(1) If the person liable for the payment of the said sum does not, within fifteen days from the service of such notice of demand, either —
(a) pay the sum demanded in the notice, or
(b) show cause to the satisfaction of the Municipality or of such officer as the Municipality by regulation may appoint in this behalf, or, where there is an executive officer, of the executive officer, as the case may be, why he should not pay the same, such sum with all costs of the recovery may be recovered under a warrant caused to be issued by the Municipality in the form of schedule V, or to the like effect, by distress and sale of the movable property of the defaulter.
(2) Every warrant issued under this section shall be signed by the 1[President] 2 of the Municipality, or by an officer to whom the Municipality has delegated its power by regulation or by the executive officer, if any.
Footnotes in the official text
- 1.Subs. for (Chairman) by sec. 61 of U. P. Act VII of 1949.
- 2.In accordance with section 2 (1) of Uttar Pradesh Municipalities (Supplementary and Validation) Act, 1951 (see Appendix to this Act), during the period commencing from June 21, 1949, and until a new board is constituted by the first General Elections held under the U. P. Municipalities Act, 1916, next after the commencement of this Act, for the word “President”, occurring section in 169, the word “Chairman” shall stand substituted.