(1) Any
officer appointed or authorized by the State Government in this
behalf by a general or special order shall have power-
(a) to enter upon and inspect or cause to be entered
upon and inspected any immovable property
occupied by any Municipality or any institution
under its control or management or any work in
progress under it or under its direction or control;
(b) to call for any extract from the proceedings of any
Municipality or of any Committee, or from any
book or document in the possession of or under the
control of a Municipality, and any return,
statement, account or report which he may think fit
to require such Municipality to furnish;
(c) to require a Municipality to take into consideration
any objection which appears to him to exist to the
doing of anything which is about to be done or is
being done by such Municipality, or any
information which he is able to furnish and which
appears to him to necessitate the doing of a certain
thing by the Municipality and to make a written
reply to him within a reasonable time stating its
reasons for not desisting from doing or for not
doing such thing; and
(d) to conduct enquiry in any matter of the Municipality
as directed by the State Government and to ask to
produce relevant record as also to take into
possession the record which is to be submitted
alongwith his enquiry report to the State Government.
(2) All or any of the powers given to such officer as may
be appointed or authorized under sub-section (1) may be delegated
by him to an officer subordinate to him not below the rank of a
Sub-Divisional Officer.
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