Section 5
Prohibitions And Penalties
5. 1 Prohibitions
5.1.1 No one shall take or instigate others to take the following actions:
5.1.1.1 Throw, keep or dump solid wastes in any public place, except in containers or places allotted for dumping solid wastes.
5.1.1.2 Throw carelessly in public places minor garbage such as scraps of paper, stumps of cigarettes and bidis, peels of fruits and groundnut, shells and pieces of vegetables without putting them in the garbage container.
5.1.1.3 Relieve oneself or cause or let others do so or throw excrement and urine in the streets or other public places.
5.1.1.4 Make streets or other public places dirty by maintaining shops, indiscriminately.
5.1.1.5 Make streets or other public places dirty by slaughtering any kind of biped or quadruped.
5.1.1.6 Made streets or public places dirty by cleaning fish or throwing rotten fruits, vegetables or other materials.
5.1.1.7 Use, remove or destroy without permission, the solid waste kept in containers or places allotted for dumping them.
5.1.1.8 Leave or dump construction materials or other goods of any kind in streets or other public places in such a manner as to hinder public traffic.
5.1.1.9 Leave or throw dead birds or animals in any place other than those prescribed by the Centre.
5.1.1.10 Manage solid wastes without obtaining permission due under Section 4.5 or act in contravention of the conditions mentioned in the license, if permission has been obtained.
5.1.1.11 Throw, leave or dump gas or liquid of any kind in pots, containers or places prescribed for dumping solid wastes.
5.1.1.12 Allow the spill-over from the septic tanks run outside carelessly.
5.1.1.13 Throw solid wastes in the streets or other public places by removing them from the septic tank of another person’s residence.
5.1.1.14 Throw garbage collected from the house of another person in streets or other public places.
5.1.1.15 Park any vehicle in or refuse to remove any parked vehicle from any street or public place during the hours of cleaning or collection of solid wastes prescribed by the Centre or when such cleaning work is
in progress.
5.1.1.16 Throw, leave or release in the streets or other public places carelessly wastes from hospitals, nursing homes, private clinics, or dispensaries.
5.1.1.17 Leave, throw, dump or release harmful wastes of any kind in streets or other public places ♦ other than places prescribed by the Centre in such a manner as to affect adversely the health of the public.♦
5.1.1.18 Throw, leave or release in any street or public place carelessly wastes from any industrial establishment.
5.1.1.19 Obstruct or oppose in any manner the solid waste control measures undertaken under this Act.
♦ 5.1.1.20 Throw, keep or dump special types of garbage in containers, streets, footpaths or other public places other than places prescribed by the Centre.
5.2 Penalties
5.2.1 The Inspection Officer may impose fines in the following manner on any person who commits or instigates the following actions and collect such fines in the spot.
5.2.1.1 For committing or instigating actions mentioned in Sub-section
5.1.1.1 or 5.1.1.2, a fine of not more than Fifty Rupees.
5.2.1.2 For committing or instigating actions mentioned in Sub-section
5.1.1.3, a fine of not more than One Hundred Rupees
5.2.1.3 For committing or instigating actions mentioned in Sub-section
5.1.1.4, a fine of not ♣ more than Five Hundred Rupees.
5.2.1.4 For committing or instigating actions mentioned in Sub-Section
5.1.1.5 or 5.1.1.6, a fine of not more than One Hundred Fifty Rupees.
5.2.1.5 For committing or instigating actions mentioned in Sub-section
5.1.1.7, a fine of not more than Five Hundred Rupees.
5.2.1.6 For committing or instigating actions mentioned in Sub-section
5.1.1.8, a fine of not more than Three Hundred Rupees.
5.2.1.7 For committing or instigating actions mentioned in Sub-section
5.1.1.9, a fine of not more than One Hundred Fifty Rupees. .
5.2.1.8 For committing or instigating actions mentioned in Sub-section
5.1.1.10, a fine of not more than One Thousand Rupees.
5.2.1.9 For committing or instigating actions mentioned in Sub-section
5.1.1.11, a fine of not more than One Hundred Rupees.
5.2.1.10 For committing or instigating actions mentioned in Sub-section
5.1.1.12, a fine of not more than One Thousand Rupees.
5.2.1.11 For committing or instigating actions mentioned in Sub-section
5.1.1.14 or 5.1.1.15, a fine of not more than Five Hundred Rupees.
♦ 5.2.1.12 For committing or instigating actions mentioned in Sub-section
5.2.1.20, a fine of not more than One Thousand Rupees.
5.2.2 After the fine imposed under Sub-section 5.2.1 is Paid, the Inspection Officer shall immediately issue a receipt thereof to the concerned person.
5.2.3 The Inspection Officer may issue order to keep under police custody for 24 hours any person who fails to pay the fine imposed under Sub-section 5.2.1.
The police employees of the concerned Police Office, Station or Post shall keep in detention the concerned person in accordance with the order issued by the Inspection Officer.
5.2.4 The Centre shall provide B class ration to the person detained under the order of the Inspection Officer.
5.2.5 The Sub-committee prescribed under Sub-section 3.9.3 may impose fines as follows on persons who commit or instigate the following actions:
5.2.5.1 On persons who commit or instigate actions mentioned in Sub-section 5.1.1.16, a fine of not more than One Hundred Fifty Rupees.
5.2.5.2 On persons who commit or instigate actions mentioned in Sub- section 5.1.1.17 or Sub-section 5.1.1.18, a fine of not ♣ more than One Thousand Rupees.
5.2.5.3 On persons who commit or instigate actions mentioned in Sub- ♦ Inserted by first Amendment.
section 5.1.1.13 or Sub-section 5.1.1.19, a fine of not more than Five Thousand Rupees.
5.2.6 The concerned party must submit to the officer of the Centre the amount of fine imposed under Sub-Section 5.2.5 within a period of seven days from the date of imposition thereof.
♦ 5.2.A Punishment to Those Who Violate Orders The Centre may impose fine of not more than One Thousand Rupees on any person who violates the order issued by the Centre under Sub-section 4.2.1 of Section 4.2.
5.3 Amounts Received in Consideration of Service Charges and Fines to be Credited to the Fund The amounts received in consideration of service charges collected by the Centre, as well as the fines imposed by the Inspection Officer and the Sub-Committee under this Act, shall be credited to the Fund of the Centre in the prescribed manner.
5.4 Collection as Payments Due to the Government The Centre may realize service charges and fines imposed by the Sub-Committee under this Act as payments due to the Government from parties who do not pay
such amounts.
5.5 Appropriate Working Procedure to be Adopted The Inspection Officer and the Sub-Committee shall follow an appropriate
procedure while inflicting penalties under Section 5.2.
5.6 Decision to be Final
The decisions taken by the Inspection Officer or the Sub-Committee under Section
5.2 shall be final.
5.7 Police to Extend Cooperation The police personnel of the concerned Police Office, station of Post must extend
cooperation to the Centre in order to implement the objectives of this Act.
5.1.1 No one shall take or instigate others to take the following actions:
5.1.1.1 Throw, keep or dump solid wastes in any public place, except in containers or places allotted for dumping solid wastes.
5.1.1.2 Throw carelessly in public places minor garbage such as scraps of paper, stumps of cigarettes and bidis, peels of fruits and groundnut, shells and pieces of vegetables without putting them in the garbage container.
5.1.1.3 Relieve oneself or cause or let others do so or throw excrement and urine in the streets or other public places.
5.1.1.4 Make streets or other public places dirty by maintaining shops, indiscriminately.
5.1.1.5 Make streets or other public places dirty by slaughtering any kind of biped or quadruped.
5.1.1.6 Made streets or public places dirty by cleaning fish or throwing rotten fruits, vegetables or other materials.
5.1.1.7 Use, remove or destroy without permission, the solid waste kept in containers or places allotted for dumping them.
5.1.1.8 Leave or dump construction materials or other goods of any kind in streets or other public places in such a manner as to hinder public traffic.
5.1.1.9 Leave or throw dead birds or animals in any place other than those prescribed by the Centre.
5.1.1.10 Manage solid wastes without obtaining permission due under Section 4.5 or act in contravention of the conditions mentioned in the license, if permission has been obtained.
5.1.1.11 Throw, leave or dump gas or liquid of any kind in pots, containers or places prescribed for dumping solid wastes.
5.1.1.12 Allow the spill-over from the septic tanks run outside carelessly.
5.1.1.13 Throw solid wastes in the streets or other public places by removing them from the septic tank of another person’s residence.
5.1.1.14 Throw garbage collected from the house of another person in streets or other public places.
5.1.1.15 Park any vehicle in or refuse to remove any parked vehicle from any street or public place during the hours of cleaning or collection of solid wastes prescribed by the Centre or when such cleaning work is
in progress.
5.1.1.16 Throw, leave or release in the streets or other public places carelessly wastes from hospitals, nursing homes, private clinics, or dispensaries.
5.1.1.17 Leave, throw, dump or release harmful wastes of any kind in streets or other public places ♦ other than places prescribed by the Centre in such a manner as to affect adversely the health of the public.♦
5.1.1.18 Throw, leave or release in any street or public place carelessly wastes from any industrial establishment.
5.1.1.19 Obstruct or oppose in any manner the solid waste control measures undertaken under this Act.
♦ 5.1.1.20 Throw, keep or dump special types of garbage in containers, streets, footpaths or other public places other than places prescribed by the Centre.
5.2 Penalties
5.2.1 The Inspection Officer may impose fines in the following manner on any person who commits or instigates the following actions and collect such fines in the spot.
5.2.1.1 For committing or instigating actions mentioned in Sub-section
5.1.1.1 or 5.1.1.2, a fine of not more than Fifty Rupees.
5.2.1.2 For committing or instigating actions mentioned in Sub-section
5.1.1.3, a fine of not more than One Hundred Rupees
5.2.1.3 For committing or instigating actions mentioned in Sub-section
5.1.1.4, a fine of not ♣ more than Five Hundred Rupees.
5.2.1.4 For committing or instigating actions mentioned in Sub-Section
5.1.1.5 or 5.1.1.6, a fine of not more than One Hundred Fifty Rupees.
5.2.1.5 For committing or instigating actions mentioned in Sub-section
5.1.1.7, a fine of not more than Five Hundred Rupees.
5.2.1.6 For committing or instigating actions mentioned in Sub-section
5.1.1.8, a fine of not more than Three Hundred Rupees.
5.2.1.7 For committing or instigating actions mentioned in Sub-section
5.1.1.9, a fine of not more than One Hundred Fifty Rupees. .
5.2.1.8 For committing or instigating actions mentioned in Sub-section
5.1.1.10, a fine of not more than One Thousand Rupees.
5.2.1.9 For committing or instigating actions mentioned in Sub-section
5.1.1.11, a fine of not more than One Hundred Rupees.
5.2.1.10 For committing or instigating actions mentioned in Sub-section
5.1.1.12, a fine of not more than One Thousand Rupees.
5.2.1.11 For committing or instigating actions mentioned in Sub-section
5.1.1.14 or 5.1.1.15, a fine of not more than Five Hundred Rupees.
♦ 5.2.1.12 For committing or instigating actions mentioned in Sub-section
5.2.1.20, a fine of not more than One Thousand Rupees.
5.2.2 After the fine imposed under Sub-section 5.2.1 is Paid, the Inspection Officer shall immediately issue a receipt thereof to the concerned person.
5.2.3 The Inspection Officer may issue order to keep under police custody for 24 hours any person who fails to pay the fine imposed under Sub-section 5.2.1.
The police employees of the concerned Police Office, Station or Post shall keep in detention the concerned person in accordance with the order issued by the Inspection Officer.
5.2.4 The Centre shall provide B class ration to the person detained under the order of the Inspection Officer.
5.2.5 The Sub-committee prescribed under Sub-section 3.9.3 may impose fines as follows on persons who commit or instigate the following actions:
5.2.5.1 On persons who commit or instigate actions mentioned in Sub-section 5.1.1.16, a fine of not more than One Hundred Fifty Rupees.
5.2.5.2 On persons who commit or instigate actions mentioned in Sub- section 5.1.1.17 or Sub-section 5.1.1.18, a fine of not ♣ more than One Thousand Rupees.
5.2.5.3 On persons who commit or instigate actions mentioned in Sub- ♦ Inserted by first Amendment.
section 5.1.1.13 or Sub-section 5.1.1.19, a fine of not more than Five Thousand Rupees.
5.2.6 The concerned party must submit to the officer of the Centre the amount of fine imposed under Sub-Section 5.2.5 within a period of seven days from the date of imposition thereof.
♦ 5.2.A Punishment to Those Who Violate Orders The Centre may impose fine of not more than One Thousand Rupees on any person who violates the order issued by the Centre under Sub-section 4.2.1 of Section 4.2.
5.3 Amounts Received in Consideration of Service Charges and Fines to be Credited to the Fund The amounts received in consideration of service charges collected by the Centre, as well as the fines imposed by the Inspection Officer and the Sub-Committee under this Act, shall be credited to the Fund of the Centre in the prescribed manner.
5.4 Collection as Payments Due to the Government The Centre may realize service charges and fines imposed by the Sub-Committee under this Act as payments due to the Government from parties who do not pay
such amounts.
5.5 Appropriate Working Procedure to be Adopted The Inspection Officer and the Sub-Committee shall follow an appropriate
procedure while inflicting penalties under Section 5.2.
5.6 Decision to be Final
The decisions taken by the Inspection Officer or the Sub-Committee under Section
5.2 shall be final.
5.7 Police to Extend Cooperation The police personnel of the concerned Police Office, station of Post must extend
cooperation to the Centre in order to implement the objectives of this Act.