Moka/Flacq (Disposal
of Refuse) Regulations 1996
GN No. 35 of 1996
Abstract
Regulations made by the Moka / Flacq District Council under
Sections 51, 141 and 142 of the Local Government Act 1989.
1. No person shall deposit, drop or throw or cause, allow
or permit to be deposited any dust, dirt, paper, ash, carcass,
refuse, box, barrel, bale, household or trade refuse, vehicle
wreck, excavation or builder’s rubble, household
furniture or any other materials on a street pavement,
wasteland, vacant premises, drain, canal, on roadsides,
beaches, gardens or any other public places.
2. Shop owners and street vendors shall not be allowed
to trade on any road, pavement and under the verandah of
any building unless a clear passage of 1.5 metres is left
from the edge of the road or pavement, whatever is applicable,
to be used freely by pedestrians.
3. (i) Every occupier of any premises shall deposit or cause
to be deposited all house and garden sweepings from such
premises in receptacles which he shall provide for that purpose.
(ii) 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 street or five metres within the boundary line
of the premises.
(iii) No person shall deposit or cause or allow to be deposited
any dung, discarded eggs, night soil human excretes, industrial
waste, animal refuse in such receptacles.
(iv) The owner or occupier or any premises shall not 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.
(v) The owner of multi-storeyed 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. The refuse chamber or shed shall
be readily accessible to the scavenging vehicles.
4. All refuse produced by the exercise on the premises of
any trade or by any manufacture there be 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 the Council.
5. Any seller of cakes, foodstuffs or other perishable goods
shall secure such refuse in plastic bags before disposing
of it in a receptacle.
6. Every occupier of premises shall:
(a) Keep clean the space extending from the wall or other
enclosure of the premises down to the gutter or ditch;
(b) Keep clean 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;
(c) Not allow to be kept therein any basin, receptacle
or used with foetid or filthy water.
7. 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. Any person who fails to comply with such a notice
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.
8. The Occupier of any premises shall be held responsible
for the contravention of these regulations whenever any unburied
matter of animal origin with foetid or filthy smell is detected
to exist on such premises.
9. No person shall drop packages, wrappings or containers,
or any part thereof, any of the contents of such container
on any other things such as trade refuse, vehicle wreck,
excavation or builder’s rubble, household used furniture
etc, constituting litter of any road, footpath roadside,
drain, cover, pavement, stream, river, rivulet or canal
or any other place that may cause environmental problems.
10. Any officer may:
(a) where on account of the condition, construction or
location of the receptacle, there exists, or is likely
to be, pollution or a threat to public health; and
(b) having due regard to the situation of the premises,
whether residential or commercial, serve a notice on the
occupier, requiring him to have this receptacle:
(i) constructed with concrete or other impervious material;
(ii) adequately ventilated;
(iii) placed at proximity of the main entrance;
(iv) provided with a means of access for cleaning and removing its content
without having it to be carried through any building; and
(v) provided with an outlet to a covered drain.
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