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Employees etc. to be public serva THE PUNJAB PANCHAYATI RAJ ACT, 1994 to be concerned in not amiti or a State se services are placed at | Government employee who Section 157 shall, in any way, be concerned or interested in any bargain or contract made with the Panchayat Samiti for any of Act. the purposes of this cerned or interested or under colour y fee or reward whatsoever other nd is removed or dismissed from red from future employment (2) If any such employee is so con nts.-- Every employee of a t placed at its disposal under pointed for the nt within the Panchayat Samiti, or of the State Governmen Section 157, every member and every contractor or agent ap collection of tolls and fees shall be deemed to be a public serva meaning of Section 21 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860. CHAPTER - VII CONSTITUTION OF ZILA PARISHADS AND CONDUCT OF THEIR BUSINESS arishads.-- (1) The State Government shall, m the date which may be specified in the notification, there shall be constituted a Zila Parishad having jurisdiction, save as otherwise provided in this Act, over the entire district excluding such portions of the district as are included in a municipality or cantonment area or are under the authority of a municipal corporation or a notified area committee constituted under any law for the time being in farce: Provided that a Zila Parishad may have its office in any afea comprised within the excluded portion of the district and in such area May exercise its powers and functions over the property and institutions under its own control or management: Provided further that Zila Parishads Punjab Panchayat Samiti Zila Parishads Act have been constituted under this Act. (2) Every Zila Parishad shall be the n 461, Establishment of Zila P by notification, direct that fro already constituted under the _ 1961 shall be deemed to ame of Zila Parishad be a body corporate by having perpetual succession and a common seal and subject to such restriction as are imposed by or under this Act or any other law for the time being in force, shall be vested with the capacity of suing or being sued in its corporate name, or acquiring, holding and transferring property or immovable, whether without or within the limits of the area over which it T ar = THE PUNJAB PANCHAYATI RAJ ACT, 1994 11 has authority, or entering into contracts and of doing all things, necessary, proper or expedient for the purpose for which it is constituted. (3) Where a district is re-delimited, the State Government shall reconstitute the Zila Parishad for the re-delimited district under and in accordance with provisions of this Act.