Municipal markets and slaughterhouses.

(1) The Chief Municipal Officer may, either on his own or through any agency, provide and maintain in the municipal area such number of municipal markets, slaughterhouses, or stockyards, as he thinks fit, together with stalls, shops, sheds, pens, and other buildings and conveniences for the use of persons carrying on trade or business and may provide and maintain in any such markets, buildings, or other places, machines, weights, scales, and measures for the weighment or measurement of goods sold therein.