All matters deposited in public receptacles, depots and places, provided or appointed under section 279 and all matters collected by the municipal employees or contractors in pursuance of section 278 and section 286, shall be the property of the Municipality.
281. Appointment of places for disposal and final disposal of solid wastes,- The Municipality may cause the solid wastes to be disposed of at such place or places within or outside the municipal area and in such manner, as it considers suitable:
Provided that no place, which has not been before the commencement of this Act, used for the purpose specified in this section, shall be used, except in conformity with the provisions of the Nagaland Town and Country Planning Act, 1966 (Act NO:4 fo 1966), and any other law relating thereto for the time being in force.
Provided further that the solid wastes shall not be finally disposed of in any manner in which the same have not hereto before been so disposed of or in any manner which the Government may think fit to disallow.
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282. Provision of means for processing of solid wastes,- The Municipality may, for the purpose of receiving, storing, treating, processing and disposing solid wastes or converting such solid wastes into compost, re-cycling or generation of energy, construct, acquire, operate, maintain, develop, and manage any work within or outside the municipal area.
283. Solid waste management,- Subject to the other provisions of this Chapter the Chief Officer of a Municipality shall perform all the functions and manage all the places or works related to collection, removal and disposal of solid wastes accumulating in the municipal are.
284. Duty of owners and occupiers,-
(1) It shall be the duty of the owners and occupiers of all premises in the municipal area,-
(a) to have the premises swept and cleaned;
(b) to cause all rubbish, offensive matter, filth, trade refuse, if any, carcasses of dead animals, excrementitious matter, plastics and plastic material, bio-medical waste and other polluted and obnoxious matters to be collected from their respective premises and to be deposited at such times, as the Chief Officer, of the Municipality, by public notice specifies, in public receptacle, despots or places provided or appointed under section 279 for temporary deposit or final disposal thereof;
(c) To provide receptacles of the type and in the manner directed by the Chief Officer for the collection therein of all rubbish, offensive matter, of any, carcasses of dead animals, excrementitious matter, plastics and plastic material, bio-medical waste and other polluted and obnoxious mattes from such premises and to keep such receptacles in good conditions and repair.
(2) The Municipality may for the purpose of collection and deposit of rubbish, supply bags to the owners and occupiers.
285. Collection and removal of filth and polluted mater etc,- It shall be the duty of the owners and occupiers of every premises situate d in any portion of the municipal area in which latrine or urinals are not connected by a drain with a municipal sewer or drain to cause all filth and polluted and obnoxious accumulating upon such premises to be collect and removed to the nearest receptacle or depot provided for this purpose under section 279 at 373 such times in such vehicles or vessel, by such route and with such precautions, as the Chief Officer, of a Municipality may, by public notice;
direct:
Provided that nothing in this section shall prevent the Chief Officer from taking any action in respect of such premises under section.
286. Collection and removal of filth etc., by Municipality,-
(1) Where the Chief Officer of a Municipality has given public notice in respect of any portion of the municipal area of the Municipality that the collection, removal and disposal, of all filth and polluted and obnoxious matter from latrines, urinals and cesspools with be undertaken by an agency of the Municipality, it shall be lawful for the Chief Officer to take measures for the daily collection, removal and disposal of such filth and polluted and obnoxious matter from all premises situated in that portion of the municipal area.
Provided that in areas where the municipal drains and sewers have been laid, the Chief Officer may, in accordance with such scheme, as may be prepared for such purpose or otherwise, by order, require the owner or the occupier, as the case may be, or any premises to convert the service privies or latrines to sanitary latrines and such owner or occupier shall, comply with the order of the Chief Officer.
(2) In such portion of the municipal area and in any premises wherever situated, in which there is a latrine or urinal connected with a municipal sewer or drain, it shall not be lawful, except with the written permission of the Chief Officer, to discharge any of the duties of scavengers.
287. Removal of solid wastes accumulated on non-residential premises,- The Chief Officer of a Municipality may, if he thinks fit,-
(a) by written notice, require the owner or the occupier of any premises used-
(i) as factory, workshop or for carrying on any manufacture; or
(ii) as a trade premises or shops or as a market or slaughter house or
(iii) as a hotel, eating house, or restaurant; or
(iv) as a hospital or nursing home; or
(v) as a warehouse or go-down; or
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(vii) as a place to which large number of persons resort; or
(viii) in any other way as may be specified in the notice.
Where rubbish, offensive mater, filth, trade refuse, special wastes, hazardous wastes or excrementitious matter, plastics and plastic material, bio-medical waste and polluted matters, are accumulated or are likely to accumulate in large quantities, to collect such matters accumulating thereon and to remove the same at such time and in such trailers or receptacles and by such routes as, may be specified in the notice, to depot or place provided or appointed by the Municipality for the purpose; or
(b) after giving such owner or occupier notice of his intention cause all rubbish including building, rubbish, offensive matter, trade refuse, special wastes, hazardous wastes of excrementitious matter, plastics and plastic materials, bio-medical waste and polluted matter accumulated in such premises to be removed and charge the same owner or occupier for such removal such fee as may, subject to the rates determined by the Municipality by specified in the notice issued under clause (a)
Provided that no rate shall be less than such unit cost of removal of solid wastes (including the cost for debt servicing, depreciation and other charges, if any, of vehicle or vessels or means for removal) as the Municipality may determine from time to time; or
(c) by written notice, require the owner or the occupier of any premises referred to in clause (a) to provide receptacles or trailers or other means on such premises constructed form such materials and of the type and in the manner specified by the Chief Officer for the collection therein of all rubbish, including building rubbish, offensive matter, filth, trade refuse, special waste, hazardous wastes or excrementitious matter, plastics and plastic materials, bio-medical waste and polluted matters, accumulating in the premises; or
(d) by public notice require any person carrying on any trade or business in manner that accumulates rubbish, offensive matter filth, trade refuse, special waste, hazardous wastes or excrementitious matter, plastics and plastic material, bio-medical waste and polluted matters, to pay such costs for removal of the same, as the Municipality may incur in this regard.