Chapter XII LICENCES AND FEES

Government and market committees not to obtain licences and permissions

Prohibition in respect of eating houses

Prohibition in respect of keeping animals and birds and feeding animals

Destruction of stray pig, dog and monkey

Licences for places in which animals are kept.

General powers of control over stables, cattle-sheds and cow-houses.

Power to direct discontinuance of use of building as a stable.

Provision of landing places, cart-stands, etc.

prohibiticn of use of public pleces or sides of public street as cart-stand, etc.

Recovery of cart-stand fees, ctc.

Licence for private cart-stand

Removal of carcasses of animals.

Purposes for which places within the limits of the City may not be used without a licence.

Application to be made for construction, establishment or installation of factory, workshop or work-place in which steam or other power is to be employed.

Commissioner may issue directions for abatement of nuisance caused by gas, steam or other power.

Power of commissioner to require owner or occupier of factory, workshop, etc., to put and maintain the factory, workshop, etc., in a cleanly state.

Power of commissioner to require owner or occupier of factory, etc., to discontinue the use of such factory, etc.

Commissioner may enter any factory, workshop or work-place.

Standing committee to inspect sites and works.

Power of Government to pass orders or give directions to

Provision of places for bathing and for washing animals.

Provision of public bathing-houses, wash-houses, etc.

Prohibit ion against washing by washermen at unauthorisec' places.

Provision of corporation slaughter houses.

Licence for daughter houses.

Slaughter of animals during festivals and ceremonies.

Slaughter of animals for sale or food.

Slaughter of animals for religious ceremonies.

Power to grant licenoes be subject to the Tamil Nadu Act XXXII of 1950.

Regulation of milk trade.

Public markets.

Powers of municipal authorities in respect of public markets,

Licence fee for private markets Licence fee for private markets.

Sale in unlicensed private market.—It shall not be lawful for any person to sell or expose for sale any animal or article in any unlicensed private market or on the streets or road margins.

Powers of commissioner in respect of private markets Powers bf commissioner in respect of private markets.

Suspension or refusal of licence in default. 387.

1. (1) If any person, after notice given to him in that behalf by the commissioner, fails within the period and in the manner laid down in the said notice to carry out any of the works specified in section 386, the commissioner may suspend the licence of the said person, or may refuse to grant him a licence until such works have been completed.
2. (2) It shall not be lawful for any person to open or keep open any such market after such suspension or refusal.

Power of commissioner to make regulations for bazaars, slaughter houses and places set apart for sacrifice of animals.

Acquisition of rights of private persons to hold private markets.

1. (1) The council may acquire the rights of any person to hold private market in any place and to levy fees therein. The acquisition shall be made under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (Central Act I of 1894) and such rights shall be deemed to be land for the purpose of that Act.
2. (2) On payment by the council of the compensation awarded under the said Act in respect of such property and any other charges incurred in acquiring it, the rights of such person to hold such market and to levy fees therein shall vest in the council.

Duty of expelling lepars, etc., from markets, and power to expel disturbers.

Butcher's, fishmonger's and poulterer's licence [Section text not available in the official gazette publication.]

The commissioner may, with the sanction of the standing committee, prohibit by public notice or licence or regulate the sale or exposure for sale, of any animal, bird or article in or on any public street or part thereof.

If any question arises as to whether any place where persons assemble for the sale or purchase of articles of food, or clothing, or live-stock or poultry, or cotton, groundnut or other industrial crops or any other raw or semi-manufactured or manufactured products, is a market, or not, the commissioner shall make a reference to the Government and the decision of the Government on the question shall be final,

It shall be the duty of the commissioner to make provision for the constant and vigilant inspection of animals, carcasses, meat, poultry, game, flesh, fish, fruit, vegetables or any other articles exposed or hawked about for sale or deposited in or brought to any place for the purpose of sale or of preparation for sale.

1. (1) The commissioner or any person authorised by him in writing for the purpose may, without notice, enter any slaughter-house or any place where animals, poultry or fish intended for food are exposed for sale or where any articles of food are being manufactured or exposed for sale, at any time by day or night, when the slaughter, exposure for sale or manufacture is being carried on and inspect the same and any utensil or vessel used for manufacturing, preparing or containing any article.
2. (2) If the commissioner or any person so authorised by him has reason to believe that in any place any animal intended for human food is being slaughtered or any carcass is being skinned or cut up or that any food is being manufactured, stored, prepared, packed, cleansed, kept or exposed for sale, or sold without, or otherwise than in conformity with a licence, he may enter any such place without notice, at any time by day or night for the purpose of satisfying himself whether any provision of law, by-laws, or regulations or any condition of a licence is being contravened.
3. (3) No claim shall lie against the commissioner or any person acting under his authority or the corporation for any damage or inconvenience caused by the exercise of powers under this section or by the use of any force necessary for effecting any entry into any place under this section.
4. (4) In any legal proceeding, in respect of powers exercised under this section in which it is alleged that any animal, poultry, fish or articles of food were not kept, exposed, hawked about, manufactured, prepared, stored, packed, or cleansed for sale, or were not intended for human food, the burden of proof shall lie on the party so alleging.

Preventing inspection by commissioner.

mrnissioner to seize diseased animal, noxious food,

Removing or interfering with articles seized.

Powei to destroy article seized

1. (1) Articles of food, animal, poultry, fish, utensils or vessels, seized under section 395 or 397 and not destroyed under section 399 shall be produced before a magistrate.
2. (2) Whether or not complaint is laid before the magistrate of any offence under the Indian Penal Code (Central Act XLV of 1860) or under this Act, if it appears to the magistrate on taking such evidence as he may think necessary that any such animal, poultry or fish is diseased, or any such article is noxious or any such utensil or vessel is of such kind or in such state as is described in section 397 he may order the same-
   • (a) to be forfeited to the corporation,
   • (b) to be destroyed at the charge of the owner or person in whose possession it was at the time of seizure, in such manner as to prevent the same being again exposed or hawked about for sale or used for human food or for the manufacture or preparation of, or for containing, any such article as aforesaid.