Section 282(1) in Chennai City Municipal Corporation Act, 1919
(1)The owner or occupier of any stable, veterinary infirmary, stand, shed, yard or other place in which quadrupeds are kept or taken in for purposes of profit, [shall apply to the commissioner for a licence not less than forty-five and not more than ninety days before the opening of such place or the commencement of the year for which the licence is sought to be renewed, as the case may be.] [Substituted for the words 'shall, in the first month of every year or, in the case of a place to be newly opened, within one month before the opening of such place, apply to the commissioner for a license' by section 2 of the Madras City Municipal (Second Amendment) Act, 1941 (Tamil Nadu Act VII of 1941) re-enacted, permanently by section 2 of, and the First Schedule to, the Tamil Nadu Re-enacting and Repealing (No. 1) Act, 1948 (Tamil Nadu Act VII of 1948).]