Gujarat Provincial Municipal Corporations Act, 1949
(1) Every Corporation shall, by the name of "The Municipal Corporation of the City of ..................", be a body corporate and have perpetual succession and a common seal and by such name may sue and be sued. (2) Each Corporation shall consist of councillors chosen by direct election. (3) Where general election is to be held immediately after,— (i) "a larger urban area" as specified under clause (2) of article 243Q of the Constitution of India, is made, or (ii) the census is taken under the Census Act, 1948 and the relevant figures of which have been published, or (iii) the limits of a City are altered,— (a) the State Government shall, by notification in the Official gazette, determine the number of wards into which the City shall be divided, the number of councillors to be elected to the Corporation and the number of seats to be reserved in favour of the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes, the Backward Classes and Women as provided in this section, and (b) the State Election Commission thereafter shall carry out the determination of the boundaries of the wards and the allocation of seats reserved in favour of the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, the Backward Classes and Women among the wards in the prescribed manner. (4) Seats shall be reserved by the State Government for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in every Corporation and the number of seats so reserved shall bear, as nearly as may be, the same proportion to the total number of seats to be filled by direct election in the Corporation as the population of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in City bears to the total population of the City and such seats may be allotted by rotation to different wards in the City in the prescribed manner.