The Burma Municipal Act, 1884, 17 of 1884, (Rep., Act 13 of 1898) · VI — .

Section 104. (1) The owner or occupier of every place within the municipality used for any of the following purposes, namely:

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(4) The committee may impose such conditions in respect of such license as it may think necessary. (5) Whoever, without such registration or without a license, uses any place for any such purpose shall be punishable with fine which may extend to fifty rupees, and with further fine not exceeding ten rupees for every day during which the offence is continued after he has been convicted of such offence. Power to prohibit such trades. (3) The license shall not be withheld unless the committee considers that the business which it is intended to establish or maintain would be offensive or dangerous to persons residing in, or frequenting, the immediate neighbourhood. (2) No place shall be newly used for any of the said purposes except under a license from the committee, which shall be renewable annually. 104. (1) The owner or occupier of every place within the municipality used for any of the following purposes, namely:— - melting tallow; - boiling bones, offal or blood; or - as a soap-house, oil-boiling house, dyeing-house or tannery; or, - as a brickkiln, pottery or limekiln; or Injurious to health, after prohibition. Regulation of offensive and dangerous trades. as 224 Burma Municipalities. [ACT XVII (Chapter VI.—Powers for Sanitary and other Purposes.—Section 105.) as any other manufactory or place of business from which offensive or unwholesome smells arise; or as a yard or depot for trade in hay, straw, thatching-grass, wood or coal, or other dangerously inflammable material; or as a store-house for kerosine, petroleum, naphtha or any inflammable oil, spirit or explosive substance; shall register the same in a book to be kept by the committee for the purpose.

Source: India Code