Municipal Council of Vacoas/Phoenix (Environmental Sanitation) Regulations 2012 (GN No. 150 of 2012)

Municipal Council of Vacoas/Phoenix (Environmental Sanitation) Regulations 2012 GN No. 150 of 2012 Government Gazette of Mauritius No. 85 of 25 August 2012 LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 2011 Regulations made by the Municipal Council of Vacoas/Phoenix under section 163 of the Local Government Act 2011 1. These regulations may be cited as the Municipal Council of Vacoas-Phoenix (Environmental Sanitation) Regulations 2012. 2. In these regulations — “Council” means the Municipal Council of Vacoas-Phoenix; “Inspector” means any officer appointed by the Council. 3. (1) Every occupier of premises shall deposit or cause to be deposited all houses and garden sweepings and house refuse from such premises in receptacles which he shall provide for that purpose. (2) Council may from time to time provide such receptacles to such premises and in such area or places as Council may decide from time to time. (3) Council may, however, alter, modify, and amend any decision as to the category of premises and or areas to be supplied with such receptacles and or also stop to supply such receptacles to any area. (4) The receptacles for the purpose of being emptied shall on such days and hours as may from time to time be fixed by the Council, be placed on the premises at a spot which shall be readily accessible to the scavenging vehicles and which shall in no case be further than five metres from the edge of the streets or five metres within the boundary line of the premises. (5) (a) The owner of multistoreyed residential, commercial or commercial cum residential building shall provide at the ground floor a refuse chamber or an approved refuse shed in the yard where shall be deposited refuse receptacles from all the individual premises. (b) The refuse chamber or shed shall be readily accessible to the scavenging vehicles. 4. Every occupier of premises shall cause all garden trimmings and loppings and garden refuse other than garden sweepings to be deposited on the premises at a spot which shall be readily accessible to the scavenging vehicles and which shall in no case be further than five metres from the edge of the street or five metres within the boundary line of the premises. 5. All refuse produced by the exercise on the premises of any trade or by any manufacture there carried on shall be removed by the party exercising that trade or carrying that manufacture at his own cost and under such arrangements as shall be approved by Council. 6. The Council shall claim fees for removal of waste as prescribed in schedule 1. (a) The waste resulting from general cleaning of household premises may be removed by the Council upon request of the owner or occupier or any interested party from any premises against payment of a fee as prescribed in schedule 1. (b) The occupier or owner of the premises where any of the above items are found may take proper steps of his own, for the removal of any of the items mentioned, in an appropriate carrier, and deposit same only at authorized sites. 7. Every occupier of premises shall keep clean (a) the space extending from the wall or other enclosure of the premises down to the gutter or ditch; (b) any courtyard or any premises and not allow same to be in a filthy or dirty state or be overgrown with rank and noisesome vegetation and not allow to be kept therein any basin, receptacle or used with foetid or filthy water. 8. (1) The owner or occupier of any premises shall be required by notice in writing to trim hedges, to lop trees or to clear land overgrown with vegetation within such time and to such dimension or otherwise as may be specified in such notice. (2) Any person who fails to comply with a notice served under subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence against these regulations and the Council may, on such non compliance to cause the hedges to be trimmed or the trees to be lopped or the land to be cleared at the expense of such person as if it were a civil debt. 9. No person shall deposit, or cause or allow to be deposited any dung, discarded eggs, human excretes, industrial waste, animal refuse or garden refuse in such receptacles. 10. The occupier of any premises shall be held responsible for the contravention of these regulations whenever any unburned matter of animal origin with foetid or filthy smell is detected to exist on such premises. 11. The owner or occupier of any premises shall not — (a) put in any receptacle any noxious refuse or refuse which is likely to be a health hazard or cause inconvenience to the neighbouring areas or neighbours; (b) allow such receptacle to be in a filthy or noxious state. 12. No person shall deposit, drop, place or throw or cause, allow, permit to be deposited any package, wrapping, bottle, can, container, dust, dirt, paper, carcass refuse, box barrel or any part thereof, any of the contents of such container or any other part constituting litter on any road footpath, roadside, drain, cover, pavement, stream, river, rivulet or canal, wasteland, vacant premises or an another public place. 13. Any dealer in cakes, foodstuffs, fruits or other perishable foods shall secure such refuse in plastic bags before disposing of it in a receptacle. 14. Any person who contravenes or otherwise fails to comply with these regulations shall commit an offence and shall on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty five thousand rupees and in case of a continuing offence to an additional fine not exceeding one hundred rupees for each day during which the offence continues after conviction. 15. The following regulation is repealed: The Vacoas-Phoenix (Environment Sanitation) Regulations 1995 Made by the Municipal Council of Vacoas-Phoenix on 06th June 2012. SCHEDULE 1 (1) For the removal of refuse resulting from the general cleaning of household premises For every lorry load or fraction thereof without labour Rs 600/ (2) For removal of trade/commercial refuse For every lorry load or fraction thereof without labour Rs1200/