(1) No place within a Block shall be used for any trade or business declared by the State Government, by notification, to be offensive or dangerous, without a licence, which shall be renewable annually, granted by the Panchayat Samiti, subject to such terms and conditions as the Panchayat Samiti may think fit to impose.
320 The West Bengal Panchayat Act, 1973.
XLI of 1973.]
(Part III.—Panchayat Samiti.—Chapter IX.—Powers and duties of Panchayat Samiti.—Sections 117, 118.)
(2) The Panchayat Samiti may levy in respect of any licence granted by it under sub-section (1) a fee subject to the maximum rate prescribed by the State Government under sub-section (1) of section 133.
(3) Whoever uses without a licence any place for the purpose of any trade or business declared under sub-section (1) to be offensive or dangerous, or fails to comply with any condition in respect of such licence, shall be punished with a fine, which may extend to one hundred rupees, and to a further fine, which may extend to twenty-five rupees for each day after conviction during which he continues to do so.
(4) The Panchayat Samiti may, upon the conviction of any person for failure to comply with any condition of a licence granted under subsection (1), suspend or cancel the licence granted in favour of such person.
117. A Panchayat Samiti may require the owner or the lessee of a hat or market or an owner or a lessee of land intending to establish a hat or market thereon, to obtain a licence in this behalf from the Panchayat Samiti on such terms and conditions as may be prescribed and subject to the provisions of section 133, on payment of a fee for such licence.