The Chief Officer of a Municipality, or any officer or employee of the Municipality authorized by him in this behalf may, at any time by day or night without notice inspect and examine any food or drug or any utensil or vessel used for preparing manufacturing or storing such food or drug.
2. If upon such inspection or examination any such food or drug is in the opinion of the Chief Officer or the Officer or employee authorized by him in this behalf, unwholesome or unit for human consumption, or is not what it represented to be or if any such utensil or vessel is of such kind or in such state, as to render any food or drug prepared, manufactured or stored therein, unwholesome or unfit for human consumption, he may seize, seal or carry away such food or drug or utensil or vessel.
3. If any food or drug seized under sub-section (2) is in the opinion of the Chef Officer, unfit for unfit for human consumption, he shall cause the If any same to be forthwith destroyed in such manner as to prevent its being again exposed for sale or used for human consumption and the expenses thereof, shall be paid by the person in whose possession such food or drug was at the time of its seizure.
CHAPTER - VI District Planning Committee
407.A. Constitution of District Planning Committee:-
1. There shall be constituted at the District level a District Planning Committee to consolidate the plans prepared by the village councils and the municipalities in the district and to prepare a draft plan for the district as awhole.
2. The District Planning Committee shall compose the members of the existing institution of the District Planning and Development Board of the District.
Provided that wherever the municipalities are established under the provisions of the this Act, the words 'chairman of Town Committee' appearing in the constitution of the said District Planning and Development Board shall be read as to include the Chairperson of a Municipal Council or Town Council as the case may be.
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3. Notwithstanding the provision of the said sub-section (2), the State Government may further prescribe, by notification, the composition of the District Planning Committee in this behalf
4. The Deputy Commissioner, in his absence the Additional Deputy Commissioner, shall discharge the functions of the Chairman of the District Planning Committee.
407.B Function and duties:
1. The functions of the District Planning Committee shall include such matters in relation to District Planning as may be further assigned by the State Government.
2. Every District Planning Committee shall in preparing the draft development plan:- a. have regard to: - i. matters of common interest between the Village Councils and the Municipalities including spatial planning, sharing of water and other physical and natural resources, the integrated development of infrastructure and environmental conservation.
ii. the extent and type of available resources whether financial or otherwise, b. consult such institutions and organisations as the Governor may, by order, specify.
3. The Chairman of every District Planning Committee shall forward the development plan, as recommended by such Committee, to the Government of the State.
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408. Power to call for information regarding burning and burial ground,- The Chief Officer of a Municipality may by notice in writing, require the owner or the person in charge of any burning or burial ground to supply such information as may be specified in the notice relating to the condition management or position of such burning or burial ground.
409. Provisions for new places for disposal of the dead,-
1. If any existing place for the disposal of the dead within the municipal are at any time appears to be insufficient, the Municipality shall, subject to the provisions of the Nagaland Town and Council Planning Act, 1966, provide other proper and convenient place for the said purpose either within or outside the municipal area of the Municipality.
2. All the provisions of this Act or the rules or the regulations made there under, shall apply to any place provided under sub-section (1) outside the municipal area and vesting in the Municipality as if such place were situated within the municipal area of the Municipality.
410. Permission for opening new place for disposal of the dead or reopening of place,-
1. No place which has not previously been lawfully used as a place for the disposal of the dead shall be opened by any person for the said purpose expect in conformity with the provision of the Nagaland Town and Council Planning Act, 1966, and without the written permission of the Chief Officer of the Municipality who, with the approval of the Municipality, may grant or withhold such pet mission.
2. Such permission may be subject to such conditions as the Municipality may think fit to impose for the purpose of preventing any annoyance to, or danger to the health of, any person residing in the neighborhood.
3. No place for the disposal of the dead, which has fallen in disuse, shall be used again as such.
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