CONTENTS

Drafting Team
Preface
Foreword
Acknowledgement
Executive Summary
PRELIMINARY
01 Area of Application
CONSTITUTION AND GOVERNMENT
02 Criteria of Municipalization
03 Industrial Townships
04 Composition of Municipalities
05 Municipal Authorities
06 Composition of Mayor-in-Council / Chairman-in-Council / Standing Committee
07 Assignment of Executive Powers
08 Election of Mayor/ Chairperson/ President
09 Term of Office of the Councillors, the Mayor /Chairman / President, and the Political Executive
10 Wards Committees and Ward Committees
11 Subject Committees
12 Organizational Structure of Municipality
13 Functional Domain of the Municipalities
14 Duration of Municipalities, Dissolution and Control
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT OF MUNICIPALITIES
15 Municipal Fund
16 Budget Estimates
17 Accounts and Audit
18 Municipal Property
19 Borrowings
MUNICIPAL REVENUE
20 Sources of Internal Revenues
21 Tax on Lands and Buildings and Other Taxes
URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND SERVICES
22 Private Sector Participation Agreement and Assignment to Other Agencies
URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, COMMUNITY HEALTH AND PUBLIC SAFETY
23 Local Agenda for Urban Environmental Management
24 Environmental Sanitation and  Community Health
REGULATORY JURISDICTION
25 Development Plans, Improvement, Public Streets,Buildings, Preservation and Conservation of Heritage Buildings, Municipal Licences and Vital Statistics
POWERS, PROCEDURES, OFFENCES AND PENALTIES
26 Procedure, Rules and Regulations, Offences and Penalties and Supplemental Provisions

ANNEXES

01 Some Possible Variations in A Unified Law for Different Levels of Municipalities
02 Some Illustrations of the Variations Made for Different Levels of Municipalities in the Specimen Municipal Law
03 Criteria of Municipalization Pre-and-Post- 74th Constitution Amendment Provisions of Some State Enactments
04 Milestones in Development of Municipal Bond Market in India
05

Municipal Taxes, User Charges and Licence Fee as Levied in India

06 Levy of Property Taxes in India – Grounds for Challenges in Courts
07 Area Linked System as Introduced in Patna
08 Area Linked System as Introduced in Gujarat
09 Area Linked System as Introduced in Madhya Pradesh
10 Area Linked System as Introduced in Tamil Nadu
11 The Karnataka Municipal Corporations (Amendment) Ordinance, 2000
12 The TRF Model
13 Some Built-in-Defects of The Slab System for Levy of Consolidated Rates Under the 1951 Act and The     Reform Introduced as per Straight Line System in the Calcutta Municipal Corporation Act, 1980
14 Unique Premises Numbering System for Tax Mapping in India