Power to seize food or

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Chapter XXXV Chapter XXXV

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(1) The Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer or drug etc. any officer or any other employee of the Municipality authorized by him in this behalf may at the time in day or night without notice, inspect and examine any food or drug or any utensil or vessel used for preparing, manufacturing or storing such food or drug.
(2) If, upon such inspection or examination any such food or drug is in the opinion of the Chief Municipal Executive Officer/ Municipal Executive Officer or any other officer or other employee authorized by him in this behalf, unwholesome or unfit for human consumption or is not what it is represented to be or if any such utensil or vessel is of such kind or in such state as to render any food or drug prepared, manufactured or stored therein, unwholesome or unfit for human consumption, he may seize, seal or carry away such food or drug or utensil or vessel.
(3) If any food or drug seized under sub-section (2) is in the opinion of the Chief Municipal Executive Officer Municipal Executive Officer unfit for human consumption he shall cause such food or drug to be forthwith destroyed in such manner as to prevent its being exposed for sale or used for human consumption and the expenses thereof shall be paid by the person in whose possessions such food or drug was at the time of it seizure. Chapter-XXXIX

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