Thanjavur City Municipal Corporation Act,2013

THANJAVUR CITY MUNICIPAL CORPORATION 

THANJAVUR CITY MUNICIPAL CORPORATION ACT  

TAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY 

ACT No. 24 OF 2013. 

 An Act to provide for the establishment of a Municipal Corporation for 

the City of Thanjavur. 

 Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Tamil Nadu in 

the Sixty-fourth Year of the Republic of India, as follows:—  

1. (1) This Act may be called the Thanjavur City Municipal Corporation 

Act, 2013.  

(2) It extends to the city of Thanjavur. 

 (3) It shall come into force on such date as the Government may, by 

notification, appoint.  

2. (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— 

 (a) “city of Thanjavur” or “city” means the local area comprised in the 

Thanjavur municipality and includes any local area which, after the date of 

the commencement of this Act, is included in the city but does not include 

any local area which, after such date of the commencement of this Act, is 

excluded from the city; 

 (b) “corporation” means the municipal corporation of Thanjavur 

constituted under section 3;  

(c) “council” means the council of municipal corporation of Thanjavur;  

(d) “date of the commencement of this Act” means the date specified 

under sub-section (3) of section 1; 

 (e) “Government” means the State Government; 

 (f) “municipal council” means the municipal council of Thanjavur 

municipality; 

 (g) “municipality” means the Thanjavur municipality;  

(h) “Scheduled Castes” and “Scheduled Tribes” shall have the 

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

366 of the Constitution.  

 



(2) All words and expressions used in this Act and not defined but 

defined in the Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation Act, 1981 (hereinafter 

referred to as the 1981 Act), shall have the meanings, respectively, assigned 

to them in the 1981 Act. 

 3. (1) With effect on and from the date of the commencement of this 

Act, the local area included in the Thanjavur municipality shall constitute the 

city of Thanjavur for the purposes of this Act and from such date of the 

commencement of this Act, a municipal corporation shall be deemed to have 

been established for the said city by the name of Thanjavur City Municipal 

Corporation:  

Provided that the Government may, from time to time, after 

consultation with the corporation, by notification, alter the limits of the city 

constituted under this sub-section so as to include therein or to exclude 

therefrom the areas specified in the notification:  

Provided further that the power to issue a notification under this sub-

section shall be subject to previous publication. 

 (2) 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. 

 (3) The Thanjavur municipality, functioning immediately before the 

date of the commencement of this Act, shall be deemed to have been 

abolished from such date of the commencement of this Act.  

4. The municipal authorities charged with carrying out the provisions of 

this Act shall be,— 

 (1) a Mayor;  

(2) a council; 
 (3) a standing committee; 

 (4) a wards committee; and 

(5) a commissioner. 
 

 

 

 

 

 5. (1) Save as otherwise provided in sub-section (2), the council shall 

consist of such number of councillors elected in the manner laid down in this 

Act as may be fixed by the Government, by notification, from time to time, 

so, however, that the total number of councillors of the council shall not 

exceed seventy-two at any time. 

 

 



 (2) The following persons shall also be represented in the council, 

namely:—  

(a) the members of the House of the People representing 

constituencies which comprise wholly or partly the area of the corporation 

and the members of the Council of States registered as electors within the 

area of the corporation; 

 (b) all the members of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly 

representing constituencies which comprise wholly or partly the area of the 

corporation. 

 (3) The persons referred to in sub-section (2) shall be entitled to take 

part in the proceedings but shall not have the right to vote in the meetings of 

the council. 

(4) Seats shall be reserved for the persons belonging to the Scheduled 

Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in the council and 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 in the council as the population 

of the Scheduled Castes in the city or of the Scheduled Tribes in the city 

bears to the total population of the city.  

(5) Seats shall be reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled 

Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, from among the seats reserved for the 

persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, which 

shall not be less than one-third of the total number of seats reserved for the 

persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes.  

(6) Seats shall be reserved for women in the council and the number of 

seats reserved for women shall not be less than one-third including the 

number of seats reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes and 

Scheduled Tribes of the total number of seats in the council. 

(7) The reservation of seats under sub-sections (4) and (5) shall cease 

to have effect on the expiry of the period specified in Article 334 of the 

Constitution. 

 6. (1) The corporation, unless sooner dissolved, shall continue for five 

years from the date appointed for its first meeting after each ordinary 

election and no longer and the said period of five years shall operate as a 

dissolution of the corporation. 

 

 

 



 (2) An election to constitute the corporation shall be completed,— 

 (a) before the expiry of its duration specified in sub-section (1); or 

 (b) before the expiration of a period of six months from the date of its 

dissolution:  

Provided that where the remainder of the period for which the dissolved 

corporation would have continued, is less than six months, it shall not be 

necessary to hold any election, under this sub-section for constituting the 

corporation for such period. 

 7. (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-sections (2) and (3), the Tamil 

Nadu District Municipalities Act, 1920 (hereinafter referred to as the “District 

Municipalities Act”) shall, with effect on and from the date of the 

commencement of this Act, cease to apply to the local area comprised within 

the city of Thanjavur. 

 (2) Such cessor shall not affect,— 

 (a) the previous operation of the District Municipalities Act in respect 

of the local area comprised within the city of Thanjavur; 

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

offence committed against the District Municipalities Act; 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 

appointments, notifications, notices, rules, bye-laws, regulations, orders, 

directions, licences, permissions, schemes, forms and powers, made or 

issued or conferred under the District Municipalities Act and in force on the 

date of the commencement of this Act shall, so far as they are not 

inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, continue to be in force in the local 

area comprised within the city of Thanjavur until they are replaced by the 

appointments, notifications, notices, rules, byelaws, regulations, orders, 

directions, licences, permissions, schemes, forms and powers to be made or 

issued or conferred under this Act. 

 8. (1) Save as otherwise expressly provided herein, all the provisions 

of the 1981 Act, including the provisions relating to the levy and collection of 

any tax or fee are hereby extended to and shall apply, mutatis mutandis to 

the corporation and the 1981 Act shall, in relation to the corporation, be read 

and construed as if the provisions of this Act had formed part of the 1981 

Act.  



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

1981 Act to the corporation, the Government may, by notification, make such 

adaptations and modifications of the 1981 Act and the rules and byelaws 

made thereunder, whether by way of repealing, amending or suspending any 

provisions thereof, as may be necessary or expedient and thereupon, the 

1981 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 1981 Act, or 

the rules and bye-laws 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 be necessary or proper 

having regard to the matter before the court, tribunal or authority.  

(4) In the 1981 Act as extended and applied to the city of Thanjavur,— 

 (a) any reference to the city of Coimbatore and Coimbatore municipality, 

shall by reason of this Act, be construed as a reference to the city of 

Thanjavur and Thanjavur municipality, respectively; and  

(b) any reference to the Coimbatore Corporation, Corporation of Coimbatore 

and Municipal Corporation of Coimbatore, shall by reason of this Act, be 

construed as a reference to the Thanjavur Corporation, Corporation of 

Thanjavur and Municipal Corporation of Thanjavur, respectively. 

 9. (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 municipal council as well as all liabilities legally 

subsisting against the said municipal council, on and from the date of the 

commencement of this Act and subject to such directions as the Government 

may, by general or special order, give in this behalf, vest with the 

corporation. 

 (2) All arrears of taxes or other payments by way of composition for a tax, 

or due for expenses or compensation, or otherwise due to the said municipal 

council on the date of 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 date of the 

commencement of this Act were being levied by the said municipal 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 municipal council or authority or 

any person under the District Municipalities Act may be continued by, or 

against, the corporation, authority or person as if the said proceedings had 

been commenced under the provisions of this Act. 

 (5) Any action taken under the District Municipalities Act, by any authority 

before the date of 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 been in force.  

(6) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, every officer or employee 

who, immediately before the date of the commencement of this Act, was in 

the service of the municipality shall, on and from the date of such 

commencement, be deemed to be an officer or employee of the corporation: 

 Provided that,—  

(a) 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 

the date of such commencement, as regards pay and allowances, leave, 

pension, gratuity, provident fund and age of superannuation; and 

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

municipality upto the date of such commencement shall be deemed to be 

service under the corporation and he shall be entitled to count that service 

for the purpose of increment, leave, pension, provident fund and gratuity:  

Provided further that any officer or other employee serving in the 

municipality shall be given 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 transferred to the service referred to in section 73-A of 

the District Municipalities Act or to be retrenched from the service of the 

municipality on such retrenchment benefits as may be prescribed. 

 (7) Any division of the Thanjavur municipality into wards, made under 

the District Municipalities Act, and in force on the date of the commencement 

of this Act shall be deemed to be a division of the corporation until altered.  

 

 

 



 

(8) The electoral roll prepared for the Thanjavur municipality under the 

District Municipalities Act, and in force on the date of the commencement of 

this Act, 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.  

(9) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, the Chairman, Vice-

Chairman and the councillors of the Thanjavur municipality, who are elected 

and holding office as such immediately before the date of the commencement 

of this Act, shall be deemed to be the Mayor, Deputy Mayor and councillors of 

the Thanjavur City Municipal Corporation elected under this Act and such 

Mayor, Deputy Mayor and councillors shall continue to hold office upto such 

date as the Government may, by notification, fix in this behalf or, in case no 

such date is fixed, upto the date on which their term of office would expire 

under the District Municipalities Act and such Mayor, Deputy Mayor and 

councillors shall exercise all the powers and perform all duties conferred on 

the Mayor, Deputy Mayor and councillors by or under this Act.  

10. (1) The Government may make rules for carrying out the purposes 

of this Act. 

 (2) (a) All rules made under this Act shall be published in the Tamil 

Nadu Government Gazette and, unless they are expressed to come into force 

on a particular day, shall come into force on the day on which they are so 

published.  

(b) All notifications issued under this Act shall, unless they are 

expressed to come into force on a particular day, come into force on the day 

on which they are so published.  

(3) Every rule made or notification or order issued under this Act shall, 

as soon as possible, after it is made or issued, be placed on the table of the 

Legislative Assembly, and if, before the expiry of the session in which it is so 

placed or the next session, the Assembly makes any modification in any such 

rule or notification or order, or the Assembly decides that the rule or 

notification or order should not be made or issued, the rule or notification or 

order shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no 

effect, 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 or notification or order.  

 

 



 

11. If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this Act, 

the Government may, by an order published in the Tamil Nadu Government 

Gazette, make such provisions not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act 

as appear to them to be necessary or expedient for removing the difficulty: 

 Provided that no such order shall be made after the expiry of two 

years from the date of the commencement of this Act. 

(By order of the Governor) 

 

      G. JAYACHANDRAN,                  

  Secretary to Government, 

        Law Department. 

  



 

 

APPENDIX 

NOTIFICATION 

 Under sub-section (3) of section1 of the Thanjavur City Muncipal 

Corporation Act. 2013 (Tamil Nadu Act 24 of 2013) the Governor of Tamil     

Nadu hereby appoints the 19th February, 2014 as the date on which the said 

Act shall come into force. 

 

 

         K.PHANINDRA REDDY 

               SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT 

 

 

 

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          Section Officer