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The Khulna City Corporation Ordinance, 1984

( Ordinance NO. LXXII OF 1984 )

Chapter II

OFFENCES AND PENALTIES

Punishment
1[148. (1) An offence under this Ordinance for which no penalty is expressly provided shall be punished with fine which may extend to ten thousand Taka, and if the offence is a continuing one, with a further fine which may extend to five hundred Taka for every day after the date of the first commission during which period the offender has persisted in the offence.
 
 
 
 
(2) Where a person is convicted of an offence under this Ordinance for the second time, he shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to twenty five thousand Taka or with both.
 
 
 
 
(3) Where a person is convicted of an offence specified in items 3, 14, 19, 24, 44 or 50 of the Third Schedule the Court convicting him may, on the prayer of the Chief Executive Officer or a person mentioned in section 150, also order or direct-
 
 
 
 
(a) the stoppage of doing of any act without any licence or permission;
 
 
 
 
(b) the stoppage of carrying on of any dangerous or offensive trade or the storing of any offensive or dangerous articles;
 
 
 
 
(c) the stoppage of operation or removal of any brick kiln, lime kiln, charcoal kiln or pottery;
 
 
 
 
(d) the removal or destruction of any obscene advertisement;
 
 
(e) the removal or confiscation of any goods, material, machinery or implement in respect of which or with which any offence mentioned in this sub section is committed, as the case may be.]

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    Section 148 was substituted by section 6 of the Local Government Laws (Amendment) Act, 1990 (Act No. LVI of 1990).
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