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CHAPTER – II CONSTITUTION AND GOVERNMENT OF MUNICIPALITIES · Declaration of municipalities

Section 4: Procedure preliminary to issue notification

The Uttar Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1916

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

(1) Before the issue of a notification 1[referred to in section 3] the 2[Governor] shall publish in the Official Gazette 3[and in a paper, approved by it for purposes of publication of public notices, published in the district or, if there is no such paper in the district, in the division in which the local area covered by the notification is situate] and cause to be affixed at the office of the District Magistrate and at one or more conspicuous places within or adjacent to the local area concerned, a draft in Hindi of the proposed notification along with a notice stating that the draft will be taken into consideration on the expiry of the period as may be stated in the notice ; and ]4

(2) The 2[Governor] shall, before issuing the notification, consider any objection or suggestion in writing which it receives from any person, in respect of the draft, [within the period stated]5.

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Subs. by sec. 37 of U. P. Act no. 26 of 1995.
  2. 2.Subs. by sec. 75 of U. P. Act no. 12 of 1994.
  3. 3.Subs. by sec. 3 of U. P. Act no. 27 of 1964.
  4. 4.Subs. by sec. 3 (1) of U. P. Act no. I of 1955.
  5. 5.Subs. by sec. 3 (2) ibid.

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