Hawke's Bay Provincial Gazette – 1875 – No. 47

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whatsoever, or riding any animal, and going along any street or thoroughfare, when meeting any other vehicle or animal so that either end should project more than two feet beyond the wheels or sides of such vehicle.

  1. 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 full control over them.

  2. Any person driving any dog or goat or harnessed or attached to any vehicle within the town, or shall allow the contents of any water-closet, privy, or cesspool to overflow or to soak therefrom so as to be offensive.

  3. 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.

  4. 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 Town of Napier.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

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

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

  9. 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 borough, or allowing any waste or impure water or other matter to run or to flow from any such building or premises, upon or over, or be on any carriage or footway, or other place, whether public or private, through any public place.

  10. Any person, being the owner or tenant of any building abutting any street where the footpath has been formed, who, by omitting or neglecting to secure and maintain the foundation of such building, causes or allows the formed footpath to fall in or be otherwise damaged.

  11. Keeping any disreputable house, or house of ill-fame, or having the control, conduct, or management of the same, or being a reputed occupier, or an inmate of any such house.

The foregoing Bye-Laws were adopted by the Borough Council of Napier at an Ordinary Meeting, held on April 16, 1875.

ROBERT STUART,
Mayor.

M. N. BOWER,
Town Clerk.

Assented to by
J. D. ORMOND,
Superintendent.

Printed under the authority of the Government of the Province of Hawke’s Bay by
DINWIDDIE, MORRISON & CO., Printers for the time being to such Government.



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🏘️ Bye-Law (No. 3 A) for the Borough of Napier (continued from previous page)

🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
Bye-Law, Municipal Corporations Act, Napier Borough, Offences, Penalties
  • ROBERT STUART, Mayor
  • M. N. BOWER, Town Clerk
  • J. D. ORMOND, Superintendent