State Act

THE UTTAR PRADESH MUNICIPAL CORPORATION ACT, 1959

422- Subject to the provisions of this Act and the rules and bye-laws framed thereunder the Mukhya Nagar Adhikari shall have the power- (a) upon being authorized by the [Corporation]1 in that behalf, to construct, purchase, take on lease or otherwise acquire any building or land for the purpose of establishing a [Corporation]1 market or a [Corporation]1 slaughter-house or stock-yard within, and with the prior sanction of the State Government, without the limits of the [Corporation]1 and of extending or improving any existing [Corporation]1 market or Slaughter-house; (b) from time to time, to build and maintain such [Corporation]1 markets, slaughter-houses and stock-yards and such stall, shops, sheds, pens and other buildings or conveniences as may be deemed necessary for the use of the persons carrying on trade or business in, or frequenting, such [Corporation]1 markets, slaughter- houses or stock-yards; (c) to provide for maintaining in any such [Corporation]1 markets, such buildings, places, machines, weights, scales and measures for weighing and measuring, goods sold therein as he shall think fit ; (d) upon being authorized by the Mabapalika in that behalf, to close any [Corporation]1 market or slaughter-house or stock-yard or any portion thereof and to dispose of as the property of the [Corporation]1 the premises occupied for any market or slaughter-house or stock-yard or any portion thereof so closed; (e) with the previous sanction of the [Corporation]1,to prohibit by public notice from time to time within a distance of fifty yards of any [Corporation]1 market the sale or exposure for sale of the commodities or of any of the commodities specified in the notice ordinarily sold in the said [Corporation]1 market and with like sanction to cancel or modify any such notice at any time; (f) to charge for the occupation or use of any stall, shop, standing, shed or pen or other building in a [Corporation]1 market, slaughter-house or stock-yard, and for the right to expose goods for sale in a [Corporation]1 market, and for weighing and measuring goods sold in any such market and for the right to slaughter animals in any [Corporation]1 slaughter-houses, such stallages, rents and fees as shall, from time to time be fixed by him, with the approval of the Executive Committee, in that behalf; (g) with the approval of the Executive Committee, farm the stallages, rents and fee leviable as aforesaid or any portion thereof, for any period not exceeding one year at a time, or (h) to put up to public auction or with the approval of the Executive Committee, dispose of, by private sale, the privilege of occupying or using any stall, shop, standing, shed or pen or other building in a [Corporation]1 market, slaughter-house or stock-yard for such term and on such conditions as he shall think fit.