Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Removal and deposit of offensive matters. - The committee may fix places within or, with the approval of the District Magistrate, beyond the limits of the mu- nicipality for the deposit of refuse, rubbish or offensive matter of any kind or for the disposal of the dead bodies of animals, and may by public notice give directions as to the time, manner and conditions at, in and under which such refuse, rubbish or of- fensive matter or dead bodies of animals may be removed along any street and deposit at such places. Section 154-A 1[154-A. Preparation to compost manure. - Where the State Government so re- quires it shall be the duty of the Committee to subject all dung to the process of making compost manure. Section 154-B 154-B. 2[Power to acquire, etc. - (1) Where the property in any dung vests in any person or class of persons other than the committee, the Committee, required under the last preceding section, shall acquire, either permanently or for such period as it may deem fit, the rights or interests in the dung belonging to the aforesaid persons, on payment of such compensation as the committee may consider reasonable and may assess in the manner prescribed. 3[(2) Where any such dung is requisitioned or acquired under this section the amount of compensation payable shall be determined in the manner and in accord- ance with the principle enumerated below:- (a) where the amount of compensation can be fixed by agreement, it shall be paid in accordance with such agreement ; (b) where no such agreement can be reached, the Committee and the person or persons as aforesaid shall appoint an arbitrator having knowledge of the price of the property or interest in the dung requisitioned or acquired: (c) at the commencement of the proceedings before the arbitrator, the com- mittee and the person, to be compensated shall state what, in their respec- tive opinion, is the fair amount of compensation ; (d) the arbitrator in making his award shall take into consideration the market value of the dung in the locality, the damage, if any, resulting from dimi- nution of the profits accruing to the person or persons aforesaid and any other factor of a like nature ; (e) save as otherwise hereinafter provided in this Act or the rules made there- under, nothing in any other law for the time being in force shall apply to arbitration under this section]. The Punjab Municipal Act, 1911, Section 154 79