Hosur City Municipal Corporation Act, 2019
No: 10 Dated: Feb, 20 2019
Hosur City Municipal Corporation Act, 2019
(Act No. 10 of 2019)
An Act to provide for the establishment of a Municipal Corporation for the city of Hosur.
Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Tamil Nadu in the Seventieth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
1. Short title, extent and commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the Hosur City Municipal Corporation Act, 2019.
(2) It extends to the city of Hosur.
(3) It shall come into force on such date as the Government may, by notification, appoint.
2. Definitions. - (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,
(a) "city of Hosur" or "city" means the local area comprised in the Hosur municipality and includes any local area which, after the date of the commencement of this Act, is include ed in the city but does not include any local area which, after such date of the commencement of this Act, is exclude from the city;
(b) "corporation" means the municipal corporation of Hosur constituted under Section 3;
(c) "council" means the council of municipal corporation of Hosur;
(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 Hosur municipality;
(g) "municipality" means the Hosur municipality;
(h) "Scheduled Castes" and "Scheduled Tribes" shall have the meanings, respectively, assigned to them in clauses (24) and (25) of Article 366 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 Hosur. - (1) With effect on and from the date of the commencement of this Act, the local area included in the Hosur municipality shall constitute the city of Hosur 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 Hosur 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, sue and be sued.
(3) The Hosur 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.