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Article 243ZF

Part IXA — The Municipalities · Constitution of India

Article 243ZF

Continuance of existing laws and Municipalities. Notwithstanding anything in this Part, any provision of any law relating to Municipalities in force in a State immediately before the commencement of the Constitution (Seventy-fourth Amendment) Act, 1992, which is inconsistent with the provisions of this Part, shall continue to be in force until amended or repealed by a competent Legislature or other competent authority or until the expiration of one year from such commencement, whichever is earlier: Provided that all the Municipalities existing immediately before such commencement shall continue till the expiration of their duration, unless sooner dissolved by a resolution passed to that effect by the Legislative Assembly of that State or, in the case of a State having a Legislative Council, by each House of the Legislature of that State. ​

In plain wordsExisting municipal laws that clashed with the 74th Amendment of 1992 stayed valid for at most one year, while municipal bodies already in office were allowed to finish their terms unless the state legislature dissolved them by resolution.
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