9. Procedure for constitution, abolition, etc., of ¹ [smaller urban areas]

Not less than ² [thirty days] before the publication of any notification declaring any local area to be a ¹ [smaller urban area], or altering the limits of any such ¹ [smaller urban area] or declaring that any local area shall cease to be ¹ [smaller urban area], the ¹ [Governor] shall cause to be published in the official Gazette, in English and Kannada, and to be posted up in conspicuous places in the said local area in Kannada, a proclamation announcing that it is proposed to constitute the local area to be ¹ [smaller urban area], or to alter the limits of the ¹ [smaller urban area] in a certain manner, or to declare that the local area shall cease to be a ¹ [smaller urban area], as the case may be, and requiring all persons who entertain any objection to the said proposal to submit the same, with the reasons therefore, in writing to the Commissioner within ² [thirty days] from the date of the said proclamation, and whenever it is proposed to add to or exclude from a ¹ [smaller urban area] any inhabited area, it shall be the duty of the municipal council also to cause a copy of such proclamation to be posted up in conspicuous places in such area. The Commissioner shall, with all reasonable dispatch, forward every objection so submitted to the ¹ [Governor].

No such notification as aforesaid shall be issued by the ¹ [Governor] unless the objections, if any, so submitted are in ³ [his] opinion insufficient or invalid.

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

2. Substituted by Act 20 of 1995 w.e.f. 7.7.1995.

3. Substituted by Act 22 of 2000 w.e.f. 29.11.2000.