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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 47

Penalty Clause.

Every person who shall do, or cause to be done, or be concerned in doing, anything contrary to any provision of the following by-laws Nos. 2, 3, and 4, or who shall omit to do anything required to be done by him, or by any such provision, shall be guilty of an offence against these by-laws, and shall for each such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding £5 for every day or part of a day during which such offence shall continue.

BY-LAW NO. 2.—REGULATING TRACTION-ENGINES.

(1.) The term “traction engines or engine,” where used in these by-laws, means a locomotive-engine propelled by steam, not being used on a railway or tramway. The words “road or highway” mean a road as defined in “The Public Works Act, 1882,” and include county roads and district roads, and any road actually in use by the public. “Local authority” shall have the same meaning as in “The Counties Act, 1886.”

(2.) Whenever a traction-engine shall be propelled upon or along a public road or highway, a strict and efficient look-out shall be maintained behind as well as in front, and particularly during the hours between half an hour after sunset and half an hour before sunrise; and the person in charge of such engine shall provide two efficient lights, to be affixed conspicuously one at each side in front of the same, and one efficient tail-light in the rear of the same, or, when wagons or carriages are being drawn by such engine, then in the rear of the last wagon or carriage drawn by such engine, such lamps to be kept burning between the hours before mentioned.

(3.) At least two persons shall be employed to drive or conduct every traction-engine.

(4.) The driver of every engine shall give as much space as possible for the passing of other traffic.

(5.) Whenever any person who shall be riding on horseback or driving a horse or horses in a vehicle upon or along a public road or highway shall be approaching an engine, and shall sufficiently indicate his desire that the driver of such engine shall stop such engine, such driver shall thereupon immediately stop the same, and shall also, upon being requested by such person so riding or driving as aforesaid so to do, give to such person such assistance as may be necessary for the purpose of enabling him to pass with his horse or horses in safety by such engine.

(6.) The speed of engines shall not exceed five miles an hour along any public roadway, and three miles an hour through any town or village, and shall not exceed two miles an hour while crossing any bridge or culvert.

(7.) The whistle of an engine shall not be sounded for any purpose whatever, nor shall the cylinder-taps be opened, or the steam blown off or allowed to attain a pressure such as to exceed the limit fixed by the safety-valve, within the sight of any person riding, driving, leading, or in charge of a horse upon a road.

(8.) No engine shall pass along or come upon any bridge at any time while any person with a horse, or carriage drawn by a horse, is on such bridge, nor shall any engine, or wagon attached thereto, be permitted to stop on any bridge or culvert for the purpose of drawing water from any water-race, stream, or ditch passing under or through such bridge or culvert, or for any other purpose whatever.

(9.) If it become necessary to discharge any ashes or other such refuse from the furnace of any engine on any road or highway, or the sides thereof, such ashes or refuse shall not be left in a heap, but shall be spread out on such road or highway, or the sides thereof, in such manner that such road or highway, or the sides thereof, shall be kept even, and the level thereof maintained: Provided that no such refuse shall be discharged upon any bridge or culvert, or upon any metalled road within 1 chain of any bridge or culvert.

(10.) While any engine shall be travelling upon or is being taken over a bridge or over metalled parts of roads, no studs or other pieces or rings of iron or other metal shall be attached to or raised upon the level of the faces of the tires of the wheels of any such engine for the purpose, or which shall have the effect, of sinking into, gripping, or breaking the surface of any bridge or roadway.

(11.) It shall not be lawful to carry on any wagon attached to or being drawn by an engine any greater weight (over and above the weight of the wagon) than 2 tons for each pair of wheels, unless the tires of such wheels are at least 3 in. in width, or 2½ tons for each pair of wheels unless the tires are at least 4 in. in width, or than 3 tons for each pair of wheels unless the tires are at least 5 in. in width.

No wagon drawn by any engine shall carry more than 6 tons weight (over and above the weight of the wagon) except permission in writing to do so shall have been granted by the Road Inspector for the district; and every such permit by a Road Inspector shall state the maximum weight (over and above the weight of the wagon) which may be carried by such wagon, and the conditions (if any) on which such extraordinary weight may be carried; and any person carrying in or upon any such wagon more than such maximum weight, or carrying more than the weight of 6 tons, without fulfilling such conditions as aforesaid, shall be guilty of a breach of this by-law.

(12.) The person in charge of an engine shall give immediate notice to the Clerk, Engineer, or Road Inspector of any damage or injury done by the engine, or any wagon attached thereto, to any roadway, or to any fence, bridge, culvert, watercourse, drain, side ditch, or other thing appertaining to such roadway; and if such damage has rendered the roadway or its appurtenances dangerous for ordinary traffic or to public safety, the owner or person in charge of such engine shall place and maintain, in such position and for such time as the Clerk, Engineer, or Road Inspector shall direct, such signals as shall be sufficient to give warning to all persons using such road, by day or night, of the existence of such danger.

(13.) Any damage caused by the use of any engine, or wagon attached thereto, to any bridge, or any part of the walls, rails, buttresses, or supports thereof, erected or carried across any river, stream, or water-race, or to any roadway or its appurtenances, shall be forthwith made good and repaired by or at the expense of the owner or person having charge of such engine.

(14.) In crossing bridges or culverts at which planks are provided by the local authority in charge thereof, the driver or person in charge of any traction-engine shall lay down such planks, and no engine shall cross over such bridge or culvert except on such planks, and after crossing such bridge or culvert such owner or person in charge of such engine shall replace such planks in their proper position.

(15.) Every owner of a traction-engine shall cause his name and address to be painted or marked on such engine, on the off side thereof, in letters of not less than 2 in. in height, and of proportionate breadth, and of such a colour or in such a manner as to be clearly distinguishable from the colour or nature of the ground whereon such letters are painted or marked; and when such owner possesses more than one engine, a separate number distinguishing each such engine shall in like manner be painted immediately below such name and address. The exact and true weight of every engine, and the maximum weight of water and coals necessary for its propulsion, and the exact and true weight of every wagon drawn by any such engine, shall also be painted in like manner upon or affixed to some conspicuous part of such engine and wagon respectively.

(16.) The owner of every engine shall, on the first Monday of January in each year (or so soon thereafter as he shall wish to bring any such engine into the district), send a description of such engine, together with his name and address (and, if he is the owner of more than one engine, then the number of his engines), to the County Clerk, in order that the same may be registered; and the County Clerk shall thereupon deliver to such owner a certificate of the registration of such engine, or each of such engines, for the then current year.

(17.) Every person employed in driving or conducting an engine shall, while so employed, have in his possession a printed copy of these by-laws, and also the certificate of registration mentioned in clause 16 of these by-laws, and he shall exhibit the same on demand to any person in charge of a horse, or vehicle drawn by a horse.

(18.) Nothing herein contained shall be held to relieve owners or employers of traction engines from liability in respect of injury done and damage sustained by the traction of excessive weight or extraordinary traffic over or along any bridge or roadway.

BY-LAW NO. 3.—REGULATING BICYCLE TRAFFIC.

(1.) Any person riding a bicycle, or tricycle, or similar vehicle upon any road, upon meeting any person riding any horse, or driving any vehicle drawn by a horse or horses, and if the person last aforesaid shall be in sight, and shall signify his or her wish for the rider of the bicycle, tricycle, or similar vehicle to stop, such person shall immediately stop, dismount, and remove such bicycle, tricycle, or similar vehicle to the side of the road until the person with the horse or horses shall have passed.

(2.) Any person riding a bicycle, tricycle, or similar vehicle on any road between the hours of sunset and sunrise shall have a light conspicuously displayed on the front part of such bicycle, tricycle, or similar vehicle.

(3.) No person shall race on, or furiously ride, a bicycle, tricycle, or similar vehicle upon any road.

(4.) No person shall ride any bicycle, tricycle, or similar vehicle upon any footpath, nor upon any portion of a road set apart as a footpath.

(5.) No person shall remove his or her feet from the pedals of his or her bicycle, tricycle, or similar vehicle when running down-hill on any road.

(6.) Any person riding a bicycle, tricycle, or similar vehicle on any road shall observe the ordinary rules of the road when meeting or passing vehicles or horsemen.