(1) If, in the opinion of the
State Government the number of persons who are employed by a
Municipality as officers or servants or whom a Municipality
proposes to employ, or the remuneration assigned by the
Municipality to those persons or to any particular person, is
excessive, the Municipality shall on the requirement of the State
Government reduce the number of the said persons or the
remuneration of the said person.
(2) It shall be lawful for the State Government-
(i) to require that any person appointed to be a Chief
Municipal Officer shall be invested by any
Municipality with all or any of the powers which
can under this Act or under any rules in force at
the time being lawfully delegated to him, in
addition to such powers as are conferred on him
by this Act;
(ii) to require that all or any of the powers referred to
in section 273 shall be delegated by any such
Municipality, whether there be a Chief Municipal
Officer or not, to the Chairperson, ViceChairperson or any such member as the State
Government may deem fit.
(3) Any requisition issued to the Municipality under
clause (i) or clause (ii) of sub-section (2) shall be complied with
within such time as the State Government may, in each case,
prescribe in that regard.
(4) The State Government shall have the power to assess
the requirement of the employees in a Municipality and where it is
satisfied that certain employees are in excess, notwithstanding
anything contained in the rules for the time being governing the
conditions of service of any class of employees of the
Municipalities, it may declare them as surplus and may prescribe
the manner in which such surplus employees shall be absorbed
into other Municipalities.
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