Disposal of solid wastes and drainage water.

(1) It shall be the duty of the Council to keep any public place clean and remove the solid wastes by providing solid waste receptacle in proper and convenient places and dispose of such solid waste by dumping at places notified by the Council within or outside the municipal limit. (2) Where no proper drainage system is provided for in the municipal limit or in any part thereof, the Council may make necessary arrangements to collect such drainage water and dispose of the same in such manner as may be determined by the Council. (3) All solid waste, rubbish and other materials collected by the municipality shall be the property of the municipality. (4) Every municipality shall identify and notify suitable land within or outside the municipal area for the purpose of final disposal of the solid wastes: Provided that the municipality shall not identify and notify any land for the purpose of final disposal of the solid waste within a radius of ten kilometres from an air field. (5) While notifying the places under sub-section (3), the Council shall have due regard to the following factors, namely:- (a) sources generating garbage, health and environmental aspects; (b) the facility for preparation of compost manure and disposal of the same; (c) where preparation of compost manure is not feasible or practicable, sanitary land fill methods shall be adopted by the municipality, for the disposal of solid waste at the land fill sites in the manner as may be specified by the Council. (d) incineration of solid waste may be resorted to by the municipality for the disposal of infectious waste generated from the hospitals, nursing homes or health care centres and non-industrial hazardous waste that may be specified by the Council from time to time; (e) the feasibility of levying special charges from any person or authority in charge of buildings from which the garbage, solid waste, industrial or hazardous or infectious waste is collected; (f) appointing private agencies for cleaning and removing all garbage and wastage referred to in this section; (g) feasibility of providing collection spots and transfer areas in the municipality.