Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Opening, closing and letting of markets and slaughter houses.—(1) The municipal council may, from time to time, open or close any public market or slaughter house. It may also either take stallage or other rents or fees for the use by any person of any such market or slaughter house or from time to time sell by public auction or otherwise the privilege of occupying any stall or space in, or of otherwise using, any such market or slaughter house, and levy fees on any animal slaughtered in any slaughter house, for purposes of consumption. (2) Any person who, without the permission or licence of the municipal council, sells or exposes for sale any articles in the said markets, or uses the said slaughter houses, shall be punished with fine which may extend to twenty-five rupees. (3) It shall be lawful for the municipal council to lease for a period not exceeding one year at a time by publication or private contract the collecting of any rent or fees which may be imposed under sub-section (1). (4) If any officer specially empowered in this behalf by the municipal council is satisfied that any person occupying any stall or space in any market is in unauthorised occupation of the stall or space or continues to occupy the stall or space after authority to occupy has ceased, he may, with the previous sanction of the municipal council, require such person to 149 vacate the stall or space within such time as may be mentioned in the requisition and if such person fails to comply with the requisition, such person may, in addition to any penalty which may be imposed under this Act, be summarily removed from the stall or space. 1[245. Power to expel disturbers etc., from markets.- The person in charge of a market shall prevent the entry therein of and shall expel there from, any person suffering from any dangerous or contagious disease, who sells or exposes for sale therein any article or who, not having purchased the same handles any article exposed for sale therein; and he may expel there from any person who is creating a disturbance therein.]1