β¨ Railway By-law Clauses
JAN. 6.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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Any person, not duly authorized by the General
Manager, who shall sell or offer for sale any free-pass
ticket or portion of a return ticket, shall be liable to
a penalty not exceeding ten pounds. -
No male passenger shall be allowed to enter
any waiting-room or carriage set apart for the ac-
commodation of females; and any person remaining
in any such room or carriage after being warned to
leave the same shall be liable to a penalty not ex-
ceeding ten pounds. -
Any person entering a carriage or compart-
ment of a carriage containing the full number of
persons which it is constructed to convey, except
with the consent of the persons in such carriage or
compartment, and refusing to go out when requested
by the Guard or other officer of the railway to do so,
shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding two pounds. -
Any person, not being a railway servant, who
shall open any carriage for the purpose of entering
the same after the tickets have been examined and
the carriage doors locked by the person appointed
for that purpose, or who shall open any carriage or
truck, or attempt to do so, at any station or at any
time during the journey, by means of a private key
or other instrument, shall be liable to a penalty not
exceeding ten pounds. -
No person shall get into or upon or quit any
railway carriage when the train is in motion; and
any person doing so, or attempting to do so, shall be
liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds. -
Loaded firearms are on no account to be car-
ried in, taken into, or placed upon any carriage,
wagon, truck, or other vehicle forming or intended to
form a train, or any portion of a train, on the rail-
way; and every person so offending shall be liable to
a penalty not exceeding ten pounds. -
Smoking is strictly prohibited in any of the
railway sheds, offices, platforms, or waiting-rooms, or
any part of the railway premises; and any person
found so smoking shall be liable to a penalty not
exceeding ten pounds. -
Smoking is strictly prohibited in any railway
carriage except those set apart for the purpose; and
any person found smoking in a carriage not set apart
for the purpose shall forfeit a penalty not exceeding
ten pounds, and may be removed from the carriage
by any railway servant. -
Dogs will be conveyed and charged for accord-
ing to printed conditions, but will not on any account
be allowed to accompany passengers in the carriages.
Any person persisting in taking a dog into a pas-
senger carriage shall be liable to a penalty not ex-
ceeding ten pounds. -
No railway servant shall, under any circum-
stances, be allowed to receive any gratuity, on pain of
dismissal. Any person giving or offering a gratuity
to any such servant shall be liable to a penalty not
exceeding ten pounds. -
Any person writing any indecent words on
any part of a railway, or the premises thereof, shall
be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds. -
Any person making use of insulting or abusive
language to any railway officer or servant while in
the execution of his duty, or obstructing any such
officer while in the execution of his duty, or making
use of indecent or blasphemous language in any car-
riage or upon any railway platform or premises, shall
be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds. -
If any person omit to shut and fasten any gate
or slip-panel set up at either side of the railway for
the accommodation of the owners or occupiers of the
adjoining lands, as soon as he and the carriage, cattle,
or other animals under his care have passed through
the same, he shall forfeit for every such offence any
sum not exceeding ten pounds. -
Any person throwing stones, gravel, timber,
or any rubbish on a railway, or at any engine, car-
riage, or wagon thereon; or causing or allowing any
animal to wander on a railway which is fenced on
both sides; or doing any act which may obstruct the
working of a railway or may endanger the lives of
persons travelling thereon; or driving or attempting
to drive any vehicle or animal across a level crossing
or elsewhere on a railway when an engine or any
carriages or wagons on the railway are approaching
and within a mile from such crossing; or moving
any part of the rolling-stock on any railway, or leav-
ing the same on any part of a railway, not having
lawful authority so to do; or attempting to do, or
counselling or aiding any other person in doing, any
of the things mentioned in the section, shall be
liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds, in
addition to any penalty to which he may otherwise
be liable for doing any of the said things. -
If any person deface the writings on any
boards, or any notices authorized to be maintained
on a railway or any station thereof, or any rolling-
stock thereon, he shall forfeit for every such offence
a sum not exceeding ten pounds, and an additional
sum equal to the cost incurred in repairing any such
damage. -
Any person trespassing upon any part of a
railway, not being a station platform or crossing, or
other part to which the public are allowed access by
law, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten
pounds. -
The General Manager shall publish the short
particulars of the several offences for which any
penalty is imposed by these or any other by-laws of
the railway, and of the amount of every such
penalty, and shall cause such particulars to be
painted on a board, or printed upon paper and pasted
thereon, and shall cause such board to be hung up or
affixed on some conspicuous part of the principal
station of the railway; and, where any such
penalties are of local application, shall cause such
boards to be affixed in some conspicuous place in
the immediate neighbourhood to which such penalties
are applicable or have reference; and such particu-
lars shall be renewed as often as the same or any
part thereof is obliterated or destroyed. -
Any person in or upon any railway carriage or
station being in a state of intoxication, or committing
any nuisance, or gambling, or wilfully interfering
with the comfort of any passenger, shall be liable to
a penalty not exceeding ten pounds, and to removal
from such carriage or station as soon as shall be
practicable. -
No driver or conductor of any cab, hackney
carriage, omnibus, express, or other public vehicle,
shall ply for hire within the railway premises without
a license in writing from the General Manager or
other authorized officer; and any person offending
contrary to this section shall be liable to a penalty
not exceeding ten pounds. -
No person will be allowed to come upon any
railway platform for the purpose of removing any
passenger or luggage, unless required by a passenger
and engaged by him for such purpose, and no person
will be allowed to come upon any railway premises
for the purpose of soliciting custom or hire. Any
person attempting to evade or being guilty of a
breach of this section, or not quitting the premises
when required by a Station Clerk or other railway
servant, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten
pounds. -
Any person, unless authorized by the General
Manager, who shall post or stick any placard or bill
within or on any of the buildings or fences connected
with a railway, shall be subject to a penalty not ex-
ceeding ten pounds. -
Any person who shall wilfully injure, wholly
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Continuation of By-laws for New Zealand Railways (Clauses 13-34)
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π Transport & Communications6 January 1881
Railway regulations, Penalties, Smoking, Dogs, Gratuities, Trespassing, Intoxication, By-laws
NZ Gazette 1881, No 1