If at a meeting 1[President is not present] the members present shall elect one of their members to be the 2[President] of the meeting, and such [President] shall perform all the duties, and may exercise all the powers of the 3[President] of a Municipality when presiding at a meeting.
Footnotes in the official text
- 1.Subs. by sec. 7 of U. P. Act no. 49 of 2007.
- 2.Subs. for (Chairman) by sec. 61 of U. P. Act VII of 1949.
- 3.In accordance with section 2 (1) of Uttar Pradesh Municipalities (Supplementary and Validation) Act, 1951 (U. P. Act XV of 1951) (see appendix to this Act) during the period commencing from June 21, 1949 and until a new board is constituted by the first General Elections held under the U. P. Municipalities Act, 1916, next after the commencement of the aforesaid Act XV of 1951 for the word “president” and “Vice-Chairman” shall wherever they occur in sections 88, 89, 90, 91 and 92, the words “Chairman” and “Vice-Chairman” shall respectively stand substituted.