New Zealand Gazette – 1917 – No. 22

Page 474

✨ Road Board By-laws

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 22

“Person” includes any incorporated company or body:
“Public place” means and includes every road, street,
footpath, footway, court, alley, or throughfare of a
public nature open or used by the public as of right,
and every reserve and place of recreation or resort
so open or used within the road district:
“Road district” means the Waitara West Road District
as constituted by the Road Boards Act, 1908:
“Traction-engine” includes any locomotive engine pro-
pelled by steam or other mechanical power when
not used on a railway or tramway, but does not
include a motor-car:
“Vehicle” means and includes every coach, carriage,
omnibus, drag, cab, buggy, cart, dray, timber-
carriage, lorry, van, machine, express, wagon, truck,
and any other conveyance whatever its construc-
tion and whether drawn by animals or otherwise:
Words importing the singular number include the plural
number, and words importing the plural number
include the singular number, and words importing
the masculine gender include the feminine gender.

PART II.
Offences on Roads, Traffic, &c.

Any person shall be guilty of an offence who—
(1.) Breaks in, or commences to break in, any horse or
other animal upon any road or in any public place;
(2.) Locks the wheels of any vehicle for the purpose of
testing or trying any horse or other animal so as
to obstruct and injure any road or public place;
(3.) Rides, leads, or drives any horse or other animal upon,
along, or across any footpath, footway, or water-
channel, except upon and by means of a crossing
properly constructed;
(4.) Leads, drives, or wheels any vehicle upon, along, or
across any footpath, footway, or water-channel,
except upon and by means of such crossing as afore-
said;
(5.) Leads, rides, or drives any horse, or drives any carriage
or vehicle of any description upon, along, or across
any footpath-crossing faster than at a walking-
pace;
(6.) Leads, rides, or drives any horse, bullock, or other
animal, or drives or wheels any carriage, cart, or
other vehicle upon, along, or across any footpath
or any water-channel or gutter upon any road,
except at a properly constructed crossing;
(7.) Allows any horses, sheep, pigs, goats, or other cattle
belonging to him or under his charge to be at large
in any road or public place;
(8.) Tethers, herds, or otherwise places any horses, sheep,
goats, pigs, or other cattle upon any road or public
place;
(9.) Rides or drives along or across any bridge with any
horse or with any vehicle faster than at a walking-
pace;
(10.) Being the driver of any vehicle, drives the same on
any road without having and holding sufficient
reins, or, being such driver, is away from the animals
harnessed thereto so as to be unable to have full
control thereof;
(11.) Leaves upon any road or public place any vehicle
without any horse or other animal harnessed thereto;
(12.) Plays any game upon any road or footpath, or allows
any animal to remain across any footpath or place,
or leaves upon any road or footpath any machine,
article, or goods, or carries upon any road or foot-
path any implements, tools, or materials, projecting
in such a manner as to be a public obstruction, or
otherwise obstructs any road or footpath;
(13.) Lays out, forms, or opens any road or footpath,
and omits to take all such precautions for guarding
against injury to passengers along such road as may
be reasonable or as may be directed by the Board
or any foreman of the Board;
(14.) Removes any gravel, soil, or material from any road
without first having obtained the permission of the
Board;
(15.) Takes any engine, agricultural or other machine or
implement, or draws or trails any sledge, timber,
or other thing or material upon or across any road
or footpath, bridge, or culvert thereon to the injury
of such road, bridge, or culvert;
(16.) Rides or travels on any bicycle or tricycle or other
similar vehicle on any footpath;
(17.) Rides on any bicycle, tricycle, or other similar vehicle
on any road between sunset and sunrise without
having affixed to such bicycle, tricycle, or other
similar vehicle a proper light.
Any person driving any vehicle whatsoever, or riding
any animal, or meeting any other vehicle or animal shall,
subject to section 8 hereof, keep to the left or near side of the
road, and when passing or being passed by any vehicle or
animal going in the same direction shall, subject as aforesaid,
pass or allow any person desirous of doing so to pass, when
practicable, on the right or off side of the road.
Any person leading any horse or any other animal, or in
charge of any led horse or other animal, when passing any
person, animal, or vehicle shall intervene his person between
the horse or other animal led by him and the person, animal,
or vehicle which he shall be passing.
Any person driving any cart, carriage, or other vehicle
on any road between sunset and sunrise shall provide the same
with proper sidelights.
Being the owner or person having charge of any cattle,
permits or suffers the same to be at large without proper
guidance in or upon any road or public place.

PART III.
Traction-engines.

Any person shall be guilty of an offence who commits
a breach of any of the following conditions prescribed by the
Board upon which traction-engines may pass along the
road:—
(1.) Whenever any traction-engine shall pass along any
road, the driver thereof shall allow as much space as possible
for other vehicles and for all persons using the said road,
and for all cattle passing along the said road.
(2.) No driver or person in charge of any traction-engine
shall drive or cause the same to be driven along any road
at a speed exceeding five miles an hour, or across any bridge
or culvert at a speed exceeding two miles an hour.
(3.) No driver or person in charge of any traction-engine
shall cause or permit the same to come upon or pass along
any bridge or road at any time while any person with a horse
or vehicle, or vehicle drawn by a horse, or any stock, is on
or about to come upon such bridge.
(4.) No driver or person in charge of any traction-engine
or any wagon or portable mill attached thereto shall cause
or permit such engine, wagon, or portable mill to stop on any
bridge or culvert on any road for the purpose of drawing
water from any water-race, river, stream, or ditch passing
under or through such bridge or culvert, or for any other
purpose whatever, except for the safety or convenience of
other traffic.
(5.) No driver or person in charge of any traction-engine
shall cause or permit any ashes or refuse from the furnace
thereof to be discharged upon a bridge or culvert on any road,
or upon any wooden structure appertaining to any such road,
or upon a road within one chain of a bridge or culvert or
wooden structure as aforesaid, or to be left in a heap on a
road, but shall immediately upon such ashes or refuse being
discharged from any engine cause the same to be thoroughly
soaked with water and spread evenly on the road.
(6.) No driver or person in charge of any combine or wagon
attached to or drawn by a traction-engine on a road shall
carry upon such combine or wagon any greater weight than
4 tons, unless the tires thereof are at least 5 in. wide, and no
greater weight than 6 tons shall be carried on any combine
or wagon drawn by any traction-engine.
(7.) No person shall use any spikes, grippers, bars, or ridges
or other similar appliance on any traction-engine, whether
attached to the wheels of such engine or not, upon any
gravelled or metalled road; and no person shall use any
spikes, chains, grippers, bars, or ridges or any similar appliance
on any road whereby the said road is cut up or damaged.
(8.) When any damage or injury is done by any traction
engine or vehicle attached thereto to any road, fence, bridge,
culvert, drain, or side ditch, or to any other thing appertaining
thereto, the driver or person in charge of such traction-engine
or vehicle shall within forty-eight hours from the time when
such damage or injury shall have been done, give notice in
writing to a foreman of the Board, or to the Clerk, of the
nature of such damage or injury, and of the place or locality
where and the time when the same happened; and if such
damage or injury has rendered the road or its appurtenances
dangerous for ordinary traffic or to public safety, the driver
or person in charge of such traction-engine or vehicle shall,
in addition to giving such notice as aforesaid, immediately
place at or near the place where such damage or injury has
happened, and shall maintain, for such time as a foreman of
the Board or the Clerk shall direct, such signals as shall
be sufficient to give warning to all persons using such road
by day or by night of the existence of such danger.
(9.) Any damage caused by the use of any traction-engine
or vehicle attached thereto to any road or to any culvert or
bridge thereon, or to any walls, rails, buttresses, or supports
to such bridge, may be forthwith repaired and made good
by or at the expense of the owner or driver or person having
charge of such engine or vehicle, and the costs thereof shall
be repayable by such owner, driver, or person within forty
eight hours after demand made or given.