Section 422: 2Municipal Commissioner s powers in respect of 1Corporation markets and slaughterhouses, etc

Subject to the provisions of this Act and the rule and byelaws framed thereunder the 2Municipal Commissioner shall have the power :—\br @s 3(a) upon being authorized by the corporation in that behalf, to construct, purchase, take on lease or otherwise acquire any building or land for the purpose of establishing a corporation market or stockyard, within, and with the prior sanction of the State Government, without the limits of the corporation and of extending or improving any existing corporation market;\br @s 3(b) from time to time, to build and maintain such corporation markets and stockyards and such stalls, 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 markets or stockyards;\br @s (c) to provide for maintaining in any such 1Corporation markets such buildings, places, machines, weights, scales and measures for weighing and measuring, goods sold therein as he shall think fit ;\br @s (d) upon being authorized by the 1Corporation in that behalf, to close any 1Corporation market or slaughter-house or stock-yard or any portion thereof and to dispose of as the property of the 1Corporation the premises occupied for any market or slaughterhouse or stock-yard or any portion thereof so closed ;\br @s (e) with the previous sanction of the 1Corporation, to prohibit by public notice from time to time within a distance of fifty years of any 1Corporation market the sale or exposure for sale of the commodities of any of the commodities specified in the notice ordinarily sold in the said 1Corporation market and with like sanction to cancel or modify and such notice at any time;\br @s 1(f) to charge for the occupation or use of any stall, shop, standing, shed or pen or other building in a corporation market, stockyard, and for the right to expose goods for sale in a corporation market, and for weighing and measuring goods sold in any such market, 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 ; \br @s (g) with the approval of the Executive Committee, farm the stallages, rents and fees leviable as aforesaid or any portion thereof, for any period not exceeding one year at a time, or\br @s 2 (h) to put up to public auction, or with the approval of the Executive Committee, dispose of, by private sale, for privilege of occupying or using any stall, shop, standing, shed or pen or other building in a corporation market, stockyard for such terms and on such conditions as he shall think fit. \br @s