The Goa Sewerage System and Sanitation Services Management Act, 2008

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    "title": "The Goa Sewerage System and Sanitation Services Management Act, 2008",
    "short_title": "The Goa Sewerage System and Sanitation Services Management Act, 2008",
    "act_number": "(Goa Act 14 of 2009)",
    "act_year": 2008,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Goa",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "The Goa Sewerage System and Sanitation Services Management Act, 2008",
    "preamble": "",
    "section_label": "Section",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
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        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(a) \"consumer\" means an individual, firm, company, society, Corporation or an association, who/which has obtained piped water connection from the PWD, or has his own arrangements for potable and non-potable water for domestic, commercial or industrial purposes resulting in generation of sewage or waste water and includes all those who generate sewage or waste water even without having any such arrangement for potable or non-potable water;\n(b) \"dispute\" means the dispute or difference arising out of any order, decision or documents issued or taken under this Act or the rules framed thereunder;\n(c) \"Dispute Redressal Authority\" means an authority constituted under Section 7 of this Act;\n(d) \"Government\" means the Government of Goa;\n(e) \"management\" means administration, control, designing, planning, execution, implementation, operation and maintenance of sewerage system and sanitation services.\n(f) \"notification\" means a notification published in the Official Gazette of the Government.\n(g) \"nuisance\" means anything injurious or obnoxious to the community or to any individual and includes sewage or waste water or filth accumulation which in the opinion of the Executive Engineer of the PWD/Health Officer or any other authority authorized in this behalf, breed or likely to breed mosquitoes or otherwise injurious to health or property unless treated or disposed of effectively to prevent such accumulation;\n(h) \"Official Gazette\" means the Official Gazette of the Government;\n(i) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;\n(j) \"public sewer\" means a pipe or underground conduit or such other device meant to carry untreated sewage and contaminated or polluted water generated from the existing building or construction site, existing in or under the adjoining street, lane or any kind of road or pathway and forming component of the sewerage system controlled by the PWD;\n(k) \"PWD\" means Public Works Department of the Government;\n(l) \"sanitation services\" means developing, operating and maintaining the facilities like pour flush water seal latrines, public toilets for educational institutions, community health centers, contaminated or polluted water treatment and safe disposal systems and other such facilities resulting out of programs in public health and sanitation sector implemented by the PWD for the State or any other authority authorized in this behalf;\n(m) \"sewage\" means night-soil and other contents of water closets, latrines, urinals, cess-pools, drains and polluted water from sinks, bathrooms, stables, cattle-sheds, discharges of filth, trade effluents, industrial effluents of specified standards from any kind of building as well as from public conveyances, markets, public places, religious places and educational institutions;\n(n) \"sewerage system\" means the system developed and constructed for facilitating collection, conveyance, pumping, if so warranted, of sewage and includes facilities of the treatment of sewage as per the standards specified by the Goa State Pollution Control Board and safe disposal of treated effluents and non-harmful sludge on land, water bodies or non-potable use, all under control of the PWD;\n(o) \"State\" means the State of Goa;\n(p) \"Technical Committee\" means a committee appointed by the Government consisting of prescribed officers entrusted with the functions as prescribed for the purposes of the Act.",
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        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Management of sewerage system and sanitation services.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) grant the permission unconditionally; or\n(ii) grant the permission subject to such general or special conditions as it may impose; or\n(iii) refuse the permission for reasons to be recorded in writing, after giving a reasonable opportunity of being heard to the applicant.",
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        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Prohibition of nuisance.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Exemptions.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Taking over sewerage systems and sanitation facilities developed by other.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 5
        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Dispute Redressal Authority.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 6
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Appeal.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 7
        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Offences and Penalties.",
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            "content": "(a) made a connection to sewerage system without any approval of PWD.\n(b) allowed discharge of the characteristics of sewage or polluted water other than those specified by the Government by rules, by any means whatsoever, into the sewerage system managed by the PWD.\n(c) caused disruption to sewerage system or sanitation service giving rise to nuisance or likely to cause nuisance.\n(d) committed nuisance or abetted commission of nuisance shall be deemed to have committed an offence under this Act and be punished with a fine which may extend up to rupees fifty thousand along with the actual cost of restoration of sewerage system or sanitation service, as the case may be, as determined by the Technical Committee.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Act to have effect in addition to other Acts.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Protection of action taken in good faith.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Power to make rules.",
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            "content": "(a) the categories of consumers who could avail different types of services under this Act;\n(b) fees, tariffs, service connection charges and any other applicable charges, penalty and fines for non-payment thereof for different categories of consumers;\n(c) Form of application to be made under sub-section (2) of section 3, form of affidavits, undertaking, no objection certificates or other documents, if any to be accompanied with application, form of agreement to be made with PWD for use of sewerage system or to avail sanitation services under this Act;\n(d) the methods for payment of bills including billing cycles and period for payment and grace period, if any, recovery of arrears, grant of concessions for any charges or effecting the payments in particular manner;\n(e) procedure to be followed by Dispute Redressal Authority for redressal of disputes;\n(f) technical parameters for building sewerage system and characteristics of sewage or polluted water that can enter the sewerage system;\n(g) composition of technical Committee and allocation of specifies functions to it for the purposes of this Act;\n(h) manner of making an appeal against the order passed by the Dispute Redressal Authority or prescribed authority, as specified in section 8;\n(i) restricting the entry of sewage, trade effluent, polluted water and other such liquid or solid waste in public sewer;\n(j) any other matter which is required to be provided by rules by the Government.",
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "goa191",
        "Act Number": "(Goa Act 14 of 2009)",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "2008",
        "Short Title": "The Goa Sewerage System and Sanitation Services Management Act, 2008",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Goa"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:52:44"
}