Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Ever-y person shall be liable for the loss, waste or misapplication of any money or other property belonging to a committee, if such loss, waste of misapplication is reported by the Examiner of Local Fund Accounts, or other avdit authority empowered by the State Government in this behalf to ,k a direct consequence of his neglect or misconduct in the performance-.of his duties while a member of the cornminee; and he may after being given an opportunity, by notjce served in the manner provided for the sepice-of sumones in the Civil Procedure Code, to show cause by written or oral representation why he shouId not be required to make good the loss, be surcharged with the value of such property or the amount bf such money by the '[Pirector] and if the amount is not paid within fourteen days from the e x p i j of the period of appeal prescribed by sub-section (21, the'collector at therequ=St of the 'mirector] shall pioceed forthwith to recover the arnoiinfs as if it were an amear of land revenue and have it ckdited to the municipal fund. . , . ,. .', , , . , (2) The.person against whom an order under sub-section (1) is may, within thirty days of the notification of such order, appeal made, to the State Govmment who shall appoint an officer to hear the appeal; and the ap~llate authority shall have the power of confirming, modifying or disallowing the surcharge : Rovided that no person shall under this scction be called upon to show cause after the expiry of a period of four year from the occurrence of such loss, waste or misapplication or after the expiry of one year from the time of his ceasing to be a , member: , . provided further that nothing in this section shall be deemed to debar the aggrieved party from seeking rerriidy in a civil court against an order made under sub-section ( I ) .