BYE-LAWS AND REGULATIONS

Maintenance of Crossings

1. All crossings shall be maintained at all times in as good repair—at the cost of the person having the crossing—as the other portions of the water-channels immediately adjoining.

Footpaths and Crossings

2. Where no kerbing, scantling may be used.

   In streets where a footpath and side-channel is, or may hereafter be formed, and where no kerbing is laid, suitable wood planks or scantlings shall be provided, and fixed over the water channel so as to leave a free passage for the water underneath to project into the public roadway not less than five feet from the outer edge of the footpath; and the crossing-place over the footpath shall be paved, metalled, or gravelled in such manner, that it shall at all times be as clean and dry as the footpath itself is immediately adjoining such crossing-place.

Materials to be Approved of

3. The materials used for such crossing-places and kerbing, and the manner of laying the same shall be subject to the approval of the Municipal Council, or the duly-appointed Town Surveyor, and in cases where the material, or manner of laying the same, or forming the crossing-places shall, or on the report of the Town Surveyor, be deemed objectionable by the said Council; it shall be lawful for the said Council (after the expiration of seven days from any day on which such Council shall give notice of objection to the persons forming, or causing to be formed, such crossing-place), to proceed in the manner hereinafter stated as against parties refusing or neglecting to comply with the provisions of this bye-law.

   Specifications to be submitted, and fee paid.

4. All persons about forming crossing-places over footpaths shall give notice in writing of their intention, and submit a specification of the manner in which the work is to be performed to the Town Surveyor, who shall give permission for the same to be proceeded with as specified; provided the specified manner is not objectionable, and shall charge and receive a fee of five shillings (5s.) for each examination and permission.

Vehicles Crossing Without Bridges

5. All persons causing any formed water-channel or footpath, or causing such to be crossed with any cart, dray, or other wheeled vehicle, excepting the channels in the carriage-way at all intersections of the public streets, unless over and by means of a crossing-place formed in one or other of the manners hereinbefore stated, and any person neglecting or refusing to comply with any other provisions of this bye-law, on conviction before two or more Justices of the Peace, shall forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding ten pounds.

Seller to Produce Weight Note

1. Every person who shall sell, expose, or offer for sale within the town of Cromwell, any hay, straw, or coals, shall, when requested by any city inspector of weights and measures, or other persons authorised by the Town Council on that behalf, produce the weight note of the load or part of load of any such articles as aforesaid, for the satisfaction of such inspector or other person; and any person refusing or omitting to do so when so requested, shall for each offence, forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding ten pounds.

Tare Weight to be Affixed to Each Cart or Waggon

2. Every person who shall sell, expose, or offer for sale, within the town of Cromwell, any hay, straw or coal, loaded on any waggon, dray, cart or other vehicle, shall have the tare weight of such waggon, dray, cart or other vehicle, painted and affixed thereto, in letters of not less than one inch; and any person failing herein, shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding Ten Pounds.

Second Weighing if Requested

3. Every person who shall sell, expose, or offer for sale within the town of Cromwell, any hay, straw or coals, shall, upon being requested by a purchaser or any intending purchaser, proceed with all dispatch in order to obtain the weighbridge in the town nearest to the place where such goods may have been sold or offered for sale, or at any other weighbridge in the town, at the option of the purchaser and in the presence of the purchaser, if he feels so disposed, and the said purchaser in all such cases taking the said load or other quantity at the net re-weight and paying the expense of such second weighing; and any person who shall refuse or omit to proceed and to obtain a second weighing, shall for each offence forfeit a like penalty not exceeding Ten Pounds.

Penalty for Refusing to Take Second Weighing

4. Any carter or other person who shall refuse or omit, on being requested by the purchaser, to take to the weighbridge in the town nearest to the place where such goods may have been sold or offered for sale, or to any other weighbridge in the town at the option of the purchaser, 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, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence the sum not exceeding Ten Pounds.

Penalty for Giving False Weights

5. The owner, reputed owner, proprietor, or keeper of any weighbridge within the town of Cromwell who shall give a false or incorrect weight of any dray, cart, or other vehicle, or of any load or part of a load of goods thereon, shall upon proof thereof forfeit for each offence a sum not exceeding Ten Pounds.

BYE-LAW No. 6

A Byelaw to provide regulations to be observed by the owners of licensed weighbridges in the town of Cromwell, in the Province of Otago, in the Colony of New Zealand, and by persons using the same.

Whereas it is expedient to make provisions by byelaws for the regulation of all weighbridges, and to license those now established within the town of Cromwell, for the purposes of trade thereof: Be it therefore ordered and directed by the Corporation of the town of Cromwell, and from and after the day on which this bye-law shall come into operation, the following regulations shall be in force within the said town of Cromwell.

Hay, Straw, &c., to be Weighed

1. All hay, straw, and coals to be hereafter sold, exposed, or offered for sale, bartered, or exchanged within the town of Cromwell, shall be weighed at some weighbridge within the said town, licensed for that purpose by the Council thereof, and any person offending herein shall, for each offence, forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding ten pounds.

BYE-LAW No. 7

A Byelaw to prohibit rubbish or other matter being deposited within the town of Cromwell, excepting at places determined upon by the Town Council.

Whereas it is expedient to prevent persons placing, laying, or discharging, within the town of Cromwell, rubbish, soil, or offensive matter, in other than places ordered to be set apart for that purpose by the Council of the said town: Be it therefore ordered and directed by the said Council of the town of Cromwell, by virtue of the authority in them vested, and from and after the day on which this Bye-law shall come into operation, it shall not be lawful for any person to set, place, lay, deposit, shoot or discharge any ashes, rubbish, broken glass, offal, dung, soil, dead animals.