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(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act. it shall he the duty of the Market Committee: (i) to implement the provisions of this Act, the rules and bye- laws made thereunder in the market area; (ii) provide such facilities for marketing of agricultural produce therein as the Director or the State Government may from time to time direct; (iii) to do such other acts as may be required in relation to the superintendence, direction and control of Market or for regulating Marketing of agricultural produce in any place in the market area, and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid and for that purposes may exercise such powers and discharge such functions as may be provided by or under this Act. (2) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions: (a) a Market Committee may: (i) maintain and manage the market yard and sub-market yard within the market area; (ii) provide the necessary facilities for the marketing of agricultural produce within the market yards and outside the market yards and within the sub-market yards and outside the Sub-market yards in the market area. (iii) grant or refuse licences to market functionaries and renew, suspend, or cancel such licences, supervise that conduct of the market functionaries and enforce condition of licences; (iv) regulate or supervise the auction of notified agricultural produce in accordance with the provision laid down under the rules made under this Act or bye-laws of the marketing Committee; (v) conduct or supervise the auction of notified agricultural produce in accordance with the procedure laid down under the rules made under this Act or bye-laws of the Market Committee; (vi) regulate the making, carrying out and enforcement or cancellation of agreements sales, weighment, delivery, payment and all other matters relating to the marketing of notified agricultural produce in the manner prescribed; (vii) organise grading of notified agricultural produce; (viii) provide for the settlement of all disputes between the seller and the buyer arising out of any kind of transaction connected with the marketing of notified agricultural produce and all matters ancillary thereto in the manner prescribed; (ix) arrange for collection of such agricultural produce in the market area in which all trade therein is to be carried on exclusively by the State Government by or under any law in force for that purpose or of such agricultural produce in the market area, as the State Government may form time to time, notify; (x) collect, maintain and disseminate information in respect of production, sale, storage, processing, prices and movement of notified agricultural produce; (xi) take all possible steps to prevent adulteration of goods and promote grading and standardization of the notified agricultural produce; (xii) take measures for the prevention of purchases and sales below the minimum support price as fixed by the Government from time to time; (xiii) levy, take, recover and receive rates, charges, fees and other sums of money which the Marker Committee is entitled: (xiv) employ the necessary number of officers and servants for the efficient implementation of the provisions of this Act, the rules and the bye-laws as prescribed; (xv) regulate the entry of persons and vehicles, traffic into the market yard and sub-market yards vesting in the Market Committee; (xvi) prosecute persons for violating the provisions of this Act, the rules and the bye-laws and compound such offences; (xvii) acquire, hold and dispose of any movable or immovable property for the purpose of efficiently carrying out its duties; (xviii) impose penalties on persons who contravene the provisions of this Act, the rules of the bye- laws or the orders or directions issued under this Act, the rules or the bye-laws by Market Committee, its Chairman or by any officer duly authorised in this behalf: (xix) institute or defend any suit, prosecution action, proceeding, application or arbitration and compromise such suit, action, proceeding, application or arbitration; (xx) provide facilities such as provision of space for direct sales by a producer and assist a producer by preparing invoices an bills in his behalf when he sells his produce to a trade without employing commission agent; (xxi) pay, pension, leave, allowances, gratuities. compassionate allowance and contributions towards leave allowance, pensions or provident fund of the officers and servant employed by the Market Committee in the manner prescribed; (xxii) administer Market Committee fund referred to in Section 44 and maintain the account thereof in the prescribed manner: (xxiii) keep a set of standard weights and measures in each principal market yard and sub-market yard against which weighment and measurement may he checked; (xxiv) inspect and verify scales, weights and measures in use in market area and also the books of accounts and other documents maintained by the market functionaries in such manner as may be prescribed; (xxv) arrange to obtain fitness (health) certificate from veterinary doctor in respect of animal, cattle, birds etc. which are bought or sold in the, market yard/market area. (xxvi) carry out publicity about the benefits of regulation, the system of transaction, facilities provided in market yard etc. through such means as posters, pamphlets, hoardings, cinema slides, film shows, group meetings etc. or through any other means considered more effective or necessary; (xxvii) ensure payment in respect of transactions which take place in the market area to be made on the same day to the seller, and in default to seize the agricultural produce in question alongwith other property of the person concerned; (xxviii) make arrangement for weighmen and hammals for weighing and transporting of goods in respect of transactions held on the market yard/sub-market yard; (xxix) recover the charges in respect of weighmen and hammals and distribute the same to weighmen and hammals if not paid by the purchaser/seller as the case may be; (xxx) with the prior sanction of the State Government or the Director undertake the construc- tions of roads in the market area to facilitate movement of agricultural produce to the market for benefit of producer, sellers and traders operating in the market area. Appointment of sub-committee and delegation of power