Key facts

  • The official EO/RO Part B syllabus names the Rajasthan Municipality (Conduct of Business) Rules, 2009 as a separate source.
  • Section 51 of the Rajasthan Municipalities Act, 2009 fixes ordinary municipal meetings once within sixty days and at least six meetings in a calendar…
  • A special meeting can be triggered by a written request signed by not less than one-third of elected members specifying the proposed resolution.
  • If the Chairperson fails to call the requisitioned special meeting within the statutory period, the Chief Municipal Officer calls it within the next p…
  • Ordinary meeting notice should be remembered with venue, date, time and agenda, signed by the CMO or an authorised officer.

Key Points at a Glance

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    The official EO/RO Part B syllabus names the Rajasthan Municipality (Conduct of Business) Rules, 2009 as a separate source.

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    Section 51 of the Rajasthan Municipalities Act, 2009 fixes ordinary municipal meetings once within sixty days and at least six meetings in a calendar year.

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    A special meeting can be triggered by a written request signed by not less than one-third of elected members specifying the proposed resolution.

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    If the Chairperson fails to call the requisitioned special meeting within the statutory period, the Chief Municipal Officer calls it within the next prescribed default period.

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    Ordinary meeting notice should be remembered with venue, date, time and agenda, signed by the CMO or an authorised officer.

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    Urgent meetings are associated with the forty-eight-hour short-notice memory point.

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    The CMO prepares the agenda, while the Chairperson controls admissibility and regulation of business according to the Act and rules.

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    A proposal includes an amendment proposed by a member, so proposal and amendment rules should be revised together.

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    Members may ask questions and move resolutions on municipal administration, subject to prescribed procedure and limits on discussion.

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    Quorum for a municipal meeting is one-third of total members, not the one-third elected-member requisition threshold for a special meeting.

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    The presiding officer conducts voting, announces results and has a casting vote where votes are tied under the ordinary decision rule.

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    The Chief Municipal Officer has custody and maintenance responsibility for municipal records, including proceedings and minutes.

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    Members have the right to inspect municipal records at the municipal office without fee after giving due notice to the CMO.

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    The CMO may explain a subject under discussion but does not vote and does not move a proposition in the meeting.

Why are the Rajasthan Municipality (Conduct of Business) Rules, 2009 a separate EO/RO exam source?

The Rajasthan Municipality (Conduct of Business) Rules, 2009 are a separate EO/RO exam source because the RPSC syllabus treats them as an independent procedural text, not merely as a footnote to the Rajasthan Municipalities Act, 2009. The Rajasthan Public Service Commission's syllabus page for this exam lists 2 Local Self Government Dept. Exam 2022 syllabus entries.

The Rajasthan Municipality (Conduct of Business) Rules, 2009 must be treated as a separate examination source because the official EO/RO syllabus lists it independently in Part B, after the Rajasthan Municipalities Act, 2009 and after the 1974 common purchase and contract rules. This is a strong signal that the examiner can ask direct procedural questions from the rules without first asking a broad question from the Act. For revision, the topic is not a general essay on municipal administration. It is the operating manual for how a municipal meeting is called, how its agenda reaches members, how members place questions or proposals, how the presiding officer controls discussion, how votes are taken, and how the final proceeding becomes an official municipal record.

The legal frame begins with three Act provisions. Section 51 of the Rajasthan Municipalities Act, 2009 creates the meeting obligation: an ordinary general meeting must be held once within sixty days and at least six meetings must be held in a calendar year. It also creates the special-meeting trigger when not less than one-third of elected members submit a written request specifying the resolution proposed to be moved. Section 52 gives individual members the participatory rights that the rules make workable: attention-calling on neglect of municipal work or wastage of municipal property, questions to the Chairperson, resolutions on municipal administration, and inspection of municipal records without fee after due notice to the Chief Municipal Officer. Section 337 gives the State Government rule-making power, including the power to prescribe procedure for conducting municipal meetings and the manner of putting questions and moving resolutions.

That structure explains the exam logic. The Act states the rights and institutional duty; the 2009 rules turn them into timed steps. For example, the Act says a special meeting is linked to a written request by one-third of elected members; the rules are studied for the notice, agenda and conduct mechanics. The Act gives members the right to ask questions and move resolutions; the rules test admissibility, limits on discussion, and how a proposal or amendment reaches the agenda. The Act makes the Chief Municipal Officer responsible for custody and maintenance of municipal records; the rules connect that custody to proceedings, minutes and inspection. A candidate should therefore read every rule twice: first as a municipal-governance norm, and second as an objective-question fact capable of being converted into a number, officer, time limit or procedural sequence.