Constitution of India, 1949
243S. Constitution and composition of wards
Committees, etc.-
(1) There shall be constituted Wards Committees, consisting of
one or more Wards, within the territorial area of a Municipality having a
population of three lakhs or more.
(2) The Legislature of a State may, by law, make provision with
respect to-
(a) the composition and the territorial area
of a Wards Committee;
(b) the manner in which the seats in a Wards
Committee shall be filled.
(3) A member of a Municipality representing a ward within the
territorial area of the Wards Committee shall be a member of that Committee.
(4) Where a Wards Committee consists of-
(a) one ward, the member representing that
ward in the Municipality; or
(b) two or more wards, one of the members
representing such wards in the Municipality elected by the members of the Wards
Committee, shall be the Chairperson of that Committee.
(5) Nothing in this article shall be deemed to prevent the
Legislature of a State from making any provision for the Constitution of
Committees in addition to the Wards Committees.