Dhaka City Corporation: Hot Links: DCC Ordinance

1. Evasion of the payment of a tax or other impost lawfully levied by the Corporation.

2. Failure to furnish on requisition information in respect of any matter which the Corporation is authorized to call for under any of the provisions of this Ordinance, or the rules or by-laws or furnishing wrong information.

3. Doing an act without license or permission when the doing of such act requires a license or permission under any of the provisions of this Ordinance, or the rules or by-laws.

4. Erection or re-erection of a building without the sanction required under this Ordinance.

5. Development of a site without the sanction required under this ordinance.

6. Laying out, making or commencing to lay out or make a street without the sanction of the Corporation.

7. Making an encroachment on any public road, public street or public place without the sanction of the Corporation.

8. Picketing, parking animals or collecting carts or vehicles on any street or using any street as a halting place for vehicles or animals or as a place of encampment without the permission of the Corporation.

9. Causing or permitting animals to stray.

10. Without the permission of the Corporation, causing or knowingly or negligently allowing the contents of any sink, sewer, drain, or cess-pool or any other offensive matter to flow, or drain to be put upon any street, or public place, or into any irrigation channel or any sewer or drain not set apart for the purpose.

11. Laying out a drain or altering any drain in a street without the sanction of the Corporation.

12. Connecting any house drain with a drain in a public street without the permission of the Corporation.

13. Throwing or placing any refuse on any street, or in any place not provided or appointed for the purpose by the Corporation.

14. Carrying on any dangerous or offensive trade, or storing any offensive or dangerous article, without the sanction of the Corporation.

15. Doing any act by which water for drinking is rendered unfit for such use.

16. Using water for drinking from any source which is suspected to be dangerous to public health, and the use whereof has been prohibited by the Corporation.

17. Watering cattle or animals, or bathing or washing at or near a well or other source of drinking water for the public.

18. Steeping hemp, jute or any other plant in or near a pond or any other excavation within such distance of the residential area as may be specified by the Corporation.

19. Dyeing or tanning skins within such distance of the residential area as may be specified by the Corporation.

20. Willfully or negligently injuring, or suffering to be injured, wells, reservoirs, mains, pipes or other appliances for the supply of water under the management or control of the Corporation.

21. Drawing off, diverting or taking any water, except with the permission of the Corporation from any main or pipe.

22. Tampering with any main pipe, meter, or any apparatus or appliance for the supply of water.

23. Excavation of earth, stone or any other material within such distance of the residential area as may be specified by the Corporation.

24. Establishing a brick kiln, lime kiln, charcoal kiln or pottery within such distance of the residential area as may be specified by the Corporation.

25. Disposing of carcasses of animals without the sanction of the Corporation.

26. Failure to provide, close, remove, alter, repair, clean, disinfect or put in proper order any latrine, urinal, drain, cess-pool or other receptacle for filth, sullage, water or refuse when so required by the Corporation.

27. Failure by the owner or occupier of any land to clear away and remove any thick vegetation or undergrowth which has been declared by the Corporation to be injurious to health or offensive to the neighborhood.

28. Failure by the owner or occupier of any land to cut or trim the hedges growing thereon and bordering on any street or any branches of trees growing thereon which overhang any street or obstruct the same or cause danger, or which so overhang any well, tank or other source from which water is derived for public use as to be likely to pollute the water thereof, or have been declared under this Ordinance to be in any way offensive or injurious to health.

29. Cultivation of such crops, use of such manner or irrigation of any land in such manner as is declared by the Corporation to be injurious to public health or offensive to the neighborhood.

30. Failure by the owner or occupier of any land or building to clean, repair, cover, fill up. or drain off any private well, tank or other source of water supply, which is declared by the Corporation to be injurious to health or offensive to the neighborhood.

31. Failure by the owner or occupier of any building or land to put up and keep in good condition proper troughs and pipes for receiving or carrying water or sullage from the building or land when so required by the Corporation.

32. Failure by a medical practitioner who during the course of such practice becomes cognizant of the existence of any infectious disease to make report about such infectious disease to the Corporation.

33. Failure by any person cognizant of the existence of any infections disease in any building to communicate the information to the Corporation.

34. Failure by the owner to disinfect an infected building or the letting of an infected building without disinfection.

35. Sale of articles of food or drink by a person suffering from any infections disease.

36. Failure by the owner or driver of a vehicle to disinfect any infected vehicle or carrying passengers in an infected vehicle.

37. Feeding or allowing to be fed any animal meant for dairy or food purposes on deleterious substances, filth or refuse of any kind.

38. Slaughtering animals for the sale of meat at a place other than the place set apart for the purpose.

39. Selling to the prejudice of any purchaser any article of food or drink which is not of the nature, substance or quality demanded by such purchaser.

40. Burying or burning a dead body at a place, which is not a public or registered burial or burning place, except with the sanction of the Corporation.

41. Removal of a dead body by a route other than the routes specified by the Corporation.

42. Defacing or disturbing any municipal direction-post, lamp-post or lamp, or extinguishing any municipal light except under due authority.

43. Fixing any bill, notice, placard or other paper or means of advertisement against or upon any building or place other than the places fixed for he purpose by the Corporation.

44. Exhibiting any obscene advertisement.

45. Stacking or collecting of timber, wood, dry grass, straw or other inflammable material in a manner which is declared by the Corporation to be dangerous.

46. Driving or propelling any vehicle not properly supplied with lights during the period from half an hour after sun set to half an hour before sunrise.

47. failure while driving leading or propelling a vehicle, without reasonable excuse to keep to the left or when passing a vehicle going in the same direction, to keep to the right of that vehicle, or to follow other specified rules of the road.

48. Playing of music or radio, beating a drum, blowing a horn or trumpet, or beating or sounding any brass or other instrument or utensil in contravention of any general or special prohibition issued by the Corporation.

49. Discharging firearms or letting of fireworks, crackers, five balloons or detonators, or engaging in any gams in such manner as causes or is likely to cause danger to persons passing by or living or working to the neighborhood, or risk or injury to property.

50. Quarrying, blasting, dutting timber, or carrying on building operations in such manner as causes or is likely to cause danger to persons passing by or living or working in the neighborhood.

51. Letting loose or setting on ferocious dogs or other dangerous animals.

52. Failure to demolish or otherwise secure a building declared by the Corporation to be dangerous building.

53. Using or allowing the use for human habitation of a building declared by the Corporation to be unfit for human habitation.

54. Failure to lime-wash, or repair a building if so required y the Corporation.

55. Failure by the owner or occupier of a building to make adequate arrangements for house scavenging wen so required by the Corporation.

56. Willfully obstructing any officer or employees of, or any person authorized by, the Corporation in the exercise of powers conferred by or under this Ordinance.

57. Begging unfortunately for alms, or exposing or exhibiting with the object of exciting any deformity or discease or any offensive sore or wound.

58. Keeping a brothel or practicing prostitution in such area as may be declared by the Corporation to be the prohibited area.

59. Being a Commissioner or an officer or employee of the Corporation knowingly to acquire directly or indirectly by self or a partner any share or interest in any contract with by, or on behalf of, the Corporation.

60. Being an officer or employee declared by the Corporation to be and essential officer or employee to be absent from duty, or to neglect or refuse to perform any of the duties or to perform them willfully in an inefficient manner.

61. Doing of any other act which is prescribed as an offence under this Ordinance.

62. Contravening any of the provisions of this Ordinance, the rules, or by-laws, or of any order, direction, notice, or declaration made or issued thereunder.

63. Attempts and abatements of any of the offences aforesaid.