Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Hotel-keeper to present detailed bill.— Every hotel-keeper shall render detailed bills to the persons residing in the hotel and other customers and shall give receipts in acknowledgment of all payments. -6- 17 [13A. Licensing of beach shacks.— (1) Before commencement of the tourist season, the prescribed authority shall, through a public notice issued in the local newspapers, call for applications for installation of beach shacks, on such beaches as may be notified by the Government, from persons who are not employed or engaged, directly or indirectly, in any business, vocation or profession, such as tourist taxis, hotels, bars or restaurants, sale of handicrafts, souvenirs, toddy tapping, fishing or any other form of business not so specified. (2) On receipt of such applications, the prescribed authority shall scrutinize the applications, and if found in order, grant necessary license by charging prescribed fees and on such terms and conditions as may be specified in this behalf. (3) Where the number of eligible applicants are more than the number of beach shacks permitted on any particular beach, the selection shall be decided by draw of lots on such date and at such time as the prescribed authority may notify in this behalf. (4) License shall be granted for putting up only one beach shack to a member of the family. (5) Any person intending to erect a beach shack in private property shall, before he erects such shack, apply for registration to the prescribed authority in the prescribed manner. Explanation.— For the purpose of this section, “family” shall include husband or wife, as the case may be, dependent parents and unmarried children, provided they figure in the same ration card as the applicant.