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(1) The Corporation may own, purchase or take on lease any land or building for the purpose of establishing municipal market or municipal slaughterhouse or municipal stockyard or improving an existing municipal market, municipal slaughterhouse or stockyard, and make provisions for maintenance of such municipal market, municipal slaughterhouse or municipal stockyard. (2) The Corporation may, after giving general notice, close any municipal market or municipal slaughterhouse or municipal stockyard or any portion thereof, and the premises occupied for any municipal market or municipal slaughterhouse or municipal stockyard or any portion thereof, so closed, shall be vacated by the occupants thereof in accordance with such notice. 120 THE KOLKATA GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, MAY 29, 2008 [PART III The West Bengal Municipal Corporation Act, 2006. (Part VIII.—Chapter XVIII—Market and slaughterhouse.—Sections 308-314.) Power of Commissioner to grant licence for private market etc. Licence for trade or business of butcher and sale of meat etc. outside municipal market or private market. Levy of stallage rent and fee. Depot for sale or essential commodities. Licence for hawking etc. Licence for sale of fish, poultry, etc. Power to seize food etc.