Additional general duties of the Council

Without prejudice to any other powers conferred upon, or duties imposed on, the Council by this or any other Act or regulations made thereunder the Council shall have the obligation to perform the following duties in Belize City in an efficient and timely manner– (a) to maintain all public cemeteries in Belize City in a sanitary manner and to keep such cemeteries in a general state of good repair; (b) to co-ordinate, control, manage or regulate the timely and efficient collection and removal of all garbage material from all residential or commercial areas in Belize City and to make subsidiary legislation providing for the imposition of fees therefor; (c) to construct, repair, alter, widen, lay out and make surveys for streets in Belize City, especially in new residential or commercial areas; (d) to repair, cleanse and keep clean and in good repair, all or any part of the walls of any public drain, canal or creek in Belize City, but this duty shall not be construed as compelling the Council to cleanse any public drain, canal or creek at times when the public health would in the opinion of the Council be endangered by the operation; 32 (e) to regulate, under Regulations made in that behalf, the construction, demolition, alteration and height of fences on private property within Belize City, and the type of material to be used in the construction of such fences.