Additional general duties of every Council

Without prejudice to any powers conferred upon, or duties imposed on, any Council by this or any other Act or regulations made thereunder, every Council shall have the obligation to perform the following duties in its town in an efficient and timely manner– (a) to maintain all public cemeteries in its town 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 its town; (c) to construct, repair, alter, widen, lay out and make surveys for streets in its town, especially in new residential or commercial areas; and (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 its town, 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.