Urban Street Vendors and Hawkers (Registration and Regulation) Bye-laws, 2010

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    "title": "Urban Street Vendors and Hawkers (Registration and Regulation) Bye-laws, 2010",
    "short_title": "Urban Street Vendors and Hawkers (Registration and Regulation) Bye-laws, 2010",
    "act_number": "Published vide Notification No. 4637/6583/18/2009,",
    "act_year": 2010,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Chhattisgarh",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "Urban Street Vendors and Hawkers (Registration and Regulation) Bye-laws, 2010",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(1) \"Act\" means the Chhattisgarh Municipal Corporation Act, 1956 (No. 23 of 1956);\n(2) \"Commissioner\" means the officer appointed as such in the Municipal Corporation;\n(3) \"Corporation area\" means the area within the administrative jurisdiction of the Municipal Corporation;\n(4) \"Encouragement of Illegal Vending\" means explicit or tacit promotion of vending in streets or elsewhere in contravention of the provisions of these Bye-laws or, interfering in or obstructing the discharge of duties or exercise of powers by the Commissioner and/or the Superintendent in accordance with the provisions of these Bye-laws;\n(5) \"Earning Potential\" refers to a notional potential for earning through vending in any given vending space, estimated by the Town Vending Committee or any agency commissioned by it for this purpose, on the basis of the prime nature of the locality, the general economic status of clientele residing there, and any other local factor that makes vending there a profitable proposition;\n(6) \"Hawker\" means a person who sells goods or services through hawking ;\n(7) \"Hawking\" means the act of sale of goods or services by a person whether bearing the goods as head-load or in a vehicle or pushcart, such person being on the move and not stationed at any customary spot in or outside any market place;\n(8) \"Illegal Vending\" means vending in streets or elsewhere in contravention of the provisions of these Bye-laws;\n(9) \"Natural Markets\" means a market, including the haat bazaar, where sellers and buyers have traditional congregated for more than a specified period for the sale and purchase of a given set of products or services as assessed by the Town Vending Committee;\n(10) \"Street Vendor\" means a person registered as such under these Bye-laws, and entitled to vend in a specified manner in a specified zone, in the Corporation area. \"Illegal Vendor\" means any person or agency who indulges in vending in contravention of the provisions contained in these Bye-laws;\n(11) \"Superintendent\" means the officer appointed as such in terms of bye-laws 7 of these bye-laws;\n(12) \"Town Vending Committee\" means a committee formed under the Chairmanship of the Commissioner constituted in terms of bye-laws 5 of these bye-laws;\n(13) \"Vending\" means sale of goods and services from either a kiosk or wheeled-vehicle or push-cart or basket (s) or any container, rested upon a public place; customarily parked or stationed at a place, functional all through the working day or for part of the day;\nExplanation-1 .\nSale of vegetables, fruits, fish and any other\n\t\t\t\tstuff by women bearing baskets upon their heads and hawking\n\t\t\t\tthrough the streets or by men bearing it upon heads or on\n\t\t\t\tbicycles that are generally in motion and not parked at a point\n\t\t\t\twill be exempt from the provisions of these bye-laws;\nExplanation-2 .\nSale of vegetables, fruits, fish and any other\n\t\t\t\tstuff by women or men displaying their ware upon a mat or rug or\n\t\t\t\tany other material or basket or container upon the road or\n\t\t\t\tfootpath or any other public place shall be construed as vending;\nExplanation-3 .\nVending is different from shop-keeping in this\n\t\t\t\tregard that unlike in the case of a shop, after business hours\n\t\t\t\tthe vendor will remove his ware and vehicle, if any, from the\n\t\t\t\tpost of business, and vacate it.\n(14) \"Vending Space\" means a public space that has been identified by the Town Vending Committee as suitable for use by a specified number of vendors, either for the entire working day, or for part of the day between specified hours, either on all days of the week or on specified days of the week;\n(15) \"Ward Vending Committee\" means a committee under the Chairmanship of the Ward Member formed in terms of bye-laws 6 for protecting the livelihoods of Street vendors in the ward while at the same time imposing reasonable restrictions, if necessary, for ensuring flow of traffic and for addressing concerns relating to public health and hygiene in the public interest.",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Regulation of Vending.",
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            "content": "(a) The Commissioner shall allow a start-up grace period of forty-five days after these bye-laws come into force to enable current street vendors, legal or illegal, to ensure compliance with the provisions contained herein.\n(b) The Commissioner may, for general information, publish a Notice of the above Bye-laws having come into force for two days in such two daily newspapers which are in the approved list of Government for advertisement purpose and which have circulation in the Corporation area, and affix a copy thereof in a conspicuous place in the office of the Municipal Commissioner, and cause an announcement in the Corporation area on the loud speaker.\n(c) To the extent feasible, the Commissioner may cause on-the-spot registration of Street Vendors to ensure that they are not put to avoidable hardship.\n(d) No shortcoming on the part of the Commissioner in respect of action recommended in sub-clause (1) (b) or (c) shall provide reason to any vendor or person for failure to comply with the provisions of these Bye-laws.",
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        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Exemptions.",
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            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Formation of Town Vending Committee (TVC).",
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            "content": "(a) Approve, with or without changes, the vending spaces identified by the Superintendent and/or recommended by the Ward Vending Committees.\n(b) Categorize and designate the vending spaces as 'No Vending Space' and 'Restricted Vending Space' and 'Regular Vending Space'.\n(c) Review from time to time and amend, alter or change the designation of vending spaces in (b) above according to the changing trends and needs of the city.\n(d) Prescribe the maximum number of street vendors for each of the restricted and regular vending space, bearing in mind the economic viability of business.\n(e) Restrict hawking at certain places and certain hours in public interest and to facilitate smooth and safe movement of traffic.\n(f) Restrict entry and movement of all vehicles including bicycles belonging to vendors, shoppers and others in and around the vending spaces to make shopping in the vending zones safe, de-congested and hassle-free.\n(g) Designate Natural Markets in the Corporation area.\n(h) Promote access of street vendors and hawkers to such services as credit, skill development, housing health care, social security and capacity building.\n(i) Promote vendors, interests through promotion of such events as Vendors' Bazar and Street Food Festivals.\n(j) Prescribe norms for health and hygiene and sanitation conditions in vending spaces and zones.\n(k) Promote, where necessary, organization of street vendors in the form of unions/cooperatives/associations and self-help groups to facilitate their collective empowerment and betterment of services in the vending spaces through self-regulation.\n(l) Prevent child labour in vending business and facilities to rehabilitate children found involved in vending.\n(m) Define offences and fix fines and penalties for each offence and revise these from time to time.\n(n) Estimate or cause estimation of the Earning Potential Factor (EPF) to facilitate fixing of rates for royalty and monthly fee for various vending spaces.\n(o) Fix rates for the royalty for grant of vending rights and monthly fee on a fair and equitable basis, with due consideration to the EPF, and review and, if desired, revise it annually.",
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        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Formation of the Ward Vending Committee (WVC).",
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        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Appointment of Superintendent.",
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            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Powers, Duties and Functions of the Commissioner.",
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            "content": "(a) To appoint Superintendent under bye-laws 7, and to instruct the Superintendent to Act in specific cases in accordance with the provisions of law.\n(b) To confiscate, after milder methods have been exhausted, carts, kiosks and all other paraphernalia in respect of illegal vendors and to quantify punishment for illegal vending.\n(c) To take cognizance of Encouragement of illegal vending and to act against the offenders according to the provisions of these Bye-laws and/or any other law as may be applicable.\n(d) To mobilize applications for vending rights at specific locations, and to allot such rights in a fair, equitable and transparent manner.\n(e) To prescribe the norms, timings and hygienic conditions for vendors for ensuring public health and safety.\n(f) To hear complaints and to resolve disputes relating to vending, as may be referred to him by the Ward Vending Committee.\n(g) To do all that may be necessary to give effect to the purposes of these Bye-laws.",
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            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Powers, Duties and Functions of the Superintendent.",
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            "content": "(a) To chart out the vending spaces for the purposes of these Bye-laws and to get the same approved by the Town Vending Committee.\n(b) To support the Commissioner and the Town Vending Committee in the process of selection of vendors, their registration and allotment of vending rights to them.\n(c) To report to the Commissioner in writing any attempt by anybody to set up vending paraphernalia in the no-vending space(s), and to give effect to the orders of the Commissioner and the Town Vending Committee in this regard.\n(d) To receive complaints from vendors or other sources regarding attempts by unauthorized elements to practice vending in their vending spaces, and to take needful corrective action in this regard in accordance with these bye-laws.\n(e) To maintain a register of the vending spaces and the authorized vendors in each space in a manner as may be prescribed, and to maintain a record of ail matters and documents relating to or covered under these bye-laws.\n(f) To demand and receive royalties, rents, penalties and all dues under these bye-laws into the Corporation account.\n(g) To inspect or cause inspection of the vending spaces to ensure satisfactory sanitary and hygienic conditions, regular and proper system for collection and disposal of solid waste from the vending spaces and if not satisfied, to bring the same to the notice of the Commissioner to enable needful corrective action.\n(h) Ensure that the quality of products and services provided to the public is as per standards of public health, hygiene and safety laid down by the Corporation and/or the Government.\n(i) To issue notice(s) for stopping illegal vending and, if the notice does not bring forth the desired action, to cause physical removal and confiscation of the illegal vending para-phernalia and, initiate further action against offenders for imposition and realization of fine/penalties.\n(j) To file, if and when necessary, FIRs with the police and/or complaints with other appropriate authorities for action against illegal vendors and those that encourage it.\n(k) To disseminate the object and purpose of these Bye-laws by whatever means as often as possible, as widely as possible to promote safe vending practices in the Corporation area.\n(l) To ensure that vending in the Corporation area is in accordance with the bye-laws.",
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        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Procedure Prescribed for Grant of Vending Rights.",
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            "content": "(a) No-vending spaces ;\n(b) Restricted vending spaces, and\n(c) Regular vending spaces.\n(a) Hours of vending\n(b) Weekdays of vending (or no-vending)\n(c) Goods and services for vending.\n(a) Competition and economic viability.\n(b) The benefit should extend to as many vendors as may be accommodated.\n(c) The long-time vendors who have been vending at the spot or elsewhere to be settled first in terms of sub-clause (8) above.\n(d) No vendor shall be granted more than one vending right.\n(e) An agency or cartel or chain-leader or middleman by whatever name operating shall not be allowed any role in the process for grant of vending rights.\n(f) Due share to be given to women, and other special categories as may be determined by the Town Vending Committee.\n(g) The need and requirements of local citizens shall be duly considered.\n(h) The recommendation of the ward and area sabhas to be given due weightage.",
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        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Undertaking Mandatory for Grant of Vending Rights Card.",
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            "content": "(i) Information regarding the applicant's name, age, address, telephone number residence and livelihood status in the corporation area.\n(ii) The applicant's confirmation regarding the extent and nature of right being granted.\n(iii) The applicant's commitment regarding financial liabilities towards the Corporation, relating to vending rights.\n(iv) The applicant's commitment towards sanitation and public health.",
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        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Regulation of Hawking.",
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            "content": "(a) The hawker may push his/her cart or bear his/her head-load for sale along any roads and/or streets in the corporation area but shall not stop to sell his/her goods and/or services along roads where hawking has been banned by the Town Vending Committee to ensure smooth flow of traffic and/or any other reason in general public interest.\n(b) A hawker practicing vending shall be illegal.",
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        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Encouragement of Illegal Vending.",
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            "content": "Appendix-A\nAppendix-A\nUndertaking\nUndertaking\n[To be submitted by the Street Vendor-applicant under Section 11 of the Hawkers and Street Vendors (Registration and Regulation) Bye-laws 2010]\n(i) That I am residing in the Corporation area of. for the past....... years.\nor\nThat I am residing outside the Corporation area of. but have been vending in the Corporation on a regular basis for the past. years.\n(ii) That I am exactly or approximately.............years of age.\n(iii) That I am presently earning my livelihood as a street vendor by sale of the following goods and/or service:\nor\nThat I am presently unemployed and wish to earn my livelihood as a street vendor by sale of the following goods and/or service :\n(iv) That I do not own or run any or other business or occupation or job other than what has been described above.\n(v) That I do not own any space in any part of the Corporation area of............... to run the above business as street vendor, nor do 1 have the capacity to purchase or to obtain on lease land and space required for the above business.\n(vi) That I have been registered as a Street Vendor and granted registration Numbers as follows :\nName\nHusband/Father's Name\nAge\nRegistration Number\n(vii) That the above right is non-transferable without the written consent of the Municipal Corporation.\n(viii) That I shall preserve the Registration-cum-Identity Card issued to me with due caution and care and produce it on demand for verification and inspection to authorized officials.\n(ix) That I shall get the above Registration-cum-Identity Card renewed duly before it expires, after paying the renewal fee as may be prescribed.\n(x) That I have been granted usufruct rights over the following vending space:\nLocation\nActivity for which vending rights have been\n granted\nParticulars of Vending Space\nSpace Identification Reference\nArea in sft\n(xi) That the above right is not a title to land and does not allow me the freedom to alienate it by sale or lease or gift to another person, and if found guilty of doing this [ shall be liable for punishment and fine as may be fixed under law.\n(xii) That I undertake to pay to the Corporation royalty and monthly fee and all other expenses as may be fixed by the Corporation from time to time. Initially I agree to the current payments :\nSI. No.\nPayment\n Head\nAmount in Rs.\nPeriodicity of Payment\n1.\nRegistration Charges\n2.\nVending Right Royalty\n3.\nVending Space Monthly Fee\n(xiii) That I shall bear in mind at all times the safety and public health and fullest satisfaction at all times of the customers I serve.\n(xiv) That I agree to maintain the highest standards of cleanliness and hygiene and it shall never fall below the minimum standards and norms set by the Corporation and as may be revised by them from time to time.\n(xv) That I shall dispose of the solid and liquid wastes, if any, arising out of my conduct of business only in the manner as may be prescribed by the Corporation.\n(xvi) That I shall confine my operations to the space provided to me by the Corporation and if ever found to spread my activities beyond this space I understand that I shall be liable to pay fine as may be levied by the Corporation.\n(xvii) That I have read and understood the object, intent and purpose of the Hawkers and Street Vendors (Registration and Regulation) Bye-laws, 2010, that I have noted all requirements under these bye-laws, and that I fully submit to these bye-laws for full and proper compliance.\n(xviii) That for the purpose of all notices and other correspondence, my residential contact details are as below, and it shall be my responsibility to intimate to the Commissioner in writing and obtain his acknowledgement for such intimation any change in the address :\nName\n:\nHusband/Father's Name\n:\nAddress\n:\nTelephone (Number) (if any)\n:\nSignature and Full Name\n1.\n2.",
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "Last Updated 14th October, 2019 [cg176]",
        "Act Number": "Published vide Notification No. 4637/6583/18/2009, dated 2nd September, 2010",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "2010",
        "Short Title": "Urban Street Vendors and Hawkers (Registration and Regulation) Bye-laws, 2010",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Chhattisgarh"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}