Chapter 29:15 URBAN COUNCILS ACT Disinfection and fumigation 97. (1) The regulation, inspection and licensing of businesses carrying on disinfection, disinfestation or fumigation by cyanide or other means. (2) The penalizing of persons who, after notice thereof, refuse, without reasonable grounds, to vacate any room occupied by them in any building where fumigation by cyanide or other means is to be carried out. Infectious diseases 98. The prevention of the possible spread of infectious, contagious or noxious diseases by the carrying on of any business, trade or occupation. Hawkers and street vendors 99. (1) For the purposes of this paragraph— “goods” means wares, merchandise, produce and, generally, corporeal movable things of any description; “hawker” means any person who carries on the business of selling any goods while travelling about for that purpose from place to place with the goods, either on foot or with a vehicle, animal or carrier, but does not include— (a) a baker or his employee in respect of the sale of bread; (b) a dairy marketing authority or a dairyman or its or his employee, as the case may be, in respect of the sale of milk; (c) any person in respect of the sale of publications sponsored by the State or newspapers; “public place” means any bridge, enclosure, foot-path, garden, open space, pavement, road, sanitary lane, side-walk, square, sub-way or street of the nature of a throughfare which is vested in or controlled by the council and to which the public or any section of the public has access; “sell” means to sell by retail or by wholesale and, in addition to its ordinary meaning, includes to barter or exchange or offer or expose or prepare for sale; “street vendor” means any person who sells goods from one or more fixed places in or on any public place, but does not include any person in respect of the sale of publications sponsored by the State or newspapers. (2) The regulation and licensing of hawkers and street vendors and persons who employ or engage hawkers or street vendors as servants or agents. (3) The prohibition, regulation or inspection of the goods which may be sold by hawkers or street vendors. (4) The prohibition of the carrying on of business by hawkers or street vendors except in specified areas. (5) The specification of the times when or periods during which hawkers or street vendors may carry on business or allow goods to be exposed for sale at any one place. Electricians 100. The examination and licensing of electricians and the prohibition of unlicensed persons from acting as electricians. Plumbers and drain-layers 101. The examination and licensing of plumbers and drain-layers and the prohibition of unlicensed persons from carrying out plumbing or drain-laying work for the installation, alteration or repair of any system of water supply, sewerage or drainage. Hairdressers 102. (1) The regulation, inspection and licensing of any premises used for or in connection with the business of hairdressers, barbers or beauty salons and the prevention of the use of such purpose of any such premises as are unfit therefor. (2) The standards and minimum requirements for the construction, maintenance, conduct, good order, cleanliness, lighting, ventilation, water supply, sanitary fittings and drainage of 156

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