section 266
Prohibition against accumulation of rubbish etc.
The Jammu and Kashmir Municipal Corporation Act, 2000Infrastructure2000446 sections
Statutory text
- (1) No owner or occupier of any premises shall keep or allow to be kept for more than twentyfour hours or otherwise than in a receptacle approved by the Commissioner, any rubbish, filth or other polluted and obnoxious matter, on such premises or any place belonging thereto or neglect to employ proper means to remove such rubbish, filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter from or to cleanse, such receptacle and to dispose of such rubbish, filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter in the manner directed by the Commissioner, or fail to comply with any requisition of the Commissioner as to the construction, repair, pavement or cleansing of any latrine or urinal on or belonging to the premises.
- (2) No owner or occupier shall allow the water of any sink, drain, latrine or urinal of any rubbish, filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter to run down on or to be thrown or put upon, any street or into any drain in or along the side of any street except in such manner as shall prevent any avoidable nuisance from any such water, rubbish, filth or other polluted and obnoxious matter.
- (3) No person shall, after due provision had been made in this respect under the foregoing provisions of this Chapter for the deposit and removal of the same––
- (a) deposit any rubbish, filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter in any street or on the verandah of any building or on any unoccupied ground alongside any street or on the bank of a water course ; or
- (b) deposit any filth or other polluted and obnoxious matter in any dustbin or in any vehicle not intended for the removal of the same ; or
- (c) deposit rubbish in any vehicle or vessel intended for the removal of filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter.
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