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Citation Bad comience.

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PUBLIC HEALTH AND URBAN SERVICES ORDINANCE, 1964.

(No. 30 of 1960).

PUBLIC CLEANSING AND PREVENTION OF NUISANCES BY-LAWS, 1950.

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 15 of the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance, 1960, the Urban Council has made the following by-laws-

PART I.

Preliminary.

1. These by-laws may be cited as the Public Cleansing and Prevention of Nuisances By-laws, 1960, and shall come into operation (30 of 1960) on the day appointed for the commencement of the Public Health and

Urban Services Ordinance, 1960.

ment.

Application.

Interpreta- tion.

Schedule.

These by-laws apply to the urban areas only.

3. In these by-laws save where the context otherwise requires- "Council" means the Urban Council;

"dangerous refuse" means any refuse of a kind specified in the Schedule: "excretal matter" means the excretal matter of any person;

"house refuse" means ashes, cinders, dust, rubbish or filth, but does not include dangerous refuse or trade refuse or excretal matter;

“premises" includes land, buildings, structures and basements, and

relation to any building includes the curtilage thereof; "street refuse" means dust, dirt, rubbish, mud, road scrapings or filth,

but does not include excretal matter from latrines.

Dumping of

4.

refuse in

streets.

PART IL

Prevention of nuisances in streets and public places.

No person shall-

(a) sweep or otherwise remove from any shop or house into any street or public place any waste paper, shaving, or other refest. (6) throw down or leave in any street or public place any bill, placard or other paper which has been torn off or removed from any bill-posting station:

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(c) beat, shake, sweep, brush, or cleanse in any street, between the hours of 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., any carpet, drugget, rug or mat, or any other fabric retaining dust or dirt; or

(d) being a newsvendor or other street trader or hawker, throw down and leave in any street or public place any waste paper, shavings, leftovers, peel or other refuse.

5. No person shall place or deposit and leave on or in-

(a) any highway, street, roadside or public place; or

(b) any water Gncluding the sca), watercourse or ditch in or abutting on any highway, street, roadside or public place.

any glass, china, earthenware, tin, carton, paper or other refuse so as

1o create or tend to create a litter.

Litter.

6. No person shall, in any street or public place, throw or leave Dungerous

titter. any orange peel, banana skin, sugar cane residue, other fruit peelings

or slices, or any other substance likely to cause danger to the public.

broken

1. No person shall throw, place or leave any bottle or any broken Bottles, glass or other sharp substance (not being material used in the can- struction or repair of a street) on or in any strect or public place in such glass, etc. a position as to be likely to cause injury to persons or damage to property.

& No person, other than a public officer acting in the course of Prohibition his duty, shall pick up or collect, or cause to be picked up or collected, against

collecting any cigarette ends or waste tobacco discarded as refuse in any street or cigarette chuda public place.

and waste tobacco.

9. (D) No person shall in any street or public place or in any obeying place exposed to the public view or in any other improper place obey calls of the call of nature.

(2) No person having the care or custody of any child under twelve years of age shall permit, without reasonable cause, such child to obey the call of nature in any street or public place or in any place exposed to the public view or in any other improper place.

nature.

onto the

10. No person in charge of any cart, vehicle, load, agricultural Carrying of implement or machine shall allow any mud, clay, lime or other material mud, etc. carried thereon to drop and remain on any public street or road in such highway. mander as to, or to be likely to. result in obstruction or danger to persons using such street or road or in injury to the surface of such streel or road, nor shall any person bring on to any such public street or road any cart, vehicle, agricultural implement or machine without having previously removed, so far as is reasonably practicable, any