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Any constable or to any person authorised by the City Council to inspect the same, or to any purchaser of his goods, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding two pounds.

NUISANCES.

1. It shall be lawful for the Inspector of Nuisances from time to time, as he shall see occasion, to give to the occupier of any house, or premises, or in case there be no occupier, to the owner thereof, directions to cleanse, whitewash, and purify such house or premises if the same shall be in a dirty or unwholesome state; and if such occupier or owner shall neglect to comply with such directions within seven days after notice in writing signed by such Inspector shall have been left at such occupier or owner’s place of abode, he shall forfeit and pay for every subsequent day’s neglect a sum not exceeding two shillings and sixpence.

2. Any person casting filth or rubbish into any sewer, watercourse, or well in use, or into any tank for the preservation of water, or obstructing or diverting the passage of any sewer or watercourse, shall forfeit for every such offence a sum not exceeding five pounds, and shall also pay over and above such penalty the costs of cleansing or repairing the same.

3. Any person beating carpets, flying kites, throwing glass, earthenware, hoops, rubbish, ashes, offal, slops, or any dead animal, or animal remains, or offensive matter of any kind, upon any public street, highway, or other public place, or suffering any animal or offensive matter to remain before his premises, or slaughtering any beast, in, upon, or near any public street, highway, or other public place so that any blood or filth shall flow thereon, shall for every such offence forfeit any sum not exceeding forty shillings.

4. No person shall keep any swine within the City of Auckland, eastward of Nelson-street, under a penalty not exceeding twenty shillings per head for every day such swine shall be so kept.

5. Any privy manure or rubbish heap becoming offensive, the Inspector of Nuisances may by a written order direct the same to be removed by the occupier upon whose premises the same shall be; or if such premises be unoccupied, then by the owner thereof; and any occupier or owner respectively refusing to remove such nuisance or neglecting to remove the same within forty-eight hours after the Inspector of Nuisances shall have given such order as aforesaid shall forfeit a sum not exceeding ten pounds.

6. Owners or occupiers of houses neglecting to keep clean all private passages and yards, or permitting the contents of privies or the escape of any night soil, or any other offensive matter to flow into any adjoining premises, or on any street or highway so as to cause a nuisance shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding ten pounds.

7. Any person carting night soil to carry other than to such place within the City as shall have been appointed by the City Surveyor for the deposit of the same, shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding ten pounds.

8. Any person filling any cart, wheelbarrow, or other vehicle with night soil, or emptying any privy, or driving any cart or other vehicle laden with night soil, except between twelve o’clock at night and five o’clock in the morning, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence a sum not exceeding ten pounds.

9. Any person leaving any carcase on the shores of the Harbour within the limits of the City shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds.

10. The occupier of any house or building who shall neglect to keep clean the chimney thereof, and any person who shall wilfully set fire to any chimney for the purpose of cleansing the same, or for any other purpose, shall for every such neglect or offence forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding ten pounds.

11. It shall be lawful for the City Surveyor, or any person nominated in writing by him for the purpose, to inspect and examine at any reasonable time any chimney which the City Surveyor may have reason to suspect to be in an unsafe or dangerous condition. And any person who shall refuse to permit any such inspection or examination shall for every such offence forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding five pounds.

12. In case any chimney within the limits of the city shall take fire, the occupier of the house or building to which the same shall belong, shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding five pounds; unless it proved to the satisfaction of the Justice before whom the complaint shall be heard that the said chimney had been swept throughout within three calendar months immediately preceding the time when such fire shall have taken place, and that it did not occur through any other gross negligence. The City Surveyor, or some other person authorised by the City Council in that behalf, is alone authorised to lay an information for an offence against this regulation.

13. Any person wilfully setting fire to any shavings, or other rubbish, or to any bush, fern, scrub, flax, grass, or other vegetation, whether the same be cut or growing within the limits of the city, so as to endanger the safety of any building or buildings, shall for every such offence forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding ten pounds.

14. Any person letting off fireworks within the City shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding ten pounds.

15. Any funnel or pipe belonging to any furnace, stove, or oven, shall in every part thereof be not less than six inches clear of all wood, and every other combustible substance, and shall be carried up to a height of at least two feet above the ridge of the roof of the building to which the same belongs. The occupier of any house or building setting up any pipe or funnel not in accordance with this regulation, or permitting the same to be used, or to be kept up for one week after the City Surveyor shall have required in writing the same to be removed, shall for every such offence forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding ten pounds;