CONSTITUTION OF COUNCILS

Municipal Council for the City of Georgetown

Subject to this Act, the Municipal council in and for the City of Georgetown, established as one body politic and corporate by the Georgetown Town Council Ordinance, 1860, by the name and style of “The Mayor and Town Council of Georgetown” and continued by the Georgetown Town Council Ordinance 1918, is hereby continued.

The City Council shall henceforth have the name and style of “The Mayor and Councillors of the City of Georgetown.”

The City Council shall have and use a common seal, which shall be approved by, and may be altered by, the council and which shall be judicially noticed.

The City Council may sue and be sued by and in the name of “ The Town Clerk of Georgetown.”

For the purposes of this Act, the City shall comprise all the area specified in the First Schedule.

The jurisdiction of the City Council shall extend to low water mark of springtides of the Demerara River and to all structures thereon.

The City Council shall consist of the Mayor, the Deputy Mayor and other councillors and shall have such functions as are vested in it by or under this Act or any other law.

The number of councillors (including the Mayor and the Deputy Mayor) shall be not less than twenty-five and not more than thirty as may be prescribed by order of the Minister.