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 the City of Belmopan in an efficient and timely manner– (a) to maintain all public cemeteries in the City of Belmopan 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 and debris material from all residential or commercial areas in the City of Belmopan; (c) to construct, repair, alter, widen, lay out and make surveys for streets in the City of Belmopan, 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, open spaces or creek in the City of Belmopan, but this duty shall not be construed as compelling the Council to cleanse any public drain, canal, open space or creek at times when the public health would in the opinion of the Council be endangered by the operation; (e) to issue residential and commercial lots within the City limits, on such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon by the Council from time to time, to persons who make application therefor; 40 (f) to remove derelict vehicles, subject to any other law, which are an eye-sore on Belmopan’s pristine environment.