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298. (1) A Municipality by special resolution may, and where required by the 1[State Government] shall make by-laws2 applicable, to the whole or nay part of the municipality, consistent with this Act and with any rule, for the purpose of promoting or maintaining the health, safety, and convenience of the inhabitants of the municipality and for the furtherance of municipal administration under this Act. (2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the power conferred by sub-section (1), the Municipality of a municipality, wherever situated, may, in the exercise of the said power, make any bye-law2, described in list I below and the Municipality of a municipality-wholly or in part situated in a hilly tract may further make, in the exercise of the said power, any by-law2 described in list II below. LIST - I BYELAWS FOR ANY MUNICIPALITY A Building (a) Extending, with reference to sub-section (2) of section 178, the necessity of giving notice to all buildings ; (b) declaring, with reference to clause (d) of sub-section (3) of section 178, an alteration of any specific description to be a "material alteration ;" (c) determining the information and plans to be furnished to the Municipality under section 179 ; (d) prescribing that, on payment of fees in accordance with such scale as is specified on this behalf, plans and specification shall be obtainable from the Municipality from an agency prescribed by the Municipality ; (e) fixing, with reference to section 181, the period for which a sanction shall remain in force ; (f) prescribing the type of description of buildings which may or may not, and the purposes for which a building may or may not, be erected in any prescribed area or areas ; (g) prescribing the circumstances in which a mosque, temple, church or other sacred building may or may not be erected, re-erected or altered ; (h) prescribing with reference to the erection, re-erection or alteration of buildings, or any class of buildings, all or any of the following matters ; (i) the materials and method of construction to be used or external and party-walls, roofs, and floor ; (ii) the position and the materials and method of construction of fire-places chimneys, drains, latrines, privies, urinals and cesspools ; (iii) the height and slope of the roof above the uppermost floor upon which human beings are to live or cooking operations are to be carried on ; (iv) the ventilation and space to be left about the building to secure free circulation of air and to facilitate scavenging and for prevention of fire ; (v) the level and width of foundation, level of lowest floor, and stability of structure ; (vi) the number and height of the stories of which the building may consist ; (vii) the means to be provided for egress from the building in case of fire ; (viii) any other matter affecting the ventilation for sanitation of the building ; and (ix) the conditions subject to which sanction for the construction or alteration of a well may be refused or granted, with a view to prevent pollution of the water or danger to any person using the well ; (i) Regulating, in any manner not specifically provided for in this Act, the erection of any enclosure, wall, fence, tent, awning or other structure, of whatsoever kind or nature, on any land within the limits of the municipality. B - Drains, privies, cesspools, etc. (a) Regulating in any manner not specifically provided for in this Act, the construction, alteration, maintenance, preservation, cleansing, and repair of drains, ventilation, shafts and pipes, waterclosets, privies, latrines, urinals, cesspools, and other drainage works ; (b) Regulating or prohibiting the discharge into drains or deposit therein, of sewage, sullage, polluted water and other offensive or obstructive matter ; (c) Prescribing the size and nature of the works which owners or occupiers may be required to construct under sections 192, 267 and 268 and the agency which shall be or may be employed for executing such works. C - Extinction of Fire (a) Prescribing the officer to whom and the place at which the outbreak of a fire shall be reported, and (b) Generally making provision for the procedure and precautions to be adopted by the public on the occasion of a fire and for any other thing relating to fires in respect of which provision is necessary. D - Scavenging (a) Prescribing the times and places at which receptacles of filth, rubbish or other offensive matter shall be in readiness for the removal of the contents by the municipal scavenging agency ; 3[ (aa) regulating the work of house scavenging by customary scavenging by customary sweepers and providing for grant of licences to them and the conditions of any such licence ; and ] (b) Making provision for any other matter relating to housescavenging. E - Streets (a) Determining the information and plans to be furnished to the Municipality under section 203 ; (b) Permitting, prohibiting or regulating the use or occupation of any or all public streets or places by itinerant vendors or by any person for the sale of articles, or for the exercise of any calling or for the setting up of any booth or stall, and providing for the levy of fees for such use or occupation ; (c) Regulating the conditions on which permission may be given under section 209 for projections over streets and drains and under section 265 for the temporary occupation of streets. F - Markets, slaughter-houses, sale of food, etc. (a) Prohibiting, subject to the provision of section 241, the use of any place as a slaughter-house, or as a market or shop for the sale of animals intended for human food or of meat or of fish, or as a market for the sale of fruit or vegetables, in default of a licence granted by the board or otherwise than in accordance with the conditions of a licence so granted ; (b) Prescribing the conditions subject to which and the circumstances in which, and the areas or localities in respect of which, licences for such use may be granted, refused, suspended or withdrawn ; and (c) providing for the inspection of, and regulation of the conduct of business, in a place used as aforesaid, so as to secure cleanliness therein or to minimize any injurious, offensive or dangerous effect arising or likely to arise therefrom ; (d) Providing for the establishment, and [except so far as provision may be made by by-laws under sub-head (c) ] for the regulation and inspection of markets and slaughter-houses, of livery stables, of encamping grounds of sarais, of flour-mills, of bakeries, of places for the manufacture, preparation or sale of specified articles of food or drink, or for keeping or exhibiting animals for sale or hire or animas of which the produce is sold, and of places of public entertainment or resort, and for the proper and cleanly conduct of business therein ; 4[(dd) Prescribing the conditions subject to which, and the circumstances in which, and the areas or locality in respect of which, licences for the purposes of sub-head (d) may be granted, refused, suspended, or withdrawn, and fixing the fees payable for such licences, and prohibiting the establishment of business places mentioned in sub-head (d) in default of licence granted by the Municipality or otherwise than in accordance with the conditions of a licence so granted. ] (e) In a municipality where a reasonable number of slaughterhouses has been provided or licensed by the Municipality, controlling and regulating the admission within municipal limits, for purposes of sale, the flesh (other than cured or preserved meat) of any cattle, sheep, goats or swine slaughtered, at a slaughter-house or place not maintained or licensed under this Act. G - Offensive trades (a) Except where and so far as is inconsistent with anything contained in the 5Indian Petroleum Act, 1899, or in rules made thereunder prohibiting the use of any place, in default of a licence granted by the Municipality or otherwise than in accordance with the conditions of a licence so granted, as a factory or other places of business - (i) for boiling or storing offal, blood, bones, guts or rags, (ii) for storing hides, horns or skins, (iii) for tanning, (iv) for the manufacture of leather or leather goods, (v) for dyeing, (vi) for melting tallow or sulphur, (vii) for burning or baking bricks, tiles, pottery or lime, (viii) for soap-making, (ix) for lid-boiling, (x) for storing hay, straw, thatching-grass, wood, coal or other dangerously inflammable material, (xi) for storing petroleum or any inflammable oil or spirit, (xii) for storing and pressing cotton and cotton refuse, (xiii) for any other purpose if such use is likely to cause a public nuisance or involve risk of fire ; (b) prescribing (but no so as to derogate from any power conferred on a Municipality by section 245) the circumstances in which and the areas or localities in respect of which licences may be granted, refused, suspended or withdrawn ; and (c) Providing for the inspection and regulation of the conduct of business in a place used as aforesaid, so as to secure cleanliness therein or to minimize any injurious, offensive or dangerous effect arising or likely to arise therefrom ; H - Public safety and convenience (a) Prescribing the standard weights and measures to be used within the Municipality, and providing for the inspection of the same ; (b) Providing for the regulation or prohibition of any description of traffic in the streets, where such regulation or prohibition appears to the board to be necessary ; (c) Imposing the obligation of taking out licences on the proprietors or drivers of vehicles 6[other than motor vehicles] boats or animals kept or plying for hire, or on persons hiring themselves out for the purpose of carrying loads within the limits of the Municipality, and fixing the fees payable for such licences and the conditions on which they are to be granted and may be revoked ; (d) Limiting the rates which may be demanded for the hire of a carriage, cart, boat or other conveyance, or of animals hired to carry loads, or for the services of persons hired to carry loads, and the loads to be carried by such conveyances, animals or persons when hired within the Municipality for a period not exceeding twenty-four hours or for a service which would ordinarily be performed within twenty-four hours ; (e) Prohibiting, in any specified street or area, the residing of public prostitutes and the keeping of a brothel, or the letting or other disposal of a house or building to public prostitutes or for a brothel ; (f) For the regulation of the posting of bills and advertisements ; (g) Fixing and regulating the use of places at which boats may be moored, loaded and unloaded, and prohibiting the mooring, loading, and unloading of boats except at such places as may be prescribed by the board ; (h) Providing for the seizure and confiscation of ownerless animals straying within the limits of the Municipality ; (i) Providing for the registration of 6[animals] ; (j) Providing for the imposition of an annual fee for such registration ; (k) Requiring that every registered 7[animal] shall wear a collar to which shall be attached a token to be issued by the Municipality ; (l) Providing that 7[an animal] unless registered and wearing such token, may, if found in any public place, be destroyed or otherwise disposed of ; (m) Prohibiting or regulating, with a view to promoting the public safety or convenience, any act which occasions or is likely to occasion a public nuisance and for the prohibition or regulation of which no provision is made under this heading ; 8[(n) Providing for the confinement, removal or destruction of animals ; ] 9[(o) regulating the keeping and tethering of cattle ; ] I - Sanitation and prevention of disease (a) Regulating or prohibiting for the purpose of preventing danger to the Public Health, the stalling or herding of horses, camels, cattles, swine, donkeys, sheep or goats. (b) Prescribing and regulating the construction, dimensions, ventilation, lighting, cleansing, drainage, and water-supply of dairies, and cattle-sheds in the occupation of persons following the trade of dairymen or milk-sellers and providing for the inspection of milk-cattle and securing the cleanliness of milk stores, milk shops, and vessels used by milk-sellers or butter men for milk or butter ; (c) Controlling and regulating the use and management of burial and burning grounds and fixing the fees to be charged where such grounds have been provided by the Municipality, and prescribing or prohibiting routes for the removal of corpses to burial or burninggrounds ; (d) Regulating sanitation and conservancy ; (e) Declaring that no place, unless specially exempted, shall be used as a lodging-house unless it has been duly licensed as such by the Municipality, and prescribing the conditions subject to which such licences may be granted, refused, suspended or withdrawn, and fixing the fees payable for such licences ; (f) Providing, in default of a by-law made under the preceding sub-head, for the registration and inspection of lodging-houses, the prevention of overcrowding, the promotion of cleanliness and ventilation, and prescribing the notices to be given and the precautions to be taken in the case of any infectious or contagious disease breaking out therein, and generally for the proper regulation of lodging-houses ; (g) Prohibiting the digging of excavations, cesspools, tanks or pits within specified areas except with the permission of the Municipality and specifying the conditions subject to which such permission may be given ; (h) Prohibiting or regulating, with a view to sanitation or the prevention of disease, any act which occasions, or which is likely to occasion, of public nuisance and for the prohibition or regulation of which no provision is made under this heading. J - Miscellaneous (a) Prohibiting or regulating any Act which occasions or is likely to occasion, a public nuisance for the prohibition or regulation of which no provision is made else-where by or under this Act ; (b) Providing for the registration of births, deaths, and marriages, and the taking of a census within the Municipality and for the compulsory supply of such information as may be necessary to make such registration or census effective ; (c) For the protection from injury or interference of anything within the Municipality being the property of 11[Government] or of the Municipality, or being under the control of the Municipality ; (d) Fixing any charges, or fees, or any scale of charges or fees to be paid for house-scavenging or the cleansing of latrines and privies under section 196 (c) or for any other municipal service or undertaking or to be paid under section 293 (1) or section 294 of the Act, and prescribing the times at which such charges or fees shall be payable, and designating the persons authorized to receive payment thereof ; (e) Providing for the holding of fairs and industrial exhibitions within the Municipality and under the control of the board, and fixing the fees to be levied thereat ; (f) requiring and regulating the appointment by owners of buildings and lands in the Municipality of persons residing within or near the Municipality to act as their agents for all or any of the purposes of this Act or of any rule or by-law ; (g) Specifying the records and documents belonging to, or in the possession of, the Municipality of which inspection may, be made or copies given and the charges to be levied for inspection or copies of such records and documents, and regulating inspection and the giving of copies ; (h) Providing for the granting of licences for the sale and for the dispensing of medicinal drugs ; [(i) Providing for the registration and control of midwives and dais publicly practicing their professions ; ]12 [* * * *]13 (j) [x x x] 14[(k) Providing for the establishment and maintenance of maternity centers and child-welfare clinics ; (l) Providing for establishment, maintenance and grants-in-aid to institutions of physical culture and supply of milk ; (m) providing for the installation and maintenance of radio receiving stations ; (n) Providing for the establishment and maintenance of baby folds and rescue homes for women ; (o) Providing for the removal of social disabilities of Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes ; (p) Taking measures for eh control of beggary ; (q) taking measures for the removal of prostitutes from a specified area to another specified area. ] 15[(r) providing the manner of allotment of land to the persons engaged traditionally in the vocation of making earthen pottery. Explanation :- A person shall be deemed to be engaged traditionally in such vocation if he belongs to such class of persons as may be notified by the State Government. ] LIST-II FURTHER BY-LAWS FOR A HILL MUNICIPALITY H - Public safety and convenience (n) Regulating or prohibiting the cutting or destroying of trees or shrubs, or the making of excavations or revival of soil or quarrying ; and providing for the alteration, repair and proper maintenance of buildings and compounds, for the closing of roads and bypaths and for the general protection of the surface land on any hillside where such by-laws appear to the Municipality to be necessary for the maintenance of a water-supply, the preservation of the soil, the prevention of landslips or of the formation of ravines or torrents, the protection of land against erosion, or the deposit thereon of sand, gravel or stones ; (o) Prohibiting the lighting of fires in the top story of a building which, by reason of its contiguity to other buildings, might be a source of danger to the latter in the event of a fire breaking out within it, and the walls of which story do not exceed seven feet in height, or the placing of stands for lamps and candles in any position which the Municipality may deem to be dangerous to the public safety ; (p) Regulating the rule of the road ; (q) Rendering licences necessary within the Municipality - (i) For persons working as job porters for the conveyance of goods ; (ii) For animals, vehicles, and other conveyances let out on hire for a day or part thereof ; and (iii) For persons impelling or carrying such vehicles and other conveyances ; (r) Prescribing the conditions subject to which such licences may be granted, refused, suspended or withdrawn ; (s) Regulating the charges to be made for the services of such job porters as aforesaid and for the hire of such animals, vehicles and other conveyances and for the remuneration of persons who impel or carry such vehicles or conveyances. I - Sanitation and prevention of disease (i) Rendering licences necessary for using premises within bazars as stables or cow-houses or as accommodation for sheep, goats and fowls ; (j) Preventing overcrowding in houses and inhabited sites ; and J - Miscellaneous (i) Providing for the registration, generally or within particular months, of persons entering or leaving the Municipality.
<span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><b>298.</b> (1) A Municipality by special resolution may, and where required by the <b><sup>1</sup></b>[State Government] shall make by-laws<b><sup>2</sup></b> applicable, to the whole or nay part of the municipality, consistent with this Act and with any rule, for the purpose of promoting or maintaining the health, safety, and convenience of the inhabitants of the municipality and for the furtherance of municipal administration under this Act.<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the power conferred by sub-section (1), the Municipality of a municipality, wherever situated, may, in the exercise of the said power, make any bye-law<b><sup>2</sup></b>, described in list I below and the Municipality of a municipality-wholly or in part situated in a hilly tract may further make, in the exercise of the said power, any by-law<b><sup>2</sup></b> described in list II below. <br> <center class="font1"><b>LIST - I</b></center><b> <center class="font1">BYELAWS FOR ANY MUNICIPALITY</center> </b><center class="font1"><b><i>A Building</i></b></center> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(a) Extending, with reference to sub-section (2) of section 178, the necessity of giving notice to all buildings ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(b) declaring, with reference to clause (d) of sub-section (3) of section 178, an alteration of any specific description to be a "material alteration ;"<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(c) determining the information and plans to be furnished to the Municipality under section 179 ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(d) prescribing that, on payment of fees in accordance with such scale as is specified on this behalf, plans and specification shall be obtainable from the Municipality from an agency prescribed by the Municipality ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(e) fixing, with reference to section 181, the period for which a sanction shall remain in force ; <br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(f) prescribing the type of description of buildings which may or may not, and the purposes for which a building may or may not, be erected in any prescribed area or areas ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(g) prescribing the circumstances in which a mosque, temple, church or other sacred building may or may not be erected, re-erected or altered ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(h) prescribing with reference to the erection, re-erection or alteration of buildings, or any class of buildings, all or any of the following matters ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(i) the materials and method of construction to be used or external and party-walls, roofs, and floor ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(ii) the position and the materials and method of construction of fire-places chimneys, drains, latrines, privies, urinals and cesspools ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(iii) the height and slope of the roof above the uppermost floor upon which human beings are to live or cooking operations are to be carried on ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(iv) the ventilation and space to be left about the building to secure free circulation of air and to facilitate scavenging and for prevention of fire ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(v) the level and width of foundation, level of lowest floor, and stability of structure ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(vi) the number and height of the stories of which the building may consist ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(vii) the means to be provided for egress from the building in case of fire ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(viii) any other matter affecting the ventilation for sanitation of the building ; and<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(ix) the conditions subject to which sanction for the construction or alteration of a well may be refused or granted, with a view to prevent pollution of the water or danger to any person using the well ; <br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(i) Regulating, in any manner not specifically provided for in this Act, the erection of any enclosure, wall, fence, tent, awning or other structure, of whatsoever kind or nature, on any land within the limits of the municipality. <br> <center class="font1"><b><i>B - Drains, privies, cesspools, etc.</i></b></center> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(a) Regulating in any manner not specifically provided for in this Act, the construction, alteration, maintenance, preservation, cleansing, and repair of drains, ventilation, shafts and pipes, waterclosets, privies, latrines, urinals, cesspools, and other drainage works ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(b) Regulating or prohibiting the discharge into drains or deposit therein, of sewage, sullage, polluted water and other offensive or obstructive matter ; <br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(c) Prescribing the size and nature of the works which owners or occupiers may be required to construct under sections 192, 267 and 268 and the agency which shall be or may be employed for executing such works. <br> <center class="font1"><b><i>C - Extinction of Fire</i></b></center> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(a) Prescribing the officer to whom and the place at which the outbreak of a fire shall be reported, and<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(b) Generally making provision for the procedure and precautions to be adopted by the public on the occasion of a fire and for any other thing relating to fires in respect of which provision is necessary.<br> <center class="font1"><b><i>D - Scavenging</i></b></center> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(a) Prescribing the times and places at which receptacles of filth, rubbish or other offensive matter shall be in readiness for the removal of the contents by the municipal scavenging agency ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><b><sup>3</sup></b>[ (aa) regulating the work of house scavenging by customary scavenging by customary sweepers and providing for grant of licences to them and the conditions of any such licence ; and ]<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(b) Making provision for any other matter relating to housescavenging.<br> <center class="font1"><b><i>E - Streets</i></b></center> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(a) Determining the information and plans to be furnished to the Municipality under section 203 ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(b) Permitting, prohibiting or regulating the use or occupation of any or all public streets or places by itinerant vendors or by any person for the sale of articles, or for the exercise of any calling or for the setting up of any booth or stall, and providing for the levy of fees for such use or occupation ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(c) Regulating the conditions on which permission may be given under section 209 for projections over streets and drains and under section 265 for the temporary occupation of streets. <br> <center class="font1"><b><i>F - Markets, slaughter-houses, sale of food, etc.</i></b></center> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(a) Prohibiting, subject to the provision of section 241, the use of any place as a slaughter-house, or as a market or shop for the sale of animals intended for human food or of meat or of fish, or as a market for the sale of fruit or vegetables, in default of a licence granted by the board or otherwise than in accordance with the conditions of a licence so granted ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(b) Prescribing the conditions subject to which and the circumstances in which, and the areas or localities in respect of which, licences for such use may be granted, refused, suspended or withdrawn ; and<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(c) providing for the inspection of, and regulation of the conduct of business, in a place used as aforesaid, so as to secure cleanliness therein or to minimize any injurious, offensive or dangerous effect arising or likely to arise therefrom ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(d) Providing for the establishment, and [except so far as provision may be made by by-laws under sub-head (c) ] for the regulation and inspection of markets and slaughter-houses, of livery stables, of encamping grounds of sarais, of flour-mills, of bakeries, of places for the manufacture, preparation or sale of specified articles of food or drink, or for keeping or exhibiting animals for sale or hire or animas of which the produce is sold, and of places of public entertainment or resort, and for the proper and cleanly conduct of business therein ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><b><sup>4</sup></b>[(dd) Prescribing the conditions subject to which, and the circumstances in which, and the areas or locality in respect of which, licences for the purposes of sub-head (d) may be granted, refused, suspended, or withdrawn, and fixing the fees payable for such licences, and prohibiting the establishment of business places mentioned in sub-head (d) in default of licence granted by the Municipality or otherwise than in accordance with the conditions of a licence so granted. ]<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(e) In a municipality where a reasonable number of slaughterhouses has been provided or licensed by the Municipality, controlling and regulating the admission within municipal limits, for purposes of sale, the flesh (other than cured or preserved meat) of any cattle, sheep, goats or swine slaughtered, at a slaughter-house or place not maintained or licensed under this Act. <br> <center class="font1"><b><i>G - Offensive trades</i></b></center> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(a) Except where and so far as is inconsistent with anything contained in the <b><sup>5</sup></b>Indian Petroleum Act, 1899, or in rules made thereunder prohibiting the use of any place, in default of a licence granted by the Municipality or otherwise than in accordance with the conditions of a licence so granted, as a factory or other places of business -<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(i) for boiling or storing offal, blood, bones, guts or rags,<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(ii) for storing hides, horns or skins,<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(iii) for tanning,<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(iv) for the manufacture of leather or leather goods, <br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(v) for dyeing,<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(vi) for melting tallow or sulphur,<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(vii) for burning or baking bricks, tiles, pottery or lime,<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(viii) for soap-making,<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(ix) for lid-boiling,<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(x) for storing hay, straw, thatching-grass, wood, coal or other dangerously inflammable material,<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(xi) for storing petroleum or any inflammable oil or spirit,<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(xii) for storing and pressing cotton and cotton refuse,<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(xiii) for any other purpose if such use is likely to cause a public nuisance or involve risk of fire ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(b) prescribing (but no so as to derogate from any power conferred on a Municipality by section 245) the circumstances in which and the areas or localities in respect of which licences may be granted, refused, suspended or withdrawn ; and<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(c) Providing for the inspection and regulation of the conduct of business in a place used as aforesaid, so as to secure cleanliness therein or to minimize any injurious, offensive or dangerous effect arising or likely to arise therefrom ; <br> <center class="font1"><b><i>H - Public safety and convenience</i></b></center> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(a) Prescribing the standard weights and measures to be used within the Municipality, and providing for the inspection of the same ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(b) Providing for the regulation or prohibition of any description of traffic in the streets, where such regulation or prohibition appears to the board to be necessary ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(c) Imposing the obligation of taking out licences on the proprietors or drivers of vehicles <b><sup>6</sup></b>[other than motor vehicles] boats or animals kept or plying for hire, or on persons hiring themselves out for the purpose of carrying loads within the limits of the Municipality, and fixing the fees payable for such licences and the conditions on which they are to be granted and may be revoked ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(d) Limiting the rates which may be demanded for the hire of a carriage, cart, boat or other conveyance, or of animals hired to carry loads, or for the services of persons hired to carry loads, and the loads to be carried by such conveyances, animals or persons when hired within the Municipality for a period not exceeding twenty-four hours or for a service which would ordinarily be performed within twenty-four hours ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(e) Prohibiting, in any specified street or area, the residing of public prostitutes and the keeping of a brothel, or the letting or other disposal of a house or building to public prostitutes or for a brothel ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(f) For the regulation of the posting of bills and advertisements ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(g) Fixing and regulating the use of places at which boats may be moored, loaded and unloaded, and prohibiting the mooring, loading, and unloading of boats except at such places as may be prescribed by the board ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(h) Providing for the seizure and confiscation of ownerless animals straying within the limits of the Municipality ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(i) Providing for the registration of <b><sup>6</sup></b>[animals] ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(j) Providing for the imposition of an annual fee for such registration ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(k) Requiring that every registered <b><sup>7</sup></b>[animal] shall wear a collar to which shall be attached a token to be issued by the Municipality ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(l) Providing that <b><sup>7</sup></b>[an animal] unless registered and wearing such token, may, if found in any public place, be destroyed or otherwise disposed of ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(m) Prohibiting or regulating, with a view to promoting the public safety or convenience, any act which occasions or is likely to occasion a public nuisance and for the prohibition or regulation of which no provision is made under this heading ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><b><sup>8</sup></b>[(n) Providing for the confinement, removal or destruction of animals ; ]<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><b><sup>9</sup></b>[(o) regulating the keeping and tethering of cattle ; ]<br> <center class="font1"><b><i>I - Sanitation and prevention of disease</i></b></center> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(a) Regulating or prohibiting for the purpose of preventing danger to the Public Health, the stalling or herding of horses, camels, cattles, swine, donkeys, sheep or goats.<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(b) Prescribing and regulating the construction, dimensions, ventilation, lighting, cleansing, drainage, and water-supply of dairies, and cattle-sheds in the occupation of persons following the trade of dairymen or milk-sellers and providing for the inspection of milk-cattle and securing the cleanliness of milk stores, milk shops, and vessels used by milk-sellers or butter men for milk or butter ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(c) Controlling and regulating the use and management of burial and burning grounds and fixing the fees to be charged where such grounds have been provided by the Municipality, and prescribing or prohibiting routes for the removal of corpses to burial or burninggrounds ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(d) Regulating sanitation and conservancy ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(e) Declaring that no place, unless specially exempted, shall be used as a lodging-house unless it has been duly licensed as such by the Municipality, and prescribing the conditions subject to which such licences may be granted, refused, suspended or withdrawn, and fixing the fees payable for such licences ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(f) Providing, in default of a by-law made under the preceding sub-head, for the registration and inspection of lodging-houses, the prevention of overcrowding, the promotion of cleanliness and ventilation, and prescribing the notices to be given and the precautions to be taken in the case of any infectious or contagious disease breaking out therein, and generally for the proper regulation of lodging-houses ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(g) Prohibiting the digging of excavations, cesspools, tanks or pits within specified areas except with the permission of the Municipality and specifying the conditions subject to which such permission may be given ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(h) Prohibiting or regulating, with a view to sanitation or the prevention of disease, any act which occasions, or which is likely to occasion, of public nuisance and for the prohibition or regulation of which no provision is made under this heading. <br> <center class="font1"><b><i>J - Miscellaneous</i></b></center> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(a) Prohibiting or regulating any Act which occasions or is likely to occasion, a public nuisance for the prohibition or regulation of which no provision is made else-where by or under this Act ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(b) Providing for the registration of births, deaths, and marriages, and the taking of a census within the Municipality and for the compulsory supply of such information as may be necessary to make such registration or census effective ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(c) For the protection from injury or interference of anything within the Municipality being the property of <b><sup>11</sup></b>[Government] or of the Municipality, or being under the control of the Municipality ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(d) Fixing any charges, or fees, or any scale of charges or fees to be paid for house-scavenging or the cleansing of latrines and privies under section 196 (c) or for any other municipal service or undertaking or to be paid under section 293 (1) or section 294 of the Act, and prescribing the times at which such charges or fees shall be payable, and designating the persons authorized to receive payment thereof ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(e) Providing for the holding of fairs and industrial exhibitions within the Municipality and under the control of the board, and fixing the fees to be levied thereat ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(f) requiring and regulating the appointment by owners of buildings and lands in the Municipality of persons residing within or near the Municipality to act as their agents for all or any of the purposes of this Act or of any rule or by-law ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(g) Specifying the records and documents belonging to, or in the possession of, the Municipality of which inspection may, be made or copies given and the charges to be levied for inspection or copies of such records and documents, and regulating inspection and the giving of copies ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(h) Providing for the granting of licences for the sale and for the dispensing of medicinal drugs ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>[(i) Providing for the registration and control of midwives and dais publicly practicing their professions ; ]<b><sup>12</sup></b> [* * * *]<b><sup>13</sup></b><br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(j) [x x x]<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><b><sup>14</sup></b>[(k) Providing for the establishment and maintenance of maternity centers and child-welfare clinics ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(l) Providing for establishment, maintenance and grants-in-aid to institutions of physical culture and supply of milk ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(m) providing for the installation and maintenance of radio receiving stations ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(n) Providing for the establishment and maintenance of baby folds and rescue homes for women ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(o) Providing for the removal of social disabilities of Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(p) Taking measures for eh control of beggary ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(q) taking measures for the removal of prostitutes from a specified area to another specified area. ]<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><b><sup>15</sup></b>[(r) providing the manner of allotment of land to the persons engaged traditionally in the vocation of making earthen pottery.<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><b><i>Explanation :-</i></b> A person shall be deemed to be engaged traditionally in such vocation if he belongs to such class of persons as may be notified by the State Government. ]<br> <center class="font1"><b>LIST-II</b></center><b> <center class="font1">FURTHER BY-LAWS FOR A HILL MUNICIPALITY</center> </b><center class="font1"><b><i>H - Public safety and convenience</i></b></center> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(n) Regulating or prohibiting the cutting or destroying of trees or shrubs, or the making of excavations or revival of soil or quarrying ; and providing for the alteration, repair and proper maintenance of buildings and compounds, for the closing of roads and bypaths and for the general protection of the surface land on any hillside where such by-laws appear to the Municipality to be necessary for the maintenance of a water-supply, the preservation of the soil, the prevention of landslips or of the formation of ravines or torrents, the protection of land against erosion, or the deposit thereon of sand, gravel or stones ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(o) Prohibiting the lighting of fires in the top story of a building which, by reason of its contiguity to other buildings, might be a source of danger to the latter in the event of a fire breaking out within it, and the walls of which story do not exceed seven feet in height, or the placing of stands for lamps and candles in any position which the Municipality may deem to be dangerous to the public safety ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(p) Regulating the rule of the road ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(q) Rendering licences necessary within the Municipality -<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(i) For persons working as job porters for the conveyance of goods ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(ii) For animals, vehicles, and other conveyances let out on hire for a day or part thereof ; and<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(iii) For persons impelling or carrying such vehicles and other conveyances ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(r) Prescribing the conditions subject to which such licences may be granted, refused, suspended or withdrawn ; <br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(s) Regulating the charges to be made for the services of such job porters as aforesaid and for the hire of such animals, vehicles and other conveyances and for the remuneration of persons who impel or carry such vehicles or conveyances.<br> <center class="font1"><b><i>I - Sanitation and prevention of disease</i></b></center> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(i) Rendering licences necessary for using premises within bazars as stables or cow-houses or as accommodation for sheep, goats and fowls ;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(j) Preventing overcrowding in houses and inhabited sites ; and<br> <center class="font1"><b><i>J - Miscellaneous</i></b></center> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(i) Providing for the registration, generally or within particular months, of persons entering or leaving the Municipality. <br>