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CHAPTER – II CONSTITUTION AND GOVERNMENT OF MUNICIPALITIES · President and Vice-President

Section 50: Functions of Municipality that must be discharged by the President

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.

The following power, duties and functions of a Municipality may be exercised, and shall be performed or discharged, by the 1[President] of the Municipality and 2[subject to the provisions of sections 53 and 53-A,] not otherwise namely —

(a) the owners vested in the 1[President] by sections 70, 2[74 and the provisos to sections] 75 and 76 to appoint, punish or dismiss servants of the board ;

(b) the determination, in accordance with any regulation in this behalf, of questions arising in respect of the service, 3[transfer], leave, pay, privileges and allowances of servants of the board ;

4[(bb) general supervision over all officers and works of the Board ; ]

(c) the submission to 5[the Prescribed Authority] under section 32, of statements, accounts, reports or copies of documents, and under sub-sections (4) and (5) of section 94 and sub-section (1) of section 108 of copies of resolutions passed by a committee of the board;

(d) such of the powers, duties and functions referred to in the third column of schedule I as are delegated by the board under section 112 to the 6[President], and

(e) all other duties, powers and functions of a board with the exception of —

(i) where there is an executive officer, those vested in an executive officer, by section 60 [and where there is a medical officer of health, those vested in the medical officer of health by section 60-A. ]

(ii) those specified in the second column of schedule I, and

(iii) those delegated by the board under section 112.

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Subs. for (Chairman) by sec. 61 of U. P. Act no. VII of 1949.
  2. 2.Subs. by sec. 21 of U. P. Act no. 27 of 1964.
  3. 3.Ins. by sec. 44 (1) of U. P. Act no. VII of 1949.
  4. 4.Cl. (bb) add. by sec. 44 (2) of ibid.
  5. 5.Subs. for (the commissioner and the District Magistrate) by sec. 44 (3) of ibid.
  6. 6.Subs. for (Chairman) by sec. 61 of U. P. Act no. VII of 1949.

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