Power of supervision by district Magistrates

If the District Magistrate observes any marked incompetence or unfitness for the locality or for his particular duties in any Police officer subordinate to the Superintendent, he may require the Superintendent to substitute another officer for any officer whom he has power to transfer and the Superintendent shall be bound to comply with the requisition: Provided that if the Police officer concerned is an officer of a grade higher than that of an Inspector the District Magistrate may report his conduct to the Inspector-General. The Inspector-General may, thereafter, determine the action to be taken and pass such orders as he thinks fit, and shall communicate such action or order to the District Magistrate. danger, obstruction or inconvenience to the public; (c) regulating the conditions under which vehicles may remain standing in streets and public places, and the use of streets as halting places for vehicles or cattle; (d) prescribing the number and position of lights to be used on vehicles in streets and the hours between such lights shall be used; (da) licensing, controlling or prohibiting the display of any pictures, advertisements, news boards or public notices upon a vessel or boat in territorial waters or on inland waterways other than national waterways; (db) licensing, controlling or prohibiting the erection, exhibition, fixation or retention of any sign, device or representation for the purpose of advertisement, which is visible against the sky from some point in any street and is hoisted or held aloft over any land, building or structure at such height as (regard being had to the traffic in the vicinity, and the likelihood of such sign, device or representation at that height being a distraction or causing obstruction to such traffic) may be specified in the rule or order ; (e) prescribing certain hours of the day during which cattle shall not be driven along the streets, or along certain specified streets, except subject to such regulations as he may prescribe in that behalf; (f) regulating the leading, driving, conducting or conveying of any elephant or wild or dangerous animal through or in any street; (g) regulating and controlling the manner and mode of conveying timber, scaffold poles, ladders, iron girders, beams or bars, boilers or other unwieldy articles through the streets, and the route and hours for such conveyance ; (h) licensing, controlling or, in order to prevent the obstruction, inconvenience, annoyance, risk, danger or damage of the residents or passengers in the vicinity, prohibiting the carrying in streets and public places of gunpowder or any other explosive substances; (i) prohibiting except along certain specified streets and during specified hours and subject to such regulations as he may prescribe in that behalf, the exposure or movement in any street of persons or animals suffering from contagious or infectious diseases and the carcasses of animals or part thereof and the corpses of persons deceased; (j) prescribing certain hours of the day during which odour or offensive matter or objects shall not be taken from or into houses or buildings in certain streets or conveyed through such streets except subject to such rules as he may make in that behalf; (k) setting apart places for the slaughtering of animals, the cleaning of carcasses or hides, the deposit of noxious or offensive matter and for obeying calls of nature ; (l) in cases of existing or apprehended epidemic or infectious disease of men or animals, the cleanliness and disinfection of premises by the occupier thereof and resident therein and the segregation and management of the persons or animals diseased or supposed to be diseased, as may have been directed or approve by the State Government, with a view to prevent the disease of to check the spreading thereof; (m) directing the closing or disuse, wholly or for certain purposes, or limiting to certain purposes only the use of any source, supply or receptacle of water and providing against pollution of the same or of the water therein; (n) licensing, controlling or, in order to prevent the obstruction, inconvience, annoyance, risk, danger or damage of the residents or passengers in the vicinity, prohibiting the playing of music, the beating of drums, tom-toms of other instruments and the blowing or sounding of horns or other noisy instruments in or near streets or public places; (o) regulating the conduct of and behaviour or action of persons constituting assemblies and processions on or along the streets and prescribing in the case of processions, the routes by which, the order in which and the times at which the same may pass; (p) prohibiting the banging or placing of any cord or pole across a street or part thereof, or the making of a projection or structure so as to obstruct traffic or the free access of light and air; (q) prohibiting, except under such reasonable rules as he may make, the placing of building materials or other articles or the fastening or detention of any horse or other animals in any street or public places. (r) licensing, controlling or, in order to prevent obstruction, inconvenience, annoyance, risk, danger or damage of the residents or passengers in the vicinity, prohibiting- (i) the illumination of streets and public places and the exteriors of building abutting thereon by persons other than servants of Government or Municipal officers duly authorized in that behalf; (ii) the blasting of rock or making excavations in or near streets or public places; (iii) the using of a loudspeaker in or near any public place or in any place of public entertainment; (s) closing certain streets or places temporarily, in cases of danger from ruinous buildings or other cause, with such exceptions as shall appear reasonable; (t) guarding against injury to person and property, in the construction, repair and demolition of building, platforms and other structures from which danger may arise to passengers, neighbours or the public; (u) prohibiting the setting fire to or burning any straw or other matter, or lighting a bonfire or wantonly discharging a fire, arm or airgun, or letting off or throwing a fire- work or, sending up a fire balloon or rocket in or upon or within fifty feet of a street or building or the putting up of any post or other thing on the side of or across a street for the purpose of affixing thereto lamps or other contrivances for illumination, except subject to such reasonable rules, as he may make in that behalf; (v) regulating the hours during which and the manner in which any place for the disposal of the dead, any dharamshala, village-gate or other place of public resort may be used, so as to secure the equal and appropriate application of its advantages and accommodation and to maintain orderly conduct amongst those who resort thereto; (w) (i) licensing or controlling places of public amusement or entertainment; (ii) prohibiting the keeping. of places of public amusement or entertainment or assembly, in order to prevent obstruction, inconvenience, annoyance, risk, danger or damage to the residents or passengers in the vicinity; (iii) regu1ating the means of entrance and exit at places of public amusement or entertainment or assembly, and providing for the maintenance of public safety and the prevention of disturbance thereat; (wa) (i) licensing or controlling in the interest of public order decency or morality or in the interest of the general public with such exceptions as may be specified, the musical, dancing, mimetic or theatrical or other performances for public amusement, including melas and tamashas ; (ii) regulating in the interest of public order, decency or morality or in the interest of the general public, the employment of artists and the conduct of the artists and the audience at such performances; (iii) prior scrutiny of such performances and of the scripts in respect thereof, if any, and granting of suitability certificate therefore subject to conditions, if any, by the Board appointed by the State Government for the purpose, either for the whole State or the area concerned the members of the Board being persons who in the opinion of the State Government possess knowledge of, or experience in literature, the theatre and other matters relevant to such scrutiny, or by an Advisory Committee appointed by the Commissioner, or the District Magistrate in this behalf ; Provision for appeal against the order or decision of the Board to the prescribed authority, its appointment or constitution, its procedure and other matters ancillary thereto, and the fees (whether in the form of court-fee stamp or otherwise) to be charged for the scrutiny of such performances or scripts for applications for obtaining such certificates and for issuing duplicates thereof and in respect of such appeals; (iv) regulating the hours during which and the places at which such performances may be given; (x) regulating or prohibiting the sale of any ticket or pass for admission, by whatever name called, to a place of public amusement; (xa) registration of eating-hoses, included granting a certificate of registration in each case, which shall be deemed to be written permission required and obtained under this Act for keeping the eating-house, and annual renewal of such registration within prescribed period; (y) prescribing the procedure in accordance with which any licence or permission sought to be