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shall be disconnected and removed, and any openings or connections with an existing drain or sewer shall be efficiently closed.

(m.) Where a drain is used to make a connection to a sewer or sewage-tank, or where a water-closet is connected to a drain, such drain shall be provided at its highest point with a ventilation shaft of at least 4 in. in diameter, and constructed of such material and carried to such height above all eaves and windows as may be approved by the Board.

26. After the coming into force of these by-laws it shall be deemed an offence if the owner of any premises in the district constructs or suffers to be constructed, or uses or suffers to be used any cesspool, or cesspit, or hollow in the ground for the reception of night-soil, faecal matter, or sewage, except in the case of such sewage-tank, sump, or cesspit as may be properly constructed to plans approved by the Board. Any such cesspool or cesspit not constructed to the satisfaction of the Board, or any hollow in the ground into which nightsoil has been placed, shall, after the coming into force of this by-law, be filled up with clean earth, or be emptied, disinfected, and refilled with clean earth, as the Inspector of Nuisances may direct.

Septic Tanks.

27. (a.) No person shall use, or cause or permit to be used, any septic tank unless such tank in its design, position, and method of construction has been approved by the Board or the Inspector of Nuisances.

(b.) After the Inspector of Nuisances shall, on account of some defect or fault therein or wrongful use thereof, in writing notify such person not to use such septic tank, and until such notice shall be in writing withdrawn by the person giving the same.

Water-closets.

28. No person shall use, or cause or allow to be used, any privy of the nature of a water-closet in the district unless the same be connected with a septic tank approved by the Inspector of Nuisances and not the subject of a notice not to use such septic tank by the Inspector of Nuisances.

Privy-construction.

29. The floor under the seat of every privy or closet shall be raised at least 6 in. above the ground, and the privy or closet shall be constructed so that the pan shall fit in below the seat in such manner as to prevent any matter reaching the floor. The pan shall be in all respects constructed, maintained, and repaired to the satisfaction of the Inspector of Nuisances; and means of access shall be provided so that all nightsoil can be removed therefrom without being carried through any house or public building, or any building in which any person may be, or may be intended to be, employed in any manufacture, trade, or business.

30. No person shall erect, nor shall any person allow to remain, any privy or closet, other than a water-closet, at a less distance than 15 ft. from any house or building used as a dwelling, or from any road, street, or footpath, or from the boundary-fence of any used or occupied land or allotment.

31. Every owner or occupier of any dwellinghouse or other tenement within the district shall provide and keep conveniently to the privy or closet a box containing dry earth, or sawdust, or lime, or other deodorizer, to be used in such privy or closet as a deodorizer.

Disposal of Offensive Matter.

32. No person, whether engaged in the trades of scavenging or the removal of nightsoil or not so engaged, shall leave, spill, cast, place, deposit, bury, or otherwise dispose of any offensive matter in or upon any land within the limits of the district, except at such depot or depots as shall from time to time be approved by the Board on the application of any person desiring to deposit offensive matter: Provided that nothing in these by-laws shall prevent any person from disposing of any offensive matter produced upon any property within the said district which is actually occupied by him, by burying the same upon the said land, or otherwise disposing of the same upon the said land, so that such burying or depositing thereof shall not cause a nuisance.

33. The Board shall not approve of any depot for the disposal of any offensive matter in the district unless it first cause a notification of its intention to approve of such depot to be advertised on three consecutive days in some daily newspaper published in the City of Auckland in the week immediately preceding the meeting of the Board at which it is intended to approve of such depot.

34. No person shall leave, spill, cast, place, deposit, bury, or otherwise dispose of any offensive matter in or upon any public place within the district.

35. No person who shall be engaged in the trades of scavenging or the removal of nightsoil within the district shall convey or remove into, through, or from the district any offensive matter unless the same shall be enclosed in pans approved by the Board.

36. No person shall drive, take, conduct, or convey any cart, wagon, float, or other vehicle in, through, or upon the district or any part thereof whilst any offensive or noxious smell or odour emanates from any such cart, wagon, float, or other vehicle, or the contents thereof.

37. No person shall leave or permit to remain, either unburied or buried as herein provided, in any public place, or within 30 chains of any public road or dwellinghouse, any offensive matter for a longer period than three hours.

38. No contractor or person engaged as employer or employee in the trades of scavenging or removing nightsoil shall leave or permit to be left on any road or in any public place within the district any offensive matter.

39. No person shall leave unburied or uncovered at any depot approved by the Board any offensive matter for more than two hours after such offensive matter shall have arrived at such depot.

40. No person shall bury, deposit, or leave any offensive matter at any place within 30 chains of any public road, or within 30 chains of any dwellinghouse, or any place where cows are milked, or in which milk is stored, kept, vended, or sold.

41. No person shall deposit, place, or bury any offensive matter upon any land the surface-drainage of which is conducted into any well or watercourse the water of which is used for domestic purposes, or for the watering of horses, cattle, sheep, or other animals.

42. Every person bringing, placing, or depositing any offensive matter into or upon any depot approved by the Board shall forthwith bury all nightsoil, faecal matter, garbage, rubbish, animal and vegetable matter in such a manner that there shall be at least 6 in. of soil covering all parts of such nightsoil, faecal matter, garbage, rubbish, animal and vegetable matter, and shall leave the surface of the soil covering any such matter so buried level with the surface of the surrounding land; and every such person shall bury all fish heads or entrails so that not less than 18 in. of soil shall cover such fish heads or entrails, and shall leave the surface of the soil covering such fish heads or entrails level with the surrounding land.

43. No person shall bring or convey into, through, or upon the district any cart, wagon, float, or other vehicle containing any offensive matter except between the hours of ten o’clock post meridian and midnight, and between midnight and four o’clock ante meridian.

44. No person shall drive, convey, or carry any cart, wagon, float, or other vehicle, or any empty box, pan, or receptacle for offensive matter in or through the district unless the same, after having been emptied, shall have been deodorized and is free from noxious or offensive smell or odour.

45. The Board may make such provision from time to time as it may think fit for the regular removal of human faecal matter; and if and so often as a contract shall be subsisting and in force between the Board and a contractor for the removal of human faecal matter from premises within the district, or if and as often as the Board undertakes such removal, no owner or occupier of any such premises shall remove or permit to be removed any such matter as aforesaid except by such contractor or the Board, his or its servants or agents.

Pigs.

46. No person shall keep, or allow, or permit to be kept, swine or pigs at a less distance than 50 ft. from any house or building used as a dwelling, or from any road or footpath, or boundary of any occupied neighbouring property.

47. The floor of any pigsty shall be of concrete or other impervious material, and shall be constructed to the satisfaction of the Inspector of Nuisances appointed by the Board, and so that there shall be no soakage of soil with pigs’ food or urine.

PART IV.

GENERAL.

48. Every person who shall erect a building or shall execute any work to which these by-laws shall apply shall, at all reasonable hours during and after the erection of such building or the execution of such work, afford the Board’s Inspector free access to such building or work for the purpose of inspection.

49. These by-laws shall apply to the whole district, and shall come into force on being gazetted.

50. If any person shall commit a breach of any of these by-laws he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £5, and, in the case of a continuous breach, to an additional fine not exceeding £5 for every day on which the breach is continued