Trade licence
Idris
(Querist) 26 September 2015
This query is : Resolved
Is it Mandatory for a Trader to obtain Licence under section 287 of Chennai City Municipal Corporation Act IV of 1919
T. Kalaiselvan, Advocate
(Expert) 02 October 2015
For Industries and Factories, it is essential under the referred provisions which are given below :
287. purposes for which places within the limits of the city or within
three miles thereof may not be used without licence and payment of
proportionate tax to local body concerned in the latter case.--(1) No place
within the limits of the city shall be used for any of the purposes mentioned in
Schedule VI without a licence obtained from the commissioner and except in
accordance with the conditions specified therein ;
1
[Provided that no such licence shall be required for the use of any place
for a lodging house as defined in the 2
[Tamil Nadu] Public Health Act, 1939 if the
keeper thereof has been registered under that Act.]
(2) The commissioner shall, if so required by the council, publish a
notification in the 3
[Official Gazette] and in two or more local newspapers that any
place at a distance within three miles of the limits of the city shall not be used for
any one or more of the purposes mentioned in Schedule VI without a licence
obtained from the commissioner and except in accordance with the conditions
specified therein :
Provided that no such notification shall take effect---
(a) unless the sanction of the 4
[State Government] has been
obtained therefore ; and
(b) until the expiry of thirty days from the date of its publication in
the 3
[official gazette.]
(3) The owner or occupier of every place for the use of which for any
purpose a licence is required under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) shall apply
to the commissioner for such licence 5
[not less than forty-five and not more than
ninety days] before the place is used for such purpose or within thirty days of the
publication of the notification under sub-section (2) in the 3
[official Gazette], as
the case may be.
