The New Delhi Municipal Council Act, 1994 · V — PROCEDURE

Section 21. Meetings

In force · As amended up to 2026-08

CHAPTER V PROCEDURE Transaction of business by the Council 21. Meetings.— (1) The Council shall ordinarily hold at least one meeting in every month for the transaction of business. (2) The Chairperson and in his absence the Vice-Chairperson may, whenever he thinks fit, and shall, upon a requisition in writing by not less than one-fourth of the total number of members, convene a special meeting of the Council. (3) Any meeting may be adjourned until the next or any subsequent date, and an adjourned meeting may be further adjourned in like manner. — 22. First meeting of the Council. The first meeting of the Council shall be held as early as possible and shall be convened by the Administrator. — 23. Notice of meetings and business. A list of the business to be transacted at every meeting except at an adjourned meeting shall be sent to the address of each member at least seventy-two hours before the time fixed for such meeting; and no business shall, except where the Chairperson otherwise directs, be brought before, or transacted at, in any meeting other than the business of which a notice has been so given: 21. Manufacturing, parching, packing, pressing, cleaning, cleansing, boiling, melting, grinding or — preparing by any process whatever any of the following articles - (i) Aerated waters. (ii) Bakelite goods. - (iii) Bidis (indigenous cigarettes), snuff, cigars or cigarettes. - (iv) Bitumen. (v) Blasting powder. (vi) Bones. Provided that any member may send of deliver to the Secretary notice of any resolution going beyond the matters mentioned in the notice given of such meeting so as to reach him at least forty-eight hours before the date fixed for the meeting and the Secretary shall, with all possible despatch, take steps to circulate such resolution to every member in such manner as he may think fit. |(vii)|Bricks or tiles by hand power.| |---|---| |(viii)|Bricks or tiles by mechanical power.| |(ix)|Brushes.| |(x)|Candles.| |(xi)|Catgut.| |(xii)|Celluloid or celluloid goods.| |(xiii)|Cement concrete designs or models.| |(xiv)|Charcoal.| |(xv)|Chemicals.| |(xvi)|Cinematograph films stripping in connection with any trade.| |(xvii)|Cosmetics or toilet goods.| |(xviii) |Cotton, cotton refuse, cotton waste, cotton yarn, silk, silk yarn, silk inclusive of waste| ||yarn, art silk, art silk waste, art silk yarn, wool or woollen refuse or waste.| |(xix)|Cotton seeds.| |(xx)|Dammar.| |(xxi)|Dynamite.| |(xxii)|Fat.| |(xxiii) |Fireworks.| |(xxiv) |Flax.| |(xxv)|Ink for printing, writing, stamping, etc.| |(xxvi) |Gas.| |(xxvii) |Ghee.| |(xxviii) |Glass or glass articles.| |(xxix) |Gunpowder.| |(xxx)|Hemp.| |(xxxi) |Ice (including dry ice).| |(xxxii) |Insecticide or disinfectants.| |(xxxiii) |Leather cloth or rexine cloth or water proof cloth.| |(xxxiv) |Lime.| |(xxxv) |Linseed oil.| |(xxxvi) |Matches for lighting (including Bengal matches).| |(xxxvii) |Mattresses and pillows.| |(xxxviii) |Offal.| |(xxxix) |Oil-cloth.| |(xl)|Oil other than petroleum (either by mechanical power or by hand power or ghani| ||driven by bullock or any other animal).| |(xli)|Pharmaceutical or medical products.| |(xlii)|Rubbers or rubber goods.| |(xliii) |Paints.| |(xliv)|Paper or cardboard.| |(xlv)|Pickers from hides.| |(xlvi)|Pitch.| |(xlvii) |Plastic goods.| |(xlviii) |Pottery by hand power.| |(xlix)|Pottery by mechanical or any power other than hand power.| |(l)|Sanitary-ware or china-ware.| |(li)|Soap.| |(lii)|Sugar.| |(liii)|Sweetmeat and confectionery goods.| |(liv)|Tallow.| |(lv)|Tar.| |(lvi)|Varnishes.| |(lvii)|Wooden furniture, boxes, barrels, khokas, or other articles of wood or of plywood or| ||sandalwood.| PART II ARTICLES WHICH MAY NOT BE STORED IN ANY PREMISES WITHOUT A LICENCE 1. Asafoetida. 2. Ashses. 3. Bamboos. 4. Bidi leaves. 5. Blasting powder. 6. Blood. 7. Bones, bone meal or bone powder. 8. Champhor. 9. Carbide of calcium. 10. Cardboard. 11. Celluloid or celluloid goods. 12. Charcoal. 13. Chemicals, liquid. 14. Chemicals, non-liquid. 15. Chillies. 16. Chlorate mixture. 17. Cinematograph films-non-inflammable or accetate or safety base. 18. Cloth in pressed bales or boras. 19. Cloth or clothes of cotton, wool silk, art silk, etc. 20. Coal. 21. Coconut fibre. 22. Coke.

Source: India Code