Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) The State Government may remove from office- (a) any councillor of a municipality, 37[on its own motion or on receipt of] a recommendation of the municipality in that behalf supported by a majority of the total number of the then councillors of the municipality, or (b) any president or vice-president of a municipality, If, after giving the councillor, president or, as the case may be, vice-president an opportunity of being heard and giving due notice in that behalf to the municipal- ity and after making such inquiry as it deems necessary, the State Government is of the opinion that the councillor, president or, as the case may be, vice-president has been guilty of misconduct in the discharge of his duties or of any disgraceful conduct or has become incapable of performing his duties under this Act. (2) A president or vice-president removed under sub-section (1) shall not be eligible for re-election as a president or vice-president during the remainder of the term of the municipality. 38[37A. Notwithstanding that a councillor has resigned his office under section 35, if it appears to the State Government that the councillor during the period he held office as a councillor has been guilty of misconduct in the discharge of his duties or of any disgraceful conduct, the State Government may disqualify him from becoming a councillor or a councillor or member of any other local authority for a period of five years from the date of its order : Provided that no action against the councillor so resigned shall be taken under this section after the expiry of one year from the date of his resignation and without giving him a reasonable opportunity of being heard.]