The Maharashtra Cooperative Societies Rule 1961

Chapter XII - Miscellaneous

Rule No 107 to 110

1 Rule No 107. [Procedure for attachment and sale of property under Section 156.]

1 [(l) A creditor holding a decree requiring the provisions of Section 156 to be applied, or society to which:-
(a) any amount is due under a decree or order of a Civil Court obtained by the society;
(b) any amount is due under a decision, award or order of the Registrar, Arbitrator, Liquidator or Tribunals;
(c) any sum is awarded by way of costs under the Acts;
(d) any amount is due under a certificate granted by the Registrar to the assets of the society;
(e) any amount is due under a certificate granted by the Registrar under subsections (1) or (2) of Section 101 or under sub-section (I) of Section 137 together with interest, if any, due on such amount or sum and the costs of process by the attachment and sale or by sale without attachment of the property of the person against whom such decree, decision, award or order has been obtained or passed, < hall apply to the Recovery Officer within whose jurisdiction the debtor resides or the property of the debtor is situated. In the case of a society, a copy of the resolution of the committee of the society authorising any of the members to make and sign the application on its behalf, shall accompany the application]:
1 [Provided that no such application shall be necessary in respect of a certificate given under sub-section (1) or (2) of Section 101 of the awards or orders referred to in Rule 84.]

(2) Every such application shall be made in the form specified by the Registrar and shall be signed by the applicant and shall be accompanied 1 [by deposit of such amount, if any as may be specified by the Registrar to cover the cost of process. The scales for such cost of process shall be fixed by the Registrar from time to time by a general or special order. Under such scales, the fee for issuing any notice shall not exceed Rs, 2 and the bhatta to be paid to any person serving any notice shall not exceed Rs. 5 per day, and the deposit for other costs of process shall not exceed the expenditure likely to be incurred for recovering the amount.] Tne applicant may indicate v/hether he wishes to proceed against the immovable roperty mortgaged to the applicant or other imovable property or to secure the attachment of imovable property.

(3) On receipt of such application, or when the Registrar is proceeding under Rule 84, the Recovery Officer shall verify the correctness and genuineness of the particulars set forth in the application with the records, if any, in the office of the Registrar and prepare a demand notice in writing in duplicate in the form specified by the Registrar, setting forth the name of the defaulter and the amount due and forward it to the Sale Officer.

(4) Unless the applicant has expressed a desire that proceedings should be taken in a particular order as laid down in sub-rule (2), execution shall ordinarily be taken in the following manner:-
(i) moveable property of the defaulter shall be first proceeded against, but this shall not preclude the immovable property being proceeded against simultaneously in case of necessity.

(ii) if there is no moveable property, or if the sale proceeds of the moveable property or properties attached and sold are insufficient to meet in full the demand of the applicant, the immovable property mortgaged to the applicant, or other immovable property belonging to the defaulter may be proceeded against.

(5) In the seizure and sale of moveable property, the following rules shall be observed:-
(a) The Sale Officer shall, after giving previous notice to the applicant, proceed to the village where the defaulter resides or the property to be distrained is situated and serve a demand notice upon the defaulter if he is present. If the amount due together with the expenses be not at once paid, the Sale Officer shall make the distress and shall immediately deliver to the defaulter a list of inventory of the property distrained and an intimation of place and day and hour at which the distrained property will be brought to sale if the amounts due are not previously discharged. If the defaulter is absent, the Sale Officer shall serve the demand notice on some adult male member of his family, or on his authorised agent, or when such service cannot be effected, shall affix a copy of the demand notice on some conspicuous part of his residence. He shall then proceed to make the distress and shall fix the list of the property attached on the usual place of residence of the defaulter endorsing thereon the place where the property may be lodged or kept and an intimation of the place, day and hour of sale.

(b) After the distress is made, the Sale Officer may arrange for the custody of the property attached with the applicant or otherwise. If the Sale Officer requires the applicant to undertake the custody of the property, he shall be bound to do so and any loss incurred owing to his negligence shall be made good by the applicant. If the attached property is livestock, the applicant shall be responsible for providing the necessary food therefor. The Sale Officer may, at the instance of the defaulter or of any person claiming an interest in such property, leave it in the village or place where it was attached, in charge of such defaulter or such person, if he enters into a bond in the form specified by the Registrar with one or more sufficient sureties for the production of poperty when called for.

(c) The distress shall be made after sunrise and before sunset and not any other time.

(d) The distress levied shall not be excessive, that is to say, the property distrained shall as nearly as possible be proportionate to the sum due by the defaulter together with interest and all expenses incidental to the distraint, detention and sale.

(e) If crops or ungathered products of the land belonging to a defaulter are attached, the Sale Officer may cause them to be sold when fit for reaping or gathering, or at his option may cause them to be reaped or gathered in due season and stored in proper place until sold. In the latter case, the expenses of reaping or gathering and storing such crops or products shall be defrayed by the owner upon his redeeming the property or from the proceeds of the sale in the event of its being sold.

(f) The Sale Officer shall not work the bullocks or cattle, or make use of the goods or effects distrained, and he shall provide the necessary food for the cattle or livestock, the expense attending which shall be defrayed by the owner upon his redeeming the property or from the proceeds of the sale in the event of its being sold.

(g) It shall be lawful for the Sale Officer to force open any stable, cow house, granary, godown, out-house or other building and he may also enter any dwelling house, the outer door of which may be open and may break open the door of any room in such dwelling house for the purpose of attaching property belonging to a defaulter and lodged therein, provided always that it shall not be lawful for the Sale Officer to break open or enter apartment in such dwelling house appropriated for the zenana or residence of women except as hereinafter provided.

(h) Where the Sale Officer may have reason to believe that the property of a defaulter is lodged within a dwelling house the outer door of which may be shut or within any apartments appropriated to women which by custom or usage are considered private, the Sale Officer shall report the fact to the officer in charge of the nearest police station. On such report, the officer in charge of the said station shall send a police officer to the spot in the presence of whom the Sale Officer may force open the outer door of such dwelling house or break open the door of any room within the house except the room appropriated by women. The Sale Officer may also, in the presence of a police officer, after due notice given for the removal of women within a zenana and, after furnishing means for their removal in a suitable manner, if they be women of rank, who, according to the customs or usage cannot appear in public, enter the zenana apartments for the purpose of distraining the defaulters property if any deposited therein but such property, if found, shall be immediately removed from such apartments after which they shall be left free to the former occupants.

(i) The Sale Officer shall on the day previous to, and on the day of sale cause proclamation of time and place of the intended sale to be made, by beat of drum in the village in which the defaulter resides and in such other place or places as the Sale Officer may consider necessary to give due publicity to the sale. No sale shall take place until after the expiration of the period of fifteen days from the date on which the sale notice has been served or affixed in the manner laid down in clause (a) :
Provided that, where the property seized is subject to speedy and natural decay, or where the expenses of keeping it in custody is likely to exceed its value, the Sale Officer may sell it at any time, before the expiry of the said period of fifteen days, unless the amount due is sooner paid.

( j) At the appointed time, the property shall be put in one or more lots, as the Sale Officer may consider advisable, and shall be disposed of to the highest bidder:
Provided that it shall be open to the Sale Officer to decline to accept the highest bid where the price offered appears to be unduly low or for other adequate reasons :

Provided further that the Recovery Officer or the Sale Officer may, in his discretion, adjourn the sale to a specified day and hour recording his reasons for such adjournment. Where a sale is so adjourned for ^longer period than seven days, a fresh proclamation under clause (i) shall be made unless the defaulter consents to waive it.

(k) The property sold shall be paid for in cash at the time of sale, or as soon thereafter as the Sale Officer shall appoint, and the purchaser shall not be permitted to carry away any part of the property until he has paid for it in full. Where the purchaser fails in the payment of purchase money, the property shall be re-sold.

(l) Where the proceeds from the sale of the property exceeds the amount due from the debtor, the excess amount, after deducting the interest and the expenses of process and other charges, shall be paid to the defaulter.

(l) Where the proceeds from the sale of the property exceeds the amount due from the debtor, the excess amount, after deducting the interest and the expenses of process and other charges, shall be paid to the defaulter.

(m) Where prior to the day fixed for sale the defaulter or any person acting on his behalf or any person claiming an interest in the property attached pays the full amount due including interest, batta and other costs incurred in attaching the property, the Sale Officer shall cancel the order of attachment and release the property forthwith.

(n) The moveable properties exempted from attachment by the proviso to Section 60 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 shall not be liable to attachment or sale under these rules.


(6) Where the moveable property to be attached is the salary or allowance or wages of a public officer or a railway servant or a servant of a local authority or a firm or a company, the Recovery Officer may, on receiving a report from the Sale Officer, order that the amount shall, subject to the provisions of Section 60 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, be withheld from such salary or allowance or wages either in one payment or by monthly instalments as the Recovery Officer may direct and upon receipt oc the order, the officer or other person whose duty it is to disburse such salary or allowance or wages shall withhold and remit to the Sale Officer the amount due under the order or the monthly instalment, as the case may be.

(7)
(i) Where the property to be attached consists of the share or interest of the defaulter in moveable property belonging to him and another as co-owners, the attachment shall be made by a notice to the defaulter, prohibiting him from transferring the share or interest or charging it in any way.

(ii) Where the property to be attached is a negotiable instrument not deposited in Court, nor in the custody of a public officer, the attachment shall be made by actual seizure and the instrument shall be brought to the office of the Recovery Officer ordering the attachment and be held subject to his further orders.

(iii) Where the property to be attached is in the custody of any Court or public officer, the attachment may be made by a notice to such Court or officer requesting that such property and any interest or dividend becoming payable thereon may be held subject to the further demands of the Recovery Officer issuing the notice :
Provided that where such property is in the custody of a Court or Recovery Officer of another district, any question of title or priority arising between the applicant and any other person not being the defaulter, claiming to be interested in such property by virtue of any assignment, attachment or otherwise shall be left to be determined by such Court or Recovery Officer.


(8)
(i) Where the property to be attached is a decree either for the payment of money or for sale in enforcement of a mortgage or charge, the attachment shall be made, if the decree sought to be attached was passed by the Registrar or by any person to whom a dispute was transferred by the Registrar under Section 93 by a nominee or a board of nominees, then by the order of the Registrar.

(ii) Where the Registrar makes an order under clause (i), he shall, on the application of the applicant who has attached the decree, proceed to execute the attached decree and apply the net proceeds in satisfaction of the decree sought to be executed.

(iii) The holder of a decree sought to be executed by the attachment of another decree of the nature specified in clause (0 shall be deemed to be the representative of the holder of the attached decree and to be entitled to execute such attached decree in any manner for the holder thereof.

(iv) Where the property to be attached in execution of a decree is a decree other than a decree of the nature referred to in clause (i), the attachment shall be made by the Issue of a notice by the Recovery Officer to the holder of such decree, prohibiting him from transferring or charging the same in any way.

(v) The holder of a decree attached under this sub-rule shall give the Recovery Officer executing the decree such information and aid as may reasonably be required.

(vi) On the application of the holder of a decree sought to be executed by the attachment of another decree, the Recovery Officer making an order of attachment under this sub-rule shall give notice of such order tc the judgment debtor bound by the decree attached; and no payment or adjustment of the attached decree made by the judgment debtor in contravention of such order after receipt of notice thereof, either through the Recovery Officer or otherwise, shall be recognised so long as the attachment remains in force.

(9) Where the moveable property to be attached is:-
(a) a debt due to the defaulter in question;

(b) a share in the capital of a corporation or a deposit invested therein; or

(c) other moveable property not in the possession of the defaulter, except property deposited in, or in the custody of, any Civil Court;
The attachment shall be made by a written order signed by the Recovery Officer prohibiting:-
(i) in the case of a debt, the creditor from recovering the debt and the debtor from making payment thereof;

(ii) in the case of a share or deposit, the person in whose name the share or the deposit may be standing, from transferring the share or deposit or receiving any dividend or interest thereon; and

(iii) in the case of any other moveable property, the person in possession of it from giving it over to the defaulter.
A copy of such order shall be sent, in the case of the debt, to the debtor, in case of the share or deposit, to the proper officer or the corporation and in the case of any other moveable property, to the person in possession of such property. As soon as the debt referred to in clause (a) or the deposit referred to in clause (b) matures, the Recovery Officer may direct the person concerned to pay the amount to him. Where the share is not withdrawable, the Recovery Officer shall arrange for its sale through a broker. Where the share is withdrawable, its value shall be paid to the Recovery Officer or to the party referred to in clause (c). The person concerned shall place it in the hands of the Recovery Officer as it becomes deliverable to the debtor.


(10) Immovable property shall not be sold in execution of a decree unless such property has been previously attached :
Provided that where the decree has been obtained on the basis of a mortgage of such property, it shall not be necessary to attach it.

(11) In the attachment and sale or sale without attachment of immovable property, the following rules shall be observed:-
(a) The application presented under sub-rule (2) shall contain a description of the immovable property to be proceeded against, sufficient for its identification and in case such property can be identified by boundaries or numbers in a record of settlement of survey, the specification of such boundaries or numbers and the specification of the defaulters share or interest in such property to the best of the belief of the applicant and so far as he has been able to ascertain it.

(b) The demand notice isued by the Recovery Officer under sub-rule (3) shall contain the name of the defaulter, the amount due, including the expenses, if any, and the batta to be paid to the person who shall serve the demand notice, the time allowed for payment and in case of non-payment, the particulars of the properties to be attached and sold or to be sold without attachment, as the case may be. After receiving the demand notice, the Sale Officer shall serve or cause to be served a copy of the demand notice upon the defaulter or upon some adult male member of his family at his usual place of residence, or upon his authorised agent or, if such personal service is not possible, shall affix a copy thereof on some conspicuous part of the immovable property about to be attached and sold or sold without attachment, as the case may be:
Provided that where the Recovery Officer is satisfied that a defaulter with intent to defeat or delay the execution, proceeding against him is about to dispose of the whole or any part of his property, the demand notice issued by the Recovery Officer under sub-rule (3) shall not allow any time to the defaulter for payment of the amount due by him and the property of the defaulter shall be attached forthwith.

(c) If the defaulter fails to pay* the amount specified in the demand notice within the time allowed, the Sale Officer shall proceed to attach and sell, or sell without attachment, as the case may be, the immovable property noted in the application for execution in the following manner.

(d) Where attachment is required before sale, the Sale Officer shall, if possible, cause a notice of attachment to be served on the defaulter personally. Where personal service is not possible, the notice shall be affixed in some conspicuous part of the defaulters last known residence, if any. The fact of attachment shall also be proclaimed by beat of drum or other customary mode at some place on, or adjacent to, such property and at such other place or places as the Recovery Officer may consider necessary to give due publicity to the sale. The attachment notice shall set forth that, unless the amount due with interest and expenses be paid within the date therein mentioned, the property will be brought to sale. A copy shall be sent to the applicant. Where the Sale Officer so directs, the attachment shall also be notified by public proclamation in the Official Gazette.

(e) Proclamation of sale shall be published by affixing a notice in the office of the Recovery Officer and the taluka office at least thirty days before the date fixed for the sale and also by beat of drum in the village (on two consecutive days previous to the date of sale and on the day of sale prior to the commencement of the sale). Such proclamation shall, where attachment is required before sale, be made after the attachment has been effected. Notice shall also be given to the applicant and defaulter. The proclamation shall state the time and place of sale and specify as fairly and accurately as possible:-
(i) the property to be sold;
(ii) any encumbrance to which the property is liable;
(iii) the amount for the recovery of which sale is ordered; and
(iv) every other matter which the Sale Officer considers material for a purchaser to know in order to judge the nature and value of the property.
(f) When any immovable property is sold under these rules, the sale shall be subject to the prior ecumbrances on the property, if any. The applicant shall, when the amount for the realisation of which the sale is held exceeds Rs. 100, furnish to the Sale Officer within such time as may be fixed by him or by the Recovery Officer, an encumbrance certificate from the Registration Department for the period of not less than twelve years prior to the date of attachment of the property sought to be sold, or in cases falling under the proviso to sub-rule (20), prior to the date of the application for execution. The time for production of the encumbrance certificate may be extended at the discretion of the Sale Officer or the Recovery Officer, as the case may be. The sale shall be by public auction to the highest bidder :
Provided that it shall be open to the Sale Officer to decline to accept the highest bid where the price offered appears to be unduly low or for other adequate reasons :

Provided further that the Recovery Officer or the Sale Officer may, in his discretion, adjourn the sale to a specified day and hour, recording his reason for such adjournment. Where a sale is so adjourned for a longer period than seven days, a fresh proclamation under clause (e) shall be made, unless the defaulter consents to waive it.

The sale shall be held after the expiry of not less than thirty days calculated from the date on which notice of the proclamation was affixed in the office of the Recovery Officer. The time and place of sale shall be fixed by the Recovery Officer and the place of sale shall be the village where the property to be sold is situated or such adjoining prominent place of public resort as may be fixed by the Recovery Officer :

Provided that in cases where an encumbrance certificate is not obtainable owing to the destruction of the connected records, an affidavit from the village Talathi or corresponding officer in regard to the encumbrances known to him supported by a certificate from the Registration Department that the encumbrance certificate cannot be granted owing to the destruction of the connected records shall be accepted in place of an encumbrance certificate,

(g) A sum of money equal to 15 per cent of the price of the immovable property shall be deposited by the purchaser in the hands of the Sale Officer at the time of the purchase, and in default of such deposit, the property shall forthwith be re-sold :
Provided that where the applicant is the purchaser and is entitled to set off the purchase money under clause (fc), the Sale- Officer shall dispense with the requirements of this clause.

(h) The remainder of the purchase money and the amount required for the general stamp for the sale certificate shall be paid within fifteen days from the date of sale :
Provided that the time for payment of the cost of the stamp may, for good and sufficient reasons, be extended at the discretion of the Recovery Officer up to thirty days from the date of sale :

Provided further that in calculating the amounts to be paid under this clause, the purchaser shall have the advantage of any set off to which he may be entitled under clause (k).

(i) In default of payment within the period mentioned in the last preceding clause, the depoit may, if the Recovery Officer thinks fit, after defraying the expenses of the sale, be forfeited to the State Government and the defaulting purchaser shall forfeit all claims to the property or to any part of the sum for which it may subsequently be sold.

(j) Every resale or immovable property in default of payment of the amounts mentioned in clause (h) within the period allowed for such payment shall be made after the issue of a fresh proclamation in the manner and for the period herein before prescribed for the sale.

(k) Where an applicant purchases the property, the purchase money and the amount due on the decree shall be set off against one another, and the Sale Officer shall enter up satisfaction of the decree in whole or in part accordingly.


(12)Where prior to the date fixed for a sale, the defaulter or any person acting on his behalf or any person claiming an interest in the property sought to be sold tenders payment of the full amount due together with interest, batta and other expenses incurred in bringing the property to sale, including the expenses of attachment, if any, the Sale Officer shall forthwith release the property after cancelling, where the property has been attached, the order of attachment.

(13)
(i) Where immovable property has been sold by the Sale Officer, any person either owning such property or holding any interest therein by virtue of a title acquired before such sale may apply to have the sale set aside on his depositing with the Recovery Officer:-
(a) for payment to the purchaser a sum equal to 5 per cent of the purchase money; and

(b) for payment to the applicant, the amount of arrears specified in the proclamation of sale as that for the recovery of which the sale was order together with interest thereon and the expenses of attachment, if any, and sale and other costs due in respect of such amount, less amount which may since the date of such proclamation have been received by the applicant.

(ii) If such deposit and application are made within thirty days from the date of sale, the Recovery Officer shall pass an order setting aside the sale and shall repay to the purchaser, the purchase money so far as it has been deposited, together with the 5 per cent deposited by the applicant :
Provided that if more persons than one have made deposit and application under this sub-rule, the application of the first depositor to the officer authorised to set aside the sale, shall be accepted.

(iii) If a person applies under sub-rule (14) to set aside the sale of immovable property, he shall not be entitled to make an application under this subrule.

(14)
(i) At any time within thirty days from the date of the sale of immovable property, the applicant or any person entitled to share in a rateable distribution of the assets or whose interests are affected by the sale, may apply to the Recovery Officer to set aside the sale on the ground of a material irregularity or mistake or fraud in publishing or conducing it:
Provided that no sale shall be set aside on the ground of irregularity or fraud unless the Recovery Officer is satisfied that the applicant has sustained substantial injury by reason of such irregularity, mistake or fraud.

(ii) If the application be allowed, the Recovery shall set aside the sale and may direct a fresh one.

(iii) On the expiration of thirty days from the date of sale, if no application to have the sale set aside is made or if such application has been made and rejected, the Recovery Officer shall make an order confirming the sale:
Provided that if he shall have reason to believe that the sale ought to be set aside notwithstanding that no such application has been made or on grounds other than those alleged in any application which has been made and rejected, he may, after recording his reasons in writing, set aside the sale.

(iv) Whenever the sale of any immovable property is not so confirmed or is set aside, the deposit or the purchase money, as the case may be, shall be returned to the purchaser.

(v) After the confirmation of any such sale, the Recovery Officer shall grant a certificate of sale bearing his seal and signature to the purchaser, and such certificate shall state the property sold and the name of the purchaser.

(15) It shall be lawful for the Sale Officer to sell the whole or any portion of the immovable property of a defaulter in discharge of money due :
Provided that, so far as may be practicable, no larger section or portion of immovable property shall be sold than may be sufficient to discharge the amount due with interest and expenses of attachment, if any, and sale.

(16)3(* * * *)

(23) Where a defaulter dies before the decree has been fully satisfied, an application under sub-rule (i) may be made against the legal representative of the deceased and thereupon all the provisions of this rule shall, save as otherwise
provided in this sub-rule, apply as if such legal representative were the defaulter. Where the decree is executed against such legal representative, he shall be liable only to the extent of the property of the deceased which has come to his hands and has not been duly disposed off; and for the purpose of ascertaining such liability, the Recovery Officer executing the decree may, of his own motion or on the application of the applicant, compel such legal representative to produce such accounts as he thinks fit.

1 Rule No 107A. [ 107A. Maximum rates of travelling allowance and daily allowance and sitting fees, etc for members of Committees

Subject to the provisions of section 160-A, no member of a committee of any society shall be entitled to receive from the society travelling allowance, daily allowance and sitting fees, which are paid to the members for attending meetings of its committees, or for preforming any other functions as such members entrusted to them by the society at the rates higher than the rates specified below,-
(1) Travelling Allowance.
(a) Journey by air.
The Chairman or Vice-Chairman of a society which is an Apex Society or a State Level Society or a Co-operative Sugar Factory or a Co-operative Spinning Mill, shall be entitled to travel by air and may claim air fare, by enclosing air ticket to his travelling allowance bill. He shall also be entitled to claim actual taxi fare from the place of his residence to the Airport and vice-versa, whenever such journeys are performed in hired taxies.

(b) Journey by railway, steamer or motor transport:-
Class of society which the member of the committee belongs Ordinary Rate of daily allowance for area other than Mumbai Special Rate of daily Allowance For Delhi and other Status Daily allowance
For Corporation area For Mumbai Corporation area For staying in hotels charging Tariffs,area as per cols. (3)(4) & (5)
Area in col(3) Area in cols.(4) & (5)
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7)
(Rs.) (Rs.) (Rs.) (Rs.) (Rs.) (Rs.)
1 All societies the area of operation of which extends to the whole of State of Maharashtra or working capital of which is rupees fifty crores or above. 150 225 300 360 300 450
2 All societies the area of operation of which extends to a division or a district or working capital of which is above rupees five crores but below rupees fifty crores. 135 195 270 330 270 405
3 All societies the area of operation of which extends to a Tahsil and working capital of which is above rupees fifty lakhs but below rupees five 120 165 255 300 225 375
3 All other Societies. 90 150 225 270 210 300

For journeys performed by railway, steamer or motor transport, the member of an Apex Society, State Level Society, a Co-operative Sugar Factory or Spinning Mill or any other society, the working Capital of which is rupees fifty crores or above, shall be entitled to claim one and half times the actual fare for the highest class of accommodation admissible for the journey from the place of residence of the member to the nearest railway station or from the place of residence of the member to the place of the meeting or vice-versa. The member of any other society shall be entitled to claim one and half times the actual fare for journey by the Second Class. No separate taxi fare, from the place of residence to the place of meeting and viceversa, shall be allowed:

Provided that, the member claiming one and half times of the actual fare for the highest class of accommodation of railway, shall produce his railway ticket and if such railway ticket is not produced, he shall be entitled to claim one and half times of the actual fare for the Second Class.

A member of an Apex Society, State Level Society, a Co-operative Sugar Factory or Spinning Mill or any other society, the working capital of which is rupees fifty crores or above, using his own car, motor-cycle, etc., shall be entitled to claim road kilometer as admissible to First Grade Officers of the Government of Maharashtra:

Provided that, such member shall mention the number of his own car or motorcycle by which the journey is undertaken in the travelling allowance bill.

Provided that, such member shall mention the number of his own car or motorcycle by which the journey is undertaken in the travelling allowance bill.

As per provisions of bye-laws of the society a member of the committee of a society travelling by a hired vehicle shall be on production of receipt entitled to a travelling allowance equal to the amount given by-the Government of Maharashtra to its First Grade Officers for such journeys.


(2) Daily Allowance
(a)
(i) Rates of daily allowance admissible while on tour:-
Subject to the provisions of clause (b), a member of a committee of a class of society shown in column (1) of the Table hereto shall be entitled to claim daily allowance at the rates shown against it in columns (2), (3), (4), (5), (6) or (7), as the case may be, of the said Table.
Explaination
(1) For claiming Daily Allowance for staying in hotels receipt indicating the actual expenditure incurred on lodging and boarding should be produced

2) A society may allow a member of the committee daily allowance at a special rate mentioned in column (3) of the Table in paragraph (i) for tour a city or town in other State other than the capitals of such State which, in the opinion of its committee fs a big city or town like those mentioned in that column.
(b) Calculation of daily allowance for the period spent on tour:-
(i) Daily allowance at full rate shall be admissible for every 24 hours of absence, payment for fraction of twenty-four hours being regulated as under-
Upto 6 hours ... 30 per cent, of the admissible rate.
6 to 12 hours ... 50 per cent, of the admissible rate.
More than 12 hours ... Full daily allowance.

No daily allowance shall be admissible during the period of journey:
Provided that, for journeys performed by road in a car vehicle supplied by the Institution, a member shall be entitled to claim daily allowance for the duration of the journey at the rate mentioned above.

(ii) When halts both at place for which ordinary rate and places for which special rate a daily allowance are admissible are involved in one tour the daily allowance at ordinary rate shall first be calculated for the entire period of absence. To this shall be added, the difference of daily allowance between the special rate and the ordinary rate admissible for the actual period of halt at the places specified for special rates. For computing the difference between the two rates for fraction of 24 hours the percentage laid down in paragraph (i) shall be made applicable.
(3) Sitting Fees
A member of a committee of society shown in column (1) of the Table hereto shall be entitled to claim per meeting sitting fee at the rate shown, against it in column (2) of the said Table. Such fee shall be payable only after all the subjects on the agenda of the meeting are discussed. If the member has attended more than one meeting on the same day, he shall be entitled to claim sitting fee for any one of the meetings at the choice of such member.
Class of the society to which the member of the Committee belongs Rate of sitting fee
1 2
1 All Societies the area of operation of which extends to the whole of the State of Maharashtra or working capital of which is rupees fifty crores or above. 375
2 All Societies the area of operation of which extends to a division or a district or working capital of which is above rupees five crores but below rupees fifty crores. 300
3 All Societies the area of operation of which extends to a Tahsil and working capital, of which is above rupees fifty lakhs but below rupees five crores. 225
4
(i) All .other Societies with working capital of rupees fifty lakhs or above.
(ii) All Societies the authorised capital of which is rupees twenty-five lakhs but 75 less than rupees fifty lakhs.
(iii) All other Societies
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5 [Rule No 107B. Security to be furnished by officers and employees of societies handling cash, etc

Every officer or employees of a society who is required to handle cash securities or property belonging to the society, [shall furnish security which shall not be less than that shown as under]:
Amount of Security to be furnished by Nature of Security to be furnished
An any other officer employee
1 If the paid up share capital of the society to which the security is to be furnished is Rs. 1.50 lakhs or less. Rs.5000 RS.500
(a)
(i) Cash security of Rs. 200
(ii) for the remaining amount in the form of personal security of fidelity guartantee policy
or
(b)Full amount in cash or in form of Government securities or postal saving certificates, duly endorsed in favour of the society.
2 If the paid-up share capital of the society to which the security to be furnished is above Rs. 1.50 lakhs. 2000 1000 Do
Note
The fidelity guarantee policy shall be in such model form as may be specified by the Registrar or in such other form as may be approved by him in this behalf. When the fidelity guarantee policy is taken, the person furnishing the security shall also execute a personal security bond, with two securities, in such model form as may be specified by the Registrar or in such other form as may be approved by him in this behalf.]

6 [Rule No 107C. Maximum amount of cash which may be handled at a time and who may be authorized

(1) In the case of the following societies, only the Secretary or a paid employee of a society, duly authorised in this behalf by a resolution of the committee, shall handle or keep cash on hand to the extent shown, below at the case of each working day, the excess being credited within three days in the nearest branch of the District Central Co-operative Bank or any other approved Bank.

I - Primary Societies

1 Agricultural Processing Societies, the paid up share capital of which 6,000 is more than Rs. 5 lakhs 6000
2 Spinning Mills, the paid up share capital of which is more than 6,000 Rs.50 lakhs 6000
3 Spinning Mills, the paid up share capital of which is more than 6,000 Rs.50 lakhs ... ... ... 5000
4 Sugar Factories ... ... ... 5000
5 Consumer Societies ... ... ... 1000
6 Dairy Societies ... ... ... 500
7 Agricultural Credit Societies ... ... ... 500
8 Fisheries Societies ... ... ... 500
9 Industrial Estates ... ... ... 500
10 Forest Labour Societies ... ... ... 500
11 Labour Contract Societies ... ... ... 500
12 Agricultural Process Societies the paid up share capital of which 5 lakhs or less ... ... ... 500
13 Salary earners or other Urban Credit Societies ... ... ... 500
14 Farming Societies ... ... ... 300
15 Lift Irrigation Societies ... ... ... 500
15 Farming Societies ... ... ... 300
16 Industrial Societies ... ... ... 500
17 Weavers Societies ... ... ... 500
18 Housing Societies ... ... ... 300

II - Societies at Taluka Level

1 Taluka Co-operative Purchase and Sale Societies ... ... 1000
2 Taluka Co-operative Supervising Unions ... ... 100

III - District Level Federal Societies

1 District Marketing Societies ... ... ... 5000
2 District Wholesale Consumers Stores ... ... ... 5000
3 District Level Federal Societies, other than District Central Co-operative Banks and District Land Development Banks ... ... ... 5000
(2) Any contravention of this rule shall be an offence under clause (q) of Section 146 and the person concerned shall, on conviction, be punished under clause (q) of Section 147.

7 [Rule No 107D. Certain payments to be made by cheque

(1) All payments by or on behalf of a society or class of societies notified by the State Government from time to time shall be made only by means of a cheque

(2) The State Government may, by general or special order, published in the Official Gazette, from time to time, direct that a society or class of societies specified therein shall, while making any payment exceeding such sum or sums as may be specified, to any member or members by way of remuneration, be made by crossed cheque drawn on a Bank, and different sums may be specified by the State Government in this behalf for different society or class of societies.]

Rule No 108. Contributions, fees and charges to be credited to Government

All contributions made under sub-section (2) of Section 90, all fees paid under subsection (3) of Section 108 and all charges levied under Rule 74 shall be credited to the State Government.

Rule No 109. Communication of decision, award, etc

Any order, decision or award required to be communicated under the Act or these rules shall, unless otherwise specifically provided in the Act or the Rules, be posted to the last address of the party as given by the party under certificate of posting and under intimation to the society, with instructions to display a copy thereof on its notice board.

Rule No 110. Repeal of Bombay Co-operative Societies Rules

The Bombay Cooperative Societies Rules, 1927 are hereby repealed, except as respects thing done or omitted to be done before the repeal thereof.


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