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Thursday, January 18, 1973
CLEANLINESS IN COMMON PARTS OF BUILDINGS
Responsibilities Of Occupants
Members of the public are urged to clean up and maintain the
common parts of their buildings in a tidy condition during their customary
clean up operations in their flats before Lunar New Year.
The appeal was made by the Urban Services Department which has
launched a two-week publicity campaign on cleanliness in multi-storey
buildings.
The campaign, which began early this week; is now in full swing.
A spokesman for the Department said: "It is a highly commentable
custom to clean up our dwellings before Lunar New Year, but under the
new litter law tenants should also take good care of the common parts
of their buildings."
The spokesman pointed out that corridors, staircases, roofs,
yards, light-wells, car-parts, awnings and canopies were common parts
of a building.
"Depositing unwanted articles in the common parts of a building,"
he said, "provides harbourages for rats and cockroaches and is liable
to a maximum fine of $2,000 under the Public Cleansing and Prevention of
Nuisance By-laws."
Unwanted articles should be delivered to the nearest junk collection
point of the Urban Services Department for disposal, Addresses of these
collection points can be obtained from the City District Offices.
During the campaign, posters will be sent out to various multi-storey
buildings and alogans will be broadcast from U.S.D. vans.
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