Municipal Bye-laws




AUCKLAND PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

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  1. Drawing or trailing any sledge, timber, or other material, upon any footway or carriage road to the injury of such footway or carriage road.

  2. Allowing nightsoil, or other offensive matter to be spilt or otherwise cast on to or upon any road, street, footway, public place, or thoroughfare.

  3. Leaving any inflammable materials or matter in any public street or place, or on any open space near any building, without such permission as aforesaid.

  4. Keeping any goat or goats within the limits of the City of Auckland.

  5. Placing any placard or other document, writing, or painting on, or otherwise defacing any house or building, or any wall, fence, lamp-post, or gate, without the consent of the occupier or owner thereof.

  6. Allowing the droppings from the eaves of any house or verandah to fall upon any footway.

  7. Opening any drain or sewer, or removing the surface of any footway or carriage road, without authority from the City Council so to do.

  8. Neglecting to clean any private yard, way, passage, or avenue, by which neglect a nuisance by offensive smell or otherwise is caused.

  9. Rolling any cask, beating any carpet, breaking-in any horse, flying any kite, using any bows and arrows, or playing at any game to the annoyance of any person in any public place, or obstructing any footpath or carriage road, whether by allowing any cart or animal to remain across such footpath or carriage road, or by placing goods thereon, or otherwise.

  10. Throwing or discharging any stone or other missile, to the damage or danger of any person or property.

  11. Having any awning on or over any footway in any public street or thoroughfare, not being nine feet clear above the footway, or obstructing the footway by the support of such awning or verandah, or hanging any goods on or under such awning over the footway.

  12. Blasting any rock, stone, or timber in or near any public place, without permission of the City Council.

  13. Furiously or negligently riding or driving through any public place, street, or thoroughfare.

  14. Exposing in any public street or thoroughfare, except in any fair or market lawfully appointed for that purpose, any horse or other animal for show, hire, or sale.

  15. Making any cellar door, or other opening from the footway of any street or public thoroughfare, without the consent, or not in accordance with the directions of the City Council.

  16. Exposing for sale any article whatsoever on any footway or outside any shop window or doorway abutting on any public thoroughfare or street.

  17. Discharging any firearms, or carrying any firearms, sword, dirk, dagger, or other offensive weapon within the City of Auckland, without permission of the City Council. Provided that the provision last aforesaid shall not apply to any Justice of the Peace, or any person in Her Majesty’s military or naval service, or any member of the police or other peace officer, or any member of a recognised Volunteer corps, or any special constable, or any person actually in pursuit of any felon or offender.

  18. Any person laying out or opening any street or building therein, and omitting during the operations necessary for forming such street or for building therein to take all such precautions for guarding against injury to the passengers along such street as may be necessary, or as may be directed by the City Council.

  19. Any person placing any obstruction upon any street line, whereby life or limb is likely to be endangered.

  20. Any person neglecting or omitting to keep in good repair any rail, gate, fence, or cover over or about any area or entrance to any cellar or other place, or keeping open for more than a reasonable time for taking in or out any articles or other place (such area or entrance opening into or upon or near any public street, road, thoroughfare, or other public place.)

  21. Any person throwing any offensive matter, or any animal, with the intention of drowning it, into any watercourse, or other place from whence a supply of water for the use of the inhabitants of the said City is obtained.

  22. Any carter riding on any cart, dray, or waggon, without having and holding proper and sufficient reins, and no competent person having charge of the animal or animals drawing the same.

  23. Any person driving any vehicle whatsoever, or riding any animal, and when meeting any other vehicle or animal not keeping on the left or near side of the road or street; or when passing any other vehicle or animal going in the same direction, not allowing any person desirous and going or passing, on the right or off side of such other vehicle or animal to pass, when practicable, or so to do.

  24. Any driver of any horse or vehicle injuring any person or property whatever by negligence, or by driving on the wrong side of the road, or by being away from his horse or cattle so as to be unable to have the full control over them.

  25. Any person driving any dog or goat harnessed or attached to any vehicle through any public place.

  26. Any person who shall act as driver or have the sole charge of more than one vehicle on any public road or street, unless in cases where two of such carts and no more shall be drawn each by one horse only, and the horse of the hinder of such carriages shall be attached by a sufficient rein to the back of the foremost of such vehicles.

  27. Any person turning loose any horse or cattle upon any public street, or allowing any animal or animals to wander in any public street or thoroughfare within the City of Auckland.

  28. Any person leaving upon any public street or thoroughfare any plough, harrow, cart, or other vehicle without any horse or animal harnessed thereto, unless in consequence of some accident having occurred.

  29. Any person slaughtering or skinning any beast upon any public street or thoroughfare, or permitting any slaughtered beast or skin to remain there, or leaving any dead beast on such street or thoroughfare.

  30. Any person having any iron, timber or boards laid across any vehicle, going along any street or thoroughfare, so that either end shall project more than two feet beyond the wheels or sides of such vehicle.

  31. Any person destroying, damaging, polluting, or obstructing any aqueduct, dam, sluice, pipe, pump, watercourse, or fountain.

  32. Any person suffering or allowing any waste or impure water or other matter to remain in any cellar or place within any building or premises in the City, or allowing any waste or impure water or other matter to run or flow from any such building or premises upon or over, or be on any carriage or footway, or other place, whether public or private, within the City, or who shall allow the contents of



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VUW Te Waharoa PDF Auckland Provincial Gazette 1872, No 1





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