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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 1

“Person” and words applying to any person or individual shall include a body of persons, whether incorporated or unincorporated:
“Privy” includes earth-closet, water-closet, pan privy, and every place for the reception of faecal matter:
“Sufficient privy” means a water-closet or pan privy of the description, with the appliances, fittings, and connections, and places as required by these by-laws:
“Road” means any road in the district, and includes street and also any footpath and crossing, and the whole land between the fences on either side of a road or street:
“Sanitary fitting” includes a urinal, sink, bath, wash-tub, lavatory, and any receptacle, appliance, or thing for the reception or removal of human or animal excreta, sewage, or liquid waste:
“Sewage-tank” means a tank, reservoir, or receptacle for the reception and disintegration of sewage, and includes that class of sewage-tank commonly known as a septic tank, and includes all reservoirs, pipes, filter-beds, discharges, and other parts ordinarily appurtenant to or required for the efficient operation of a sewage-tank:
“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 designations herein used which appear in the interpretation clauses of any of the Acts under which these by-laws are made shall have and include the interpretations 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 district.

Offences and Penalties.

3. Any person who shall do, or cause to be done, or be concerned 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 exceeding £5 for every such offence, and in case of a continuous offence to a penalty of not more than £5 for each day during which such offence continues.

Powers of Board.

4. If the Board is satisfied upon due inquiry that a full compliance with all or any of these by-laws or any provisions thereof would injuriously affect the course and operation of business, or be attended with great loss and inconvenience to any person, or would work a wrong, then and under such circumstances the Board may, on special application in any particular case and upon such terms and conditions as it shall in each particular case see fit to impose,—
   (a.) Relax or modify the strict observance of or compliance with any provisions of these by-laws; or
   (b.) Dispense with the observance of or compliance with any provisions of these by-laws.

5. It shall be the duty of every person applying to the Board to exercise the powers in the last clause mentioned to produce clear evidence in support of such application and on the grounds upon which he makes the same, in order that the Board be fully satisfied of the merits of such application.

PART II.
CARE AND MANAGEMENT OF ROADS.

1. 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.

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

Cattle Wandering.

3. No person shall permit any cattle to be at large without proper guidance, or to wander or to be herded or grazed, upon any road other than in the ordinary course of driving stock.

Obstruction by Vehicles, &c.

4. 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.

5. No person shall leave any timber, bricks, stone, building 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

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

Regulations of Bicycles, Motor-cars, &c.

11. 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 sunset 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.

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

Driving round Corners.

13. 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.

Damage through Dogs.

14. If any dog shall, on any road within the district, rush at, attack, 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.

Crossings and Drains on Footpaths.

15. No person shall construct any crossing across any channel, drain, or footpath, or make any drain under any footpath. All such crossings and drains shall be constructed by the Board, but at the expense of the person requiring the same, and any such crossing or drain shall consist of such material as the Board shall from time to time approve. No person shall allow anything other than storm-water to pass through any drain laid under any footpath. Any person desiring to have a crossing made or drain laid leading from his property into any road shall make a written application in that behalf to the Clerk of the Board, and shall upon receipt of a notice from the Clerk of the Board stating the