Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Substituted vide H.P. Act No. 11 of 2010. 60 THE HIMACHAL PRADESH MUNICIPAL CORPORATION ACT, 1994 sewerage disposal, health and sanitation and all miscellaneous residuary matters. (4) The Finance, Contracts and Planning Committee shall perform the functions relating to the finances of the Corporation, preparation of budget, scrutinising proposals for increase of revenue including taxes, examination of receipts and expenditure statement, sales and leases of Corporation properties, recovery of loans, examination of schedule of rates, consideration of all proposals affecting the finances of the Corporation and general supervision of the revenue and expenditure of the Corporation and any other functions relating to the development of the municipal area. (5) The social Justice Committee shall perform functions relating to- (a) promotion of education, economic, social, cultural and other interests of the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Backward Classes; and weaker sections of the society; (b) protection from social injustice and all other forms of exploitation; (c) amelioration of the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Backward Classes including other weaker sections of society; (d) securing social justice to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, women and other weaker sections of the society. (6) The Mayor shall be the ex-officio member and also Chairman of the General Functions Committee and Finance, Contracts and Planning Committee. The Deputy Mayor shall be the ex-officio member and Chairman of the Social Justice Committee: Provided that if the Deputy Mayor acts as the Mayor of the Corporation, the members of the Social Justice Committee or any other standing committee of which the Deputy Mayor, is the ex-officio member and the Chairman, the members of Committee shall elect its Chairman from amongst themselves. (7) No elected member of the Corporation shall be eligible to serve on more than two standing committees at a time, (8) A Standing Committee may with the approval of the Corporation, co-opt not more than two persons who are not Councillors of the Corporation but who in the opinion of the Corporation possess special qualifications for serving on such a committee: Provided that such co-opted members shall not be deemed to be Councillors of the Corporation and shall have no right to vote in any capacity whatsoever but shall be entitled to participate in all the proceedings of the committee in an advisory capacity. (9) The Chairman of every committee shall in respect of the work of the committee, be entitled to call for any information, return, statement, account or report from the office of the Corporation and to enter on and THE HIMACHAL PRADESH MUNICIPAL CORPORATION ACT, 1994 61 inspect any immovable property of the Corporation or work in progress connected with the work of the committee. (10) Each committee shall be entitled to attendance at its meetings of any officer of the municipal Corporation who is connected with the work of the committee. The Commissioner shall under the instructions of the committee, issue notices and secure the attendance of the officer. (11) The Corporation may frame regulations relating to election of members of the Standing Committees, conduct of business therein, and all other matters relating thereto. (12) The Commissioner, or the Joint/Assistant Commissioner, appointed under section 46, shall be the ex-officio Member Secretary of the Standing Committee. CHAPTER-III FUNCTIONS OF THE CORPORATION