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In section 175 of the principal Act,— Amendment of section 175. (1) for sub-sections (1), (2) and (3), the following sub-sections shall be substituted, namely:— “(1) It shall be the duty of the council to keep any public place clean, by adopting a system of collection of segregated waste at source, transportation, processing and disposal of solid waste scientifically in a place specifically allotted for this purpose as may be notified by the municipality, either within or outside the municipal limit. (2) All solid waste, rubbish and other materials collected by the municipality shall be the property of the municipality. The public shall segregate the solid waste at source and store in different containers and dispose the same as prescribed in the rules. The municipality shall provide appropriate facilities for the collection, storage, recycle, process and dispose of segregated solid waste received from various sources. (3) Where no proper drainage system is provided in the municipal limit or in any part thereof, the municipality may make necessary arrangements to collect, transport and to treat the collected drainage water scientifically and dispose of the same in such manner as may be prescribed.”; (2) in sub-section (4), the proviso shall be omitted; (3) in sub-section (5),— (a) in clause (b), for the expression “compost manure”, the expression “compost manure or bio-gas or electricity or any other product” shall be substituted; 192 TAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY (b) for clause (d), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:— “(d) incineration, deep burial, autoclave, multiclave, for disposal of biomedical waste generated from the hospitals, nursing homes, health care centres, diagnostic centres, medical laboratories and non-industrial hazardous waste that may be notified by the Government, from time to time.”; (4) after sub-section (5) as so amended, the following sub- sections shall be added, namely:— “(6) It shall be the duty of the owners and the occupiers of all land and buildings in the municipality to keep their premises neat and clean. (7) The bio-medical waste from hospitals, nursing homes, health care centres, clinics and diagnostic laboratories shall not be mixed with municipal solid waste. (8) The municipality shall establish a separate system for plastic waste management including scientific processing and disposal as may be prescribed. (9) The municipality shall require the manufacturers or sellers of electrical and electronic materials to establish collection centre or a collection point or both, either individually or jointly, to collect, dispose or recycle the e-waste as may be prescribed. (10) The municipality shall collect the construction and demolition waste arising out of a new construction, modification and alteration of buildings separately and store in a specified area or process it as per the rules as may be prescribed. The council shall levy fees or charges from every construction and demolition waste generator for collection, transportation, processing and disposal as may be prescribed. (11) Any premises having insanitary latrines shall be demolished by the municipality and recover the expenditure for such demolition as an arrear of land revenue. (12) No person shall spit in streets, public buildings or in any other public place.”. Amendment of section 176.