✨ Bye-law for Cleansing of Footways and Water Channels
NEW ZEALAND
OTAGO
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT
GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
Vol. VIII.] DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1864. [No. 313
DUNEDIN TOWN BOARD.
Bye-law No. VII.—Agreed to by the Town Board of Dunedin, at a General Meeting held the 29th day of March, 1864.
A Bye-law to provide for the Cleansing of the paved footways and water channels of the City of Dunedin.
WHEREAS, by an Ordinance of the Superintendent of the Province of Otago and the Provincial Council of the said Province, intituled the “Dunedin Improvement Ordinance, 1862,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Town Board of Dunedin to make and enact rules, regulations, and bye-laws relating to the cleansing of streets within the city of Dunedin: And it is also thereby provided that it shall be lawful for the Board to impose and exact such penalties for the infringement and breach of any such bye-laws as shall seem to them fit and reasonable: And it is provided that no such penalty shall exceed for any one offence the sum of (40s.) forty shillings.
And whereas, the flagging, paving, or otherwise permanently forming the surface of the footway and water channels of the streets of the city, which is now being extensively executed, does and will, wherever completed, afford facilities for keeping the same at all times clean. And whereas, the keeping of the same clean is indispensable to the comfort and health of the inhabitants:
Be it therefore enacted by the Town Board of the city of Dunedin: That from and after the date of this bye-law coming into operation, the occupiers, or in cases where there are no occupiers, the owners of buildings and lands within or adjoining the streets within the said city, shall once in every day (Sundays and public holidays excepted) before seven of the clock in the forenoon of each day, from the first day of October until the last day in the month of March (both inclusive) and before eight of the clock in the forenoon of each day, from the first day of April until the last day of the month of September (both inclusive) cause to be swept and cleansed the paved, flagged, or otherwise permanently formed footways or water channels, or both, as the case may be, in front or at the side of their respective buildings and lands, and every such occupier or owner failing to do so, or allowing any filth whatever to accumulate or remain after the hours hereinbefore-mentioned, in or upon any such footway or water channel as aforesaid, shall, upon conviction thereof, before any two or more Justices of the Peace for the colony of New Zealand, forfeit and pay for every such offence a sum of (40s.) forty shillings; and for the purpose of this bye-law, when any house shall be let in separate apartments, the person letting such apartments shall be deemed the occupier.
Passed by the Town Board of Dunedin this 29th day of March, 1864.
JOHN LAZAR,
Clerk to Town Board of Dunedin.
June 3rd, 1864.—Approved and confirmed by me with the advice and consent of the Executive Council.
J. HYDE HARRIS,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.
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🏘️ Bye-law for Cleansing of Footways and Water Channels in Dunedin
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government29 March 1864
Bye-law, Cleansing, Footways, Water Channels, Dunedin
- John Lazar, Clerk to Town Board of Dunedin
- J. Hyde Harris, Superintendent of the Province of Otago