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Council authorises any person or persons to use for habitation any such shop, workshop, or factory, sleeping accommoda- tion shall be provided by the erection of a cockloft or bunks which shall have a clear space of at least 4 feet between it or them and such side or sides of the basement as abuts or abut against the earth or soil.
The Collection, Removal and Disposal of Refuse and Offensive Matter.
respect of
66. The Urban Council shall have the exclusive right to Rights of collect and remove, or to delegate to others the right to collect Council in and remove all refuse, dust, ashes, or any form of filth from refuse. public dustbins, and all matter so collected shall be the pro- perty of the Council who may sell or otherwise dispose of it.
67. A site or sites may be provided by the Urban Council Sites for on which refuse of any description shall be deposited and disposal of disposed of as the Council may direct.
refuse.
Power of
Council to fix the
hours for
conveyance
through the
68. The Urban Council may from time to time fix the hours within which only it shall be lawful to remove any manure or decaying fish or decaying rice or other offensive matter, and when the Council has fixed such hours and given the public of offensive notice thereof, whoever removes or causes to be removed matter along any street any such offensive matter at any time except streets. within the hours so fixed, and also whoever at any time, whether such hours have been fixed by the Council or not, uses for any
such purpose any cart, carriage or other receptacle or vessel not having a covering proper for preventing the escape of the contents thereof or of the stench therefrom, or who slops or spills any such offensive matter in the removal thereof, or who does not carefully sweep and clean every place in which any offensive matter has been dropped or spilt, or who places or sets down in any public place any vessel containing such offensive matter, or who drives or takes or causes to be driven or taken any cart, carriage, receptacle or vessel used for any such purpose as aforesaid through or by any street or route other than such as shall from time to time be appointed for that purpose by the Council by public notice, shall be liable for a first offence to a fine not exceeding ten dollars and for a second or subsequent offence to a fine not exceeding twenty- five dollars.
69. No person shall throw or deposit, or permit his ser- Deposit of vants or members of his household under his control to throw refuse in
drains, etc., or deposit, any earth or materials of any description, or refuse, prohibited." rubbish or any offensive matter of any kind, into or upon any street, sewer or drain, or upon any vacant or unoccupied land.
occupier to
70. The owner or occupier of any building shall give Owner or access to any authorised person for the purpose of scavenging giveness to and removing refuse from any part of such building, and if building for the open space appurtenant to such building be enclosed, the scavenging door or gate shall be opened by the occupier whenever required.
71. (1) The owner and occupier of every house shall. if required by the Council, provide himself with a sufficient number of dustcans or dustbins of a pattern approved by the Council.
purposes.
Duties of
owner and occupier with regard
to refuse collection.
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