(1) The Municipality may grant and renew licences in accordance
with bye-laws to be framed by it in the manner laid down in or
under section 340, to persons applying for the same and on
payment of such fee as it may fix, for the sale at all or any of the
burning grounds, of fuel and other articles required or used for the
cremation of corpses.
(2) The Municipality may on good and sufficient cause
being shown, revoke or withdraw any licence granted or renewed
under sub-section (1).
(3) Where in respect of a burning ground any licence has
been granted or renewed under sub-section (1)-
(a) the Municipality shall, from time to time,
prescribe a scale of rates for the sale of fuel and
other articles required or used for the cremation
of corpses, and
(b) no person, not so authorized, shall sell or offer
for sale any such fuel or other article within three
hundred meters of such burning ground.
(4) Whoever-
(a) being the holder of a licence in respect of a
burning ground granted or renewed under subsection (1), charges for the sale of fuel or other
article sold there at a rate higher than the rate fixed
by the Municipality under sub-section (3), or
(b) notwithstanding the revocation or withdrawal of
his licence under sub-section (2), carries on such
sale, or
(c) being a person not so authorized sells fuel or
other article within three hundred meters of the
burning ground in respect of which licence
granted or renewed under sub-section (1) is in
operation,
shall be punishable with fine which shall not be less
than one thousand rupees but which may extend to two
thousand rupees and, in a case covered by clause (a),
shall be further liable to have the licence cancelled.
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