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Establishment of Standing Committees.- (1) There shall be the following Standing Committees for the City Corporation,- (a) Standing Committee for Administration, Education and Social Justice; (b) Standing Committee for Revenue and Finance; (c) Standing Committee for Public Works and Engineering; (d) Standing Committee for public health and disaster management; (e) Standing Committee for Forest, Environment, Ecology, Lakes, Horticulture and Fisheries; (f) Standing Committee for Infrastructure; (g) Standing Committee for Audit and Accounts. (2) Each Standing Committee shall consist of minimum nine Councillors and maximum of fifteen members including Chairman, who shall be elected by the Council. (3) Each Standing Committee shall have a Chairman who shall be elected by the members of such Standing Committee on its first meeting of the Standing Committee after the general elections and at the first meeting in the same month in each succeeding year according to the principle of proportionate representation by means of single transferable vote in such manner as may be prescribed. (4)The duration of the Standing Committee shall be thirty months. (5)The Mayor and Deputy Mayor shall be the ex-officio members of all the Standing Committees. (6)A person shall cease to be a member of the Standing Committee if he ceases to be a City Corporation member or if he absents himself without the permission of the Standing Committee for three consecutive meetings of the Standing Committee. (7)Where a casual vacancy occurs in the membership of a Standing Committee it shall be filled by the City Corporation by the election. The person so elected shall hold office only so long as the person in whose place he is elected would, but for the occurrence of the vacancy, have held. (8)A member of the Standing Committee may resign his office at any time by notice in writing addressed to the Chairman of the Standing Committee or where there is no Chairman to the Mayor and delivered to the Chairman or as the case may be to the Mayor and such resignation shall take effect from the date on which it is delivered.