The functions and powers of the Tehsil Council shall be:- to approve taxes, cess, rates, rents, fees, user-charges, tolls, levies, fines and penalties proposed by Tehsil Municipal Administration specified in Part-III of the Second Schedule of the Local Government Ordinance 2001; to approve bye-laws for delivery of municipal services; to approve annual budget and appropriations for the Tehsil Municipal Administration; to approve long and short term development plans; to approve posts of personal staff for the office of Tehsil Nazim and the terms and conditions of their service. No post of advisor, special assistant, press or political secretary to the Tehsil Nazim shall be sanctioned or approved; to approve land use, zoning and master plan of the tehsil development and maintenance programmes or projects proposed by the Tehsil Municipal Administration; to elect Monitoring Committees of the Tehsil Council to monitor the working of the Tehsil Municipal Administration and the provision of municipal services; to ensure that the Monitoring Committees perform their functions in a non-intrusive manner without interfering in the day to day working of the relevant offices of the Tehsil Municipal Administration and do not assume a command and control role; to review the reports of the Monitoring Committees and make appropriate recommendations to the Tehsil Nazim; to elect an Ethics Committee which shall be responsible for enforcing the code of ethics for regulating the conduct of the members of the Tehsil Council; to elect an Insaaf Committee for interacting with the Insaaf Committee of the Zila Council. to elect Tehsil Accounts Committee to review the audit reports of the accounts of Tehsil Municipal Administration; to review the performance of Tehsil Municipal Administration presented by the Tehsil Nazim; to authorise the Tehsil Municipal Administration, subject to applicable laws and with the prior permission of the Government through District Government, for floating municipal bonds for raising funds for financing municipal projects; and to require, by resolution, the Tehsil Municipal Administration to undertake measures for improvement in the delivery of municipal services. Where the office of Tehsil Nazim falls vacant by reason of his death, resignation or removal, the Tehsil Council shall, from amongst its members, elect an officiating Tehsil Nazim, till a new Tehsil Nazim is elected under the provisions of Local Government Ordinance 2001. The Naib Tehsil Nazim shall convene the meeting of the Tehsil Council for the election of officiating Tehsil Nazim within ten days from the death, resignation or removal of Tehsil Nazim, as the case may be. The officiating Tehsil Nazim shall not be a candidate for the office of Tehsil Nazim in election for Tehsil Nazim.

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