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05/12/2024
The Khulna City Corporation Ordinance, 1984

The Khulna City Corporation Ordinance, 1984

( Ordinance NO. LXXII OF 1984 )

এই অধ্যাদেশটি স্থানীয় সরকার ( সিটি কর্পোরেশন ) আইন, ২০০৯ (২০০৯ সনের ৬০ নং আইন) দ্বারা রহিত করা হইয়াছে।

Chapter I

PUBLIC HEALTH

Responsibility for sanitation
73. The Corporation shall be responsible for the sanitation of the City, and for this purpose, it may cause such measures to be taken as are required by or under this Ordinance.
Insanitary buildings
74. (1) The Corporation may by notice require the owner or occupier of any building or land which is in insanitary or unwholesome state-
 
 
 
 
(a) to clean or otherwise put it in a proper state;
 
 
 
 
(b) to make arrangements to the satisfaction of the Corporation for its proper sanitation;
 
 
 
 
(c) to lime-wash the building and to make such essential repairs as may be specified in the notice; and
 
 
 
 
(d) to take such other steps in regard to such building or land as may be so specified.
 
 
 
 
(2) If any requirement of a notice issued under sub-section (1) is not complied with, within such period as may be specified in the notice, the Corporation may cause the necessary step to be taken at the expense of the owner or occupier, and the cost so incurred by the Corporation shall be deemed to be a tax levied on the owner or occupier under this Ordinance.
Removal, collection and disposal of refuse
75. (1) The Corporation shall make adequate arrangements for the removal of refuse from all public streets, public latrines, urinals, drains, and all buildings and land vested in the Corporation, and for the collection and proper disposal of such refuse.
 
 
 
 
(2) The occupiers of all other buildings and lands within the Corporation shall be responsible for the removal of refuse from such buildings and lands subject to the general control and supervision of the Corporation.
 
 
(3) The Corporation may cause public dust-bins or other suitable receptacles to be provided at suitable places and where such dust-bins or receptacles are provided, the Corporation may, by public notice, require that all refuse accumulating in any premises or land shall be deposited by the owner or occupier of such premises or land in such dust-bins or receptacles.
 
 
 
 
(4) All refuse removed and collected by the staff of the Corporation or under their control and supervision and all refuse deposited in the dust-bins and other receptacles provided by the Corporation shall be the property of the Corporation.
Latrines and urinals
 
 
76. (1) The Corporation may, and if so required by the Government shall, provide and maintain, in sufficient number and in proper situation, public latrines and urinals for the separate use of each sex, and shall cause the same to be kept in proper order, and to be properly cleaned.
 
 
 
 
(2) The occupier of any premises to which any latrine or urinal pertains shall keep such latrine or urinal in a proper state to the satisfaction of the Corporation and shall employ such staff for the purpose as may be necessary, or as may be specified by the Corporation.
 
 
 
 
(3) Where any premises are without privy or urinal accommodation, or without adequate privy or urinal accommodation, or the privy or urinal is on any ground objectionable, the Corporation may by notice require the owner of such premises-
 
 
 
 
(a) to provide such or such additional, privy or urinal accommodation as may be specified in the notice;
 
 
 
 
(b) to make such structural or other alterations in the existing privy or urinal accommodation as may be so specified;
 
 
 
 
(c) to remove the privy or urinal; and
 
 
 
 
(d) where there is an underground sewerage system, to substitute connected privy or connected urinal accommodation for any service privy or service urinal accommodation.
Births, deaths and marriages
77. (1) The Corporation shall register all births, deaths and marriages within the limits of the city and information of such births, deaths and marriages shall be given by such persons or authorities, and shall be registered in such manner, as the by-laws may provide.
 
 
 
 
(2) The by-laws made under sub-section (1) may exempt any class or classes of marriages information in respect of which is not deemed necessary for registration under this section.
Infectious diseases
78. (1) The Corporation shall adopt such measures to prevent infectious diseases and to restrain infection within the City as the rules and by-laws may provide.
 
 
 
 
(2) The Corporation may, and if so required by the Government shall, establish and maintain one or more hospitals for the reception and treatment of persons suffering from infectious diseases.
 
 
 
 
(3) The Corporation may, in the prescribed manner, frame and implement schemes for the prevention and control of infectious diseases.
Health and maternity centres, etc.
79. The Corporation may, and if so required by the Government shall,-
 
 
 
 
(a) establish, manage, maintain or contribute towards the maintenance of health centres, maternity centres and centres for the welfare of women, infants and children;
 
 
 
 
(b) provide for the training of dais;
 
 
 
 
(c) provide for the promotion of family planning; and
 
 
 
 
(d) adopt such other measures as may be necessary to promote the health and welfare of women, infants and children.
Promotion of public health
80. Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance and the rules, the Corporation may, and if the Government so directs shall, take such measures for promoting public health, including education in health, as it considers necessary or, as the case may be, the Government directs.
Hospitals and dispensaries
81. (1) The Corporation may, and if so required by the Government shall, establish and maintain such number of hospitals and dispensaries as may be necessary for the medical relief of the inhabitants of the City, and the people visiting it.
 
 
 
 
(2) Every hospital and dispensary maintained by the Corporation shall be managed and administered in such manner as may be prescribed.
 
 
 
 
(3) Subject to any directions that may be given in this behalf by the Government, every hospital and dispensary maintained by the Corporation shall be provided with such drugs, medicines, instruments, appliances, equipments, apparatus and furniture in accordance with such scale and standards as may be prescribed.
Medical aid and relief, and medical education, etc
82. The Corporation may, and if so required by the Government shall, take such measures as may be necessary or as may be specified by the Government for-
 
 
 
 
(a) the provision and maintenance of first aid centres;
 
 
 
 
(b) the provision and maintenance of mobile medical aid units;
 
 
 
 
(c) the promotion and encouragement of societies for the provision of medical aid;
 
 
 
 
(d) the promotion of medical education;
 
 
 
 
(e) the payment of grants to institutions for medical relief; and
 
 
 
 
(f) the medical inspection of school children.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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