A.P. Assembly passes Bill for Uniform Mutation Fees in ULBs

The Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly passed the A.P. Municipal Laws (Third Amendment) Bill 2026 on Monday (August 17, 2026). It provides for a specific provision to levy and collect a Uniform Mutation Fee (UMF) at the time of transferring titles in municipal records.

Minister of Municipal Administration & Urban Development (MA&UD) P. As a consequence, different Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) were after varying methodologies such as fixed-rate slabs, percentage-based systems, and mixed models for collecting the fees, resulting in the lack of standardisation across the State.

The absence of a statutory backing for levying UMF created ambiguity and the fee variations were affecting seamless integration with the Registration & Stamps (R&S) Department particularly in the implementation of auto-mutation through Computer-Aided Administration of Registration Department 2.0/Property Registration Integration Mutation Produced Easy platforms, he noted.

The present Bill empowers the government to fix percentage-based UMF from time to time, facilitates integration with R&S Department for effective implementation of auto-mutation, brings in consistency, transparency, and uniformity throughout all the ULBs.

, narayan, who introduced the Bill, said neither the AP Municipalities Act 1965 nor the Municipal Corporations Act of 1955 had an enabling provision for collecting UMF.