New Delhi Municipal Council Act,1994
Act No : 44
Section :
Prohibition against accumulation of rubbish, etc.
267. Prohibition against accumulation of rubbish, etc. (1) No owner or occupier of any premises shall keep or allow to be kept for more than twenty-four hours or otherwise than in a receptacle approved by the Chairperson, any rubbish, filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter on such premises or any place belonging thereto or neglect to employ proper means to remove such rubbish, filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter from, or to cleanse, such receptacle and to dispose of such rubbish, filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter in the manner directed by the Chairperson, or fail to comply with any requisition of the Chairperson as to the construction, repair, pavement or cleansing of any latrine, or urinal or belonging to the premises. (2) No owner or occupier shall allow the water of any sink, drain, latrine or urinal or any rubbish, filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter to run down on or to, or be thrown or put upon, any street or into any drain in or along the side of any street except in such manner as shall prevent any avoidable nuisance from any such water, rubbish, filth or other polluted and obnoxious matter. (3) No person shall, after due provision has been made in this respect under 90 the foregoing provisions of this Chapter for the deposit and removal of the same-- (a) deposit any rubbish, filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter in any street or on the verandah of any building or on any unoccupied ground alongside any street or on the bank of a water course; or (b) deposit any filth or other polluted and obnoxious matter in any dustbin or in any vehicle not intended for the removal of the same; or (c) deposit rubbish in any vehicle or vessel intended for the removal of filth and other polluted and obnoxious matter.
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