Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Each Municipality, in the municipal area, shall arrange door to door collection of segregated waste from all households, settlements, commercial institutions and other non-residential premises and in the case of multi-storied buildings, commercial complexes, malls, housing complexes etc. from the entry gate or any other location as may be specified by the Secretary through public notice. (2) Segregated waste collected as per sub-section (1) shall not be transported or brought for treatment or disposal unless it is properly covered.] Substituted by ACT 6 OF 2024 published in K.G.Ext. No. 820 dt. 04/03/2024 (w.e.f. 19/12/2023). Prior to the Substitution it read as "Introduction of house to house collection of rubbish.-- (1) The Secretary may, with the sanction of the Council, introduce in the Municipal area or part thereof house to house collection of rubbish and other offensive matter for which he may publish, from time to time, an order specifying the hours within which the occupier of any house or premises or land may place rubbish or offensive matter adjacent to his house, premises or land as may be specified by the Secretary, in a proper receptacle provided by the Municipality or in a receptacle of the size and type as may be specified by the Secretary in the order that such rubbish or offensive matter may be removed by the employees of the Municipality or by the contractor who may be engaged by the Municipality for this purpose. (2) No person shall place or cause to be placed rubbish or offensive matter on a public street at the time other than the time specified by the Secretary and except in the receptacle provided or specified under sub-section (1)."