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CHAPTER – II CONSTITUTION AND GOVERNMENT OF MUNICIPALITIES · The Executive Officer and Medical Officer of Health

Section 63: Powers of President or Municipality or committee to require reports, etc., from executive officer or medical officer of health

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) The 1[President or the] Municipality, or any committee of the Municipality, may require from the executive officer 2[or medical officer of health] —

(a) any return, statement, estimate, statistics or other information regarding any matter appertaining to 3[that branch of the administration of the Municipality with which he is concerned ] ;

(b) a report or explanation on any such matter ; and

(c) a copy of any record, correspondence or plan or other document which is in his possession or under his control as executive officer 2[or medical officer of health] or which is recorded or filed in his office or in the office of any servant subordinate to him.

(2) The executive officer 2[or medical officer of health] shall comply with every requisition made under sub-section (1) without unreasonable delay.

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Ins. by sec. 19 of U. P. Act no. V of 1932.
  2. 2.Ins. by sec. 52 of U. P. Act no. VII of 1949.
  3. 3.Subs. for (the administration of the municipality) by sec. 19 of U. P. Act no. V of 1932.

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