New Zealand Gazette – 1909 – No. 103

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✨ Rotorua Town By-laws

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SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1909.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1909.

Town of Rotorua.—Rotorua Town By-laws, 1909.

THE Department of Tourism and Health Resorts (as the
local authority constituted by “The Rotorua Town Act,
1907"), in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authori-
ties in it vested by “The Rotorua Town Act, 1907,” “The Muni-
cipal Corporations Act, 1908,” “The Public Health Act, 1908,”
“The Cemeteries and Cremation Act, 1908,” and “The By-laws
Act, 1907,” and in pursuance also of all other Acts, powers,
and authorities enabling it in that behalf, doth hereby make the
by-laws hereinafter set forth.

PRELIMINARY.

Short Title—These by-laws may be referred to collectively
as “The Rotorua Town By-laws, 1909.”
Division into parts—These by-laws are divided into
Parts as follows:—

Preliminary.
Part I. Traffic.
Part II. Width of Tires.
Part III. Licensing Vehicles.
Part IV. Streets and Public Places.
Part V. Water.
Part VI. Prevention of Fires.
Part VII. Public Health.
Part VIII. Cleansing Premises.
Part IX. Storage of Explosives.
Part X. Public Buildings.
Part XI. Licensed Billiard-rooms.
Part XII. Advertisements and Hoardings.
Part XIII. Electric Light.
Part XIV. Water-supply.
Part XV. Sanitation.

Part XVI. Dairies.
Part XVII. Refuse-removal.
Part XVIII. Public Pounds.
Part XIX. Buildings.
Part XX. Verandahs.
Part XXI. Native Villages.
Part XXII. Drainage.
Part XXIII. Penalties.
Part XXIV. Fines and Savings.

Commencement—These by-laws shall come into force
on the 27th day of December, 1909.
Application—Except as these by-laws shall in so many
cases be otherwise provided therein, apply to the whole of the Town
of Rotorua.
Interpretation—In these by-laws, where not inconsistent
with the context,—

“Department” means approved by the Resident Officer.

“Department” means the Department of Tourism and
Health Resorts, as the local authority constituted
by the Town of Rotorua by “The Rotorua Town
Act, 1907.”

“Dwellinghouse” or “dwelling” means any habitable
room.

“Footway” or “footpath” includes the edging or
kurbing thereto and the channelling attached to
any such footway.

“General Manager” means the General Manager for the
time being of the Department, and includes any
officer acting for him:

“Month” means calendar month:

“Occupier” means the inhabitant occupier of any
property:

“Owner” of any land, building, or premises means the
person for the time being entitled to receive the rack-
rent thereof, or who, if the same were let to a tenant,
were let to a tenant at a rack-rent. In the case of
any land, building, or premises, the owner, the said
expression includes his attorney or agent:

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1909, No 103

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