PART I

Purpose to which premises may not be used without a licence. Carrying out any of the following trades or operations connected with trades.- 1. Banking. 2. Cinematograph films, shooting of. 3. Cinematograph films by any process whatsoever, Treating of - 4. Chillies or masala or corn or seeds. Grinding of by mechanical means - 5. Cloth, yarn or leather in indigo or in other colours. Dyeing or printing of 6. Cloth or yarn Bleaching - 7. Eating house or a catering establishment. Keeping of an - 8. Grain, Parching - 9. Groundnut seeds, tamarind seeds or any other seeds, Parching 10. Hairdressing saloon or a barbar’s shop. Keeping of a - 11. Hides or skins, whether raw or dried. Tanning, pressing or packing - 12. Laundry shop. Keeping a - 13. Leather goods. Manufacturing of by mechanical means - 14. Litho Press. Keeping a - 15. Lodging house. Keeping of a - 16. Metal. Casting - 17. Precious metals. Refining of - or recovering of them from embroideries. 18. Printing Press. Keeping of a - 19. Sweetment shop except in premises already licensed as an eating house. Keeping - 20. Carrying on the trade or business of or any operation connected with the trade of - (i) Autocar or autocycle serving or repairing. (ii) Blacksmithy. (iii) Coppersmithy. (iv) Electroplating. (v) Glass bevelling. (vi) Glass cutting. (vii) Glass polishing. (viii) Goldsmithy. (ix) Marble cutting, grinding, dressing or polishing. (x) Metal (ferrous or non-ferrous or antimony but excluding previous metal) cutting or treating metal by harmoring, drilling, pressing, filling, polishing, heating, or by any other process what- ever or assembling parts of metal. (xi) Photography - studio. (xii) Radio (wireless receiving set) selling, repairing, servicing or manufacturing. (xiii) Silversmithy. (xiv) Spinning or weaving cotton silk, art silk, or jute or wool with the aid of power. (xv) Stone grinding, cutting, dressing or polishing. (xvi) Timber or wood sawing or cutting by mechanical or electric power. (xvii) Tinsmithy. (xviii) Washrman’s trade. (xix) Welding of metal by electric, gas or any process whatsoever. Punjab Municipal Corporation Act, 1976, 169 Manufacturing, parching, packing pressing, cleaning, cleansings, boiling, molting, grinding or pre- paring by any process whatever any of the following articles- (i) Aerated waters. (ii) Bakelite goods. (iii) Bidis (indigenous cigarettes) snuff, cigars or cigarettes (iv) Bitumen. (v) Blasting powder. (vi) Bones. (vii) Bricks or tiles by hand power. (viii) Bricks or tiles by mechanical power. (ix) Brushes. (x) Candles. (xi) Catgut. (xii) Celluloid or celluliod goods. (xiii) Cement concrete designs or models. (xiv) Charcoal. (xv) Chemicals. (xvi) Cinematograph films stripping in connection with any trade. (xvii) Cosmetics or toilet goods. (xviii) Cotton, cotton refuse, cotton waste, cotton yarn, silk, silk yarn, silk inclusive of waste yarn, art silk, art silk waste, art silk yarn wool or woollen refuse or waste. (xix) Cotton seeds. (xx) Dammar. (xxi) Dynamite. (xxii) Fat. (xxiii) Fireworks. (xxiv) Flax. (xxv) Ink for printing, writing, stamping, etc. (xxvi) Gas. (xxvii) Ghee. (xxviii) Glass or glass articles. (xxix) Gunpowder. (xxx) Hemp. (xxxi) Ice (including dry Ice). (xxxii) Insecticide or disinfectents. (xxxiii) Leather cloth or rexina cloth or water proof cloth. (xxxiv) Lime. (xxxv) Lineseed oil. (xxxvi) Matches for lighting (including Bengal matches). (xxxvii) Mattresses and pillows. (xxxviii) Offal. (xxxix) Oil-cloth. (xl) Oil other than petroleum (either by mechanical power or by hand power or ghani driven by bul- luck or any other animal. (xli) Pharmaceutical or medical products. (xlii) Rubber or rubber goods. (xliii) Paints. (xliv) Paper or cardboard. (xlv) Pickers from hides. 170 Punjab Municipal Corporation Act, 1976, (xlvi) Pitch. (xlvii) Plalstic goods (xlviii) Pottery by hand power. (xlix) Pottery by mechanical or any power other than hand power. (l) Sanitary-ware or china-ware. (li) Soap. (lii) Sugar. (liii) Sweetmeat and confectionery goods. (liv) Tallow. (lv) Tar. (lvi) Varnishes. (lvii) Wooden furniture, boxes, barrels, khokas, or other articles of wood or of plywood or of sandal wood. PART II Articles which may not be stored in any premises without a licence 1. Asafootida. 2. Ahes. 3. Bamboos. 4. Bidi leaves. 5. Blasting powder. 6. Blood. 7. Bones, bone meal or bone powder. 8. Camphor. 9. Carbide of calcium. 10. Cardboard. 11. Celluloid or celluloid goods. 12. Charcoal. 13. Chemicals liquid. 14. Chemicals, non-liquid. 15. Chillies. 16. Chlorate mixture. 17. Cinematograph films - non-infllammable or acetate or safety base. 18. Cloth in pressed bales or boras. 19. Cloth or clothes of cotton, wool, silk, art silk, etc. 20. Coal. 21. Coconut fibre. 22. Coke. 23. Compound gas, such as oxygen gas, hydrogen gas, nitrogen gas, carbon dioxide gas, sulphur di- oxide gas, chlorine gas, acetyalom gas etc. 24. Copra. 25. Cotton including Kohok, surgical cotton and silky cotton. 26. Cotton refuse or waste or cotton yarn refuse or waste. 27. Cotton seed. 28. Detonaters. 29. Dry leaves. 30. Dynamite. 31. Explosive paint such as nitrocellulose paint, lacquer paint, enamel paint, etc. 32. Fat. Punjab Municipal Corporation Act, 1976, 171 33. Felt. 34. Fins. 35. Firewood. 36. Fireworks. 37. Fish (dried) 38. Flax. 39. Fulminate. 40. Fulminate of mercury. 41. Fulminate of silver. 42. Golatino. 43. Golignite. 44. Grass. 45. Gun-cotton. 46. Gunpowder. 47. Guny Bags. 48. Hair. 49. Hay or fodder. 50. Hemp. 51. Hessain cloth (gunny bag cloth). 52. Hides (dried). 53. Hides (raw). 54. Hoofs. 55. Horns. 56. Incense or esas. 57. Jute. 58. Khokas, boxes, barrels, furniture or any other article of wood. 59. Lacquer. 60. Leather. 61. Matches for lighting, (including Bengal matches). 62. Methylated spirit, denatured spirit or French polish. 63. Nitre-cellulose. 64. Nitro-compound. 65. Nitro-glycerine. 66. Nitro-mixture. 67. Offal. 68. Oil, other than petroleum. 69. Oilseeds including almonds, but excluding cotton seeds. 70. Old paper or waste paper including old newspapers, periodiocals, magazines, etc. 71. Packing stuff (paper cuttings) husk, saw dust, etc. 72. Paints. 73. Paper other than old paper in pressed bales or loose or in the reams. 74. Petroleum, other than dangerous petroleum, as defined in the Petroleum Act, 1934. 75. Phosphorus. 76. Plastic or plastic goods. 77. Plywood. 78. Rags, including small pieces or cuttings of cloth, hessian cloth, gunny bag cloth, silk, art silk or woollen cloth. 79. Resin or dammer Battar otherwise known as Ral. 80. Safety fuses, feg signals, cartridges, etc. 172 Punjab Municipal Corporation Act, 1976, 81. Saltpetre. 82. Sandal Wood. 83. Silk waste or silk yarn waste art silk waste or art silk yarn waste. 84. Sisal fibre. 85. Skins (raw or dried). 86. Straw. 87. Sulphur. 88. Tallow. 89. Tar, ditch, dammer or bitumen. 90. Tarpulin. 91. Thinner. 92. Timber. 93. Turpentine. 94. Varnish. 95. Wool (raw). 96. Yarn other than waste yarn. Punjab Municipal Corporation Act, 1976, 173 THE THIRD SCHEDULE (See Section 388) PENALTIES Explanation. - The entries in the second column of the following table headed ‘‘Subject’’ are not intended as definition of the offences prescribed in the provi- sion mentioned in the first column or even as abstracts of the provisions, but are inserted merely as reference to the subject thereof. Section, Sub-sec- tion, Clause or proviso SubjectFine or imprisonment which may be imposed Daily fine which may be imposed RsRs. S. 105, sub-Ss. (1) and (2) Failure to give notice of transfer or devaluation of land or building 50010 S. 105, sub-s. (3)Failure to produce instrument of transfer50010 S. 106Failure to give notice of erection of new building etc. 500... S. 107Failure to give notice of demolition or removal of building 50010 S. 108Failure to comply with requisition to furnish information,etc. 50... S. 112, sub-s. (2)Wilful delay or obstruction of valuers500... S. 123Prohibition of advertisement without permission 50050 S. 145Failure to give notice of re-occupation of vacant land or building 50020 S. 150, sub-s. (2)Non-compliance with the requisition of attendance before the Commissioner 100... S. 153Failure of disclose liability700... S. 188Failure to give notice50... S. 190Prohibition to occupy new premises without arrangement for water supply 50020 S. 196Refusal of admittance, etc.100... S. 199, sub-s. (1)Lying of water pipes,etc. in a position where the same may be injured or water therein polluted 50020 S. 199, sub-s. (2)Construction of latrines,etc.,in a position where pipes may be injured or water therein polluted 10010 S. 203Injury to, or interference with free flow of contents of municipal drain or drains communicating with municipal drain 20010 S. 204, sub-s. (2)Private drain not to be connected with Municipal drain without notice 50010 S. 205Non-compliance with requisition for drainage of undrained premises 10025 S. 206Erection of new premises without drains1,00050 174 Punjab Municipal Corporation Act, 1976, S. 207Non-compliance with requisition of maintainance of drainage works for any group or block of premises S. 208Non-compliance with direction to close or limit the use of private drains in certain cases 20020 S. 209Non-compliance with Commissioner’s orders regarding the use of a drain by a person other than the owner thereof 50- S. 210Non-compliance with requisition for keeping sewage and rain water drains distinct 200... S. 211Non-compliance with requisition for the pavement of courtyard etc. 50... S. 213Connection with municipal water works or drains without written permission 50050 S. 216, Sub-s. (4)Non-compliance with requisition to close,remove or divert a pipe or drain 20020 S. 222, sub-s. (1)Execution of work by a person other than a licensed plumber 200... S. 222, sub-s. (2)Failure to furnish when required,name of licensed plumber employed 100... S. 222, sub-s. (6)Licensed plumbers not to demand more than the charges prescribed 500... S. 222, sub-s. (8)Licensed plumbers not to contravene bye-laws or execute work carelessly,or negligenty,etc. 100... S. 223Prohibition of wilful or neglectful acts relating to water or sewage works 500... S. 231, sub-s. (3)Construction of building within the regular line of street without permission 2,000100 S. 233Failure to comply with requisition to set back buildings to regular line of street 50050 S. 236Failure to comply with requisition to set forward buildings to regular line of street 50025 S. 239, Sub-s. (5)Utilising,selling or otherwise dealing with any land or laying out a private street otherwise than in conformity with orders of the Corporation 50025 S. 240, Sub-s. (1) clauses (a) and (b) Failure to comply with requisition to show cause for alteration of street or for appearance before the Commissioner 10010 S. 241, Sub-s. (1)Failure to comply with requisition on owner of private street or owner of adjoining land or building to level,etc. such street 10010 S. 243, Sub-s. (1)Prohibition of projections upon street,etc,, Imprisonment for one month and Rs. 1000 100..... S. 243, Sub-s. (2)Failure to comply with requisition to remove projections from street 50025 Punjab Municipal Corporation Act, 1976, 175 S. 244, Sub-s. (2)Failure to comply with requisition to remove a varandah,balcony,etc.,put up in accordance with section 243(1) 50025 S. 245Failure to comply with requisition to have ground floor doors,etc., 20 altered as not to open outwards 1,00050 *[S. 246, sub-s. (1) EncroachmentImprisonment which shall not be less than one month, which may extend to three years and fine which may extend to Rs. 20,000 .... S. 246-A, Sub-s. (14) EncroachmentImprisonment which may extend to one month or fine which may extend to Rs. 1000/- or both. ...] S. 249, Sub-s. (1) and (2) Tethering of animals and milking of cattle in public streets 50025 S. 250, Sub-s. (4)Unlawful removal of bar or sorting timber,etc.,or removal or extinction of light 200... S. 251, Sub-s. (1)Streets not to be opened or broken up and building materials not to be deposited thereon without permission 50025 S. 253, Sub-s. (2)Name of street and number of house not be destroyed or defaced,etc. 500... S. 254, Sub-s. (1)Failure to comply with requisition to repair,project or enclose a dangerous place 50025 S. 256, Sub-s. (1)Removal etc.,of lamps100... S. 256, Sub-s. (2)Wilfully and negligently extinguishing light in public streets etc. 100... S. 258Erection of a building without the sanction of the Commissioner 5,000100 S. 259, Sub-s. (1)Failure to give notice of intention to erect a building 500... S. 260, Sub-s. (1)Failure to give notice of intention to make additions,etc., to buildings 50025 S. 263, Sub-s. (4)Commencement of work without notice,etc.2,000100 S. 265Failure to comply with requisition to round off buildings at corners of streets 50025 S. 266, Sub-s. (1)Erection of buildings on new streets without levelling 1,00050 176 Punjab Municipal Corporation Act, 1976, S. 266, Sub-s. (2)Erection of buildings on execution of work within regular line of street or in contravention of any scheme or plan 1,000... S. 268Use of inflamable materials without permission 1,000... S. 269Failure of buildings in contravention of conditions of sanction etc. 2,000100 S. 270Erection of buildings in contravention of conditions of sanction etc. 2,000100 S. 271Failure to carry out alterations2,000... S. 272, Sub-s. (1) and (2) Non-compliance with revision as to completion certificates,occupation or use,etc., without 50025 S. 273(1)Non-compliance with restrictions on user of buildings 1,00025 S. 273, Sub-s. (2) and (3) Failure to comply with requisition and to remove structures which are in ruins or likely to fall 2,000100 S. 274, Sub-s. (1)Failure to comply with requisition to vacate buildings in dangerous condition,etc. 1,00050 S. 279Failure to provide for collection,removal and deposit of refuse and provision of receptacles 20010 S. 280Failure to collect and remove filth and polluted matter 200... S. 281, Sub-s. (2)Scavenger’s duties in certain cases not to be discharged by any person without permission 25... S. 282Failure to comply with requisition for removal of rubbish,etc.,from premises used as market,etc. 200... S. 283, Sub-s. (1)Keeping rubbish and filth for more than twenty four hours,etc. S. 283, Sub-s. (2)Allowing filth to flow in street5020 S. 283, Sub-s. (3)Depositing rubbish or filth,etc.,in street,etc.50... S. 286, Sub-s. (1)Latrines and urinals not to be constructed without permission or in contravention of terms prescribed 200... S. 286, Sub-s. (1)Failure to provide buildings newly erected or re- erected with latrine urinal and other accommodation 1,00020 S. 287Sub-s. (3), Failure to provide residential buildings composed of separate tenements with latrine,bathing or washing place for servants on the ground floor 500... S. 288Failure to provide latrines for premises used by large number of people and to keep them clean and in proper order 50020 S. 290, clauses (a), (b)(c) and (d) Failure to comply with requisition to enforce provision of latrine or urinal accommodation etc. 50020 Punjab Municipal Corporation Act, 1976, 177 S. 291, Sub-s. (2)Failure to comply with requisition for removal of congested buildings 1,00050 S. 292Failure to comply with requisition to improve buildings unfit for human habitation 1,000... S. 294, Sub-ss. (1),(2),(3) and (4) Failure to comply with order it demolition of buildings unfit for human habitation 2,00050 S. 295Failure to comply with requisition of the Commissioner to remove insanitary huts and sheds etc. 20015 S. 296, Sub-s. (1)Prohibition against washing by washerman100... S. 297Failure to give information of dangerous disease 100... S. 299Failure to comply with requisition to cleanse and disinfect buildings or articles 100... S. 300Failure to comply with requisition to destroy infectious huts or sheds 50... S. 301Washing of clothing,bedding,etc.,at any place not notified by the Commissioner 50... S. 303, Sub-s. (1)Spending infected to clothes to washerman or laundry 25... S. 303, Sub-s. (2)Failure to furnish address of washerman or laundry to which clothes have been sent 25... S. 304, Sub-s. (1)(2) and (3) Use of public conveyance by persons suffering from a dangerous disease,etc. 50... S. 306Failure to disinfect buildings before letting the same 200... S. 307Disposal of infected articles without disinfection 50... S. 308Making or selling of food,etc.,or washing of clothes by infected persons 200... S. 309Sale of food or drink in contravention of restriction or prohibition of the Commissioner 200... S. 310Removal or use of water from wells and tanks in contravention of prohibition of Commissioner 100... S. 311Exposure of persons to risk of infection by the presence or conduct of a person suffering from a dangerous disease, etc. 100... S. 312Removal of infectious corpses in contravention of the provisions of the section 50... S. 313, Sub-ss, (1) Absence of sweepers,etc.,from duty without notice Imprisonment which may extend to one month ... S. 314A sweeper employed for doing house scavenging not to discontinue work without notice 10... S. 315Failure to supply information by persons in charge of burning or burial grounds 50... 178 Punjab Municipal Corporation Act, 1976, S. 316Use of new burning or burial ground without permission 50... S. 317, Sub-s. (1)Failure to comply with requisition to close a burning or burial ground 50... S. 317, Sub-s. (2)Burning or burial of corpses in a burial ground after it has been closed 50... S. 318Removal of corpses by other than prescribed routes 10... S. 319Sub-s. (1),clause (b), Failure to give notice for removal of corpses of dead animals 10... S. 322, Sub-ss. (1) and (2) Failure to give information of births and deaths100... S. 323, Sub-ss. (1) (2) and (3) Commission of nuisances50020 S. 324Failure to comply with requisition for removal or abatement of nuisance 50025 S. 325, Sub-s. (4)Dogs not to be at large in a street without being secured by a chain lead 50... S. 325, Sub-s. (5)Ferocious dogs at large without being muzzled,etc. 200... S. 326Stacking inflammable material in contravention of prohibition 5,000... S. 327Setting a naked light50... S. 328Discharging fire-works,fire-arms,etc. likely to cause danger 500... S. 329Failure to comply with requisition to render buildings,wells, etc., safe 200... S. 330Failure to comply with requisition to enclose land used for improper purposes 200... S. 331, Sub-s. (1)Sale in municipal without permission200... S. 332, Sub-ss. (1) Use of places as private markets without a licence and use of places other than a municipal slaughterhouse as slaughter houses 50025 S. 333, Sub-s. (2), proviso (a) Non compliance with conditions,imposed by Commissioner 200... S. 335Keeping market open without licence etc.2,000... S. 336Sale in unlicensed market100... S. 337Carrying on business or trades near a market100... S. 340Failure of person incharge of markets to expel lepers and disturbers from the market 100... S. 341Carrying on butcher’s fish-monger’s or poultere’s trade without licence,etc. 10010 S. 342Establishment of factory,etc,without permission 5,000500 S. 343Certain things not to be kept and certain trades and operations not to carried on without a licence 1,000100 Punjab Municipal Corporation Act, 1976, 179 S. 344, Sub-s. (3)Keeping,abandonment or tethering of animals,etc. 200... S. 345, Sub-s. (5)Use of premises in contravention of declaration 500... S. 346Hawking articles for sale without a licence etc.100... S. 347Keeping a lodging house,eating house,tea shop,etc.,without licence or contrary to licence 10015 S. 348Keeping open theatre,circus or other place of public amusement without licence or contrary to terms of licence 1,000100 S. 357, Sub-s. (5)Failure to produce licence or written permission 10020 S. 358Preventing the Commissioner or any person authorised in this behalf from exercising his powers of entry etc. 200... S. 359Preventing the Commissioner or any person authorised in this behalf from exercising his power of entry upon any adjoining land 200... S. 364Obstruction or molestation in execution of work 500... S. 371, Sub-s. (4)Failure to comply with requisition to state the name and address of owners of premises 100... S. 383, Sub-s. (3)Failure of occupier of land or building to afford owner facilities for complying with provisions of the Act,etc. after eight days from issue of order by District Judge 20050 S. 412Obstruction of Mayor or any municipal authority etc. 500... S. 413Removal of any mark set up for indicating level,etc. 100... S. 415Unlawful removal of earth,sand or other material or deposit of any matter or making of any encroachment from any land vested in the Corporation 500... • Added vide Punjab Act No. 7 of 1995. --------- 180 Punjab Municipal Corporation Act, 1976,