Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Public Markets - (1) The gram panchayat may provide places for use as public markets and, with the sanction of the Commissioner, close any such market or part thereof. (2) Subject to such rules as may be prescribed the gram panchayat may levy one or more of the following fees in any public market at such rates, not exceeding the maximum rates, if any prescribed in this behalf, as the gram panchayat may think fit- (a) fees for the use of, or for the right to expose goods for sale in, such market; (b) fees for the use of shops, stalls, pens or stands in such markets; (c) fees on vehicles including motor vehicles as defined in the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (Central Act 59 of 1988) or pack-animals bringing or persons carrying, any goods for sale in such markets; (d) fees on animals brought for sale into or sold in such markets; (e) licence fees on brokers, commission agents, weighmen and measures practising their calling in such market.