316Provision of municipal market.

(1) The Chairperson, when authorised by the Council in this behalf, may provide and maintain municipal markets and slaughter houses in such number 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 in, or frequenting such markets or slaughter house, and may provide and maintain in any such markets buildings and places, machines, weights, scales and measures for the weighment or measurement of goods sold therein.
(2) Municipal markets and slaughter houses shall be under the control of the Chairperson who may, at any time, by public notice, close any municipal market, slaughter house or any part thereof.