Section 31
Section 31 of the Assam Municipal Corporation Act, 2022. The quorum necessary for the transaction of business at a meeting of the Corporation shall be one-fifth of the total number of Councillors.
(1) The quorum necessary for the transaction of business at a meeting of the Corporation shall be one-fifth of the total number of Councillors.
(2) If at any time during a meeting of the Corporation there is no quorum, it shall be the duty of the person presiding over such meeting either to adjourn the meeting or to suspend the meeting until there is a quorum.
(3) Where a meeting has been adjourned under sub-section (2) above, the business which would have been brought before such meeting shall be brought before, and may be transacted at, the adjourned meeting, and no quorum shall be necessary for such adjourned meeting.
(4) All matters required to be decided at a meeting of the Corporation shall, save as otherwise provided in this Act, be determined by a majority of votes of the Councillors present and voting.
(5) The voting shall be by show of hands, provided that the Corporation may, subject to such regulations, resolve that any question, or class of questions, shall be decided by secret ballot.
(6) At any meeting of the Corporation, where a poll is taken on a resolution before it, the votes of all the Councillors present who desire to vote shall be taken under the direction of the presiding officer of such meeting, who shall declare such resolution to have been carried or lost, as the case may be, in accordance with the result of such poll.
(7) At any meeting of the Corporation, unless a poll is demanded by at least one-tenth of the Councillors present, a declaration by the presiding officer of such meeting that a resolution has been carried or lost in such meeting, and an entry to that effect in the minutes of the proceedings of such meeting shall, for the purposes of this Act, be conclusive evidence of the fact that such resolution has been carried or lost, as the case may be. Presiding officer of a meeting of Corporation.
Section 31, The Assam Municipal Corporation Act, 2022 (Act 8 of 2022).
Questions about Section 31
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When was the Assam Municipal Corporation Act enacted?
Assam Municipal Corporation Act was enacted in 2022 as Act 8 of 2022. India Code records no commencement date for it. It is in force as at the date shown on this page.
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