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Place of holding meetings and maintenance of order thereat.—(1) Every meeting of a municipal council shall, except for reasons to be specified in the notice convening the meeting, be held in the building used as a municipal office by such municipal council. (2) The president or the person presiding over a meeting shall preserve order thereat and shall have all powers necessary for the purpose of preserving such order. (3) The president or the person presiding over a meeting may direct any councillor whose conduct is in his opinion grossly disorderly, to withdraw immediately from the meeting and any, councillor so directed to withdraw shall do so forthwith and shall absent himself during the remainder of the meeting. (4) Subject to sub-section (5), every meeting shall be open to the public, unless a majority of the members present at the meeting decide that any inquiry or deliberation pending before the municipal council should be held in private. (5) The Government may make rules under clause (a) of sub-section (2) of section 323 for the purpose of admission of the members of the public to meetings of municipal councils and for the removal by force, if necessary, of any member of the public so admitted if he is found interrupting or disturbing the proceedings of the meeting. (6) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 56, in the case of grave disorder arising in a meeting, the president or the person presiding may, if he thinks it necessary to do so, adjourn the meeting to a date specified by him.