…told to leave as holiday season is over
THE mayor and councillors of the City of Georgetown has expressed grave dissatisfaction regarding the manner in which the streets of Georgetown were left following the holiday season and has called on vendors to dismantle their makeshift stalls by Sunday as the holiday season is over.
In a statement City Hall said it would have opened the streets of Georgetown for the festive season. It said both vendors and promoters of public activities must ensure that after business at the area they operate is left in a state of good environmental practice.
“The employees of the council were saddled with additional work to ensure that the area were in a cleansed state. The mayor and councillors of the City of Georgetown wishes to inform all vendors that the time for seasonal vending will expire on Sunday and as such all structures that were erected during the festive season should be demolished.”
The council said it will employ a special crew that will remove all unauthorised structures and encumbrances remaining on the parapets along; Regent, Main, Water and Robb streets.
The council wishes to advise such persons that the Municipality and District and Council Act 28:01 states that:
(1)No person shall leave , place or store , or cause to be left placed or stored , any vehicle cart, dray barrel , box dust-bin , tree trunk ,branch , limb or other thing upon any street , parapet pavement or foot –path , or in any other way encumber any street , parapet or pavement, with any vehicle , cart ,dray , barrel , box dust-bin or other thing.
(2) The city engineer shall have the power to remove any vehicle , cart , dray , barrel box, dust-bin, , tree trunk, branch , limb or other thing whatsoever left , placed or stored contrary to paragraph (1), and the cost of removing any such thing maybe recovered by the Town Clerk in a court of competent jurisdiction from any such person.
(3) Anything coming into the possession of the City Engineer by virtue of paragraph (2) and remaining unclaimed for the period of one month after the date of its removal may be sold or otherwise disposed of by the council.
Provided that where it is reasonably necessary to effect a scale or disposal of such thing by reason of it being in a dangerous state or injurious to the health of human beings, animals or plant or by reason of it being of a dangerous state or injuries to health of human beings plants or by reason or it being perishable nature, the sale or disposal maybe effected to at such time as determined by the council.
(4) The council may deduct for any proceeds obtained pursuant to the exercise of its powers under paragraph (3) any expenses properly incurred in effecting the removal and sale or disposal, as the case may be, any sum in excess of such shall be retained by the council for a period of a three years and, if so lawfully claimed, be paid into the Consolidated Fund for the public use’’
