City of Dunedin Bye-Laws




17th.—Furiously or negligently riding or driving through any public place, street, or thoroughfare.

18th.—Exposing in any public street or thoroughfare, except in any fair or market, lawfully appointed for that purpose any horse or other animal for show, hire or sale.

19th.—If any butcher or other person shall kill or slaughter any animal without having been duly licensed in that behalf by the City Council.

20th.—Making any cellar door, or other opening from the footway of any street or public thoroughfare, without the consent, or not in accordance with the directions of the City Council.

21st.—Exposing for sale any article whatsoever on any footway, or outside of any shop window or doorway abutting on any public thoroughfare or street.

22nd.—Discharging any fire-arms, or letting off any fireworks, or carrying any fire-arms, sword, dirk, dagger, or other offensive weapon, within the City of Dunedin without permission of the City Council. Provided that the provision last aforesaid shall not apply to any Justice of the Peace, or any person in her Majesty’s military or naval service, or any member of the police, or other peace officer, or any member of a recognised Volunteer Corps, or any special constable, or any person actually in pursuit of any felon or offender.

23rd.—Any person laying out or opening any street or building therein, and omitting during the operations necessary for forming such street, or for building therein, to take all such precautions for guarding against injury to the passengers along such street as may be necessary, or as may be directed by the City Council.

24th.—Any person placing any obstruction upon any street line, whereby life or limb is likely to be endangered.

25th.—Any person leaving any hole, excavation or dangerous formation in or near any public place, street, or thoroughfare, without fencing or enclosing the same, or without keeping a light burning upon such formation from sunset to sunrise.

26th.—Any person neglecting or omitting to keep in good repair any rail, gate, fence, or cover over or about any area, or entrance to any cellar or other place, or keeping open for more than a reasonable time for taking in or out any articles, any entrance to any area, cellar or other place. (Such area or entrance opening into or upon or near any public street, road, thoroughfare, or other public place.)

27th.—Any person throwing any offensive matter, or any animal, with the intention of drowning it, into any river, watercourse, or other place from whence the supply of water for the use of the inhabitants of the said city is obtained.

28th.—Any carter riding on any cart, dray, or wagon, without having and holding proper and sufficient reins, and no competent person having charge of the animal or animals drawing the same.

29th.—Any person driving any vehicle whatsoever, or riding any animal, and when meeting any other vehicle or animal not keeping on the left or near side of the road or street, or when passing any vehicle or animal going in the same direction, not going or passing or not allowing any person desirous so to do to pass, when practicable on the right or off side of such other vehicle or animal.

30th.—Driver of any horse or vehicle injuring any person or property whatsoever, by negligence or by driving on the wrong side of the road, or by being away from his horse or cattle, so as to be unable to have the full control of them.

31st.—Any person driving any cart, wagon or dray, without the name and residence of the owner thereof painted in a legible and permanent manner on the right or off side, in letters of at least one inch in length.

32nd.—Any person driving any dog or goat harnessed, or attached to any vehicle, through any public place.

33rd.—Any person who shall act as driver, or have the sole charge of more than one vehicle, on any public road or street, unless in cases where two of such carriages, and no more, shall be drawn each by one horse only, and the horse of the hinder of such carriages, shall be attached by a sufficient rein to the back of the foremost of such vehicles.

34th.—Driver or guard of public vehicle for conveyance of passengers, wilfully delaying on the road, using any abusive or insulting language to any passenger, or by reason of any intoxication, negligence, or other misconduct, causing injury to or endangering the safety of the person or property of any passenger, or other person.

35th.—Any person turning loose any horses or cattle upon any public street, or allowing any animal or animals to wander on any public street or thoroughfare within the City of Dunedin.

36th.—Any person leaving upon any public street or thoroughfare any plough, harrow, cart, or other vehicle, without any horse or animal harnessed thereto, unless in consequence of some accident having occurred.

37th.—Any person slaughtering or skinning, any beast upon any public street or thoroughfare, or permitting any slaughtered beast or skin to remain there, or leaving any dead beast on such street or thoroughfare.

38th.—Any person having any iron, timber, or boards laid across any vehicle going along any street or thoroughfare so that either end shall project more than two feet beyond the wheels or sides of such vehicle.

39th.—Any person destroying, damaging, polluting, or obstructing any aqueduct, dam, sluice pipe, pump, water-course, or fountain.

40th.—Any person suffering, or allowing any waste or impure water, or other matter, to remain in any cellar or place within any building or premises in the City, or allowing any waste or impure water or other matter to run or flow from any such building or premises upon or over, or be on any carriage or footway, or other place whether public or private, within the said City, or shall allow the contents of any water closet, privy, or cesspool to overflow, or to soak therefrom, so as to be offensive.

41st.—Any person selling, exposing, delivering or offering for sale any hay, straw, or coals, within the City of Dunedin, without having weighed or caused the same to be weighed at some weighbridge within the said City, licensed or provided, or sanctioned for that purpose by the City Council of Dunedin, or any such person refusing or omitting to produce the weight note of the load or part of a load of any such hay, straw, or coals, sold, exposed, or offered for sale, for the satisfaction of any inspector appointed by the City Council of Dunedin in that behalf.

42nd.—Any carter or other person selling, exposing, delivering, or offering for sale on any cart or waggon, any hay, straw, or coals, without having the correct tare weight of such waggon or cart painted and affixed thereto in some conspicuous place in letters of not less than one inch.

43rd.—Any carter or other person who shall refuse or omit, on being requested by any purchaser or intended purchaser of any hay, straw, or coals, to proceed with such hay, straw, or coals, to the nearest weighbridge, licensed, provided, or sanctioned for that purpose by the City Council, and to have the same re-weighed at the expense of such purchaser or intended purchaser (the said purchaser in all such cases taking the said load or other quantity at the net re-weight).

44th.—Any carter or other person who shall refuse or omit, on being requested by the purchaser referred to in the last preceding section to take to any weighbridge within the City, appointed or licensed for the purpose of this bye-law, by the City Council, the waggon, dray, cart, or other vehicle after the delivery of the load, for the purpose of such dray, cart, or other vehicle being re-weighed, and the correct tare weight thereof, when empty, ascertained.



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VUW Te Waharoa PDF Otago Provincial Gazette 1869, No 599





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