Keeping of Animals (Georgetown) Regulations

Keeping of Animals (Georgetown) Regulations registered. in a stable than the maximum number for which the stable is 5. No person shall keep a greater number of animals Provided that no milch cow shall be kept in a stable. 4. No person shall keep any animal in any place swine or bush-pig. 3. No person shall keep or permit to be kept any or may be kept. "stable" means a building or structure wherein any animal is sanitary inspector appointed by the Council; "inspecting officer" means the medical officer of health or any "Council" means the City Council; or burden or any cattle; "animal" means any horse, mule, ass or other beast of draught 2. In these Regulations— City as defined by the Municipal and District Councils Act. Animals (Georgetown) Regulations, and shall apply to the 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Keeping of stables. number in Maximum except in a stable registered under these regulations: Stables. Swines. Interpretation. Citation. 321 of this Act 12th January, 1942, deemed to have been made under section the 29th October, 1941, and by the Governor in Council on the of Georgetown, approved of by the Central Board of Health on Sanitary Authority of the Urban Sanitary District of the City Ordinance (Chapter 145) by the Town Council as the Local made under sections 18 and 118(b) of the Public Health REGULATIONS KEEPING OF ANIMALS (GEORGETOWN) 2/1999 12/1/1942 Regs. L.R.O. 1/2012 [Subsidiary] Cap. 28:01 LAWS OF GUYANA Municipal and District Councils 384 LAWS OF GUYANA Cap. 28:01 [Subsidiary] L.R.O. 1/2012 Tying, etc., of animals on public way. Registration of stables Register of stables. Annual Registration. Certificate from in specting officer Schedule. Refusals to register. Situation of stables. 6. No person shall tie, tether, feed or graze any animal on any street, parapet, alleyway or other open space in the City. REGISTRATION 7. No person shall occupy a stable unless such stable has been registered under these regulations. 8. The Council shall keep a register in which shall be entered the names of the occupiers of all stables and the situation of every such stable and the maximum number of animals to be kept therein. 9. Every registration shall terminate with the calendar year, but may be renewed by the Council from year to year as from the 1st January. 10. The Council shall not register or renew the registration of any Certificate stable except upon the production of a certificate from an inspecting officer in the form set out in the Schedule to these regulations. 11. The Council may on the representation of the medical officer to of health— (a) refuse to register or renew the registration of any stable; (b) cancel any registration made under these regulations. SITUATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF STABLES 12. Every stable shall be so situated as to comply with any building by-laws or regulations relating to the City: Provided that this regulation shall not apply to any stable in existence at the commencement of these regulations if it Keeping of Animals (Georgetown) Regulations 385 Municipal and District Councils LAWS OF GUYANA Cap. 28:01 [Subsidiary] L.R.O. 1/2012 Requirements. Flooring Space. Cleansing of stables. Water supply. Walls to be limewashed, etc. otherwise complies with these regulations. 13. Every stable shall be not less than nine feet in height (measured from floor to plate) and shall be provided on at least two sides with ventilating spaces of an area not less than one-eighth of the floor space opening into the external air. 14. The floor space of every stable shall be properly paved with good cement concrete smoothly rendered or other impervious material approved by the medical officer of health and so graded as effectually to carry off all liquid matter therefrom to a gully connected by a drain to a street sewer: Provided that nothing in this regulation shall prevent any person, who desires to do so, from laying down a movable floor of planks over the concrete paving or other impervious material: And provided further that a floor of wood may, with the approval of the medical officer of health, be laid over the concrete paving or other impervious material in such a manner as to allow easy and thorough cleansing and to prevent any accumulation thereon or beneath. CLEANSING OF STABLES 15. Every occupier of a stable shall, not later than eight o'clock of every morning, cause such stable to be properly swept and cleansed and all filth to be deposited in the receptacle provided for that purpose. 16. For the proper cleansing of every stable the owner of the premises shall provide therein a proper water supply from the waterworks. 17. Every occupier of a stable shall cause the interior woodwork of such stable to be kept thoroughly clean at all Keeping of Animals (Georgetown) Regulations Municipal and District Councils 386 LAWS OF GUYANA Cap. 28:01 [Subsidiary] L.R.O. 1/2012 Receptacles for manures. Disposal of manures. Inspections. Penalties. [Reg. 2 of 1999] Reg. 10 times and to be lime- washed when required by an inspecting officer to do so. DISPOSAL OF MANURE 18. Every occupier of a stable shall provide a movable metal receptacle or receptacles outside such stable for all filth resulting from the keeping of any animal in a stable. Every such receptacle shall be provided with a properly fitting metal cover and shall at all times be kept in good repair and covered while in use. 19. Every occupier of a stable shall cause the contents of every such receptacle to be removed from the premises as often as is necessary and not less than once every day and shall cleanse and disinfect every such receptacle after the removal of its contents from the premises. 20. The Council's officers shall at all times have the right of inspecting stables for the purpose of seeing that the provisions of these regulations are being complied with no person shall obstruct any such officer in the execution of such duty. 21. If any person contravenes or fails to comply with any of these regulations he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine of two thousand five hundred dollars. SCHEDULE KEEPING OF ANIMALS (GEORGETOWN) REGULATIONS Certificate of Inspecting Officer I hereby certify that I have inspected the stable occupied by……………………………………….at lot……………………... The stable is constructed in accordance with these regulations and can hold a maximum number of…………………..animals. 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