The Andhra Pradesh Municipal Corporations Act, 1994

 THE ANDHRA PRADESH MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS ACT, 1994 
     (Act No. 25 of 1994) 
    

    ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS 
 

SECTIONS 

  

 1. Short title, extent and commencement  

2.   Definitions 

3. Specification of larger urban area 

4. Municipal authorities 

5. Composition of Corporation 

6. Reservation of seats 

7. Term of Office of members and filling of seats 

8. Casual Vacancies of members 

9. [XXX] 

9-A. [XXX] 

10. Constitution, powers and functions of the Wards Committees 

11. State Election Commission 

12. Finance Commission  

12-A. Sanction of works contract 

13. Andhra Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1965 not to apply on 

specification as larger Urban area 

14. Application of the provisions of the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation     

Act, 1955 (Act II of 1956) 

14-A. General provision for reservation of office of Mayor in the 

Corporations of the State 

14-B. Constitution of a Municipal Corporation Service 

15. Levy and Collection of pipeline service charges  

15.A – Levy and collection of pipeline service charges user charges for 

sewerage systems 

16. Transitional Provisions 

17. Appointment of Special Officer 

18. Power to make Rules 

19. Repeal of Ordinance 9 of 1994 

 

 

 
  



THE ANDHRA PRADESH MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS ACT, 1994 

(ACT No.25 OF 1994) 

 

                [16th August, 1994] 

 
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF MUNICIPAL 

CORPORATIONS IN THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH AND FOR 

MATTERS CONNECTED THEREWITH OR INCIDENTAL THERETO. 

 
Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Andhra Pradesh in the 

Forty-fifth Year of the Republic of India as follows:- 
 

1. Short title, extent and commencement - (1) This Act may be called the 
Andhra Pradesh Municipal Corporations Act, 1994. 
 

 (2) It extends to the whole of the State of Andhra Pradesh, except to the 

local areas covered by the Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada 

Municipal Corporations. 
 

 (3) It shall be deemed to have come into force with effect on and from the 

4th July, 1994. 
 

2.   Definitions - In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- 
 

(a) 'Corporation' means a Municipal Corporation deemed to have 

been constituted under Section 3; 

(b) 'Election authority' means such officer or authority as may be 

appointed by the State Election Commission to exercise such 

powers and to perform such functions in connection with the 

conduct of elections to the Municipal Corporations; 

(c) 'Finance Commission' means the Finance Commission 

constituted by the Governor under article 243-I of the Constitution 

of India; 

(d) 'larger urban area' means such area as the Governor may, 

having regard to the population of the area, the density of the 

population therein, the revenue generated for local administration, 
the percentage of employment in non-agricultural activities, the 

economic importance or such other factors as may be prescribed, 

specify by notification for the purposes of this Act;  

(e) 'Scheduled Castes' and ‘Scheduled Tribes' shall have the 

meanings respectively assigned to them in clauses (24) and (25) of 

article 366 of the Constitution of India; 

1[(ee) “Sewerage System” means, all structures, process, 

equipment and arrangements  to collect,  treat and discharge 

waste water or faecal sludge.] 

(f) 'State Election Commission' means the State Election 
Commission constituted in pursuance of article 243-K of the 

Constitution of India; 

(g) 'Wards Committee' means a wards committee constituted 

under section 10; 

(h) 'Words and expression' used in this Act but not defined shall 

have the meanings assigned to them in the Hyderabad Municipal 

Corporations Act, 1955 (Act II of 1956). 

3. Specification of larger urban area - (1) Where a notification is issued by 

the Governor specifying an area as a larger urban area under clause (d) of 
section 2, a Corporation shall be deemed to have been constituted for such 

area. 
 

                                                             
1. Inserted by the Act No.44 of 2020, S.6 



 (2) The Governor may, from time to time, after consultation with the 
Corporation, by notification in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette, alter the limits of a 

larger urban area specified in the notification issued under clause (d) of  

section 2, so as to include therein or to exclude therefrom, the areas specified 

in the notification. 

 (3) The power to issue a notification under sub-section (2) shall be 

subject to such rules as may be made in this behalf and to previous 

publication. 

 (4) The Corporation shall, by the said name, be a body corporate, having 

perpetual succession and a common seal with power to acquire, hold and 

dispose of property and to enter into contracts and may by its corporate name, 

sue and be sued. 

 (5) Where any local area which is within the jurisdiction of any other 

local authority is included in a larger urban area for which a corporation is 
constituted, the Government may pass such orders as they may deem fit as to 

the transfer to the Corporation or disposal otherwise, of the assets or 

institutions of any such local authority in the local area and as to the discharge 
of the liabilities, if any, of such local authority relating to such assets or 

institutions. 

 (6) Where any local area for which a Municipality is constituted under 

the Andhra Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1965 (Act VI of 1965) is declared as a 
larger urban area and a Municipal Corporation is constituted, then the 

Municipality functioning immediately before such constitution shall be deemed 

to have been abolished and the said Act shall cease to apply to such larger 

Urban area. 

 (7) Where a Municipality stands abolished under sub-section (6), it shall 

be competent for the Government to pass such orders as they may deem fit as 
to the transfer to the Corporations or disposal otherwise, of the assets or 

institutions of the abolished Municipality and as to the discharge of the 

liabilities, if any, of such Municipality relating to such assets or institutions. 
 

4. Municipal authorities - The Municipal authorities charged with carrying 

out the provisions of this Act shall be,- 

(a) a Corporation; 

(b) a Standing Committee; 

(c) a Commissioner; 

(d) the Wards Committee. 

5. Composition of Corporation - The Corporation shall consist of the 

following members, namely:- 

    (i) such number of elected members as may be notified 
from time to time by the Government in the Andhra 

Pradesh Gazette, in accordance with such principles as 

may be prescribed; 

  1[Provided that the number of Members to be elected in 

respect of a Corporation constituted under this  

Act shall be the same as the number of Members in the 
Municipality existing immediately prior to such 

constitution, until it is altered;] 

(ii) every Member of the Legislative Assembly of the State 

representing a constituency of which the concerned larger 

urban area or a portion thereof forms part; 

   (iii) every member of the House of the People representing a 

constituency of which the concerned larger urban area or 

a portion thereof forms part: 

 

                                                             
1. Proviso added by Act No.1 of 1995, clause (i) of S.4 



  Provided that a member of the House of the People 
representing a constituency which comprises more than 

one larger urban area including a part thereof shall be the 

member of the Corporation constituted for one of the 
larger urban areas which he chooses; and he shall also 

have the right to speak in and otherwise to take part in the 

proceedings of any meeting of the Corporation constituted 

for the other larger urban area within the Constituency 

but shall not be entitled to vote at any such meetings; 

(iv) every member of the Council of States registered as an 

elector within the   larger urban area concerned ex-officio; 

[(iv-a) every Member of the Legislative Council of the State 

registered as an elector within the area of the Municipal 
Corporation as on the date of filing of nomination for 

becoming  Member of Legislative Council or on the date of 

nomination by the Governor, as the case may be, shall be 

ex-officio member of the Corporation.] 

[(v) three persons having special knowledge or experience in 

Municipal Administration of whom one shall be woman, be 
co-opted as members of the Corporation in the prescribed 

manner by the members of the Corporation from among the 

persons who are registered voters in the Corporation and 

who are not less than twenty-one years of age: 

 Provided that the members co-opted under this clause 

shall have the right to speak in and otherwise to take part 
in the meetings of the Corporation, but shall not have right 

to vote; 

(vi) two persons belonging to the minorities of whom one 
shall be woman  be co-opted as members of the Corporation 

in the prescribed manner by the members of the 

Corporation specified in sub-clauses (i) to (iv) from among 
the persons who are registered voters in the Corporation 

and who are not less than twenty-one years of age: 

Provided that the member co-opted under this clause 
shall have the right to speak in and otherwise to take part 

in the meetings of the Corporation but shall not have  right 

to  vote.] different years mentioned in the Bare Act) Doubt 

6. Reservation of seats - In the Corporation, out of the total strength of 

elected members, the Government shall, subject to the rules as may be 
prescribed, by notification, reserve,- 
 

(a) such number of seats to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled 

Tribes as may be determined by them, subject to the condition that 
the number of seats so reserved shall bear, as nearly as may be, 

the same proportion to the total number of seats to be filled by 

direct election to the Corporation, as the population of the 
Scheduled Castes, or as the case may be the Scheduled Tribes in 

the Corporation bears to the total population of the Corporation; 

and such seats may be allotted by rotation to different wards in the 

Corporation; 

(b) one-third of the total number of seats for members belonging to 

Backward Classes; and such seats may be allotted by rotation to 

different wards in the Corporation; 

(c) not less than one-third of the total number of seats reserved 

under clauses (a) and (b) for women belonging to the Scheduled 

Castes, Scheduled Tribes or as the case may be, the Backward 

Classes; 

(d) not less than one-third (including the number of seats reserved 

for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes 



and Backward Classes) of the total number of seats to be filled by 
direct election to the Corporation shall be reserved for women and 

such seats may be allotted by rotation to different wards in a 

Corporation. 

 

Explanation:- For the removal of doubts it is hereby declared that,- 

(i) nothing in this section shall be deemed to prevent women 

and members of the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes or 
Backward Classes from standing for Election to the non-

reserved seats in the Corporation; 

(ii) the expression ‘Backward Classes' means any socially 
and educationally Backward Classes of citizens recognised 

by the Government for purposes of clause (4) of article 15 of 

the Constitution of India 1[without reference to the 
classification but including the creamy layer amongst such 

Backward classes of citizens] 

(iii) 2[XXXX] 

7. Term of Office of Members and filling of seats - (1) (a) The term of office of 

elected members shall, save as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, be five 

years from the date appointed by the Election Authority for the first meeting of 

the Council and no longer. 
 

(b) An ex-officio member specified under clause (ii) or (iii) or (iv) of 
section 5 shall hold office so long as he continues to be the 

Member of the Legislative Assembly of the State or as the case may 

be, of either House of the Parliament and the ex-officio members 

specified under clauses (v) and (vi) of section 5 shall be co-

terminus with the elected members. 

 (2) Ordinary vacancies in the office of elected members shall be filled at 
ordinary elections which shall be held before the expiry of the term of office of 

the elected members specified in clause (a) of sub-section (1). 
 

 (3) A member elected at an ordinary election held after the occurrence of 

a vacancy shall enter upon office forthwith but shall hold office only as long as 
he would have been entitled to hold office if he had been elected before the 

occurrence of the vacancy. 
 

8. Casual Vacancies of Members – 3[(1) A casual vacancy in the office of a 

member shall be filled at a casual election which shall be fixed by the Election 
Authority to take place twice in a year, one in the month of April and another 

in the month of October: 
  

 Provided that no casual election shall be held to fill a casual vacancy 

occurring within three months before the date on which the term of office of the 
member expires by efflux of time and that such vacancy shall be filled  at the 

next general elections of the Corporation.] 
 

 (2) A member elected to a casual vacancy shall enter upon office 

forthwith but shall hold office only so long as the member in whose place he is 
elected would have been entitled to hold office if the vacancy had not occurred. 

 

9. 4[XXXXX] 
 

9.A- 3[XXXX]   
 
 

10. Constitution, powers and functions of the Wards Committees - (1) 

There shall be constituted by the Government, by order, such number of Wards 

                                                             
1   Added by the Act No.7 0f 2012, clause (ii) of S.4 
2 . Omitted by the Act No.1 of 1995, S.4 
3 .  Substituted by the Act No. 15 of 1997, S.4 
4.  Omitted by the Act No.29 of 2005 



Committees to the Corporation as may be determined by them, so however, 
that each Wards Committee shall consist of not less than ten wards: 
  

 Provided that in constituting Ward Committees the Government shall 

maintain geographical contiguity as far as possible. 
 

 (2) Each Wards Committee shall consist of the members elected from the 

wards for which the Wards Committee is constituted: 
 

 Provided that such officers of the Corporation as the Commissioner may 
specify shall attend the meetings of the Wards Committee and shall have the 

right to speak in and otherwise to participate in the meetings of the Wards 

Committee but shall not have the right to vote. 
 

 (3) The Chairperson of the Wards Committee shall be elected by the 
Members thereof from among themselves in the prescribed manner. He shall 

hold office for a period of one year from the date of election and shall be eligible 

for re-election. 
 

 (4) The Chairperson shall cease to hold office if he ceases to be a member 
of the Wards Committee. Any casual vacancy in the office of the Chairperson 

shall be filled by election of another Chairperson from among the elected 

members of the Wards Committee, as soon as may be, after the occurrence of 

the vacancy. 
 

 (5) The powers and functions of the Wards Committee and the manner of 
conduct of business at its meetings shall be such as may be prescribed. 
 

11. State Election Commission - The preparation of electoral rolls for, and 

the conduct of elections to Corporation shall be under the superintendence, 

direction and control of the State Election Commission constituted under 
article 243-K of the Constitution. 
 

12. Finance Commission - (1) The Finance Commission constituted by the 

Governor in pursuance of article 243-I of the Constitution shall also review the 
financial position of the Corporation and make recommendations to the 

Government as to,-- 

(a) the principles which should govern,- 

   (i) the distribution between the State and the Corporation of 
the net proceeds of the taxes, duties, tolls and fees leviable 

by the State, which may be divided between them under this 

part and the allocation between the Corporation of their 

respective shares of such proceeds; 

  (ii) the determination of the taxes, tolls and fees which may 

be assigned to, or appropriated by the Corporation; 

  (iii)the grants-in-aid to the Corporation from the 

Consolidated Fund of the State; 

(b) the measures needed to improve the financial position of the  

Corporation; 

(c) any other matter referred to the Finance Commission by the 

Government in the interests of sound finances of the Corporation. 

 (2) The Government shall cause every recommendation made by the 

Commission under this article together with an explanatory memorandum as 
to the action taken thereon to be laid before the Legislative Assembly of the 

State. 

 
1[12.A-  Sanction of works contract – The powers of the several authorities of 

the Municipal Corporation and the Government to sanction works contract 

shall be as follows namely: 
 

(i) Commissioner:  Works contract for a value not exceeding 
rupees ten lakhs; 
 

                                                             
1 .  New section Inserted by the Act No.15 of 2013, S.5 



(ii) Standing Committee: Works contract for a value exceeding 
rupees ten lakhs but not exceeding rupees fifty lakhs; 

 

(iii)  Corporation :  Works contract for a value exceeding rupees 
fifty  lakhs but not exceeding rupees two hundred lakhs; 
 

(iv)  Corporation and the Government: Works contract for a value 

exceeding rupees two hundred lakhs after approval of the 

Corporation shall be submitted to the Government for sanction.]   
 

13. Andhra Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1965 not to apply on specification 

as larger Urban area - (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-sections (2) and (3), 
the Andhra Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1965, shall, with effect on and from the 

specification of a local area or a smaller urban area for which a Municipality is 

constituted as a larger urban area, cease to apply to such larger urban area for 
which a Municipal Corporation is constituted. 

 

 (2) Such ceasor shall not effect;- 
 

(a) the previous operation of the Andhra Pradesh Municipalities 

Act, 1965 in respect of the local area comprised within any newly 

specified larger urban area for which a Corporation is constituted; 

(b) any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of any 

offence committed against the Andhra Pradesh Municipalities Act, 

1965, or 

(c) any investigation, legal proceedings or remedy in respect of such 

penalty, forfeiture or punishment, and any such penalty, forfeiture 

or punishment may be imposed as if this Act had not been passed. 

 (3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), all 

notifications, rules, bye-laws, regulations, orders, directions and powers, made, 
issued or conferred under the Andhra Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1965 and in 

force in a Municipality immediately before the specification of its local area as a 

larger urban area shall, so far as they are not inconsistent with the provisions 
of this Act continue to be in force in the larger urban area comprised within the 

Corporation until they are replaced by the notifications, rules, bye-laws, 

regulations, orders, directions and powers to be made or issued or conferred 

under this Act. 
 

14. Application of the provisions of the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation 

Act, 1955 (Act II of 1956)- (1) Save as otherwise expressly provided herein, all 

the provisions of the Hyderabad Municipal Corporations Act, 1955(Act II of 
1956) (hereinafter in this section referred to as the said Act) including the 

provisions relating to the levy and collection of any tax or fee except Chapter V 

and sections 380, 381, 382, 383, 384, 385 and 387 in Chapter XI thereof are 

hereby extended to and shall apply mutatis mutandis to a Corporation 
constituted under this Act and the said Act shall, in relation to the Corporation 

be read and construed as if the provisions of the said Act had formed part of 

this Act. 
 

 (2) For the purpose of facilitating the application of the provisions of the 

Hyderabad Municipal Corporations Act, 1955, to the Corporation, the 

Government may, by notification, make such adaptations and modifications of 
the said Act and the rules and bye-laws made thereunder whether by way of 

repealing, amending or suspending any provisions thereof, as may be 

necessary or expedient and thereupon the said Act and the rules made 

thereunder, shall apply to the Corporation subject to the adaptations and 
modifications so made. 
 

 (3) Notwithstanding that no provision or insufficient provision has been 

made under sub-section (2) for the adaptation of the provisions of the said Act, 
or the rules made thereunder, any Court, Tribunal or Authority required or 

empowered to enforce these provisions may, for the purpose of facilitating their 

application to the Corporation, construe these provisions in such manner, 



without affecting the substance, as may necessary or proper regard to the 
matter before the Court, Tribunal or Authority. 
 
1[14A. General provision for reservation of office of Mayor in the 

Corporations of the State - Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-
section (2) of Section 1 of this Act, out of the total number of offices of Mayor of 

the Corporations constituted either under this Act or under any other law 

relating the Municipality, Corporations for the time being in force in the State, 
the Government shall, subject to such rules as may be prescribed, by 

notification reserve,- 
 

(i) such number of offices to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled 
Tribes as may be determined subject to the conditions that the 

number of offices so reserved shall bear, as nearly as may be, the 

same proportion to the total number of offices to be filled in the 

State as the population of the Scheduled Castes or Scheduled 
Tribes, as the case may be, in all the Corporations of the State 

bears to the total population in the Corporations of the State and 

such offices may be allotted by rotation to different Corporations in 

the State; 

2[Provided that where the proportion of the population of the 

Scheduled Castes, or Scheduled Tribes as the case may be, in all 
the corporations of the State does not constitute required 

proportion as prescribed enabling them for reservation, atleast one 

office of the Mayor shall be reserved for Scheduled Castes or 
Scheduled Tribes as the case may be, without reference to the said 

required proportion.] 

(ii) one-third of the offices to the Backward Classes and such 
offices may be allotted by rotation to different Corporations in the 

State; 

(iii) not less than one-third of the total number of offices reserved 

under clauses (i) and (ii) for women belonging to the Scheduled 
Castes, Scheduled Tribes or as the case may be, the Backward 

Classes; and 

(iv) not less than one-third (including the number of offices 
reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled 

Tribes and the Backward Classes) of the total number of offices to 

be filled in the State for women, and such offices may be allotted 

by rotation to different Corporations in the State. 
 

3[14.B Constitution of a Municipal Corporation Service – (1) 

Notwithstanding anything in this Act or the Rules  made thereunder, the 
Government may after consulting all the Municipal Corporations, by 

notification in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette, constitute any class of officers or 

employees of the Municipal Corporations into a Municipal Corporation service 

for the State. 

(2) Upon issue of a notification under sub-section (1), the Government 

shall have power to make rules to regulate the classification, methods of 
recruitment, conditions of service, pay and allowances and discipline and 

conduct of the Municipal Corporation Service thereby constituted and such 

rules may vest jurisdiction  in relation to such service in the Government or in 

such other authority or authorities as may be prescribed therein.] 
 

15. Levy and Collection of pipeline service charges - The Government may, 

by notification, direct the Corporation to levy and collect pipeline service 
charges from every owner or occupier of a premises to which water connection 

has been given at such rate as may be prescribed to the different categories as 

may be specified in this regard to defray the capital cost of pipeline service 

                                                             
1.   Inserted by the Act.No.25 of 1995, S.4 
2 . Proviso Added by the Act No. 12 of 2008, S.2 
3 . Added by the Act No.14 of 2013, S.2 



works undertaken by the Corporation and the operation and maintenance of 
the pipeline system from time to time: 
 

 Provided that no such charges shall be levied on the owner or occupier of 
any premises situated in the areas which are not served by the pipeline system 

of the Corporation. 
 

1[15.A – Levy and collection of pipeline service charges user charges for 

sewerage systems: 
 

 The Government may by notification, direct the Municipal Corporation to 
levy and collect user charges from every owner or occupier of a premises served 

by the Sewerage System of the Corporation at such rate and manner or 

method, to the different categories specified therein to defray the capital and 
operation and maintenance costs of sewerage and sewage treatment works 

undertaken in the Corporation: 
 

 Provided that it is obligatory on the part of the owner or occupier of the 
premises falling in areas served, to get the premises connected to the sewerage 

system.] 
 

16. Transitional Provisions - Where a Municipality ceases to exist and a 

Municipal Corporation is constituted in its place under this Act,--(1) all 
property, all rights of whatever kind, used, enjoyed or possessed by and all 

interests of whatever kind owned by, or vested in, or held in trust by or for the 

Municipal Council, with all rights of whatever kind used, enjoyed or possessed 
by the said Council as well as all liabilities legally subsisting against the said 

Council, shall, on and from the commencement of this Act and subject to such 

directions as the Government may, by general or special order, give in this 
behalf, pass to the Corporation; 
 

 (2) all arrears of taxes or other payments by way of compounding of a 

tax, or due for expenses or compensation or otherwise due to the said Council 

at such commencement may be recovered as if they had accrued to the 
Corporation and may be recovered as if the said arrears or payments had 

become due, under the provisions of this Act; 
 

(3) all taxes, fees and duties, which immediately before the 
commencement of this Act, were being levied by the said Council, shall be 

deemed to have been levied by the Corporation under the provisions of this Act 

and shall continue to be, in force accordingly until such taxes, fees and duties 
are revised, cancelled or superseded by anything done or any action taken 

under this Act; 

 (4) all proceedings taken by or against the Council or authority or any 
person under the Andhra Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1965 (Act VI of 1965), 

may be continued by or against the Corporation, authority, or person as if the 

said proceedings had been started under the provisions of this Act; 

 (5) any action taken under the Andhra Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1965 
(Act VI of 1965), by any authority before such commencement shall be deemed 

to have been taken by the authority competent to take such action under this 

Act as if this Act had then been in force; 

 (6) Notwithstanding this Act, every officer or employee who, immediately 

before such commencement was in the service of the municipality shall be 

deemed to be an officer or employee of the corporation; 

  Provided that,-- 

(i) the terms and conditions applicable to such officers and 

employees consequent on their absorption in the service of 
the Corporation shall not be less favourable than those 

applicable to such employees immediately before such 

                                                             
1 .  New section inserted by the Act. No.44 of 2020 S.6 



commencement, as pay and allowance, leave, pension, 

gratuity, provident fund and age of superannuation; and 

(ii) the service rendered by any such officer or other employee 

under the municipality upto such commencement shall be 
deemed to be in service under the Corporation and he shall 

be entitled to count that service for the purpose of 

increments, leave, pension or provident fund and gratuity: 

    Provided further that any officer or other employee 
serving in the Municipality shall give an option to be 

exercised within such time and in such manner as may be 

prescribed either to be absorbed in the service of the 
Corporation or to be retained in the service constituted, 

under section 72 of the Andhra Pradesh Municipalities Act, 

1965 (Act VI of 1965), or to be retrenched from the service of 
the Municipality on such retrenchment benefits as may be 

prescribed; 

(7) any division of the Municipality into wards made under the Andhra 
Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1965 (Act VI of 1965) and in force at the 

commencement of this Act, shall be deemed to be a division of the Corporation; 

(8) the electoral roll prepared for the Municipality under the Andhra 

Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1965 (Act VI of 1965) and in force at the 
constitution of the Corporation shall be deemed to be the electoral roll for the 

Corporation until a new electoral roll is prepared and published; and the part 

of the said electoral roll relating to each ward of the Municipality shall be 
deemed to be the list of the electoral roll for the corresponding division of the 

Corporation. 

17. Appointment of Special Officer - (1) Whenever a new Municipal 
Corporation is constituted under this Act, there shall be appointed by the State 

Government, by a notification in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette, a Special Officer 

to exercise the powers, perform the duties and discharge the functions of,-- 

(a) the Corporation; 

(b) the Standing Committee; 

(c) the Commissioner; and 

(d) the Wards Committee. 

 (2) The State Election Commission shall cause elections to be held to the 
Corporation within one year from the date of its constitution and the newly 

elected members shall enter upon office on such date as may be specified by 

the Government in this behalf, by a notification in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette. 
 

 (3) The Special Officer shall exercise the powers, perform the duties and 

discharge the functions of the Corporation until the elected members come into 
office, of the Standing Committee until a Standing Committee is appointed by 

the Corporation, or the Commissioner, until a Commissioner is appointed by 

the State Government and of the Wards Committees until the Wards 
Committees are constituted, as the case may be, and any such officer may, if 

the State Government so direct, receive remuneration for his services from the 

municipal fund. 
 

 (4) Until a new special officer is appointed by the Government under sub-
section (1) the Special Officer of the Municipality functioning immediately 

before the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be the Special Officer 

of the Corporation and he shall exercise the same powers and perform the 
same duties and discharge the same functions as those exercised, performed 

and discharged by the Special Officer appointed under sub-section (1). 
 



18. Power to make Rules - (1) The Government may by notification, make 
rules for carrying out all or any of the purposes of this Act. 
 

 (2) Every rule made under this Act shall immediately after it is made, be 

laid before the Legislative Assembly of the State, if it is in session and if it is 

not in session, in the session immediately following for a total period of 
fourteen days which may be comprised in one session or in two successive 

sessions, and if, before the expiration of the session in which it is so laid or the 

session immediately following the Legislative Assembly agrees in making any 
modification in the rule or in the annulment of the rule, the rule shall, from the 

date on which the modification or annulment is notified, have effect only in 

such modified form or shall stand annulled as the case may be, so however, 

that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the 

validity of anything previously done under that rule. 
 

19. Repeal of Ordinance 9 of 1994 - The Andhra Pradesh Municipal 
Corporations Ordinance, 1994 is hereby repealed.