361.Conversion of ¹ [town municipal areas into citymunicipal areas].--

(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (1) of section 3, the ¹ [Governor] may at any time after consulting the municipal council concerned and considering objections, if any, declare by notification that any town ¹ [municipal area] ² [x x x] shall, with effect from a date to be specified in the notification, be a city ¹ [municipal area] constituted under this Act.

(2) The provisions of this Act relating to town ¹ [municipal areas] shall not apply to the ¹ [municipal area] declared as a city ¹ [municipal area] under sub-section (1) with effect from the date specified in the declaration.

(3) Any appointment, notification, notice, tax, order, scheme, licence, permission, rule, bye-law or form, made, issued or imposed in respect of a ¹ [municipal area] declared as a city ¹ [municipal area] and any appointment, notification, order, scheme, rule, bye-law or form, made or issued under any other law in respect of such ¹ [municipal area] shall continue in force and be deemed to have been made, issued or imposed under the provisions of this Act, unless and until it is superseded by any appointment, notification, notice, tax, order, scheme, licence, permission, rule, bye-law or form, made or issued or imposed under this Act.

(4) Before any town ¹ [municipal area] is constituted into a city ¹ [municipal area], the procedure prescribed in section 9 shall, as far as may be, be followed.

(5) The property, rights and liabilities of the municipal council of a¹ [municipal area] declared as a city ¹ [municipal area] under sub-section (1) shall vest in the municipal council of the said ¹ [municipal area] with effect from the date specified in the notification.

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1. Substituted by Act 36 of 1994 w.e.f. 1.6.1994.

2. Omitted by Act 34 of 1966 w.e.f. 16.1.1967.