Where the dumping of health care risk waste occurs, the municipality concerned may:-
(a) take any steps it deems necessary in order to ensure the safety of the public, and to ensure that the area at which the dumping has occurred is rehabilitated;
(b) instruct whoever has dumped the health care risk waste to take whatever steps the municipality deems necessary to ensure the safety of the public, and to rehabilitate the area at which the dumping has occurred;
(c) ensure that the health care risk waste is treated or disposed of in accordance with this Act, whether the dumping occurs on the premises of the generator or during the transportation, treatment or disposal of the health care risk waste;
(d) recover from whoever has dumped the health care risk waste, any costs which the municipality incurs in cleaning up the health care risk waste and in rehabilitating the area at which the dumping has occurred, and any other costs directly associated with the dumping of the health care risk waste, whether the dumping has occurred
on the premises of the generator or during the transportation, treatment or disposal of the health care risk waste; and
(e) lay criminal charges against the person or persons responsible for the dumping of health care risk waste.
