RULES RELATING TO LEVY OF LICENCE FEES FOR GRANT OF PERMISSION AND LICENCE . G.O.16

RULES RELATING TO LEVY OF LICENCE FEES FOR GRANT OF PERMISSION AND LICENCE RESPECT OF MACHINERY OR
MANUFACTURING PLANTS DRIVEN BY ELECTRICAL POWER/STEAM WATER OR MECHANICAL.

GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH
ABSTRACT

RULES RELATING TO LEVY OF LICENCE FEES FOR GRANT OF PERMISSION AND LICENCE RESPECT OF MACHINERY OR MANUFACTURING PLANTS DRIVEN BY ELECTRICAL POWER/STEAM WATER OR MECHANICAL.

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( Panchayati Raj, Rural Development &Relief (Pts.III), ).

G.O.Ms.No.16.

10th January 1996

In exercise of the power conferred by sub-section(l) section 268 read with sections 119 and 120 of the Andhra Pradesh Panchayat Raj Act, 1994, (Act No. 13 of 1994), the Governor ofAndhra Pradesh hereby makes the following rules relating to the conditions for grant of licence for installation of any machinery or manufacturing plant driven by steam water, mechanical or electrical powers within the limits of Gram Panchayats.

RULES

1. Licence under sections 119 and 120 of the Andhra Pradesh Panchayati Raj Act, 1994 for installation of any machinery or manufacturing Plant driven by steam water, mechanical or electrical power in any premises may be in perpetuity and no periodical renewal is needed, but subject to cancellation on violation of any law, terms and conditions of licence.
2. The fee may be, charged, and collected for the licence granted under rule 1 for a period upto three years at a time at the rate not exceeding the maximum specified in the schedule annexed to these rules.
3. No place within the limits of Gram Panchayat shall be, used for any one or more of the purposes specified below without a licence issued by the executive authority.

The purpose for which places may not be, used without licence are:

1. Boiling paddy or camphor;
2. Melting tallow sulphur;
3. Storing or otherwise dealing with offal, blood, bones, hides, fish or skins.
4. tanning hides and skins;
5. (e) Washing or drying wool or hair;
6. making fish oil;
7. making soap;
8. manufacturing or distilling sago, manufacturing artificial manure; manufacturing or rsefining sugar; manufacturing jaggery; sugar candy or syrup otherwise than as cottage industry by tappers or persons in enjoyment of the frees, carried on in their own premises, manufacturing beedies or cigars;
9. manufacturing gunpowder or fire works;
10. burning bricks, tiles or lime;
11. keeping a hotel, restaurant, eating house, coffee house, tea house, boarding house or lodging house (other than student’s hostel under public or recognised control);
12. manufacturing ice or aerated waters;
13. brewing beer, manufacturing arrack or other spirit containing (whether denatured or not) by distillation;
14. preparing flour or article made of flour for human consumption or sweetmeats;
15. selling or storing for sale of timber, thatching materials, hay, grass, charcoal, fuel or fibre and oils of all kinds;
16. selling wholesale or retail or storing for wholesale or retail trade or for purposes other than private or domestic use, grain, groundnut, tamarind, chillies, jaggery, pulses, flour bran, oil cakes, or agricultural produce including fruits which is likely to attracts rats;
17. storing any explosive or combustible materials Provided that no licence shall be required for storing petroleum and its products in quantities exceeding those to which the operation oft his Act is limited by the provisions of the petroleum Act, 1934, or the rules or notification issued thereunder;
18. selling cotton, wholesale retail, or storing cotton for wholesale retail trade or for conversion into yarn;
19. manufacturing anything from which an offensive or unwholesome smell arises;
20. using for industrial purpose any fuel or machinery other than such machinery as may (by notification in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette) be exempted by the Government from to time;
21. Any industrial process which is likely to be offensive or dangerous to human life or health or property ; and
22. any trade or operation of which in the opinion of the Gram Panchayat is dangerous to life, health or likely to create a nuisance either from its nature or by reason of the manner in which or the conditions under which the same is or is proposed to be carried on:

Provided that no licence shall be required for the storage of timber, thatching materials, hay, grass, straw, coal, charcoal, fuel or fibre or for boiling paddy or for keeping soiled clothes or washed clothes or for washing soiled clothes when such storage, boiling, keeping or washing is for private use :

Provided further that no licence shall be required under this Act for selling or storing grass, straw or thatching materials.

SCHEDULE

Sl. No.	Horse-power of the Installation	Maximum fee chargeable for a period of three (3) years.
1.	Installation purely for domestic purposes irrespective of horsepower.	Rs. 25-00
2.	Installation of rectifiers and transformers all places including cinema theatres irrespective of KVA capacity.	Rs.100-00
3.	Other installations exceeding one horsepower.	Rs.100-00
4.	Other installations exceeding one horsepower but not exceeding five horsepower.	Rs.200-00
5.	Other installations exceeding five horsepower but not exceeding ten horsepower.	Rs.500-00
6.	Other installations exceeding ten horsepower but not exceeding 25 horsepower.	Rs.2,000-00
7.	Other installations exceeding 25 horsepower but not exceeding 50 horsepower.	Rs.3,000-00
8.	Other installations exceeding 50 horsepower but not exceeding 100 horsepower.	Rs.5,000-00
9.	Other installations exceeding 100 horse powers.	Rs.7,000-00

ANNEXURE – I

Date...........

To,
The Executive Officer/Sarpanch,
Gram Panchayat, ...............
.................District.

Sir,

   Please issue me Fresh/Renewal Licence for the year .............The following particulars are given below:-

1. Name of the owner :

2. Name of the shop :

3. Nature of Business :

4. Premises No :

5. Date of Opening:

6. Own building or rented :

7. Last year Rc, No. and Date for renewal:

Yours faithfully,