General bye-laws.

A municipality may, by bye-laws- (a) render licences necessary for the proprietors or drivers of vehicles, other than motor vehicles or animals kept or plying for hire within the limits of the municipal area, and fix the fees payable for such licences and conditions on which they are to be granted and may be revoked and may by such conditions provide among other things for a minimum breadth for wheel tyres, and for a minimum diameter of the wheel; (b) limit the rates which may be demanded for the hire of any carriage, cart, or other conveyance, or of animals hired to carry loads or persons, or for the services of persons hired to carry loads or to impel or carry such conveyances, and limit the loads which may be carried by any animal, or carriage, cart, or other conveyance, plying for hire, within the limits of the municipal area; (c) provide, save as provided under the Registration of Birth and Deaths Act, 1969 for the proper registration of births and deaths and for recording vital statistics ; (d) fix, and from time to time vary, the number of persons who may occupy a building or part of a building, which is let in lodgings or occupied by members of more than one family or which is situated within such congested bazaar areas as may be specified in the bye-laws ; and provide - (i) for the registration and inspection of such buildings ; (ii) for the licensing of hotels and lodging-houses and for the fees payable for such licenses and the condition on which they may be granted or revoked ; (iii) for promoting cleanliness and ventilation in such buildings; (iv) for the notices to be given and the precautions to be taken in the case of any infectious or contagious disease breaking out in such buildings ; (v) for the scavenging, removal and disposal of all rubbish, filth, night-soil, sullage or sewage in such buildings ; (vi) in the case of hotel, sarai and lodging house-keepers and the secretaries of residential clubs for the maintenance of registers in such forms as the municipality may prescribe, of visitors and lodgers ; and (vii) generally for the proper regulation of such buildings ; (e) provide - (i) for the inspection and proper regulation of encamping grounds, pounds, sarais, bakeries, aerated-water factories, ice factories, dhobi ghats, flour mills, foodgrain godowns, dispensing chemists, shops, slaughter-houses, and places licensed under section 125 ; (ii) for the inspection and proper regulation of markets and stalls, for the preparation and exhibition of a list of current price and fixing the fees, rents and other charges, to be levied in such markets and stalls ; (iii) for the holding of fairs and industrial exhibitions within the municipal area, or under the control of the municipality, and for the collection of fees under section 201 ; (iv) for controlling and regulating the use and management of burial and burning grounds ; (v) for the supervision, regulation and protection 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 outside the municipal area ; (vi) for the licensing, inspection and proper regulation of theatres and other places of public resort, recreation or amusement ; (vii) for the inspection and proper regulation of channels which are supplied with water from any canal to which either the Northern Indian Canals and Drainage Act, 1873 (8 of 1873), or the Himachal Pradesh Minor Canals Act, 1976 (42 of 1976), applies ;