THE KERALA MUNICIPALITY ACT, 1994* - nrcddp

dispose of the same by auction or otherwise.]331. Provision for final disposal of solid waste.— (1} Every Municipality shall indentifyand notify suitable lands within or without the municipal area for the purpose of final disposal ofwaste.(2) While notifying the land under sub-section(l), health and environmental aspectsshall be taken into consideration by the Municipality.(3) Every Municipality may make adequate arrangements for the utilisation of solidwastes for the preparation of compost and the disposal of it by sale.(4) Where composting of waste is not found possible or practicable, sanitary landfillmethods shall be adopted by the Municipality for the disposal of waste at the landfill sites inthe manner as may be specified by the Council.(5) Incineration of waste may be resorted to by the Municipality for the disposal ofinfectious waste generated from the hospitals, nursing homes or health care centres and thenon-industrial hazardous waste as specified by the Council from time to time.332. Provision for processing of solid wastes.— The Municipality may, for the purposeof recycling, treating, processing and disposing of solid wastes or converting such solid wastesinto compost or any other matter construct, acquire, operate, maintain and manage anyestablishment within or without the Municipal area and run it on a commercial basis or maycontract out such activity.333. Contributions from persons having control over places of pilgrimage etc.—Where a church,mosque, temple , mutt or any place of religious worship or instruction or any place which is used forholding fairs, festivals or for other like purposes is situated within a municipal area or the neighbourhood thereofand attracts, either throughout the year or on particular occasions a large number of persons, requiring specialarrangements necessary for public health, safety or convenience, whether permanent or temporary, by theMunicipality, the Municipality may require the trustee or other person having control over such place tomake such recurring or nonrecurring contributions to the funds of that Municipality as determined byGovernment.90. Sub-seclion (2A) added by Act 14 of 1999, w.e.f. 24-3-1999.334. Removal of solid waste, rubbish and solid waste accumulated on nonresidentialpremises.— (1) The Secretary may, if he thinks fit, by notice in writing , requirethe owner or the occupier of any premises used as-(i) a factory, workshop or a place for carrying on any manufacturing process, or(ii) a market or trade premises, or(iii) a slaughter house, or(iv) a hotel, eating house, or restaurant, or(v) a hospital or a nursing home, or(vi) a warehouse or godown, or(vii) a place to which large number of persons resort, where rubbish, offensive matter, filth, traderefuse, special wastes, hazardous wastes or excrementitious and polluted matters are accumulated in largequantities, to collect such matters accumulating thereon and to remove the same to a depot or placeprovided or directed by the Secretary at such time and in such manner and by such routes as may bespecified in the notice.