172. Constitution, incorporation and Composition of Zilla Praja Parishad.
(1)There shall be constituted, by the Government, by notification, a Zilla Praja Parishad for a district with effect from such date as may be specified therein.(2)Every Zilla Praja Parishad shall, by the name of the District for which it is constituted, 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)Every Zilla Praja Parishad shall consist of the following members, namely:-(i)persons elected under section 174;(ii)the Member of the Legislative Assembly of the State representing the constituency which comprises either wholly or partly the district concerned:Provided that such Member of the Legislative Assembly shall have right to speak in and otherwise to take part in the proceedings of a meeting of any Standing Committee of the Zilla Praja Parishad but he shall not be entitled to vote at a meeting of such Standing Committee, unless he is also a member of that Standing Committee:Provided further that no Member of the Legislative Assembly representing a constituency the whole of which forms part of the local area within the jurisdiction of any of the Municipal Corporations or any of the Municipalities in the State shall be the member of the Zilla Praja Parishad, of the concerned district;(iii)the Member of the Legislative Council of the State who is a member of the Mandal Praja Parishad:Provided that such Member of the Legislative Council of the State shall have the right to speak in, and otherwise to take part in the proceedings of a meeting of any Standing Committee of the Zilla Praja Parishad, but he shall not be entitled to vote at a meeting of that Standing Committee, unless he is also a member of that Standing Committee;(iv)the Member of the House of the People representing the constituency which comprises either wholly or partly the district concerned:Provided that no Member of the House of the People representing a constituency the whole of which forms part of the local area within the jurisdiction of any of the Municipal Corporations in the State shall be the Member of the Zilla Praja Parishad:Provided further that a Member of the House of the People representing a constituency which comprises more than one district including a portion of any district, shall be a member of the Zilla Praja Parishad of all such districts with the right to speak in, and otherwise to take part in the proceedings of their meetings with voting rights; he shall also have the right to speak in and otherwise to take part in the meetings of any Standing Committee of the Zilla Praja Parishad but he shall not be entitled to vote at a meeting of any Standing Committee unless he is also a member of that Standing Committee.(v)the Member of the Council of States who is a registered voter in the district:Provided that such Member of the Council of State shall have the right to speak in, and otherwise to take part in the proceedings of a meeting of any Standing Committee of the Zilla Praja Parishad, but he shall not be entitled to vote at a meeting of that Standing Committee, unless he is also a member of that Standing Committee;(vi)two persons belonging to minorities to be coopted in the prescribed manner by the members specified in clause (i) from among persons who are registered voters in the District and who are not less than twenty one years of age.(4)No person shall be a Member in more than one of the categories specified in sub-section (3).A person who is or becomes a Member of a Zilla Praja Parishad in more than one such category, shall, by notice in writing signed by him and delivered to the Chief Executive Officer, within fifteen days from the date of the first meeting of the Zilla Praja Parishad referred to in sub-section (9) of section 176, intimate in which one of the said categories he wishes to serve, and thereupon, he shall cease to be the member in the other category or categories. In default of such intimation within the aforesaid period, his membership in the Zilla Praja Parishad in the category acquired earlier shall, and his membership acquired later in the other category shall not, cease at the expiration of such period. The intimation given under this sub-section shall be final and irrevocable.(5)No person other than a Member of the House of the People shall be entitled to be a member of more than one Zilla Praja Parishad at a time.
