Section 263 in Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act, 1976
263. Prohibition against accumulation of rubbish and filth on premises, etc.
(1)No person who is bound by any notice issued under section 256 or section 257, as the case may be, to collect and deposit or remove rubbish or filth accumulating on any premises shall allow the same to accumulate for more than twenty-four hours.(2)No person shall deposit any rubbish or filth otherwise than as provided in a notice issued under section 256 or 257 as the case may be.(3)No person shall, after due provision has been made under sections 255 and 258 for the deposit and removal of the same,-(a)deposit the carcasses of animals, rubbish or filth in any street or in the verandah of any building or on any unoccupied ground alongside any street or any public quay, jetty or landing place or on the bank of a water course or tank; or(b)deposit filth or carcasses of animals in any dustbin or in any vehicle not intended for the removal of the same; or(c)deposit rubbish in any vehicle or vessel intended for the removal of filth except for the purpose of deodorizing or disinfecting the filth.(4)No owner or occupier of any premises shall keep or allow to be kept for more than twenty-four hours otherwise than in a receptacle approved by the Commissioner, any rubbish or filth on such premises or any place belonging thereto or neglect to employ proper means to remove the rubbish or filth from or to cleanse such receptacle and to dispose of such rubbish or filth in the manner directed by the Commissioner or fail to comply with any requisition of the Commissioner as to the construction, repair, paving or clearing of any privy on or belonging to, the premises.(5)No owner or occupier shall allow the water of any sink, drain or privy or the drainage from any stable or place, or any other filth to run-down on or to be put upon, any street or into any drain in or alongside of any street, except in such manner as shall prevent any avoidable nuisance from any such filth soaking into the wells or ground at the side of the said drain.
