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Department

Monitoring & Enforcement

Enforcing Part IV of the AEPB Act, with offenders prosecuted before a mobile court.

The primary function of the Monitoring & Enforcement Department is to enforce all provisions of the 1997 AEPB Act, especially Part IV, which sets out the offences to be enforced. Offenders are presented before a mobile court presided over by a magistrate for prosecution.

Offences enforced by the Department

  • Offences relating to tenements.
  • Offences relating to residential areas.
  • Offences relating to noise.
  • Location of septic tanks, burial grounds, etc.
  • Removal of silt, disposal of construction debris, quarry sites, etc.
  • Offences relating to public conveniences.
  • Offences relating to industrial and commercial waste.
  • Offences relating to air pollution.
  • Offences relating to water pollution.
  • Offences relating to maintenance of dustbins.
  • Offences relating to driving, walking and drainage slabs.
  • Offences relating to bush burning, hunting, poaching and felling of trees.
  • Offences relating to bodies corporate.