section 117
License fee on carts, carriages and animals
The Meghalaya Municipal Act, 1973Infrastructure1973347 sections3 chapters
Statutory text
- (1) when it has been determined that license fees on carts, carriages and animals shall be imposed under Section 68, sub-section (1), the Board at a meeting shall make an order that the owner of every cart, carriage and animal of the kind specified therein, which is kept or used with in the municipality shall take out a license and pay such fees as are fixed in the order to be published in the manner prescribed.
- (2) The Board may at the approval of the State Government, determine the maximum number of cart and carriages, which may be licensed under sub-section (1)
- (3) The order under sub-section (1) shall be published at least one month before the beginning of the half year in which it shall first take effect and shall specified the fees not exceeding such amounts as may be prescribed by rule, which shall be charged in respect of such licenses: Provided that the Board may permit the owner of any such cart, carriage or animal which is casually brought within the municipality to keep or use the same within the municipality without a license for such period not exceeding 30 days in the half year as may be fixed by the Board.
- (4) No license shall be required in respect of:
- (a) horses or ponies belonging to officers doing regimental duty at the rate of one animal for each officer;
- (b) carts, carriages or animals belonging to Government, or to the Board or to any local authority or for keeping which for the execution of their duty an allowance is made by any Government or by the Board or by any local authority to any their officers;
- (c) animals used by, or exclusively for the purposes of, any regiment;
- (d) horses or ponies used by police officers at the race of not more than one for each officer;
- (e) carts, carriages or animals kept for sale by any bona fide dealer in such carriages or animals, and not used for any other purposes.
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