Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Inserted by Punjab Act 12 of 1950, section 6. (iii) for defining the standard weights and measures to be used in the mu- nicipality and for inspection of weights and measure under section 207. (iv) for the holding of fairs and industrial exhibitions within the municipal- ity or under the control of the committee, and for the collection of fees under section 187. (v) for controlling and regulating the use and management of burial and burning grounds. (vi) for the supervision, regulation and protection from pollution of public wells, tanks, springs or other sources from which water is or may be made available for the use of the public, whether within or without the municipality. 1[(vii) for the licensing, inspection and proper regulation of theatres and other places of public resort, recreation or amusement]. 2[(viii)for inspection and proper regulation of channels which are supplied with water from any canal to which either the Northern India Canal and Drainage Act, 1873, or the Punjab Minor Canals Act, 1905, applies]. (f) require and regulate the appointment by owners of buildings or land in the municipality, who are not resident in the municipality, of persons resid- ing within or near the municipality to act as their agents for all or any of the purposes of this Act or any rule thereunder; (g) where the collection of an octroi 3[or terminal tax] has been sanctioned, fix limits for the purpose of collecting the same, and may prescribe routes by which 4[animals or articles] or both which are subject to octroi 5[or terminal tax] may be imported into the municipality 6[or exported there- from]; (h) render licences necessary for using premises as stables, cow- houses or houses or enclosures for sheep goats 7[or swine], and regulate the grant and withdrawal of such licences]; (i) in any municipality where a reasonable number of slaughter-houses has been provided or licensed by the committee control, regulate or prohibit the admission within the municipal limits for the purposes of sale of the flesh (other than cured or preserved meat) of any cattle, sheep, goat or swine slaughtered at any slaughter-house or place not maintained or li- censed under this Act, and may provide for the seizure, destruction or dis- posal otherwise of any flesh brought within municipal limits in contravention of any such bye-law; (j) fix premises within the municipality in which the slaughter of animals of any particular kind, not for sale, shall be permitted, and prohibit, except, in case of necessity, such slaughter elsewhere within the municipality: 96 The Punjab Municipal Act, 1911, Section 188