Licence for private market

(1) No person shall open a new private market or continue to keep a private market unless he obtains from the council a licence to do so. year.

1. (2) Application for such licence shall be made by the owner of the place in respect of which the licence is sought sixty days before such place is opened as market or before the commencement of the year for which the licence is sought to be renewed, as the case may be.
2. (3) (a) The council may grant the licence applied for, subject to such regulations as to supervision and inspection and to such conditions as to sanitation, drainage, water-supply, width of paths and weight and measures to be used, and rents and fees to be charged in such market as the council may think proper.
   • (b) The council may, however, at any time after giving the holder of the licence an opportunity of showing cause, suspend or cancel any licence which has been granted under this section for breach of the conditions thereof.
   • (c) The council may also modify the conditions of licence to take effect from a specified date.
3. (4) When a licence is granted, refused, suspended, cancelled or modified under this section the council shall cause a notice of such grant, refusal, suspension, cancellation or modification in English and in the regional language to be posted in some 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
   • • 371. Fee for licence.- When a licence granted under section 370 does not permit the levy of any fees of the nature specified in sub-section (2) of section 368, it shall be granted free of fee, provided that where permission to levy any such fee is granted, a fee not exceeding six hundred rupees shall be charged by the municipal council for such licence.
   • • 372. Sale in unlicensed private markets. – It shall not be lawful for any person to sell, or expose for sale, any animal or article in any unlicensed private market.
   • • 373. Power of council in respect of private market.- The council may, by notice, require the owner, occupier or farmer of any private market to --
   • (a) construct approaches, entrances, passages, gates, drains and cess-pits for such market and provide it with flush-out or other latrines of such description and in such position and number as the council may think fit;
   • (b) roof and pave the whole or any portion of it, or pave any portion of the floor with such materials as will in the opinion of the council secure imperviousness and ready cleansing;
   • (c) ventilate and light it properly and provide it with a supply of water;
   • (d) provide passage of sufficient width between the stalls and make such alterations in the stalls, passages, shops, doors or other parts of the market as the council may direct; and
   • (e) keep it in a cleanly and proper state and remove all filth and refuse therefrom.