2764
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 97

may effect such repairs and recover the cost thereof from such owner, occupier, or person. And in case any such owner, occupier, or person shall make default and fail to comply with such notice within the time therein mentioned, he shall be deemed to commit an offence on every day during which he shall be in such default as aforesaid.

Carting over Footpaths.

18. 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 17 without the consent in writing 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 a 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 footpath 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 to do so 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.

Wandering Cattle.

19. Every person having the care, custody, or control of any cattle, or being the owner thereof, shall keep and prevent the same from wandering or being at large and without proper guidance in or upon any road, street, private street, public place, or right-of-way.

Keeping Cattle moving.

20. Every person having the care or custody of or being in possession of any cattle, and driving the same on any road, public or private street, or public place within the district, shall keep such cattle continuously moving, and shall not permit or suffer or allow such cattle to graze on such road, public or private street, or public place.

Ill-treating Cattle.

21. No person shall, by ill-usage or negligence in driving any cattle along any road or street, cause any mischief to be done by such cattle.

22. No person shall wantonly hurt or harass any cattle passing along any road or street.

23. No person shall wantonly or cruelly beat, ill-treat, overdrive, overload, abuse, or torture any animal, or omit or neglect to supply any animal with sufficient food and water.

24. No person shall work or allow to work any animal incapable or in any unfit condition to work, by reason of lameness, unhealed sores, shortness of breath, or any other obvious physical infirmity.

25. No person shall drive any loose horses, bulls, or bullocks through the district between the hours of 8 a.m. and 7 p.m.

26. No builder or other person shall place or keep any building-material, stage, scaffolding, hoarding, or fence, or rubbish on any part of any street in the district after sunset and before sunrise, unless the same be kept well and sufficiently lighted.

Lighting Obstructions.

27. No person shall cause any building-materials, rubbish, or other matters or things to be laid on, or any hole to be made in, any street or footway, whether the same be done by order or authority of the Board or not, unless such materials or other things, or such hole, be sufficiently lighted in a proper place upon or near the same, and such light be continued every night from sunset to sunrise while such materials or things or hole remain; and every such person shall, at his own expense, cause such materials or things, and such hole, to be sufficiently fenced and enclosed until such materials or things be removed, or such hole is filled up or otherwise made secure.

Fences on Road.

28. No person shall erect or place any house or other building, or any part thereof, or any wall or fence, or any other erection, upon, over, or across any public street, road, footway, or channel.

Overhanging Trees.

29. No owner or occupier of land shall allow trees or shrubs growing thereon to overhang or encroach on any road, street, private street, or footway; and it shall be lawful for the Board to cause all trees or shrubs so overhanging or encroaching to be lopped, or the encroaching part thereof to be removed, at the discretion of the Board.

Flags, &c., across Road.

30. No person shall place or permit to be placed any obstruction upon any road, street, footway, private street, or right-of-way, building, portico, or veranda, or suspend or permit to be suspended any flag, calico, or material over or across any road, street, footway, private street, or right-of-way, or part thereof, or erect any signboard, unless the permission of the Board shall have been first obtained. The Board reserves to itself the right to make a charge for the erection of any such signboards.

Verandas.

31. No person shall erect or put up any portico or veranda upon or over any part of any road or street unless the same be constructed in the manner, position, and design approved by the Board.

32. No person shall erect, alter, or repair any portico or veranda without the written permit of the Clerk be first obtained; and for every such permit for a new erection there shall be paid a fee of 5s., and for every such permit for alteration or repairs there shall be paid a fee of 1s.

33. No person shall erect any balcony over any road, footway, or street.

Awnings.

34. No person shall erect any awning over any street or footway, or hang the same from any veranda or balcony thereon, unless the permission of the Board shall have been first obtained. All awnings for which permission shall be granted shall be used only between sunrise and sunset.

Storm-water.

35. Every owner or occupier of land fronting, adjoining, or near any road or street, if such land shall be so situated that surface or storm water from or upon the same overflows, or tends naturally, if not otherwise discharged, to overflow any footway of such road or street, shall, within seven days next after the service of notice by the Inspector of Nuisances requiring him so to do, construct and lay from such point upon such land being near to the footway, as shall be specified in such notice by plan appended, or otherwise, and higher in level than the bottom of the channel at the outer edge of the footway to the said channel, and through, under, and transversely to the footway, and keep in good condition such pipe, covered drain, or appliance, subject to the inspection and approval of the Board.

36. All drains under footways, discharging into channels, shall be constructed in the following manner and subject to the following conditions:—

(1.) All such drains shall be constructed with pipes to be approved by the Board, and shall be laid with a fall of not less than 3 in. in the whole width of the footway, the level at the discharge-mouth being the level of the water-channel.

(2.) No such drain shall be laid or used for any other purpose than for carrying off surface water, whether from roofs or yards.

(3.) The work of opening up the footway and cutting the kerbstone for the reception of such drain-pipes, and the making good the said footway and relaying the said kerbstone, shall be done by the Board at the expense of the person requiring such drain.

(4.) The person desiring to have such drain constructed shall make written application in that behalf to the Clerk, and, together with such application, shall prepay the fee of 1s. for permit and the estimated cost of the work.

Dogs.

37. If any dog shall, on any road or street 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.

Heavy Traffic.

38. The owner of any vehicle engaged in heavy traffic upon any roads within the boundaries of the district shall, before using such vehicle upon any such road, apply to and obtain from the Clerk a license, and shall pay to the Clerk the yearly license fee following—that is to say: For vehicles having tires of the width of 4½ in. or over, £5; for vehicles having tires under 4½ in. wide, £10:

Provided, nevertheless, that the Board may, in its discretion, and on application of the owner or driver of any vehicle engaged in heavy traffic, permit the owner or driver of such vehicle to use such vehicle upon or over all or any of the roads within the boundaries of such district, without having paid such license fee, upon the payment to the said Board of the following charges by way of compensation for any damage likely to occur to such roads: For every load carried on any one day upon or over any such road, 1s. If more