The City Manager of the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality hereby publishes in terms of Sections 5 and 6 of the Local Government: Municipal Property Rates Act, 2004 (Act 6 of 2004), read with Section 7 of the Gauteng Rationalisation of Local Government Affairs Act, 1998 (Act 10 of 1998), Section 13 of the Local Government: Municipal System Act, 2000 (Act 32 of 2000), and Section 162 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (Act 108 of 1996); the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality: Sanitation By-laws, as contemplated in the hereunder and approved by the said Council on 30 May 2014.
The purpose of the said By-laws is to provide for the general definition of local sanitation services to consumers; to provide for the type of sanitation services; to provide for industrial effluent; to provide for charges for sanitation services; to provide for offences and penalties; responsibilities of the Municipality in the provision of sanitation services, and that of consumers in respect of the sanitation services; and to provide for matters connected to such.
These By-laws apply to every sewer installation and drainage installation, and in particular to the operation and maintenance of such an installation in any new building or existing building, with or without any alterations or additions to an existing sewer installation or drainage installation, whether or not required by the Municipality. Any sewer installation and drainage installation may at any time after its completion and commissioning be subjected to such inspection, approval, tests and control as the Municipality may deem fit or require.
