Chapter XIII PUBLIC CONSERVANCY AND PRIVATE CONSERVANCY

Removal of sewage, offensive matter and rubbish:

1. (1) Board of Councillors shall provide for the removal of sewage, rubbish, filth and offensive matter from all public latrines, urinals and drains and from all public roads, public streets and other property vested in the Municipality.
2. (2) In a private premises where an owner pays a latrine tax, Board of Councillors shall provide for the removal of sewage and offensive matters from such private latrines, urinals and cesspools for which a latrine tax is paid.
3. (3) In a private premises where an owner pays a conservancy tax, Board of Councillors shall provide for the removal of sewage, rubbish, filth and offensive matter from such private premises for which a conservancy tax is paid, in a manner provided by section 152.

Establishment and implements for removal of sewage, offensive matter and rubbish: For the removal of sewage, rubbish, filth and offensive matter and for the cleansing of latrines, urinals, drains and cesspools under section 148, the Board of Councillors shall maintain sufficient establishment, carts, motor trucks and other implements for the purpose.

Appointment of dumping pits and dumping grounds:

Power of the Chairman to specify time of collection of rubbish, etc Power of the Chairman to specify time of collection of rubbish, etc.: The Chairman may, by public notice, specify time during which cart or motor truck deployed for removal and disposal of sewage, rubbish and offensive matters, shall collect such sewage, rubbish or offensive matters from such area to be specified in such notice, for final disposal to dumping pits and dumping grounds.

Duties of owners and occupiers to collect and deposit rubbish, etc.: It shall be the duty of the owners or occupiers, as the case may be, of all premises-

1. (a) to have the premises swept and cleansed; and
2. (b) to collect from their respective premises all rubbish and offensive matters and keep them in bags, sacks or other containers for collection by cart or motor truck for final disposal.

Prohibition of improper disposal of carcasses, rubbish and filth: No person shall-

1. (a) deposit carcasses of animals, rubbish or filth in any road or on the verandah of any building, or any unoccupied ground alongside any road or any public quay, jetty or landing place, or on the bank of water-course or tank; or
2. (b) deposit filth or carcasses of animals in any dustbin or in any vehicle not intended for the removal of the same; or
3. (c) deposit rubbish in any cart or motor truck intended for the removal of filth save for the purpose of deodorizing or disinfecting the filth.

Prohibition against keeping filth on premises too long: No owner or occupier of any premises shall keep or allow to be kept for more than twenty-four hours any filth on such premises or any building or on the roof thereof in any out-building or any place belonging thereto.

Prohibition against allowing outflow of filth: No owner or occupier of any premises shall allow the water from any sink, drain, latrine or stable or any other filth to flow out of such premises to any portion of a road except a drain or a cesspool, or to flow out of such premises in such a manner as to cause an avoidable nuisance by the soakage of the said water or filth into the walls or ground at the side of a drain forming a portion of a road.

Prohibition against using any cart without cover in the removal of filth: No person shall in the removal of filth use any cart receptacle not having a covering proper for preventing the escape of the contents thereof or of the stench therefrom, or intentionally or negligently spill any filth in the removal thereof.

Prohibition against throwing rubbish or filth on streets and into drains:

Provision of public latrines and urinals Provision of public latrines and urinals: The Board of Councillors shall provide and maintain in proper and convenient places a sufficient number of public latrines and urinals and shall cause the same to be daily cleansed and kept in proper order.

Permission for construction of latrine or urinal near road, tank or water-course: No person shall, without the permission of the Chairman-

1. (i) construct latrine or urinal with a door or trap door opening onto any road or drain;
2. (ii) construct or keep any latrine, urinal, cesspool, house-drain or receptacle sewage or other offensive matter within fifty feet of any tank or water course or a tank or water course which the inhabitants of any locality use.

Provision of latrines by owner or occupier:

1. (1) The Chairman or any officer authorised by the Chairman in this behalf may by notice require the owner or occupier of any building within the time specified in such notice to provide a latrine or alter or remove from an unsuitable place to a more suitable place any existing latrine in accordance with the directions contained in such notice for the use of the persons employed in or about or occupying such building and to keep it clean and in proper order.
2. (2) Every owner or occupier of the ground on which any group of three or more huts stands shall provide latrines of such description and number and in such position as the Chairman or any officer authorised by the Chairman in this behalf may by notice require, within such time as may be fixed in the notice, for the use of the inhabitants of such huts.

Provision of latrines for labourers: Every person employing workmen, labourers or other person exceeding ten in number shall provide and maintain for the separate use of persons of each sex so employed latrines of such description and number and in such position, as the Chairman or any officer authorised by the Chairman in this behalf may by notice require, within such time as may be fixed in the notice.

Provision of latrines for markets, cart stands, cattle sheds, eating house etc.: The Chairman or any officer authorised by the Chairman in this behalf may by notice require the owner or manager of a market, cart-stand, cattle shed, eating house, cinema or other place of public resort within the time specified in such notice to provide and maintain for the separate use of persons of each sex latrines of such description and number and in such position as may be specified in such notice.

Latrines to be screened from view and kept clean:

Duty of every person to maintain cleanliness Duty of every person to maintain cleanliness:

1. (1) It shall be the civic duty of every person to maintain cleanliness and to live decent and respectable way of living with respect to proper collection, removal and disposal of sewage, offensive matter, filth or rubbish and making and keeping in proper condition of latrines and urinals which are dealt within this Chapter, so as to avoid nuisance or discomfort to persons residing in the neighbourhood or to passers-by.
2. (2) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of section 153, 154, 155, 156, 159 and 163, or fails to comply with the notice served to him under sections 160, 161 or 162 shall be punishable under section 386.
3. (3) If, in the opinion of the Chairman, any person shows gross negligence of the civic duty under sub-section (1), or lives irresponsible, immoral, unwholesome or negligent way of living with respect to any matter dealt within this chapter, he shall be liable to additional punishment of whatever sort as the Chairman may decide to take on him.