3394
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 99

“Owner” in respect of any premises means the person
for the time being entitled to receive the rack-rent
thereof, or who would be so entitled if the same
were let to a tenant at a rack-rent:
“Owner of any vehicle” includes a bailee or person
entitled to the possession or use or profit thereof:
“Person” and words applying to any person or in-
dividual shall include a body of persons whether
incorporated or unincorporated:
“Road” means any road in the district, and includes
street, and also any footpaths, crossing, channel,
and drain, and the whole land between the fences
on either side of a road or street:
“Vehicle” includes bicycle, tricycle, motor-car, and
motor-wagon, and traction-engine:
“An offence” shall mean an offence against these by-
laws, and shall include the omission or neglect to
comply with any part thereof.
Where not inconsistent, words, phrases, and designa-
tions herein used which appear in the interpreta-
tion clauses of any of the Acts under which these
by-laws are made shall have and include the in-
terpretation given thereto by such Acts.
2. These by-laws shall (except as to any by-law or by-laws
the application whereof is limited to the special area) apply
to and be in force within the whole of the district.

Offences and Penalties.

3. Any person who shall do, or cause to be done, or be con-
   cerned in doing anything contrary to these by-laws or any
   of them, or any provision therein contained, or who shall
   omit to do anything required by these by-laws or any of them
   to be done by him, shall be deemed to have committed a
   breach of these by-laws.
   Any person committing a breach of these by-laws shall be
   guilty of an offence, and shall be liable to a penalty not ex-
   ceeding five pounds for every such offence, and in case of a
   continuous offence to a penalty of not more than five pounds
   for each day during which such offence continues.

PART II.—MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF ROADS AND IN-
CIDENTAL PROTECTION OF FOOTPATHS.

4. No person shall ride or lead any horse or other animal,
   or wheel any barrow or other vehicle, or ride any cycle or
   other vehicle upon or along any footpath.

Preventing the Dragging of Material.

5. No person shall drag or allow to be dragged on a road
   any timber or other heavy material not being wholly raised
   above the ground on wheels.

Obstruction by Vehicles, &c.

6. No person shall allow to remain upon any road any
   vehicle having no horse or other animal harnessed thereto,
   or any plough, harrow, reaping, threshing, or other machine;
   and no person shall leave any vehicle with any horse or
   animal harnessed thereto on any road unless one of the
   wheels is fastened to the vehicle by a chain.

Obstruction by Materials.

7. No person shall leave any timber, bricks, stone, build-
   ing or other material upon any road, or upon or over any
   channel or surface drain in any road, without the permission
   in writing of the Board having been first obtained.

Offensive Droppings.

8. No person shall spill, or cast, or allow any nightsoil or
   other offensive matter to be spilt or cast into or upon any
   road, or any land, building, or erection adjacent to such road.

Offensive Drainage.

9. No person shall cause or permit any offensive matter
   or offensive liquid to run from any land, manufactory,
   building, or place into or upon any road, or any right-of-way,
   or any footpath, or channel, or ditch.

Rubbish Deposits, &c.

10. No person shall throw, leave, or deposit upon any road
    or vacant allotment within the district any offensive matter,
    or any bottles, earthenware, china, or rubbish of any
    description.

Burning Litter, &c.

11. No person shall burn any litter, shavings, straw, or
    other materials or matter on any road, or on any open space
    near any building, without the consent in writing of the
    Board.

Eaves-droppings.

12. No person shall allow any droppings of the eaves of
    any house, erection, or verandah to fall upon any road.

Regulations of Bicycles and Motor-cars, &c.

13. No person shall use or permit to be used any bicycle,
    tricycle, or motor-car, or any other vehicle not propelled
    by a horse or other animal, in or upon any road after sun-
    set and before sunrise, unless, in the case of a bicycle or
    tricycle, the same shall be provided with a lamp, which shall
    be lighted and placed in a conspicuous place in the front
    of such bicycle or tricycle, or, in the case of a motor-car
    or any such other vehicle, the same shall be provided with
    a light on each side of such motor-car or vehicle. And no
    person shall at any time use or permit to be used on any
    road any bicycle, tricycle, motor-car, or other vehicle as
    aforesaid unless the same shall be provided with an alarm-
    bell or a horn; and the rider or driver thereof shall sound
    such bell or horn when approaching any vehicle, or any
    person on horseback, or any person who may be crossing any
    road whether on foot or on horseback; and the rider or
    driver of every such bicycle, tricycle, motor-car, or other
    vehicle shall observe the rules as to keeping the proper side
    of the road when meeting or passing vehicles as is prescribed
    by law for persons driving vehicles.

Carrying Lights.

14. No person shall drive or use any vehicle drawn by one
    or more horses in or upon any road between sunset and sun-
    rise without carrying a light on each side of such vehicle.

Driving round Corners.

15. No person shall ride or drive any animal or vehicle of
    any kind round any corner of any road at other than a
    walking-pace.

Prohibiting Dangerous Practices.

16. No person shall, in any road,—
    (a.) Feed any horse otherwise than with food contained
    in a nose-bag suspended from the head of such
    horse;
    (b.) Remove the blinkers from any horse without pre-
    viously taking reasonable precautions for keeping
    such animal under control;
    (c.) Knowingly permit, suffer, or allow any vicious horse
    to stand therein without taking reasonable pre-
    cautions to prevent such animal from doing
    mischief;
    (d.) While acting as the driver of any cart, dray, van,
    wagon, lorry, or other vehicle suffer the same to
    remain standing longer thereon than the time
    reasonably necessary for loading the goods to be
    loaded on such cart, dray, van, wagon, lorry, or
    other vehicle, or unloading the goods to be un-
    loaded therefrom.

Damage through Dogs.

17. If any dog shall on any road within the district rush
    at or startle any person, or any horse, cattle, or other animal,
    whereby the life or limbs of any person shall be endangered
    or any property be injured or endangered, the owner of such
    dog or the person in charge of such dog shall be guilty of an
    offence.

Crossing and Drains on Footpaths.

18. No person shall construct any crossing across any
    channel, drain, or footpath, or make any drain under any
    footpath, without the written consent of the Board or the
    Clerk thereof first obtained.

Carting over Footpaths.

19. No person shall cart any metal, stone, building or
    other material across any footpath where there is not a
    crossing constructed in accordance with By-law No. 18 of
    Part II without the consent in writing of the Clerk of the
    Board, on written application made in that behalf and
    stating the property to or from which the carting is to be
    done, first obtained; and the applicant for such consent
    shall, prior to the issue of such consent, deposit with the
    Clerk of the Board such sum, not exceeding £10, as the
    Engineer or, if there be no Engineer, the Clerk of the
    Board shall direct as security for the necessary repairs to
    the footpaths or kerbing which may be caused by carting
    material or otherwise, and shall obtain a receipt for the
    same, and upon repairs being completed to the satisfaction
    of the Engineer or Clerk of the Board, as the case may be,
    the said deposit shall thereupon be returned, and on failing
    to execute the necessary repairs after forty-eight hours’
    notice so to do from the Clerk of the Board, the same shall
    be done at the cost and risk of the applicant and the costs
    thereof deducted from the amount of such deposit.

Damaging the Board’s Property.

20. No person shall destroy, damage, or deface, or without
    the consent of the Board take down or remove, any notice,