National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) – Keep our streets clean! NSWMA – Antigua is cracking down on litter violations with the Litter Control and Prevention Act, 2019.
Don’t let uncovered waste slide – an individual can be fined five thousand dollars ($5000) or face imprisonment for 1 year. Corporations may face a fine of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000). Spot a violation?
Report anonymously (to our Litter Warden Hotline – (268) 727 – 2467 and help us maintain pristine streets!
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18. DISPOSAL OF LITTER FROM MOTOR VEHICLE OR TRAILER
(1) A person is guilty of an offence, who transports in or on a motor vehicle or trailer along any motorway, road, street, alley, lane or thoroughfare, any substance or material which is likely to fall off or blow off the motor vehicle or trailer because while being so transported it is either-
(a) not sufficiently or well secured as to prevent it from falling off the motor vehicle or Litter Control and Prevention Act, 2019. 18 No. 3 of 2019. trailer, or
(b) not so covered as to prevent it from blowing off the motor vehicle or trailer.
(2) A person who is guilty of an offence under this section is liable— (a) in the case of an individual, on summary conviction
(i) to a fine of five thousand dollars ($5000) or to imprisonment for 1 year; and
(ii) suspension of the driver’s licence of that person for a period of six months; (b) in the case of a body corporate, to a fine of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000)…
Learn the Act know if you’re in violation: download the whole act here https://health.gov.ag/…/national-solid-waste…/
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