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LAGOS STATE LOCAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION LAW

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LIST OF LAWS OF LAGOS, [ALPHABETICAL]
A- C G – K M – I R – T
D – F L – L P – P U – Z

CHAPTER L89, LAWS OF LAGOS STATE, NIGERIA, 2015

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION LAW

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PART I – Local Government System, establishment and administration of Local Government Councils

1.       Local Government System, etc.

2.       Local Government Areas

3.       Division of Local Government Area into Wards

4.       Establishment of Councils for the Local Government Area

5.       Leader and Deputy Leader of the Council

6.       Staff of Local Government Council

7.       Sitting of the Council

8.       Quorum

9.       Voting and casting Vote

10.     Proceedings of the Council

11.     Standing Committees of the Council

12.     Dissolution of the Council and issue of Proclamation by the Chairman

PART II – Councillors

13.     Number of Councillors in a ward

14.     Qualification of Councillors

15.     Disqualification of Councillors

16.     Declaration of Assets and Liabilities: Oaths of Councillors

17.     Tenure of office of members of Council

18.     Recall

PART III: Chairman, Vice-Chairman and other Officers of the Local Government, etc.

19.     Establishment of Offices of Chairman and Vice-Chairman

20.     Qualification of Chairman  

21.     Disqualification of Chairman

 22.    Declaration of assets and liabilities

23.     Chairman to nominate associate candidate

24.     Removal of Chairman and Vice-Chairman

25.     Permanent incapacity of Chairman and Vice-Chairman

26.     Discharge of functions of Chairman

27.     Tenure of office of Chairman

28.     Death of Chairman-elect before taking oath of office

29.     Local Government Supervisors

30.     Secretary to the Local Government

31.     Functions of the Secretary

32.     Local Government guidelines

PART IV: Executive and legislative powers and functions

33.     Executive powers of the Local Government

34.     Executive responsibility of the Vice-Chairman and Supervisor

35.     Right of attendance of Chairman

36.     Functions of a Local Government

37.     Other functions of a Local of a Local Government

Exercise of legislative powers and functions of a Local Government Council

38.     Local Government Councils declared to be legislatures

39.     Mode of exercising legislative powers

40.     Power and control over Public fund

41.     Penalty and other provisions on Bye-Laws

PART V: Local Government Service and Service Commission

42.     Local Government Service

43.     Pension Rights

44.     Observance of Code of Conduct

45.     Local Government Service Commission

46.     Composition of the Service Commission

47.     Functions of the Service Commission

PART VI: Revenue and Account of Local Government, etc.

48.     Allocation of Revenue to Local Government

49.     Appointment of Auditor -General

50.     Auditing of Account Local Government

51.     Interpretation

52.     Citation and commencement

SCHEDULES

Schedule I — Local Government Areas

Schedule II — Oaths

CHAPTER L89

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION LAW

A LAW TO PROVIDE FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT SYSTEM, ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCILS AND FOR OTHER CONNECTED PURPOSES.

[COMMENCEMENT]                                                                            [4TH OCTOBER 1999]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LAGOS STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY as follows:

PART I – Local Government System, Establishment and Administration of Local Government Councils

1.      Local Government System, etc.

(1)     The system of Local Government will be by democratically elected Local Governments.

(2)     All persons holding elective offices in the Local Government Areas specified in the Schedule to this Law will, from the date of the coming into force of this Law, be deemed to have been duly and validly elected under this Law.

[Schedule I]

(3)     It will be the duty of Local Governments within the State to participate in Economic Planning and Development of the Local Government Area and to this end a Joint Economic Planning Board will be established by law.

(4)     The functions of the Local Governments will be limited to those set out in this Law and the Fourth Schedule to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999.

[No. 24, 1999.]

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