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As to the removal and disposal of refuse, and as to the duties of the occupier of any
premises in connection with house refuse so as to facilitate the removal of it
by the scavengers of the Sanitary Authority.
Removal
and disposal
of refuse.
4. The occupier of any premises who shall remove or cause to be removed any
refuse produced upon his premises shall not, in the process of removal, deposit such refuse,
or cause or allow such refuse to be deposited upon any footway, pavement, or carriageway.
Provided that this by-law shall not be deemed to prohibit the occupier of any
premises from depositing upon the kerbstone or upon the outer edge of the footpath
immediately in front of his house, between such hours of the day as the Sanitary Authority
shall fix and notify by public announcement in their district, a proper receptacle containing
house refuse, other than night soil or filth, to be removed by the Sanitary Authority in
accordance with any by-law in that behalf.
5. Every person who shall convey any house, trade or street refuse across or
along any footway, pavement or carriageway shall use a suitable receptacle, cart, carriage,
or other means of conveyance properly constructed so as to prevent the escape of the
contents thereof, and in the case of offensive refuse so covered as to prevent any nuisance
therefrom, and shall adopt such other precautions as may be necessary to prevent any such
refuse from being slopped or spilled, or from falling in the process of removal upon such
footway, pavement or carriageway.
If in the process of such removal any such refuse be slopped or spilled, or fall
upon such footway, pavement or carriageway, such person shall forthwith remove such
refuse from the place whereon the same may have been slopped or spilled, or may have
fallen, and shall immediately thereafter thoroughly sweep or otherwise thoroughly cleanse
such place.
Daily
removal of
house
refuse.
b. Where a bamtary Authority arrange lor the daily removal of house refuse in
their district or in any part thereof, the occupier of any premises in such district or part
thereof on which any house refuse may from time to time accumulate shall, at such hour
of the day as the Sanitary Authority shall fix and notify by public announcement in their
district, deposit on the kerbstone or on the outer edge of the footpath immediately in front
of the house or in a conveniently accessible position on the premises, as the Sanitary
Authority may prescribe by written notice served upon the occupier, a movable receptacle,
in which shall be placed, for the purposes of removal by or on behalf of the Sanitary
Authority, the house refuse which has accumulated on such premises since the preceding
collection by such authority.
The Sanitary Authority shall collect such refuse, or cause the same to be collected,
betjveen such hours of the day as they have fixed and notified by public announcement in
their district.
Weekly
removal of
house
refuse.
Offensive
refuse.
7. The Sanitary Authority shall cause to be removed not less frequently than
once in every week the house refuse produced on all premises within their district.
8. Where, for the purposes of subsequent removal, any cargo, load, or collection
of offensive refuse has been temporarily brought to or deposited in any place within a
sanitary district, the owner (whether a Sanitary Authority or any other person) or consignee
of such cargo, load, or collection of refuse, or any person who may have undertaken to
deliver the same, or who is in charge of the same, shall not without a reasonable excuse
permit or allow or cause such refuse to remain in such place for a longer period than
twenty-four hours.
Provided (a) that this by-law shall not apply in cases where the place of temporary
deposit is distant at least one hundred yards from any street, and is distant at least three
hundred yards from any building or premises used wholly or partly for human habitation,
or as a school, or as a place of public worship or of public resort or public assembly, or
from any building or premises in or on which any person may be employed in any manufacture,
trade, or business, or from any public park or other open space dedicated or used
for the purposes of recreation, or from any reservoir or stream used for the purposes of
domestic water supply; (b) that this by-law shall not prohibit the deposit, within the
prescribed distances, of road slop unmixed with stable manure for any period not exceeding
one week, which may be necessary for the separation of water therefrom.
9. Where a Sanitary Authority or some person on their behalf shall remove any
offensive refuse from any street or premises within their district, such Sanitary Authority
or such person shall properly destroy by fire or otherwise dispose of such refuse in such
manner as to prevent nuisance.
Provided always that this by-law shall not be deemed to require or permit any
Sanitary Authority or person to dispose of or destroy by fire any night-soil, swine's-dung
or cow-dung.
10. A Sanitary Authority or any person on their behalf who shall remove any
offensive refuse from any street or premises within their district shall not deposit such
refuse, otherwise than in the course of removal, at a less distance than three hundred
yards from any two or more buildings used wholly or partly for human habitation or
from any building used as a school, or as a place of public resort or public assembly, or in
which any person may be employed in any manufacture, trade or business, or from any
public park or other open space dedicated or used for the purpose of recreation, or from
any reservoir or stream used for the purposes of domestic water supply.
Provided always that this by-law shall not be deemed to prohibit such deposit of