Public Market

Public Market. –

1. (1) The Village Panchayat may provide places for use as public markets.
2. (2) The Village Panchayat may levy all or any of the following fees in any public market at such rates not exceeding the maximum rates, if any, prescribed in this behalf, as the Village Panchayat may think fit: –
   • (a) fees for the use of, or for the right to expose goods for sale in, such market;
   • (b) fees for the use of shops, stalls, pens, stands and buildings in such market;
   • (c) fees on vehicles, pack-animals or carts bringing any goods for sale in such market;
   • (d) fees on animals brought for sale into such market;
   • (e) licence fees on brokers, commission agents, weighmen and measurers practising their calling in such market.
3. (3) The Village Panchayat may lease out the right to levy fees in any public market on such terms and conditions as it may think fit.
4. (4) The Village Panchayat may close any public market or part thereof.