Haryana Municipal (Sale of Fruits Vegetable, Potatoes and Sugarcane) Bye-laws, 1976

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    "id": 17066,
    "slug": "haryana-municipal-sale-of-fruits-vegetable-potatoes-and-sugarcane-bye-laws-1976",
    "title": "Haryana Municipal (Sale of Fruits Vegetable, Potatoes and Sugarcane) Bye-laws, 1976",
    "short_title": "Haryana Municipal (Sale of Fruits Vegetable, Potatoes and Sugarcane) Bye-laws, 1976",
    "act_number": "Published vide Haryana Government Notification No.",
    "act_year": 1976,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Haryana",
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    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "Haryana Municipal (Sale of Fruits Vegetable, Potatoes and Sugarcane) Bye-laws, 1976",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "Haryana Municipal (Sale of Fruits Vegetable, Potatoes and Sugarcane) Bye-laws, 1976",
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            "content": "Haryana Municipal (Sale of Fruits Vegetable, Potatoes and Sugarcane) Bye-laws, 1976\nPublished vide Haryana Government Notification No. GSR 186/..../76, dated 6.8.1976\nhl421\n1.\n(1) These bye-laws may be called the Haryana Municipal (Sale of Fruits, Vegetables, Potatoes and Sugarcane) Bye-laws, 1976.\n(2) They shall apply to all the municipalities.\n2.\nIn these bye-laws, unless the context otherwise requires :-\n(a) \"Act\" means the Haryana Municipal Act, 1973;\n(b) \"Executive Officer\" means the Executive Officer of a committee;\n(c) \"Secretary\" means the Secretary of a committee;\n(d) \"Medical Officer of Health\" means the Medical Officer of Health of a committee;\n(e) \"retail sale\" means sale by number or by weight not exceeding forty kilograms in any one transaction;\n(f) \"wholesale\" means the sale other than retail sale;\n(g) words and expressions used herein but not defined in these bye-laws shall have the meaning assigned to them in the Act.\n3.\nNo fruits, vegetables, potatoes or sugercane shall be sold by wholesale or by retail sale or by auction within a municipality in any premises not licensed for the purpose by the committee.\n4.\nAny person desiring to obtain a licence under these bye-laws may apply to the committee and if the application is sanctioned, a licence shall be issued on payment of a fee at the rate of one hundred rupees per annum or ten rupees per mensem for wholesale or sale by auction\n[and at the rate of twenty rupees per annum or two rupees fifty paisa per mensum for retail sale.]\n5.\nThe licence issued for an year under these bye-laws shall expire on the 31st March next following the date on which the licence is issued.\n6.\nEvery licence issued under these bye-laws shall be subject to the following conditions, namely:-\n(a) that the licensee shall not allow any cart which brings vegetables, potatoes, fruits or sugarcane to the place of the sale to impede or obstruct traffic or to remain stationary at such place except for the purpose of loading or unloading articles and that only for such time as is necessary for such purpose;\n(b) that the licensee shall keep the licensed premises clean and shall not allow or refuse to be placed anywhere except at a place fixed for the purpose;\n(c) that the licensee shall not keep on the licensed premises any vegetables, potatoes, fruits and sugarcane that are rotten, decayed or overripe or are declared to be so by the Medical Officer of Health or Executive Officer or Secretary;\n(d) that the licensee shall not use the licensed premise for living purposes and shall not sublet any portion thereof without permission in writing of the committee or an officer authorised by it;\n(e) that the Executive Officer or Secretary or an officer authorised by the committee may after giving the licensee an opportunity of being heard by an order in writing, suspend or cancel any licence for a breach of any of the conditions thereof.\n7.\nAny person who commits a breach, or abets the commission of a breach of these bye-laws shall, on conviction by a Magistrate, be punishable with a fine which shall not be less than twenty-five rupee, and more than two hundred rupees, and if the breach is continuing one, with a further fine of ten rupees for every day after the first during which the breach continues.\n8.\nNothing contained in these bye-laws shall apply to the premises (agricultural land) where fruits, vegetables, potatoes and sugarcane or grown;\n9.\nAll bye-laws relating to the sale of fruits, vegetables, potatoes or sugarcane in force in the municipalities immediately before the commencement of these bye-laws shall stand repealed:\nProvided that any order made or action taken under the bye-laws so repealed shall be deemed to have been made or taken under the corresponding provisions of these bye-laws.",
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "hl421",
        "Act Number": "Published vide Haryana Government Notification No. GSR 186/..../76, dated 6.8.1976",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1976",
        "Short Title": "Haryana Municipal (Sale of Fruits Vegetable, Potatoes and Sugarcane) Bye-laws, 1976",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Haryana"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}