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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.]
LAWS OF LAGOS STATE
LAWS OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA