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CHAPTER – II CONSTITUTION AND GOVERNMENT OF MUNICIPALITIES · Control of Municipality

Section 30: Power of State Government to dissolve the municipality

The Uttar Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1916

How current this text is

Text as published by India Code for the Government of Uttar Pradesh, with amendments up to U.P. Act 16 of 2026.

1[If an any time the State Government is satisfied that a municipality persistently makes default in the performance of duties imposed upon it by or under this Act or any other law for the time being in force or exceeds or abuses more than once its powers, it may, after having given the municipality a reasonable opportunity to show cause why such order should not be made by order published with the reasons therefore in the official Gazette, dissolve the municipality. ]

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Subs. by sec. 102 of U.P. Act no. 12 of 1994.

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