Keyword(s):
Corporation, Election, Larger Urban Area, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Wards Committee
Amendment appended: 14 of 2005

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:-
  20. 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.
  21. 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).
  22. 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.

  1. 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.
  2. 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:
  3. 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
  4. 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 nonreserved 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]
  5. 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 coterminus 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.
  6. 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.A3[XXXX]
  7. 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.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.]

  1. 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.
  2. 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 subsection (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.]
  3. 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.]

  1. 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.

  1. 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 subsection (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).
  2. 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.
  3. Repeal of Ordinance 9 of 1994 – The Andhra Pradesh Municipal
    Corporations Ordinance, 1994 is hereby repealed.