Licences for private markets :— (1) No person shall open a new private

market or continue to keep open a private market unless he obtains from the municipality a licence to do so.

1. (2) Application for such licence shall be made by the owner of the place in respect of which the licence is sought not less than thirty and not more than ninety days before such place is opened as a market or the commencement of the year for which licence is sought, as the case may be.
2. (3) The municipality shall, as regards private markets already lawfully, established, and may at its discretion, as regards new private markets grant the licence applied for, subject to such rules as to supervision and inspection and to such conditions as to sanitation, drainage, water-supply, width of paths and ways, weights and measures to be used and rents and fees to be charged in such market as the municipality may think proper, or the municipality may refuse to grant any such licence for any new market. ‘The municipality may, however, at any time, for breach of the conditions thereof, suspend or cancel any licence which has been granted under this section. The municipality may also modify the conditions of the licence to take effect from a specified date.
3. (4) When a licence is granted, refused, suspended, cancelled or modified under this section, the municipality shall cause a notice of such grant, refusal, suspension, cancellation or modification in the Oriya language to be posted in conspicuous place at or near the entrance to the place in respect of which the licence was sought or had been obtained.
4. (5) Every licence granted under this section shall expire at the end of the year.