BYE-LAW OF THE COUNCIL

OF THE CITY OF CHRISTCHURCH.

Bye-Law No. 13.

CITY DRAINS.

A Bye-Law of the Council of the City of Christchurch, made under the Municipal Corporations Act, 1867.

In pursuance of the 186th Section of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1867, the Council of the City of Christchurch ordain as follows:—

1. No person shall throw, or place into, or in any public sewer or drain, within the City of Christchurch, any dead or living animal, filth or rubbish of any kind, or any solid substance, matter, or thing, of any kind whatsoever, which may tend to obstruct, pollute, or render noisome, or noxious, such sewer or drain.

2. No person shall without the previous authority of the Council lay any pipe in, on, or over, or dig, or cut through, or into the bank or side of any public sewer or drain, or remove any soil from such bank or side.

3. No person shall cause or allow to flow from any brewery or manufactory into any public sewer or drain any water or other liquid whatever (not being surface, well, or storm water), otherwise than through and immediately from one or more tank or tanks holding not fewer than ten gallons each.

4. No owner or occupier of any brewery or manufactory shall cause or allow any water or other liquid whatever (not being surface, well, or storm water) to flow therefrom into any public sewer or drain during such period as he shall at any time, be required to abstain from so doing by notice in writing, given to or left for him at such brewery or manufactory by the Inspector of Nuisances or other proper officer appointed in that behalf by the Council. Provided that no such notice shall be given, unless the Council shall be satisfied that offensive liquid is caused or allowed to flow from such brewery or manufactory into some public sewer or drain. And that any such notice may at any time be revoked or suspended.

5. The Inspector of Nuisances, or other such proper officer as aforesaid, shall at all times, during the day, have access to any brewery or manufactory, and may take away therefrom such quantities of water or other liquid which he may have cause to believe to be caused or allowed to flow into any public sewer or drain, as may be necessary for testing the inoffensiveness thereof.

6. Any contractor or other person, for the time being, employed by or on behalf of the Council, in cleansing or repairing any public sewer or drain, may for that purpose go upon any private land abutting thereon to any distance not greater than two feet from such sewer or drain.

7. Any person offending against any provision contained in the 1st or 2nd Clauses of this Bye-Law, or obstructing or interfering with any Inspector, Officer, Contractor, or other person engaged in carrying out any provision of the 5th or 6th Clauses hereof shall for every such offence, obstruction, or interference be liable to a penalty of not more than £5. And any person offending against any provision contained in the 3rd or 4th Clause hereof shall be liable to a penalty of not more than £5 for every day on which he shall so offend.

8. This Bye-Law shall apply to all public sewers and drains, water-channels or gutters, within the City of Christchurch.

9. All Bye-Laws or Regulations, or parts of Bye-Laws or Regulations (if any) heretofore in force in and for the City of Christchurch, which are inconsistent with, or repugnant to, the provisions hereof, or in any respect deal, or purport to deal, with the said provisions, are hereby repealed.

Passed by the said Council this 11th day of April, 1871.

JAMES PURVIS JAMESON,
Mayor.

GEORGE GORDON,
Town Clerk.

[L.S.]

I hereby certify that the above Bye-Law is in compliance as regards the City of Christchurch with the 184th Section of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1867.

GEORGE GORDON,
Town Clerk.