Section 69-B: Centralisation of services of Municipal Officers and Servants

¹[²[(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in sections 57, 59, 65 to 68, 69, 69-A, 71, 74, 79 and 80, the State Government may at any time by rules provide for the creation of one or more services of such officers and servants as the State Government may deem fit, common to all or some ³[Nagar Panchayats or Municipal Councils or to the Nagar Panchayats, Municipal Councils, Municipal Corporation and Jal Sansthans in the State] and prescribe the methods of recruitment and conditions of service of persons appointed to any such service. ]

Explanation :– For the purposes of this sub-section it is classified that services common to the Nagar Panchayats, and Municipal Councils or Nagar Panchayats, Municipal Councils, Municipal Corporaton and Jal Sansthans in the districts of Garhwal and Kumaon Divisions of the State may be created.

(2) When any such service is created, officers and servants serving on the posts included in the service may, if found suitable, be absorbed in the service, provisionally or finally, and the services of others shall stand determined, in the prescribed manner.

⁴[ Provided that such absorption in the service shall not operate as a bar against holding or continuing to hold any disciplinary proceedings against a member of the service in respect of any act committed before the date of such absorption ; and ]

(3) Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of sub-sections (1) and (2), such rules may rules may also provide for consultation with the State Public Service Commission in respect of any of the matters referred to in the said sub-sections. ]

⁵[(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in the preceding such sections (1), (2) and (3) or any other provision of the Act, the State Government may by rules also provide for regularization of temporary and ad hac appointments, made before the prescribed date, without consultation with the State Public Service Commission. ]