(2) The corporation shall, by the said name, be a body corporate, having perpetual succession and a common seal with power to acquire, hold and dispose of property and to enter into contracts and may, by its corporate name, suo and be sued.
(3) The Erode municipality, functioning immediately before the date of the commencement of this Act, shall be deemed to have been abolished from such date of the commencement of this Act.